I wish that's all Fringe did. Unfortunately, the writers of Fringe kidnapped, beat, and sodomized science in front of it's own children. Then, when done, gave each other high-fives for doing such a great job.
It's like they have some kind of scientific buzzword dartboard in their office that they use to write the jargon that their characters use.
For a time, Bank of America's main page was http://, even though you entered your account information into a secure form. Some people raised a stink and they changed it. Before that occurred, I decided to use one of NoScript's features to force the entire domain bankofamerica.com to use https://.
For a while it worked great until a few months later when I signed up for another service on their website that monitored your credit report activity. For about a week, every time I clicked on the link to take me to the login page for that service, I would get a page that told me the link was broken. After calling customer support a few times to see if the site was functional, I realized that the redirect script/server didn't support https, and that I was getting a dead redirect as a result.
I think forcing https on domains is a good idea, but it can be easily undermined by one link in the chain not playing nice.
I don't know about other people, but I really don't care if someone hacks or guesses my forum password. There is virtually no damage they can do. It's not as if they can get my credit card number, or even my real email address from my account information. The worst thing they could do it post goatse pictures all over the place and get me banned. It's for this reason that I don't spend much, if any, time creating a robust or unique password for forum sites. Same goes for myspace, facebook, or any other random website that requires a login for no good reason (I'm looking at you, nytimes.com).
When someone hacks the FBI network and posts all their passwords and finds the same pattern, give me a call and I'll freak out along with you. Trivial web sites are going to beget trivial passwords.
How about a small digital picture frame? That way you could throw in your own flash drive, and the pictures would come with their own display medium. I'm sure they'll still have AA batteries 25 years from now.
I can imagine the meetings where they come up with this iron-clad age verification protocol:
Goon A: So, how do we verify that someone is underage?
Goon B: Ooh, let's ask them how old they are when they sign up for Facebook!
Goon A: That's brilliant!
Five-year old in the room: What if they lie?
Goon B: Oh, I didn't think of that...
Goon A: OK, this is a little crazy, but hear me out: we put a bolded message at the top of the registration page saying that they cannot lie about their age.
Goon B: Hmmm, I'd feel a little better if it was in red.
Goon A: Nailed it!
Five-year old: What if they still lie?
Goon A: You're right, they might still lie. How about we ask for a credit card number for age verification. Nobody who's underage would have a credit card!
Goon B: So if they don't enter a credit card number... they must be underage!
Goon A: Man, this was a productive meeting. Someone get this kid a juice box and some cookies.
It's so sad when bad things happen to good ideas. The fact that there may have been dearth of molybdenum in the early oceans isn't a crippling blow to the development of eukaryotes.
Nitrogenase, the enzyme that performs nitrogen fixation today, commonly uses, but doesn't require, molybdenum for its function. There are forms of the enzyme that use vanadium or iron as a cofactor to the ubiquitous iron-sulfur cluster that actually performs the chemistry.
I don't know if this event happened before or after the iron catastrophe, but the fact that the enzyme uses iron anyway makes me believe that there must have been enough iron around the oceans back then. Methinks the author's running off the old idea that the nitrogen reduction occurs on the molybdenum atom instead of one of the iron atoms in the iron-sulfur cluster.
Step 1: Set up a node(s) at the very edge of a mesh network.
Step 2: Install software to execute a man in the middle attack.
Step 3: Wait for someone to connect to you alone.
Step 4: Wait for that someone to connect to their bank.
Step 5: Drain their account.
It'll take some clever protocols to prevent abuse if this ever gets used as a standard consumer network protocol, but it should do wonders for emergency services.
No fabric is resistant to hydroxyl radicals. It's just about the most potent oxidant out there, and can make short work of cellulose. It works fast, too. In fact, there are industrial processes that utilize hydroxyl radicals to degrade the lignin in wood pulp for use in paper.
Just about the only way to protect your clothes from hydroxyl radicals would be to coat them in Teflon, but then you wouldn't have to worry about stains anyway.
Wow, they're actually throwing 300 million yen ($3 million) at this project? They must really be serious about it. Is that just the bureaucratic overhead for the planning commission, or the whole R&D budget?
I'm pretty sure we've spent more than that in the US warning people that their old analog TVs will stop working when we switch over to HDTV.
Actually, "doesn't act exactly like Word," is my biggest complaint with OO right now. When I write scientific articles for journals, I need to be 100% certain that when the publisher opens up the file in MS Word that it will look exactly the same as it does in OO. That's nowhere near being true yet. I've also gone the other way around, trying to open up my carefully laid out Word documents in Writer, only to find that all the formatting and image layouts had been completely screwed.
It took Apple far too long to figure out that if they want to compete with the big dogs, they have to make sure their product is seamlessly compatible with the dominant products out there in order to spur adoption.
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Fringe ignores word 'science' in SF :P
I wish that's all Fringe did. Unfortunately, the writers of Fringe kidnapped, beat, and sodomized science in front of it's own children. Then, when done, gave each other high-fives for doing such a great job.
It's like they have some kind of scientific buzzword dartboard in their office that they use to write the jargon that their characters use.
For a time, Bank of America's main page was http://, even though you entered your account information into a secure form. Some people raised a stink and they changed it. Before that occurred, I decided to use one of NoScript's features to force the entire domain bankofamerica.com to use https://.
For a while it worked great until a few months later when I signed up for another service on their website that monitored your credit report activity. For about a week, every time I clicked on the link to take me to the login page for that service, I would get a page that told me the link was broken. After calling customer support a few times to see if the site was functional, I realized that the redirect script/server didn't support https, and that I was getting a dead redirect as a result.
I think forcing https on domains is a good idea, but it can be easily undermined by one link in the chain not playing nice.
I don't know about other people, but I really don't care if someone hacks or guesses my forum password. There is virtually no damage they can do. It's not as if they can get my credit card number, or even my real email address from my account information. The worst thing they could do it post goatse pictures all over the place and get me banned. It's for this reason that I don't spend much, if any, time creating a robust or unique password for forum sites. Same goes for myspace, facebook, or any other random website that requires a login for no good reason (I'm looking at you, nytimes.com).
When someone hacks the FBI network and posts all their passwords and finds the same pattern, give me a call and I'll freak out along with you. Trivial web sites are going to beget trivial passwords.
How about a small digital picture frame? That way you could throw in your own flash drive, and the pictures would come with their own display medium. I'm sure they'll still have AA batteries 25 years from now.
Wow! What a breakthrough! Now, not only can I steal my neighbors' internet, I can steal their power, too!
I can imagine the meetings where they come up with this iron-clad age verification protocol:
Goon A: So, how do we verify that someone is underage?
Goon B: Ooh, let's ask them how old they are when they sign up for Facebook!
Goon A: That's brilliant!
Five-year old in the room: What if they lie?
Goon B: Oh, I didn't think of that...
Goon A: OK, this is a little crazy, but hear me out: we put a bolded message at the top of the registration page saying that they cannot lie about their age.
Goon B: Hmmm, I'd feel a little better if it was in red.
Goon A: Nailed it!
Five-year old: What if they still lie?
Goon A: You're right, they might still lie. How about we ask for a credit card number for age verification. Nobody who's underage would have a credit card!
Goon B: So if they don't enter a credit card number... they must be underage!
Goon A: Man, this was a productive meeting. Someone get this kid a juice box and some cookies.
It's so sad when bad things happen to good ideas. The fact that there may have been dearth of molybdenum in the early oceans isn't a crippling blow to the development of eukaryotes.
Nitrogenase, the enzyme that performs nitrogen fixation today, commonly uses, but doesn't require, molybdenum for its function. There are forms of the enzyme that use vanadium or iron as a cofactor to the ubiquitous iron-sulfur cluster that actually performs the chemistry.
I don't know if this event happened before or after the iron catastrophe, but the fact that the enzyme uses iron anyway makes me believe that there must have been enough iron around the oceans back then. Methinks the author's running off the old idea that the nitrogen reduction occurs on the molybdenum atom instead of one of the iron atoms in the iron-sulfur cluster.
Step 1: Set up a node(s) at the very edge of a mesh network. Step 2: Install software to execute a man in the middle attack. Step 3: Wait for someone to connect to you alone. Step 4: Wait for that someone to connect to their bank. Step 5: Drain their account. It'll take some clever protocols to prevent abuse if this ever gets used as a standard consumer network protocol, but it should do wonders for emergency services.
No fabric is resistant to hydroxyl radicals. It's just about the most potent oxidant out there, and can make short work of cellulose. It works fast, too. In fact, there are industrial processes that utilize hydroxyl radicals to degrade the lignin in wood pulp for use in paper. Just about the only way to protect your clothes from hydroxyl radicals would be to coat them in Teflon, but then you wouldn't have to worry about stains anyway.
Wow, they're actually throwing 300 million yen ($3 million) at this project? They must really be serious about it. Is that just the bureaucratic overhead for the planning commission, or the whole R&D budget? I'm pretty sure we've spent more than that in the US warning people that their old analog TVs will stop working when we switch over to HDTV.
Actually, "doesn't act exactly like Word," is my biggest complaint with OO right now. When I write scientific articles for journals, I need to be 100% certain that when the publisher opens up the file in MS Word that it will look exactly the same as it does in OO. That's nowhere near being true yet. I've also gone the other way around, trying to open up my carefully laid out Word documents in Writer, only to find that all the formatting and image layouts had been completely screwed. It took Apple far too long to figure out that if they want to compete with the big dogs, they have to make sure their product is seamlessly compatible with the dominant products out there in order to spur adoption.