One hand taketh, another hand giveth. http://www.bart.gov/developers/ It appears that BART has said to the scrapers; "Here is the data you need in raw form along with some suggested tools you can integrate our schedules into your applications." On the whole, it looks like BART has embraced these applications rather than raise a stink on them.
These devices used a keyboard (if present) for input and the output was mechanically printed onto roll-fed paper. Usually they were used on-line to either a computer (or computerized piece of manufacturing equipment) or in "local mode".
When in "local mode" these machines would often include a (paper) tape reader and tape punch. Often the resultant punch tape was hand carried and fed into another piece of computerized hardware.
My favorite (and "humane" way of killing these California spiny lobsters is to drown 'em in a bucket of fresh water.)
Two things happen:
1) As the lobster consumes the remaining oxygen from the water, it gently suffocates as it encounters hypoxia but since it is in its "natural" environment, it doesn't know that it is doomed. (This is very similar to how a human reacts when breathing 100% nitrogen, O2 levels deplete but the CO2 levels are "normal" so there is no 'alarming urge to breathe', it's just simply 'lights out'.)
2) Thanks to osmosis (the absorption of excess water into its cells, the tail of the "bloated" lobster expands and gently "pops out" to give easy access removing the tail and pre-shelling the lobster for culinary preparation on the BBQ grill.
After doing this, (10 minutes tops) be sure to prepare the lobster for cooking or storage as they can quickly spoil when they are dead.
Currently we have 116 channels of mind-numbing NTSC channels.
After the switchover we will have several hundred more mind-numbing ATSC channels.
For the cable companies, this means that they will have more (apparent) capacity on their head-end equipment. Unfortunately they have decided it is more important to hand out executive bonuses rather than do the inevitable infrastructure upgrades necessary for the public to notice a difference in digital quality. (The cable companies have the luxury to choose when the switchover happens for their customers that are using the cable box or non-ATSC television (tuner). The rest of the CATV audience with an analog CATV ready TV can be allocated a smaller and smaller analog channel lineup to persuade them to either get a cable box or a new TV.)
For the OTA audience, let them visit the "TV repair shops" for an expensive lesson in Digital Broadcast Transmission.
Does this work with BnetD?
What features are not supported by this update?
What backward compatibility is supported?
When will BnetD be updated to work with Battle.net 2.0?
If that payroll system is so seriously out of control, I would run plain paper through the check printers and glean the required details off the pay stub portion and manually adjust and write each check by hand.
I am sure that the controller will soon come up with a way that is more economical than having to all 137,000 checks by hand. (I don't even want to think of the writers cramps or RSI, even when using a rubber stamp for the signature.)
If this controller is still on the payroll after this fiasco, then he can use the original plain paper check (with notes of check adjustments) to track the amounts still owed to each pensioner.
Some web servers may interpret this as the action of a 'bot infested by AVG 8.0 and redirect you to http://www.grisoft.com/
If this happens, load a handful of images to get out of this purgatory (quarantine).
Lets look at how Intellectual Property gains its value.
Intellectual Property is considered by the marketplace as "valuable" if there are ways to exclude others from using it. That may be through a trade secret (must be a secret), a copyright, or a patent. Intellectual Property has no market value if it is common knowledge and is not legally encumbered by copyright or patent (in the sense of insuring revenue to the rights holder.)
I am ignoring the intrinsic values of this Intellectual Property. (It may be non-exclusive to rights-holder and end-user, but these "best practices" are of value to the user of this 'common' Intellectual Property.)
Based upon the difference between market value and intrinsic value, open source software is still valuable but does not have a selling price per say. In this sense, open source software may have a high intrinsic value but a negative market value (abiding by the rules of GNU may not be in the interest of the company using/infringing on the agreement.) In the event that the original author of this segment of GNU software can be tracked down, a separate agreement could be reached to use this software outside of the GNU agreement. (This doesn't necessarily take the GNU software out of the "free" marketplace.)
This could be a wonderful revenue opportunity for cash-strapped state and local governments.
When such a court claim is made on infringement of this intellectual property by a business located within the tax jurisdiction, just take the claimed infringement value and multiply it by the prevailing property tax rate and invoice said property holder. (Be sure to tack on interest and penalties for back taxes.)
If property holder doesn't pay in 90 days, start lien and foreclosure proceedings.
To recover the costs of this collection, auction off this IP. If there is no starting bid (1% of value), property becomes public domain.
Check numbers are [incremental] and of limited permutation, again making the hash easy to brute force. If the hash changes with each check, it also becomes harder for retailers to identify bad checks based on account number. You're going to end up turning away legitimate customers money, and gain no security. By the time the check hits the bank, the fraud has been done. Also, "once extracted is verified to the name printed on the check"? Depending on your bank, this is already done. I signed a check with my right hand instead of left once(couldn't hold the pen because I messed my hand up), and I got a call a few days later about it. I'm with WaMu. The banks encrypt/decrypt function could include some randomness to make that attack harder (five digits of "special salt" that is discarded once verified.)
Conversation between Merchant and his bank: (note: this entire conversation may be electronic as most "cash registers" have the ability to read the MICR numbers across the bottom of the check.)
Merchant to bank: I have a customer that has presented me a check with the following routing number and account number blob for this amount.
Merchants bank: let me check with issuing bank.
Merchants bank to issuing bank: I have a check with the routing number, account number blob for this amount.
Issuing bank to Merchant bank: [Good to go] [NSF] [call the cops]
Merchant bank to merchant: [endorse check and put into register] [casually advise customer he may want to talk to his bank] [hold check for USSS and FBI for further analysis]
Merchant to customer [have a nice day] [I'll accept your check but your bank would like you to call them] [have a nice day (customer leaves, merchant burns surveillance videos to DVD--including close-up of customers license plate, crime scene rules in play.) | if mob operation, customer has "physical therapy" done to kneecaps with baseball bat.]
Advantages: Account number not compromised by one missing check, Use same MICR numbers with minimal programming.
Disadvantages: Account number not in clear, recurring automatic payments.
Given that a one way hash can't really be reversed, that idea doesn't make much sense in the way that you posted it. A one way hash at first makes sense, except in reality it doesn't, as currently deployed. The numbers on your check have a routing number and account number. Both are numeric values with relatively few permutations when contrasted against case sensitive alphanumeric hashing. The routing numbers of banks are also no secret. Put simply, it'd be a trivial matter to brute force the hash with the simple numeric values we use today. OK, I'm using the wrong terminology.
Routing number keeps the same public self (we need to send the check to the correct bank for processing.)
Account number xxxxxxxx Check number yyyyy becomes zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
Issuing bank has key to turn zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz back into original component numbers and verify that z... was not some made-up number in attempt to create a "bad check" of which there is no real account number attached to. Also xxxxxxxx, once extracted is verified to the name printed on the check. After about five or more bad values of z... in a day, a human is brought into the equation to look for the underlying cause.
If check is good, then issuing bank electronically clears the bank draft with bank (or presents cash to individual) that presented the check. This allows for a pre-verification of check prior to verifying the signature (which most banks no longer do anyways.)
I won't go into recurring drafts (automatic payments) as that makes things a bit more complicated.
The PIN needs to be a moving target and much longer than 4 digits. Note that stateside that most automatic car washes are using at least 5 digit numbers to authenticate the sale as sold by the gas pump. (Example: SecurID or one-time pad.)
(offtopic) My biggest pet peeve is why are account numbers (on checks) in the clear while the same is basically true of PIN numbers (without any added "salt")
For checks I would like to see the account number + check number translated a 16 to 20 digit hash of which only the bank knows how to decipher to the correct account and check number? (/offtopic)
Currently Home Depot (Husky) and Lowes (Kobalt) have some very nice "house branded" tools. There was a time that they would cross-honor their warranties against any broken Craftsman tool that was brought in--no questions asked (replace broken Craftsman tool with their Husky or Kobalt equivalent.)
In the event that Sears (and Orchard Supply Hardware, another Craftsman tool reseller) go under, I would not be surprised to see Husky and Kobalt extend their warranties to cover broken Craftsman tools as part of a future marketing campaign.
That 15 minute ride from San Jose must be a bitch...
The longer ride is nothing.
Think of the time they get to save with parking and airport security and a very crowded (and overworked) runway and air traffic control.
Will someone please provide statistics on the prevalance of radioactive material in the environment in general, nuclear byproduct and otherwise? (Heck, you could count oxygen as a nuclear byproduct of fusion in a star somewhere if you cared to...)
Here is the isotope list for Hydrogen. Except for Tritium, the half-life is quite short for these isotopes.
And here is the isotope list for Oxygen
(Note that except for the stable isotopes, all the others have a half-life of two minutes or less.)
Finally a nice large color chart of all of the known isotopes with an indication of approximate half-life of each isotope.
I read somewhere that a college technical writing class needed some practical exercises for technical writing, and a new science museum recently opened up. The museum needed someone to write the signage for the exhibits, and the class needed a practical hands-on exercise.
The assignment was worded as:
"Write the materials as if you are writing to a retired 40-year veteran (PE/EE/CE/ME/...) engineer who probably knows the subject matter better than you, and his 11 year old grandson. The material must not go over the head of the younger reader, and not insult the intelligence of the older reader."
As a roadie, I have been doing this for years already.
For some great recipies, check out Manifold Destiny for some delicious and low-tech ways (aluminum foil, meat, vegetables, and possibly some fish to grill) to prepare some great meals. The best part is that your final destination does not have to be home. If planned properly, a picnic at a rest stop and no dishes to cleanup when done will have you be the envy of your fellow passengers.
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Nah, he was short by the length of the bus shelter (about 3-4 meters), close enough to unload his passengers but unwilling to take new passengers.
Where I am from, if the bus driver stops short of the bus stop the indication is as follows:
One hand taketh, another hand giveth.
http://www.bart.gov/developers/
It appears that BART has said to the scrapers; "Here is the data you need in raw form along with some suggested tools you can integrate our schedules into your applications."
On the whole, it looks like BART has embraced these applications rather than raise a stink on them.
Could someone explain how "Telex machines" date the submitter? Wikipedia isn't much help on this.
Thanks!
You are probably looking for the electromechanical tele-printers ( see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teleprinter#Teletype for one example. )
These devices used a keyboard (if present) for input and the output was mechanically printed onto roll-fed paper. Usually they were used on-line to either a computer (or computerized piece of manufacturing equipment) or in "local mode".
When in "local mode" these machines would often include a (paper) tape reader and tape punch. Often the resultant punch tape was hand carried and fed into another piece of computerized hardware.
Perhaps this university should offer some pro-bono legal representation to gonorthwest.com
I Can just see how absurd the argument when the tile page of the lawsuits read:
I second this motion.
He has the gumption to challenge security by (proprietary) obscurity.
With his hands-on experience with DARPA, he knows how it is broken and what needs fixing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theo_de_Raadt#DARPA_funding_cancellation
My favorite (and "humane" way of killing these California spiny lobsters is to drown 'em in a bucket of fresh water.)
Two things happen:
1) As the lobster consumes the remaining oxygen from the water, it gently suffocates as it encounters hypoxia but since it is in its "natural" environment, it doesn't know that it is doomed. (This is very similar to how a human reacts when breathing 100% nitrogen, O2 levels deplete but the CO2 levels are "normal" so there is no 'alarming urge to breathe', it's just simply 'lights out'.)
2) Thanks to osmosis (the absorption of excess water into its cells, the tail of the "bloated" lobster expands and gently "pops out" to give easy access removing the tail and pre-shelling the lobster for culinary preparation on the BBQ grill.
After doing this, (10 minutes tops) be sure to prepare the lobster for cooking or storage as they can quickly spoil when they are dead.
Currently we have 116 channels of mind-numbing NTSC channels.
After the switchover we will have several hundred more mind-numbing ATSC channels.
For the cable companies, this means that they will have more (apparent) capacity on their head-end equipment. Unfortunately they have decided it is more important to hand out executive bonuses rather than do the inevitable infrastructure upgrades necessary for the public to notice a difference in digital quality. (The cable companies have the luxury to choose when the switchover happens for their customers that are using the cable box or non-ATSC television (tuner). The rest of the CATV audience with an analog CATV ready TV can be allocated a smaller and smaller analog channel lineup to persuade them to either get a cable box or a new TV.)
For the OTA audience, let them visit the "TV repair shops" for an expensive lesson in Digital Broadcast Transmission.
Does this work with BnetD?
What features are not supported by this update?
What backward compatibility is supported?
When will BnetD be updated to work with Battle.net 2.0?
If that payroll system is so seriously out of control, I would run plain paper through the check printers and glean the required details off the pay stub portion and manually adjust and write each check by hand.
I am sure that the controller will soon come up with a way that is more economical than having to all 137,000 checks by hand. (I don't even want to think of the writers cramps or RSI, even when using a rubber stamp for the signature.)
If this controller is still on the payroll after this fiasco, then he can use the original plain paper check (with notes of check adjustments) to track the amounts still owed to each pensioner.
Some web servers may interpret this as the action of a 'bot infested by AVG 8.0 and redirect you to http://www.grisoft.com/ If this happens, load a handful of images to get out of this purgatory (quarantine).
Intellectual Property is considered by the marketplace as "valuable" if there are ways to exclude others from using it. That may be through a trade secret (must be a secret), a copyright, or a patent. Intellectual Property has no market value if it is common knowledge and is not legally encumbered by copyright or patent (in the sense of insuring revenue to the rights holder.)
I am ignoring the intrinsic values of this Intellectual Property. (It may be non-exclusive to rights-holder and end-user, but these "best practices" are of value to the user of this 'common' Intellectual Property.)
Based upon the difference between market value and intrinsic value, open source software is still valuable but does not have a selling price per say. In this sense, open source software may have a high intrinsic value but a negative market value (abiding by the rules of GNU may not be in the interest of the company using/infringing on the agreement.) In the event that the original author of this segment of GNU software can be tracked down, a separate agreement could be reached to use this software outside of the GNU agreement. (This doesn't necessarily take the GNU software out of the "free" marketplace.)
When such a court claim is made on infringement of this intellectual property by a business located within the tax jurisdiction, just take the claimed infringement value and multiply it by the prevailing property tax rate and invoice said property holder. (Be sure to tack on interest and penalties for back taxes.)
If property holder doesn't pay in 90 days, start lien and foreclosure proceedings.
To recover the costs of this collection, auction off this IP. If there is no starting bid (1% of value), property becomes public domain.
Conversation between Merchant and his bank:
(note: this entire conversation may be electronic as most "cash registers" have the ability to read the MICR numbers across the bottom of the check.)
Merchant to bank: I have a customer that has presented me a check with the following routing number and account number blob for this amount.
Merchants bank: let me check with issuing bank.
Merchants bank to issuing bank: I have a check with the routing number, account number blob for this amount.
Issuing bank to Merchant bank: [Good to go] [NSF] [call the cops]
Merchant bank to merchant: [endorse check and put into register] [casually advise customer he may want to talk to his bank] [hold check for USSS and FBI for further analysis]
Merchant to customer [have a nice day] [I'll accept your check but your bank would like you to call them] [have a nice day (customer leaves, merchant burns surveillance videos to DVD--including close-up of customers license plate, crime scene rules in play.) | if mob operation, customer has "physical therapy" done to kneecaps with baseball bat.]
Advantages: Account number not compromised by one missing check, Use same MICR numbers with minimal programming.
Disadvantages: Account number not in clear, recurring automatic payments.
Routing number keeps the same public self (we need to send the check to the correct bank for processing.)
Account number xxxxxxxx Check number yyyyy becomes zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
Issuing bank has key to turn zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz back into original component numbers and verify that z... was not some made-up number in attempt to create a "bad check" of which there is no real account number attached to. Also xxxxxxxx, once extracted is verified to the name printed on the check. After about five or more bad values of z... in a day, a human is brought into the equation to look for the underlying cause.
If check is good, then issuing bank electronically clears the bank draft with bank (or presents cash to individual) that presented the check. This allows for a pre-verification of check prior to verifying the signature (which most banks no longer do anyways.)
I won't go into recurring drafts (automatic payments) as that makes things a bit more complicated.
The PIN needs to be a moving target and much longer than 4 digits. Note that stateside that most automatic car washes are using at least 5 digit numbers to authenticate the sale as sold by the gas pump. (Example: SecurID or one-time pad.)
(offtopic)
My biggest pet peeve is why are account numbers (on checks) in the clear while the same is basically true of PIN numbers (without any added "salt")
For checks I would like to see the account number + check number translated a 16 to 20 digit hash of which only the bank knows how to decipher to the correct account and check number?
(/offtopic)
Currently Home Depot (Husky) and Lowes (Kobalt) have some very nice "house branded" tools. There was a time that they would cross-honor their warranties against any broken Craftsman tool that was brought in--no questions asked (replace broken Craftsman tool with their Husky or Kobalt equivalent.)
In the event that Sears (and Orchard Supply Hardware, another Craftsman tool reseller) go under, I would not be surprised to see Husky and Kobalt extend their warranties to cover broken Craftsman tools as part of a future marketing campaign.
That 15 minute ride from San Jose must be a bitch...
The longer ride is nothing. Think of the time they get to save with parking and airport security and a very crowded (and overworked) runway and air traffic control.
Methinks that http://www.yahoo!.com/ should bribe Network Solutions (and all other domain registrars) into letting them trap this "misspelled" URL.
Here is the isotope list for Hydrogen. Except for Tritium, the half-life is quite short for these isotopes.
And here is the isotope list for Oxygen
(Note that except for the stable isotopes, all the others have a half-life of two minutes or less.)
Finally a nice large color chart of all of the known isotopes with an indication of approximate half-life of each isotope.
I read somewhere that a college technical writing class needed some practical exercises for technical writing, and a new science museum recently opened up. The museum needed someone to write the signage for the exhibits, and the class needed a practical hands-on exercise.
The assignment was worded as:
"Write the materials as if you are writing to a retired 40-year veteran (PE/EE/CE/ME/...) engineer who probably knows the subject matter better than you, and his 11 year old grandson. The material must not go over the head of the younger reader, and not insult the intelligence of the older reader."
...and the article does not mention how usable the device is.
(fumble fingers here has a hard enough time using a plain vanilla Nokia phone with its chicklet keys.)
Events on calendar are closer than they appear.
Sure ya' can, it's called anarchy, just ask any Iraqi citizen.
For some great recipies, check out Manifold Destiny for some delicious and low-tech ways (aluminum foil, meat, vegetables, and possibly some fish to grill) to prepare some great meals. The best part is that your final destination does not have to be home. If planned properly, a picnic at a rest stop and no dishes to cleanup when done will have you be the envy of your fellow passengers.