Don't jest - my friend had a transplant recently and they found three old kidneys inside. The original, and two previous transplants that they hadn't whipped out.
And hes doing well, thanks.
Its always a smart idea to bring a couple of spares:)
People in real life are a little less likely to just hand over their money to joe blow. Which is why banks are chartered and insured by the government.
As far as opening regular businesses, absolutely.
Pfew! For a while I thought transferring my money to IceSave would be a problem, but now that you tell me the bank has been chartered and insured, i'm pretty confident about putting my money in that bank!
CCP warns consistently that they track all ISK transfers and once they come down on an ISK-seller, all the money he ever traded is not only gone, but replaced by the same figure with a "minus" in front of it. If you bought a lot of cash it could mean you'd be bankrupt on that character.
I'm not sure how often CCP exactly does that kind of thing, but in this case they have a pretty good incentive to come down hard on the sellers and buyers.
It should. Those are stories with a questionmark, and since they're tagged "no" the collective wisdom of Slashdot would say that, well, the answer to the question posed by the story is a "no". Saves you the time of checking whether there Are aliens living among us, for instance:)
Okay, slightly different, because in the EU the manufacturer can choose not to disclose *any* information. However, everything that is available to the bound dealers MUST be available to the independent cardealers as well, to create a level playingfield.
I think in practice it should work out nearly the same.
Apart from the hypothetical extinction in a few million years, we're going to be hardpressed ensuring we have something to extinguish left over.
The newfoundland codfish collapse is about to repeat itself on a rather large scale. Climate change predictions are getting worse, now that more data is coming in it looks like the trend is accelerating. Noone really knows what will happen when the permafrost melts, but all indications are it's going to be very, very bad. Not for everyone though, just for enough people currently arming up with nukes or already armed that it's a pretty sure bet we all get to join in the fun.
Actually, under the Block Exemption Rules, this is illegal in Europe. Any dealer or repairshop has the right to obtain the proper software and tools for reading the data. Any attempt to hinder the competition doing so could result in huge fines (a 1 billion dollar fine for Daimler, and the threat of another one, was enough to have them change their attitude about the law) .
Ofcourse, that's the socialist EU we're talking about here. I'm sure the USA has a much better system for aiding and improving competition.
This is stupid. The onliest reason people are still into StarCraft I is because it is still the RTS of choice for gaming championships and good fun for LAN-parties. When there's no LAN-support, neither will be driving continued playability for Starcraft II - meaning Starcraft III will be a much tougher sell.
The reason is indeed twofold: piracy, and the fact you cannot monetize LAN-parties as easily as you can monetize Battlenet.
This is a kick in the balls for most users, wholly greed-based, and no good will come of it.
An alternative I forgot to mention is to use Hotspotshield, a free proxy-service. I'm not too sure what the risks and benefits on that one are, though, but you're supposed to be able to circumvent most of the IP-based bans. The download is free. Use at your own risk.
Which means that if you can't figure out the age of the person, you'd better not have any pictures of them in the nude, since you're the one who has to prove that you are innocent. Somehow I feel this violates a really basic part of the justice system.
And I wonder if people are allowed to have nude pictures of their kids, under this type of law, by the way. It sounds like a risky thing to do.
I love the way they talk of it like it's a loophole. It's as much of a loophole, as me paying for items in a shop is a "creative" way round being done for shoplifting...
I read last year on slashdot that there is a state in the USA where drivers were sued and convicted for not buying their petrol inside the state itself, but right before they entered, because it was cheaper outside that state due to taxes. The judge agreed that they were circumventing the taxes by getting their fuel elsewhere. If you can argue that not buying something that is taxed constitutes tax evasion, you can argue anything. Including thoughtcrimes.
I'm guessing the parent meant that you would deposit your public key in a trusted repository, and if you want access to a site, you have to encrypt a shared secret with your private key and send it to the site, who would then use your public key to verify that you are who you say you are.
This would work well, would not entail exchanging passwords and the private key would never have to leave your own computer. Pretty secure, though not really feasible for public terminals I fear. It would be a great option otherwise.
I'd love to have centralized auditing on that feature because it's a great way to see who is security unconscious.
Every user who toggled it more than once a month would get an automatic accountblock and a stern lecture on shouldersurfing when he or she dropped by my office to request an unblock.
If someone can shouldersurf, 99% of the time they have physical access and all security is null.
That goes for people who know what they're doing. However, most of the users in the office are NOT able to hack the PC like that. However, every idiot that can see my password can enter it.
Even with physical access: try hacking a dumb terminal. It's pretty hard without hardware hacks. But if you you display my password in cleartext, in the office space with 2 people behind me that I didn't see come up to me, my account is compromised.
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The concept of default arrived when choices started to appear. The 'default' paintjob on the T-Ford was black. No sense in calling it default then. When choices appear you also have people saying 'duh, i don't care'. Hence the default (cheapest) option provided by the producer. Did someone really need a whole article for this?
If you could never check any assumptions, why do pilots bother using checklists in planes?
But perhaps I should have said "Unchecked assumptions". You should always check any critical ones to make sure that what you think will happen, is also what everyone else has understood.
Q: can the supplier really deliver on time? Check: ask him. Did he realize the due date is next week?
Q: can this bridge really hold my weight?
Check: test it (with something non-critical).
Always check critical assumptions as much as you can, or put failsafe measures in place. This goes for projects, but also for stuff in your daily life.
I have a motorola Razr v3 because my wife wanted a mobile phone - I had an old nokia that worked well so wasn't interested. However, she found it too difficult so we traded:P
The old nokia has gone to my son now, still working. My new razr however is infected with some fungus below the display. You need special screwdrivers to open the case though, so I can't repair it yet. Will get the screwdrivers though, its cheaper to clean it up than buy a new phone. But the nokia (business model, Nokia 9600i I think) is tossed all over the place and just has a few scratches, nothing more.
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Don't jest - my friend had a transplant recently and they found three old kidneys inside. The original, and two previous transplants that they hadn't whipped out.
And hes doing well, thanks.
Its always a smart idea to bring a couple of spares :)
'Ice from ICE, intrusion countermeasures electronics.'
Dang, I looked it up and now I've got to re-read the whole novel again. Look at what you made me do :)
If you took the kind of risks that are normal in game in real life, you would lose people their life's savings.
So... Madoff was an EVE-player then? That sure explains a lot :P
People in real life are a little less likely to just hand over their money to joe blow. Which is why banks are chartered and insured by the government.
As far as opening regular businesses, absolutely.
Pfew! For a while I thought transferring my money to IceSave would be a problem, but now that you tell me the bank has been chartered and insured, i'm pretty confident about putting my money in that bank!
CCP warns consistently that they track all ISK transfers and once they come down on an ISK-seller, all the money he ever traded is not only gone, but replaced by the same figure with a "minus" in front of it. If you bought a lot of cash it could mean you'd be bankrupt on that character.
I'm not sure how often CCP exactly does that kind of thing, but in this case they have a pretty good incentive to come down hard on the sellers and buyers.
Does it help me that one hundred stories are tagged with "no"?
It should. Those are stories with a questionmark, and since they're tagged "no" the collective wisdom of Slashdot would say that, well, the answer to the question posed by the story is a "no". Saves you the time of checking whether there Are aliens living among us, for instance :)
Okay, slightly different, because in the EU the manufacturer can choose not to disclose *any* information. However, everything that is available to the bound dealers MUST be available to the independent cardealers as well, to create a level playingfield.
I think in practice it should work out nearly the same.
Apart from the hypothetical extinction in a few million years, we're going to be hardpressed ensuring we have something to extinguish left over.
The newfoundland codfish collapse is about to repeat itself on a rather large scale. Climate change predictions are getting worse, now that more data is coming in it looks like the trend is accelerating. Noone really knows what will happen when the permafrost melts, but all indications are it's going to be very, very bad. Not for everyone though, just for enough people currently arming up with nukes or already armed that it's a pretty sure bet we all get to join in the fun.
Actually, under the Block Exemption Rules, this is illegal in Europe. Any dealer or repairshop has the right to obtain the proper software and tools for reading the data. Any attempt to hinder the competition doing so could result in huge fines (a 1 billion dollar fine for Daimler, and the threat of another one, was enough to have them change their attitude about the law) .
Ofcourse, that's the socialist EU we're talking about here. I'm sure the USA has a much better system for aiding and improving competition.
This is stupid. The onliest reason people are still into StarCraft I is because it is still the RTS of choice for gaming championships and good fun for LAN-parties. When there's no LAN-support, neither will be driving continued playability for Starcraft II - meaning Starcraft III will be a much tougher sell.
The reason is indeed twofold: piracy, and the fact you cannot monetize LAN-parties as easily as you can monetize Battlenet.
This is a kick in the balls for most users, wholly greed-based, and no good will come of it.
Torrent the whole lot and you have instant access anywhere in the world :)
Don't waste your breath on these miscreants. These people create no artistic works, they make nothing of artistic value, they simply believe they can take what they want when they want it. They believe © means they have a right to copy and give away anything they please.
When i read those lines I first thought you were discussing record company executives, making free with my money.
An alternative I forgot to mention is to use Hotspotshield, a free proxy-service. I'm not too sure what the risks and benefits on that one are, though, but you're supposed to be able to circumvent most of the IP-based bans. The download is free. Use at your own risk.
Try Imeem.com. Although it's not a radiostation, it works for me.
One for the geeks: http://www.imeem.com/people/iiS6AQH/music/I3tobUbT/lisa-miskovsky-still-alive-junkie-xl-mix/
Which means that if you can't figure out the age of the person, you'd better not have any pictures of them in the nude, since you're the one who has to prove that you are innocent. Somehow I feel this violates a really basic part of the justice system.
And I wonder if people are allowed to have nude pictures of their kids, under this type of law, by the way. It sounds like a risky thing to do.
I love the way they talk of it like it's a loophole. It's as much of a loophole, as me paying for items in a shop is a "creative" way round being done for shoplifting...
I read last year on slashdot that there is a state in the USA where drivers were sued and convicted for not buying their petrol inside the state itself, but right before they entered, because it was cheaper outside that state due to taxes. The judge agreed that they were circumventing the taxes by getting their fuel elsewhere. If you can argue that not buying something that is taxed constitutes tax evasion, you can argue anything. Including thoughtcrimes.
I'm guessing the parent meant that you would deposit your public key in a trusted repository, and if you want access to a site, you have to encrypt a shared secret with your private key and send it to the site, who would then use your public key to verify that you are who you say you are.
This would work well, would not entail exchanging passwords and the private key would never have to leave your own computer. Pretty secure, though not really feasible for public terminals I fear. It would be a great option otherwise.
I'd love to have centralized auditing on that feature because it's a great way to see who is security unconscious.
Every user who toggled it more than once a month would get an automatic accountblock and a stern lecture on shouldersurfing when he or she dropped by my office to request an unblock.
If someone can shouldersurf, 99% of the time they have physical access and all security is null.
That goes for people who know what they're doing. However, most of the users in the office are NOT able to hack the PC like that. However, every idiot that can see my password can enter it.
Even with physical access: try hacking a dumb terminal. It's pretty hard without hardware hacks. But if you you display my password in cleartext, in the office space with 2 people behind me that I didn't see come up to me, my account is compromised.
The concept of default arrived when choices started to appear. The 'default' paintjob on the T-Ford was black. No sense in calling it default then. When choices appear you also have people saying 'duh, i don't care'. Hence the default (cheapest) option provided by the producer. Did someone really need a whole article for this?
Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!
(couldn't resist :))
Given that we've been pouring energy into the atmosphere over the last century I doubt a few towers will have much of an impact on that.
I check it daily :P
If you could never check any assumptions, why do pilots bother using checklists in planes?
But perhaps I should have said "Unchecked assumptions". You should always check any critical ones to make sure that what you think will happen, is also what everyone else has understood.
Q: can the supplier really deliver on time? Check: ask him. Did he realize the due date is next week?
Q: can this bridge really hold my weight? Check: test it (with something non-critical).
Always check critical assumptions as much as you can, or put failsafe measures in place. This goes for projects, but also for stuff in your daily life.
I have a motorola Razr v3 because my wife wanted a mobile phone - I had an old nokia that worked well so wasn't interested. However, she found it too difficult so we traded :P
The old nokia has gone to my son now, still working. My new razr however is infected with some fungus below the display. You need special screwdrivers to open the case though, so I can't repair it yet. Will get the screwdrivers though, its cheaper to clean it up than buy a new phone. But the nokia (business model, Nokia 9600i I think) is tossed all over the place and just has a few scratches, nothing more.