The server is on TOR, so the location is masked. The FBI knows that it isn't inside the US... How?
What makes you think a Tor server can't be hacked? Tor is just a network protocol that masks the source and destination addresses of a connection. It is not magical hack-proof server sauce.
In the case of the Silk Road, the server was hacked to do at least one thing: the law enforcement agency added malicious javascript that caused browsers who connected to their servers to cache that script. Then, when the hapless drug buyer disconnected from Tor, the script remained in their cache, and when they reconnected to a regular network connection, the script phoned home from their real IP address. That's how they identified buyers on the Silk Road. But if they've hacked the server, it is not hard to believe they didn't also determine its real IP address.
Yes. It would be perfectly legal in Russia to hack into an American server to gather evidence for a Russian trial (assuming the Russian constitution doesn't prohibit such activities in Russia.) However, because it would be illegal in America, the Russian law enforcement agent would still be subject to American prosecution, if discovered. So don't expect Russia to offer any information to America regarding the law enforcement agents or agencies involved.
I'm thinking you place two current monitors side by side, then slap a strip of OLED tape down the seam. With a small matter of programming, and a few photo transistors on the back side, it could be self calibrating and self aligning. As far as the OS goes, it would just be another tall thin monitor.
I doubt there's much for you to worry about this. The research only noted the correlation, not that the loss of smell was itself the cause or contributing factor. Your sense of taste may have been more directly damaged by the treatments, instead of being an indicator that your body is failing. Even if it was, the fact that it recovered over time is further evidence that your damaged metabolic processes have returned.
It didn't say "cause", it was noted as a correlation. Two different things.
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Maybe, just like with CD-ROMs, the OS should ignore the new keyboard until it is explicitly told what to do with it. Sure, it'd be a pain in the ass, but it's also a pain in the ass that my Linux system wants my password for every trivial thing I decide to do. Just add "plug in a new keyboard" to that list.
That's particularly tricky with keyboards. I still remember booting a computer with no keyboard, and a BIOS error message telling me "Keyboard not detected. Press F1 to continue."
All governments spy on each other, and they have since the invention of espionage. And they all know they all spy on each other, too. They just need to exercise the good sense to not get publicly caught. Not getting caught is getting harder in the digital age, as everyone from airports, customs, trucking, retail, and city infrastructure is beefing up their security. They may suck at it, but it makes hiding invisibly that much harder.
I should correct that: "no adherence to a common data schema" should probably be "proprietary, secretive, incompatible tweaks to the overly complex schema in order to proclaim compatibility." Because there's a difference.
No, the reason it's hard has nothing to do with "cloud", and everything to do with "no adherence to a common data schema". If the data was forced to follow a standardized schema, and if standardized service interfaces were required for participating in the government health plan, transferring it would be dead easy. But because different systems have evolved differently over time, the schemas are different, and so transfers remain painful. And because the government funded EPIC without demanding the creation or implementation of industry standards, we crapped away all that money strictly to make one company very, very rich.
The lesson here, kids? If you've got a shot at an upcoming government contract, your best investment dollar is spent on a Congressman. Donate lots of money to his campaign, and you could easily see a 1000 X return on investment. You won't get odds like that gambling on Wall Street.
Ooo, thanks for that! I long ago realized that the only actual value SAS provides is forcing companies to get a bunch of people together to agree on a common data schema, because the rest of their software is dirt simple, and even much of that is of shitty quality. But I didn't recognize the analogy to Stone Soup, and that's perfect!
Why do you keep your Harmony remote charger in your bedroom? I understand if it's a dorm room or something like that, but I would simply move that crap to a different room.
The TV is in the bedroom, and we obviously keep the remote in the room where we use it. The cradle is intended as a convenient place to keep it when not in use - it's not quite like a cord you trot out and plug in nightly. And when it loses charge, it takes a long time to charge it again before it's functional. Keeping it in the cradle ensures it's always ready for use. Anyway, we coped with it in our way, which is essentially no different than coping by keeping the cradle in a different room.
My main point was not to complain about our specific problems or situation, but that their cradle was poorly designed in many ways (one of which was the overly bright LEDs). Also, valuable lessons were learned. I learned that if I'm buying electronics that will be used in the bedroom, I need to thoroughly check their nighttime luminance before buying them. And Logitech learned as well, because their Harmony 1100 has a very positive connecting charging stand, and it does not beep when cradled.
I definitely agree there is value in testing the ingredients. The strength of peppers varies widely based on their growing conditions, and it would be good to avoid making a dish too hot or too bland.
I can also see using this automated taster to evaluate how a hybrid produces year over year, how the fruit of different parents crossed to produce the same hybrid compares to the original hybrid, or how the taste may vary from field to field. That's when it could be more useful to quantify the difference from the "standard".
But I think when you're hybridizing you'd still want a human doing the evaluation. It's a new thing, and quantifying taste of a new thing isn't as important as the perception of the taster.
That's great but how do sites counter bots nowdays?
Bots are like any other parasite. If you have something they need, they arrive, and you have to figure out how to control them. And like controlling parasites, the most effective means is to take away their food source. So sites reduce the value of their site to spammers, black-hat SEOs, etc., by measures such as adding nofollow tags, preventing CSRF, restricting and filtering user uploaded content, and vigilant policing. And CAPTCHAs still help a lot, but as the sophistication of the bot tools is expanded, it's just another measure - not a perfect one.
There are millions of sites on the web. The idea is that if you make yourself harder to abuse than the next site, the bots might leave you alone in search of easier pickings.
Not an anti-vaxxer, not by any means, just saying there are lots of things we think absolutely must have been tested to be completely safe when it turns out that it probably isn't as great for you as you'd like to have thought. That's all.
First, nothing is "completely safe." Everything has a limit beyond which it exceeds the capacity of a human to absorb it. On top of that, no injection or vaccination is ever 100% risk free. There is risk of infection, of allergens, of tainted products, etc. And there are also the risks of adverse side effects in some measure of the population.
People don't really understand statistics. They certainly don't understand a "one in a million" chance, as evinced by the profitability of the lottery. They also don't understand the consequences that result from these decisions.
I think a lot of that comes from a pile of numbers that people can't easily relate. Consider that a vaccine may have a 1:1,000,000 chance of causing the disease it was intended to prevent or causing a debilitating side effect. It may also have a 1:100 chance of causing an inconveniencing side effect. Its primary effect is to confer a 98% level of protection against a disease. The disease has a 20% chance of causing a debilitating condition. Unvaccinated people have a 10% chance of catching the disease. Herd immunity kicks in at an 80% immunization rate, and reduces my chance of getting the disease to 5%. Even though they're all based on probabilities, they're not even using the same units of measure for display. How does a layperson put all those numbers together to make a decision whether or not to immunize their child?
The flip answer is "they don't." Too many people lack the education needed to understand the numbers, to combine them, and to compare them; so they turn to experts. But how do they trust an expert? A few people are willing to claim to be an expert to drive their personal profit or agenda, instead of to serve the truth. And some people will cherry pick their list of experts to align with their agenda. It's the latter that are the corrupting influence, and those are the ones that need to be stopped.
This is an AIR traffic control problem, and is not localized to O'Hare airport. They manage all the flights over the entire region. I'm sure they will extend the operations to the surrounding regional centers to make up for the loss, but due to the sheer volume of traffic the Aurora center used to handle, the other centers will need to add a lot of extra staff to deal with it.
I suspect they are temporarily operating with local staff called in for the emergency, but that's not sustainable. They'll likely need to redistribute the Aurora staff to the other centers. It will take several hours for them to all travel to their new assignments. It takes about six hours to drive from the Aurora center to the Farmington center near Minneapolis, and that's not counting going home and packing for an extended stay.
A strong #2? So who was supporting the Laughable Bumblefsck? It seems like a long list of very ignorant people to beware of.
And was your sister unaware of the booze, weed, crack, and even horse(!); the bullying; the thefts; the racism; the homophobia; the perjury; the groping; or the other assaults? Or was she simply glossing over them all in repayment for some preferential treatment that had somehow benefited her?
I hear you! Bedrooms should not be lit at night. Black tape and an Xacto knife works great for blocking indicator lights without being too ugly.
But I've had a couple of weird issues with the electronics in our bedroom. Our garage door indicator has a bright green light to indicate the door is closed, and just taping the LED wasn't enough, as the case was semi translucent. I lined the inside of the case with aluminum duct tape to solve that problem. Fortunately, the red LED is a separate component, so it can visibly blink when the garage door is open. It's not something we ignore.
The worst offender I've ever experienced, though, is my Harmony remote with its charging cradle. The remote itself is absolutely brilliant, and is a treat to use. But the charging cradle -- what a piece of shit. There is a large glowing blue ring in the bottom, and it illuminates the entire bedroom if the remote is not in its place. And the cradle itself is stupidly sculpted to match the remote, causing a different problem. Instead of a mechanically positive connection, the curved cradle supports the remote at precisely its center of gravity, allowing it to teeter, and every time it teeters it slips on and off the tiny charging contacts. Of course the remote helpfully signals every time it's made contact with the charging cradle by beeping loudly and backlighting the screen for a few seconds. Our little 15 pound dog scratching herself on the floor nearby will cause enough of a microtremor in the floor to get it to momentarily break contact. If anyone so much as walks near the bedroom, the remote beeps and the lights glow. I have to keep a hefty weight on the stupid remote so we can sleep.
I think it's the contrast between the usability of the remote and the stupidity of the charging cradle that makes it all the more painfully awful.
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So we send them with one suit each, no fabric, and no sewing machine? "Oops, it leaked, I guess you die then."
Although it would certainly reduce the cargo space taken up by a "lifetime supply" of food and water.
The server is on TOR, so the location is masked. The FBI knows that it isn't inside the US... How?
What makes you think a Tor server can't be hacked? Tor is just a network protocol that masks the source and destination addresses of a connection. It is not magical hack-proof server sauce.
In the case of the Silk Road, the server was hacked to do at least one thing: the law enforcement agency added malicious javascript that caused browsers who connected to their servers to cache that script. Then, when the hapless drug buyer disconnected from Tor, the script remained in their cache, and when they reconnected to a regular network connection, the script phoned home from their real IP address. That's how they identified buyers on the Silk Road. But if they've hacked the server, it is not hard to believe they didn't also determine its real IP address.
Yes. It would be perfectly legal in Russia to hack into an American server to gather evidence for a Russian trial (assuming the Russian constitution doesn't prohibit such activities in Russia.) However, because it would be illegal in America, the Russian law enforcement agent would still be subject to American prosecution, if discovered. So don't expect Russia to offer any information to America regarding the law enforcement agents or agencies involved.
I'm thinking you place two current monitors side by side, then slap a strip of OLED tape down the seam. With a small matter of programming, and a few photo transistors on the back side, it could be self calibrating and self aligning. As far as the OS goes, it would just be another tall thin monitor.
I doubt there's much for you to worry about this. The research only noted the correlation, not that the loss of smell was itself the cause or contributing factor. Your sense of taste may have been more directly damaged by the treatments, instead of being an indicator that your body is failing. Even if it was, the fact that it recovered over time is further evidence that your damaged metabolic processes have returned.
OTOH, IANAD. HTH. HAND.
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3. Profit!
So you've obviously lost your sense of taste. How long do you suppose you've got to live? :-)
It didn't say "cause", it was noted as a correlation. Two different things.
Maybe, just like with CD-ROMs, the OS should ignore the new keyboard until it is explicitly told what to do with it. Sure, it'd be a pain in the ass, but it's also a pain in the ass that my Linux system wants my password for every trivial thing I decide to do. Just add "plug in a new keyboard" to that list.
That's particularly tricky with keyboards. I still remember booting a computer with no keyboard, and a BIOS error message telling me "Keyboard not detected. Press F1 to continue."
All governments spy on each other, and they have since the invention of espionage. And they all know they all spy on each other, too. They just need to exercise the good sense to not get publicly caught. Not getting caught is getting harder in the digital age, as everyone from airports, customs, trucking, retail, and city infrastructure is beefing up their security. They may suck at it, but it makes hiding invisibly that much harder.
I should correct that: "no adherence to a common data schema" should probably be "proprietary, secretive, incompatible tweaks to the overly complex schema in order to proclaim compatibility." Because there's a difference.
No, the reason it's hard has nothing to do with "cloud", and everything to do with "no adherence to a common data schema". If the data was forced to follow a standardized schema, and if standardized service interfaces were required for participating in the government health plan, transferring it would be dead easy. But because different systems have evolved differently over time, the schemas are different, and so transfers remain painful. And because the government funded EPIC without demanding the creation or implementation of industry standards, we crapped away all that money strictly to make one company very, very rich.
The lesson here, kids? If you've got a shot at an upcoming government contract, your best investment dollar is spent on a Congressman. Donate lots of money to his campaign, and you could easily see a 1000 X return on investment. You won't get odds like that gambling on Wall Street.
Ooo, thanks for that! I long ago realized that the only actual value SAS provides is forcing companies to get a bunch of people together to agree on a common data schema, because the rest of their software is dirt simple, and even much of that is of shitty quality. But I didn't recognize the analogy to Stone Soup, and that's perfect!
Congrats! Trust is definitely the best way to parent your kids.
Why do you keep your Harmony remote charger in your bedroom? I understand if it's a dorm room or something like that, but I would simply move that crap to a different room.
The TV is in the bedroom, and we obviously keep the remote in the room where we use it. The cradle is intended as a convenient place to keep it when not in use - it's not quite like a cord you trot out and plug in nightly. And when it loses charge, it takes a long time to charge it again before it's functional. Keeping it in the cradle ensures it's always ready for use. Anyway, we coped with it in our way, which is essentially no different than coping by keeping the cradle in a different room.
My main point was not to complain about our specific problems or situation, but that their cradle was poorly designed in many ways (one of which was the overly bright LEDs). Also, valuable lessons were learned. I learned that if I'm buying electronics that will be used in the bedroom, I need to thoroughly check their nighttime luminance before buying them. And Logitech learned as well, because their Harmony 1100 has a very positive connecting charging stand, and it does not beep when cradled.
I definitely agree there is value in testing the ingredients. The strength of peppers varies widely based on their growing conditions, and it would be good to avoid making a dish too hot or too bland.
I can also see using this automated taster to evaluate how a hybrid produces year over year, how the fruit of different parents crossed to produce the same hybrid compares to the original hybrid, or how the taste may vary from field to field. That's when it could be more useful to quantify the difference from the "standard".
But I think when you're hybridizing you'd still want a human doing the evaluation. It's a new thing, and quantifying taste of a new thing isn't as important as the perception of the taster.
That's great but how do sites counter bots nowdays?
Bots are like any other parasite. If you have something they need, they arrive, and you have to figure out how to control them. And like controlling parasites, the most effective means is to take away their food source. So sites reduce the value of their site to spammers, black-hat SEOs, etc., by measures such as adding nofollow tags, preventing CSRF, restricting and filtering user uploaded content, and vigilant policing. And CAPTCHAs still help a lot, but as the sophistication of the bot tools is expanded, it's just another measure - not a perfect one.
There are millions of sites on the web. The idea is that if you make yourself harder to abuse than the next site, the bots might leave you alone in search of easier pickings.
I'm more interested to know which major character it believes may be dead? Every character is statistically likely to be dead at some point.
Unless of course you take the 'You cannot kill what never lived' point of view.
I think you meant "What is dead can never die". Not only is it a point of view, but it's actually a prayer of the Iron Islanders in GoT.
And yes, they can be killed, too. Just not all at once, it appears.
Not an anti-vaxxer, not by any means, just saying there are lots of things we think absolutely must have been tested to be completely safe when it turns out that it probably isn't as great for you as you'd like to have thought. That's all.
First, nothing is "completely safe." Everything has a limit beyond which it exceeds the capacity of a human to absorb it. On top of that, no injection or vaccination is ever 100% risk free. There is risk of infection, of allergens, of tainted products, etc. And there are also the risks of adverse side effects in some measure of the population.
People don't really understand statistics. They certainly don't understand a "one in a million" chance, as evinced by the profitability of the lottery. They also don't understand the consequences that result from these decisions.
I think a lot of that comes from a pile of numbers that people can't easily relate. Consider that a vaccine may have a 1:1,000,000 chance of causing the disease it was intended to prevent or causing a debilitating side effect. It may also have a 1:100 chance of causing an inconveniencing side effect. Its primary effect is to confer a 98% level of protection against a disease. The disease has a 20% chance of causing a debilitating condition. Unvaccinated people have a 10% chance of catching the disease. Herd immunity kicks in at an 80% immunization rate, and reduces my chance of getting the disease to 5%. Even though they're all based on probabilities, they're not even using the same units of measure for display. How does a layperson put all those numbers together to make a decision whether or not to immunize their child?
The flip answer is "they don't." Too many people lack the education needed to understand the numbers, to combine them, and to compare them; so they turn to experts. But how do they trust an expert? A few people are willing to claim to be an expert to drive their personal profit or agenda, instead of to serve the truth. And some people will cherry pick their list of experts to align with their agenda. It's the latter that are the corrupting influence, and those are the ones that need to be stopped.
Make it on your own.
The Mythbusters demonstrated it's plausible that driving distances less than 400 miles is faster than flying.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
It's almost exactly a 400 mile journey that takes 6 hours.
https://www.google.com/maps/di...
And if you're hauling a month's worth of stuff, or a family, you might not want to stuff it in a single checked bag.
This is an AIR traffic control problem, and is not localized to O'Hare airport. They manage all the flights over the entire region. I'm sure they will extend the operations to the surrounding regional centers to make up for the loss, but due to the sheer volume of traffic the Aurora center used to handle, the other centers will need to add a lot of extra staff to deal with it.
I suspect they are temporarily operating with local staff called in for the emergency, but that's not sustainable. They'll likely need to redistribute the Aurora staff to the other centers. It will take several hours for them to all travel to their new assignments. It takes about six hours to drive from the Aurora center to the Farmington center near Minneapolis, and that's not counting going home and packing for an extended stay.
A strong #2? So who was supporting the Laughable Bumblefsck? It seems like a long list of very ignorant people to beware of.
And was your sister unaware of the booze, weed, crack, and even horse(!); the bullying; the thefts; the racism; the homophobia; the perjury; the groping; or the other assaults? Or was she simply glossing over them all in repayment for some preferential treatment that had somehow benefited her?
I hear you! Bedrooms should not be lit at night. Black tape and an Xacto knife works great for blocking indicator lights without being too ugly.
But I've had a couple of weird issues with the electronics in our bedroom. Our garage door indicator has a bright green light to indicate the door is closed, and just taping the LED wasn't enough, as the case was semi translucent. I lined the inside of the case with aluminum duct tape to solve that problem. Fortunately, the red LED is a separate component, so it can visibly blink when the garage door is open. It's not something we ignore.
The worst offender I've ever experienced, though, is my Harmony remote with its charging cradle. The remote itself is absolutely brilliant, and is a treat to use. But the charging cradle -- what a piece of shit. There is a large glowing blue ring in the bottom, and it illuminates the entire bedroom if the remote is not in its place. And the cradle itself is stupidly sculpted to match the remote, causing a different problem. Instead of a mechanically positive connection, the curved cradle supports the remote at precisely its center of gravity, allowing it to teeter, and every time it teeters it slips on and off the tiny charging contacts. Of course the remote helpfully signals every time it's made contact with the charging cradle by beeping loudly and backlighting the screen for a few seconds. Our little 15 pound dog scratching herself on the floor nearby will cause enough of a microtremor in the floor to get it to momentarily break contact. If anyone so much as walks near the bedroom, the remote beeps and the lights glow. I have to keep a hefty weight on the stupid remote so we can sleep.
I think it's the contrast between the usability of the remote and the stupidity of the charging cradle that makes it all the more painfully awful.
the "Power" indicator on my mixing board is an ungodly bright blue light.
I don't know about ungodly. God did kind of ask for it with "Let there be light!". Maybe he should have been more specific.
God obviously did not create 440 nm blinding blue light. That had to be the work of the devil.
Even if they are already bright enough, you can still trade brightness for efficiency and get increased battery life.