I remember my old college Vax system would throw an error if your password was in the dictionary. The strength meter does not have to exclusively say "weak" and leave it at that, it could say "do not, under any circumstances, allow 'password' to be in your password, you idiot" and then there's no confusion at all.
The Vax system failed in that respect, in that the error it returned was pretty confusing. I do not remember the details after this long, but it was missing some helpful words and came out like: "Password change failed. Dictionary match." when it should have said "Your password matched a word in our dictionary and isn't complex enough. Please try again."
Many web sites have a built-in "strength verifier" tool as you create your account. For instance, I saw one inside cPanel the other day while creating a new user for a database. Yeah, going to a third party is a terrible idea, but I think this is about the built-in tool on the site you're genuinely using.
It's fine to queue in the middle of the intersection and once the lights go red you can then make the turn and clear the intersection.
I've gotten wary of this recently. Last year in my town they redid all the traffic lights to add in blinking left yellow arrows at all the intersections, instead of just the implied yield when there's a green circle. In the process they made some of the intersections asynchronous, so that the blinking yellow left would go to hard red left while there was still oncoming traffic. I'm pretty sure this was a mistake, and given a year I think they've cleaned most of them up now, but I got trapped once and saw it happen to others a couple of times, to the point that now I'd rather be cautious than efficient.
Really? Because my introduction to the Web was on Mosaic, available in both my school computer labs and at the university where I did summer research. These were various unix boxen in physics labs, so that may be a pretty niche case, but still.
I think the trick is in having a button that you can press without being able to tell if you've really pressed it or not, because the combination of high resistance and minimal give, plus the unpredictable timing and organization of every particular stop light, ensure that you've got to hit it again and again, just in case, until you actually see it change.
Presumably on the back end the city electrical grid is powered by all these extra button pushes, and they're making a massive profit on the generated electricity. Only reason I can come up with that they'd make them so confoundingly lacking in feedback.
"Right now" isn't really pertinent to the discussion about a 40-year average. I don't know if 8% is realistic for that, but given historical trends it's a possibility.
3. Trump is just a total narcissistic fuckwit who has no idea what he's doing and thinks that his stream-of-consciousness primary success somehow translates into "All people love me and how I act"... I deem the latter the most probable
I've been fairly certain of #3 for a couple of decades now. In fact, roughly 8 years back when I needed a self-centered, power-mad, casino-owning, billionaire tycoon type to be the ultimate villain for the superhero computer game I was working on, I put in several nods (subtle, so as to avoid lawsuits) to The Donald as being just that type. Players of Twilight Heroes have been (unwittingly, for the most part) beating up his caricature over and over for almost a decade now.
You know, just the other day I was thinking about that. Decades ago, maybe it made sense that you could curry fame via publicized debates, but now the idea of two anonymous people squabbling on the internet (no matter how articulate) and gaining enough fame to become a leader is just absurd. One, there are so many articulate voices it's impossible that any two would stand out among the crowd, and two, there's so many more inarticulate voices (unclear, confused, uninformed, shills, trolls, outright lies, conspiracy theorists, etc.) that even the articulate ones are for the most part drowned out. Can you imagine anyone rising to the presidency based on even a large collection of viral youtube videos?
My grandmother is 99. She's been living off investments for thirty or forty years. A million spread over that much time doesn't really give you that much. Of course, the money's been invested and wasn't just a pile of cash, but on the other hand inflation over that long has cut the value of the money down to a third of what it used to be. By the time I retire in 20 or 30 more years, a single million isn't likely to be anywhere near enough.
I don't that was a good example. $25k * 40 years is $1 million straight up. Assuming you get interest and growth, you don't need to set aside anywhere near that much. Running some overly simplistic calculations in a spreadsheet, I think more like $4k/year at 8% growth will hit $1m in 40 years. If you want to assume 6% growth, it's a bit over $6k/year. That's still difficult to save, especially early on, but it's not ridiculous.
There's a web site called foodirl.com (food in real life) which calls out some instances of egregious differences between advertising/packaging and product. It's an entertaining read.
If you were to believe dozens of beer commercials I've seen in the past few decades, drinking several brands of beer should cause bikini-clad women to just show up and form a party around you or something. Can beer companies be sued for false representation if that doesn't happen when I crack open a Miller Light??
I'm afraid you've got this backwards. It's not showing you what will happen to you, it's a training video instructing you how to behave around others. What they're telling you is, when you see someone else cracking open a Miller Light, you need to immediately put on a bikini and party around that person.
May depend on what's being used. My old MacBook had issues displaying certain pages in the browser (flash video, I think?) and would go from quiet and cool to full-processor and hot in a matter of a minute. The new MacBook Pro is also generally good, but turn on Skype, for instance, and it's transformed into a heating unit almost instantaneously.
Twister's one of my guilty pleasures. It's cheesy, but it's not badly put together, for what it is. I came away from that movie extremely enthusiastic about the idea of being a storm chaser, until I realized I'd probably need to live in Oklahoma or Kansas to do it.
I've never had pocky, but ages and ages ago I ran across this poem that I loved so much I kept a copy. Recently I realized it had fallen off the internet, so now I'm reposting it out of civic duty.
Koala’s march: The flavor of strawberry, of Koala’s march Do you know? In the inside of Koala’s march A part of chocolates tastes of its flavor of strawberry. Eat it, And you taste giant strawberry pockey. Therefore, next time, part 2 (last time) I wish you are looking forward to. I have what it must say to you by all means. The koala’s march, the flavor of strawberry, Is not sold in Hokkaido regrettably. The taste was written last time. But its koala has eyebrow, And you may feel tasteless. Bye.
Sorry. RCA 48" LED HDTV. Couldn't remember the details offhand, had to look it up.
It was a Wal-Mart Black Friday and/or Cyber Monday special, so it may not be coincidence this is a particularly inferior model, but that doesn't excuse all the problems I've had with RCA-specific aspects.
I bought a new TV last Christmas, and my recent experience tends to agree. It wasn't even a smart TV, just a standard one. I still had a whole bunch of problems.
* Terrible interface for trying to figure out how to adjust color/brightness * Terrible interface for trying to scan for over the air channels. Ran through this probably 5 times to get it right. * Discovered a firmware bug which would turn the TV on once every 24 hours. This could not be disabled. Spent two weeks trying to upload patched firmware, which included a web site that said the model number was wrong even when it wasn't (no ability to browse, you've just got to know and type it from the box), multiple calls to the main vendor and then sub-vendors, finally getting the firmware patch with no instructions, calling back to find out totally unintuitive process for uploading the firmware, part of which includes "wait for 5-20 minutes while it takes care of itself in the background, and if you interrupt this invisible process you may brick your TV". * Found that patched firmware didn't actually fix the bug, but that it at least allowed for a sub-feature that, if there's no signal to the TV, it will turn back off 15 minutes later. * TV had terrible sound. Tried multiple versions of traditional (audio jack) and USB speakers, none of which worked for inexplicable reasons. Eventually took a big risk spending $80 on a soundbar that would handle digital audio, hoping it would work, and got lucky. (Sub-issue: soundbar goes to sleep if the TV is paused for a while, and when you wake it back up, the TV doesn't recognize it. You've got to turn the TV on/off to get sound working again. Sub-sub issue: sometimes Netflix loses track of sound, even when the TV had located it; same fix.) * I've got 3 remotes: TV, streaming device, and sound bar. The wife and kids get it, but none of our visitors or relatives can figure anything out. I'm *this* close to printing a laminated cheat sheet of instructions, which they probably won't use because it's too complicated. * Relatives tend to leave the TV either tuned to an over the air signal or a powered-on streaming device, so that when the firmware bug kicks in, then the TV stays on until someone realizes it was accidental and turns it off hours later.
That's why you outsmart them by going to tombt001, then tomct001. One, that gives you 26 iterations before you've got to think up a new scheme, and two, it's *sneaky*.
You might be able to replace the television with a combination of light and sound generator on a timer, like lava lamp and white noise generator, or red lamp and background music, or whatever combination hits the right level of comfort for you.
There is no evidence that suggests you're any safer with adblock
Pretending for a moment this is true, there are other benefits, including bandwidth reduction and speed improvements. I was on a site just yesterday that was so slow every time I tried to scroll there was a 1-second delay, and the whole page was jumpy and difficult. At first I thought it was my computer, but other sites seemed fine. Then I realized this was a new-ish computer and I'd forgotten to put Adblock on, so I installed it. Instantaneously the site began to run quickly, with pages loading much faster and scrolling working exactly as it should. So even if you discard the security perspective, if ads are literally breaking a site, there's still a reason to block them.
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I remember my old college Vax system would throw an error if your password was in the dictionary. The strength meter does not have to exclusively say "weak" and leave it at that, it could say "do not, under any circumstances, allow 'password' to be in your password, you idiot" and then there's no confusion at all.
The Vax system failed in that respect, in that the error it returned was pretty confusing. I do not remember the details after this long, but it was missing some helpful words and came out like: "Password change failed. Dictionary match." when it should have said "Your password matched a word in our dictionary and isn't complex enough. Please try again."
Many web sites have a built-in "strength verifier" tool as you create your account. For instance, I saw one inside cPanel the other day while creating a new user for a database. Yeah, going to a third party is a terrible idea, but I think this is about the built-in tool on the site you're genuinely using.
They tried, but he was out on a fun run, and couldn't comment.
It's fine to queue in the middle of the intersection and once the lights go red you can then make the turn and clear the intersection.
I've gotten wary of this recently. Last year in my town they redid all the traffic lights to add in blinking left yellow arrows at all the intersections, instead of just the implied yield when there's a green circle. In the process they made some of the intersections asynchronous, so that the blinking yellow left would go to hard red left while there was still oncoming traffic. I'm pretty sure this was a mistake, and given a year I think they've cleaned most of them up now, but I got trapped once and saw it happen to others a couple of times, to the point that now I'd rather be cautious than efficient.
Really? Because my introduction to the Web was on Mosaic, available in both my school computer labs and at the university where I did summer research. These were various unix boxen in physics labs, so that may be a pretty niche case, but still.
I think the trick is in having a button that you can press without being able to tell if you've really pressed it or not, because the combination of high resistance and minimal give, plus the unpredictable timing and organization of every particular stop light, ensure that you've got to hit it again and again, just in case, until you actually see it change.
Presumably on the back end the city electrical grid is powered by all these extra button pushes, and they're making a massive profit on the generated electricity. Only reason I can come up with that they'd make them so confoundingly lacking in feedback.
"Right now" isn't really pertinent to the discussion about a 40-year average. I don't know if 8% is realistic for that, but given historical trends it's a possibility.
3. Trump is just a total narcissistic fuckwit who has no idea what he's doing and thinks that his stream-of-consciousness primary success somehow translates into "All people love me and how I act" ... I deem the latter the most probable
I've been fairly certain of #3 for a couple of decades now. In fact, roughly 8 years back when I needed a self-centered, power-mad, casino-owning, billionaire tycoon type to be the ultimate villain for the superhero computer game I was working on, I put in several nods (subtle, so as to avoid lawsuits) to The Donald as being just that type. Players of Twilight Heroes have been (unwittingly, for the most part) beating up his caricature over and over for almost a decade now.
You know, just the other day I was thinking about that. Decades ago, maybe it made sense that you could curry fame via publicized debates, but now the idea of two anonymous people squabbling on the internet (no matter how articulate) and gaining enough fame to become a leader is just absurd. One, there are so many articulate voices it's impossible that any two would stand out among the crowd, and two, there's so many more inarticulate voices (unclear, confused, uninformed, shills, trolls, outright lies, conspiracy theorists, etc.) that even the articulate ones are for the most part drowned out. Can you imagine anyone rising to the presidency based on even a large collection of viral youtube videos?
You don't need vr for that.
1. Wear glasses.
2. Let the glasses slip down your nose a little.
3. Will your ears to pull the glasses back up.
At least, that's how I learned how to wiggle mine.
Note: it's really more a scalp muscle that twitches the skin and tugs the ears along with it.
My grandmother is 99. She's been living off investments for thirty or forty years. A million spread over that much time doesn't really give you that much. Of course, the money's been invested and wasn't just a pile of cash, but on the other hand inflation over that long has cut the value of the money down to a third of what it used to be. By the time I retire in 20 or 30 more years, a single million isn't likely to be anywhere near enough.
I don't that was a good example. $25k * 40 years is $1 million straight up. Assuming you get interest and growth, you don't need to set aside anywhere near that much. Running some overly simplistic calculations in a spreadsheet, I think more like $4k/year at 8% growth will hit $1m in 40 years. If you want to assume 6% growth, it's a bit over $6k/year. That's still difficult to save, especially early on, but it's not ridiculous.
There's a web site called foodirl.com (food in real life) which calls out some instances of egregious differences between advertising/packaging and product. It's an entertaining read.
If you were to believe dozens of beer commercials I've seen in the past few decades, drinking several brands of beer should cause bikini-clad women to just show up and form a party around you or something. Can beer companies be sued for false representation if that doesn't happen when I crack open a Miller Light??
I'm afraid you've got this backwards. It's not showing you what will happen to you, it's a training video instructing you how to behave around others. What they're telling you is, when you see someone else cracking open a Miller Light, you need to immediately put on a bikini and party around that person.
May depend on what's being used. My old MacBook had issues displaying certain pages in the browser (flash video, I think?) and would go from quiet and cool to full-processor and hot in a matter of a minute. The new MacBook Pro is also generally good, but turn on Skype, for instance, and it's transformed into a heating unit almost instantaneously.
Twister's one of my guilty pleasures. It's cheesy, but it's not badly put together, for what it is. I came away from that movie extremely enthusiastic about the idea of being a storm chaser, until I realized I'd probably need to live in Oklahoma or Kansas to do it.
I've never had pocky, but ages and ages ago I ran across this poem that I loved so much I kept a copy. Recently I realized it had fallen off the internet, so now I'm reposting it out of civic duty.
Koala’s march:
The flavor of strawberry, of Koala’s march
Do you know?
In the inside of Koala’s march
A part of chocolates tastes of its flavor of strawberry.
Eat it,
And you taste giant strawberry pockey.
Therefore, next time, part 2 (last time)
I wish you are looking forward to.
I have what it must say to you by all means.
The koala’s march, the flavor of strawberry,
Is not sold in Hokkaido regrettably.
The taste was written last time.
But its koala has eyebrow,
And you may feel tasteless.
Bye.
But in low Earth orbit, can they hear you scream?
Sorry. RCA 48" LED HDTV.
Sorry. RCA 48" LED HDTV. Couldn't remember the details offhand, had to look it up.
It was a Wal-Mart Black Friday and/or Cyber Monday special, so it may not be coincidence this is a particularly inferior model, but that doesn't excuse all the problems I've had with RCA-specific aspects.
I bought a new TV last Christmas, and my recent experience tends to agree. It wasn't even a smart TV, just a standard one. I still had a whole bunch of problems.
* Terrible interface for trying to figure out how to adjust color/brightness
* Terrible interface for trying to scan for over the air channels. Ran through this probably 5 times to get it right.
* Discovered a firmware bug which would turn the TV on once every 24 hours. This could not be disabled. Spent two weeks trying to upload patched firmware, which included a web site that said the model number was wrong even when it wasn't (no ability to browse, you've just got to know and type it from the box), multiple calls to the main vendor and then sub-vendors, finally getting the firmware patch with no instructions, calling back to find out totally unintuitive process for uploading the firmware, part of which includes "wait for 5-20 minutes while it takes care of itself in the background, and if you interrupt this invisible process you may brick your TV".
* Found that patched firmware didn't actually fix the bug, but that it at least allowed for a sub-feature that, if there's no signal to the TV, it will turn back off 15 minutes later.
* TV had terrible sound. Tried multiple versions of traditional (audio jack) and USB speakers, none of which worked for inexplicable reasons. Eventually took a big risk spending $80 on a soundbar that would handle digital audio, hoping it would work, and got lucky. (Sub-issue: soundbar goes to sleep if the TV is paused for a while, and when you wake it back up, the TV doesn't recognize it. You've got to turn the TV on/off to get sound working again. Sub-sub issue: sometimes Netflix loses track of sound, even when the TV had located it; same fix.)
* I've got 3 remotes: TV, streaming device, and sound bar. The wife and kids get it, but none of our visitors or relatives can figure anything out. I'm *this* close to printing a laminated cheat sheet of instructions, which they probably won't use because it's too complicated.
* Relatives tend to leave the TV either tuned to an over the air signal or a powered-on streaming device, so that when the firmware bug kicks in, then the TV stays on until someone realizes it was accidental and turns it off hours later.
That's why you outsmart them by going to tombt001, then tomct001. One, that gives you 26 iterations before you've got to think up a new scheme, and two, it's *sneaky*.
I've been using spoonerisms for years, and only ever receive strange looks, except for two Simpsons quotes. The one above plus "tai chi, chai tea".
You might be able to replace the television with a combination of light and sound generator on a timer, like lava lamp and white noise generator, or red lamp and background music, or whatever combination hits the right level of comfort for you.
There is no evidence that suggests you're any safer with adblock
Pretending for a moment this is true, there are other benefits, including bandwidth reduction and speed improvements. I was on a site just yesterday that was so slow every time I tried to scroll there was a 1-second delay, and the whole page was jumpy and difficult. At first I thought it was my computer, but other sites seemed fine. Then I realized this was a new-ish computer and I'd forgotten to put Adblock on, so I installed it. Instantaneously the site began to run quickly, with pages loading much faster and scrolling working exactly as it should. So even if you discard the security perspective, if ads are literally breaking a site, there's still a reason to block them.