Crackerjacks, this gets scarier the more I look at it.
"Let's trash the car you own, give you $3000 for it, urge you to buy... er, *plan* to buy a nice cheaper $8,000 2005 model or so... in the worst economy slump in 7 years!"
"Sure! Hi ho, Hi ho its off to... uh... where do I go again to pay for this?"::Crickets::
With all of these "clunkers" being turned in, does that hose the owners of inventory stock in repair parts for said clunkers? Salvage yards, Joe's Auto Fixin' and the rest?
Of the 75% comments above yours I perused, you're the first (maybe second?) to mention the insurance factor! These old "clunkers" insure for far cheaper because some insurance companies bury subsidies into their rates for the collision coverage even if you don't have it.
So if your clunker is some 1983 Buick Cutlass or something, it's way cheaper to insure than a spicy new-ish $17,000 2006 model. I'm guessing some $400 per year! There goes your voucher.
Yep. This is another handout merged with a "forced buy" clause like a store credit gift card. It can't be great economics to trash working pieces of utility just for some borderline improvements in mileage dollar savings. (Oh look, the price of gas dropped from $4.70/gallon to say $1.80 or lower depending on your area.)
You're joking, but it just goes - embed your reminder in a wall o' noise and no one will care and still can't find it if they do.
Things like using your pizza gift card serial number backwards. Good news! You just replace it every month! Who said Yum could only be a package manager? Now you can have a Yummy password!
I have promoted some takedown of the "fear mentality" that's crept up lately. When we had this discussion once at work, I said "We're just not that interesting for the world class guys. You guys *watched* me log in and you don't recall my password. It's fine."
While yours is visually too easy, a mnemonic pattern is a great source of passwords that are elemtarily robust to cold attacks. If someone in the glass office decides it's worth going hyper about it, get one of those pass-cards with the synched changing password you just look at and type. Oh right - then you have to manage those.
There has to be some spread by area. My main exposure to the classical RIAA model was mall music stores, and not counting the special 10 discounted loss leaders of the week, "average" price was easily $15-17. (Gotta love those.99 pennies!)
Except huge swaths of doctors are *not* in good health at all. In the "Physician, Heal Thyself", department, they get tricked by HMO politics and overwork, sometimes trashing their diet, too fatigued to exercise, and as mentioned elsewhere, possibly even living on borrowed time just trying to keep going. One of my doctors was in this category.
I found an issue originally as it applies to free webhosts, but would probably apply to all the companies the other article says are gonna croak by 2010.
Step 1. "Register with your full real information! We need this info because we're gonna micropay you for _____." (Sorta true - they would need a mechanism to transfer actual payments. Assume they are legit and not a Nigerian scam.)
Step 2. "Bah, we know we never had a business plan, so we're gonna shut down."
Step 3. "Oh look, we just chucked our assets for $1000 on ebay without actually taking care to secure them. Now someone has your info."
Do you think they're hoping that if they compile enough consecutive legal errors, then 13 wrongs will add up to a right and then they're hoping they'll win?
"A system whih can dispose of soiled water while retaining life forms which possess at least one million cells and in the primate kingdom. This has the side effect of also assisting singers with primate pets from losing them too."
However you missed my Burlesque satire: "Although a convention would have been required, such requirements have been suspended under the PATRIOT act because such an upheaval cannot be allowed in this time of crisis. If you need more, we'll get a secret court to declare this legal."
"My mother was a prototype from an AI lab and gained all the lexical parsing rules and dictionaries. My father was a real-time self modifying system born out of the cyber wars. It's the unification of both that made me possible."
So some Terrorist could live inside a locked school broom closet for years hosting hacking stuff! Who'd ever accuse a school of Not Thinking Of Children??
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Crackerjacks, this gets scarier the more I look at it.
"Let's trash the car you own, give you $3000 for it, urge you to buy ... er, *plan* to buy a nice cheaper $8,000 2005 model or so... in the worst economy slump in 7 years!"
"Sure! Hi ho, Hi ho its off to ... uh... where do I go again to pay for this?" ::Crickets::
Damn Mr. AC, you found another one.
With all of these "clunkers" being turned in, does that hose the owners of inventory stock in repair parts for said clunkers? Salvage yards, Joe's Auto Fixin' and the rest?
You are a winner sir!
Of the 75% comments above yours I perused, you're the first (maybe second?) to mention the insurance factor! These old "clunkers" insure for far cheaper because some insurance companies bury subsidies into their rates for the collision coverage even if you don't have it.
So if your clunker is some 1983 Buick Cutlass or something, it's way cheaper to insure than a spicy new-ish $17,000 2006 model. I'm guessing some $400 per year! There goes your voucher.
Yep. This is another handout merged with a "forced buy" clause like a store credit gift card. It can't be great economics to trash working pieces of utility just for some borderline improvements in mileage dollar savings. (Oh look, the price of gas dropped from $4.70/gallon to say $1.80 or lower depending on your area.)
You're joking, but it just goes - embed your reminder in a wall o' noise and no one will care and still can't find it if they do.
Things like using your pizza gift card serial number backwards. Good news! You just replace it every month!
Who said Yum could only be a package manager? Now you can have a Yummy password!
Great tip! I'll remember those!
Maybe I can return the favor.
I have promoted some takedown of the "fear mentality" that's crept up lately. When we had this discussion once at work, I said "We're just not that interesting for the world class guys. You guys *watched* me log in and you don't recall my password. It's fine."
While yours is visually too easy, a mnemonic pattern is a great source of passwords that are elemtarily robust to cold attacks. If someone in the glass office decides it's worth going hyper about it, get one of those pass-cards with the synched changing password you just look at and type. Oh right - then you have to manage those.
Yea, this one is true.
It's a little sneaky though. People go gung ho the first four months, because "we're being more secure".
Then some six months in it all starts to blur, and people wipe out.
"What was my password this month... was it xQlaTira? or that other one, YumNioxica? Aw hell, let's just reset it to my cat's name."
Actually, they do.
It's a new kind of "hip prop", saying "haha, look at me I'm old because I've been too bsuy cutting deals to go to school for this stuff..."
His figure is suspiciously close to the amount of Monopoly money that $400 can by in copies of the game with your $400 of REAL money.
The Italians tried that hyperinflation thing once.
No one likes what it became, but it does have to exist because band members can't usually negotiate all the externals. In comes the Band Manager.
So far, so good. But American business likes to accordion between consolidating and spinoffs.
Is that design a colossal Moebius Strip?
There has to be some spread by area. My main exposure to the classical RIAA model was mall music stores, and not counting the special 10 discounted loss leaders of the week, "average" price was easily $15-17. (Gotta love those .99 pennies!)
Except huge swaths of doctors are *not* in good health at all. In the "Physician, Heal Thyself", department, they get tricked by HMO politics and overwork, sometimes trashing their diet, too fatigued to exercise, and as mentioned elsewhere, possibly even living on borrowed time just trying to keep going. One of my doctors was in this category.
I found an issue originally as it applies to free webhosts, but would probably apply to all the companies the other article says are gonna croak by 2010.
Step 1. "Register with your full real information! We need this info because we're gonna micropay you for _____ ." (Sorta true - they would need a mechanism to transfer actual payments. Assume they are legit and not a Nigerian scam.)
Step 2. "Bah, we know we never had a business plan, so we're gonna shut down."
Step 3. "Oh look, we just chucked our assets for $1000 on ebay without actually taking care to secure them. Now someone has your info."
Hi Ray.
Do you think they're hoping that if they compile enough consecutive legal errors, then 13 wrongs will add up to a right and then they're hoping they'll win?
"A system whih can dispose of soiled water while retaining life forms which possess at least one million cells and in the primate kingdom. This has the side effect of also assisting singers with primate pets from losing them too."
If you can't read slashdot, complain that ubuntu won't run MS Word so then you can't get a degree?
And before you put anything into your computer you'll pay extra to be sure it's better than Good Enough.
I think my analogy stands.
But if you need another example, check out the web hosting industry. Or the big ISP's. Or the Telcos.
"Seem".
However you missed my Burlesque satire:
"Although a convention would have been required, such requirements have been suspended under the PATRIOT act because such an upheaval cannot be allowed in this time of crisis. If you need more, we'll get a secret court to declare this legal."
... but FISA experts smell a logical legal loop paradox brewing.
Someone alert Douglas Hofstadter!
Yep, that famous formula for Funny - inverting clauses.
Bogusize website, Register OO for real ... because usually (!) the program itself isn't hacked (yet).
You know both the men and the women will be eaten by the grue.
Both.
With semi-apologies to certain TV shows,
"My mother was a prototype from an AI lab and gained all the lexical parsing rules and dictionaries. My father was a real-time self modifying system born out of the cyber wars. It's the unification of both that made me possible."
Thats's awesome!
So some Terrorist could live inside a locked school broom closet for years hosting hacking stuff! Who'd ever accuse a school of Not Thinking Of Children??
Even if it is not legal in the US, I bet someone will try it, and then it will simply cost too much to "solve" the right way.
Jack Thompson?
"I am disbarred but too sneaky to go away."