While at the moment I don't believe so. There is a possibility for problems. Given the US is able to classify this organization as one which is opposed to their military efforts, you might find that such acts meet the loose definition of sponsoring terrorism.
Without putting in effort (this is Slashdot), I recall that Wikileaks previous payment processor had a similar problem, where political pressure had been put on them along these lines. Though, not as harsh as it could be, as if they were a real terrorist sponsoring organization they'd be getting screwed a lot harder than this.
They usually aren't memory tricks, what they do is break the problem down into weird rules which work for patterns.
For instance, there are different ways you can multiply 2 numbers under 20 together.
From memory: 13 x 19
Take the left hand side and add it to the second digit of the right hand side: 13 + 9 = 22 Add a zero behind the result: 220 Multiply the second digit from each set together: 3 x 9 = 27 Add that to the previous result: 220 + 27 = 247
And if you check using a calculator, you'll notice that's right.
They remember HEAPS of these rules, which allow them to do these calculations. Though some of the insane ones are able to picture a chalk board or similar in their mind which allows them to do it. But those are usually the "gifted".
LOL It's actually a really good way. The campus is in the middle of the city, this makes it easier to get to. Plus they are able to do heaps of different exams at one time. They get like a couple of thousand people in that meat works.
The first time, it really hits you and feels surreal. But you get used to it, and it works well after that. Heaps of parking, heaps of space, _usually_ quiet. They're also able to hold them for 3 hours (which is the average exam length for me), where as few classes go for 3 hours, so you'd have trouble with overlapping classes wanting to do exams.
Over summer they hold the summer school exams in Elder Hall, but that's only because there's only a small fraction of the students doing it.
Also, though it was a little annoying, it wasn't really that big a deal, I only heard a few loud weird noises, and was focused (read: stressed) enough to block it out and get on with what I had to do.
You dick heads, I was doing exams, and all I could hear were planes and all sorts of shit happening in the background.
Nice and considerate!
For those not students of Adelaide University or UniSA, we do exams in the Showgrounds pavilions. No wonder we weren't allowed in the Wayville pavilion which is what we usually use. I did notice and odd amount of military personnel around the exams, I just assumed they were taking cheating seriously... real seriously.
It is 36Gb for residential and 76Gb for business... Oh and if you go over? $1.50 per Gb!
Congratulations, and welcome to Australia!
Now that net neutrality is dead expect expect to join me in suckitude my friends.
I don't think Net Neutrality was meant to cover this anyway, I believe that only covered selectively decreasing the speed for certain services, as opposed to a hard limit, regardless of what service is used.
Down here, they quickly did away with the hard caps (where if you go over you need to pay extreme prices), and they brought about soft caps, where if you go over, you get reduced to 64kbps, or 128kbps, or 256kbps, depending on your plan. So you can still access everything, it's just painfully slow.
Additionally they introduced reasonable data plans (100gb, 250gb, 500gb, and some do 1000gb), and on top of that they introduced "data packs" which means if you go over your cap, and are shaped down to these ridiculous speeds (like I've just had done, I'm on 250gb), you can buy another 10/20/40 gb, at a price which is exactly $1.5 per gb.
Either way, I think you've still got better internets than us, but hopefully we're catching up!
I use passwords like that. I use LastPass to manage and sync my passwords. Then I just need to remember my master password, and make sure that's reasonable secure.
Here's an example... U5j7!9OYot%p
Given the site is able to accept passwords with those characters, it works well. For systems where I can't auto-populate, I might limit the complexity, or generate a few, till I get something that's not too hard to type, then keep my iPhone on me, and then I've always got all these passwords handy.
It's the best password management solution, which has DRAMATICALLY increased the quality of my security.
In fact, I recall seeing a few posts on here, which said "This is a contrail, I see them all the time", and they were being bashed by much larger posts with higher ratings which were saying "Nut ah! That's just what Obama wants you to think!"
Hows about textbooks? Most of mine have graphical representations trying to depict the math, to give me an idea on how I should be picturing it. Without colour to define one line from another, all you're left with is changing lines into dotted and dashed lines, which is fucking annoying and quickly becomes confusing.
Yet private companies implemented it, while the CSIRO was holding up the standard, so that it could get its patents everywhere, so that it will make more money than it invested. The CSIRO also funds itself in other ways.
Either way, regardless of whether he (the GP) benefits or not, he still has the right to complain about being forced to invest in this. Especially if he's quite poor.
Secondly, you don't know what the net benefit was, because you don't know what it would have been like without, nor can you quantify the costs of providing them a monopoly. Economics is a lot harder than just "look, there's some benefit".
Yep. This is a single failure in the several years I've had one.
In comparison, my parents alarm clocks have failed them numerous times.
I don't understand how so many people on here seem to have these awesome alarm clocks that always work never stuff up, have all the same features and kick ass. I've had many alarm clocks, they've all had heaps of problems. This is the first alarm clock I've been happy with, and has (except for this single instance, which was quickly adjusted for by me) been extremely reliable.
I never forget to charge my phone, I charge it religiously. However, I have had an instance where it got quite low, into the red and I recall that when the alarm went off, it just woke up and went off. Only if the battery is dead will it not go off.
I leave my phone in another room, because if any alarm is near me, before I properly wake up, I will turn it off and go back to bed.
So my iPhone is actually about 15 meters away, on the other side of a door, connected to my computer via USB.
It wakes me up by shocking me awake with its "Alarm" sound. It works well, I used to use "Buzzer" on alarms to wake me up. I don't wake up if its just music.
I've had nothing but bad experiences with alarm clocks, since I've had the iPhone, its become my alarm clock, and has only failed me once with this update. Also, it was easy to compensate for the problem.
This is anecdotally for me. I've had heaps of alarm clocks, and they've all failed me. People seem to think the 9v battery option makes them perfect, but I've never had a good experience with that.
I live in a location with heaps of little power outages, and the occasional big power outage. I believe that the little ones (5 seconds to 10 minutes), slowly kill the battery, such that when the big ones come around (10 minutes to 20 hours) it doesn't work.
My parents both live in the area, both have different alarm clocks, and both have the same problem. We've all had various alarm clocks which have had this problem.
I've been using this phone as my alarm clock for little under 2 years these days, and it's only failed me once (when it woke me up too early). It has automatically adjusted for daylight saving time, it is always exactly the right time, it runs multiple rules. For example I set it to wake me at a certain time with a certain alarm, Monday to Thursday. At another time with another alarm Friday. At another time with another alarm on the weekends. And I set multiple general alarms for other things throughout the day.
Overall the iPhone is the best alarm I've come across. It works far better than the alarm clocks I've used, and used to run in tandem. But these days, it is perfect.
While this bug was a hiccup, it wasn't that big of a deal, and I just moved my alarm forward and hour. In 4.2 they're releasing a patch for this, and I'll be on it quickly, and test it out.
Oh also, I get to set rules, such as wake me up at this time on Monday to Thursday. This time on Friday, this time on the weekend. And once off at this time. All with different ringers.
Most alarm clocks are way less reliable, especially if you're in a not particularly stable power grid. And my iPhone can be set, to be ridiculously loud, and shock me awake. Which is what it takes.
Those 9v batteries tend to run down quickly. Luckily I have a 300watt UPS lying around, which can power that device for fucking ages.
However, my iPhone is what I generally rely on. Until iOS 4.2 comes out with the patch, I just set my alarms forward 1 hour (I'm in the souther hemisphere, with the opposite problem).
Overall it reduces your exposure, and besides instances like that, it makes it so someone just researching you, will have trouble finding more information. Someone who is using sophisticated methods like you're mentioning, is either going to be a business working with them, and less nefarious than you'd think, or someone who really desperately wants your information. The latter, has many different options, Facebook being the easiest. Though, since you're not keeping any usable information in it, it's not a big worry, only links to other sources are.
I just use a pseudonym, based on a famous person with a similar name. People can tag me all they want. I also lock down the profile so that no applications can access my data, and I don't keep any personal data on there. I lastly have different privileges for different groups of people, some don't get access to any tagged photos, photos I upload, or wall posts. No one gets to see which friends I have, that they don't also have.
I just use it more as a way to keep in contact with certain friends.
I study a lot of statistics as a part of my course, and recently I've been reviewing some medical literature. Not so much the sciency stuff, just their statistical method, data, conclusions, reporting, etc. After going through a pile of this stuff, I have a feeling most doctors either don't understand statistics, or are ignoring the data and concluding whatever they want. A friend of mine who is studying medicine was telling me how they don't really cover statistics much, or at least not like I do. Their coverage of statistics, is here's an application which generates these statistics for you. You take this number and if it's less than this, you're good. So for instance they learn something like "If p-value is less than alpha then it's true". It was really amazing to me, though it might just be this school. Hell, I even had to help my doctor when he was going over some material.
I don't see where I've said anything about the "honour" of a corporation, nor did I say that unions were "evil".
In fact, if you re-read what I was responding to, then re-read my response, then realize that what we're talking about isn't "unions" in general. We're talking about unions in post-communist countries, where it's well known that the communists moved into unions. Actual communists. Not "Obama is a communist" usage of the word "communist". I mean, the actual proper definition of the term, as in "I was a leader of the communist party in a communist country".
LOL. It's like you somehow made your way to my response, didn't read it, yet responded as if I had said something, that wasn't said at all.
I am actually all for the right to assemble in any fashion, I even extend this right to businesses, regardless of whether that makes them a monopoly. While I would never stop a union from forming a labour monopoly, I wouldn't be apart of one, as they are essentially useless, and not in my best interests. For the exact same reason that, were I running a business, I would never be apart of a business monopoly/oligopoly/cartel, except for a natural monopoly.
However, I bet you are for a monopoly on labour, and against a monopoly on business. Nothing like drawing arbitrary lines.
In conclusion, your response was hilarious, you're either insane or delusional, but definitely an idiot. Thanks for brightening my day.
You might be interested to know that when communism fell, some of the communists who were in charge moved to the unions. The Romanian people I work with tell me how the unions have so much power, that they literally decide whether you get to work or not, and how much you will be paid. The unions are effectively communist organizations, in a democratic country. The stories they have of their experiences with the unions is amazing.
Friends of mine who are builders have told me "Never hire a builder who is uninoised". These builders tend to be bad/expensive/etc, and need the legal protection afforded by the union. I've heard this from a lot of builders now, that I would definitely stay the fuck away from them. Sounds exactly like that your grandfather said.
Unions brought you the 40-hour work week, the weekend, workplace safety laws, and non-exploitative wages.
(Citation needed)
I did a lot of research on this, though that was about 6 years ago, and the conclusion was, unions do not seem to be statistically significant in predicting changes to the benefits in work conditions in organizations. In all instances, other variables (growth, demand, technology, depreciation, etc) were far greater determinants. As such, unions might just be correlated. When the business wasn't doing well, the unions got nothing, when they were doing well, the unions got something. In most instances when the Union "got" something, other businesses who didn't have unions also got them, on average.
As such, being in a union just means you're paying for something, which wont get you anything. Though they might provide other services like superannuation/health care/life insurance/etc, which might be worth it. Though I've known more people hurt by unions, than I've known people who benefited from them.
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While at the moment I don't believe so. There is a possibility for problems. Given the US is able to classify this organization as one which is opposed to their military efforts, you might find that such acts meet the loose definition of sponsoring terrorism.
Without putting in effort (this is Slashdot), I recall that Wikileaks previous payment processor had a similar problem, where political pressure had been put on them along these lines. Though, not as harsh as it could be, as if they were a real terrorist sponsoring organization they'd be getting screwed a lot harder than this.
They usually aren't memory tricks, what they do is break the problem down into weird rules which work for patterns.
For instance, there are different ways you can multiply 2 numbers under 20 together.
From memory:
13 x 19
Take the left hand side and add it to the second digit of the right hand side: 13 + 9 = 22
Add a zero behind the result: 220
Multiply the second digit from each set together: 3 x 9 = 27
Add that to the previous result: 220 + 27 = 247
And if you check using a calculator, you'll notice that's right.
They remember HEAPS of these rules, which allow them to do these calculations. Though some of the insane ones are able to picture a chalk board or similar in their mind which allows them to do it. But those are usually the "gifted".
LOL It's actually a really good way. The campus is in the middle of the city, this makes it easier to get to. Plus they are able to do heaps of different exams at one time. They get like a couple of thousand people in that meat works.
The first time, it really hits you and feels surreal. But you get used to it, and it works well after that. Heaps of parking, heaps of space, _usually_ quiet. They're also able to hold them for 3 hours (which is the average exam length for me), where as few classes go for 3 hours, so you'd have trouble with overlapping classes wanting to do exams.
Over summer they hold the summer school exams in Elder Hall, but that's only because there's only a small fraction of the students doing it.
Also, though it was a little annoying, it wasn't really that big a deal, I only heard a few loud weird noises, and was focused (read: stressed) enough to block it out and get on with what I had to do.
So that's what was fucking going on!
You dick heads, I was doing exams, and all I could hear were planes and all sorts of shit happening in the background.
Nice and considerate!
For those not students of Adelaide University or UniSA, we do exams in the Showgrounds pavilions. No wonder we weren't allowed in the Wayville pavilion which is what we usually use. I did notice and odd amount of military personnel around the exams, I just assumed they were taking cheating seriously... real seriously.
Phft. That's just pre-cloud thinking, in this post-cloud world we currently live in!
Get with the times grandpa!
Beowful synergy!
It is 36Gb for residential and 76Gb for business ... Oh and if you go over? $1.50 per Gb!
Congratulations, and welcome to Australia!
Now that net neutrality is dead expect expect to join me in suckitude my friends.
I don't think Net Neutrality was meant to cover this anyway, I believe that only covered selectively decreasing the speed for certain services, as opposed to a hard limit, regardless of what service is used.
Down here, they quickly did away with the hard caps (where if you go over you need to pay extreme prices), and they brought about soft caps, where if you go over, you get reduced to 64kbps, or 128kbps, or 256kbps, depending on your plan. So you can still access everything, it's just painfully slow.
Additionally they introduced reasonable data plans (100gb, 250gb, 500gb, and some do 1000gb), and on top of that they introduced "data packs" which means if you go over your cap, and are shaped down to these ridiculous speeds (like I've just had done, I'm on 250gb), you can buy another 10/20/40 gb, at a price which is exactly $1.5 per gb.
Either way, I think you've still got better internets than us, but hopefully we're catching up!
I believe you mean spider man.
I use passwords like that. I use LastPass to manage and sync my passwords. Then I just need to remember my master password, and make sure that's reasonable secure.
Here's an example...
U5j7!9OYot%p
Given the site is able to accept passwords with those characters, it works well. For systems where I can't auto-populate, I might limit the complexity, or generate a few, till I get something that's not too hard to type, then keep my iPhone on me, and then I've always got all these passwords handy.
It's the best password management solution, which has DRAMATICALLY increased the quality of my security.
Yeah, exactly.
In fact, I recall seeing a few posts on here, which said "This is a contrail, I see them all the time", and they were being bashed by much larger posts with higher ratings which were saying "Nut ah! That's just what Obama wants you to think!"
Step 1, check the lab, and make sure THEY aren't making the mistake.
Step 2, check the sample, maybe there's something off about these "27", if they blink with 2 sets of eye lids, you've got your selves an alien!
Disclaimer: This is satire, don't respond about aliens.
Hows about textbooks? Most of mine have graphical representations trying to depict the math, to give me an idea on how I should be picturing it. Without colour to define one line from another, all you're left with is changing lines into dotted and dashed lines, which is fucking annoying and quickly becomes confusing.
Yet private companies implemented it, while the CSIRO was holding up the standard, so that it could get its patents everywhere, so that it will make more money than it invested. The CSIRO also funds itself in other ways.
Either way, regardless of whether he (the GP) benefits or not, he still has the right to complain about being forced to invest in this. Especially if he's quite poor.
Secondly, you don't know what the net benefit was, because you don't know what it would have been like without, nor can you quantify the costs of providing them a monopoly. Economics is a lot harder than just "look, there's some benefit".
Yep. This is a single failure in the several years I've had one.
In comparison, my parents alarm clocks have failed them numerous times.
I don't understand how so many people on here seem to have these awesome alarm clocks that always work never stuff up, have all the same features and kick ass. I've had many alarm clocks, they've all had heaps of problems. This is the first alarm clock I've been happy with, and has (except for this single instance, which was quickly adjusted for by me) been extremely reliable.
I never forget to charge my phone, I charge it religiously. However, I have had an instance where it got quite low, into the red and I recall that when the alarm went off, it just woke up and went off. Only if the battery is dead will it not go off.
I leave my phone in another room, because if any alarm is near me, before I properly wake up, I will turn it off and go back to bed.
So my iPhone is actually about 15 meters away, on the other side of a door, connected to my computer via USB.
It wakes me up by shocking me awake with its "Alarm" sound. It works well, I used to use "Buzzer" on alarms to wake me up. I don't wake up if its just music.
I've had nothing but bad experiences with alarm clocks, since I've had the iPhone, its become my alarm clock, and has only failed me once with this update. Also, it was easy to compensate for the problem.
This is anecdotally for me. I've had heaps of alarm clocks, and they've all failed me. People seem to think the 9v battery option makes them perfect, but I've never had a good experience with that.
I live in a location with heaps of little power outages, and the occasional big power outage. I believe that the little ones (5 seconds to 10 minutes), slowly kill the battery, such that when the big ones come around (10 minutes to 20 hours) it doesn't work.
My parents both live in the area, both have different alarm clocks, and both have the same problem. We've all had various alarm clocks which have had this problem.
I've been using this phone as my alarm clock for little under 2 years these days, and it's only failed me once (when it woke me up too early). It has automatically adjusted for daylight saving time, it is always exactly the right time, it runs multiple rules. For example I set it to wake me at a certain time with a certain alarm, Monday to Thursday. At another time with another alarm Friday. At another time with another alarm on the weekends. And I set multiple general alarms for other things throughout the day.
Overall the iPhone is the best alarm I've come across. It works far better than the alarm clocks I've used, and used to run in tandem. But these days, it is perfect.
While this bug was a hiccup, it wasn't that big of a deal, and I just moved my alarm forward and hour. In 4.2 they're releasing a patch for this, and I'll be on it quickly, and test it out.
Oh also, I get to set rules, such as wake me up at this time on Monday to Thursday. This time on Friday, this time on the weekend. And once off at this time. All with different ringers.
Never had such a valuable alarm clock.
Mod parent up.
Most alarm clocks are way less reliable, especially if you're in a not particularly stable power grid. And my iPhone can be set, to be ridiculously loud, and shock me awake. Which is what it takes.
Those 9v batteries tend to run down quickly. Luckily I have a 300watt UPS lying around, which can power that device for fucking ages.
However, my iPhone is what I generally rely on. Until iOS 4.2 comes out with the patch, I just set my alarms forward 1 hour (I'm in the souther hemisphere, with the opposite problem).
Overall it reduces your exposure, and besides instances like that, it makes it so someone just researching you, will have trouble finding more information. Someone who is using sophisticated methods like you're mentioning, is either going to be a business working with them, and less nefarious than you'd think, or someone who really desperately wants your information. The latter, has many different options, Facebook being the easiest. Though, since you're not keeping any usable information in it, it's not a big worry, only links to other sources are.
I just use a pseudonym, based on a famous person with a similar name. People can tag me all they want. I also lock down the profile so that no applications can access my data, and I don't keep any personal data on there. I lastly have different privileges for different groups of people, some don't get access to any tagged photos, photos I upload, or wall posts. No one gets to see which friends I have, that they don't also have.
I just use it more as a way to keep in contact with certain friends.
There's ways of locking it down, and this helps.
I study a lot of statistics as a part of my course, and recently I've been reviewing some medical literature. Not so much the sciency stuff, just their statistical method, data, conclusions, reporting, etc. After going through a pile of this stuff, I have a feeling most doctors either don't understand statistics, or are ignoring the data and concluding whatever they want. A friend of mine who is studying medicine was telling me how they don't really cover statistics much, or at least not like I do. Their coverage of statistics, is here's an application which generates these statistics for you. You take this number and if it's less than this, you're good. So for instance they learn something like "If p-value is less than alpha then it's true". It was really amazing to me, though it might just be this school. Hell, I even had to help my doctor when he was going over some material.
Wow, that's amazing, you've inferred a lot.
I don't see where I've said anything about the "honour" of a corporation, nor did I say that unions were "evil".
In fact, if you re-read what I was responding to, then re-read my response, then realize that what we're talking about isn't "unions" in general. We're talking about unions in post-communist countries, where it's well known that the communists moved into unions. Actual communists. Not "Obama is a communist" usage of the word "communist". I mean, the actual proper definition of the term, as in "I was a leader of the communist party in a communist country".
LOL. It's like you somehow made your way to my response, didn't read it, yet responded as if I had said something, that wasn't said at all.
I am actually all for the right to assemble in any fashion, I even extend this right to businesses, regardless of whether that makes them a monopoly. While I would never stop a union from forming a labour monopoly, I wouldn't be apart of one, as they are essentially useless, and not in my best interests. For the exact same reason that, were I running a business, I would never be apart of a business monopoly/oligopoly/cartel, except for a natural monopoly.
However, I bet you are for a monopoly on labour, and against a monopoly on business. Nothing like drawing arbitrary lines.
In conclusion, your response was hilarious, you're either insane or delusional, but definitely an idiot. Thanks for brightening my day.
You might be interested to know that when communism fell, some of the communists who were in charge moved to the unions. The Romanian people I work with tell me how the unions have so much power, that they literally decide whether you get to work or not, and how much you will be paid. The unions are effectively communist organizations, in a democratic country. The stories they have of their experiences with the unions is amazing.
Friends of mine who are builders have told me "Never hire a builder who is uninoised". These builders tend to be bad/expensive/etc, and need the legal protection afforded by the union. I've heard this from a lot of builders now, that I would definitely stay the fuck away from them. Sounds exactly like that your grandfather said.
Unions brought you the 40-hour work week, the weekend, workplace safety laws, and non-exploitative wages.
(Citation needed)
I did a lot of research on this, though that was about 6 years ago, and the conclusion was, unions do not seem to be statistically significant in predicting changes to the benefits in work conditions in organizations. In all instances, other variables (growth, demand, technology, depreciation, etc) were far greater determinants. As such, unions might just be correlated. When the business wasn't doing well, the unions got nothing, when they were doing well, the unions got something. In most instances when the Union "got" something, other businesses who didn't have unions also got them, on average.
As such, being in a union just means you're paying for something, which wont get you anything. Though they might provide other services like superannuation/health care/life insurance/etc, which might be worth it. Though I've known more people hurt by unions, than I've known people who benefited from them.