I don't see where you get that sheet-fed scanners are expensive. There are dozens of all-in-one scanners / printers / copiers for under $100.
True, but do they actually work? I've owned a couple of sheet feeders that always managed to feed several sheets at a time. Only the high end units could actually take a stack of paper and feed them one at a time.
Media hype is...well, very disappointing. They focus on the wrong problems in the wrong area and in their zeal for ratings, they completely distort reality.
Yeah but it's lots of fun watching these people have on air orgasms while talking about the "big storm".
My son came home from college in 2010 and while attempting to connect him to our home network, I see in his connection history, an SSID of all numbers, like 000-00-0000. It took me a moment, but then realized some douche in his dorm must have been running a wifi access point and when he saw 'SSID', must have assumed it meant Social Security ID.
I wonder if the kid ever purchased a Lifelock subscription.
Maybe a real name like this will work: Chnsz Medvypa
I generated a password using Lastpass and just changed the capitalization. After all, maybe it's my family tradition to give their kids first names composed of all consonants.
USBSwiper has created a POS (point-of-sale) application using Filemaker. A merchant must have a PayPal account and be approved for Website Payments Pro and Virtual Terminal services offered by PayPal. Once that's done, USBSwiper will sell or rent the application to a merchant. Rental is designed for small merchants who need a trade show payment system or who might be a seasonal business, purchasing the application allows a web merchant to process mail and phone orders much easier than on most e-commerce shopping cart systems.
This is not second hand knowledge. I now use USBSwiper and have used it at a trade show on my laptop with a Verizon wireless connection. It worked perfectly. From an administrative perspective, I've never had a merchant credit card account that was so easy to use. From an economic perspective, PayPal charges a flat rate for all transactions - 2.9% of the sale plus.30 per transaction. There is a $30 monthly fee which can be turned off anytime if the merchant is closed for the season, on vacation, or any reason.
Most consumers understand that the merchant pays for the acceptance of credit cards; what they don't understand is that their affinity card or rewards card costs the merchant more per transaction than a standard credit card, or what is called a "qualified" card. All non-qualified cards are charged more. Want to take a guess how many cards are now deemed "qualified"? Out of every 100 cards swiped, maybe 10 to 15 are qualified, which means they are charged at the lowest discount rate. All others are non-qualified and cost the merchant more. Add on fees such as statement fee, "abuse of system" fees (it's real) and anything else the card processors can cook up and the real cost of card acceptance can be as high as 6% - 8% or more.
PayPal's venture into POS applications started with the development of their virtual terminal application, but only the smallest of retail merchants could use it. It just doesn't work in a high traffic retial environment. The USBSwiper application makes things easier, but the flat rate card acceptance fees is what makes it work for me. All other processors can go to hell as far as I'm concerned. Paypal is our choice for card acceptance and will be as long as they don't screw up or get greedy.
He didn't get off because the judge was in a good mood. The judge didn't ask him those questions because the burden of proof is on the state, and its witness (the cop) not the defendant. Katta had no obligation to prove innocence but the state DID have an obligation to prove guilt.
And, in the scheme of things, a speeding ticket for a few MPH over the limit isn't worth getting the court's panties in a knot. Plus we don't know if the cop has a history of writing questionable tickets. That does happen and judges can't stand a cop that wastes their time.
I can't begin to express how aggravating it is to google a programming issue, and have the top five results all link to the same page with the same paywalled answers.
In Massachusetts, and I presume other states, there's a limit on scanning the barcodes on scratch tickets. In Mass, the limit is three scans per day if the tickets are not winners. After three losing scans, the lottery machine shuts down for a period or until the merchant calls lottery HQ for a reactivation code. The merchant may also get a call from the security dept at lottery HQ to 'splain why the machine shut down.
What bothers me is that sensitive equipment which can be inperceptively damaged by such handling is difficult to detect.
Specifically, hard drives. They are the basis of our society, and damage from improper handling can often take days, weeks, or months to determine after the fact. It is not fun to receive a box of disks which has been thrown, jostled, and dropped needlessly; you find out at 3am when several members of an array fail at the same time.
I'm not going to make excuses for poor service, but items that can be damaged through normal (or abnormal) handling should be packaged to survive such a trip. Not only the exterior corrugated parcel but in the example you cite, drives need to be engineered to handle such potential shocks. Don't drives park the heads in a safe zone now? Or are you referring to the platters being damaged?
UPS offers packaging assistance for any shipper, but having been in logistics for a number of years, I can tell you few take advantage of it. UPS, Fedex, the USPS and all freight companies invariably look at the way items are packaged before paying any claims. In my experience, many shippers are clueless when it comes to proper protective packaging, or if they feel the cost is higher than absorbing damages, won't spend the extra money to package their merchandise properly.
An example of the broken mod system on/. A clear thinking post, telling it like it is and some wanker mods it 'Troll'. The only troll here is the one with mod points, living in his mother's basement, hoping to get laid before he turns 35.
Your mention of California losing population and business should come as no surprise but clearly the people that haven't figured it out yet are all in Sacramento.
However, if they really wanted to do something about this looming problem, maybe the reduction or even elimination of taxes on manufacturing firms building electric infrastructure components and other businesses, and the resulting employment of tens of thousands, could help turn the state around and start the flow of cash back into the state's coffers. Of course, with Moonbeam Brown as Governor, this won't happen. The state will collapse and we'll all be bailing it out.
I'd say the last one out please turn off the lights but the way things are going, there won't be any lights to turn out.
Common sense is the only real defence against these scams, and it's pretty clear that schools have no way of teaching that.
Unfortunately, common sense is in very short supply it seems.
I can't know what's in the mind of those who get scammed, but the simplest defense is to just walk away from anyone wanting to take your stash. While it's certainly possible to be scammed by someone the victim has hired to perform a service (re:Bernie Madoff), at some point reason has to come into play. A PC repairman finds evidence of victim's life being in danger and he swallows it hook, line and sinker? What about second opinions?
Madoff was paying huge returns to his early victims and had they been more engaged in what was happening, a second opinion might have saved them from being wiped out. The old saw is "if it seems to good to be true, it probably is". In the case of the composer, had he revealed the problem to someone with a dispassionate eye, this would have been a non-story.
In the US, spam is illegal. If a black hat used their skilz to defeat the botnet, would anybody care? I mean, it's not like the spammers are going to file an FBI report and demand justice.
Welcome to the new industrial revolution where you're not entitled to minimum wage because you're working online as an "independent contractor" for a foreign company.
But....no one has to take the job. I can see how an argument can be made that these grossly underpaid jobs break the laws protecting workers. The number of jobs being offered is minuscule compared to the number of real world jobs.
Besides, low and unpaid positions are always being offered on craigslist in several categories, notably, media production and web design. How many people actually answer these ads? Probably very few and those that do probably never actually show up for them.
There's always trying to get something for nothing, but the market decides what the prevailing wage will be, not some cheap piker on mechanical turk or craigslist.
I still have a sense of awe when I see technology used like this. Being a serious amateur photographer, and being nearly as old as a tintype, seeing an image such as this makes me think of all the shots I've ever seen through my viewfinder that could have been enhanced with Photoshop. Alas, it just wasn't even a dream back in the day.
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I don't see where you get that sheet-fed scanners are expensive. There are dozens of all-in-one scanners / printers / copiers for under $100.
True, but do they actually work? I've owned a couple of sheet feeders that always managed to feed several sheets at a time. Only the high end units could actually take a stack of paper and feed them one at a time.
The SJC in MA is not just 'any' moron. They are in a class of morons of their own.If you're from MA as I am, then you know what I mean.
Media hype is...well, very disappointing. They focus on the wrong problems in the wrong area and in their zeal for ratings, they completely distort reality.
Yeah but it's lots of fun watching these people have on air orgasms while talking about the "big storm".
My son came home from college in 2010 and while attempting to connect him to our home network, I see in his connection history, an SSID of all numbers, like 000-00-0000. It took me a moment, but then realized some douche in his dorm must have been running a wifi access point and when he saw 'SSID', must have assumed it meant Social Security ID.
I wonder if the kid ever purchased a Lifelock subscription.
Maybe a real name like this will work: Chnsz Medvypa
I generated a password using Lastpass and just changed the capitalization. After all, maybe it's my family tradition to give their kids first names composed of all consonants.
This has to violate the license terms of XP.
XP violates me. Thanks MS.
Would you name the online service you use? I'll be needing one soon. Tnx.
Take a look at USBSwiper. Low fees and inexpensive equipment for swiping and scanning.
Already done (no ish)
USBSwiper has created a POS (point-of-sale) application using Filemaker. A merchant must have a PayPal account and be approved for Website Payments Pro and Virtual Terminal services offered by PayPal. Once that's done, USBSwiper will sell or rent the application to a merchant. Rental is designed for small merchants who need a trade show payment system or who might be a seasonal business, purchasing the application allows a web merchant to process mail and phone orders much easier than on most e-commerce shopping cart systems.
This is not second hand knowledge. I now use USBSwiper and have used it at a trade show on my laptop with a Verizon wireless connection. It worked perfectly. From an administrative perspective, I've never had a merchant credit card account that was so easy to use. From an economic perspective, PayPal charges a flat rate for all transactions - 2.9% of the sale plus .30 per transaction. There is a $30 monthly fee which can be turned off anytime if the merchant is closed for the season, on vacation, or any reason.
Most consumers understand that the merchant pays for the acceptance of credit cards; what they don't understand is that their affinity card or rewards card costs the merchant more per transaction than a standard credit card, or what is called a "qualified" card. All non-qualified cards are charged more. Want to take a guess how many cards are now deemed "qualified"? Out of every 100 cards swiped, maybe 10 to 15 are qualified, which means they are charged at the lowest discount rate. All others are non-qualified and cost the merchant more. Add on fees such as statement fee, "abuse of system" fees (it's real) and anything else the card processors can cook up and the real cost of card acceptance can be as high as 6% - 8% or more.
PayPal's venture into POS applications started with the development of their virtual terminal application, but only the smallest of retail merchants could use it. It just doesn't work in a high traffic retial environment. The USBSwiper application makes things easier, but the flat rate card acceptance fees is what makes it work for me. All other processors can go to hell as far as I'm concerned. Paypal is our choice for card acceptance and will be as long as they don't screw up or get greedy.
And if the Simpsons taught me anything, it's God's hand since it has 5 fingers.
For sure, but since when does God wear a diamond ring?
I will have to ponder this and hope the Simpsons have an answer.
By the time you get sucked out of that plane, you are a goner.
If anyone actually read TFA, you'd see there's a big hand just above the jet that would catch you.
But this is Apple's fault too.
Heresy. Off with his head. I hear the wailing and gnashing of teeth from the Apple fanbois.
Now say something un-PC about Jobs, you brute.
Except where horny teenager David did not go to town on flirty Jennifer.
That was the most accurate part of the movie, if you assume he'd become the model for a /.er
He didn't get off because the judge was in a good mood. The judge didn't ask him those questions because the burden of proof is on the state, and its witness (the cop) not the defendant. Katta had no obligation to prove innocence but the state DID have an obligation to prove guilt.
And, in the scheme of things, a speeding ticket for a few MPH over the limit isn't worth getting the court's panties in a knot. Plus we don't know if the cop has a history of writing questionable tickets. That does happen and judges can't stand a cop that wastes their time.
I can't begin to express how aggravating it is to google a programming issue, and have the top five results all link to the same page with the same paywalled answers.
Amen brother, amen.
That's the kid that stole my 30 inch disco ball! He flattened out and DESTROYED IT!!! DAMN!
In Massachusetts, and I presume other states, there's a limit on scanning the barcodes on scratch tickets. In Mass, the limit is three scans per day if the tickets are not winners. After three losing scans, the lottery machine shuts down for a period or until the merchant calls lottery HQ for a reactivation code. The merchant may also get a call from the security dept at lottery HQ to 'splain why the machine shut down.
What bothers me is that sensitive equipment which can be inperceptively damaged by such handling is difficult to detect. Specifically, hard drives. They are the basis of our society, and damage from improper handling can often take days, weeks, or months to determine after the fact. It is not fun to receive a box of disks which has been thrown, jostled, and dropped needlessly; you find out at 3am when several members of an array fail at the same time.
I'm not going to make excuses for poor service, but items that can be damaged through normal (or abnormal) handling should be packaged to survive such a trip. Not only the exterior corrugated parcel but in the example you cite, drives need to be engineered to handle such potential shocks. Don't drives park the heads in a safe zone now? Or are you referring to the platters being damaged?
UPS offers packaging assistance for any shipper, but having been in logistics for a number of years, I can tell you few take advantage of it. UPS, Fedex, the USPS and all freight companies invariably look at the way items are packaged before paying any claims. In my experience, many shippers are clueless when it comes to proper protective packaging, or if they feel the cost is higher than absorbing damages, won't spend the extra money to package their merchandise properly.
An example of the broken mod system on /. A clear thinking post, telling it like it is and some wanker mods it 'Troll'. The only troll here is the one with mod points, living in his mother's basement, hoping to get laid before he turns 35.
Your mention of California losing population and business should come as no surprise but clearly the people that haven't figured it out yet are all in Sacramento.
However, if they really wanted to do something about this looming problem, maybe the reduction or even elimination of taxes on manufacturing firms building electric infrastructure components and other businesses, and the resulting employment of tens of thousands, could help turn the state around and start the flow of cash back into the state's coffers. Of course, with Moonbeam Brown as Governor, this won't happen. The state will collapse and we'll all be bailing it out.
I'd say the last one out please turn off the lights but the way things are going, there won't be any lights to turn out.
Common sense is the only real defence against these scams, and it's pretty clear that schools have no way of teaching that.
Unfortunately, common sense is in very short supply it seems.
I can't know what's in the mind of those who get scammed, but the simplest defense is to just walk away from anyone wanting to take your stash. While it's certainly possible to be scammed by someone the victim has hired to perform a service (re:Bernie Madoff), at some point reason has to come into play. A PC repairman finds evidence of victim's life being in danger and he swallows it hook, line and sinker? What about second opinions?
Madoff was paying huge returns to his early victims and had they been more engaged in what was happening, a second opinion might have saved them from being wiped out. The old saw is "if it seems to good to be true, it probably is". In the case of the composer, had he revealed the problem to someone with a dispassionate eye, this would have been a non-story.
-people buying something that they think will make them well, only to have it not help them, or worse, poison them...
In reality, the spammers aren't going to ship anything. They just want credit card info, yes?
In the US, spam is illegal. If a black hat used their skilz to defeat the botnet, would anybody care? I mean, it's not like the spammers are going to file an FBI report and demand justice.
Welcome to the new industrial revolution where you're not entitled to minimum wage because you're working online as an "independent contractor" for a foreign company.
But....no one has to take the job. I can see how an argument can be made that these grossly underpaid jobs break the laws protecting workers. The number of jobs being offered is minuscule compared to the number of real world jobs.
Besides, low and unpaid positions are always being offered on craigslist in several categories, notably, media production and web design. How many people actually answer these ads? Probably very few and those that do probably never actually show up for them.
There's always trying to get something for nothing, but the market decides what the prevailing wage will be, not some cheap piker on mechanical turk or craigslist.
Just hit Ctrl-a and all the text shows up just fine.
I still have a sense of awe when I see technology used like this. Being a serious amateur photographer, and being nearly as old as a tintype, seeing an image such as this makes me think of all the shots I've ever seen through my viewfinder that could have been enhanced with Photoshop. Alas, it just wasn't even a dream back in the day.