The scanners on the self checkout lines are usually the same. The problem is that the system needs to verify that the weight of the item you put into the bag is the same as the recorded weight of the item you scanned in order to detect fraud. The scale in the bag stand takes a few seconds to stabilize after an item has been added and the register will not let you scan another item until it has.
I use that kind of scanner all the time and I've never seen anyone chosen for rescanning. I guess my store only does it if they see someone on the security camera bagging items without scanning them.
The problem with regular self check registers is that even though they are more compact, the store still never installs enough of them. If I have to wait in line to use a self service register, it doesn't really save me time. On the other hand, my grocery store has a rack of 100 portable self checkout scanners at the entrance. These allow me to scan and bag my groceries as I shop. This is much more efficient than a self service register or even an actual cashier because I don't have to unload my cart at the register. I've never had to wait to get one and I've never had to wait more than a minute to pay when I'm done.
My grocery store has self service scales and I really love them. They are meant to be used with the portable self checkout scanners. The scanners allow me to scan and bag my groceries as I shop. When I leave, I pay at a small kiosk by the door. I don't have to wait in line even if I shop when the store is very busy. I wish this sort of system was more common.
Yes, the game allows any empire to create terrorist units to fight proxy wars. Once the terrorist units have been created, they may be used by other players. When an empire collapses, the player controlling that empire switches sides and joins the terrorist team who then control all the terrorist units previously created by the empires.
I haven't visited all the sites you listed, but I know that the quality of discussion at Daily Kos isn't that bad. Diaries on issues generally have interesting comments, but diaries addressing the latest news about McCain or Obama generally have comments similar to slashdot stories about Microsoft or Linux. Generally, the diaries featured in a Diary Rescue are worthwhile and most everything else is a waste of time.
I don't think that the school wants to "fix" the issue. At the University of Maryland, only a few sites like the one for registration and grades use a regular certificate. They run a CA that issues certificates for all the other servers. Assuming that they probably have several hundred web servers, using a private CA saves them a good bit of money.
The servers using the private CA have a link to the key file and instructions for installing it. Since the students and faculty will be using these sites for several years and they only need to install the certificate once, I think that this is a reasonable arrangement. I certainly wouldn't want them to raise fees to cover the cost of buying certificates.
I don't care how much it would save me per year. Cars don't last forever. I care about the total amount a car would save me before it dies. Assuming an average car will drive 200,000 miles before it dies, the total gas cost of an $23,000 Prius would be 200,000 / 50 * 4 or $16,000 compared to 200,000 / 235 * 4 or $3,400. Assuming this car will cost $35,000, the total costs are $38,400 for this car and $39,000 for the prius. Why would anyone spend $35,000 on a car that will only save them $600 over the life of the car? The car loan interest for the extra $12,000 would obviously be more than $600. As a car buyer, I would much rather have the versatility of a sedan unless I can save a large amount of money by downsizing. The additional savings of smaller cars just falls too fast to justify an excessively efficient car.
I don't think that google sells any consumer products. They only sell advertising and enterprise services like hosted mail and search. I don't think that many people will stop using a free web site just to deprive the owner of ad revenue.
I generally like the new address bar. When I need to get back to a page that I recently visited and didn't bookmark, the history search is very handy. The only annoying part about the new design is that it strongly favors recently and frequently accessed pages. Favoring the most recently and frequently accessed page makes little sense when the top few options are very frequently accessed. In this case I would prefer the top results to be ordered by best match and not based on insignificant differences in frequency and last access time. For example, typing 'go' into the address bar should always bring up google.com as the first suggestion, not news.google.com or mail.google.com. As firefox works now, typing 'go' will always suggest the last google site I visited, which is not useful to me. I think that lots of the people who complain about the new features of the address bar would be happy if the search algorithm gave a boost to sites with domain names that begin with the search text.
You can also cancel your contract and keep the phone by paying a $175 termination fee. Since the new models are $200 cheaper than the old models, the new phone is still cheaper than the old one that cost $400.
While this is true in general, it was possible during the dot com bubble to exploit other people's limited view of the market to make money. Some times the prices for a particular stock are different on different exchanges. If someone on Island is offering to sell for 25 1/4 and someone is offering to buy at 25 1/2 on Instinet, then it would be possible to make money by programming a computer to buy at 25 1/4 and immediately sell at 25 1/2. This sort of thing only happens during extended hours trading, but it did happen fairly frequently.
Pulling this off would require a very low latency connection to the exchanges. I believe that it is also be a violation of the contracts for the exchange data feeds. Of course that just means that you disconnect the splitter box from the green screen terminals before the vendor sends a technician out.
Be careful with your keyboard -- the model M isn't quite indestructible. I worked in a day trading office with a customer who liked to smash his keyboards when a trade went sour. One hit would shatter the whole keyboard. After replacing several keyboards one month, I bought him a model M keyboard. The next day he lost a few thousand dollars and went nuts. He smashed the keyboard against the desk several times, but that only knocked a few key caps off. He finally managed to break it by leaning it against the wall and jumping on it, but it took several tries and about ten minutes.
I believe that they do sealings for all the woman's husbands because they don't know which one she wanted to be sealed to for eternity. Presumably only one of the sealings is valid.
Remember that Mormons also baptize the dead without knowing if the deceased wanted to be Mormon. The dead person then gets to accept or decline the ordinance in the afterlife. I assume the marriage thing works similarly. I don't think that Mormon women were ever married to more than one man for eternity because it would violate the patriarchal order established by god.
That won't work because google would have to maintain a full table of all the possible hashes of every url on the phishing list. If they can feasibly store a full set of salted hashes for all the bad urls, they can probably do the same for all the urls in their index. For a company that caches most of the web, a hash table of all urls or hostnames can't be too hard.
In addition, the hash function would probably have some collisions. Users don't want an anti-phishing tool that flags random sites that happen to have a url that collides with the url of a phisher's site.
This isn't the first time for the University of Maryland. I got an email at the start of the semester about the risks of file sharing and the number of students that had been sued. The email clearly stated that the college does not waste tuition money on defending students.
The unorganized militia, which every man not a member of the regular armed forces belongs to.
U.S. code - Title 10, Section 311:
Sec. 311. Militia: composition and classes
(a) The militia of the United States consists of all able-bodied males at least 17 years of age and, except as provided in section 313 of title 32, under 45 years of age who are, or who have made a declaration of intention to become, citizens of the United States and of female citizens of the United States who are members of the National Guard.
(b) The classes of the militia are -
(1) the organized militia, which consists of the National Guard and the Naval Militia; and
(2) the unorganized militia, which consists of the members of the militia who are not members of the National Guard or the Naval Militia.
I don't think people really don't care too much about how much the album costs. If I think an album sounds good, I will gladly pay $7-10 or more for it. If I wasn't sure I liked an album, I probably still wouldn't buy it for $2.50 or even $0. There is just too much good music out there to waste my time. There are whole genres of music that aren't popular in in the us. I'd much rather spend my time and money on a high quality electronic/new age/jazz/etc album that I know I'll like than on whatever junk is selling at $.05 per track on Amazon. It is much easier to discover good music with last.fm or Pandora than to try to scour the bottom of the music sales chart to find something interesting.
Such pricing schemes will turn into a popularity contest. I see no reason why a great jazz or new age album should sell for less than a great pop album just because fewer people buy jazz and new age albums. The pop album might sell 1000x as many copies, but 90% of people who discover the electronic album would pay %75 of the price of the pop album. In the end, sales of music by smaller artists isn't limited by the price of the album, it is limited by the number of people who have heard and like the album.
If you look websites of indie musicians like cdbaby.com, most artists are selling their albums in this magic $10-15 range. Through trial and error they have found the price that maximizes their profits. The price doesn't scare away new listeners and they don't have to get thousands of buyers to download an album to vote the price up to $.10 per track.
I do think that dynamic pricing might be a good idea if it is used to set prices based on the relative popularity of different tracks on an album. I think all albums should cost say $9.99, but the different tracks should be priced on relative popularity. The two song that was played on the radio might be $2.00 and the other eight tracks would be priced at $.75. The lower prices on the less popular tracks might encourage people to buy the full album instead of just the one track. The formula might also consider the relative lengths of different tracks. A 25 minute jazz solo might be $5.00 and the other two 13 minute tracks would be $2.49.
The problem in using a selinux system is when most of the software on the system is custom written or custom configured. Although I believe that the using the common combinations of web servers and database servers are easy to combine now, I can easily imagine wanting my web application to do things that are prohibited by policy. Customizing selinux looks somewhat challenging. If you just run a standard mail server or something it is probably great.
Everybody says that app-armor sucks with hard links, but I just don't see it. If your configuration looks like
allow all deny read,write/root/mysecretfile
then you have a problem with hard links, but it isn't relevant. In that case you have already decided to try to solve the impossible problem of listing every important file on the system. Anyone interested in security would write:
deny all allow read/etc/daemon.conf allow read,write/var/daemon/data
Then I don't have to attempt to list all the secure files on the system. All I have to do is decide what I want to grant the daemon access to. If there is a hard link to/etc/daemon.conf, the program can't read it and shouldn't be trying to read it anyway.
Storing the labels in the filesystem only works if you are the distribution maintainer. If all the programs that create a particular kind of file don't agree on the label, the on-disk labels can get messed up. The simple config file in app-armor allows easy auditing.
That said, I like the possibility of securing dbus and X with the same framework as the filesystem. I'm hoping that we will see a document file access daemon for linux that allows the user to securely load and save files from a sandboxed firefox or openoffice process. Until selinux gets used for this type of desktop security instead of just network daemon security, the added power of selinux is mostly useless.
How does a daily backup help you when the machine only gets used on one day per year? Restoring an empty daily database over a partially corrupted vote database doesn't seem like a good idea.
While there might be something to the cultural expectations explanation, there has to be some reason why women are more common in other geeky fields like math and engineering than in CS. The majority of the women in my CS classes so far have been math or computer engineering majors. Most of the female CS majors I know are double majoring.
I don't understand what you're talking about. Google Books offers a full text book search that lets you see context without reading the entire book. It works just like the service discussed in the article, except it has books from multiple publishers.
In this case, the pictures posted on her web site are from before and after several surgeries performed by different doctors. The surgeon should have before and after pictures and I think that he should be allowed to show them. If she didn't want people to see what she looked like after the surgery she should not have posted a picture of the other doctor's botched surgery and blamed it on him.
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The scanners on the self checkout lines are usually the same. The problem is that the system needs to verify that the weight of the item you put into the bag is the same as the recorded weight of the item you scanned in order to detect fraud. The scale in the bag stand takes a few seconds to stabilize after an item has been added and the register will not let you scan another item until it has.
I use that kind of scanner all the time and I've never seen anyone chosen for rescanning. I guess my store only does it if they see someone on the security camera bagging items without scanning them.
The problem with regular self check registers is that even though they are more compact, the store still never installs enough of them. If I have to wait in line to use a self service register, it doesn't really save me time. On the other hand, my grocery store has a rack of 100 portable self checkout scanners at the entrance. These allow me to scan and bag my groceries as I shop. This is much more efficient than a self service register or even an actual cashier because I don't have to unload my cart at the register. I've never had to wait to get one and I've never had to wait more than a minute to pay when I'm done.
My grocery store has self service scales and I really love them. They are meant to be used with the portable self checkout scanners. The scanners allow me to scan and bag my groceries as I shop. When I leave, I pay at a small kiosk by the door. I don't have to wait in line even if I shop when the store is very busy. I wish this sort of system was more common.
Yes, the game allows any empire to create terrorist units to fight proxy wars. Once the terrorist units have been created, they may be used by other players. When an empire collapses, the player controlling that empire switches sides and joins the terrorist team who then control all the terrorist units previously created by the empires.
I haven't visited all the sites you listed, but I know that the quality of discussion at Daily Kos isn't that bad. Diaries on issues generally have interesting comments, but diaries addressing the latest news about McCain or Obama generally have comments similar to slashdot stories about Microsoft or Linux. Generally, the diaries featured in a Diary Rescue are worthwhile and most everything else is a waste of time.
The servers using the private CA have a link to the key file and instructions for installing it. Since the students and faculty will be using these sites for several years and they only need to install the certificate once, I think that this is a reasonable arrangement. I certainly wouldn't want them to raise fees to cover the cost of buying certificates.
I don't care how much it would save me per year. Cars don't last forever. I care about the total amount a car would save me before it dies. Assuming an average car will drive 200,000 miles before it dies, the total gas cost of an $23,000 Prius would be 200,000 / 50 * 4 or $16,000 compared to 200,000 / 235 * 4 or $3,400. Assuming this car will cost $35,000, the total costs are $38,400 for this car and $39,000 for the prius. Why would anyone spend $35,000 on a car that will only save them $600 over the life of the car? The car loan interest for the extra $12,000 would obviously be more than $600. As a car buyer, I would much rather have the versatility of a sedan unless I can save a large amount of money by downsizing. The additional savings of smaller cars just falls too fast to justify an excessively efficient car.
I don't think that google sells any consumer products. They only sell advertising and enterprise services like hosted mail and search. I don't think that many people will stop using a free web site just to deprive the owner of ad revenue.
I generally like the new address bar. When I need to get back to a page that I recently visited and didn't bookmark, the history search is very handy. The only annoying part about the new design is that it strongly favors recently and frequently accessed pages. Favoring the most recently and frequently accessed page makes little sense when the top few options are very frequently accessed. In this case I would prefer the top results to be ordered by best match and not based on insignificant differences in frequency and last access time. For example, typing 'go' into the address bar should always bring up google.com as the first suggestion, not news.google.com or mail.google.com. As firefox works now, typing 'go' will always suggest the last google site I visited, which is not useful to me. I think that lots of the people who complain about the new features of the address bar would be happy if the search algorithm gave a boost to sites with domain names that begin with the search text.
You can also cancel your contract and keep the phone by paying a $175 termination fee. Since the new models are $200 cheaper than the old models, the new phone is still cheaper than the old one that cost $400.
Pulling this off would require a very low latency connection to the exchanges. I believe that it is also be a violation of the contracts for the exchange data feeds. Of course that just means that you disconnect the splitter box from the green screen terminals before the vendor sends a technician out.
Be careful with your keyboard -- the model M isn't quite indestructible. I worked in a day trading office with a customer who liked to smash his keyboards when a trade went sour. One hit would shatter the whole keyboard. After replacing several keyboards one month, I bought him a model M keyboard. The next day he lost a few thousand dollars and went nuts. He smashed the keyboard against the desk several times, but that only knocked a few key caps off. He finally managed to break it by leaning it against the wall and jumping on it, but it took several tries and about ten minutes.
I believe that they do sealings for all the woman's husbands because they don't know which one she wanted to be sealed to for eternity. Presumably only one of the sealings is valid. Remember that Mormons also baptize the dead without knowing if the deceased wanted to be Mormon. The dead person then gets to accept or decline the ordinance in the afterlife. I assume the marriage thing works similarly. I don't think that Mormon women were ever married to more than one man for eternity because it would violate the patriarchal order established by god.
That won't work because google would have to maintain a full table of all the possible hashes of every url on the phishing list. If they can feasibly store a full set of salted hashes for all the bad urls, they can probably do the same for all the urls in their index. For a company that caches most of the web, a hash table of all urls or hostnames can't be too hard.
In addition, the hash function would probably have some collisions. Users don't want an anti-phishing tool that flags random sites that happen to have a url that collides with the url of a phisher's site.
This isn't the first time for the University of Maryland. I got an email at the start of the semester about the risks of file sharing and the number of students that had been sued. The email clearly stated that the college does not waste tuition money on defending students.
The unorganized militia, which every man not a member of the regular armed forces belongs to.
U.S. code - Title 10, Section 311:
Sec. 311. Militia: composition and classes
(a) The militia of the United States consists of all able-bodied males at least 17 years of age and, except as provided in section 313 of title 32, under 45 years of age who are, or who have made a declaration of intention to become, citizens of the United States and of female citizens of the United States who are members of the National Guard.
(b) The classes of the militia are -
(1) the organized militia, which consists of the National Guard and the Naval Militia; and
(2) the unorganized militia, which consists of the members of the militia who are not members of the National Guard or the Naval Militia.
I don't think people really don't care too much about how much the album costs. If I think an album sounds good, I will gladly pay $7-10 or more for it. If I wasn't sure I liked an album, I probably still wouldn't buy it for $2.50 or even $0. There is just too much good music out there to waste my time. There are whole genres of music that aren't popular in in the us. I'd much rather spend my time and money on a high quality electronic/new age/jazz/etc album that I know I'll like than on whatever junk is selling at $.05 per track on Amazon. It is much easier to discover good music with last.fm or Pandora than to try to scour the bottom of the music sales chart to find something interesting.
Such pricing schemes will turn into a popularity contest. I see no reason why a great jazz or new age album should sell for less than a great pop album just because fewer people buy jazz and new age albums. The pop album might sell 1000x as many copies, but 90% of people who discover the electronic album would pay %75 of the price of the pop album. In the end, sales of music by smaller artists isn't limited by the price of the album, it is limited by the number of people who have heard and like the album.
If you look websites of indie musicians like cdbaby.com, most artists are selling their albums in this magic $10-15 range. Through trial and error they have found the price that maximizes their profits. The price doesn't scare away new listeners and they don't have to get thousands of buyers to download an album to vote the price up to $.10 per track.
I do think that dynamic pricing might be a good idea if it is used to set prices based on the relative popularity of different tracks on an album. I think all albums should cost say $9.99, but the different tracks should be priced on relative popularity. The two song that was played on the radio might be $2.00 and the other eight tracks would be priced at $.75. The lower prices on the less popular tracks might encourage people to buy the full album instead of just the one track. The formula might also consider the relative lengths of different tracks. A 25 minute jazz solo might be $5.00 and the other two 13 minute tracks would be $2.49.
I know Target was selling red cross branded emergency first aid kits last year. They were prominently featured on the end of an aisle.
The problem in using a selinux system is when most of the software on the system is custom written or custom configured. Although I believe that the using the common combinations of web servers and database servers are easy to combine now, I can easily imagine wanting my web application to do things that are prohibited by policy. Customizing selinux looks somewhat challenging. If you just run a standard mail server or something it is probably great.
/root/mysecretfile
/etc/daemon.conf /var/daemon/data
/etc/daemon.conf, the program can't read it and shouldn't be trying to read it anyway.
Everybody says that app-armor sucks with hard links, but I just don't see it. If your configuration looks like
allow all
deny read,write
then you have a problem with hard links, but it isn't relevant. In that case you have already decided to try to solve the impossible problem of listing every important file on the system. Anyone interested in security would write:
deny all
allow read
allow read,write
Then I don't have to attempt to list all the secure files on the system. All I have to do is decide what I want to grant the daemon access to. If there is a hard link to
Storing the labels in the filesystem only works if you are the distribution maintainer. If all the programs that create a particular kind of file don't agree on the label, the on-disk labels can get messed up. The simple config file in app-armor allows easy auditing.
That said, I like the possibility of securing dbus and X with the same framework as the filesystem. I'm hoping that we will see a document file access daemon for linux that allows the user to securely load and save files from a sandboxed firefox or openoffice process. Until selinux gets used for this type of desktop security instead of just network daemon security, the added power of selinux is mostly useless.
How does a daily backup help you when the machine only gets used on one day per year? Restoring an empty daily database over a partially corrupted vote database doesn't seem like a good idea.
While there might be something to the cultural expectations explanation, there has to be some reason why women are more common in other geeky fields like math and engineering than in CS. The majority of the women in my CS classes so far have been math or computer engineering majors. Most of the female CS majors I know are double majoring.
Yes, they sell naked dsl. They just don't want anyone to know about it. Mine was just activated yesterday.
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http://www22.verizon.com/forhomedsl/channels/dsl/
I don't understand what you're talking about. Google Books offers a full text book search that lets you see context without reading the entire book. It works just like the service discussed in the article, except it has books from multiple publishers.
In this case, the pictures posted on her web site are from before and after several surgeries performed by different doctors. The surgeon should have before and after pictures and I think that he should be allowed to show them. If she didn't want people to see what she looked like after the surgery she should not have posted a picture of the other doctor's botched surgery and blamed it on him.