I can't help noticing that these "New York to London" metrics spouted by the Pentagon are carefully constructed "spin" to frame the X-51 in a "civilian transport" context.
And every time a distance or area is expressed in terms of football fields, the statistic was sponsored by the NFL? Or maybe New York to London is a common metric for describing how fast something flies (especially from when you could compare that flight time to the Concorde).
Do you log in by blinking or something? Otherwise I don't see how "typetype tab typetype enter click" is much longer than "typetype tab typetype enter".
The patdown is more invasive than it should be, but can we stop modding people +5 insightful for pretending it's molestation? After reading all the slashdot comments I was expecting to feel offended and violated when I opted for a patdown recently (I fly only very rarely), only to find I dislike it more on principle than it being a real problem.I can definitely say the hype is hurting the credibility of the anti-TSA crowd.
As someone that would like to see the scanners removed and patdowns reserved as an escalation only, please stick with language along the lines of "invasive patdown".
Maybe they should ship the waste to Guantanamo. With the radiation, suddenly we have no choice but to evacuate the prisoners, and there aren't any Americans around to claim NIMBY. That would make it a win-win... except Cuba wouldn't be too happy.
...science and things like evidence are not a factor with public comment sessions. See why I think the new "smart grid" is a non-starter?
Case in point, my city wants to implement smart grid technology, complete with meters that wirelessly transmit information. Public comment sessions were largely driven by these anti-radiation people, and they even distributed fliers trying to scare people with the dangers of radiation (including attributing dangers of nuclear radiation to EM radiation).
It's entirely possible to set a national record for hottest month without breaking a single state or local record (though I don't know how many such records were actually set this July). You just need simultaneous above-average temperatures over a broad portion of the country, not necessarily extreme temperatures.
In the US, many if not most suburban areas, and nearly all cities, forbid keeping farm animals e.g. chickens, pigs, goats, etc. even as pets
I have relatives that started raising hens (for eggs, not meat), in the middle of Indianapolis. They were able to use space next to a warehouse- I'm assuming many of the ordinances against animals are for residential land.
(This is offered more as an anecdote than an argument against your point, but maybe someone has more experience with urban livestock who could add something).
I'm pretty sure the drones have been put to thorough use on missions that don't involve US citizens. If you want to (rightly) criticise the US, making caricatures that make no sense doesn't help you (the military has such an unrestrained urge to play with their toys that they refrain from testing them on the plentiful non-US-citizen targets? Seriously?).
His comment wasn't false equivalency. You said you don't trust China's government, he said he doesn't trust the US government. Note he never refutes anything you said, especially the parts where you call out China as worse than the West.
i'm sure you didn't even read my comment before formulating your useless mental vomit
I'm sure he would be happy to throw your words right back at you.
I guess we would never know for sure, but does the NSA (or related agencies) have secret backdoors only it knows about? We know all internet traffic that routes through the US should be assumed intercepted, and I believe we spy on allied nations' citizens with the knowledge or even participation of their governments, but can we make a distinction between China's trojan horse attempts and the US' strongarmed requests for permission*? Also, China's spying is often used for economic gain, not just military intelligence. While I know the US isn't exactly clean when it comes to spying for the benefit of corporations, is it considered a pervasive problem like it is with China?
*No, your government allowing the US to spy on you isn't the same as permission from you. I don't mean to imply that spying with "permission" is okay, just that it's a lesser evil than spying where even your government has no say or knowledge.
I apologize for going on a sidetrack here, but this has been bugging me for a while:
On occasion the xkcd "correct horse battery staple" comic comes up, and when people compare the password strength to other methods, they calculate the strength of the random words password based on (number of words in dictionary used)^(number of words in password).
This makes no sense to me. When an attacker is trying to brute force your password, he has no idea how you created your password, so calculating a random-word password strength like that would imply the attacker knows you used that method (i.e. he is guessing nothing but multi-word passwords) and knows the dictionary you used. If I made my own dictionary of 20 words, it would be absurd to calculate my password strength based on the dictionary size, as the attacker does not have that information (other than if he was cracking all my accounts and figured out my dictionary).
I realize an attacker might start with common passwords, then go on to a multiple-word attack, then maybe other common methods, but he has no idea how long my password is and at some point he has to decide when to stop the targeted approach and try random strings.
I could (potentially) defeat his targeted approach in a number of ways:
-Use a word not in his dictionary
-Add extra characters in a way he wouldn't guess
-Use more words/characters than he is willing to try before switching to a random string approach
Heck, using the word "cat" 100 times would have little entropy, but so long as its too long of an "easy" password for the attacker to explicitly guess, it's a strong password (and before you say he might try "cat" 100 times, consider he has to do that with all dictionary words, then try them all many times more if I add even a single random character in there, all time he's wasting on really obscure passwords).
Am I missing something here, or is password strength being calculated based on unrealistic assumptions? At the very least, password strength should be based on an attacker starting with low-entropy passwords and working his way up, instead of assuming the attacker knows your password generation method (alpha case-insensitive, alphanumeric with symbols, multiple words, etc.).
I, for one, hope that EA doesn't stop at Zynga in its pursuit of game publishers that lazily copy EA's games, instead of coming up with new ideas. That's right, I'm looking at you, EA, you better watch out as EA is coming after you next!
Quick solution: use these simulators for a separate certification that gives you a substantial break on insurance. Private companies can buy the simulators, offer courses and administer the certification. Proper inclusion in the DMV can come later, especially as the price on the simulators comes down.
I don't know if the wording of this bill addresses it either, but your TOS point would arguably be defeated just by asking the employee/candidate to login themselves.
Based on the article Anonymous just traced the Twitter account to a person and that in formation was submitted to the police. It doesn't appear they sidestepped the law, and they haven't taken it upon themselves to punish the guy. Now we just have to hope there is sufficient evidence to convict the guy, as an email from someone in Anonymous isn't proof enough they have the right guy.
If I find a body in the middle of the road, with many broken bones, severe internal bleeding, and skid marks nearby, I better throw up my hands and declare it's impossible to guess how the person died as I can't know until I've proven how every person ever died...
One can never honestly claim to have 100% certainty, but if I have a very good explanation for what I'm seeing, and I can't find anything else that fits, I can reasonably assume I am on the right track until someone can put together a stronger theory.
The thing with AGW is, increased CO2 will cause the earth to heat up (we know this from chemestry and thermodynamics, no computer models needed). So in order to explain away AGW, you not only have to come up with something that explains the warming better than the CO2 increase we are seeing, but also explain what is counteracting the warming from the CO2 (so you somehow have something causing cooling in one way but warming in another). Going back to the analogy, this is like you have both the body and the car, and can see how the injuries line up very well with how the car would have hit the person.
I should clarify, my point isn't whether the ribbon or Metro are good, just that I get the impression that many* people dismiss them as quick as they mockingly expect a "luser" on Linux to demand they go back to Windows.
*Emphasis on the absence of the words "all" or "most".
One thing I've always found funny is that these same people have possibly gone through many changes in Windows and MS Office, always without complaint, because it was fed to them by Microsoft as "the next step".
So you have your unwashed masses that complain about Linux being bad because of change, but accepting changes from Microsoft, and then you have your Linux crowd that will proudly work to adapt to the latest changes to *Linux kernel here*, but refuse to touch changes from Microsoft (ribbon, Metro).
There are plenty of Linux apologists that give Microsoft's changes a fair shake, but there does seem to be a substantial hypocritical crowd too.
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I can't help noticing that these "New York to London" metrics spouted by the Pentagon are carefully constructed "spin" to frame the X-51 in a "civilian transport" context.
And every time a distance or area is expressed in terms of football fields, the statistic was sponsored by the NFL? Or maybe New York to London is a common metric for describing how fast something flies (especially from when you could compare that flight time to the Concorde).
Imagine Windows 7 where the start menu [...] took up the whole screen
1. Install Windows 98
2. Install 2343 programs
3. Open start menu
Voila! You are now using Windows 8.
Do you log in by blinking or something? Otherwise I don't see how "typetype tab typetype enter click" is much longer than "typetype tab typetype enter".
The patdown is more invasive than it should be, but can we stop modding people +5 insightful for pretending it's molestation? After reading all the slashdot comments I was expecting to feel offended and violated when I opted for a patdown recently (I fly only very rarely), only to find I dislike it more on principle than it being a real problem.I can definitely say the hype is hurting the credibility of the anti-TSA crowd.
As someone that would like to see the scanners removed and patdowns reserved as an escalation only, please stick with language along the lines of "invasive patdown".
Maybe they should ship the waste to Guantanamo. With the radiation, suddenly we have no choice but to evacuate the prisoners, and there aren't any Americans around to claim NIMBY. That would make it a win-win... except Cuba wouldn't be too happy.
a team of nanoengineers
I think the politically correct term would be "vertically challenged engineers".
Well, I've found that secret messages usually come across better using Wingdings.
mother's maiden name was AH8hfds86
I think we're related...
...science and things like evidence are not a factor with public comment sessions. See why I think the new "smart grid" is a non-starter?
Case in point, my city wants to implement smart grid technology, complete with meters that wirelessly transmit information. Public comment sessions were largely driven by these anti-radiation people, and they even distributed fliers trying to scare people with the dangers of radiation (including attributing dangers of nuclear radiation to EM radiation).
It's entirely possible to set a national record for hottest month without breaking a single state or local record (though I don't know how many such records were actually set this July). You just need simultaneous above-average temperatures over a broad portion of the country, not necessarily extreme temperatures.
I distrust any "solution" that can be explained in less than three paragraphs
Except when the problem can be explained in less than three paragraphs.
Your host could go up in flames or your house can go up in flames
So put a backup on your router, it should have a firewall.
In the US, many if not most suburban areas, and nearly all cities, forbid keeping farm animals e.g. chickens, pigs, goats, etc. even as pets
I have relatives that started raising hens (for eggs, not meat), in the middle of Indianapolis. They were able to use space next to a warehouse- I'm assuming many of the ordinances against animals are for residential land.
(This is offered more as an anecdote than an argument against your point, but maybe someone has more experience with urban livestock who could add something).
I'm pretty sure the drones have been put to thorough use on missions that don't involve US citizens. If you want to (rightly) criticise the US, making caricatures that make no sense doesn't help you (the military has such an unrestrained urge to play with their toys that they refrain from testing them on the plentiful non-US-citizen targets? Seriously?).
i'm sure you didn't even read my comment before formulating your useless mental vomit
I'm sure he would be happy to throw your words right back at you.
I guess we would never know for sure, but does the NSA (or related agencies) have secret backdoors only it knows about? We know all internet traffic that routes through the US should be assumed intercepted, and I believe we spy on allied nations' citizens with the knowledge or even participation of their governments, but can we make a distinction between China's trojan horse attempts and the US' strongarmed requests for permission*? Also, China's spying is often used for economic gain, not just military intelligence. While I know the US isn't exactly clean when it comes to spying for the benefit of corporations, is it considered a pervasive problem like it is with China?
*No, your government allowing the US to spy on you isn't the same as permission from you. I don't mean to imply that spying with "permission" is okay, just that it's a lesser evil than spying where even your government has no say or knowledge.
I apologize for going on a sidetrack here, but this has been bugging me for a while:
On occasion the xkcd "correct horse battery staple" comic comes up, and when people compare the password strength to other methods, they calculate the strength of the random words password based on (number of words in dictionary used)^(number of words in password).
This makes no sense to me. When an attacker is trying to brute force your password, he has no idea how you created your password, so calculating a random-word password strength like that would imply the attacker knows you used that method (i.e. he is guessing nothing but multi-word passwords) and knows the dictionary you used. If I made my own dictionary of 20 words, it would be absurd to calculate my password strength based on the dictionary size, as the attacker does not have that information (other than if he was cracking all my accounts and figured out my dictionary).
I realize an attacker might start with common passwords, then go on to a multiple-word attack, then maybe other common methods, but he has no idea how long my password is and at some point he has to decide when to stop the targeted approach and try random strings.
I could (potentially) defeat his targeted approach in a number of ways:
-Use a word not in his dictionary
-Add extra characters in a way he wouldn't guess
-Use more words/characters than he is willing to try before switching to a random string approach
Heck, using the word "cat" 100 times would have little entropy, but so long as its too long of an "easy" password for the attacker to explicitly guess, it's a strong password (and before you say he might try "cat" 100 times, consider he has to do that with all dictionary words, then try them all many times more if I add even a single random character in there, all time he's wasting on really obscure passwords).
Am I missing something here, or is password strength being calculated based on unrealistic assumptions? At the very least, password strength should be based on an attacker starting with low-entropy passwords and working his way up, instead of assuming the attacker knows your password generation method (alpha case-insensitive, alphanumeric with symbols, multiple words, etc.).
I, for one, hope that EA doesn't stop at Zynga in its pursuit of game publishers that lazily copy EA's games, instead of coming up with new ideas. That's right, I'm looking at you, EA, you better watch out as EA is coming after you next!
Sometimes they tack stuff on that they know won't stick, simply so they can boast to their constituents that they proposed a law to address topic X.
Quick solution: use these simulators for a separate certification that gives you a substantial break on insurance. Private companies can buy the simulators, offer courses and administer the certification. Proper inclusion in the DMV can come later, especially as the price on the simulators comes down.
I don't know if the wording of this bill addresses it either, but your TOS point would arguably be defeated just by asking the employee/candidate to login themselves.
Based on the article Anonymous just traced the Twitter account to a person and that in formation was submitted to the police. It doesn't appear they sidestepped the law, and they haven't taken it upon themselves to punish the guy. Now we just have to hope there is sufficient evidence to convict the guy, as an email from someone in Anonymous isn't proof enough they have the right guy.
If I find a body in the middle of the road, with many broken bones, severe internal bleeding, and skid marks nearby, I better throw up my hands and declare it's impossible to guess how the person died as I can't know until I've proven how every person ever died...
One can never honestly claim to have 100% certainty, but if I have a very good explanation for what I'm seeing, and I can't find anything else that fits, I can reasonably assume I am on the right track until someone can put together a stronger theory.
The thing with AGW is, increased CO2 will cause the earth to heat up (we know this from chemestry and thermodynamics, no computer models needed). So in order to explain away AGW, you not only have to come up with something that explains the warming better than the CO2 increase we are seeing, but also explain what is counteracting the warming from the CO2 (so you somehow have something causing cooling in one way but warming in another). Going back to the analogy, this is like you have both the body and the car, and can see how the injuries line up very well with how the car would have hit the person.
I should clarify, my point isn't whether the ribbon or Metro are good, just that I get the impression that many* people dismiss them as quick as they mockingly expect a "luser" on Linux to demand they go back to Windows.
*Emphasis on the absence of the words "all" or "most".
One thing I've always found funny is that these same people have possibly gone through many changes in Windows and MS Office, always without complaint, because it was fed to them by Microsoft as "the next step".
So you have your unwashed masses that complain about Linux being bad because of change, but accepting changes from Microsoft, and then you have your Linux crowd that will proudly work to adapt to the latest changes to *Linux kernel here*, but refuse to touch changes from Microsoft (ribbon, Metro).
There are plenty of Linux apologists that give Microsoft's changes a fair shake, but there does seem to be a substantial hypocritical crowd too.