Can be the same in the Washington DC Metro area... Using gas alone, I spent ~$3,000/year in gas for my previous job before going back to school... Factor in extra maintenance needed for the driving (or less flexibility on schedule) and it'll be higher... so it ends up being ~$4,000 for 60-90 minutes/day extra.
~$4,000/year missing left, or $150/paycheck for most US companies.... Making numbers even smaller, $150/paycheck is $15/work day... so car/gas/maintenance factors aside, is that commute time worth losing $15 per day ?
I'd highly consider it, although other factors I would consider are what "Full time" really means... could you live further from a big city and get cheaper housing? Would days I need to go in be flexible in hours? (Could I go in off normal rush hours, or on the weekend for those days instead)
I think I would have a quality of life bonus with a full time telecommute job
See, I found violent video games did little for my morals or empathy... My morals and empathy were shaped more by 2 snipers taking out random people as they walk to/from school, or get gas, then from violent video games. Knowing one moment I'm walking to school, and the next moment my brains might be on a tree 30 feet away... That effected me more then doing it to someone in a video game.
I would say news outlets broadcasting for 2-3 days straight about the same violent real life stories more impacting.... I mean, Columbine, Twin towers, DC Snipers... with so much violent fluff in between... The media makes it sound like society is crumbling and there's no such thing as good news anymore... Hell, I hear more good news here on Slashdot then I see on TV -- Unless it's some sappy sad story about a kid who eventually gets a better life (Great for him, but that's self-serving news, not broader community impacting good news)
In fact, the only 'good' news story I heard recently was that Fairfax firefighter crew who go to all the world disasters and help people, and that got all of a 20 second story. I think it was followed by how the DC local government is corrupt for the next 2 minutes
Hard to feel like you should care about people if it looks like that's not what society does or expects of others
Giving up my mod points on the thread to ask... Why?
Seems like the only advantage this holds is Microsoft can later claim "You should have used someone elses service to discuss anti-dictatorship topics, as our services are not secure or private" ??
Ummm.. How else will big record labels stay in business? If people will not buy CD's because the prices are too expensive... But they can't lower prices because they want to make X dollars per CD sold (non-negotiable)... then they need to find alternate sources of income
Lawsuits are the next best source...
Personally, I'm sticking to "Radio" like sources.. Pandora for instance... and going with Creative Commons music
I Have not seen a band in ages that I liked enough to buy their CD's unless they were far out of date and on sale for $5
Their courts already ruled using another persons internet is not illegal. This law is broken specifically when you try to go the next step (try to access personal information)
If the hacker tried to take log files, or go into another computer, or browse through files... He would likely have been covered. Since he sniffed the key and used it.. without doing gathering any personal information (except maybe "god" "password" "admin" or the router owner's pets name...).. he was not hacking into a computer system.... and since piggybacking on peoples internet connections is already legal in the country, he didn't apply for this specific law the lawyer wanted to throw at him. Perhaps another law applied that better fit the crime
or the judge used a previous court ruling that determined routers do not store enough personal security information (SSN/Credit card numbers/etc.), are not used as a "Computer" (in the traditional sense), and are not designed to do so.. thus they are a "computerized device" and not a "Computer".. which pulls routers out of the "Computerized Intrusion" law -- perhaps this is covered in another law and the lawyer wanted to pin the hacker on the hardest offense he thought he could pull off
The judge ruled, if I'm reading it correctly, that the router did not store "personal" information, and/or the hacker did not attempt to access it.. its a bit vague
I think their laws, or previous court cases, ruled or created 'definitions' of devices that lead the judge to rule it's not a computer as it's intent is not to store a person's private information... All "computerized devices" have bits and bytes stored...
As for previous cases, the article referenced a 2008 article where 'piggybacking' on internet connections was not an offense, but that was likely unsecure networks
It seems the law, as the judge rules, is that you have to "Browse" through the personal information. If you hack the router and gain access, but stop there and only use it for connecting, you are not breaking the law they have. It appears "Intrusion" requires you view the information on the device...
I suppose a poor analogy would be picking the lock on a house, but not opening the door... when no law against 'lock picking' exists... which in this case also did not share the key with anyone else, nor leave the house vulnerable to another person with ill intent
Except bps does not factor in well with their network styles. When I had cable (worst 4 years of my internet experience... worse then even $2/hour AOL in the early 90's), my speeds were inconsistent, and frequently below 200kb/s when advertised as a 3mbps line
Since I switched to DSL, and then FIOS, I've seen a lot better consistancy in the speeds and lines. Perhaps it was a massive network mistake for my cable company in my area, but I never got 1/2 the advertised rate, even at 3am... Since then i've been consistantly 80%+.. and FIOS runs great.... Back then I used to explain it as "Cable had a higher maximum, but DSL is more consistant
Of course, some people argue the networks set up the same anyway, but i've never gone back to research how exactly they differ, I just knew at my home my statement was true... and DSL was a lot faster then cable.
just because it has 3 monitors doesn't mean it's a gaming beast
I don't think it'll get 40 fps+ on some of the newer games, Heck I don't think it could handle (world of) Warcraft or Starcraft II on max settings over 40 FPS without some massive, massive tweaks to the OS
They can not , according to the cardholder agreement, require you to present a photo ID to verify your identity.
They are responsible for any theft made (including fraud purchases)
However, a business -- as a private entity -- can decline to sell you product because you do not look like a "Melissa Doe" as a 35 year old man
So visa doesn't require ID be shown, but businesses still have their own right to decline a sale... kinda.. and not much you can do about it -- Visa won't penalize Best Buy or any other big store over your declined sale
Remember, Hollywood is the land of hype. It makes itself look more profitable and important than it is, because that helps it sell itself and its products.
I thought their goal was to make it look as though they are a non-profit business that never generates profits on anything but the biggest movies so they do not have to pay royalties or taxes on profits?
(Unless its a court case where they want to generate money, in which case they use larger then the real numbers)
Not to mention, most motorcyclists riding a bike worth over 10,000 are generally the most attentive drivers on the road...
They are only a danger to themselves... But *EVERYTHING* else is a danger to THEM...
the NHTSA has some data, in 2009 1/7th of fatalities (~4,000) were motorcyclists.. 75% of the accidents were two-car accidents... Of the two-car accidents with motorcyclist fatalities, the driver of the other vehicle (not motorcyclist) was merging, 'glided' into the motorcyclists lane, or pulled out in front of the motorcyclist when the motorcyclist had the right-of-way about 50% of the time.... so you could say at least 1,500 traffic fatalities (50% of the initial 75%) were due to other drivers error... However if the motorcyclist avoids the accident and say, hits a concrete barrier... well that's considered a single-vehicle accident (25% of total).. Not much good statistics on that as the other vehicle tends to ignore the fact they just ran someone they didn't look for off the road....
Really motorcyclist deaths would be reduced by half if people stopped trying to murder them... + a few more lives saved from dying when attempting to not get run over...
I leave near DC, and I get the impression from people that:
1) Like what he is doing (In terms of reducing 'secrets' and 'corruption' in institution's we expect/are supposed to trust)
2) Don't really like the methods (at least in terms of possibly putting soldier's lives at risk--But media in the US is a horrible gauge to tell if/how much they actually did)
Thus far I have not heard anyone caring about politicians getting smeared...
it sounds as if the DIMM slot is simply the "Bay" holding the drive, which also provides the power. Otherwise it will function like an SATA SSD as it connects to the SATA Port for data transfer.
MS optimized their JS code to *not* do pointless loops that have no use in the rest of the code... Great, that is an optimization.
I wouldn't say MS "Cheated" (as this is, as best i can tell from the high level summaries, a valid, beneficial, improvement to the JS engine) -- Instead, this should be a 'new' test for all broswers, and the old test should be re-created in a way to force engines to do it (making the values relevant to something)
It's expensive and/or polluting to get, China offers to do it for a price that is much cheaper than elsewhere (much like to do with many things we buy from them).
The US has a bit more then 1/3rd the REO (Rare earth oxide) that China has (we have 13 mil. met. tons, China has 36)
Some more info: China has about 1/3rd the world supply of REO. China produces 98% of the worlds supply (as in, they are one of the few countries that mine). We could get our source from the 66% of the supply that exists outside china, 33% of which is in the United States. However, it costs more.
You also need to factor in that we'd have to set up mining operations, and processing plants, to handle this. Currently we only have 1 operation, located in California, that has not been in operation since 2007.
I have a master password file saved in an OpenOffice password protected file that's on a USB Stick hidden in a safe place (next to the pr0n)
I don't pay my bills often (most are auto-paid), and generally I remember the pass if I need it, but otherwise I know I have that fallback to get my passwords...
I keep it off my computer for security,
and sure someone who breaks into my home may steal it, but that's why I password protect it, most home burglars are not IT Experts, and I will have a day to notify financial companies
Same here... I have 2 extra computers at my home, both of them are password protected. However, I give the password to anyone who comes over so they can use the computer.
So about 12 people have the password to my spare computers, if they remember it... But it doesn't matter, it's not a password I reuse elsewhere, but I'd be "Stupid" in this poll.
Though, I will point out I know people who use the same e-mail/password as login info on sites... as a lot more sites use e-mail as the login name.
A Speech-to-text system in your car -- or built into your phone, that's the better solution...
Now someone just needs to make one that's affordable and make it easily obtainable (such as with a radio/sound system upgrade on a new car, or other cheap solution)
-- No lights ( / unmarked car )
-- No badge
-- No uniform
-- Gun drawn
-- Charging me telling me to get off my vehicle
-- Put hand on bike yelling at the driver
-- Closes to 2-3 feet from driver
As he has not yet identified himself as a police officer one would assume he is a crazy/road rage civilian, or a carjacker (motorcycle thief), that is charging me with a deadly weapon drawn.
If you are a cop (or identifiable as such), then I would not defend myself, nor would I expect you to use your gun offensively.
If you are not a cop (or not identifiable as a cop), I assume you're a thief and are using the gun as a weapon to deprive me of life and/or property
At the first opportunity (in this case, when you were 2 feet away from me with a gun drawn, not pointed at me) I would have attacked you, as you are currently identified (to my mind trying to decide fight/flight) as a thief and/or really pissed off civilian... and you presented me with an opportunity to defend myself from you and get away... Probably harming you and/or myself in the process... It may not be the 'right' choice, but It is what you (police officers) preach (as in, self defense), and I'm a full supporter of that.
Anyway, Any cops that read this, please keep this in mind when you charge a civilian with your gun out... Identify yourself as an officer... Otherwise, everything your department tells civilians to do is "to run away, or defend your life if you are unable to run"
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Can be the same in the Washington DC Metro area... Using gas alone, I spent ~$3,000/year in gas for my previous job before going back to school... Factor in extra maintenance needed for the driving (or less flexibility on schedule) and it'll be higher... so it ends up being ~$4,000 for 60-90 minutes/day extra.
~$4,000/year missing left, or $150/paycheck for most US companies.... Making numbers even smaller, $150/paycheck is $15/work day... so car/gas/maintenance factors aside, is that commute time worth losing $15 per day ?
I'd highly consider it, although other factors I would consider are what "Full time" really means... could you live further from a big city and get cheaper housing? Would days I need to go in be flexible in hours? (Could I go in off normal rush hours, or on the weekend for those days instead)
I think I would have a quality of life bonus with a full time telecommute job
See, I found violent video games did little for my morals or empathy... My morals and empathy were shaped more by 2 snipers taking out random people as they walk to/from school, or get gas, then from violent video games. Knowing one moment I'm walking to school, and the next moment my brains might be on a tree 30 feet away... That effected me more then doing it to someone in a video game.
I would say news outlets broadcasting for 2-3 days straight about the same violent real life stories more impacting.... I mean, Columbine, Twin towers, DC Snipers... with so much violent fluff in between... The media makes it sound like society is crumbling and there's no such thing as good news anymore... Hell, I hear more good news here on Slashdot then I see on TV -- Unless it's some sappy sad story about a kid who eventually gets a better life (Great for him, but that's self-serving news, not broader community impacting good news)
In fact, the only 'good' news story I heard recently was that Fairfax firefighter crew who go to all the world disasters and help people, and that got all of a 20 second story. I think it was followed by how the DC local government is corrupt for the next 2 minutes
Hard to feel like you should care about people if it looks like that's not what society does or expects of others
Giving up my mod points on the thread to ask... Why?
Seems like the only advantage this holds is Microsoft can later claim "You should have used someone elses service to discuss anti-dictatorship topics, as our services are not secure or private" ??
Ummm.. How else will big record labels stay in business? If people will not buy CD's because the prices are too expensive... But they can't lower prices because they want to make X dollars per CD sold (non-negotiable)... then they need to find alternate sources of income
Lawsuits are the next best source...
Personally, I'm sticking to "Radio" like sources.. Pandora for instance... and going with Creative Commons music
I Have not seen a band in ages that I liked enough to buy their CD's unless they were far out of date and on sale for $5
Not the case here
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2044540&cid=35539746
Their courts already ruled using another persons internet is not illegal. This law is broken specifically when you try to go the next step (try to access personal information)
If the hacker tried to take log files, or go into another computer, or browse through files... He would likely have been covered. Since he sniffed the key and used it.. without doing gathering any personal information (except maybe "god" "password" "admin" or the router owner's pets name...).. he was not hacking into a computer system.... and since piggybacking on peoples internet connections is already legal in the country, he didn't apply for this specific law the lawyer wanted to throw at him. Perhaps another law applied that better fit the crime
or the judge used a previous court ruling that determined routers do not store enough personal security information (SSN/Credit card numbers/etc.), are not used as a "Computer" (in the traditional sense), and are not designed to do so.. thus they are a "computerized device" and not a "Computer".. which pulls routers out of the "Computerized Intrusion" law -- perhaps this is covered in another law and the lawyer wanted to pin the hacker on the hardest offense he thought he could pull off
The judge ruled, if I'm reading it correctly, that the router did not store "personal" information, and/or the hacker did not attempt to access it.. its a bit vague
I think their laws, or previous court cases, ruled or created 'definitions' of devices that lead the judge to rule it's not a computer as it's intent is not to store a person's private information... All "computerized devices" have bits and bytes stored...
As for previous cases, the article referenced a 2008 article where 'piggybacking' on internet connections was not an offense, but that was likely unsecure networks
It seems the law, as the judge rules, is that you have to "Browse" through the personal information. If you hack the router and gain access, but stop there and only use it for connecting, you are not breaking the law they have. It appears "Intrusion" requires you view the information on the device...
I suppose a poor analogy would be picking the lock on a house, but not opening the door... when no law against 'lock picking' exists... which in this case also did not share the key with anyone else, nor leave the house vulnerable to another person with ill intent
Except bps does not factor in well with their network styles. When I had cable (worst 4 years of my internet experience... worse then even $2/hour AOL in the early 90's), my speeds were inconsistent, and frequently below 200kb/s when advertised as a 3mbps line
Since I switched to DSL, and then FIOS, I've seen a lot better consistancy in the speeds and lines. Perhaps it was a massive network mistake for my cable company in my area, but I never got 1/2 the advertised rate, even at 3am... Since then i've been consistantly 80%+.. and FIOS runs great.... Back then I used to explain it as "Cable had a higher maximum, but DSL is more consistant
Of course, some people argue the networks set up the same anyway, but i've never gone back to research how exactly they differ, I just knew at my home my statement was true... and DSL was a lot faster then cable.
Yeah, hate to say it but i'm with you on this
just because it has 3 monitors doesn't mean it's a gaming beast
I don't think it'll get 40 fps+ on some of the newer games, Heck I don't think it could handle (world of) Warcraft or Starcraft II on max settings over 40 FPS without some massive, massive tweaks to the OS
And no AA? Only on one screen? ....
Yes it's a slippery situation:
They can not , according to the cardholder agreement, require you to present a photo ID to verify your identity.
They are responsible for any theft made (including fraud purchases)
However, a business -- as a private entity -- can decline to sell you product because you do not look like a "Melissa Doe" as a 35 year old man
So visa doesn't require ID be shown, but businesses still have their own right to decline a sale... kinda.. and not much you can do about it -- Visa won't penalize Best Buy or any other big store over your declined sale
Remember, Hollywood is the land of hype. It makes itself look more profitable and important than it is, because that helps it sell itself and its products.
I thought their goal was to make it look as though they are a non-profit business that never generates profits on anything but the biggest movies so they do not have to pay royalties or taxes on profits?
(Unless its a court case where they want to generate money, in which case they use larger then the real numbers)
DUDE, Reading is hacking, don't you know anything about the US Legal term for hacking?!?
Not to mention, most motorcyclists riding a bike worth over 10,000 are generally the most attentive drivers on the road...
They are only a danger to themselves... But *EVERYTHING* else is a danger to THEM...
the NHTSA has some data, in 2009 1/7th of fatalities (~4,000) were motorcyclists.. 75% of the accidents were two-car accidents... Of the two-car accidents with motorcyclist fatalities, the driver of the other vehicle (not motorcyclist) was merging, 'glided' into the motorcyclists lane, or pulled out in front of the motorcyclist when the motorcyclist had the right-of-way about 50% of the time.... so you could say at least 1,500 traffic fatalities (50% of the initial 75%) were due to other drivers error... However if the motorcyclist avoids the accident and say, hits a concrete barrier... well that's considered a single-vehicle accident (25% of total).. Not much good statistics on that as the other vehicle tends to ignore the fact they just ran someone they didn't look for off the road....
Really motorcyclist deaths would be reduced by half if people stopped trying to murder them... + a few more lives saved from dying when attempting to not get run over...
I leave near DC, and I get the impression from people that:
1) Like what he is doing (In terms of reducing 'secrets' and 'corruption' in institution's we expect/are supposed to trust)
2) Don't really like the methods (at least in terms of possibly putting soldier's lives at risk--But media in the US is a horrible gauge to tell if/how much they actually did)
Thus far I have not heard anyone caring about politicians getting smeared...
it sounds as if the DIMM slot is simply the "Bay" holding the drive, which also provides the power. Otherwise it will function like an SATA SSD as it connects to the SATA Port for data transfer.
actually this makes an improvement, I think
MS optimized their JS code to *not* do pointless loops that have no use in the rest of the code... Great, that is an optimization.
I wouldn't say MS "Cheated" (as this is, as best i can tell from the high level summaries, a valid, beneficial, improvement to the JS engine) -- Instead, this should be a 'new' test for all broswers, and the old test should be re-created in a way to force engines to do it (making the values relevant to something)
Again, just my understanding from the article
This sounds interesting, can you please provide a citation for those who wish to research?
It's expensive and/or polluting to get, China offers to do it for a price that is much cheaper than elsewhere (much like to do with many things we buy from them).
The US has a bit more then 1/3rd the REO (Rare earth oxide) that China has (we have 13 mil. met. tons, China has 36)
Some more info: China has about 1/3rd the world supply of REO. China produces 98% of the worlds supply (as in, they are one of the few countries that mine). We could get our source from the 66% of the supply that exists outside china, 33% of which is in the United States. However, it costs more.
You also need to factor in that we'd have to set up mining operations, and processing plants, to handle this. Currently we only have 1 operation, located in California, that has not been in operation since 2007.
Source: http://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/pubs/commodity/rare_earths/
United States Geological Survey
I have a master password file saved in an OpenOffice password protected file that's on a USB Stick hidden in a safe place (next to the pr0n)
I don't pay my bills often (most are auto-paid), and generally I remember the pass if I need it, but otherwise I know I have that fallback to get my passwords...
I keep it off my computer for security,
and sure someone who breaks into my home may steal it, but that's why I password protect it, most home burglars are not IT Experts, and I will have a day to notify financial companies
Same here... I have 2 extra computers at my home, both of them are password protected. However, I give the password to anyone who comes over so they can use the computer.
So about 12 people have the password to my spare computers, if they remember it... But it doesn't matter, it's not a password I reuse elsewhere, but I'd be "Stupid" in this poll.
Though, I will point out I know people who use the same e-mail/password as login info on sites... as a lot more sites use e-mail as the login name.
I'm sure it's just a glitch.....
Except Two-Thirds of Corporations do not pay taxes...
Corporations have the money and power to avoid paying taxes, People making under $40,000/year don't have the ability to reduce their tax rate from 35% to 12%, or 20% to 0%
A Speech-to-text system in your car -- or built into your phone, that's the better solution...
Now someone just needs to make one that's affordable and make it easily obtainable (such as with a radio/sound system upgrade on a new car, or other cheap solution)
-- No lights ( / unmarked car )
-- No badge
-- No uniform
-- Gun drawn
-- Charging me telling me to get off my vehicle
-- Put hand on bike yelling at the driver
-- Closes to 2-3 feet from driver
As he has not yet identified himself as a police officer one would assume he is a crazy/road rage civilian, or a carjacker (motorcycle thief), that is charging me with a deadly weapon drawn.
If you are a cop (or identifiable as such), then I would not defend myself, nor would I expect you to use your gun offensively.
If you are not a cop (or not identifiable as a cop), I assume you're a thief and are using the gun as a weapon to deprive me of life and/or property
At the first opportunity (in this case, when you were 2 feet away from me with a gun drawn, not pointed at me) I would have attacked you, as you are currently identified (to my mind trying to decide fight/flight) as a thief and/or really pissed off civilian... and you presented me with an opportunity to defend myself from you and get away... Probably harming you and/or myself in the process... It may not be the 'right' choice, but It is what you (police officers) preach (as in, self defense), and I'm a full supporter of that.
Anyway, Any cops that read this, please keep this in mind when you charge a civilian with your gun out... Identify yourself as an officer... Otherwise, everything your department tells civilians to do is "to run away, or defend your life if you are unable to run"