Exactly. "Cell phone" has been deprecated by "Mobile phone" in most of the rest of the English-speaking world already. C'mon USA, 1994 called - they want their terminology back...
Don't worry about drowning at the bottom of the 400 foot cliff; it's the fall that's gonna kill you.
Technically it's not the fall itself that kills you, but the rapid deceleration experienced at the end of it... Of course, once the fall commences you're inevitably screwed unless you had the foresight to save your own ass by packing a parachute.
Wow, finally a Slashdot analogy that fits the situation! I never thought I'd see the day...
Seriously though, yes, more choices are always better
False. It has been shown in numerous studies that more choices often cause information overload, and result in poor choices being made.
A vast overabundance of choices can be very confusing, sure. But I'll go one further and suggest that there comes a point where it is an outright waste of resources. You only need sufficient choices available to meet your needs. Tried choosing a CMS lately? There are literally hundreds of them available, and they all serve the same basic purpose. There is definitely a need to have a variety of them available with different feature sets, sure. But the current selection contains a lot of poor products, and sorting the wheat from the chaff can be quite daunting. Surely it would've been a more productive use of the cumulative developers time to limit it to, say one or two dozen different CMS's which can still cover the full range of required features? Spend their time putting quality into the existing products rather than reinventing the same poor-quality wheel over and over?
The Home Office thinks not. It correctly points out that the information sucked out of the chip is only the same as that which appears on the page, readable with the human eye. And to obtain the key in the first place, you would need to have access to the passport to read (with the naked eye) its number, expiry date and the date of birth of its holder.
"This doesn't matter," says a Home Office spokesman. "By the time you have accessed the information on the chip, you have already seen it on the passport. What use would my biometric image be to you? And even if you had the information, you would still have to counterfeit the new passport - and it has lots of new security features. If you were a criminal, you might as well just steal a passport."
OK... so "the information sucked out of the chip is only the same as that which appears on the page", and "By the time you have accessed the information on the chip, you have already seen it on the passport.".
The only information you can get out of the chip is already printed in the passport
In legitimate circumstances, contact is still required to obtain the key to read the RFID chip
In illegitimate circumstances, anyone can get the key with a bit of detective work and/or social engineering
Most passports are already machine-readable (optically) anyway, regardless of whether they are chipped or not
Anyone care to enlighten me what the fucking point is of even having a chip in the first place?
while both parties engage(d) in violence, only one of the two groups had (have) an interest in ending the battle and making the lives of themselves and others better.
Rubbish. Both sides always want the war to be over, but only as a victory for themselves. The only people who want war to continue is the few who stand to gain from it continuing. I'm sure Muslim extremists think all our lives would be better under a global Islamic caliphate. Personally I disagree, strongly, but I'm not that one-eyed that I can't begin see where they're coming from. They've lost countless numbers of people simply by being at the wrong end of Western (read: US) foreign policy. No doubt there's a bit of tall poppy syndrome there too, but in their eyes the oppressive regime they are fighting against is the West. I'm sure they consider that their actions and principles are righteous and Western ones are evil. You can bet that, if they won next week, the history books 50 years from now would portray suicide bombers as heroes, Western forces in Iraq would be invaders instead of liberators, and Bush would be compared unfavourably with Hitler. One man's freedom fighter is another man's terrorist - it all depends on your point of view....and now that I can smell my karma burning anyway (like napalm in the morning), let me put my opinion on the table so the Trolls needn't starve - I hope the US wipes Al Qaeda off the face of the Earth. What they did in New York was inexcusable. I also hope that the Western forces get swiftly booted out of Iraq, causing the people of the Western countries to remove their respective governments, because their presence there is just as inexcusable, and is actually giving terrorists more incentive. The sooner someone knocks off all the warmongers on both sides, the better. But hey, I can say that because I voted for the other guy...
Hard, yes. Impossible, no. NASA have a huge budget, and enjoy the reputation of being the best and brightest. They've conquered problems of the most amazing difficulty. Not being able to fly because their systems can't cope with the year changing a digit sounds like a truly pathetic excuse in that context.
It doesn't, in the sample provided anyway. If $leapyear is true, $day never gets set back to one...
In any case, they already need to contend with uneven numbers of days in each of the various months anyway, and have to contend with leapyears every February 29th. So they're already (successfully) dealing with incrementing days, and months. I fail to see how they can't cope with years as well... C'mon, this is NASA and it's not the 1970's any more.
Once space travel approaches the speed of light I'll start to buy excuses about the difficulties of tracking time. Until then, sorry - No Sale.
I think we need to worry more about terrorist attacks after we pull out of Iraq than we need to worry your mum might find out Sexyslut99372 is your sister on Myspace.
If that's the case, I think your sister is more likely to die at the hands of your mum...
Quit whinging. My first work experience was six months of grinding uranium ore. By hand. With a mortar and pestle. And the "protective gear" they gave us? A t-shirt and shorts. And I'm not kidding.
Everyone's gotta spend some time at the bottom of the heap.
Spammers never get replies. They send from botfarms with fake email addresses. Replying will either result in you getting back a postmaster "unknown user" message, or further clogging the email box of the poor sod whose email address they "borrowed".
For this reason, business is never conducted by replying to spam - you either click a link, call a number or respond to a different address they provide in the message body. These would be harder to implement as anti-spam bots (especially the "call-a-number" ones).
The spammers don't care what happens to the email once it leaves the server - they get paid either way by the dodgy pharma-company or whoever else they are advertising for. What you are proposing may hurt their clients a little, but will not touch them directly.
What you are proposing (providing fake purchase requests with credit card details etc.) amounts to fraud. Sure, you could fight fire with fire, but it means you too will need to set up a zombit botnet to keep yourself anonymous. Otherwise litigous spam-masters and viagra dealers the world over will be tracking you down and getting you locked away or sued back into the stone age for harming their business.
In short, it's illegal, probably ineffectual, and would likely inconvenience just as many people. Good luck, Robin Hood...
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Exactly. "Cell phone" has been deprecated by "Mobile phone" in most of the rest of the English-speaking world already. C'mon USA, 1994 called - they want their terminology back...
Hear Hear!
Isn't that "falling with style"?
Yes - the "international language of love".
This works on two levels:
Technically it's not the fall itself that kills you, but the rapid deceleration experienced at the end of it... Of course, once the fall commences you're inevitably screwed unless you had the foresight to save your own ass by packing a parachute.
Wow, finally a Slashdot analogy that fits the situation! I never thought I'd see the day...
No, those are blood elves I believe... specially trained in extracting it from stones, at any rate.
A vast overabundance of choices can be very confusing, sure. But I'll go one further and suggest that there comes a point where it is an outright waste of resources. You only need sufficient choices available to meet your needs. Tried choosing a CMS lately? There are literally hundreds of them available, and they all serve the same basic purpose. There is definitely a need to have a variety of them available with different feature sets, sure. But the current selection contains a lot of poor products, and sorting the wheat from the chaff can be quite daunting. Surely it would've been a more productive use of the cumulative developers time to limit it to, say one or two dozen different CMS's which can still cover the full range of required features? Spend their time putting quality into the existing products rather than reinventing the same poor-quality wheel over and over?
If they insist on fictional characters, how could they possibly leave out Dana "The Thinking Man's Crumpet" Scully?
I prefer to put it as follows:
Pick Two.
OK... so "the information sucked out of the chip is only the same as that which appears on the page", and "By the time you have accessed the information on the chip, you have already seen it on the passport.".
Anyone care to enlighten me what the fucking point is of even having a chip in the first place?
Forget "free bird", let me know when they start doing "So Long And Thanks For All The Fish"...
Rubbish. Both sides always want the war to be over, but only as a victory for themselves. The only people who want war to continue is the few who stand to gain from it continuing. I'm sure Muslim extremists think all our lives would be better under a global Islamic caliphate. Personally I disagree, strongly, but I'm not that one-eyed that I can't begin see where they're coming from. They've lost countless numbers of people simply by being at the wrong end of Western (read: US) foreign policy. No doubt there's a bit of tall poppy syndrome there too, but in their eyes the oppressive regime they are fighting against is the West. I'm sure they consider that their actions and principles are righteous and Western ones are evil. You can bet that, if they won next week, the history books 50 years from now would portray suicide bombers as heroes, Western forces in Iraq would be invaders instead of liberators, and Bush would be compared unfavourably with Hitler. One man's freedom fighter is another man's terrorist - it all depends on your point of view.
Wait... I know you - you're Don Knuth!
(linkified because there's bound to be someone out there who just doesn't get it)
Or FreeCycle them. If they no longer meet your needs there's bound to be someone else whose needs they do meet.
Hard, yes. Impossible, no. NASA have a huge budget, and enjoy the reputation of being the best and brightest. They've conquered problems of the most amazing difficulty. Not being able to fly because their systems can't cope with the year changing a digit sounds like a truly pathetic excuse in that context.
I knew that one would catch someone out ;-)
It doesn't, in the sample provided anyway. If $leapyear is true, $day never gets set back to one...
In any case, they already need to contend with uneven numbers of days in each of the various months anyway, and have to contend with leapyears every February 29th. So they're already (successfully) dealing with incrementing days, and months. I fail to see how they can't cope with years as well... C'mon, this is NASA and it's not the 1970's any more.
Once space travel approaches the speed of light I'll start to buy excuses about the difficulties of tracking time. Until then, sorry - No Sale.
It was the nearest they could get to +1 Phunny, I'm guessing...
Obligatory VGCats, on topic for once!
Only from the UK. Find an anonymous proxy overseas and you're good to go!
If that's the case, I think your sister is more likely to die at the hands of your mum...
Really... I wasn't kidding!
Ewww poor baby
Quit whinging. My first work experience was six months of grinding uranium ore. By hand. With a mortar and pestle. And the "protective gear" they gave us? A t-shirt and shorts. And I'm not kidding.
Everyone's gotta spend some time at the bottom of the heap.
There are plenty of people that fall short of that same mark. Many of whom are now guests of the state, in fact...
In short, it's illegal, probably ineffectual, and would likely inconvenience just as many people. Good luck, Robin Hood...