I used to work there, and the phone line is used for exactly one thing. Ordering pay material thru the remote.
The fee is to encourage people to plug it in because it is much much cheaper to provide pay material through automated means. About 1-10% of phone authorizations end up being with a live person, which adds up very fast.
GP was suggesting a less-lame way to hardcode a password. The extortionist knows the password, having hardcoded it. The password isn't sitting in the binary easily read. Still vulnerable to posting this password on the ubernet once bought or bruteforced, which explains the better algorithms being discussed.
Next time, I'd post anonymously and say "girlfriend" or "boyfriend" or "hand puppet" or "donkey."
Way harder for them to figure out. Unless you are actually involved with a puppet or donkey who teaches kindergarten by counterfeiting passports, in which case I'm sorry for blowing your cover.
Your neighbor will always be able to blow your house up with natural gas or gasoline fumes. We can regulate and ban and raid all we want, we can get all paranoid and start a cult of safety, and your neighbor will always be able to blow your house up. Or poison you with bug powder or rat poison or hairspray or whatever.
Cyanide salts were everywhere when I was a kid. Rat poison (usually Potassium Cyanide) for example.
You should care because it affects yourself, and humanity. Assuming you don't care about others, I'll focus on how it affects you. There are obvious drawbacks if you aren't in the top 1%, so I'll ignore the problems with the top 1% increasingly calling the shots. If you are in the top 1% you will be affected when the unwashed masses become miserable enough to make problems for you through crime, terrorism, revolution, or populist backlash punitively progressive taxation.
Which brings me to your second statement. Government policy decides how wealth is distributed. Everything from anarchy to communism to laissez-faire capitalism has predictible effects on wealth distribution. Every change we make to regulation and tax law will have an effect.
It would be smart to think about these things as we form policy. Unless you've already made up your mind about that and don't want thought or facts to get in your way.
I'm not sure why you replied to my post, I've got nothing but respect for European labor conditions. I'm fortunate enough to be able to take a few months off per year, but that is unusual for a US worker.
I'd like to see US work conditions improve and hold my European coworkers up as role models.
I understand that, but that isn't how the term is used.
GP provided a link to download an mp3 file. Called it a podcast. I've got a friend who scrapes eMule for "podcasts." There are people here at work who trade CDs of "podcasts."
It's all mp3 files. None of that is push.
I've even run into people who think their ipod can't play mp3s, "only podcasts and itunes." Oh well, I'll have to get over it.
I hate to mention it, but I've set off fireworks indoors many many times and never killed anyone, or started a noteable fire.
Then again, I've never done it anywhere that didn't meet fire code.
I even have ignited dozens of model rocket engines indoors (safely secured) and detonated thermite. I'd say there is a basic expectation of fire-safety with regards to buildings. If there was a lazy/corrupt/incompetent fire inspector that is where the blame lies.
People are going to smoke, light candles, use toasters, and have accidents in the kitchen. You can't always blame the person that finds the problem.
I've seen another type of "work-enabler" that I think is equally valuable. I've had 2 bosses now that saw their job as keeping idiotic beaurocratic meddling away from their developers. They'd bust their ass to make sure we barely even knew we were part of a company, and we'd happily develop. Minimal meetings, last-minute requirement changes, sane schedules. I'd say this type of boss acts as a force multiplier with difficult to pin down metrics.
the European Union (EU) Working Time Directive requires a minimum of four weeks paid leave each year for all employees, and several EU countries have five weeks (25 working days) of vacation by law. Dutch, German, and Italian workers have gained roughly 30 vacation days, on average, through collective bargaining.
30 days is 6 weeks. I'd be surprised if some workers didn't get more than this.
I've had German coworkers who got 10 weeks, including holiday/sick/vacation/personal
Well, it's just a sarcastic comment because every time it comes up people say it is just like real estate. You don't see people buying up 1000s of plots of real estate for $3/each and waiting until they get an offer of $15k because of property tax.
Now that I think about it, I kinda like the idea though. You're taxed on real property by whoever regulates it. The ICANN or whoever would tax domain names.
Keep in mind this is a joke suggestion, meant to annoy free-marketeers who claim it is just like real estate.
I'd excempt anyone who is using the domain in a proper manner, to be determined by a panel of monkeys.
It's sure refreshing to see fatality rates well below one in a million. I don't know why people are so uptight about plane crashes when they are so rare.
I actually looked up his career, and here are some surprising facts:
He was in over 100 movies/tv shows The newest listing in imdb (currently in preproduction) is...Knight Rider, the movie . He plays "Michael Knight" William Daniels, who was the voice of K.I.T.T., was in about as many movies/tv shows as Hasselhoff. An impossible range of shows from Knight Rider to Faery Tale Theatre to Galactica 1980.
I liked him in Knight Rider as a kid, but after I grew up never respected him. I had no idea he had such a prolific film career.
Oh, and I was disappointed that the car voice wasn't Edward Woodward.
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So 32768 kajillion years becomes merely 16384 kajillion years, on average.
Computers keep getting faster, but huge random keys are hard.
In the case of a non-normal distribution, such as income, your point is valid.
The fee is to encourage people to plug it in because it is much much cheaper to provide pay material through automated means. About 1-10% of phone authorizations end up being with a live person, which adds up very fast.
An application generated PDF would have searchable text, intact tables, etc all easily changeable. A print-to-PDF file would be a simple bitmap.
Thanks actually, I learned something.
You don't want to start a slapfight here between people who think M=1,000 and M=1,048,576 do you?
GP was suggesting a less-lame way to hardcode a password. The extortionist knows the password, having hardcoded it. The password isn't sitting in the binary easily read. Still vulnerable to posting this password on the ubernet once bought or bruteforced, which explains the better algorithms being discussed.
You mean tredecimal Duodecimal?
Just molten styrofoam in gasoline. A lot like napalm, but still...
Next time, I'd post anonymously and say "girlfriend" or "boyfriend" or "hand puppet" or "donkey."
Way harder for them to figure out. Unless you are actually involved with a puppet or donkey who teaches kindergarten by counterfeiting passports, in which case I'm sorry for blowing your cover.
Cyanide salts were everywhere when I was a kid. Rat poison (usually Potassium Cyanide) for example.
Or, as anyone who knows a smidge of Spanish calls them, "The The Tar Tar Pits."
Which brings me to your second statement. Government policy decides how wealth is distributed. Everything from anarchy to communism to laissez-faire capitalism has predictible effects on wealth distribution. Every change we make to regulation and tax law will have an effect.
It would be smart to think about these things as we form policy. Unless you've already made up your mind about that and don't want thought or facts to get in your way.
I'd like to see US work conditions improve and hold my European coworkers up as role models.
GP provided a link to download an mp3 file. Called it a podcast. I've got a friend who scrapes eMule for "podcasts." There are people here at work who trade CDs of "podcasts."
It's all mp3 files. None of that is push.
I've even run into people who think their ipod can't play mp3s, "only podcasts and itunes." Oh well, I'll have to get over it.
Then again, I've never done it anywhere that didn't meet fire code.
I even have ignited dozens of model rocket engines indoors (safely secured) and detonated thermite. I'd say there is a basic expectation of fire-safety with regards to buildings. If there was a lazy/corrupt/incompetent fire inspector that is where the blame lies.
People are going to smoke, light candles, use toasters, and have accidents in the kitchen. You can't always blame the person that finds the problem.
I've seen another type of "work-enabler" that I think is equally valuable. I've had 2 bosses now that saw their job as keeping idiotic beaurocratic meddling away from their developers. They'd bust their ass to make sure we barely even knew we were part of a company, and we'd happily develop. Minimal meetings, last-minute requirement changes, sane schedules. I'd say this type of boss acts as a force multiplier with difficult to pin down metrics.
30 days is 6 weeks. I'd be surprised if some workers didn't get more than this.
I've had German coworkers who got 10 weeks, including holiday/sick/vacation/personal
Why is everything a podcast now? It's an mp3 file you download from that link. What's wrong with downloading an mp3 file?
Now that I think about it, I kinda like the idea though. You're taxed on real property by whoever regulates it. The ICANN or whoever would tax domain names.
Keep in mind this is a joke suggestion, meant to annoy free-marketeers who claim it is just like real estate.
I'd excempt anyone who is using the domain in a proper manner, to be determined by a panel of monkeys.
Subject to property tax. Squat on a thousand domains worth a thousand bucks each? (potentially)
Pay property tax on $1,000,000. Probably around $5,000 a year, depending.
Do you think this is good?
What amount of wealth should the top 1% have in your ideal world?
It's sure refreshing to see fatality rates well below one in a million. I don't know why people are so uptight about plane crashes when they are so rare.
Now, I can simply point this practice out, and state without room for dissent that it is finally and completely over.
It's sad, too, because if people would give it a rest I actually liked the book and the movie.
He was in over 100 movies/tv shows
The newest listing in imdb (currently in preproduction) is...Knight Rider, the movie . He plays "Michael Knight"
William Daniels, who was the voice of K.I.T.T., was in about as many movies/tv shows as Hasselhoff. An impossible range of shows from Knight Rider to Faery Tale Theatre to Galactica 1980.
I liked him in Knight Rider as a kid, but after I grew up never respected him. I had no idea he had such a prolific film career.
Oh, and I was disappointed that the car voice wasn't Edward Woodward.