In China, if your $180 camcorder breaks due to a burst electrolytic capacitor, you can take it to the corner electronics repair shop and pay somebody $10 to open it up, unsolder the bad capacitor, solder in a new one, and send you home with a working camcorder. In America, $10 wouldn't even pay the postage to ship it to a repair center, let alone the $100-200 or more you'd have to pay for the actual repair labor.
I have a TV that, due to some rough handling in a move, had one of the jacks for component input break off. It still worked if you could manage to get a cord to stay in just right (I think we had a solution involving tape, cardboard and clay), but otherwise was very fickle.
Presumably, somebody skilled in electronics could get a $2 jack and with 10-20 minutes or so solder a replacement into place. Instead, a TV repair shop wanted $75 just to diagnose the problem much less start fixing it.
I kept the TV (and did not end up getting it repaired), but the fact that someone here in the US would be more likely to spend $500+ on a new TV and just throw away the old one "because it's broken" is stupid, and I'd love to go to some shop around the corner and get it fixed for $10.
Admittedly, I only skimmed it and did read that the results seemed to conclude that cell phones were not a cause. However, I was trying to explain someone else's post -- probably a futile cause. The word "speculated" in my post for a reason.
Perhaps I should have emphasized that other people have speculated and there's no real studies that prove or disprove it (I won't count a single study as disproving, for all I know the methodology was flawed.)
It's reasonable to assume the website is logically connected. CAs generally execute their transactions through the website. Especially for domain validated certs, usually the process of issuing a certificate is entirely automatic -- the customer logs in through the website, requests a certificate either by filling out a form or sending in a CSR. If they fill in a form and the CA generates their private key, the person who compromised the website might be able to steal the customer's private key, when the customer downloads it using the website.
It's been awhile, but I do not believe there is any point in the CSR process where the CA ever gets a copy of your private key.
For instance, suppose I register a box with round corners. Now you show that the real reason for round corners is so that the box, designed to go in a pocket, will not put too much stress on the pocket material.
I know a lot of people who store their tablets/ereaders/etc in a backpack, which is basically a giant pocket on your back... and it does seem a very reasonable assumption.
It also makes it easier to get into any sort of carrying case -- hard corners means you need to line it up perfectly, whereas round ones mean you can just get it mostly-right and it will slide in easier.
So, even if the original intent of the design is for aesthetics, it does have practical use.
A sword fighting game using a mouse to control the sword would be pretty interesting.
Daggerfall used mouse movement to determine how a weapon was being used. Thrusting the mouse forward while holding the attack button would do a forward thrust, and you could also slash side to side or diagonally.
If your issue is being distracted and having all your productivity sucked away by various websites (Wait. What am I doing on Slashdot?), Randall Munroe wrote an excellent blog post on how he solved the very same problem. It might be worth trying.
First, the/tell command is available. This means that it is trivial to just whiz through player list (gleaned either by logging who is talking in chat channels, various/who commands executed, or just seeing what player characters are nearby.) An account ban would mean nothing for the spammers -- they just fire up a new free account, give the char another random name and are back in the fray.
As a trial account, you can only whisper someone who has you on their friendlist.
Most of the trial restrictions (with the notable exception of level) are to hinder goldsellers and other sources of spam. e.g. not being able to trade (and the 10g limit) means you can't filter your stash of illicit gold/stolen equipment from hacked characters through 20 trial accounts. Similarly with the auction limitations -- goldsellers could buy/sell their own auctions to move money around otherwise.
Except for the fact that the delivery of all of that junk mail is money paid to the USPS. Stop that and the situation becomes even worse than it is now.
I don't mind physical spam nearly as much as the real thing. It has a far higher cost to the sender and every now and then some of the coupons are actually useful.
What I do mind is envelopes marked "Important billing information enclosed" and them containing nothing more but advertising. Comcast and your "Triple Play" advertising, I'm looking at you. It's worse because I can't just throw it out on the off chance it IS important billing information, since I'm a Comcast customer.
I am in a rural area, gas is 10 cents more per gallon than any place around because the fuel distributors all drink coffee together each morning and decide what the price of gas will be.
I don't think the increased price of fuel has much (if anything) to do than any sort of local price-fixing. It probably has more to do with the fact that it costs them more (delivery companies have to go out of their way for a single stop instead of for several stops) and the fact that less volume means they need higher prices to break even on operating costs.
The effects on the cost of groceries are probably similar, though if there truly is only one supermarket the lack of competition is likely a factor as well.
Well, I think what happened is the internal transfer between accounts happened, but the ATM missed the memo and thus never gave me my money.
If your internet connection happens to flake out after you submit a transfer request on online banking, the request will still go through but you'll never get the notification that it did. Similar thing -- though I'd think there would still be better protections against it.
Third parties aren't likely to do this because having the bank reversing the overdraft fee due to an error is 'free' from the third party's perspective. In some situations, however, the bank will tell you to get the transaction reversed by the third party and then they'll reverse the overdraft fee.
The other gotcha here is if the third party's mistake caused not one but multiple overdraft fees on your account (due to subsequent transactions before you realized you were overdrawn, since you wouldn't have been if they didn't get it wrong.). It's possible for the overdraft fees to be more than the original transaction in this case -- if they accidentally hit "600.00" instead of "60.00" and you also went and got gas, bought a coffee at the convenience store while the gas was pumping, grabbed lunch at work and bought milk on the way home -- that's 5 overdraft fees right there. A quick Google search suggests that the median overdraft fee is 27 dollars, so you just wracked up more in overdraft fees than the business took in receipts.
And if multiple erroneous debits wind up overdrawing your account, how good are the odds that the offending party will reimburse the overdraft charges?
I've had an ATM time-out in the middle of a transaction -- it pulled the money from my account but didn't give it to me. The second attempt ended up overdrawing the account.
While it took about a week to get sorted out, I only had to actually talk to the bank once. The refund even refunded the ATM fee for the failed transaction.
Granted, my bank at the time (not the bank associated with the ATM) was Washington Mutual, and this was back before they sucked (which was before Chase bought them))
(On the flipside, Verizon owes me about $100 in WA sales tax that they charged me after I moved to OR and changed my address with them, and they still refuse to refund it.)
From the original source I learned this about a long time ago, I don't recall the "urgent" requirement either -- just the time-sensitive portion or the greater of $3.00/double the postage rate requirement.
When UPS can deliver an envelope from New York to San Francisco for under 50 cents, I might re-evaluate. Until then, I'd much rather live with UPS or FedEx disappearing tomorrow than the US Post Office.
To prevent private carriers from choosing to compete with USPS on the most profitable routes (which would mean the USPS couldn't afford to service less profitable routes), there are Private Express Statutes. Without them, UPS likely could deliver from New York to San Fransisco for less than 50 cents.
In 1979 the Postal Service authorized the delivery of extremely urgent letters outside the USPS; this has given rise to delivery services such as Federal Express and UPS. These letters must either cost at least the greater of $3 or twice what First Class (or Priority) mail service would cost, or they must be delivered within strict time limits or otherwise lose value. They must be marked "EXTREMELY URGENT". Records of pick up and delivery must be maintained for Postal Service inspection if the time sensitive exception is being used.
I know I hate the way a PC 'feels' now. Stupid side scroll strips, no multi-touch for right tap or scrolling with 2 fingers.
I have a Toshiba Satellite S25-L119 (which is a 3+ year old budget laptop) and I can do the 2-finger scroll with its touchpad. Well, in Linux anyways... not in Windows (go figure)
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You're associated with industrial products, not big bouncing boobs? I'm sure there's an audience for that (Possibly NSFW).
I have a TV that, due to some rough handling in a move, had one of the jacks for component input break off. It still worked if you could manage to get a cord to stay in just right (I think we had a solution involving tape, cardboard and clay), but otherwise was very fickle.
Presumably, somebody skilled in electronics could get a $2 jack and with 10-20 minutes or so solder a replacement into place. Instead, a TV repair shop wanted $75 just to diagnose the problem much less start fixing it.
I kept the TV (and did not end up getting it repaired), but the fact that someone here in the US would be more likely to spend $500+ on a new TV and just throw away the old one "because it's broken" is stupid, and I'd love to go to some shop around the corner and get it fixed for $10.
This works well, right up until the point where you need an attachment from someone outside the company.
Say... the latest revision to a requirements doc being sent back and forth between a client and a vendor...
Admittedly, I only skimmed it and did read that the results seemed to conclude that cell phones were not a cause. However, I was trying to explain someone else's post -- probably a futile cause. The word "speculated" in my post for a reason.
Perhaps I should have emphasized that other people have speculated and there's no real studies that prove or disprove it (I won't count a single study as disproving, for all I know the methodology was flawed.)
Increased EM radiation from rising cellphone use is one speculated cause of Colony Collapse Disorder
It's been awhile, but I do not believe there is any point in the CSR process where the CA ever gets a copy of your private key.
I know a lot of people who store their tablets/ereaders/etc in a backpack, which is basically a giant pocket on your back... and it does seem a very reasonable assumption.
It also makes it easier to get into any sort of carrying case -- hard corners means you need to line it up perfectly, whereas round ones mean you can just get it mostly-right and it will slide in easier.
So, even if the original intent of the design is for aesthetics, it does have practical use.
Daggerfall used mouse movement to determine how a weapon was being used. Thrusting the mouse forward while holding the attack button would do a forward thrust, and you could also slash side to side or diagonally.
Mr. Lion, you are hereby sentenced to life in prison for murder of the first degree of one Ms. Gazelle.
Also, non-vegetarians would never go for that.
If your issue is being distracted and having all your productivity sucked away by various websites (Wait. What am I doing on Slashdot?), Randall Munroe wrote an excellent blog post on how he solved the very same problem. It might be worth trying.
As a trial account, you can only whisper someone who has you on their friendlist.
Most of the trial restrictions (with the notable exception of level) are to hinder goldsellers and other sources of spam. e.g. not being able to trade (and the 10g limit) means you can't filter your stash of illicit gold/stolen equipment from hacked characters through 20 trial accounts. Similarly with the auction limitations -- goldsellers could buy/sell their own auctions to move money around otherwise.
The irony of me misspelling misspelled is not lost on me. Of course, I see it 3 seconds after I submit and not during the preview.
Though her name is wildly mispelled (even in Valve's own credits!), the correct spelling is Ellen McLain
Except for the fact that the delivery of all of that junk mail is money paid to the USPS. Stop that and the situation becomes even worse than it is now.
I don't mind physical spam nearly as much as the real thing. It has a far higher cost to the sender and every now and then some of the coupons are actually useful.
What I do mind is envelopes marked "Important billing information enclosed" and them containing nothing more but advertising. Comcast and your "Triple Play" advertising, I'm looking at you. It's worse because I can't just throw it out on the off chance it IS important billing information, since I'm a Comcast customer.
Note that the user being a monkey might be a sort of exception that should never happen. A definite WTF moment, for sure.
I don't think the increased price of fuel has much (if anything) to do than any sort of local price-fixing. It probably has more to do with the fact that it costs them more (delivery companies have to go out of their way for a single stop instead of for several stops) and the fact that less volume means they need higher prices to break even on operating costs.
The effects on the cost of groceries are probably similar, though if there truly is only one supermarket the lack of competition is likely a factor as well.
I read that as Windows Health Advantage and went "WHA?"
Well, I think what happened is the internal transfer between accounts happened, but the ATM missed the memo and thus never gave me my money.
If your internet connection happens to flake out after you submit a transfer request on online banking, the request will still go through but you'll never get the notification that it did. Similar thing -- though I'd think there would still be better protections against it.
Third parties aren't likely to do this because having the bank reversing the overdraft fee due to an error is 'free' from the third party's perspective. In some situations, however, the bank will tell you to get the transaction reversed by the third party and then they'll reverse the overdraft fee.
The other gotcha here is if the third party's mistake caused not one but multiple overdraft fees on your account (due to subsequent transactions before you realized you were overdrawn, since you wouldn't have been if they didn't get it wrong.). It's possible for the overdraft fees to be more than the original transaction in this case -- if they accidentally hit "600.00" instead of "60.00" and you also went and got gas, bought a coffee at the convenience store while the gas was pumping, grabbed lunch at work and bought milk on the way home -- that's 5 overdraft fees right there. A quick Google search suggests that the median overdraft fee is 27 dollars, so you just wracked up more in overdraft fees than the business took in receipts.
I've had an ATM time-out in the middle of a transaction -- it pulled the money from my account but didn't give it to me. The second attempt ended up overdrawing the account.
While it took about a week to get sorted out, I only had to actually talk to the bank once. The refund even refunded the ATM fee for the failed transaction.
Granted, my bank at the time (not the bank associated with the ATM) was Washington Mutual, and this was back before they sucked (which was before Chase bought them))
(On the flipside, Verizon owes me about $100 in WA sales tax that they charged me after I moved to OR and changed my address with them, and they still refuse to refund it.)
I do believe you are off by a factor of about 2.71828 in the number of required cats.
Two fingers.
From the original source I learned this about a long time ago, I don't recall the "urgent" requirement either -- just the time-sensitive portion or the greater of $3.00/double the postage rate requirement.
To prevent private carriers from choosing to compete with USPS on the most profitable routes (which would mean the USPS couldn't afford to service less profitable routes), there are Private Express Statutes. Without them, UPS likely could deliver from New York to San Fransisco for less than 50 cents.
I have a Toshiba Satellite S25-L119 (which is a 3+ year old budget laptop) and I can do the 2-finger scroll with its touchpad. Well, in Linux anyways... not in Windows (go figure)