> With the speed of light limited to 186,000 miles per second and a round trip of 50,000 miles a quick > calculations shows a minimum latency of around a 0.27 seconds and that is just signal travel time > and not any processing overhead.
And assuming the remote side is part of the satellite and doesn't add another 50k mile round trip, before adding land latencies.
Clearly there is only one fix here, we need to ask congress to allow geostationary satellites at lower altitudes, AND to raise the speed limit on light. I can't believe they haven't addressed these issues!
> I could have worked out what fratricide meant when I was 11 or 12,
And you just guessed his age within a year.:)
> but until just now I wouldn't have > been able to recall the story of Cain and Abel. I think I've read it before, and could recall some of it > with your prompt, but I don't know the motive or any detail.
While I have been an atheist since age 11, I did grow up Catholic and had to go to CCD (Catholic version of "sunday school"), and choose a private catholic high school over going to public school....but mostly because I was impressed by their science program which recognized i belonged in the advanced classes, whereas the public school wanted to put me in remedial ones.
That said.... ever read Sandman? Cain and Abel are characters in the story. Some vampire myths have Cain as the original Vampire. In fact, a few similar stories center around some sort of "decendants of Cain" origin.
> I have a bible on my shelf of books to read (also a quran), since I think it should be interesting, but > it's been about 10 years and I've not started it yet...
The maintainer of the Skeptic's annotated bible said it best "It may not be a very good book, but it is a very long one". I mostly agree.
I do think some of the stories are worth at least being familiar with as literary works, or at least the general outline, just because it is used as source material in so many other works....but, I wouldn't like... try to read it cover to cover..... and if you want to get ammo for pissing people off, skip right to Paul's letters. That guy was a giant self-righteous douchebag.
I have also read some of the Quran....and boy was I not prepared for that. The only thing it has going for it over the Bible is that its short. Aside from that, reading the Bible is to reading the Quran what chatting with a Quaker is to getting lectured by an Evangelical. I have never read anything so directly preachy or that mentioned the Angel Gabriel so much.
> mistake he made is indefensible on an intellectual basis, and we all know it. > A far more sensible defence would have been that when typing quickly all of us tend to misspell > words
I go with the affirmative defence. Yes I did it, and I don't really give a shit either way. Unless you are a compiler, I have better things to do than worry about minor deviations in my spelling from the standards.
I worry about it about as much as a billionaire might worry if you told him "hey don't park there, its a $50 ticket".
Your guess would be correct but it still stands that, their security isn't paid for entirely by them. They are free to implement a lot less cost effective measures than they otherwise could afford AND have more reason to do it.
>...take the place of all the crap we have, pay for and endure currently with the TSA as it stands.
I would feel perfectly safe having nothing at all take that place. OOoh maybe a coffee stand could take that place. That would be nice.
> make up a disproportionate amount of those against public schooling
However you don't have to be against public schooling to be against sending your own kids to public schools in your area. I would wager many people who home school are in favor of public education, just not what is available to them.
My own sister does this, and isn't any sort of creationist or religious zealot. Instead she says things like "He can't be mainstreamed"; which I am still trying to decipher the meaning of, but I am sure has nothing to do with creationism since she has never expressed a religious thought in the years I have known her, and, he doesn't have any familiarity with Bible stories to the point I had to explain some to him so he would understand other cultural references*
(* The chapter title in some video game he was talking about was "Fratricide" and he was shocked I knew the word; and I was shocked he didn't know the story of Caine and Able, afterall, its only one of the most referenced stories in western litterature )
> I suppose you could throw in a couple of behavioral specialists too to observer and question folks > that were acting suspiciously, but really, this kind of thing seems to work for Israel, who would likely > be bombed into terrorist kingdom come if they didn't put in measure like this that seem to actually > work without pissing everyone off.
Isreal yes, you mean, the country whose entire population is around 1 million less people than New York City; who gets subsidized with Billions of dollars (yes that means, thousands PER PERSON) by the US alone for their military and security needs.
Surely anything THEY feel is cost effective must be cost effective to scale up to a country with 150 or so times as many people, while paying the full cost. Sounds totally legit.
Never mind that we are not bordering peoples that we have had recent wars with, whose land we have stolen and continue make illegal settlements on.
We are just backing the people who do do that. If anything, fine.... revamp the TSA to work like Isreal....and Isreal can pay for it, since they are one of the main attractants of animosity towards the US.
That was definitely good. Actually a friend of mine was ranting about this especially in relation to one of the Democrat congresscritters, I forget who. Didn't care one bit about mass surveillance, suddenly up in arms about Merkel being spied on.
Almost like.... mass surveillance of the public, a bunch of no-account faceless nobodies, that is fine, but, when you do it Mrs Merkel, well...she is a REAL PERSON!
> He is wisely using the drip, drip, drip method of disclosure so the press and public have time to > digest each successive piece of information
Not only that, but he gave the people in power time to LIE about it, and then get caught.
If he gave it out all at once, they could go over it, come up with their response and their lies and nobody would be able to refute them. However, forcing them to make their admissions and coverup lies one at a time put them at a huge disadvantage.
> Since it is uncommon here in the Netherlands for people to have guns it is extremely uncommon for > people to wave guns about without being cops or robbers.
See exactly what I am talking about, you jump from holding a gun to waving one around? Shit people here are not forbidden from bearing arms and, its exceedingly rare to see them outside of gun shops, shooting ranges or on cops. In fact, most robbers and criminals don't even own one much less carry them...never mind waving them around.
> If speeding is not reckless behavior in the US then the reasons for the speed signs must be very > different in the US than they are here in the Netherlands. Here speed signs are usually for safety.
They make the same bullshit claim here. However, its pretty easy to show that this is seldom the concern. Hence why it is that you find states where city cops are allowed to patrol highways and their departments keep the money from tickets, speed limits get lowered when the highway passes through the city.... a situation states which have a state police force that doesn't allow city cops to patrol highways.... you don't see that.
Must be somehow where the money goes changes how safe it is.
> If they are not for safety they have an other good reason,
I do not recommend ever assuming that the people in power have your best interests in mind. Generally the smart money is on the opposite.
Kind of like how like how the Prison gaurds union oppose reform of drug laws. Because they are representing the gaurds and their jobs, and they would be hurt by any sane policy.
Sure but to think speeding is reckless behaviour is completely unwarranted and mostly the result of fear and taking the lies politicians and police tell to justify their revenue intake campaigns.
> It's more akin to being afraid of someone holding a gun.
Which is also irrational unless they are making threats or pointing it at you.
If you have these problems then please, for the sake of all of us, seek professional help. You will feel better when you have dealt with your emotional issues.
And if you have a relative or loved one drown, you might be afraid of water. If you had a loved one killed by a black person, you might fear black people.
That doesn't make your fear rational, it just means you are a human like the rest of us whose judgement can be clouded by emotion.
well if it is hard to detect, it could run for days, weeks, or even years at a time. I remember when people used to start downloads and then go do something else for a day while they waited. (less common these days but with slow VPNs and DVD images, it still happens)
Even a MB per day is a lot when you figure high value files tend to be on the smaller side. A quick ls -lRt of the majority of the RHEL box I am typing on now: 39 MB
Might take a day or two at those speeds, but with only a little intelligence you could reduce that size, especially if you do any processing on that box to reduce it. Once you have that, you can target specific files.
> This would result in one branch of the government saying it is ok to do something while another > says it isn't.
No it wouldn't: They could simply not say anything about the topic. Having no restriction is not the same as explicit allowance. The FCCs restrictions are still in place, were in place whether they said anything or not. However, it is not the FAAs job to really care about FCC compliance beyond airline equipment concerns.
Lifting their restriction really has no bearing on the FCC, whose restrictions are still in force and the FCC is welcome to enforce.
> It comes from a deep rooted belief that rules simply do not apply to them, that all rules are silly.
well you know, maybe people could use some exposure to good rules that are not silly. When all you are exposed to is the stupid, its easy to assume stupid is everywhere.
> but the FCC frequency allocations for some of the frequencies involved are land mobile only, > not air mobile.
This kind of reminds me of reading RFC822 and seeing that it disallowed _ in mail server names, and then that it was dissallowed in DNS anyway.... like, why is SMTP codifying DNS? So if DNS changes its standard SMTP has to be updated? Seems silly.
I would think the right solution is to have no ban on them and tell the FCC to encforce their own regulations.
I look around at claims like that, and claims of systemic racism and it brings up a term that I didn't know was missing from my vocabulary until recently: Path Dependence
One observation that sticks out in my mind related to this: Children of middle class people who started their lives poor, are more likely to end up poor than middle class children whose parents started out in the middle class.
So, even if you make some sort of change that is supposed to help fix the inequality of opportunity, it doesn't mean you should expect equality of outcome to arise, because outcome is based on the previous conditions.
What am I getting at? I think things are significantly better for woman than are given credit by most statistics people use, because they keep comparing "woman vs man" where a better comparison would actually be to compare the derivatives of their average salary functions over time. That is, is the average pay for the average woman rising faster or slowe than the average man?
Now why I think things are better than we would expect is partially related to some other trends about changing gender roles. Traditionally we hear, and I even see it amongst some of my own peers at 35, that men prefer more docile women, and are threatened or uninterested in more assertive ones. However, there is some evidence that young men, in the age group that is just starting to think about girls, the stereotypes no longer apply, and those males are talking about wanting a woman who works, or even makes more money than they do.
Its not something thats going to show in equality of outcome statistics for maybe another generation after them, but, it may even be evidence of a flip to the other direction.
> By then I had gotten the pattern: they all get cute girls to try to get the geeks to buy their stuff.
And by the by, this is isn't the be all nor end all of what they do to get the geeks to buy their stuff either. At my previous company, before the bribery scandal, some things were just blatant. In fact, the vendors had us so good, only the new ones (like Rehat when we first were in talks with them) bothered with an attractive rep in a revealing dress.
The rest just funded our open bar Christmas party, invited us to free "conferences" which were basically sales pitches, gave us desk toy goodies, hell, even my current employer got in on the act with some of the non-it departments that used their software.
OTOH it wasn't ALL bad having these cozy relationships. I actually ended up out to lunch with a co-worker and the CEO of one of the companies whose software we used; and was able to get him to go back to my management and inform them of a few things that they wouldn't listen to me about. (seriously: "my management expects your software to do X" and he replies "Our software doesn't do that"... couple of weeks later "out of the blue" we have a project to fill that gap... after I had been trying to tell them for a year or more that their plan was flawed)
Fast forward a couple of years and getting taken out to lunch by vendors was forbidden, and we couldn't even accept pens.
Sure but then I might not get more of the same and I would miss my opportunity to warn others away and.... of course... cost them money.
So I actually mark ads for products I like as "against my views", that way, I wont have to see their ad, which is wasted on me anyway, and wont be costing them more money. Unlike the ones I dislike, who I make pay for the 'contact' they are making with me....and try to draw out more of that contact....so I can troll more.
And while we are on the topic of trolling of course, I need to remember more often to make sure my comments go off like anthrax spores in the John Hancock tower ventilation system as if they were delivering a mighty blow to the infidels and apostate.
(Dear Analyst: Why are you reading this when you should be serving the people and leaking information?)
Well, I am not saying it can't be done or you can't get away with it. I am just saying its a pretty bold move and one that a smart crook would realize is likely going to be tricky to pull off without too much risk of getting caught.
However, this case isn't really the same, i don't think. Check this part out:
crooks had tampered with some point-of-sale devices at store registers in the Chicago area in a scheme to steal credit and debit card numbers and associated PINs. But new information on the investigation shows that many Michaels stores across the country have discovered compromised payment terminals.
If that is true, then while it doesn't rule out someone entering individual stores and tampering with equipment, it does make me think that this was not the attack vector. Sounds to me like its more likely they were compromised at a higher level and the devices were likely trojans before they ever arrived on site.
This, of course, makes me suspect someone at the company that services their cash register systems was involved in some way. I would suspect the payment processor (who, as I understand it, generally is the source of those pads, in fact, if I remember my wife's rants from when she used to work in that industry.... its quite a racket itself) but, then I would expect it to not be isolated to one chain..... but its all speculation.
Yes but I could pick another example, the nutrino and say it sounds like that too: "In 1930 Wolfgang Pauli proposed a solution to the missing energy in nuclear beta decays, namely that it was carried by a neutral particle " ( http://www.ps.uci.edu/physics/news/nuexpt.html )
It makes perfect sense. You have theories that test to a high confidence in every way you can test them, then you find an anomaly in specific instances. Whats the response? Take those theories and attempt to narrow down the properties of what would cause the anomaly.
It obviously doesn't always produce a hypothesis that pans out as correct, but, can you really say that Aether theory was so bad? It was wrong, yes, but, it lead to the creation of experiments that answered new questions and ultimately, shaped the theories that came after it.
and...at the time... that is, after light was shown to be wave-like AND before we knew that there was no motion relative to its "medium", postulating Aether made a lot of sense.
This is exactly why I have taken the attitude I have: If I am the product then I will make sure they get what they paid for!
I mostly ignore the ads, but I look for the ones I "like", and by "like" I mean the ones that annoy me, or make me feel like they are dishonest or even just, giving out a messgage that I dislike. Then.... I comment on them.
The beauty of this? I hover over them... a lot, I click on them a lot, then I spew out trollish comments intended to convince people other than what the advertisement was shooting for. The beauty of this is,....it brings me more of the same kinds of ad, so I can take my hobby forward to the next round!
The "criminal justice schools" ads are the best, especially since they never remove comments or block anyone. The MA state lottory tried advertising to me, and they actually removed my comments and blocked me. Apparently they don't like being told that they lie about the odds (if a casino offers me a bet, pays that bet and taxes out taxes for the state, thats one thing... when the state does it themselves, they are actually fraudulently stating the payout, and thus the pot odds) or that even if they didn't their odds of wining are abysmal.
Have you been in a department store in the past 20 years? They have cameras like would give the DHS a year long stiffy, and a large portion of them are trained right on the registers. Hell, when I was last in a security room, and this was the mid 90s, the Security folks could watch the video and pull up the real time transaction log to watch while watching the video.
They tend to get upity about people they don't know about touching cash registers too. Though, maybe you could go unnoticed, they also seldom tell you up front "we keep our security footage for 10 days" so its not like you can be sure that you were not recorded doing it.
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> With the speed of light limited to 186,000 miles per second and a round trip of 50,000 miles a quick
> calculations shows a minimum latency of around a 0.27 seconds and that is just signal travel time
> and not any processing overhead.
And assuming the remote side is part of the satellite and doesn't add another 50k mile round trip, before adding land latencies.
Clearly there is only one fix here, we need to ask congress to allow geostationary satellites at lower altitudes, AND to raise the speed limit on light. I can't believe they haven't addressed these issues!
> I could have worked out what fratricide meant when I was 11 or 12,
And you just guessed his age within a year. :)
> but until just now I wouldn't have
> been able to recall the story of Cain and Abel. I think I've read it before, and could recall some of it
> with your prompt, but I don't know the motive or any detail.
While I have been an atheist since age 11, I did grow up Catholic and had to go to CCD (Catholic version of "sunday school"), and choose a private catholic high school over going to public school....but mostly because I was impressed by their science program which recognized i belonged in the advanced classes, whereas the public school wanted to put me in remedial ones.
That said.... ever read Sandman? Cain and Abel are characters in the story. Some vampire myths have Cain as the original Vampire. In fact, a few similar stories center around some sort of "decendants of Cain" origin.
> I have a bible on my shelf of books to read (also a quran), since I think it should be interesting, but
> it's been about 10 years and I've not started it yet...
The maintainer of the Skeptic's annotated bible said it best "It may not be a very good book, but it is a very long one". I mostly agree.
I do think some of the stories are worth at least being familiar with as literary works, or at least the general outline, just because it is used as source material in so many other works....but, I wouldn't like... try to read it cover to cover..... and if you want to get ammo for pissing people off, skip right to Paul's letters. That guy was a giant self-righteous douchebag.
I have also read some of the Quran....and boy was I not prepared for that. The only thing it has going for it over the Bible is that its short. Aside from that, reading the Bible is to reading the Quran what chatting with a Quaker is to getting lectured by an Evangelical. I have never read anything so directly preachy or that mentioned the Angel Gabriel so much.
> mistake he made is indefensible on an intellectual basis, and we all know it.
> A far more sensible defence would have been that when typing quickly all of us tend to misspell
> words
I go with the affirmative defence. Yes I did it, and I don't really give a shit either way. Unless you are a compiler, I have better things to do than worry about minor deviations in my spelling from the standards.
I worry about it about as much as a billionaire might worry if you told him "hey don't park there, its a $50 ticket".
Your guess would be correct but it still stands that, their security isn't paid for entirely by them. They are free to implement a lot less cost effective measures than they otherwise could afford AND have more reason to do it.
> ...take the place of all the crap we have, pay for and endure currently with the TSA as it stands.
I would feel perfectly safe having nothing at all take that place. OOoh maybe a coffee stand could take that place. That would be nice.
> make up a disproportionate amount of those against public schooling
However you don't have to be against public schooling to be against sending your own kids to public schools in your area. I would wager many people who home school are in favor of public education, just not what is available to them.
My own sister does this, and isn't any sort of creationist or religious zealot. Instead she says things like "He can't be mainstreamed"; which I am still trying to decipher the meaning of, but I am sure has nothing to do with creationism since she has never expressed a religious thought in the years I have known her, and, he doesn't have any familiarity with Bible stories to the point I had to explain some to him so he would understand other cultural references*
(* The chapter title in some video game he was talking about was "Fratricide" and he was shocked I knew the word; and I was shocked he didn't know the story of Caine and Able, afterall, its only one of the most referenced stories in western litterature )
> I suppose you could throw in a couple of behavioral specialists too to observer and question folks
> that were acting suspiciously, but really, this kind of thing seems to work for Israel, who would likely
> be bombed into terrorist kingdom come if they didn't put in measure like this that seem to actually
> work without pissing everyone off.
Isreal yes, you mean, the country whose entire population is around 1 million less people than New York City; who gets subsidized with Billions of dollars (yes that means, thousands PER PERSON) by the US alone for their military and security needs.
Surely anything THEY feel is cost effective must be cost effective to scale up to a country with 150 or so times as many people, while paying the full cost. Sounds totally legit.
Never mind that we are not bordering peoples that we have had recent wars with, whose land we have stolen and continue make illegal settlements on.
We are just backing the people who do do that. If anything, fine.... revamp the TSA to work like Isreal....and Isreal can pay for it, since they are one of the main attractants of animosity towards the US.
That was definitely good. Actually a friend of mine was ranting about this especially in relation to one of the Democrat congresscritters, I forget who. Didn't care one bit about mass surveillance, suddenly up in arms about Merkel being spied on.
Almost like.... mass surveillance of the public, a bunch of no-account faceless nobodies, that is fine, but, when you do it Mrs Merkel, well...she is a REAL PERSON!
> He is wisely using the drip, drip, drip method of disclosure so the press and public have time to
> digest each successive piece of information
Not only that, but he gave the people in power time to LIE about it, and then get caught.
If he gave it out all at once, they could go over it, come up with their response and their lies and nobody would be able to refute them. However, forcing them to make their admissions and coverup lies one at a time put them at a huge disadvantage.
It was masterful.
> Since it is uncommon here in the Netherlands for people to have guns it is extremely uncommon for
> people to wave guns about without being cops or robbers.
See exactly what I am talking about, you jump from holding a gun to waving one around? Shit people here are not forbidden from bearing arms and, its exceedingly rare to see them outside of gun shops, shooting ranges or on cops. In fact, most robbers and criminals don't even own one much less carry them...never mind waving them around.
> If speeding is not reckless behavior in the US then the reasons for the speed signs must be very
> different in the US than they are here in the Netherlands. Here speed signs are usually for safety.
They make the same bullshit claim here. However, its pretty easy to show that this is seldom the concern. Hence why it is that you find states where city cops are allowed to patrol highways and their departments keep the money from tickets, speed limits get lowered when the highway passes through the city.... a situation states which have a state police force that doesn't allow city cops to patrol highways.... you don't see that.
Must be somehow where the money goes changes how safe it is.
> If they are not for safety they have an other good reason,
I do not recommend ever assuming that the people in power have your best interests in mind. Generally the smart money is on the opposite.
Kind of like how like how the Prison gaurds union oppose reform of drug laws. Because they are representing the gaurds and their jobs, and they would be hurt by any sane policy.
Sure but to think speeding is reckless behaviour is completely unwarranted and mostly the result of fear and taking the lies politicians and police tell to justify their revenue intake campaigns.
> It's more akin to being afraid of someone holding a gun.
Which is also irrational unless they are making threats or pointing it at you.
If you have these problems then please, for the sake of all of us, seek professional help. You will feel better when you have dealt with your emotional issues.
> Looks like some sociopath finally noticed that a slow security checkpoint just means there's an easy
>crowd in an unsecured area.
Maybe they should put a security checkppoint in front of the line to protect the people in the line?
> What little empathy I can muster for anyone in LA
I just take comfort in knowing how nice Arizona bay is going to be.
And if you have a relative or loved one drown, you might be afraid of water. If you had a loved one killed by a black person, you might fear black people.
That doesn't make your fear rational, it just means you are a human like the rest of us whose judgement can be clouded by emotion.
well if it is hard to detect, it could run for days, weeks, or even years at a time. I remember when people used to start downloads and then go do something else for a day while they waited. (less common these days but with slow VPNs and DVD images, it still happens)
Even a MB per day is a lot when you figure high value files tend to be on the smaller side. A quick ls -lRt of the majority of the RHEL box I am typing on now: 39 MB
Might take a day or two at those speeds, but with only a little intelligence you could reduce that size, especially if you do any processing on that box to reduce it. Once you have that, you can target specific files.
This is definitely reasonable as a covert tool.
> This would result in one branch of the government saying it is ok to do something while another
> says it isn't.
No it wouldn't: They could simply not say anything about the topic. Having no restriction is not the same as explicit allowance. The FCCs restrictions are still in place, were in place whether they said anything or not. However, it is not the FAAs job to really care about FCC compliance beyond airline equipment concerns.
Lifting their restriction really has no bearing on the FCC, whose restrictions are still in force and the FCC is welcome to enforce.
> It comes from a deep rooted belief that rules simply do not apply to them, that all rules are silly.
well you know, maybe people could use some exposure to good rules that are not silly. When all you are exposed to is the stupid, its easy to assume stupid is everywhere.
> but the FCC frequency allocations for some of the frequencies involved are land mobile only,
> not air mobile.
This kind of reminds me of reading RFC822 and seeing that it disallowed _ in mail server names, and then that it was dissallowed in DNS anyway.... like, why is SMTP codifying DNS? So if DNS changes its standard SMTP has to be updated? Seems silly.
I would think the right solution is to have no ban on them and tell the FCC to encforce their own regulations.
I look around at claims like that, and claims of systemic racism and it brings up a term that I didn't know was missing from my vocabulary until recently: Path Dependence
One observation that sticks out in my mind related to this: Children of middle class people who started their lives poor, are more likely to end up poor than middle class children whose parents started out in the middle class.
So, even if you make some sort of change that is supposed to help fix the inequality of opportunity, it doesn't mean you should expect equality of outcome to arise, because outcome is based on the previous conditions.
What am I getting at? I think things are significantly better for woman than are given credit by most statistics people use, because they keep comparing "woman vs man" where a better comparison would actually be to compare the derivatives of their average salary functions over time. That is, is the average pay for the average woman rising faster or slowe than the average man?
Now why I think things are better than we would expect is partially related to some other trends about changing gender roles. Traditionally we hear, and I even see it amongst some of my own peers at 35, that men prefer more docile women, and are threatened or uninterested in more assertive ones. However, there is some evidence that young men, in the age group that is just starting to think about girls, the stereotypes no longer apply, and those males are talking about wanting a woman who works, or even makes more money than they do.
Its not something thats going to show in equality of outcome statistics for maybe another generation after them, but, it may even be evidence of a flip to the other direction.
> By then I had gotten the pattern: they all get cute girls to try to get the geeks to buy their stuff.
And by the by, this is isn't the be all nor end all of what they do to get the geeks to buy their stuff either. At my previous company, before the bribery scandal, some things were just blatant. In fact, the vendors had us so good, only the new ones (like Rehat when we first were in talks with them) bothered with an attractive rep in a revealing dress.
The rest just funded our open bar Christmas party, invited us to free "conferences" which were basically sales pitches, gave us desk toy goodies, hell, even my current employer got in on the act with some of the non-it departments that used their software.
OTOH it wasn't ALL bad having these cozy relationships. I actually ended up out to lunch with a co-worker and the CEO of one of the companies whose software we used; and was able to get him to go back to my management and inform them of a few things that they wouldn't listen to me about. (seriously: "my management expects your software to do X" and he replies "Our software doesn't do that"... couple of weeks later "out of the blue" we have a project to fill that gap... after I had been trying to tell them for a year or more that their plan was flawed)
Fast forward a couple of years and getting taken out to lunch by vendors was forbidden, and we couldn't even accept pens.
Sure but then I might not get more of the same and I would miss my opportunity to warn others away and.... of course... cost them money.
So I actually mark ads for products I like as "against my views", that way, I wont have to see their ad, which is wasted on me anyway, and wont be costing them more money. Unlike the ones I dislike, who I make pay for the 'contact' they are making with me....and try to draw out more of that contact....so I can troll more.
And while we are on the topic of trolling of course, I need to remember more often to make sure my comments go off like anthrax spores in the John Hancock tower ventilation system as if they were delivering a mighty blow to the infidels and apostate.
(Dear Analyst: Why are you reading this when you should be serving the people and leaking information?)
I didn't enjoy it until I realized I was likely costing them money by doing it.
Its kind of like registering dislike for snail mail marketers by sending their business reply envelopes back with random scraps of paper in them.
Well, I am not saying it can't be done or you can't get away with it. I am just saying its a pretty bold move and one that a smart crook would realize is likely going to be tricky to pull off without too much risk of getting caught.
However, this case isn't really the same, i don't think. Check this part out:
If that is true, then while it doesn't rule out someone entering individual stores and tampering with equipment, it does make me think that this was not the attack vector. Sounds to me like its more likely they were compromised at a higher level and the devices were likely trojans before they ever arrived on site.
This, of course, makes me suspect someone at the company that services their cash register systems was involved in some way. I would suspect the payment processor (who, as I understand it, generally is the source of those pads, in fact, if I remember my wife's rants from when she used to work in that industry.... its quite a racket itself) but, then I would expect it to not be isolated to one chain..... but its all speculation.
Yes but I could pick another example, the nutrino and say it sounds like that too:
"In 1930 Wolfgang Pauli proposed a solution to the missing energy in nuclear beta decays, namely that it was carried by a neutral particle " ( http://www.ps.uci.edu/physics/news/nuexpt.html )
It makes perfect sense. You have theories that test to a high confidence in every way you can test them, then you find an anomaly in specific instances. Whats the response? Take those theories and attempt to narrow down the properties of what would cause the anomaly.
It obviously doesn't always produce a hypothesis that pans out as correct, but, can you really say that Aether theory was so bad? It was wrong, yes, but, it lead to the creation of experiments that answered new questions and ultimately, shaped the theories that came after it.
and...at the time... that is, after light was shown to be wave-like AND before we knew that there was no motion relative to its "medium", postulating Aether made a lot of sense.
This is exactly why I have taken the attitude I have: If I am the product then I will make sure they get what they paid for!
I mostly ignore the ads, but I look for the ones I "like", and by "like" I mean the ones that annoy me, or make me feel like they are dishonest or even just, giving out a messgage that I dislike. Then.... I comment on them.
The beauty of this? I hover over them... a lot, I click on them a lot, then I spew out trollish comments intended to convince people other than what the advertisement was shooting for. The beauty of this is,....it brings me more of the same kinds of ad, so I can take my hobby forward to the next round!
The "criminal justice schools" ads are the best, especially since they never remove comments or block anyone. The MA state lottory tried advertising to me, and they actually removed my comments and blocked me. Apparently they don't like being told that they lie about the odds (if a casino offers me a bet, pays that bet and taxes out taxes for the state, thats one thing... when the state does it themselves, they are actually fraudulently stating the payout, and thus the pot odds) or that even if they didn't their odds of wining are abysmal.
Have you been in a department store in the past 20 years? They have cameras like would give the DHS a year long stiffy, and a large portion of them are trained right on the registers. Hell, when I was last in a security room, and this was the mid 90s, the Security folks could watch the video and pull up the real time transaction log to watch while watching the video.
They tend to get upity about people they don't know about touching cash registers too. Though, maybe you could go unnoticed, they also seldom tell you up front "we keep our security footage for 10 days" so its not like you can be sure that you were not recorded doing it.