Funny that you mention WebVan. We bought some of their IT equipment (racks, cabling) and warehouse stuff (racks also) when they were doing their liquidation auctions. Pretty exciting. I remember one of the conveyor systems at a site cost something like 1 or 2 million bucks but sold for about $10,000. And their trucks went like hotcakes too.
Another funny (but a bit sad) thing was that we saw several employee photos on walls. Mostly they were the warehouse crew. They all had big smiles on their faces as if to say, "This is the best place ever! I'm never leaving." Little did they know...
1. Put a giant magnifying glass in space and point it at an ocean. Then harvest the steam from the ocean as it boils. Make sure to choose a lazy ocean like one of the ones that just sit there and take up space.
2. Put a giant solar cell in space with a really long extension cord that plugs into a power station here on Earth. Or, if you don't have a long enough extension cord you can just build a really tall tower and use a regular extension cord.
3. Put several giant mirrors in space that reflect the Sun's rays onto all the dark parts of the world. That way places that aren't suitable for solar power, will be. This would be great for the dark side of the planet. The sun never shines there.
So let's say you're at home, you've got nothing to hide, you don't beat your wife, you don't molest children. Because of that you decided that it would be OK for the government to install some cameras in your home. You know, to catch burglars and stuff.
You've had the cameras installed in your house for about six months and they're very well hidden so you've mostly forgotten about them.
But one night, while you and wifey are watching a movie, you both get a bit frisky and start "doing stuff". After about 20 minutes of healthy romping you suddenly realize that all the lights in the living room are on and the cameras have been recording your every move.
Was anyone watching the recording at that exact moment? Who knows? What's known for sure is that your play time was recorded and is available.
Alarmed? No of course not. Should I be? Wait, don't answer that.
Let me summarize my thoughts for you in a way you can probably understand: Humans > Animals.
I think all the murder and poverty going on around the world are far more important and deserve FAR more attention than any whales getting close to or becoming extinct.
Built into all kinds of transactions is a safety code that is only activated once identity theft has been proven.
You have to contact a branch of your creditor or bank (or whoever supplies your cards) and prove that you are who you say you are. It'll have to be done in such a way that would make it difficult for identity thieves to duplicate. e.g. Have parents/siblings/spouses appear with photo ID and official documents for example.
Then... your account is flagged as currently going through an identity theft episode and you're issued a PIN. Next time you, or someone pretending to be you, uses your card online, in Starbucks, or to pay a bill, the system notifies the attendant that the card is in Identity Theft status and therefore the special PIN needs to be entered.
This would also be required at your bank even when appearing in person.
But of course the problems with this is that it doesn't solve check fraud instances and the secret PIN should not ever be relayed to the attendant of the business you're making a transaction with. So in that case there'd need to be a special PIN pad that you could be given to enter your PIN.
Why not just give the secret PIN when you're initially issued your card(s) to be prevent identity theft in the first place? Because it's just another thing to be stolen when your identity is taken in the first place. If you issue the PIN *after* your identity has been stolen it will put a huge hamper on the whole operation.
...the apartment buildings are ALREADY WIRED for broadband. There's no such thing as filters on phone lines or DSL/Cable modems. You plug your computer right into the RJ45 jack in the wall! They call it "jacking on"*.
Oh and something about only old people do-something in South Korea. I forget how it goes...
* Actually I just made that up right now. It's probably not true.
You know what we should do to stop that madness? I say we deport all the illegal immigrants and tighten our borders so that those illegal immigrants can't be abused by the "No Work" database. That'll show those government fat cats that we mean business!
As I mentioned above, the spark systems are now fully controlled by a computer, and advance or retard the cylinder ignition, sometimes in conjunction with the fuel curve, to best burn the fuel/air mixture. *I'm* retarded you insensitive clod!
"jQuery is a fast, concise, JavaScript Library that simplifies how you traverse HTML documents, handle events, perform animations, and add Ajax interactions to your web pages. jQuery is designed to change the way that you write JavaScript." - jQuery homepage
jQuery is great because it's really small and really easy to use. I know very little about js and have absolutely no interest in learning all the gotchas related to cross-browser js development so I leave it to jQuery to do that for me. jQuery allows me to use js in a powerful way, easily and quickly.
It's disappointing to not see jQuery in that list as if to say it's any less well made than the others.
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Funny that you mention WebVan. We bought some of their IT equipment (racks, cabling) and warehouse stuff (racks also) when they were doing their liquidation auctions. Pretty exciting. I remember one of the conveyor systems at a site cost something like 1 or 2 million bucks but sold for about $10,000. And their trucks went like hotcakes too.
Another funny (but a bit sad) thing was that we saw several employee photos on walls. Mostly they were the warehouse crew. They all had big smiles on their faces as if to say, "This is the best place ever! I'm never leaving." Little did they know...
Here are several bullseyes for you:
1. Put a giant magnifying glass in space and point it at an ocean. Then harvest the steam from the ocean as it boils. Make sure to choose a lazy ocean like one of the ones that just sit there and take up space.
2. Put a giant solar cell in space with a really long extension cord that plugs into a power station here on Earth. Or, if you don't have a long enough extension cord you can just build a really tall tower and use a regular extension cord.
3. Put several giant mirrors in space that reflect the Sun's rays onto all the dark parts of the world. That way places that aren't suitable for solar power, will be. This would be great for the dark side of the planet. The sun never shines there.
I guess it depends on how much energy is lost when the laser is reflected.
First you say, "save the fish". Then you say, "kill 2 birds with one stone".
Make up your mind!!
I hope this example wasn't used in the article...
So let's say you're at home, you've got nothing to hide, you don't beat your wife, you don't molest children. Because of that you decided that it would be OK for the government to install some cameras in your home. You know, to catch burglars and stuff.
You've had the cameras installed in your house for about six months and they're very well hidden so you've mostly forgotten about them.
But one night, while you and wifey are watching a movie, you both get a bit frisky and start "doing stuff". After about 20 minutes of healthy romping you suddenly realize that all the lights in the living room are on and the cameras have been recording your every move.
Was anyone watching the recording at that exact moment? Who knows? What's known for sure is that your play time was recorded and is available.
Wifi enabled raviolis!
Huh? Does that really make sense to you?
Alarmed? No of course not. Should I be? Wait, don't answer that.
Let me summarize my thoughts for you in a way you can probably understand: Humans > Animals.
I think all the murder and poverty going on around the world are far more important and deserve FAR more attention than any whales getting close to or becoming extinct.
Built into all kinds of transactions is a safety code that is only activated once identity theft has been proven.
You have to contact a branch of your creditor or bank (or whoever supplies your cards) and prove that you are who you say you are. It'll have to be done in such a way that would make it difficult for identity thieves to duplicate. e.g. Have parents/siblings/spouses appear with photo ID and official documents for example.
Then... your account is flagged as currently going through an identity theft episode and you're issued a PIN. Next time you, or someone pretending to be you, uses your card online, in Starbucks, or to pay a bill, the system notifies the attendant that the card is in Identity Theft status and therefore the special PIN needs to be entered.
This would also be required at your bank even when appearing in person.
But of course the problems with this is that it doesn't solve check fraud instances and the secret PIN should not ever be relayed to the attendant of the business you're making a transaction with. So in that case there'd need to be a special PIN pad that you could be given to enter your PIN.
Why not just give the secret PIN when you're initially issued your card(s) to be prevent identity theft in the first place? Because it's just another thing to be stolen when your identity is taken in the first place. If you issue the PIN *after* your identity has been stolen it will put a huge hamper on the whole operation.
...the apartment buildings are ALREADY WIRED for broadband. There's no such thing as filters on phone lines or DSL/Cable modems. You plug your computer right into the RJ45 jack in the wall! They call it "jacking on"*.
Oh and something about only old people do-something in South Korea. I forget how it goes...
* Actually I just made that up right now. It's probably not true.
But, who the hell thought it was important for a microwave to store the date?
Didn't you read the manual? Chickens cook differently in odd years than they do in even years.How about just a special beep instead? The light probably requires a lot more power.
The correct term is bullet-resistant.
You know what we should do to stop that madness? I say we deport all the illegal immigrants and tighten our borders so that those illegal immigrants can't be abused by the "No Work" database. That'll show those government fat cats that we mean business!
DOWN WITH THE "NO WORK" DATABASE!
What do you think of my plan? Pretty good right?
Why does Noone insult the family? Does he not like the family?
You are talking about Peter Noone, the British musician from Herman's Hermits, right?
So what you're saying is that something that is "radically better" must also be "a lot better". Interesting. Tell me more...
You're welcome. I'm beautiful. You'll be here all week. I should tip my waitress.
IANAMA = I Am Not A Mature Asian
Airsoft and paintball gun tanks!
"jQuery is a fast, concise, JavaScript Library that simplifies how you traverse HTML documents, handle events, perform animations, and add Ajax interactions to your web pages. jQuery is designed to change the way that you write JavaScript." - jQuery homepage
jQuery is great because it's really small and really easy to use. I know very little about js and have absolutely no interest in learning all the gotchas related to cross-browser js development so I leave it to jQuery to do that for me. jQuery allows me to use js in a powerful way, easily and quickly.
It's disappointing to not see jQuery in that list as if to say it's any less well made than the others.
you're not serious are you?
Yeah, ummm... actually I was commenting on: There is a world on the other side of both the atlantic and pacific ocean.
Are you *sure*?