I think instead of worrying about what other people think, one's time is better spent being the best person they can be wiith whatever life has given them
News flash. Life isn't fair. The person who gets misidentified as someone else they don't want to be associated with is not the only person in the world with problems. Shit happens to everyone, some of it deserved and some not.
.... should extend only as far as any people who might be able to find out about a past transgression, by whatever means, are willing to forgive it.
That is, if they are willing to forgive it in the first place, then it doesn't matter if they know about it... and if they weren't willing to forgive it, then demanding that records be altered or erased so that they can't find out about it in the first place amounts to unwarranted historical revisionism, and basically only wanting to avoid the natural consequences of one's past choices.
As I said, since passwords are never uploaded, there's not going to be any way for a robot to try and rip that money off.
Also, chromebooks don't upload your bank balance because the chromebook doesn't actually know it. An app designed by your bank to check your bank accounts certainly could, but your bank isn't going to be interested in sending that information to google either.
Perhaps you misunderstand.... I wasn't asking why one should be allowed to have an assault rifile, I was asking what the justification is for picking one place and not another to draw the line at disallowing access to certain classes of weapons?
If the answer to should civilians be allowed to own AR-15's is yes, should they also be legally allowed to own nuclear weapons? What about chemical and biological weapons?
We coincidentally happen to agree to the use of legal tender for purposes of exchange because we generally agree its value to ourselves. How can you regulate other mechanisms that have any perceived value without also trying to regulate something as basic as haggling or barter, however? For any private transaction, two parties can agree to whatever exchange is amenable to both of them.
How the fucking hell do they expect to regulate bitcoin if they can't also simultaneously regulate what people are and are not allowed to accept in exchange for goods or services? Would Frank be legally prohibited from mowing Joe's lawn in exchange for letting Frank use Joe's washing machine once per week, for instance?
The voltage drop on a perfect inductor is always directly proportional to the rate of change of the current flowing through it. If you remove it from a circuit, there is no change in current, so any state it may have had in an active circuit is always lost when you switch the power off. Perfect capacitors retain state because the change in voltage drop is proportional to the current flowing through it.. so if there is no current, the voltage drop stays constant. Perfect resistors don't have a state at all.
My intent was to point out that your notion of its "state" being tied to whether the device is passive or active is a misguided one.
Mathematically, a passive element is one where at least one of either the current or the rate of current change in a circuit utilizing the device is linearly dependent on either the voltage or the rate of change of the voltage applied to the circuit, and so there must be exactly 4 kinds of passive components.
All other components are considered active components.
It's my understanding that memristors maintain a constant relationship between rate of change in voltage and rate of change in current, and would thus still be considered passive.
There's nothing wrong with using post-it notes or a journal to remember passwords that appears entirely human readable, but one should write down all passwords using a code that they invent themselves. There are practically unlimited variations on the kinds of codes can be employed, and so while a code may be extremely easy to remember, it can still be virtually impossible for anyone to actually guess simply because of the size of the space of possible code combinations (don't believe me? try and enumerate them). In practice, it is not significantly different than bruteforcing a password from scratch. It is probably cheaper and easier to use the $5 wrench method of password discovery.
This mechanism of hiding passwords in plain sight is, IME, 100% foolproof.
I'm not certain how fast food places will change for this, as their lids make it impossible to drink without a straw, and the cups are flimsy without lids.Paper straws. Lots of restaurants already use these.
I'm not saying that the demand isn't there for animation or that animated features cannot be phenomenally successful, only that the demand is higher, in *general*, for live action movies than it is for animated films.
I never encountered that particular issue while I was working there. It only happened a few times in my personal experience, and it seemed that each time it was with products that were ordered by mail, and they had simply not received the item, but still received a bill for it. A couple of times I got yelled at quite harshly for calling to collect payment for something that they had not received, so I needed to learn to have a thick skin (which I never really developed, and a major reason why things didn't work out there for me). None ever actually asked me if their credit was being affected, so my responsibility ended there. Each time it happened, I forwarded the account to my supervisor who handled the intricacies of such situations.
I'm only speaking from the experience that I've had, which admittedly isn't much, but this particular issue was actually covered in my training. for the job. We were told that we could assure anyone in that position, but only if they explicitly asked about it, that their credit rating would not be affected if the company was unable to verify that the item for which they were being billed had in fact been delivered correctly.
Having worked at one time for a collection agency for a few months, I think it's safe say that if he did not receive magazines after his subscription lapsed, then his credit rating would probably be unaffected. As far as I know, the company to which he supposedly owed money would generally need to provide proof they had delivered the merchandise he supposedly needs to pay for in order for his credit rating to take any hit.
Honestly, that's the first application I thought of if or when this tech becomes commonly available.
Where it gets more scary is when it used to manipulate pictures that may be used in the future to ascertain the veracity of particular circumstances or events, possibly even for legal reasons.
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I think instead of worrying about what other people think, one's time is better spent being the best person they can be wiith whatever life has given them
News flash. Life isn't fair. The person who gets misidentified as someone else they don't want to be associated with is not the only person in the world with problems. Shit happens to everyone, some of it deserved and some not.
That is, if they are willing to forgive it in the first place, then it doesn't matter if they know about it... and if they weren't willing to forgive it, then demanding that records be altered or erased so that they can't find out about it in the first place amounts to unwarranted historical revisionism, and basically only wanting to avoid the natural consequences of one's past choices.
As I said, since passwords are never uploaded, there's not going to be any way for a robot to try and rip that money off.
Also, chromebooks don't upload your bank balance because the chromebook doesn't actually know it. An app designed by your bank to check your bank accounts certainly could, but your bank isn't going to be interested in sending that information to google either.
Perhaps you misunderstand.... I wasn't asking why one should be allowed to have an assault rifile, I was asking what the justification is for picking one place and not another to draw the line at disallowing access to certain classes of weapons?
If the answer to should civilians be allowed to own AR-15's is yes, should they also be legally allowed to own nuclear weapons? What about chemical and biological weapons?
At what point do you draw the line, and why?
It's about the future, and they are still using Fahrenheit.
People who don't think of themselves as so important that anyone else would find anything they might do interesting enough to bother to snoop on.
In practice, the biggest potential security issue are passwords, and on ChromeOS, those are kept locally on the device, and never uploaded to Google.
For most people, everything else that might get uploaded isn't going to be interesting enough for anybody else to care
He said "now"... that might suggest that the comment is only relevant to chromebooks that have come out more recently.
We coincidentally happen to agree to the use of legal tender for purposes of exchange because we generally agree its value to ourselves. How can you regulate other mechanisms that have any perceived value without also trying to regulate something as basic as haggling or barter, however? For any private transaction, two parties can agree to whatever exchange is amenable to both of them.
How the fucking hell do they expect to regulate bitcoin if they can't also simultaneously regulate what people are and are not allowed to accept in exchange for goods or services? Would Frank be legally prohibited from mowing Joe's lawn in exchange for letting Frank use Joe's washing machine once per week, for instance?
The voltage drop on a perfect inductor is always directly proportional to the rate of change of the current flowing through it. If you remove it from a circuit, there is no change in current, so any state it may have had in an active circuit is always lost when you switch the power off. Perfect capacitors retain state because the change in voltage drop is proportional to the current flowing through it.. so if there is no current, the voltage drop stays constant. Perfect resistors don't have a state at all.
My intent was to point out that your notion of its "state" being tied to whether the device is passive or active is a misguided one.
Mathematically, a passive element is one where at least one of either the current or the rate of current change in a circuit utilizing the device is linearly dependent on either the voltage or the rate of change of the voltage applied to the circuit, and so there must be exactly 4 kinds of passive components.
All other components are considered active components.
It's my understanding that memristors maintain a constant relationship between rate of change in voltage and rate of change in current, and would thus still be considered passive.
So I suppose you think capacitors are not passive either, then?
Or do you think that retention of charge doesn't count as "state"?
You may find that your own definition of active vs passive components is not the same as the actual one.
I always assumed that it was most practical for devices which don't have DVD's, like phones or tablet devices.
This mechanism of hiding passwords in plain sight is, IME, 100% foolproof.
Why, if you are that concerned about what it would do to your teeth, would you drink soda at all, even if through a straw?
I think that it more showcases the technical skill of the people who pulled it off more than anything about Linux, specifically.,
I'm not saying that the demand isn't there for animation or that animated features cannot be phenomenally successful, only that the demand is higher, in *general*, for live action movies than it is for animated films.
Could *YOU* have done it?
Because in general, the demand is higher for live action movies.
I never encountered that particular issue while I was working there. It only happened a few times in my personal experience, and it seemed that each time it was with products that were ordered by mail, and they had simply not received the item, but still received a bill for it. A couple of times I got yelled at quite harshly for calling to collect payment for something that they had not received, so I needed to learn to have a thick skin (which I never really developed, and a major reason why things didn't work out there for me). None ever actually asked me if their credit was being affected, so my responsibility ended there. Each time it happened, I forwarded the account to my supervisor who handled the intricacies of such situations.
I'm only speaking from the experience that I've had, which admittedly isn't much, but this particular issue was actually covered in my training. for the job. We were told that we could assure anyone in that position, but only if they explicitly asked about it, that their credit rating would not be affected if the company was unable to verify that the item for which they were being billed had in fact been delivered correctly.
Having worked at one time for a collection agency for a few months, I think it's safe say that if he did not receive magazines after his subscription lapsed, then his credit rating would probably be unaffected. As far as I know, the company to which he supposedly owed money would generally need to provide proof they had delivered the merchandise he supposedly needs to pay for in order for his credit rating to take any hit.
Honestly, that's the first application I thought of if or when this tech becomes commonly available.
Where it gets more scary is when it used to manipulate pictures that may be used in the future to ascertain the veracity of particular circumstances or events, possibly even for legal reasons.