no, making 10% of a catalog with 15 to 19 digit numbers is not acceptable solution. the core problem is stupidity of using a credit card number at all for financial transactions, already a long solved crytographic problem. the credit card companies need to stop using a stupid system, just as government needs to stop using social security numbers. fix what's broken, don't put bandaids on a bridge.
you're not getting it. there would be no single unique number, only lasting thing would only be encrypted message summarizing single transaction. you could post it on the web, wouldn't do a thief any good. the transaction would be done by secure cryptographic means, we've mastered that already, solved problem.
you're cluesless. there would be no cc number, there would be a long number that encoded a single transaction as summary. you could post it on the web, would be useless for theft
wrong. the bigger issue is why we are so silly as to use short 15 or 16 digit numbers for making financial transactions. it's the same as the stupidity shown with using social security numbers.
lighten up, it's just for games. who cares if a fun game runs on even a closed source console or whatever? they pull the plug on thing in a couple years, so what?
here I was all excited that coefficient governing rate of expansion of universe was sufficient to cause Big Rip in two decades. but instead of some cool cosmic doom it's just gamer bullshit. lame.
you are the dipshit, you're only citing projects with the same problem as Canonical that have caused the same problems of alienating and driving away users. so you prove my point. fucktard.
yes, Canonical continues to leave userbase behind and trying to get vendor lockin. they are squandering their popularity on things that are alienating their fan base.
No, Ubuntu would have no business at all if some IT people weren't comfortable enough with it to get it in the door of the enterprise. That's how Red Hat got into the boardroom. but then Red Hat turned its back on the userbase. It closed off its server/workstation distro to the users, making alternative distro where users are guinea pigs. Because of that Redhat lost mindshare and customers (to Canonical, in many cases). We've gone from hundreds of Red Hat servers to one where I work, in favor of other distro
actually, they only need to jump together repeatedly and in sync to slowly knock the earth's orbit through the Sol-Jupitar L1 or L2; from there they can go anywhere in the solar system with very little perturbation. Indians could do it too except they would have to eat more meat first.
I'm amused at the constant slashdot meme that the Chinese or Indians are somehow overtaking the US space program.
the chinese space program is about four decades behind the US one. and the Indian one even further, about five decades. we're talking about ballistic capabilities, systems complexity but not computer control. when will they have a launch system that can put solar observing satellite inside the orbit of mercury (which takes more delta v than going to another star!), or a launch system that could take men to the moon? not in the near future.
nonsense, you do realize that the science fiction author who proposed that system was off in his calculations by a factor of a hundred? rods from space are a threat to a vehicle, not your city or country.
heavy water is not even radioactive, in concentrations of thousandth or less it has no observable effects. the concentration in a plant or animal becomes high, several percent and up, it does start interfering with enzymes and cell division. but those studies that poison creatures had to use tens (not tenths) of percent
in this thread we're talking about where the biggist bloat was, those two things being candidates. again, you're still very confused and adled in the brain.
In the east, Ruby used for many huge and serious projects having nothing to do with Rails, which is why Japanese government has contributed funding to development
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no, making 10% of a catalog with 15 to 19 digit numbers is not acceptable solution. the core problem is stupidity of using a credit card number at all for financial transactions, already a long solved crytographic problem. the credit card companies need to stop using a stupid system, just as government needs to stop using social security numbers. fix what's broken, don't put bandaids on a bridge.
you're not getting it. there would be no single unique number, only lasting thing would only be encrypted message summarizing single transaction. you could post it on the web, wouldn't do a thief any good. the transaction would be done by secure cryptographic means, we've mastered that already, solved problem.
you're cluesless. there would be no cc number, there would be a long number that encoded a single transaction as summary. you could post it on the web, would be useless for theft
quiet time huh? don't fly much?
wrong. the bigger issue is why we are so silly as to use short 15 or 16 digit numbers for making financial transactions. it's the same as the stupidity shown with using social security numbers.
plenty of good reasons to index long strings of numbers. I use google for part numbers, serial numbers, etc.
humans can have babies at 14 too.
"all the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players..." -W.S.
the new heavy launch system that NASA is designing exceeds the Saturn V
cosmological
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_principle
lighten up, it's just for games. who cares if a fun game runs on even a closed source console or whatever? they pull the plug on thing in a couple years, so what?
here I was all excited that coefficient governing rate of expansion of universe was sufficient to cause Big Rip in two decades. but instead of some cool cosmic doom it's just gamer bullshit. lame.
nonsense, it makes boobs awesome holographic porn, projected from a surface.
yes, such is the power of providing good desktop with community. too bad they're throwing their chance away though
you are the dipshit, you're only citing projects with the same problem as Canonical that have caused the same problems of alienating and driving away users. so you prove my point. fucktard.
yes, Canonical continues to leave userbase behind and trying to get vendor lockin. they are squandering their popularity on things that are alienating their fan base.
No, Ubuntu would have no business at all if some IT people weren't comfortable enough with it to get it in the door of the enterprise. That's how Red Hat got into the boardroom. but then Red Hat turned its back on the userbase. It closed off its server/workstation distro to the users, making alternative distro where users are guinea pigs. Because of that Redhat lost mindshare and customers (to Canonical, in many cases). We've gone from hundreds of Red Hat servers to one where I work, in favor of other distro
you are confused, Linux is just a kernel, nothing more. The userland is not a Linux project, there is no "base OS" people of Linux at all.
It is a big deal You name projects that can run on any distro, but Canonical is rolling a Ubuntu-only Ubuntu targeted version.
yeah, that's totally different from the USA where over half our wealth is taken in taxes, we're only governmet slaves until mid July
actually, they only need to jump together repeatedly and in sync to slowly knock the earth's orbit through the Sol-Jupitar L1 or L2; from there they can go anywhere in the solar system with very little perturbation. Indians could do it too except they would have to eat more meat first.
I'm amused at the constant slashdot meme that the Chinese or Indians are somehow overtaking the US space program.
the chinese space program is about four decades behind the US one. and the Indian one even further, about five decades. we're talking about ballistic capabilities, systems complexity but not computer control. when will they have a launch system that can put solar observing satellite inside the orbit of mercury (which takes more delta v than going to another star!), or a launch system that could take men to the moon? not in the near future.
nonsense, you do realize that the science fiction author who proposed that system was off in his calculations by a factor of a hundred? rods from space are a threat to a vehicle, not your city or country.
that's not a concern.
heavy water is not even radioactive, in concentrations of thousandth or less it has no observable effects. the concentration in a plant or animal becomes high, several percent and up, it does start interfering with enzymes and cell division. but those studies that poison creatures had to use tens (not tenths) of percent
in this thread we're talking about where the biggist bloat was, those two things being candidates. again, you're still very confused and adled in the brain.
In the east, Ruby used for many huge and serious projects having nothing to do with Rails, which is why Japanese government has contributed funding to development