why isn't the grid using Diesel and doing it cheaper?
Because Australian politicians deemed the most crucial thing for the power companies to do, was to use green sources of energy.
Even if it can't meet demand.
The government privatized the electrical system for the most money it could get to fix its budget woes, and in return gave the private power companies an almost unlimited rape, loot and pillage license to raise power prices.
Second, forget about it all you people with your **genius** schemes for generating unique 8-11 character passwords. Congratulations, you've just been hacked. Look up rainbow tables, people!
If you have upper- and lower-case letters, numbers, and symbols then each character is one from a set of 80, so a random 8-character password from this set contains 50 bits of entropy (2^50 possible combinations). To store all such passwords in a rainbow table would require 2^54 bytes (8 petabytes) of storage. I doubt that most hackers have that much space.
A case insensitive 8-character password, in contrast, has just under 38 bits of entropy, so it is quite feasible to compute a rainbow table. Mixing cases alone takes this up to 45 bits, which means that you'll need around half a petabyte for the rainbow table.
If you're using a salted hash to store the password, then the rainbow table needs to be computed for each salt (and if you're sensible, you'll use a different salt for each password, so you need a different rainbow table per password, not per password db). You're better off brute forcing it than storing the rainbow table. A modern GPU can manage about 20,000,000,000 hashes per second, so can search a 34-bit key space per second. 45 bit of entropy gives you a search space that takes about half an hour of GPU time. 50 bits gives you 18 hours. An 11-character password will give you 69 bits of entropy (and a rainbow table that most filesystems can't store, though ZFS can if you can afford enough disks), and will take about 1,000 years to brute force with a single GPU (though with 10,000 GPUs you can do it in a reasonable amount of time). A 10-character password gives you 63 bits, which takes about 17 GPU years to crack and is still probably beyond the capabilities of anyone other than a nation-state adversary.
Damn straight, and no one has mentioned password stretching schemes such as PBKDF2, bCrypt, and sCrypt which further complicate the cracker's task by thousands of times, if not more.
No they fucking aren't. I can get a ride with uber at half the price or less.
Those rides are subsidized by venture capital money. They're not profitable in how they are operating. They've lost billions of dollars. Enjoy your half-price rides while you can. Once they succeed at starving off the taxi industry, they expect to hold a monopoly over the transportation service market, at which point you will pay way higher fees. Somebody will have to compensate these venture capitalists for all the billions they've lost so far. Sounds like you are their intended target.
And of course both Uber and Lyft are working on autonomous self-driving cars so that they can shaft their human drivers as soon as the tech becomes available, possibly in about 5 years.
But the only thing you actually own is the physical disc, the content of that disc is licensed to you, you don't own it. So it's no different to the "ownership of digital goods", if you think it is then you simply do not understand it. Those "digital goods" (that are licensed to you) are stored on the storage device that you own (your hard drive) just as the "digital goods" (that are licensed to you) are stored on the physical disc that you own in the case of a DVD. The difference being that if the physical storage medium fails then if it's something I purchased online rather than physicall I can just re-download it.
More to the point,the publishers can't suddenly just delete it from the online library at a whim because of a licensing dispute, like when about one third of Netflix's offerings has disappeared over the last couple of years.
I thought the point of automobile glass was to shatter.
Would you rather go through a windshield than bounce off it? I'm thinking go through might be safer, as the shattering glass absorbs some of the energy. What do the physicists say?
You're supposed to be wearing a seat belt, in which case your body doesn't go anywhere near the windshield.
Musk picks terms to make things sound more impressive than they may actually be. I have seen accidents about to happen and avoided them many times in my many years driving, as I'm sure most of us have. In none of those cases did we go around saying we 'predicted' those accidents. We say we 'detected and avoided' them..
Yes but it detected the braking of the car ahead of the car in front, which didn't seem to brake at all until the crash. From the video the braking car was barely visible. That's pretty impressive.
Easy, engineers are morons. They don't think about what PEOPLE need or want
You obviously aren't an engineer. Nor do you know many. Most engineers don't decide the features and performance requirements of the product. Either management or the customer does.
So the people writing the specs are morons. If someone gives you a recipe for a turd sandwich, you're going to make them a turd sandwich---or else you'll get fired for not doing your job.
Maybe you can ask them if they want lettuce or tomato on their turd sandwich. Maybe you can tell them that they have to choose between toasted and untoasted bread (because it's impossible to have both). But, in the end, if the spec is a turd sandwich then that's what you deliver.
I'm sure any programmer with an ounce of sense realized the implications of automatic updates and always-on telemetry. And most of them would never put that crap into the spec if they had any say in the matter. But they don't get a say. So enjoy your turd sandwich.
I don't know about you but I ordered a Giant Douche and instead got this Turd Sandwich... I'm outraged!
You might be interested to know that there's a funny name for you too: "Victim."
Oddly, statistics show the opposite: the more guns you have, the more likely you are to die by being shot.
Most of that, of course, is suicide-- having guns around turns a brief bad moment into a permanent problem for somebody else-- but even subtracting that, gun owners are more likely to be victims than non gun owners.
(the non-gun owners are likely to back away from a confrontation. The gun owners are somewhat more likely to walk into one.
But "Whitetrash gun nuts" and "victims" are overlapping categories.
An Australian study after the big gun ban showed that even having a gun in the house was associated with a higher incidence of suicide, even if the gun wasn't the method used. Something about the psychology of gun owners or the environment in which they're living?
Without personal gain, shit just doesn't get done. You don't work for free. Why do you expect anyone else to.
As a real patient, I would rather the entire the entire industry not be destroyed either by crass idiots or morons with "good intentions".
The issue isn't that simple and there's a lot at stake that you're blissfully unaware of.
According to a US TV report the drug contents of the pen are worth just a couple of bucks and the pen itself is out of patent protection. There is a competitor but it had a safety recall some time ago and that put some people off buying them. Also the name "Epipen" has become like "Bandaid" in that people think that's the only official option.
Make no mistake, this is just a blatant rip-off to help pay for the CEO's US$19 million annual paycheck.
Australian researchers have developed an inoculation against some of the most common methanogenic bacteria found in sheep, supposedly reducing their methane output by about a third. It also makes a small amount of extra food available for the sheep to utilize. I don't know if this has made it out of the laboratory and into farms as yet (if ever).
If you cannot afford to buy something with cash, then you can do without it.
There have been serious suggestions here in Norway to forbid cash payments for various things. This includes buying tickets from bus drivers, paying at restaurants and for purchases above some threshold (think 2000 USD and such).
The bus drivers don't want to have cash because of robberies, the tax administration wants to make it harder for restaurant owners to cheat, and the police wants to make it harder to launder money.
We're not there yet, but I'd say it's coming soon.
A card-only system is the perfect surveillance solution. Not only does it reveal everything that you've purchased and from whom, but the time and location as well.
Leave your own cell phone at home, and use a disposable cell phone while you are out engaging in wrong-doing. Then even if you are correctly accused of a crime, you have an alibi...
Why even bother to take a phone to an armed robbery, unless you're planning to escape via Uber?
This is where regulators need to step in. Simple legislation is all we need: if you don't own a domain, you can't track people on it, unless it's something like an OAuth login.
They are stepping in. Their intelligence services will be taking full advantage of it.
I have no need for Pornhub's content myself, but I do like their attitude and I wish more companies were as creative and funny with their marketing . ..
how do they keep the tension on the bone while waiting for the blubber to freeze - and then remove that tension after the blubber has frozen to hold the bone in place?
Just tie it with something that will dissolve in the bear's stomach acids.
Rather than posting all the kids' embarrassing photos on the internet, the parents should wait until the kids are 13 or 14 and acting like little shits.
Then the parents can threaten to bring the photos out and show them to all the kids' friends when they come around. You've got to think ahead.:-)
I don't understand why businesses believe they have a right to indefinite rent seeking privileges and charge whatever price they feel like they want to charge.
Uh, because they're getting away with it and because the Government (thanks to lots of lobbying dollars) is on their side?
How many other business operate that way? Can a mechanic or a plumber work that way?
Well frequently they do. Many times the poor customer doesn't know what a fair or competitive price for the work is, or it's an emergency and their basement is filling up with water and it's 1 am on a Sunday and they have little choice but tp pay what's asked..
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why isn't the grid using Diesel and doing it cheaper?
Because Australian politicians deemed the most crucial thing for the power companies to do, was to use green sources of energy.
Even if it can't meet demand.
The government privatized the electrical system for the most money it could get to fix its budget woes, and in return gave the private power companies an almost unlimited rape, loot and pillage license to raise power prices.
Second, forget about it all you people with your **genius** schemes for generating unique 8-11 character passwords. Congratulations, you've just been hacked. Look up rainbow tables, people!
If you have upper- and lower-case letters, numbers, and symbols then each character is one from a set of 80, so a random 8-character password from this set contains 50 bits of entropy (2^50 possible combinations). To store all such passwords in a rainbow table would require 2^54 bytes (8 petabytes) of storage. I doubt that most hackers have that much space.
A case insensitive 8-character password, in contrast, has just under 38 bits of entropy, so it is quite feasible to compute a rainbow table. Mixing cases alone takes this up to 45 bits, which means that you'll need around half a petabyte for the rainbow table.
If you're using a salted hash to store the password, then the rainbow table needs to be computed for each salt (and if you're sensible, you'll use a different salt for each password, so you need a different rainbow table per password, not per password db). You're better off brute forcing it than storing the rainbow table. A modern GPU can manage about 20,000,000,000 hashes per second, so can search a 34-bit key space per second. 45 bit of entropy gives you a search space that takes about half an hour of GPU time. 50 bits gives you 18 hours. An 11-character password will give you 69 bits of entropy (and a rainbow table that most filesystems can't store, though ZFS can if you can afford enough disks), and will take about 1,000 years to brute force with a single GPU (though with 10,000 GPUs you can do it in a reasonable amount of time). A 10-character password gives you 63 bits, which takes about 17 GPU years to crack and is still probably beyond the capabilities of anyone other than a nation-state adversary.
Damn straight, and no one has mentioned password stretching schemes such as PBKDF2, bCrypt, and sCrypt which further complicate the cracker's task by thousands of times, if not more.
Those rides are subsidized by venture capital money. They're not profitable in how they are operating. They've lost billions of dollars. Enjoy your half-price rides while you can. Once they succeed at starving off the taxi industry, they expect to hold a monopoly over the transportation service market, at which point you will pay way higher fees. Somebody will have to compensate these venture capitalists for all the billions they've lost so far. Sounds like you are their intended target.
And of course both Uber and Lyft are working on autonomous self-driving cars so that they can shaft their human drivers as soon as the tech becomes available, possibly in about 5 years.
I will buy physical goods that I truly do own.
But the only thing you actually own is the physical disc, the content of that disc is licensed to you, you don't own it. So it's no different to the "ownership of digital goods", if you think it is then you simply do not understand it. Those "digital goods" (that are licensed to you) are stored on the storage device that you own (your hard drive) just as the "digital goods" (that are licensed to you) are stored on the physical disc that you own in the case of a DVD. The difference being that if the physical storage medium fails then if it's something I purchased online rather than physicall I can just re-download it.
More to the point,the publishers can't suddenly just delete it from the online library at a whim because of a licensing dispute, like when about one third of Netflix's offerings has disappeared over the last couple of years.
I thought the point of automobile glass was to shatter. Would you rather go through a windshield than bounce off it? I'm thinking go through might be safer, as the shattering glass absorbs some of the energy. What do the physicists say?
You're supposed to be wearing a seat belt, in which case your body doesn't go anywhere near the windshield.
Musk picks terms to make things sound more impressive than they may actually be. I have seen accidents about to happen and avoided them many times in my many years driving, as I'm sure most of us have. In none of those cases did we go around saying we 'predicted' those accidents. We say we 'detected and avoided' them. .
Yes but it detected the braking of the car ahead of the car in front, which didn't seem to brake at all until the crash. From the video the braking car was barely visible. That's pretty impressive.
Easy, engineers are morons. They don't think about what PEOPLE need or want
You obviously aren't an engineer. Nor do you know many. Most engineers don't decide the features and performance requirements of the product. Either management or the customer does.
So the people writing the specs are morons. If someone gives you a recipe for a turd sandwich, you're going to make them a turd sandwich---or else you'll get fired for not doing your job.
Maybe you can ask them if they want lettuce or tomato on their turd sandwich. Maybe you can tell them that they have to choose between toasted and untoasted bread (because it's impossible to have both). But, in the end, if the spec is a turd sandwich then that's what you deliver.
I'm sure any programmer with an ounce of sense realized the implications of automatic updates and always-on telemetry. And most of them would never put that crap into the spec if they had any say in the matter. But they don't get a say. So enjoy your turd sandwich.
I don't know about you but I ordered a Giant Douche and instead got this Turd Sandwich... I'm outraged!
That kinds of sums up US federal elections.
Were they golden eagles?
If it's in Australia then they're probably Wedgetails, Aussie relative of the Golden Eagle.
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You might be interested to know that there's a funny name for you too: "Victim."
Oddly, statistics show the opposite: the more guns you have, the more likely you are to die by being shot. Most of that, of course, is suicide-- having guns around turns a brief bad moment into a permanent problem for somebody else-- but even subtracting that, gun owners are more likely to be victims than non gun owners. (the non-gun owners are likely to back away from a confrontation. The gun owners are somewhat more likely to walk into one. But "Whitetrash gun nuts" and "victims" are overlapping categories.
An Australian study after the big gun ban showed that even having a gun in the house was associated with a higher incidence of suicide, even if the gun wasn't the method used. Something about the psychology of gun owners or the environment in which they're living?
Has anyone actually ever used Chinese software?
It's possibly been running on your computer, your antivirus just hasn't found it yet.
Without personal gain, shit just doesn't get done. You don't work for free. Why do you expect anyone else to.
As a real patient, I would rather the entire the entire industry not be destroyed either by crass idiots or morons with "good intentions".
The issue isn't that simple and there's a lot at stake that you're blissfully unaware of.
According to a US TV report the drug contents of the pen are worth just a couple of bucks and the pen itself is out of patent protection. There is a competitor but it had a safety recall some time ago and that put some people off buying them. Also the name "Epipen" has become like "Bandaid" in that people think that's the only official option.
Make no mistake, this is just a blatant rip-off to help pay for the CEO's US$19 million annual paycheck.
Australian researchers have developed an inoculation against some of the most common methanogenic bacteria found in sheep, supposedly reducing their methane output by about a third. It also makes a small amount of extra food available for the sheep to utilize. I don't know if this has made it out of the laboratory and into farms as yet (if ever).
If you cannot afford to buy something with cash, then you can do without it.
There have been serious suggestions here in Norway to forbid cash payments for various things. This includes buying tickets from bus drivers, paying at restaurants and for purchases above some threshold (think 2000 USD and such).
The bus drivers don't want to have cash because of robberies, the tax administration wants to make it harder for restaurant owners to cheat, and the police wants to make it harder to launder money.
We're not there yet, but I'd say it's coming soon.
A card-only system is the perfect surveillance solution. Not only does it reveal everything that you've purchased and from whom, but the time and location as well.
Presidents Putin and Erdogan recommend them!
Leave your own cell phone at home, and use a disposable cell phone while you are out engaging in wrong-doing. Then even if you are correctly accused of a crime, you have an alibi...
Why even bother to take a phone to an armed robbery, unless you're planning to escape via Uber?
This phone will garner interest of high-roller criminals.
It's probably easier to have an unlimited supply of burner phones, that's what the major drug dealers seem to do,
The robots will get tired of poverty wages in about 6 months! Expect picketing, riots, and #RobotLivesMatter soon!
Nah, they'll just replace it with a cheaper imported model on a H-1B visa.
This is where regulators need to step in. Simple legislation is all we need: if you don't own a domain, you can't track people on it, unless it's something like an OAuth login.
They are stepping in. Their intelligence services will be taking full advantage of it.
I have no need for Pornhub's content myself, but I do like their attitude and I wish more companies were as creative and funny with their marketing . . .
He just visits the site for the articles.
how do they keep the tension on the bone while waiting for the blubber to freeze - and then remove that tension after the blubber has frozen to hold the bone in place?
Just tie it with something that will dissolve in the bear's stomach acids.
Posting to undo mod.
It would be have been nice if the article had said what level of questions the bot can answer now.
Rather than posting all the kids' embarrassing photos on the internet, the parents should wait until the kids are 13 or 14 and acting like little shits.
Then the parents can threaten to bring the photos out and show them to all the kids' friends when they come around. You've got to think ahead. :-)
Dead people don't pay taxes. I can see the 1% lining up for this.
Hah! Have you heard of death duties? :)
I don't understand why businesses believe they have a right to indefinite rent seeking privileges and charge whatever price they feel like they want to charge.
Uh, because they're getting away with it and because the Government (thanks to lots of lobbying dollars) is on their side?
How many other business operate that way? Can a mechanic or a plumber work that way?
Well frequently they do. Many times the poor customer doesn't know what a fair or competitive price for the work is, or it's an emergency and their basement is filling up with water and it's 1 am on a Sunday and they have little choice but tp pay what's asked..
Do you remember the case of the school calling the cops claiming a terrorist threat for a kid with an open suitcase and a digital clock?
But I'm sure schools in a classy state like Florida would never make a mistake like that.