He has not already resigned, but has stated that he will resign at some point in the near future (probably October).
"There is no need for a precise timetable today but in my view we should aim to have a new prime minister in place by the start of the Conservative Party conference in October.
"Delivering stability will be important and I will continue in post as Prime Minister with my Cabinet for the next three months."
I'm assuming triggering Article 50 just got delayed by his resignation.
I think it got delayed because Boris Johnson and that other pro-Brexit guy whose name I don't remember say he shouldn't rush into it. "In voting to leave the EU it’s vital to stress that there’s no need for haste, and as the Prime Minister has just said nothing will change in the short term except work will begin on how to extricate this country from the supranational system. As the Prime Minister has said there is no need to invoke Article 50."
Apple Pay is much worse than the NFC payments the rest of the world uses.
The US has had NFC payments for years. However, it never caught on here... I think people are paranoid about RFID. But Visa, MasterCard, and Discover all had contactless cards for a while, but it seems that the experiment was deemed a failure and they're phasing them out now.
If you want something better, there's Coverity. Free if you qualify. If not, it's even more expensive than PVS-Studio, but does a heck of a lot better job.
FreeBSD has been analyzed by Coverity for years... did it not catch the problems that PVS-Studio found?
At the moment, the big US banks are rolling out "chip and sign", where you slide the card into a reader, but sign with a digital pen rather than enter a PIN.
From a security standpoint, it's no better than the mag-swipe and sign system, as nobody verifies the signature anyway.
No, it's much better than the magstripe system because you can't clone a chip card, whereas its trivial to clone a magstripe card (e.g., using a skimmer). Magstripe: something you have, except it's easy to copy, so the bad guys might have it too. Chip and sign: something you have. Chip and PIN: something you have and something you know.
Sure, chip and PIN is more secure, but it's not true that chip and sign is "no better than the mag-swipe and sign".
China, for the last several years, has typically been the largest holder of US debt.
They're the largest foreign holder of US debt. But about 2/3rds of US debt is owned by domestic entities--and of domestic holders, Social Security owns the most, at about 16%. How does the US government own its own debt? Who knows? But in any case, China is a couple steps down the list; it owns about 7% of US debt.
Sorry, UK guy here. Somebody seems to have a made a repost from the early 2000s...
We're just in the process over here of replacing chip and pin with 'contactless', thus removing the security that the PIN afforded us.
We have that in the US too (e.g., Visa payWave, Mastercard Paypass, Discover Zip. EMV can use either a contact smart card (ISO/IEC 7816) or a contactless smart card (ISO/IEC 14443). They both have chips; the difference is whether the reader communicates with the chip via electrical contacts or via radio waves.
Also, what's happening today is that US banks are changing who has to eat the cost of fraudulent transactions... it's not that the US is just getting EMV cards (or contactless cards) today. They've been around for years... Discover Zip was out in 2011 (however, it still hasn't become popular... probably because there weren't many terminals that could do contactless back then. Now that merchants are being forced by the banks to upgrade their terminals to support EMV, a lot are getting terminals that take both contact and contactless).
Which hurts in countries whose cellular carriers charge subscribers to receive SMS text messages. Slashdot's home country (USA) is one of them.
Whether a cellular carrier charges extra to receive an SMS isn't a country-dependent thing. Or even carrier-dependent. It depends on which plan you have purchased. All major providers in the US (and probably all providers, even the minor ones, but I haven't actually looked) offer plans with unlimited SMS--i.e., you pay a flat monthly fee and you can send/receive as many texts as you want for no additional charge.
So if you can do a bit for bit copy of the data to a new chip
That's an awfully big "if". It's very impractical to copy the data; the chip on the card isn't simply some flash memory chip, it contains a microprocessor. And it has memory that's only accessible by that microprocessor. So if you can't read that memory, how are you going to write it to a new chip? Maybe you could remove the chip from its packaging and look at the silicon with an electron microscope, but nobody's going to go through that time and expense to copy a card that has a $5000 credit limit or whatever.
Chip cards have been around for over a decade in Europe. While there have been some attacks on them, none involve cloning the card. (There was a paper describing an attack that has "cloning EMV cards" in the title, but the flaw was actually in the card reader terminals. The card wasn't literally cloned... they just found a way to trick the terminal into thinking another card was the same as the original card).
I see zero problems with a private email servers, private cell phones, or private carrier pigeons.
However, I see a major problem with how supposedly "secret" information was retrieved from the classified network and leaked into an unclassified network (regardless of what that other network is).
You seem to be thinking of this from the perspective of a lower-level employee, like some IT guy or something. Clinton was the Secretary of State--she's capable of creating secret/classified information. She doesn't need to get secret info from a classified network. And she was trained to be an "Original Classification Authority"--she's supposed to know whether what she's writing is classified or not. She claims nothing she wrote/emailed was classified. However, others who reviewed the email afterwards have said that they certainly should have been classified.
Yeah, I had been using the right hand, but when I switched to MS split keyboards, they all have the 6 on the left side of the split, so I had to change. According to TFA, in the US, touch typing students are taught to use the right hand for 6; I learned to touch type in the US, so that must've been where I got it from.
If you're only typing numbers, that's fine. But it's inefficient to be typing letters then move your hand to the numpad just to type a digit or two. Same reason keyboard shortcuts are important in word processing and other keyboard-centric applications; you don't want to be moving between the keyboard and mouse all the time.
You expect every button in an application to have text on the button itself fully describing what it does?
Yes. Most people only read what is on the button itself, if even that. Expecting them to have read the entire page to know what it is that they will be doing (it's not even mentioned in the page title) is too much.
No, I think it's just you... you must have a huge problem when using any GUI interface these days--"OK or Cancel? OK to what?? Cancel what??? I have no idea what it's talking about!"
Using sucralose doesn't imply that they don't know what they're doing. If you can't eat sucralose, OK--it's not supposed to be for everyone. But the sucralose is there for a reason (masking the bitterness of some other ingredients), and it's not a problem for the vast majority of people who can take sucralose.
What would the point of this be? In general, Unicode standardizes codepoints and other abstract properties of characters, but it doesn't standardize how the character looks. U+0067 is "g", the "LATIN SMALL LETTER G", but exactly how that looks depends on which font you're using. Or more relevant, many emoji are very different between Android and iOS. I'd think that symbols for food allergies need to look the same everywhere if the point is for them to be used as warnings on food packaging, menus, etc.
And in case you still weren't sure what to do with a button labeled "Start", the first time you booted into Win95, an arrow would slide along the taskbar from the right to the left with some text telling you to click the button.
Her email address is not a common one so we do not believe that it is someone accidentally using it;
Well I would hope that her address isn't common--it had better be unique! In any case, I agree with those saying that it's probably someone typo-ing their email address. If you really think that the cable company has her email address in their system, initiate your own password reset. The password reset confirmation email will go to her email box, and you can log into the account from there and see what's going on.
The requirements are so high because of AMA lobbying: they keep them that way, limit medical schools, and make sure that patients must see physicians even for problems that could be addressed by nurses or pharmacists.
I have purchased ads from Google, and I have never been given their address. Google goes out of their way to make sure there is no way to find a human for technical support. Same goes for Steam, eBay, PayPal. Today companies give you a forum and expect the community to support themselves. It's almost impossible to find them unless they sell a physical product.
Well, maybe you weren't given their address, but Google certainly doesn't try to hide their address or make it difficult for people to find. You can even Google for "Google Headquarters". But more on the subject of what ICANN's doing, their contact info is listed in their whois record.
As for getting a human for technical support on ads: Start at www.google.com -> Advertising at the lower-left -> AdWords Help Center under Learning & Support at the bottom -> CONTACT US at the upper-right, followed by See local phone number. In the US, their number is 866-2GOOGLE, representatives available Monday to Friday, 9am to 8pm Eastern Time, in English and Spanish. Doesn't seem like they're "[going] out of their way to make sure there is no way to find a human for technical support"
I've been hearing that same scary argument for 15 years. The market has spoken and nobody cares about IPv6. Can you even call up Comcast/Verizon/Charter/AT&T and request IPv6?
I don't need to request it from AT&T; they gave it to me last year without me asking. Pretty sure Comcast did the same even earlier. IPv6 is here today.
That's absolute genius! 6000 mile long superconducting transmission lines from the North pole. Of course, it only needs to be about a 24 gauge wire, since there is no resistance.
Superconductors have a critical current density, above which they cease to superconduct. While I don't know the actual numbers for common superconductors, I suspect that supporting the world's current draw through a 24 ga wire would exceed the current density limit:)
The issue with Obama as it has been stated is that his mother was 18 at his birth and had not lived for five years in the US after she turned 18. So If your mother was under 19 you can't be president. For me, that fucking bogus. An obvious bug, written into the US constitution.
No, that is not an issue at all. While you have to be 35 years old to be president of the US, the age of your mother when you were born is irrelevant. The text of the US constitution is readily available online for you to see for yourself: "No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States."
You seem to be vaguely referencing the requirements for citizenship at birth for someone who was born outside the US, but that's not an issue with Obama because he was born in the US, and is therefore a natural born US citizen.
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I know. What is with the UK deciding what happens to the people of Gibraltar?
I hope they enjoy their upcoming Spanish invasion. The Spanish government has called for joint sovereignty over Gibraltar in the wake of the UK's vote to leave the EU.
Cameron resigned.
He has not already resigned, but has stated that he will resign at some point in the near future (probably October).
I'm assuming triggering Article 50 just got delayed by his resignation.
I think it got delayed because Boris Johnson and that other pro-Brexit guy whose name I don't remember say he shouldn't rush into it. "In voting to leave the EU it’s vital to stress that there’s no need for haste, and as the Prime Minister has just said nothing will change in the short term except work will begin on how to extricate this country from the supranational system. As the Prime Minister has said there is no need to invoke Article 50."
Apple Pay is much worse than the NFC payments the rest of the world uses.
The US has had NFC payments for years. However, it never caught on here... I think people are paranoid about RFID. But Visa, MasterCard, and Discover all had contactless cards for a while, but it seems that the experiment was deemed a failure and they're phasing them out now.
If you want something better, there's Coverity. Free if you qualify. If not, it's even more expensive than PVS-Studio, but does a heck of a lot better job.
FreeBSD has been analyzed by Coverity for years... did it not catch the problems that PVS-Studio found?
At the moment, the big US banks are rolling out "chip and sign", where you slide the card into a reader, but sign with a digital pen rather than enter a PIN. From a security standpoint, it's no better than the mag-swipe and sign system, as nobody verifies the signature anyway.
No, it's much better than the magstripe system because you can't clone a chip card, whereas its trivial to clone a magstripe card (e.g., using a skimmer). Magstripe: something you have, except it's easy to copy, so the bad guys might have it too. Chip and sign: something you have. Chip and PIN: something you have and something you know.
Sure, chip and PIN is more secure, but it's not true that chip and sign is "no better than the mag-swipe and sign".
If you look back then, the Democrats were mostly southerners, hence the term 'Dixiecrats".
"Mostly"? Hardly. Dixiecrats were small, short-lived splinter group off the main Democratic party. They were only around for one year: 1948.
China, for the last several years, has typically been the largest holder of US debt.
They're the largest foreign holder of US debt. But about 2/3rds of US debt is owned by domestic entities--and of domestic holders, Social Security owns the most, at about 16%. How does the US government own its own debt? Who knows? But in any case, China is a couple steps down the list; it owns about 7% of US debt.
Sorry, UK guy here. Somebody seems to have a made a repost from the early 2000s...
We're just in the process over here of replacing chip and pin with 'contactless', thus removing the security that the PIN afforded us.
We have that in the US too (e.g., Visa payWave, Mastercard Paypass, Discover Zip. EMV can use either a contact smart card (ISO/IEC 7816) or a contactless smart card (ISO/IEC 14443). They both have chips; the difference is whether the reader communicates with the chip via electrical contacts or via radio waves.
Also, what's happening today is that US banks are changing who has to eat the cost of fraudulent transactions... it's not that the US is just getting EMV cards (or contactless cards) today. They've been around for years... Discover Zip was out in 2011 (however, it still hasn't become popular... probably because there weren't many terminals that could do contactless back then. Now that merchants are being forced by the banks to upgrade their terminals to support EMV, a lot are getting terminals that take both contact and contactless).
Which hurts in countries whose cellular carriers charge subscribers to receive SMS text messages. Slashdot's home country (USA) is one of them.
Whether a cellular carrier charges extra to receive an SMS isn't a country-dependent thing. Or even carrier-dependent. It depends on which plan you have purchased. All major providers in the US (and probably all providers, even the minor ones, but I haven't actually looked) offer plans with unlimited SMS--i.e., you pay a flat monthly fee and you can send/receive as many texts as you want for no additional charge.
So if you can do a bit for bit copy of the data to a new chip
That's an awfully big "if". It's very impractical to copy the data; the chip on the card isn't simply some flash memory chip, it contains a microprocessor. And it has memory that's only accessible by that microprocessor. So if you can't read that memory, how are you going to write it to a new chip? Maybe you could remove the chip from its packaging and look at the silicon with an electron microscope, but nobody's going to go through that time and expense to copy a card that has a $5000 credit limit or whatever.
Chip cards have been around for over a decade in Europe. While there have been some attacks on them, none involve cloning the card. (There was a paper describing an attack that has "cloning EMV cards" in the title, but the flaw was actually in the card reader terminals. The card wasn't literally cloned... they just found a way to trick the terminal into thinking another card was the same as the original card).
I see zero problems with a private email servers, private cell phones, or private carrier pigeons.
However, I see a major problem with how supposedly "secret" information was retrieved from the classified network and leaked into an unclassified network (regardless of what that other network is).
You seem to be thinking of this from the perspective of a lower-level employee, like some IT guy or something. Clinton was the Secretary of State--she's capable of creating secret/classified information. She doesn't need to get secret info from a classified network. And she was trained to be an "Original Classification Authority"--she's supposed to know whether what she's writing is classified or not. She claims nothing she wrote/emailed was classified. However, others who reviewed the email afterwards have said that they certainly should have been classified.
Yeah, I had been using the right hand, but when I switched to MS split keyboards, they all have the 6 on the left side of the split, so I had to change. According to TFA, in the US, touch typing students are taught to use the right hand for 6; I learned to touch type in the US, so that must've been where I got it from.
If you're only typing numbers, that's fine. But it's inefficient to be typing letters then move your hand to the numpad just to type a digit or two. Same reason keyboard shortcuts are important in word processing and other keyboard-centric applications; you don't want to be moving between the keyboard and mouse all the time.
You expect every button in an application to have text on the button itself fully describing what it does?
Yes. Most people only read what is on the button itself, if even that. Expecting them to have read the entire page to know what it is that they will be doing (it's not even mentioned in the page title) is too much.
No, I think it's just you... you must have a huge problem when using any GUI interface these days--"OK or Cancel? OK to what?? Cancel what??? I have no idea what it's talking about!"
Using sucralose doesn't imply that they don't know what they're doing. If you can't eat sucralose, OK--it's not supposed to be for everyone. But the sucralose is there for a reason (masking the bitterness of some other ingredients), and it's not a problem for the vast majority of people who can take sucralose.
What would the point of this be? In general, Unicode standardizes codepoints and other abstract properties of characters, but it doesn't standardize how the character looks. U+0067 is "g", the "LATIN SMALL LETTER G", but exactly how that looks depends on which font you're using. Or more relevant, many emoji are very different between Android and iOS. I'd think that symbols for food allergies need to look the same everywhere if the point is for them to be used as warnings on food packaging, menus, etc.
And in case you still weren't sure what to do with a button labeled "Start", the first time you booted into Win95, an arrow would slide along the taskbar from the right to the left with some text telling you to click the button.
EVERYTHING gains velocity (9.8 m/s^2) when falling to earth...Have you ever even heard of Newton?
Even a guy with a parachute? If so, I'm amazed skydivers almost always survive their jumps...
Yes, power over cat5 (aka Power over Ethernet) is the way to go.
Her email address is not a common one so we do not believe that it is someone accidentally using it;
Well I would hope that her address isn't common--it had better be unique! In any case, I agree with those saying that it's probably someone typo-ing their email address. If you really think that the cable company has her email address in their system, initiate your own password reset. The password reset confirmation email will go to her email box, and you can log into the account from there and see what's going on.
The requirements are so high because of AMA lobbying: they keep them that way, limit medical schools, and make sure that patients must see physicians even for problems that could be addressed by nurses or pharmacists.
What kinds of problems are those? As far as I know, patients can see nurses for minor problems that can be addressed by nurses (specifically nurse practitioners). The clinics in pharmacies and supermarkets (e.g., CVS Minute Clinic, Walgreen's Healthcare Clinic, The Little Clinic, Rediclinic) are generally staffed by nurse practitioners and physician assistants.
Actually, this happens all the time.
I have purchased ads from Google, and I have never been given their address. Google goes out of their way to make sure there is no way to find a human for technical support. Same goes for Steam, eBay, PayPal. Today companies give you a forum and expect the community to support themselves. It's almost impossible to find them unless they sell a physical product.
Well, maybe you weren't given their address, but Google certainly doesn't try to hide their address or make it difficult for people to find. You can even Google for "Google Headquarters". But more on the subject of what ICANN's doing, their contact info is listed in their whois record.
As for getting a human for technical support on ads: Start at www.google.com -> Advertising at the lower-left -> AdWords Help Center under Learning & Support at the bottom -> CONTACT US at the upper-right, followed by See local phone number. In the US, their number is 866-2GOOGLE, representatives available Monday to Friday, 9am to 8pm Eastern Time, in English and Spanish. Doesn't seem like they're "[going] out of their way to make sure there is no way to find a human for technical support"
I've been hearing that same scary argument for 15 years. The market has spoken and nobody cares about IPv6. Can you even call up Comcast/Verizon/Charter/AT&T and request IPv6?
I don't need to request it from AT&T; they gave it to me last year without me asking. Pretty sure Comcast did the same even earlier. IPv6 is here today.
That's absolute genius! 6000 mile long superconducting transmission lines from the North pole. Of course, it only needs to be about a 24 gauge wire, since there is no resistance.
Superconductors have a critical current density, above which they cease to superconduct. While I don't know the actual numbers for common superconductors, I suspect that supporting the world's current draw through a 24 ga wire would exceed the current density limit :)
The issue with Obama as it has been stated is that his mother was 18 at his birth and had not lived for five years in the US after she turned 18. So If your mother was under 19 you can't be president. For me, that fucking bogus. An obvious bug, written into the US constitution.
No, that is not an issue at all. While you have to be 35 years old to be president of the US, the age of your mother when you were born is irrelevant. The text of the US constitution is readily available online for you to see for yourself: "No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States."
You seem to be vaguely referencing the requirements for citizenship at birth for someone who was born outside the US, but that's not an issue with Obama because he was born in the US, and is therefore a natural born US citizen.