Comment Re:Outward facing systems ... (Score 1) 391
The GP's point is very valid, you cannot force a user to create a good password.
the post-office will never fail because they will be propped up by your and my tax dollars, perpetually no mater how poorly (or good) they are run.
The USPS is funded by postage revenue, not tax dollars. As they have been losing money, you may have heard the disucssions about whether or not to reduce delivery from the current 6 days.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Postal_Service - About the USPS
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"with the intent to commit, or to aid or abet, or in connection with, any unlawful activity that constitutes a violation of federal law, or that constitutes a felony under any applicable state or local law."
IANAL, but what unlawful activity/felony are they committing/intending to commit?
Also, when you sign contracts at most places that ask for a SSN, they say things like "we will collect certain pieces of information about you and hold them forever" - isn't that the consent needed?
Isn't the real issue that with a Unique Identifier for you, it's trivial to open many type of financial transactions in your name?
You're missing the point. The purpose is to provide explanation for numbers which have no context. Presumably, if you're looking at some equation or source code which uses an unrecognized constant, or if a calculation returns a surprising result, one might be able to use such a search to find more information.
But you have context for all of these examples. What field are you studying, the name of the constant, even the fact that it is a constant are all context.
Your examples would all be better searches just by putting in "math" or "source code constant" as a way of narrowing the results. You wouldn't take the answer to an equation and go "aha, I'm got a 14 significant digit result, but I'll round it off to a number with lots of possible uses, no context, and see what I get." You wouldn't take "75.013895789014" as your result, put in 75.01, and expect a result. You'd either put in a number with few significant digits, multiple uses, and add context, or have a truly unique (to you) number.
1 (the small reason) - My wife, son, and I like the taste better. Significantly. Additionally, since it does go bad faster (for us), we're forced to buy an approrpriate amount of fruit/vegetables, and we don't go through the "toss out those 6 tomatoes we bought and then decided not to have a salad that week" syndrome. I go to the store more frequently and buy less, which works for our situation, maybe not yours.
2 (the HUGE reason) - Pesticides. Not so much for my wife and I, but for my son. He has a condition which does not allow him to process toxins normally, and they seep through his stomach lining and pass through the blood-brain barrier. All kinds of scary stuff shows up on his tests, and something (I don't know if it's this or something else, the doctors don't either unfortunately) is severely impacting his speech development.
Now, I don't know whether toxins or pesticides are directly causing any of that, but I do know that the levels of pesticides, heavy metals, and other fun chemicals are off the chart in his lab tests. They are at normal levels for both my wife and I. Since we have switched to organic, they have been slowly coming down. This may be causal, this may be correlational, but you know what - I don't care. If it helps my son, I'll do it.
If you want to eat organic, by all means do so. The main change I found in friends who wanted to eat organic (more anecdotes) is that they eat more fruit and vegetables than they used to. So maybe that's their health benefit - not that these fruits/vegetables are healthier, but that they've made a healthier choice in general.
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