But moose drool is vital to the production of Scotch!
I take it you've never actually savored a real single malt Scotch.
Its flavor is dominated by curds of moose snot, lovingly matured for years in second-hand barrels by skilled craftsmen. Fresh moose drool is only in the cheaper "blended" varieties found in hellholes like Tesco supermarkets.
More properly, "the enemy of my enemy is my weapon".
Remember this. The enemy of my enemy is not ipso facto my friend or even potentially my friend, but is probably an agent that I can manoeuver to attack my enemy. If both are consumed in the fray, I care not - neither of them was my friend.
And of course don't forget to store all your unique passwords that you have no hope of remembering in a plain-text file on your laptop and your smartphone, as well as on that piece of lined paper in the top drawer of your dresser.
This is either funny or sad, because probably a lot of people do exactly that. The blame belongs to the many sites with bad password policies or insecure password practices (including LinkedIn, apparently).
Here's the safer way to do it. Pick a passphrase of suitable length which you will remember, "QuintusFabiusMaximusCunctator" for example, then use that phrase to generate unique passwords by combining it with the site's web address. For instance, with LinkedIn, you'd have a password:
echo -n "QuintusFabiusMaximusCunctator-www.linkedin.com" | sha512sum | xxd -r -p | tr -cd [:print:] | sed -e "s///g"
which yields:
dIf{0,L$VwZVId3Z2#qfow@8FVAP
which is below the paranoid level of security, but gives fairly secure unique passwords per site. If passwords must be changed occasionally, then year and month can be appended. The command can be kept (ideally without your passphrase) in a post-it note or a desktop sticky for cut&paste.
I hereby hand in my Grammar Nazi ID card and matching lanyard.
Congratulations, comrade. You are now a Grammar Commie.
Your membership papers and code-keyring will be sent after you submit appropriately completed forms in triplicate.
Seriously, go for the lecture videos. Take notes, and review them afterwards, just as if there was going to be an exam on the topic. Don't overload yourself; these things take time to absorb and to integrate with your existing knowledge.
Pause and replay videos as much as needed, but you have to concentrate on the material being conveyed. An engaging infographic can give you an overview of some topic (like for plate tectonics or the SN1 reaction mechanism) perhaps to the "informed layman" level. To reach a more knowledgeable level, you'll have to get your own mind wrapped around related groups of essential details (the classes and processes of felsic minerals, for instance). If you fall asleep during a lecture video, then replay it and try to stay awake.
Um, that's all sort-of basic information. Now find the answer to the question I cited, using the information on the Google page you gave. The test assumed that you knew all those things already, and they don't subtract from the work...
Most questions on calculus tests I've taken don't have numeric answers. "Solve for X" was to be answered with the equation. If "solve for x" was answered with a number, then you are taking an algebra test, even if you had to do a derivative to get the equation you put "x" in.
Depends how cunning the examiner is. Here's one I recall from high school (the Leaving Certificate exam): "The sum of the surface areas of a cube and a sphere is unity. What is the maximum sum of their volumes?" It's a fairly straightforward application of high school calculus, but the answer is a number.
Oh, and this was long enough ago that we were not allowed to use portable calculators (which barely even existed), so the numerical bits took a few minutes at the end.
Evaporate the salt water and collect the water vapor. Do it right and you can get a run off of drinkable water. The hotter it is, the better it works.
But it may not work at all if the relative humidity is not high enough, whatever the temperature.
It's not too difficult to imagine using a blackened vessel and/or a reflector to enhance energy capture and boost the rate of evaporation. However, the rate of condensation is just as critical, and there will be essentially no condensation if the local dew point is below any achievable temperature. In tough cases, you need better apparatus which might be hard to jury-rig.
bullshit, I"m half a century old and I ssh or use https in browser with ShellInABox to read my mail with mutt.
we use stronger passwords because we've been around the block enough times to know there are bad people out there
Yup. And it galls me to see some places sending a confirmation message to your email address with your chosen username and password in cleartext when you register. Maybe that's why the kids don't bother with decent passwords, but to me it's another good reason to use a unique password for every site, and to then tailor the password strength to the weakness of password protection (cleartext, the mind boggles). Luckily, sites with personal and/or financial data (Amazon, banks, etc.) are a bit better, but it's still worth keeping their passwords strong and unique per site.
BTW, I beat you in the greybeard stakes by a few years...
The entire house of cards is on the verge of collapse, but at least our bureaucrats found the time to vote this shit down.
Actually, it's the elected representatives (in the European Parliament) who are voting it down, and who have repeatedly expressed their opposition to the secretiveness of the negotiation process and to what has resulted from those negotiations. The unelected bureaucrats (European Commission and its ilk) were largely in favor, and actively participated in those secret negotiations.
Many things would have worked out differently (drastically different in a few cases) if the EU were run more democratically. And reducing the democratic deficit is probably an essential step (not the only one, of course) towards exiting the present fiasco.
I agree with you that for simple uses the google docs is probably fine. but i'm in the ninja category, (hundred+ pages, tables, figs, headers, footnotes, track changes, comments), and this can't be duplicated in google docs, let alone bouncing files back and forth!
If you're using Word for 100+ page documents, you're likelier to be a time-waster than a Ninja. If those documents have much internal structure (10+ cross references per page), it's almost guaranteed. A real Ninja would use LaTeX.
Damn. I've been using Opera for several years now. If it comes under the thumb of Facebook, I'll jump ship. I don't want those fuckers backdooring themselves into everything I do online.
Likewise. Opera has been my main browser for more than a decade, although my wife generally uses Firefox. Luckily, I've also been using Chromium, and consider it an acceptable replacement: not quite as good with privacy settings, but slightly more compatible with weird web sites. If Opera becomes part of Facebook, I'll drop it on principle (all Facebook IPs are already blocked by my router to inhibit unwanted tracking).
There are two douchebags in this case, but they are not the victims of the crime or the merely peripherally involved girlfriend.
The first douchebag is the guy who ploughed into the victims' motorcycle as he texted while driving. The second douchebag is the NJ court which "punished" him with a $775 fine and a few hours community work, but did not even suspend his driver's licence. It has been repeatedly established that texting while driving is more dangerous than driving while impaired by alcohol. He should have received rather more than this slap on the wrist, and the victims of his crime apparently plan to appeal his light sentence.
In Finland and various other countries, and in several states of the US, the law is you stop your car to talk or text on any communication device. You may get fined if observed talking or texting on the phone even if your driving is otherwise perfect.
So just record the damn ads, but in a way which clearly marks them and arguably does not excessively devalue them. For instance, record the ads with heavily muted sound and video (dark, desaturated, rather quiet). Then provide a button/feature which allows skipping of dark & quiet bits; preferably a feature which is set to ON as default.
Legally satisfactory, most likely. And satisfied viewers also, most likely. Fox might be pissed off, but that's just a bonus.
I asked Siri if she was spying on me for Apple. She said that she's not good with food.
It seems the domain knowledge in Siri is somewhat uneven. According to reports, if you ask Siri for a blow job, it will recommend escorts close to you. However, if you ask Siri to eat your pussy, it will recommend some nearby pet stores...
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Mod parent up. His useful explanation is overshadowed only by the in-depth article he linked to.
Uh, GP was tl;dr
Are we not men?
Not fivemen, it seems...
But moose drool is vital to the production of Scotch!
I take it you've never actually savored a real single malt Scotch.
Its flavor is dominated by curds of moose snot, lovingly matured for years in second-hand barrels by skilled craftsmen. Fresh moose drool is only in the cheaper "blended" varieties found in hellholes like Tesco supermarkets.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
More properly, "the enemy of my enemy is my weapon".
Remember this. The enemy of my enemy is not ipso facto my friend or even potentially my friend, but is probably an agent that I can manoeuver to attack my enemy. If both are consumed in the fray, I care not - neither of them was my friend.
And of course don't forget to store all your unique passwords that you have no hope of remembering in a plain-text file on your laptop and your smartphone, as well as on that piece of lined paper in the top drawer of your dresser.
This is either funny or sad, because probably a lot of people do exactly that. The blame belongs to the many sites with bad password policies or insecure password practices (including LinkedIn, apparently).
Here's the safer way to do it. Pick a passphrase of suitable length which you will remember, "QuintusFabiusMaximusCunctator" for example, then use that phrase to generate unique passwords by combining it with the site's web address. For instance, with LinkedIn, you'd have a password: //g"
echo -n "QuintusFabiusMaximusCunctator-www.linkedin.com" | sha512sum | xxd -r -p | tr -cd [:print:] | sed -e "s/
which yields:
dIf{0,L$VwZVId3Z2#qfow@8FVAP
which is below the paranoid level of security, but gives fairly secure unique passwords per site. If passwords must be changed occasionally, then year and month can be appended. The command can be kept (ideally without your passphrase) in a post-it note or a desktop sticky for cut&paste.
Good link. The file seems legit. My hash is in there. Fucking Idiots at Linkedin.
Mine isn't, even omitting the first 5 digits. I'm changing it today anyway.
Luckily, that password is not used elsewhere. Nor will the new one be.
I hereby hand in my Grammar Nazi ID card and matching lanyard.
Congratulations, comrade. You are now a Grammar Commie.
Your membership papers and code-keyring will be sent after you submit appropriately completed forms in triplicate.
Steve Ballmer batting 1000 lately.
Remove the 1 and the remaining digits are on the money...
Having slept through chemistry at school, ...
Seriously, go for the lecture videos. Take notes, and review them afterwards, just as if there was going to be an exam on the topic. Don't overload yourself; these things take time to absorb and to integrate with your existing knowledge.
Pause and replay videos as much as needed, but you have to concentrate on the material being conveyed. An engaging infographic can give you an overview of some topic (like for plate tectonics or the SN1 reaction mechanism) perhaps to the "informed layman" level. To reach a more knowledgeable level, you'll have to get your own mind wrapped around related groups of essential details (the classes and processes of felsic minerals, for instance). If you fall asleep during a lecture video, then replay it and try to stay awake.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface-area-to-volume_ratio If you allow google and have numeric answers, the work never has to be done.
Um, that's all sort-of basic information. Now find the answer to the question I cited, using the information on the Google page you gave. The test assumed that you knew all those things already, and they don't subtract from the work...
Most questions on calculus tests I've taken don't have numeric answers. "Solve for X" was to be answered with the equation. If "solve for x" was answered with a number, then you are taking an algebra test, even if you had to do a derivative to get the equation you put "x" in.
Depends how cunning the examiner is. Here's one I recall from high school (the Leaving Certificate exam): "The sum of the surface areas of a cube and a sphere is unity. What is the maximum sum of their volumes?" It's a fairly straightforward application of high school calculus, but the answer is a number.
Oh, and this was long enough ago that we were not allowed to use portable calculators (which barely even existed), so the numerical bits took a few minutes at the end.
Evaporate the salt water and collect the water vapor. Do it right and you can get a run off of drinkable water. The hotter it is, the better it works.
But it may not work at all if the relative humidity is not high enough, whatever the temperature.
It's not too difficult to imagine using a blackened vessel and/or a reflector to enhance energy capture and boost the rate of evaporation. However, the rate of condensation is just as critical, and there will be essentially no condensation if the local dew point is below any achievable temperature. In tough cases, you need better apparatus which might be hard to jury-rig.
bullshit, I"m half a century old and I ssh or use https in browser with ShellInABox to read my mail with mutt.
we use stronger passwords because we've been around the block enough times to know there are bad people out there
Yup. And it galls me to see some places sending a confirmation message to your email address with your chosen username and password in cleartext when you register. Maybe that's why the kids don't bother with decent passwords, but to me it's another good reason to use a unique password for every site, and to then tailor the password strength to the weakness of password protection (cleartext, the mind boggles). Luckily, sites with personal and/or financial data (Amazon, banks, etc.) are a bit better, but it's still worth keeping their passwords strong and unique per site.
BTW, I beat you in the greybeard stakes by a few years...
If I were in china, i'd get a 404 page not found error
A "403 Forbidden" error would be more informative and more appropriate.
The entire house of cards is on the verge of collapse, but at least our bureaucrats found the time to vote this shit down.
Actually, it's the elected representatives (in the European Parliament) who are voting it down, and who have repeatedly expressed their opposition to the secretiveness of the negotiation process and to what has resulted from those negotiations. The unelected bureaucrats (European Commission and its ilk) were largely in favor, and actively participated in those secret negotiations.
Many things would have worked out differently (drastically different in a few cases) if the EU were run more democratically. And reducing the democratic deficit is probably an essential step (not the only one, of course) towards exiting the present fiasco.
Damn, that's really neat.
This is one of those times I wished I lived in the U.S... We just don't get such nice stuff by mail order in Europe.
I agree with you that for simple uses the google docs is probably fine. but i'm in the ninja category, (hundred+ pages, tables, figs, headers, footnotes, track changes, comments), and this can't be duplicated in google docs, let alone bouncing files back and forth!
If you're using Word for 100+ page documents, you're likelier to be a time-waster than a Ninja. If those documents have much internal structure (10+ cross references per page), it's almost guaranteed. A real Ninja would use LaTeX.
Confucius say: dog who exploits ore, may get exploited by 'ore...
TFA purports that somebody wrote a bunch of code that is a virus, trojan, malware and toaster driver all at once.
You mean it's like a Facebook phone?
Apart from the toaster bit, which might be useful...
Damn. I've been using Opera for several years now. If it comes under the thumb of Facebook, I'll jump ship. I don't want those fuckers backdooring themselves into everything I do online.
Likewise. Opera has been my main browser for more than a decade, although my wife generally uses Firefox. Luckily, I've also been using Chromium, and consider it an acceptable replacement: not quite as good with privacy settings, but slightly more compatible with weird web sites. If Opera becomes part of Facebook, I'll drop it on principle (all Facebook IPs are already blocked by my router to inhibit unwanted tracking).
There are two douchebags in this case, but they are not the victims of the crime or the merely peripherally involved girlfriend.
The first douchebag is the guy who ploughed into the victims' motorcycle as he texted while driving. The second douchebag is the NJ court which "punished" him with a $775 fine and a few hours community work, but did not even suspend his driver's licence. It has been repeatedly established that texting while driving is more dangerous than driving while impaired by alcohol. He should have received rather more than this slap on the wrist, and the victims of his crime apparently plan to appeal his light sentence.
In Finland and various other countries, and in several states of the US, the law is you stop your car to talk or text on any communication device. You may get fined if observed talking or texting on the phone even if your driving is otherwise perfect.
So just record the damn ads, but in a way which clearly marks them and arguably does not excessively devalue them. For instance, record the ads with heavily muted sound and video (dark, desaturated, rather quiet). Then provide a button/feature which allows skipping of dark & quiet bits; preferably a feature which is set to ON as default.
Legally satisfactory, most likely. And satisfied viewers also, most likely. Fox might be pissed off, but that's just a bonus.
What's the German word for "the boner you get from too much Schadenfreude"?
"Schadenfrisky".
That's better than Google Translate's "das Boner, die Sie von zu viel Schadenfreude".
I asked Siri if she was spying on me for Apple. She said that she's not good with food.
It seems the domain knowledge in Siri is somewhat uneven. According to reports, if you ask Siri for a blow job, it will recommend escorts close to you. However, if you ask Siri to eat your pussy, it will recommend some nearby pet stores...
That's nothing, Facebook has this habit of paying people to troll Google on Slashdot!
Possibly not in this case. The person who posted the story was bonch, who appears to post questionable stuff in favor of MS and against Google.