For work-related passwords, my boss has every right to know my passwords if I get sick. So, it makes sense to store them offline (e.g. a piece of paper in a drawer at the secretary's office). The security my passwords then relies on the security guards at the gate.
For my personal passwords, I rely on security through obscurity: I don't believe that anyone can find my passwords in the giant mess that I call my office. If I get sick, I can use the recovery time to clean up my office. It will take weeks, if not months.
Btw, I don't need a terrible accident to forget passwords. It happens a lot for those passwords that I don't need too often.
What they are really saying is that they are programming their cars to identify an certain object, and in certain cases ignore it and just drive over it.
Ford: "We are terribly sorry our autonomous car ran over your baby. To the car it looked like a paper bag. Next time dress your child in brown fur, and we promise we'll go around it."
It is nonsense that artists won't do something for free (they may not be familiar with the concept 'open source', but will instead just do stuff for free). I'd even go as far as to claim that the large majority of artists do things for free.
I just think there is a massive communication problem: programmers and the large majority of artists are living in different worlds, and hardly know of each others' existence. You'd have to find out where artists hang out (depends on what type of artist you're looking for: musicians, cartoonists, painters), and see what they can do for you. Hint: don't go and suggest they program everything in 3d according to your specs, and deliver next Friday.
You say that as if nothing ever gets stolen from your local convenience store, which no doubt has cameras too? 99.99% of the people wouldn't touch the drone. And 0.01% of the people would make it their source of income.
Here's how it goes: Bunch of people hanging at some streetcorner. They hear a buzzing sound indicating a drone that drops some goods. Up goes the hoodies and the scarf. They follow the sound, and possibly the mandatory lights that the drone has. As soon as it lands, they throw a blanket over it (making the camera useless), or they just ignore the camera altogether. Then they break the drone open with a bit of violence (it won't be difficult, since weight is a big issue for the drone), and they're off.
When it comes to spying on citizens, the Dutch have a rather poor track record, with a history of phone taps and other activities. Ever since the Dutch joined the war on terror with a number of soldiers in the Afghan province of Uruzgan, ties with the NSA are rather close.
Good point. The glass structure is to capture heat and contain the CO2. Still, the lamps are a major cost - but admittedly only would require a lamppost, and not an entire greenhouse.
I am very curious about the economics of this type of farming. (Note, I am not necessarily a skeptic). The cost of the water is obviously a driver to make sure the maximum amount of water is recycled. I wonder if they use hydroponics?
Greenhouses are used at large scale elsewhere with a lot of success. The Netherlands has a large area of greenhouses to produce tomatoes and peppers (and a lot more). There, the water is not a bottleneck, but sunlight is. So, lamps are used. I guess that is just as costly, showing that the economics of a greenhouse are not necessarily a problem.
I would say that a huge storm that can possibly make millions of people homeless, and kill thousands would definitely fit the description "stuff that matters".
The Netherlands has built a dedicated infrastructure for vehicles moving at around 12 mph on average, for one or two people. They are bike lanes, and it totally rules. The Netherlands has by far the highest percentage of cyclists, and a very low number of accidents.
So, I applaud the initiative to build some pathways where cars are banned, but I hope that these people do themselves a favor and allow cyclists to use these paths too. At least with a bike you don't have to wait for some pod to pass by, because it is already parked in front of the door. And in case of a hurry, you can just bike a bit faster.
Special pathways without cars: good idea. Slow small expensive pods: probably a useless idea.
But answer this: if he WERE a double agent, SO WHAT? Does that make the data he got wrong? No. Does it make what the documents say a good thing for the NSA to do? No.
So *even if* you're right and Snowden is a double agent, that has no bearing WHATSOEVER about the crimes the revelations have documented.
You don't get it. It is not about the data. At this moment the global attention is aimed at the NSA, and it says: "NSA = bad" and "Snowden = good". Some people just want to turn that around, and make it "Snowden = bad", and make people forget about the NSA.
I actually sometimes want to read something that I didn't know yet. In order to do so, I need some text on my screen.
On my giant screen, I now get barely 2 articles.. and in the comment section, I see no more than 5 replies at one time. In other words, the information density on my screen has dropped below that of my kindergarten books, where I sometimes got as many as 6 sentences one one page!
I think that the female cycle is close to the lunar cycle, but not exactly synchronized with it. It would be similar to people having a 22 hour day cycle instead of 24.
The menstrual cycle can be anywhere from 25-35 days, with an average of 28 days. The lunar cycle is 29.5 days.
On a sidenote, imagine the horror if all women of the world would have their period exactly synchronized!
Yes. The BBC may not be as good as people want them to be, but they are certainly better than all the other channels.
All commercial channels first of all broadcast around 30-35% advertisements. Pure garbage. Secondly, many commercial shows repeat fragments throughout their shows - especially around the commercial breaks. More garbage. But most importantly, the BBC have a primary task to inform the public, whereas most other channels have a primary task to earn money.
And I really like it that they allow quite some of their shows to be put on Youtube for the whole world to watch.
Pandering to nitwits who think its important to have a shiny boot time display with a spinning logo does not a better platform make.
But 99% of this planet's population are nitwits, so that is where you can grow your market share. Maybe Ubuntu wanted to be the Linux for nitwits? Its approach surely made me (I'm also a nitwit) switch from Windows to Ubuntu.
Ubuntu used to appeal to me because it worked (to my liking) straight out of the box. If I have to start testing multiple desktop environments before I can start enjoying it, that selling point is gone. In Mint, I haven't had to adjust any settings.
To your average uninformed user, there is the operating system, and there are apps. A desktop is not an app, so it must be the operating system. I kinda agree with that simplification. I didn't like Ubuntu with Unity, so I went for Mint, with whatever desktop I got with that (don't even know the name).
This article is about why Ubuntu is losing popularity, and that is certainly not because its user-base is so well-informed about work-arounds for the crap they don't like. Now get off my lawn.
Ubuntu got popular because the ordinary people who cannot figure out how a command line works could use it. It looked quite a bit like Windows, which was a good thing. A task bar at the bottom, and a menu with a lot of functionality. Unity is too different, and made it slower too. So, many people seem to switch to Linux Mint.
I mean, even the close/minimize/maximize buttons had to be switched around to the top left... WHY?
If I want unnecessary bling-bling and a lack of functionality, I'll get a Windows computer. If I want to be a hipster, I'll get an Apple. I use Linux because I like simplicity and functionality. As soon as Ubuntu stopped delivering that, I switched to Mint.
Yeah, they could just as well have written about the next village where the fish factory closed. Or about the boom times in tiny villages in North Dakota where they've found oil.
Movie ticket: $10, 2 hours entertainment –$5 per hour. Pub: $20, 4 hours entertainment – $5 per hour. Typical AAA game: $40, 30 hours entertainment –$1.33 per hour. GTA: $60, 100 hours entertaiment – $0.60 per hour.
I'd say GTA is pretty well priced already.
That just says that the movies and beer in pubs are way too expensive.
Their data is obviously 100% secure so I don't really see any problems. Cleaning companies are famous for their rigid IT infrastructure, since their operational margin is huge and they have tons of cash to spend. There is also no market for hundreds (thousands?) of fingerprints with matching names and other personal data on a black market. So what could possibly go wrong?
Do you have any idea of the value of such a Mars mission in terms of advertising? It would be insane. I do not think it is unrealistic to assume you can get 10% of that global advertising money (50 billion per year) if you do a reality show of such a mission. That would mean you have triple the budget of NASA.
I'd say this may actually work. As long as the guys at Mars One admit that they need a little help in building and designing their rocket and space station.
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For work-related passwords, my boss has every right to know my passwords if I get sick. So, it makes sense to store them offline (e.g. a piece of paper in a drawer at the secretary's office). The security my passwords then relies on the security guards at the gate.
For my personal passwords, I rely on security through obscurity: I don't believe that anyone can find my passwords in the giant mess that I call my office. If I get sick, I can use the recovery time to clean up my office. It will take weeks, if not months.
Btw, I don't need a terrible accident to forget passwords. It happens a lot for those passwords that I don't need too often.
What they are really saying is that they are programming their cars to identify an certain object, and in certain cases ignore it and just drive over it.
Ford: "We are terribly sorry our autonomous car ran over your baby. To the car it looked like a paper bag. Next time dress your child in brown fur, and we promise we'll go around it."
It is nonsense that artists won't do something for free (they may not be familiar with the concept 'open source', but will instead just do stuff for free). I'd even go as far as to claim that the large majority of artists do things for free.
I just think there is a massive communication problem: programmers and the large majority of artists are living in different worlds, and hardly know of each others' existence. You'd have to find out where artists hang out (depends on what type of artist you're looking for: musicians, cartoonists, painters), and see what they can do for you. Hint: don't go and suggest they program everything in 3d according to your specs, and deliver next Friday.
You say that as if nothing ever gets stolen from your local convenience store, which no doubt has cameras too? 99.99% of the people wouldn't touch the drone. And 0.01% of the people would make it their source of income.
Here's how it goes: Bunch of people hanging at some streetcorner. They hear a buzzing sound indicating a drone that drops some goods. Up goes the hoodies and the scarf. They follow the sound, and possibly the mandatory lights that the drone has. As soon as it lands, they throw a blanket over it (making the camera useless), or they just ignore the camera altogether. Then they break the drone open with a bit of violence (it won't be difficult, since weight is a big issue for the drone), and they're off.
Atlanta, Atlantis... what's in a name?
In the USA, the climate changes you!
When it comes to spying on citizens, the Dutch have a rather poor track record, with a history of phone taps and other activities. Ever since the Dutch joined the war on terror with a number of soldiers in the Afghan province of Uruzgan, ties with the NSA are rather close.
Sources (in Dutch):
1. Support of previous post (minister not wanting to criticize NSA): http://nos.nl/artikel/578418-rutte-kaken-op-elkaar-over-nsa.html
2. Thousands of phone taps already as early as 2009: http://www.nrcnext.nl/blog/2009/09/10/nederland-is-kampioen-afluisteren/
3. Ties with NSA since Uruzgan: http://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2013/11/23/nauwe-banden-nsa-en-nederlandse-inlichtingendiensten-dankzij-uruzgan/
Chancellorsville has one of the most advanced air defense systems in the Navy[...]
But it could not defend itself against a runaway drone. Very impressive.
Good point. The glass structure is to capture heat and contain the CO2. Still, the lamps are a major cost - but admittedly only would require a lamppost, and not an entire greenhouse.
I am very curious about the economics of this type of farming. (Note, I am not necessarily a skeptic). The cost of the water is obviously a driver to make sure the maximum amount of water is recycled. I wonder if they use hydroponics?
Greenhouses are used at large scale elsewhere with a lot of success. The Netherlands has a large area of greenhouses to produce tomatoes and peppers (and a lot more). There, the water is not a bottleneck, but sunlight is. So, lamps are used. I guess that is just as costly, showing that the economics of a greenhouse are not necessarily a problem.
Haiyan is the name given to the super typhoon by the World Meteorological Organization (source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-24863480 )
What I understood is that the Philippines counts the number of storms that hit the country (this is the 25th this year!!), so in their counting, it gets a name with a Y. (Source: http://blogs.wsj.com/searealtime/2013/11/08/from-haiyan-to-yolanda-how-the-philippines-names-its-storms/ )
I would say that a huge storm that can possibly make millions of people homeless, and kill thousands would definitely fit the description "stuff that matters".
The Netherlands has built a dedicated infrastructure for vehicles moving at around 12 mph on average, for one or two people. They are bike lanes, and it totally rules. The Netherlands has by far the highest percentage of cyclists, and a very low number of accidents.
So, I applaud the initiative to build some pathways where cars are banned, but I hope that these people do themselves a favor and allow cyclists to use these paths too. At least with a bike you don't have to wait for some pod to pass by, because it is already parked in front of the door. And in case of a hurry, you can just bike a bit faster.
Special pathways without cars: good idea.
Slow small expensive pods: probably a useless idea.
But answer this: if he WERE a double agent, SO WHAT? Does that make the data he got wrong? No. Does it make what the documents say a good thing for the NSA to do? No.
So *even if* you're right and Snowden is a double agent, that has no bearing WHATSOEVER about the crimes the revelations have documented.
You don't get it. It is not about the data. At this moment the global attention is aimed at the NSA, and it says: "NSA = bad" and "Snowden = good". Some people just want to turn that around, and make it "Snowden = bad", and make people forget about the NSA.
It's really that simple.
I actually sometimes want to read something that I didn't know yet. In order to do so, I need some text on my screen.
On my giant screen, I now get barely 2 articles.. and in the comment section, I see no more than 5 replies at one time. In other words, the information density on my screen has dropped below that of my kindergarten books, where I sometimes got as many as 6 sentences one one page!
-- Information density matters!
I think that the female cycle is close to the lunar cycle, but not exactly synchronized with it. It would be similar to people having a 22 hour day cycle instead of 24.
The menstrual cycle can be anywhere from 25-35 days, with an average of 28 days.
The lunar cycle is 29.5 days.
On a sidenote, imagine the horror if all women of the world would have their period exactly synchronized!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menstrual_cycle
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_phase#Overview
Yes. The BBC may not be as good as people want them to be, but they are certainly better than all the other channels.
All commercial channels first of all broadcast around 30-35% advertisements. Pure garbage.
Secondly, many commercial shows repeat fragments throughout their shows - especially around the commercial breaks. More garbage.
But most importantly, the BBC have a primary task to inform the public, whereas most other channels have a primary task to earn money.
And I really like it that they allow quite some of their shows to be put on Youtube for the whole world to watch.
Pandering to nitwits who think its important to have a shiny boot time display with a spinning logo does not a better platform make.
But 99% of this planet's population are nitwits, so that is where you can grow your market share. Maybe Ubuntu wanted to be the Linux for nitwits? Its approach surely made me (I'm also a nitwit) switch from Windows to Ubuntu.
Ubuntu used to appeal to me because it worked (to my liking) straight out of the box. If I have to start testing multiple desktop environments before I can start enjoying it, that selling point is gone. In Mint, I haven't had to adjust any settings.
To your average uninformed user, there is the operating system, and there are apps. A desktop is not an app, so it must be the operating system. I kinda agree with that simplification. I didn't like Ubuntu with Unity, so I went for Mint, with whatever desktop I got with that (don't even know the name).
This article is about why Ubuntu is losing popularity, and that is certainly not because its user-base is so well-informed about work-arounds for the crap they don't like. Now get off my lawn.
Ubuntu got popular because the ordinary people who cannot figure out how a command line works could use it. It looked quite a bit like Windows, which was a good thing. A task bar at the bottom, and a menu with a lot of functionality. Unity is too different, and made it slower too. So, many people seem to switch to Linux Mint.
I mean, even the close/minimize/maximize buttons had to be switched around to the top left... WHY?
If I want unnecessary bling-bling and a lack of functionality, I'll get a Windows computer. If I want to be a hipster, I'll get an Apple. I use Linux because I like simplicity and functionality. As soon as Ubuntu stopped delivering that, I switched to Mint.
Yeah, they could just as well have written about the next village where the fish factory closed. Or about the boom times in tiny villages in North Dakota where they've found oil.
At least that link shows an artist impression of the creatures, which is the only thing most people care about. Thanks for posting. :-)
Movie ticket: $10, 2 hours entertainment –$5 per hour.
Pub: $20, 4 hours entertainment – $5 per hour.
Typical AAA game: $40, 30 hours entertainment –$1.33 per hour.
GTA: $60, 100 hours entertaiment – $0.60 per hour.
I'd say GTA is pretty well priced already.
That just says that the movies and beer in pubs are way too expensive.
Their data is obviously 100% secure so I don't really see any problems. Cleaning companies are famous for their rigid IT infrastructure, since their operational margin is huge and they have tons of cash to spend. There is also no market for hundreds (thousands?) of fingerprints with matching names and other personal data on a black market. So what could possibly go wrong?
The main speciality of the Mars One project is fundraising and public relations, not space travel.
Isn't that exactly what the nerds of NASA suck at: getting enough funding? NASA only get 17 billion per year (approx.). The global media advertising business is approx. worth 500 billion $ per year (source: http://www.plunkettresearch.com/entertainment-media-publishing-market-research/industry-and-business-data).
Do you have any idea of the value of such a Mars mission in terms of advertising? It would be insane. I do not think it is unrealistic to assume you can get 10% of that global advertising money (50 billion per year) if you do a reality show of such a mission. That would mean you have triple the budget of NASA.
I'd say this may actually work. As long as the guys at Mars One admit that they need a little help in building and designing their rocket and space station.