Well the arbitrary low limits on password length is just annoying. Yes I am sure that they want to save a few bytes in the DB but seriously if I really want to I should be able to have Beowulf written in the original Old English as my password if I want. Off by one errors are common so maybe report the bug, but I would also complain about short length allowed.
I like to introduce as much entropy into the system as possible. It is really sad that my bank has a max password length of 24 chars while my credit card offers 32. Also my credit card will allow me to change my username at any time to a string of up to 32 chars. There is the additional security "feature" that they offer of having those silly questions but even there my credit card offers you the option to have more than 3 questions and the answers can be longer than the ones for my bank. So to access my bank account takes something around ~350 bits of randomness yet the credit card requires ~600 bits (these are probably the low end estimates since I am not really sure how to count the security questions so I just added the bit count for a single one). I guess it is because the credit card company gets to eat the losses by default while by default with the bank I get to eat them.
And yes those are actual random bits, not button mashed bits (base 64 encoded enough output from/dev/random).
It has been my experience that the residential plans and service suck while the business class ones are wonderful. I like being able to call up customer service state what I have tried to solve the problem and get them to check the connection from their end instead of endlessly rebooting my equipment again. Granted I don't have comcast in my area but instead have Charter and Frontier. Not being on the same circuit as the rest of the neighborhood with charter is nice as I don't have that shared bandwidth problem. Then toss in that I am free to run servers and a static IP address and the 2.5x to 3x cost is worth it. As an added benefit the business class plans don't seem to have the hidden caps that residential ones do.
Interestingly most people seem to think that those people have some power to actually stop or detain you. I to just keep on walking, the worst that has ever happened is that person at the door yelled "Hey you stop! I need to check your receipt!" If you choose to not stop and they attempt to detain you the law is on your side since you can bring false imprisonment charges against them provided you haven't actually done anything else other than leave or attempt to leave with your legally purchased items.
Given the small size of some nuclear warheads I wonder how difficult it would be to just swap out conventional explosives with nuclear ones on existing precision weapons. Granted these tiny nukes are closer to a dirty bomb than what most people are familiar with when it comes to a nuclear explosion but still a 72 ton blast is at least on the same order of magnitude as one of these guys even if they make up different ends of the order of magnitude, and we don't seem to have problems using the latter ones.
Still sounds better than a lot of what I have gotten. If I get a response it is usually a patronizing letter thanking for my support, even though I disagreed, of their decisions. The worst was the response I got from one of my senators, the senator of small things, that expounded on how wonderful it was l that she didn't have to make a hard decision. Still I refuse to be one of the apathetic Americans even if I know that I probably have a better chance of winning the Powerball and being struck by lightning on the same day, than my opinion making a difference to them.
Let your congress critter know you want them to support this bill. If you don't know who is yours you can find them here and from their page send them an e-mail or get the number to call their DC or local office. I have already sent an e-mail to my worthless war hawk nuclear football carrying congress critter but I suspect that it will fall on deaf ears. I also contacted my senators but don't expect much from either of them as one avoids controversy like the plague and the other has been hanging low for a while.
You have that wrong. Thomas Massie would be caught in a gay sex scandal, while it would be discovered that Mark Pocan has only been involved in a hetero monogamous relationship. For both of them it would be career ending.
I was just trying to be a pain in the ass, but yes the first modern commercial electric car was produced by GM. On this subject I do wonder if a modern steam vehicle could be built that offers reasonable performance, mileage, and comfort.
They are finding out exactly where anything that might be of any strategic interest is absolutely guaranteed to not be during the duration of the flight.
Canada has plenty of natural enemies, but don't worry as the polar ice pack melts most of those will drown. Then they will just have to worry about the brown bears instead of also the polar bears.
Like I said I need to win the lottery. As far as materials go I don't know what is the best and am not at watch maker but from my limited knowledge it seems that something like titanium would be better as I believe that it holds it's dimensions better with temperature change than steel does. My understanding was that gear train and escapement are what you want to have be very light and dimensionally stable so it does seem like a better material, especially since it isn't magnetic, but hey I I'm not set on and specific material. Also I may not be aware of the existing use of exotic surface treatments but it does seem like something that would lower friction substantially as well as decrease wear on the fast moving parts. For the various springs I have no idea what would be the best material and that titanium wouldn't be it, but it does sound like that is pretty much a solved problem.
A watch like what I want would seem to be more of a retirement gift to my self at this point and I know it will be expensive, just not how expensive. I don't really have a budget as at this point it is just a pie in the sky thing.
But the GP wanted to address the safety issue, not a monitory one and brought up the prevent harm to you or a loved one argument, aka think of the children. My personal thoughts on what to do in that situation are definitely something that shouldn't be used to dictate public policy. Also if one really wanted to carry out a terror attack in the US it would be very trivial to accomplish, especially one that would cause significant harm to those in power or economic harm. The only reason we don't see those types of attacks is two reasons. One, there just aren't that many terrorists here. Two, the terrorists that are here seem to be individuals that surprisingly have managed to not choke on their own tongue. I mean these people are really really stupid considering how easy it is to blow shit up. God knows my friends and I blew a lot of shit up while in high school, especially not being far from some very rural places, things like trees, rocks, stumps, the stream, some corn, trash we found out in the woods. The Boston bombing showed just how easy it is to blow shit up and yet there haven't been any copy cats of that, granted maybe buying a pressure canner now means you get shipped off to Gitmo immediately, but those were just large pipe bombs and last week when I went to the local home improvement store I saw that you can still buy pipe and pipe caps so that can't be it.
It would be neat to see those watches but $10k is probably about what I would want custom made with no brand attached would probably costs, maybe a bit less.
I was thinking of seeing about getting a custom gear train made from some lighter weight materials like titanium instead of brass and stainless steel. Also in addition to the standard jewel bearings have the moving parts coated with exotic surface treatments like DLC to further decrease the friction in the gear train as well as decreasing the wear. I would also probably consider have it with a tourbillon as it sounds like having one of those does allow for the potential of greater accuracy. So basically taking things to their logical extreme.
I would be willing to bet that the pervasive and often illegal gathering of intelligence has done far more damage than it has prevented.
I stand a far greater chance of dying driving to work than being harmed by the people that this type of surveillance is suppose to stop. And if you believe that this isn't the case I can even back it up with numbers. The NSA a couple of years ago claimed that their illegal activities have stopped 50 terror attacks since 9/11/01. So lets assume that this is true, that means that in 12 years they stopped about 4 attacks a year and lets even assume that each of those attacks was on a similar scale to 9/11, doing this only makes the numbers look better for the government. That means that on average terrorism would kill about 12,000 people a year which puts it well below drug abuse as a cause of death. Since we have already wandered off into the Neighborhood of Make-Believe at this point why not take it a little further and assume that all 50 attacks happened in the same year. This means that ~150,000 people bite it a year due to terrorism and there is basically a weekly major attack meaning we are probably living in a fucking war zone. Even at that level it means that terrorism is slightly more deadly than being a fat ass in the US but still well below the next cause which is smoking. The reality is that the number attacks prevented probably isn't close to 50 that was stated, they were over ~12 years not one, and the likely scale of each attack is probably the same as the dumb bastard who failed to ignite his shoes or his underwear and would have only mildly injured him self. So in reality I could probably likely assume that had the NSA done nothing there might might be ~100 people killed by terrorism over 12 years, or in other words there are probably more people who have won the Powerball jackpot over that same time. I wouldn't base public policy on a statistical anomaly like that.
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Probably not, ships are cheaper than trains, but trains are faster, so it would be hard to justify the added expense for non perishable items.
This time I would say the answer is yes. It is great at identifying people suffering from a severe medical condition know as anal-cranial-inversion.
Well the arbitrary low limits on password length is just annoying. Yes I am sure that they want to save a few bytes in the DB but seriously if I really want to I should be able to have Beowulf written in the original Old English as my password if I want. Off by one errors are common so maybe report the bug, but I would also complain about short length allowed.
I like to introduce as much entropy into the system as possible. It is really sad that my bank has a max password length of 24 chars while my credit card offers 32. Also my credit card will allow me to change my username at any time to a string of up to 32 chars. There is the additional security "feature" that they offer of having those silly questions but even there my credit card offers you the option to have more than 3 questions and the answers can be longer than the ones for my bank. So to access my bank account takes something around ~350 bits of randomness yet the credit card requires ~600 bits (these are probably the low end estimates since I am not really sure how to count the security questions so I just added the bit count for a single one). I guess it is because the credit card company gets to eat the losses by default while by default with the bank I get to eat them.
/dev/random).
And yes those are actual random bits, not button mashed bits (base 64 encoded enough output from
I've been hearing about this proposed road for close to 20 years now and it is much like flying cars. Everyone likes to propose it but then reality sets in and it is discovered it is a really shitty idea. If it were ever built I would think it would be cool to attempt to drive it, then again I want the Pan-American Highway so I can take drive my car from Prudhoe Bay, Alaska to Ushuaia, Argentina just because.
Mine don't ask if we are there yet but ask when will we get there, my stock response is "Sometime between now and the heat death of the universe."
It has been my experience that the residential plans and service suck while the business class ones are wonderful. I like being able to call up customer service state what I have tried to solve the problem and get them to check the connection from their end instead of endlessly rebooting my equipment again. Granted I don't have comcast in my area but instead have Charter and Frontier. Not being on the same circuit as the rest of the neighborhood with charter is nice as I don't have that shared bandwidth problem. Then toss in that I am free to run servers and a static IP address and the 2.5x to 3x cost is worth it. As an added benefit the business class plans don't seem to have the hidden caps that residential ones do.
Interestingly most people seem to think that those people have some power to actually stop or detain you. I to just keep on walking, the worst that has ever happened is that person at the door yelled "Hey you stop! I need to check your receipt!" If you choose to not stop and they attempt to detain you the law is on your side since you can bring false imprisonment charges against them provided you haven't actually done anything else other than leave or attempt to leave with your legally purchased items.
Given the small size of some nuclear warheads I wonder how difficult it would be to just swap out conventional explosives with nuclear ones on existing precision weapons. Granted these tiny nukes are closer to a dirty bomb than what most people are familiar with when it comes to a nuclear explosion but still a 72 ton blast is at least on the same order of magnitude as one of these guys even if they make up different ends of the order of magnitude, and we don't seem to have problems using the latter ones.
Hey some of us don't shave.
Still sounds better than a lot of what I have gotten. If I get a response it is usually a patronizing letter thanking for my support, even though I disagreed, of their decisions. The worst was the response I got from one of my senators, the senator of small things, that expounded on how wonderful it was l that she didn't have to make a hard decision. Still I refuse to be one of the apathetic Americans even if I know that I probably have a better chance of winning the Powerball and being struck by lightning on the same day, than my opinion making a difference to them.
I didn't know that Mark Pocan was openly gay, then again why would I care. That only makes my comment down the thread even funnier.
Let your congress critter know you want them to support this bill. If you don't know who is yours you can find them here and from their page send them an e-mail or get the number to call their DC or local office. I have already sent an e-mail to my worthless war hawk nuclear football carrying congress critter but I suspect that it will fall on deaf ears. I also contacted my senators but don't expect much from either of them as one avoids controversy like the plague and the other has been hanging low for a while.
You have that wrong. Thomas Massie would be caught in a gay sex scandal, while it would be discovered that Mark Pocan has only been involved in a hetero monogamous relationship. For both of them it would be career ending.
I was just trying to be a pain in the ass, but yes the first modern commercial electric car was produced by GM. On this subject I do wonder if a modern steam vehicle could be built that offers reasonable performance, mileage, and comfort.
Here is an interesting or painful question, would the Sex in the City movies pass it?
Well to be fair GM didn't produce the first commercial electric car as those were produced before GM even existed.
Or possibly some caches of old Mosin-Nagants that the Russians want to dispose of.
I can answer that.
They are finding out exactly where anything that might be of any strategic interest is absolutely guaranteed to not be during the duration of the flight.
Canada has plenty of natural enemies, but don't worry as the polar ice pack melts most of those will drown. Then they will just have to worry about the brown bears instead of also the polar bears.
Like I said I need to win the lottery. As far as materials go I don't know what is the best and am not at watch maker but from my limited knowledge it seems that something like titanium would be better as I believe that it holds it's dimensions better with temperature change than steel does. My understanding was that gear train and escapement are what you want to have be very light and dimensionally stable so it does seem like a better material, especially since it isn't magnetic, but hey I I'm not set on and specific material. Also I may not be aware of the existing use of exotic surface treatments but it does seem like something that would lower friction substantially as well as decrease wear on the fast moving parts. For the various springs I have no idea what would be the best material and that titanium wouldn't be it, but it does sound like that is pretty much a solved problem.
A watch like what I want would seem to be more of a retirement gift to my self at this point and I know it will be expensive, just not how expensive. I don't really have a budget as at this point it is just a pie in the sky thing.
Over in the middle east there sure seems to be a lot of people willing to die by blowing up into pieces voluntarily.
But the GP wanted to address the safety issue, not a monitory one and brought up the prevent harm to you or a loved one argument, aka think of the children. My personal thoughts on what to do in that situation are definitely something that shouldn't be used to dictate public policy. Also if one really wanted to carry out a terror attack in the US it would be very trivial to accomplish, especially one that would cause significant harm to those in power or economic harm. The only reason we don't see those types of attacks is two reasons. One, there just aren't that many terrorists here. Two, the terrorists that are here seem to be individuals that surprisingly have managed to not choke on their own tongue. I mean these people are really really stupid considering how easy it is to blow shit up. God knows my friends and I blew a lot of shit up while in high school, especially not being far from some very rural places, things like trees, rocks, stumps, the stream, some corn, trash we found out in the woods. The Boston bombing showed just how easy it is to blow shit up and yet there haven't been any copy cats of that, granted maybe buying a pressure canner now means you get shipped off to Gitmo immediately, but those were just large pipe bombs and last week when I went to the local home improvement store I saw that you can still buy pipe and pipe caps so that can't be it.
It would be neat to see those watches but $10k is probably about what I would want custom made with no brand attached would probably costs, maybe a bit less.
I was thinking of seeing about getting a custom gear train made from some lighter weight materials like titanium instead of brass and stainless steel. Also in addition to the standard jewel bearings have the moving parts coated with exotic surface treatments like DLC to further decrease the friction in the gear train as well as decreasing the wear. I would also probably consider have it with a tourbillon as it sounds like having one of those does allow for the potential of greater accuracy. So basically taking things to their logical extreme.
I would be willing to bet that the pervasive and often illegal gathering of intelligence has done far more damage than it has prevented.
I stand a far greater chance of dying driving to work than being harmed by the people that this type of surveillance is suppose to stop. And if you believe that this isn't the case I can even back it up with numbers. The NSA a couple of years ago claimed that their illegal activities have stopped 50 terror attacks since 9/11/01. So lets assume that this is true, that means that in 12 years they stopped about 4 attacks a year and lets even assume that each of those attacks was on a similar scale to 9/11, doing this only makes the numbers look better for the government. That means that on average terrorism would kill about 12,000 people a year which puts it well below drug abuse as a cause of death. Since we have already wandered off into the Neighborhood of Make-Believe at this point why not take it a little further and assume that all 50 attacks happened in the same year. This means that ~150,000 people bite it a year due to terrorism and there is basically a weekly major attack meaning we are probably living in a fucking war zone. Even at that level it means that terrorism is slightly more deadly than being a fat ass in the US but still well below the next cause which is smoking. The reality is that the number attacks prevented probably isn't close to 50 that was stated, they were over ~12 years not one, and the likely scale of each attack is probably the same as the dumb bastard who failed to ignite his shoes or his underwear and would have only mildly injured him self. So in reality I could probably likely assume that had the NSA done nothing there might might be ~100 people killed by terrorism over 12 years, or in other words there are probably more people who have won the Powerball jackpot over that same time. I wouldn't base public policy on a statistical anomaly like that.