Banks around here require "two forms of ID" when cashing a check if you don't have an account at that bank. A credit card is always accepted as one of the IDs.
That doesn't necessarily make a credit card a legal ID, but OTOH, banks are unlikely to so commonly do something so illegal...hmm...
Unsigned Cards While checking card security features, you should also make sure that the card is signed. An unsigned card is considered invalid and should not be accepted. If a customer gives you an unsigned card, the following steps must be taken:
Check the cardholders ID. Ask the cardholder for some form of official government identification, such as a drivers license or passport. Where permissible by law, the ID serial number and expiration date should be written on the sales receipt before you complete the transaction.
Ask the customer to sign the card. The card should be signed within your full view, and the signature checked against the customers signature on the ID. A refusal to sign means the card is still invalid and cannot be accepted. Ask the customer for another signed Visa card.
Compare the signature on the card to the signature on the ID. If the cardholder refuses to sign the card, and you accept it, you may end up with financial liability for the transaction should the cardholder later dispute the charge.
See ID Some customers write See ID or Ask for ID in the signature panel, thinking that this is a deterrent against fraud or forgery; that is, if their signature is not on the card, a fraudster will not be able to forge it. In reality, criminals dont take the time to practice signatures: they use cards as quickly as possible after a theft and prior to the accounts being blocked. They are actually counting on you not to look at the back of the card and compare signaturesthey may even have access to counterfeit identification with a signature in their own handwriting. See ID or Ask for ID is not a valid substitute for a signature. The customer must sign the card in your presence, as stated above.
Requesting Cardholder ID When should you ask a cardholder for an official government ID? In most cases, merchants may not ask for an ID as part of their regular card acceptance procedures, either when a valid card is first presented or to complete a sale. Laws in several states also make it illegal for merchants to write a cardholder's personal information, such as an address or phone number, on a sales receipt.
You may ask for an official government ID or other personal information whenever you are suspicious about a card or a transaction. If the cardholder refuses the request or you are still suspicious, make a Code 10 call.
That doesn't say you must seize the card if it's presented unsigned or signed "ask for id", but it does say to not accept it. Further, it even says merchants are disallowed from asking for ID...huh. I guess I'll sign my damned card now.
Ronnie Van Zant is from Lynyrd Skynyrd. He's dead now.
The band Van Zant is his brothers doing a southern rock sort of sound that gets played on country radio. The title track from the album is a good song IMO, but I guess I won't be hearing much of the rest of the album.
More relevantly, the Flying Spaghetti Monster, Allah, Jehova, Menbari, Plain Old God, or Steve Gutenberg could do the creating through...evolution! Is there somewhere in the bible that says:
God created everything by snapping his fingers and saying "abracadabra", and you must take that literally. It is not a metaphor for anything, nor a simplification for easy consumption by your currently simple understanding, even though in about 2000 years folks will start to understand in more detail how God did it. This paragraph is being presented to you in 263 languages, including some that don't exist yet, so that nothing can be lost in translation for thousands of years yet...
Why can't God use effective tools such as evolution? Is it necessary for God to imagine stuff and it suddenly, immediately (even on OUR time scale) pops into existance?
I find people on both major sides of this argument to have their minds so very closed.
However, as far as teaching it in school...it is a religion, just like every other religion, and should be taught in a class where other religions are taught. To teach it elsewhere would be teaching a specific religion as more or less important than others, which is a Very Bad Idea.
Science classes are where one is taught what mainstream scientists are doing, which includes evolution, the observational approach to determining the mechanics involved in creation.
That book was written 2000 years ago, by people from that time (people, BTW, who were not JC himself but his friends and friends' friends), for people who weren't even literate, let alone able to understand advanced concepts such as hygiene or evolution.
With the advancement of science, as well as the advancement of the intelligence and cognizance (sic?) of the general population, we are in a position to understand stuff better. Why must religion remain in the same state it was 2000 years ago, and not advance with the rest of society? And why must people (on both sides) believe that accepting science means rejecting religion?
Because if he does, then he can't pull comments about rpms out of his ass anymore.
Sorry, I don't have a Millennium Year Application Software System.
source,.deb,.tgz all have dependencies as well, and trying to install only _one_ package withouth the dependency will fail.
I was under the (obviously mistaken) impression that the purpose of a package management system was to automatically install dependencies so the user doesn't need to.
Your upgrade problem sounds like an rpm issue, not something particular to gaim (although I've never used gaim). I've always compiled everything from source, but recently decided to join the modern world during a distro change; I'm using SuSE and can't seem to get the hang of rpms.
Half of the rpms I try to install have conflicts or dependency errors that shouldn't be; also, isn't the rpm installer supposed to chase those dependencies for me? Most of the time, the error info given to me by the tool is inconsistent; on one line, it will say that it depends on foobar v2.3, and on the next, it will say that it conflicts with foobar v2.3...
Now I give up quickly and just compile from source.
My biggest problem with the v710 (apart from the issue at hand) is the power connector. It's the same connector that worked fine for years on my v60i, but on this phone, it's only intermittently functional. I often have a dead phone because it wouldn't charge.
On reading the term "microdistros", I just realized...linux is like beer! You've got your Budweiser (redhat), Miller (mandrake), Heinekein (suse), a million lesser celebrated brands, and a million microbrews...
I wonder how many people will be happy waiting for some huge word processor applet to download to work on a document.
That's the beauty of an idea like this -- it's not necessary to download the whole word processor (or spreadsheet or whatever) with all it's bloat. When the user clicks on a feature that hasn't been downloaded, it can then be downloaded, or even proccessed server-side. Meanwhile, anything that can run a decent browser can run the latest office suite.
Somehow, I don't think Hitler was under the impression that he was playing a harmless video game when he tried to exterminate my ancestors. From the wiki:
Card entered the fray and responded in the same issue of Fantasy Review, claiming that this was an attack, and that no such parallel could reasonably be drawn because Ender kills unknowingly, while this can't possibly be said about Hitler.
Ender, meanwhile, got so pissed off at the school that he decided to cheat at the "game" so they would throw him out. He was trying to get out when he committed his xenocide.
As far as Stilson and the other jerk he killed in self defense, they got justice -- even if you think their punishment was too harsh, they're definitely the guilty parties. This isn't the questionable morality found in a drunk driver's excuse for killing a bicyclist. It's not a matter of Ender's intent being used as an excuse -- even though it's the only way he can justify it to himself. The truth is that they chose to enter a battle to the death with him, fully expecting to kill him, rather than to be killed by him.
Sorry, theorize all you want, but Ender fails to be eqivelant in any way to Hitler.
Because this is a neato satellite-free system. Also, because (maybe) it can be done entirely in software on existing hardware. From TFA:
Despite these efforts, building and deploying location-aware applications that are usable by a wide variety of people in everyday situations is arguably no easier now than it was ten years ago. First and foremost, current location systems do not work where people spend most of their time; coverage in current systems is either constrained to outdoor environments or limited to a particular building or campus with installed sensing infrastructure. Applications like location-aware instant messaging fall flat if they only work for a fraction of users or only during a fraction of a user's day.
Second, existing location technologies have a high cost of entry to both users and application developers. Many location systems require expensive infrastructure, time-consuming calibration, or special tags, beacons, and sensors. The privacy cost to the many stakeholders is also typically ignored or considered only after deployment.
Maybe it can be combined with GPS for better accuracy, too.
Will there be a Windows Driver? If there isn't, this has no chance on taking off.
Yes, that's why I only use FAT filesystems on my Linux server.
You're probably joking, but fyi... There's at least one driver for mounting ext2 fs in windows: ext2fsd. If you don't need to mount it, explore2fs works well too.
It was DoubleSpace, in dos 6.0. It was a compression program that made a compressed FAT filesystem in a file on a regular FAT, and loop mounted it as c: (I've applied some terminology that may not have existed back then, and either way isn't normally used in a MS OS context). You could almost do the same thing in unix as follows (semi-fake code follows for explanatory purposes only): mkdosfs -C dblspc.bin [sizeof(/dev/hda1)-5mb) gzip dblspc.bin > dblspc.bin.gz mount -o loop dblspc.bin.gz / mount/dev/hda1/uncompressed
dos 6.2 brought the less terrible DriveSpace. It was still terrible.
I can't remember what minor stuff dos 6.22 brought, but that upgrade was free for download if you wanted to wait hours at 2400 baud...
Pardon my obvious post-placement, trying to get this near the top and visible, but I suspect this is an important question for people to see, assuming answers are posted:
What is the practical upshot of all this? Is the damage limited to the "Give us nuclear rights" web defacement, or was that just a front to make people think nothing else was damaged?
I'm running SuSe 9.3, and this morning, I let the automated update program do it's thing. Did I download and install any breached files?
TFA don't say anything. One is dead already, and the other is useless.
I mean, I understand that there's a lot to discuss regarding security policies and server operating systems, but there are people who could be immediately affected here.
Substituting 100% biodiesel (B100) for petroleum diesel in buses reduces the life cycle consumption of petroleum by 95%. This benefit is proportionate with the blend level of biodiesel used. When a 20% blend of biodiesel and petroleum diesel (B20) is used as a substitute for petroleum diesel in urban buses, the life cycle consumption of petroleum drops 19%.
In our study, we found that the production processes for biodiesel and petroleum diesel are almost identical in their efficiency of converting a raw energy source (in this case, petroleum and soybean oil) into a fuel product.
Biodiesel yields 3.2 units of fuel product energy for every unit of fossil energy consumed in its life cycle. The production of B20 yields 0.98 units of fuel product energy for every unit of fossil energy consumed.
By contrast, petroleum diesels life cycle yields only 0.83 units of fuel product energy per unit of fossil energy consumed.
According to that particular study, biodiesel production is more efficient than dino-diesel production.
Wow! If your Prius ran on vitriol, you'd never pay for fuel.
While biodiesel production uses some fuel, it could be fueled by...biodiesel. And besides, are you telling me that no fuel is used in production and delivery of dino fuels?
French fry grease is not necessary. Plain, unused vegetable oil can be made into biodiesel, and with a little less effort than used oil. Considering that the US government currently pays farmers not to farm their land, I can imagine some sources of additional vegetable oil.
where are you going to fill-up your bio-diesel vehicle if you are on an out-of-town trip?
I imagine he plans to fill up at any old ubiquitous diesel station when biodiesel is unavailable.
I'll just poke a couple extra batteries in the trunk of my Prius, put a solar charger on it, and drive for free with ZERO emissions.
Somehow I doubt that Toyota would have stopped where they are if they could have kept going with so little effort and produced the holy grail, a reasonable solar car.
I agree about product lifespan -- everybody I know (myself included) loses patience when the cost of keeping a car up exceeds the cost of replacing it (or sooner), which is not usually due to engine failure.
I looked up the torque spec on your Prius. You're right with that impressive number, but you don't mention the important fact about electric motor torque -- it's at it's highest at 0 rpm. The amount of time I cared to spend googling did not yield a torque curve chart, but I'd be interested to see how much torque you get as it spools up and the car's speed increases.
Seeing as how we have limited supplies of dinosaur juice, and reasonable replacements for almost every use other than gasoline, I personally think we ought to use alternatives everywhere, and save the dinosaur juice for existing gas cars. New vehicles can, AFAIK, be built for ethanol easily enough.
My diesel can out accelerate most gas cars and can tow much higher loads as a result.
AC, care to tell the rest of us what model you drive? I asked this question elsewhere in this thread, looking for a high-acceleration diesel car.
As far as towing, gas vehicles with reasonable engines tend to be limited in their towing ability by non-acceleration concerns -- stability and handling (braking is provided by trailer brakes).
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Banks around here require "two forms of ID" when cashing a check if you don't have an account at that bank. A credit card is always accepted as one of the IDs.
That doesn't necessarily make a credit card a legal ID, but OTOH, banks are unlikely to so commonly do something so illegal...hmm...
From http://usa.visa.com/download/business/accepting_v
That doesn't say you must seize the card if it's presented unsigned or signed "ask for id", but it does say to not accept it. Further, it even says merchants are disallowed from asking for ID...huh. I guess I'll sign my damned card now.
Ronnie Van Zant is from Lynyrd Skynyrd. He's dead now.
The band Van Zant is his brothers doing a southern rock sort of sound that gets played on country radio. The title track from the album is a good song IMO, but I guess I won't be hearing much of the rest of the album.
Was "The State" that show with the guy who said "I want to dip my balls in it"?
More relevantly, the Flying Spaghetti Monster, Allah, Jehova, Menbari, Plain Old God, or Steve Gutenberg could do the creating through...evolution! Is there somewhere in the bible that says:
God created everything by snapping his fingers and saying "abracadabra", and you must take that literally. It is not a metaphor for anything, nor a simplification for easy consumption by your currently simple understanding, even though in about 2000 years folks will start to understand in more detail how God did it. This paragraph is being presented to you in 263 languages, including some that don't exist yet, so that nothing can be lost in translation for thousands of years yet...
Why can't God use effective tools such as evolution? Is it necessary for God to imagine stuff and it suddenly, immediately (even on OUR time scale) pops into existance?
I find people on both major sides of this argument to have their minds so very closed.
However, as far as teaching it in school...it is a religion, just like every other religion, and should be taught in a class where other religions are taught. To teach it elsewhere would be teaching a specific religion as more or less important than others, which is a Very Bad Idea.
Science classes are where one is taught what mainstream scientists are doing, which includes evolution, the observational approach to determining the mechanics involved in creation.
That book was written 2000 years ago, by people from that time (people, BTW, who were not JC himself but his friends and friends' friends), for people who weren't even literate, let alone able to understand advanced concepts such as hygiene or evolution.
With the advancement of science, as well as the advancement of the intelligence and cognizance (sic?) of the general population, we are in a position to understand stuff better. Why must religion remain in the same state it was 2000 years ago, and not advance with the rest of society? And why must people (on both sides) believe that accepting science means rejecting religion?
Hmm..Journalist....
Doesn't it have something to do with fail-safe filesystems?
I am using yast, specifically because I thought it would "take care of all the problems". Are there other rpm tools in SuSE?
Your upgrade problem sounds like an rpm issue, not something particular to gaim (although I've never used gaim). I've always compiled everything from source, but recently decided to join the modern world during a distro change; I'm using SuSE and can't seem to get the hang of rpms.
Half of the rpms I try to install have conflicts or dependency errors that shouldn't be; also, isn't the rpm installer supposed to chase those dependencies for me? Most of the time, the error info given to me by the tool is inconsistent; on one line, it will say that it depends on foobar v2.3, and on the next, it will say that it conflicts with foobar v2.3...
Now I give up quickly and just compile from source.
My biggest problem with the v710 (apart from the issue at hand) is the power connector. It's the same connector that worked fine for years on my v60i, but on this phone, it's only intermittently functional. I often have a dead phone because it wouldn't charge.
On reading the term "microdistros", I just realized...linux is like beer! You've got your Budweiser (redhat), Miller (mandrake), Heinekein (suse), a million lesser celebrated brands, and a million microbrews...
ProCD telephone directory. Replaced by a million phone directory websites.
Well, we can already make diesel out of nearly any kind of oil extracted from nearly any biological material...
As far as Stilson and the other jerk he killed in self defense, they got justice -- even if you think their punishment was too harsh, they're definitely the guilty parties. This isn't the questionable morality found in a drunk driver's excuse for killing a bicyclist. It's not a matter of Ender's intent being used as an excuse -- even though it's the only way he can justify it to himself. The truth is that they chose to enter a battle to the death with him, fully expecting to kill him, rather than to be killed by him.
Sorry, theorize all you want, but Ender fails to be eqivelant in any way to Hitler.
It was DoubleSpace, in dos 6.0. It was a compression program that made a compressed FAT filesystem in a file on a regular FAT, and loop mounted it as c: (I've applied some terminology that may not have existed back then, and either way isn't normally used in a MS OS context). You could almost do the same thing in unix as follows (semi-fake code follows for explanatory purposes only): /dev/hda1 /uncompressed
mkdosfs -C dblspc.bin [sizeof(/dev/hda1)-5mb)
gzip dblspc.bin > dblspc.bin.gz
mount -o loop dblspc.bin.gz /
mount
dos 6.2 brought the less terrible DriveSpace. It was still terrible.
I can't remember what minor stuff dos 6.22 brought, but that upgrade was free for download if you wanted to wait hours at 2400 baud...
Pardon my obvious post-placement, trying to get this near the top and visible, but I suspect this is an important question for people to see, assuming answers are posted:
What is the practical upshot of all this? Is the damage limited to the "Give us nuclear rights" web defacement, or was that just a front to make people think nothing else was damaged?
I'm running SuSe 9.3, and this morning, I let the automated update program do it's thing. Did I download and install any breached files?
TFA don't say anything. One is dead already, and the other is useless.
I mean, I understand that there's a lot to discuss regarding security policies and server operating systems, but there are people who could be immediately affected here.
From http://www.nrel.gov/docs/legosti/fy98/24089.pdf According to that particular study, biodiesel production is more efficient than dino-diesel production.
While biodiesel production uses some fuel, it could be fueled by...biodiesel. And besides, are you telling me that no fuel is used in production and delivery of dino fuels?
French fry grease is not necessary. Plain, unused vegetable oil can be made into biodiesel, and with a little less effort than used oil. Considering that the US government currently pays farmers not to farm their land, I can imagine some sources of additional vegetable oil.I imagine he plans to fill up at any old ubiquitous diesel station when biodiesel is unavailable.Somehow I doubt that Toyota would have stopped where they are if they could have kept going with so little effort and produced the holy grail, a reasonable solar car.
I agree about product lifespan -- everybody I know (myself included) loses patience when the cost of keeping a car up exceeds the cost of replacing it (or sooner), which is not usually due to engine failure.
I looked up the torque spec on your Prius. You're right with that impressive number, but you don't mention the important fact about electric motor torque -- it's at it's highest at 0 rpm. The amount of time I cared to spend googling did not yield a torque curve chart, but I'd be interested to see how much torque you get as it spools up and the car's speed increases.
Toyota claims that Prius is good for 0-60 in 10 seconds. Coincidentally, the same is claimed of the Jetta TDI.
http://www.pricegrabber.com/show_car_specs.php?vi
http://www.pricegrabber.com/show_car_specs.php/vi
Seeing as how we have limited supplies of dinosaur juice, and reasonable replacements for almost every use other than gasoline, I personally think we ought to use alternatives everywhere, and save the dinosaur juice for existing gas cars. New vehicles can, AFAIK, be built for ethanol easily enough.
The solution to the fuel pump problem is to make the fuel pump replacement part of the regular maintainence schedule.
50,000 mile service: Rotate tires, change oil, replace PCV valve, replace fuel pump (if running biofuel), check air filter and replace if necessary, transmission service, lubricate chassis..........
Agreed, I was just suggesting that an injector could be stuffed into a spark plug hole on the head, in the hypothetical hack. :/
As far as towing, gas vehicles with reasonable engines tend to be limited in their towing ability by non-acceleration concerns -- stability and handling (braking is provided by trailer brakes).