1 - loading missile and pointing them up can be done any time, including long before the aircraft is spotted 2 - you detect aircraft crossing your border. 500 miles away you launch missiles. It has a few minutes to gain altitude 3 - you launch multiple missiles. Shit, something moving mach 6 has a relatively low set of options for turning 4 - countries able to develop this level of tech would include China (plenty of space once something crossed its border), Russia (same) and India (oh, look). Sure, Switzerland are going to struggle but maybe that's why they're neutral
I'm not going to pretend it's easy but shit, give me a room full of weapons engineers and even I could design something that would knock down the SR71 these days.
wear a damn condom. Contraceptives exist and they work
The irony. From multiple sources:
If you use condoms perfectly every single time you have sex, they're 98% effective at preventing pregnancy.
So, less effective than this app. Of course, they're also not used perfectly. Frankly the only time you can guarantee avoiding pregnancy while using a condom is if you're having gay sex with another man.
My whore sister
If your sister has sex for money, didn't use contraceptives and only has three children then she's actually doing pretty well.
In a poll of people that recently suffered credit card fraud, 100% of them had within the previous month been breathing air.
In a poll of Slashdot users, 100% of those that suffered credit card fraud had recently been using Slashdot.
Sorry but 'closed community finds out that the thing they share in common with people in that community is the community' is hardly fucking devastating evidence of something.
I fucking hate filling a car in the US because of this. I don't have a fucking zip code, I can't enter one, and I don't know how much fucking fuel this shitty hire car needs so I can't easily tell the guy at the desk how much I want to prepay.
Makes filling the car a seriously fucking stressful activity for me. Why the fuck can't I just put fuel in the car, walk in and pay? Works everywhere else in the fucking world.
It varies by country - I'm not sure if it can vary by merchant too.
What tends to happen is that a small percentage of contactless transactions are validated for funds available, and potentially some could be validated by PIN, but the rest are taken on faith and so the limits are kept low enough for the merchant and card provider exposure to be manageable.
I'm not actually sure who takes the fraud hit for an unchecked contactless payment. I'll have to do some research.
Is it bollocks. It's easier and quicker, and that's why it's prevalent.
It doesn't validate that the person using the card is its owner, as they are not required to provide a second factor, and that exposes the merchant and the card provider to greater fraud - and as a result also exposes the customer to greater exposure to the hassles of reversing fraudulent transactions.
Just checked the crime map for my village. One 'Theft from person' in the past six months, and no details on whether that was a mugging or just a schoolkid running off with another kid's phone.
I can understand the heavily armed response, I just don't understand why heavily armed police aren't also highly trained.
Highly armed response units like this are trained to shoot because generally that's what they need to do.
No. Normally they need to be present in case a situation escalates, but most of their deployments end peacefully or without shots being fired. They should be trained to shoot only when necessary.
On this occasion it pretty fucking clearly wasn't necessary.
What did I think would happen? Luckily the summary offers an answer:
more than 20 police cars surrounded her apartment building for at least half an hour
Oh look. Identical fucking situation but instead of murdering some poor sod on his own doorstep the police used some fucking intelligence instead.
Sorry, no, that's not what I think would happen. I think the US police would go in gung-ho and murder some poor cunt because that's how fucking stupid they are.
America could possibly beat China in an all-out war (and tanks driving into Beijing would require an all-out war) but the only way the US will be driving tanks into Beijing is if they've already levelled it with nukes first.
The US just isn't going to win a conventional war against China in China.
Or it could be something like "Shit, we just fried the drive controllers, the RAID array is toast, where are the backups? What do you mean it takes three days to ship them back, build new arrays and restore the data? Get on with it!"
If you're not running fully resilient (and that's expensive, so most people don't) then it's quite easy to lose a couple of days.
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Or you could accept that you bought a specific class of CPU that offered published performance characteristics, and it continues to provide those.
If you choose to cripple it by running non-performant software that's hardly the vendor's issue.
1 - loading missile and pointing them up can be done any time, including long before the aircraft is spotted
2 - you detect aircraft crossing your border. 500 miles away you launch missiles. It has a few minutes to gain altitude
3 - you launch multiple missiles. Shit, something moving mach 6 has a relatively low set of options for turning
4 - countries able to develop this level of tech would include China (plenty of space once something crossed its border), Russia (same) and India (oh, look). Sure, Switzerland are going to struggle but maybe that's why they're neutral
I'm not going to pretend it's easy but shit, give me a room full of weapons engineers and even I could design something that would knock down the SR71 these days.
Leaving aside your lack of productivity by working too many hours, you're not driving a car for that period.
Tired drivers have more accidents. That's a bad thing.
To be fair, there's a lot of justification walking around for post-natal abortion.
Abstaining isn't 100% for the men either. I've seen estimates that 10% of so-called fathers didn't impregnate the mother.
Yeah. Call me a cynic but "You don't need a condom, I'm on the pill" is more likely to result in no sex than me going bareback.
The apple does not fall far from the tree.
You're from the same fucking tree.
wear a damn condom. Contraceptives exist and they work
The irony. From multiple sources:
If you use condoms perfectly every single time you have sex, they're 98% effective at preventing pregnancy.
So, less effective than this app. Of course, they're also not used perfectly. Frankly the only time you can guarantee avoiding pregnancy while using a condom is if you're having gay sex with another man.
My whore sister
If your sister has sex for money, didn't use contraceptives and only has three children then she's actually doing pretty well.
It is an industry first indeed. The rest of the UK taxi industry obey the fucking law.
https://www.gov.uk/drivers-hou...
10 hours a day, not 10 hours then a 6 hour break. Fucking uber.
In a poll of people that recently suffered credit card fraud, 100% of them had within the previous month been breathing air.
In a poll of Slashdot users, 100% of those that suffered credit card fraud had recently been using Slashdot.
Sorry but 'closed community finds out that the thing they share in common with people in that community is the community' is hardly fucking devastating evidence of something.
Given clause 3(b) of https://www.legislation.gov.uk... the use of Chip & Pin makes no fucking difference in the UK.
It's not like signatures are hard to forge.
I fucking hate filling a car in the US because of this. I don't have a fucking zip code, I can't enter one, and I don't know how much fucking fuel this shitty hire car needs so I can't easily tell the guy at the desk how much I want to prepay.
Makes filling the car a seriously fucking stressful activity for me. Why the fuck can't I just put fuel in the car, walk in and pay? Works everywhere else in the fucking world.
As long as you're not trying to use Amex just pay as normal. Merchants can cope.
It varies by country - I'm not sure if it can vary by merchant too.
What tends to happen is that a small percentage of contactless transactions are validated for funds available, and potentially some could be validated by PIN, but the rest are taken on faith and so the limits are kept low enough for the merchant and card provider exposure to be manageable.
I'm not actually sure who takes the fraud hit for an unchecked contactless payment. I'll have to do some research.
Is it bollocks. It's easier and quicker, and that's why it's prevalent.
It doesn't validate that the person using the card is its owner, as they are not required to provide a second factor, and that exposes the merchant and the card provider to greater fraud - and as a result also exposes the customer to greater exposure to the hassles of reversing fraudulent transactions.
It's not more secure.
Chip & Pin is not infallible but are you seriously suggesting its more vulnerable to fraud than scribbling on a bit of paper that nobody reads?
Except that's a shitty way to do it. Insert your card, accept the bill amount, don't add a tip, enter your PIN and confirm the transaction.
Leave a tip in cash on the table.
Just checked the crime map for my village. One 'Theft from person' in the past six months, and no details on whether that was a mugging or just a schoolkid running off with another kid's phone.
I was in Morocco 3-4 weeks ago and if you wanted to pay with a card, it had to be chip & pin.
Are you telling me that the US is less sophisticated than Africa? I guess I can believe that.
I can understand the heavily armed response, I just don't understand why heavily armed police aren't also highly trained.
Highly armed response units like this are trained to shoot because generally that's what they need to do.
No. Normally they need to be present in case a situation escalates, but most of their deployments end peacefully or without shots being fired. They should be trained to shoot only when necessary.
On this occasion it pretty fucking clearly wasn't necessary.
What did I think would happen? Luckily the summary offers an answer:
more than 20 police cars surrounded her apartment building for at least half an hour
Oh look. Identical fucking situation but instead of murdering some poor sod on his own doorstep the police used some fucking intelligence instead.
Sorry, no, that's not what I think would happen. I think the US police would go in gung-ho and murder some poor cunt because that's how fucking stupid they are.
American tanks *WILL* roll into Bejing.
Oh please. Dream on.
America could possibly beat China in an all-out war (and tanks driving into Beijing would require an all-out war) but the only way the US will be driving tanks into Beijing is if they've already levelled it with nukes first.
The US just isn't going to win a conventional war against China in China.
No. It would help if you could get some cheap flights from the UK so I could afford to visit and see your spectacular countryside.
Or it could be something like "Shit, we just fried the drive controllers, the RAID array is toast, where are the backups? What do you mean it takes three days to ship them back, build new arrays and restore the data? Get on with it!"
If you're not running fully resilient (and that's expensive, so most people don't) then it's quite easy to lose a couple of days.
Yet another reason to hate Canadians.