That may be true. However, when you're writing a message calling out grammatical errors in something written by someone else, you should reread it before sending to avoid Muphry's Law. And yes, I reread this post several times but that doesn't guarantee I avoided Muphry's Law myself.
That's a bit scary. Did you try telling Turbo Tax that you were William Gates and that you worked for Microsoft, just to see what he would have to pay? Hopefully that would require you to put in his SSN, but it would be REALLY bad if it didn't.
1) Create hundreds or thousands of throwaway email accounts. 2) Subscribe all those accounts to your target's mailing list. 3) Watch as your target has to spend a significant amount of money sending "Thank you for subscribing" emails and daily/weekly/monthly messages. 4) ??? 5) Profit?... perhaps not.
What I think could work would be an escrow system. When you sign up for your ISP account, you put some amount of money (say $20) in escrow with your ISP. After a certain period of time subscribed to your ISP with no black marks (say 3 months or so) that money is returned to you. However, if your account is terminated due to violation of the TOS, you lose that money. This addresses the problem at a local level (the ISP), ISPs can opt-in if they want (although other ISPs could then delay delivery of email from ISPs that don't use the system while they check it for spamminess), and it uses a capability the ISPs already have (their billing department.) To avoid abuse (ISP: "Oh, yeah, you um broke the rules. Sorry, we get your money.") we use the existing safeguards against bad business behavior, up to and including lawsuits if necessary.
It wouldn't _stop_ spammers, but it would make it more expensive and/or time consuming to spam, and that might be enough to cut out
1) If you are not eligible to vote for a candidate, you are not allowed to donate money to them. 2) There is a maximum amount you are allowed to donate to a candidate for their campaign for a position with a given title. That means if Senator Bob is running for his second term as Senator from Anystate, the contribution a person gave him for his first term reduce the amount of money they can give him this time. But if Senator Bob runs for President, even a person who gave their maximum contribution to his Senate campaigns can donate that much again to his Presidential campaign.
Nope, just a few months to assemble the basic building blocks into an egg, about 9 months and a couple thousand dollars for a surrogate, $AGE_OF_CONSENT years for maturity, and then preventative maintenance from then on to fix minor defects as they arise.
Just make sure you use protection... after all, you wouldn't want to catch or pass on a virus. That will also help you avoid having to support child processes that can use up a LOT of resources.
So who gets to decide what should be on that test? From the Wikipedia entry, I think it's under consideration whether or not such a test would be a violation of the 24th Amendment.
How much surface area does Japan have available to place these solar panels? Wikipedia says it's 145,883 sq mi (smaller than 4 states in the US) and that "About 70% to 80% of the country is forested, mountainous, and unsuitable for agricultural, industrial, or residential use." There's also the fact that Japan is part of the Ring of Fire. I'm not sure of the wisdom in setting up lots of (relatively speaking) fragile solar panels in an area prone to earthquakes.
In addition, deploying solar stations in orbit will give us experience in space construction above and beyond what we've already developed building the ISS. As we develop new techniques, we should be able to reduce the cost of building in space, which could come in handy in the future.
"Everyone knows our competitors' ROT-0 encryption is easy to break. It's got a 0 in it so it must be useless garbage. If you want heavy-duty encryption at an affordable cost, use our SIX-round ROT-13 encryption system that's guaranteed to keep your data safe or your money back(*). Call now and we'll upgrade you to our professional heavy-duty first-class TWELVE ROUND ROT-13 system for only $5 more! That's double the rounds, so it's got to be better, right?"
[in 2-point font] (*) Money-back guarantee comes with a 15% restocking charge, a 25% shipping and handling fee, a 30% Federal September 11th surcharge, and a 30% "No fraud laws here, sucker!" tariff.
Not everyone will be sick, but people will be expected/told to/required to stay home to avoid spreading the flu. Naturally, businesses whose employees can work from home will expect people who are home but not sick to work while they're home -- and that's what the GAO is worried about.
Answers to question 1: Because they're lazy. Because their kids/family members are lazy. Because they want it now.
Answers to question 2: Who said anything about the media groups complaining about the MP's and Ministers? Unless there's some clause in the law about the statements being made under penalty of perjury, what's to stop someone from falsely accusing the politicians? Even if there was a perjury clause, pay a homeless person $10 (or the equivalent in Euros) to file the complaints. What are they going to do, throw them in jail and give them 3 square meals a day? Oh, the horror!
... out of a cannon, through a flaming hoop, and into a net... placed approximately 3 inches above a pool with hungry sharks (frickin' laser beams optional)?
If they showed that on Pay-Per-View they might actually be able to raise enough money to repay (I'd originally written "pay off") everyone they owe.
But please, won't SOMEONE think of the lawmakers' political campaigns? If they didn't have laws like this to point to and say "Yes, I supported legislation that makes our kids safer", how would they get reelected? [And no, brib^H^H^H^Hcampaign contributions is not an accepted answer to the latter question.]
If you interpret "link" to mean "hyperlink", yes this wouldn't work for media other than the web.
If you interpret "link" to mean some way to access the original, I think "Send a SASE [self-addressed stamped envelope] to 'Ralph Lauren Cover Photo, P.O. Box 12345, Hollywood CA 67890'" in small print at the bottom of the photo would be the TV/Magazine/Newspaper equivalent of a hyperlink.
Unless the police figure out where the cameras are and "take care of things" before the "incident" occurs or move 10 feet into a camera blind spot.
How long do you think it's going to be before someone puts out a bounty on these cameras? After all, (paintball gun + iPhone + a little spatial reasoning = cash) => (lots of cameras with their lenses covered by paint)
In one of the first episodes, didn't Carter or Jackson realize that the gate addresses needed to be adjusted to take into consideration galactic movement, etc? Checking, I see this Wikipedia article confirming that Carter needed to program the computers to account for stellar drift.
Maybe there were other ships similar to Destiny launched from other Ancient-inhabited planets and the 9th chevron indicates to which of those long-term exploration ships you wish to travel (with the symbol they tried first corresponding to a ship that had been destroyed or a planet that had not launched such a ship)? Alternately, the image of Destiny's route seemed to show all the legs going in more or less the same general direction -- maybe the Earth symbol in this context meant "the ship traveling that way/to that location"?
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I have no idea what private industry could possibly do (warning: video) with the technology for inflatable buildings.
That may be true. However, when you're writing a message calling out grammatical errors in something written by someone else, you should reread it before sending to avoid Muphry's Law. And yes, I reread this post several times but that doesn't guarantee I avoided Muphry's Law myself.
That's a bit scary. Did you try telling Turbo Tax that you were William Gates and that you worked for Microsoft, just to see what he would have to pay? Hopefully that would require you to put in his SSN, but it would be REALLY bad if it didn't.
1) Create hundreds or thousands of throwaway email accounts. ... perhaps not.
2) Subscribe all those accounts to your target's mailing list.
3) Watch as your target has to spend a significant amount of money sending "Thank you for subscribing" emails and daily/weekly/monthly messages.
4) ???
5) Profit?
What I think could work would be an escrow system. When you sign up for your ISP account, you put some amount of money (say $20) in escrow with your ISP. After a certain period of time subscribed to your ISP with no black marks (say 3 months or so) that money is returned to you. However, if your account is terminated due to violation of the TOS, you lose that money. This addresses the problem at a local level (the ISP), ISPs can opt-in if they want (although other ISPs could then delay delivery of email from ISPs that don't use the system while they check it for spamminess), and it uses a capability the ISPs already have (their billing department.) To avoid abuse (ISP: "Oh, yeah, you um broke the rules. Sorry, we get your money.") we use the existing safeguards against bad business behavior, up to and including lawsuits if necessary.
It wouldn't _stop_ spammers, but it would make it more expensive and/or time consuming to spam, and that might be enough to cut out
I've got a different suggestion, two rules:
1) If you are not eligible to vote for a candidate, you are not allowed to donate money to them.
2) There is a maximum amount you are allowed to donate to a candidate for their campaign for a position with a given title. That means if Senator Bob is running for his second term as Senator from Anystate, the contribution a person gave him for his first term reduce the amount of money they can give him this time. But if Senator Bob runs for President, even a person who gave their maximum contribution to his Senate campaigns can donate that much again to his Presidential campaign.
Nope, just a few months to assemble the basic building blocks into an egg, about 9 months and a couple thousand dollars for a surrogate, $AGE_OF_CONSENT years for maturity, and then preventative maintenance from then on to fix minor defects as they arise.
Why waste the liquid nitrogen? Stick it outside the ISS for a second to freeze it.
Just make sure you use protection ... after all, you wouldn't want to catch or pass on a virus. That will also help you avoid having to support child processes that can use up a LOT of resources.
So who gets to decide what should be on that test? From the Wikipedia entry, I think it's under consideration whether or not such a test would be a violation of the 24th Amendment.
They already ruined your fun. June 17, 2009's episode "Car vs. Rain" had the Build Team investigate popping popcorn via laser.
Let's just hope Santa complies with all the safety regulations ...
That's what Purgatory is for.
How much surface area does Japan have available to place these solar panels? Wikipedia says it's 145,883 sq mi (smaller than 4 states in the US) and that "About 70% to 80% of the country is forested, mountainous, and unsuitable for agricultural, industrial, or residential use." There's also the fact that Japan is part of the Ring of Fire. I'm not sure of the wisdom in setting up lots of (relatively speaking) fragile solar panels in an area prone to earthquakes.
In addition, deploying solar stations in orbit will give us experience in space construction above and beyond what we've already developed building the ISS. As we develop new techniques, we should be able to reduce the cost of building in space, which could come in handy in the future.
I can see the informercial now.
"Everyone knows our competitors' ROT-0 encryption is easy to break. It's got a 0 in it so it must be useless garbage. If you want heavy-duty encryption at an affordable cost, use our SIX-round ROT-13 encryption system that's guaranteed to keep your data safe or your money back(*). Call now and we'll upgrade you to our professional heavy-duty first-class TWELVE ROUND ROT-13 system for only $5 more! That's double the rounds, so it's got to be better, right?"
[in 2-point font] (*) Money-back guarantee comes with a 15% restocking charge, a 25% shipping and handling fee, a 30% Federal September 11th surcharge, and a 30% "No fraud laws here, sucker!" tariff.
Not everyone will be sick, but people will be expected/told to/required to stay home to avoid spreading the flu. Naturally, businesses whose employees can work from home will expect people who are home but not sick to work while they're home -- and that's what the GAO is worried about.
Answers to question 1: Because they're lazy. Because their kids/family members are lazy. Because they want it now.
Answers to question 2: Who said anything about the media groups complaining about the MP's and Ministers? Unless there's some clause in the law about the statements being made under penalty of perjury, what's to stop someone from falsely accusing the politicians? Even if there was a perjury clause, pay a homeless person $10 (or the equivalent in Euros) to file the complaints. What are they going to do, throw them in jail and give them 3 square meals a day? Oh, the horror!
If they showed that on Pay-Per-View they might actually be able to raise enough money to repay (I'd originally written "pay off") everyone they owe.
It could be worse. Three words: Jack Thompson, Scientologist.
The suicide bombers missed one important piece of fine print -- nobody said the virgins were nubile young women, did they?
But please, won't SOMEONE think of the lawmakers' political campaigns? If they didn't have laws like this to point to and say "Yes, I supported legislation that makes our kids safer", how would they get reelected? [And no, brib^H^H^H^Hcampaign contributions is not an accepted answer to the latter question.]
Of course we do.
If you interpret "link" to mean "hyperlink", yes this wouldn't work for media other than the web.
If you interpret "link" to mean some way to access the original, I think "Send a SASE [self-addressed stamped envelope] to 'Ralph Lauren Cover Photo, P.O. Box 12345, Hollywood CA 67890'" in small print at the bottom of the photo would be the TV/Magazine/Newspaper equivalent of a hyperlink.
Unless the police figure out where the cameras are and "take care of things" before the "incident" occurs or move 10 feet into a camera blind spot.
How long do you think it's going to be before someone puts out a bounty on these cameras? After all, (paintball gun + iPhone + a little spatial reasoning = cash) => (lots of cameras with their lenses covered by paint)
In one of the first episodes, didn't Carter or Jackson realize that the gate addresses needed to be adjusted to take into consideration galactic movement, etc? Checking, I see this Wikipedia article confirming that Carter needed to program the computers to account for stellar drift.
Maybe there were other ships similar to Destiny launched from other Ancient-inhabited planets and the 9th chevron indicates to which of those long-term exploration ships you wish to travel (with the symbol they tried first corresponding to a ship that had been destroyed or a planet that had not launched such a ship)? Alternately, the image of Destiny's route seemed to show all the legs going in more or less the same general direction -- maybe the Earth symbol in this context meant "the ship traveling that way/to that location"?