Your logic doesn't make sense, though. I used to live frugally, and I will tell you the flaws in that logic: 1. If you do not have a car (not an unreasonable assumption for those on food stamps), your food options are whatever is closest to home / on the bus line. This is automatically more expensive and limited than being able to shop around various major chain stores. 2. Without a car you can't realize bulk savings. You can't buy a gallon of milk, a full carton of eggs, and the package of 6 drumsticks/6 thighs. At some point your arms can't carry it all. So in order to eat fresh you end up getting the half gallon, the six pack of eggs, and the smaller chicken package. 3. As a single guy, it was difficult getting through any fresh fruits/vegetables before they expired. If you bought all the ingredients for a salad, you'd get through maybe 1/3 of each before they spoiled. So it becomes "this week I'll have lettuce", "this week I'll have spinach" and only buy them one at a time.
Then there's the time factor. At the grocery store I can buy a heavily processed microwave meat/vegetable/starch meal for $1, ready in 5 minutes. Buying 10 days worth of those is cheaper, faster, less wasteful, and lighter to carry than the fresh equivalent.
Ultimately the only way to eat fresh foods on a daily basis was to buy footlong subs at Subway (half for lunch, half for dinner). Taking the spoilage factor into account, it was actually cheaper than buying the bread, meat, and vegetables and making sandwiches myself.
I pass by one of those plants on my way to the mall... my bullshit detector has shattered completely reading some of these comments about US chip manufacturing capability...
That's a horrible thing to do to your kid. Don't do experiments with extremely young children. Just don't.
A lot of our understanding on how people learn is through experiments on extremely young children. Without it, rather than using the scientific method to figure out the best ways of teaching new things, we are left with randomly trying untested things out on large groups (ie: public school policy).
Catholicism has rejected creationism for quite some time. If taking your approach, they don't even need an actual scientist for the debate, just any Catholic who went through the Catholic school system. The method the religious textbooks seem to take boils down to: the Bible is not a science book and was written using knowledge and concepts people could understand at the time. And the biology teacher isn't the one using time up to explain away creationism, it's the religion teachers' jobs to do that.
While Protestants and Catholics both mistreated Galileo, it seems only the Catholics have learned from that mistake...
I'd argue storing a password in plain text in the config file is leaving the key in the lock. Base 64-ing the password is at least putting the key under a rock in front of the house.
Oh really? So you're telling me because a simple two line library could decode the password (adding negligible overhead to any program implementing it) it's not worth protecting against the very real possibility of shoulder surfing to steal passwords? Tell me, do you advocate against having obfuscated password forms for typing in your passwords as well?
Methinks you are the incompetent who doesn't understand what the actual purpose of security is.
I hate it when people say reversible encryption is "pointless". There are a few reason where you might want to let someone look at your configuration file/database/etc (maybe to ask for help), and having to sanitize/restore passwords every time is a pain in the ass. You might also open the file while someone is sitting next to you, forgetting that the password is in plaintext. Most people are honest but if the password is staring them straight in the face it becomes a tempting target.
It's like saying because a lockpick can open your door, you shouldn't bother having a lock.
I had this same argument over gaim/pidgin storing passwords in plaintext in its profiles.
Theft was an issue with incandescent bulbs a half century ago. Subway systems in particular (since they have low ceilings and areas that are unattended for long periods of time). They solved the problem with reverse-threaded bulbs: thieves would steal them, realize they were useless in an ordinary socket, word of mouth spread, and people stopped stealing the bulbs.
Now, you're right, too cheap to be worth stealing solves the issue. But, perhaps it's time for manufacturers to revisit the idea of reverse-threaded commercial sockets (or plug-type adapters) now that bulbs are worth stealing again...
Because the people who think about how to fix the government are not the ones thinking about how to get elected. There simply isn't enough time in the day to be well versed in both realms.
When you vote D or R, you are voting for the policies they *currently* have. The best way to push them is vote for a third party that has what you want. D and R are constantly trying to court the independent vote, party line voters are already in the bag, they don't need to care about them. Think about it, if people in favor of a stance on issue X held by a Libertarian vote Lib enough that the Rs lose important elections, they will incorporate issue X to win back those voters.
While apt is probably their most substantial contribution, for a server appropriate distro they have the best free support available, and that is partly due to the Debian philosophy. Yes there's a bunch of RedHat clones but they all suffer from the same issue: people seriously using RedHat are paying for the support (either through them or Oracle), which means they have access to a knowledgebase with excellent quality control and noise filtering. With a significant amount of support occurring behind the paywall, the free support is... lacking. For Debian, everyone gets the same access to the same support avenues, which means everyone gets access to the solutions.
Tl;dr: I find Debian to be the easiest distro to find free solutions to arbitrary and obscure issues.
'You have heard that it was said, "An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth". But I say to you, do not resist an evildoer. If anyone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also.'
So in other words even though there are shitty people in the world then anyone who considers themselves a christian should strive to not seek revenge against such people by killing them or wishing them to be killed. Instead they should forgive and leave any judgment for the lord.
Funny thing about this quote. I had an evangelical protestant friend who offered a bit of context for that statement, and it doesn't necessarily mean to forgive. Note that it says "strike you on the right cheek". In order to do that, they will have hit you with their left (non-dominant) hand. So that would be a slap or a weak punch, a bullying-type attack. By "turning the other cheek" you wordlessly challenge them to an even fight. With that interpretation it was more a dare to escalate the situation to a full on brawl, a subtle "come over here and say that".
He also gave me an interesting take on the "walk a mile in another man's shoes" one as well, but that's even less relevant.
NY State agencies have had to hire additional staff for the primary purpose of complying with FOIL requests. If our state with only 6.5% income tax can do it, surely the feds with their 25% income tax can afford to...
I used to not care about the calendar, but if you end up involved with a lot of projects, it's impossible to live without.
As for occasional versus extensive use of the calendar, people who don't block of time they're out of the office often get meetings scheduled while they're out. And then penalized for missing the meetings. Not official penalization, more "we made this decision about changes that are technically in your area but since you were not at the meeting we didn't think you'd mind. It's already been green lit by management, have fun!"
Both of these could theoretically be solved today with an infrastructure of overhead wires running along highways (similar to electric trolleybuses)... Charge / run on overhead wire while on highways, and use the batteries on local roads. Meter the usage in the car. The issues would be: 1 - some may find wires over roads and pantographs on the roof of cars "ugly" 2 - cars would need to be taller (then again the average SUV is halfway there) 3 - people would need to remember to drop their pantograph for changing lanes 4 - There's also the danger of high voltage lines all over the place
I'm not claiming this is a good solution, but this is a solvable problem.
That's why you power down the VM to take the snapshot. The snapshot is also instantaneous rather than waiting for some vauge, sketchy attempt at quiescing the FS.
If the downtime for a reboot is unacceptable, do not use snapshots.
It could simply be procrastination. How many people wait until April 15 to file their taxes? This is pretty much the same thing, scaled down to only those who got cancellation letters. And the website isn't the only way to get a new healthcare plan, the cancellation letters probably came with a menu of plans from the same company to sign up for.
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Your logic doesn't make sense, though. I used to live frugally, and I will tell you the flaws in that logic:
1. If you do not have a car (not an unreasonable assumption for those on food stamps), your food options are whatever is closest to home / on the bus line. This is automatically more expensive and limited than being able to shop around various major chain stores.
2. Without a car you can't realize bulk savings. You can't buy a gallon of milk, a full carton of eggs, and the package of 6 drumsticks/6 thighs. At some point your arms can't carry it all. So in order to eat fresh you end up getting the half gallon, the six pack of eggs, and the smaller chicken package.
3. As a single guy, it was difficult getting through any fresh fruits/vegetables before they expired. If you bought all the ingredients for a salad, you'd get through maybe 1/3 of each before they spoiled. So it becomes "this week I'll have lettuce", "this week I'll have spinach" and only buy them one at a time.
Then there's the time factor. At the grocery store I can buy a heavily processed microwave meat/vegetable/starch meal for $1, ready in 5 minutes. Buying 10 days worth of those is cheaper, faster, less wasteful, and lighter to carry than the fresh equivalent.
Ultimately the only way to eat fresh foods on a daily basis was to buy footlong subs at Subway (half for lunch, half for dinner). Taking the spoilage factor into account, it was actually cheaper than buying the bread, meat, and vegetables and making sandwiches myself.
There's a setting you can change in preferences that translates carriage returns into html crap.
I don't remember what it is, set it once years ago and hasn't bothered me since.
I'd mod you up if I hadn't already commented...
I pass by one of those plants on my way to the mall... my bullshit detector has shattered completely reading some of these comments about US chip manufacturing capability...
That's a horrible thing to do to your kid. Don't do experiments with extremely young children. Just don't.
A lot of our understanding on how people learn is through experiments on extremely young children. Without it, rather than using the scientific method to figure out the best ways of teaching new things, we are left with randomly trying untested things out on large groups (ie: public school policy).
Catholicism has rejected creationism for quite some time. If taking your approach, they don't even need an actual scientist for the debate, just any Catholic who went through the Catholic school system. The method the religious textbooks seem to take boils down to: the Bible is not a science book and was written using knowledge and concepts people could understand at the time. And the biology teacher isn't the one using time up to explain away creationism, it's the religion teachers' jobs to do that.
While Protestants and Catholics both mistreated Galileo, it seems only the Catholics have learned from that mistake...
I'd argue storing a password in plain text in the config file is leaving the key in the lock. Base 64-ing the password is at least putting the key under a rock in front of the house.
Oh really? So you're telling me because a simple two line library could decode the password (adding negligible overhead to any program implementing it) it's not worth protecting against the very real possibility of shoulder surfing to steal passwords? Tell me, do you advocate against having obfuscated password forms for typing in your passwords as well?
Methinks you are the incompetent who doesn't understand what the actual purpose of security is.
I hate it when people say reversible encryption is "pointless". There are a few reason where you might want to let someone look at your configuration file/database/etc (maybe to ask for help), and having to sanitize/restore passwords every time is a pain in the ass. You might also open the file while someone is sitting next to you, forgetting that the password is in plaintext. Most people are honest but if the password is staring them straight in the face it becomes a tempting target.
It's like saying because a lockpick can open your door, you shouldn't bother having a lock.
I had this same argument over gaim/pidgin storing passwords in plaintext in its profiles.
The government is run by representatives elected by the American People who choose to vote. It can be argued that they are the same thing.
Theft was an issue with incandescent bulbs a half century ago. Subway systems in particular (since they have low ceilings and areas that are unattended for long periods of time). They solved the problem with reverse-threaded bulbs: thieves would steal them, realize they were useless in an ordinary socket, word of mouth spread, and people stopped stealing the bulbs.
Now, you're right, too cheap to be worth stealing solves the issue. But, perhaps it's time for manufacturers to revisit the idea of reverse-threaded commercial sockets (or plug-type adapters) now that bulbs are worth stealing again...
Because the people who think about how to fix the government are not the ones thinking about how to get elected. There simply isn't enough time in the day to be well versed in both realms.
When you vote D or R, you are voting for the policies they *currently* have. The best way to push them is vote for a third party that has what you want. D and R are constantly trying to court the independent vote, party line voters are already in the bag, they don't need to care about them. Think about it, if people in favor of a stance on issue X held by a Libertarian vote Lib enough that the Rs lose important elections, they will incorporate issue X to win back those voters.
Does it matter if it is sent to another gmail address? I wouldn't expect gmail-gmail correspondence to ever leave the server farm.
Unintentionally it would have had the same effect as Southwest giving out Wiis... good publicity all around.
While apt is probably their most substantial contribution, for a server appropriate distro they have the best free support available, and that is partly due to the Debian philosophy. Yes there's a bunch of RedHat clones but they all suffer from the same issue: people seriously using RedHat are paying for the support (either through them or Oracle), which means they have access to a knowledgebase with excellent quality control and noise filtering. With a significant amount of support occurring behind the paywall, the free support is... lacking. For Debian, everyone gets the same access to the same support avenues, which means everyone gets access to the solutions.
Tl;dr: I find Debian to be the easiest distro to find free solutions to arbitrary and obscure issues.
'You have heard that it was said, "An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth". But I say to you, do not resist an evildoer. If anyone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also.'
So in other words even though there are shitty people in the world then anyone who considers themselves a christian should strive to not seek revenge against such people by killing them or wishing them to be killed. Instead they should forgive and leave any judgment for the lord.
Funny thing about this quote. I had an evangelical protestant friend who offered a bit of context for that statement, and it doesn't necessarily mean to forgive. Note that it says "strike you on the right cheek". In order to do that, they will have hit you with their left (non-dominant) hand. So that would be a slap or a weak punch, a bullying-type attack. By "turning the other cheek" you wordlessly challenge them to an even fight. With that interpretation it was more a dare to escalate the situation to a full on brawl, a subtle "come over here and say that".
He also gave me an interesting take on the "walk a mile in another man's shoes" one as well, but that's even less relevant.
NY State agencies have had to hire additional staff for the primary purpose of complying with FOIL requests. If our state with only 6.5% income tax can do it, surely the feds with their 25% income tax can afford to...
What good is that when those in charge already have life vests?
I used to not care about the calendar, but if you end up involved with a lot of projects, it's impossible to live without.
As for occasional versus extensive use of the calendar, people who don't block of time they're out of the office often get meetings scheduled while they're out. And then penalized for missing the meetings. Not official penalization, more "we made this decision about changes that are technically in your area but since you were not at the meeting we didn't think you'd mind. It's already been green lit by management, have fun!"
Both of these could theoretically be solved today with an infrastructure of overhead wires running along highways (similar to electric trolleybuses)... Charge / run on overhead wire while on highways, and use the batteries on local roads. Meter the usage in the car. The issues would be:
1 - some may find wires over roads and pantographs on the roof of cars "ugly"
2 - cars would need to be taller (then again the average SUV is halfway there)
3 - people would need to remember to drop their pantograph for changing lanes
4 - There's also the danger of high voltage lines all over the place
I'm not claiming this is a good solution, but this is a solvable problem.
That's why you power down the VM to take the snapshot. The snapshot is also instantaneous rather than waiting for some vauge, sketchy attempt at quiescing the FS.
If the downtime for a reboot is unacceptable, do not use snapshots.
And even at the busiest stations they're cleaner than my office bathroom.
It could simply be procrastination. How many people wait until April 15 to file their taxes? This is pretty much the same thing, scaled down to only those who got cancellation letters. And the website isn't the only way to get a new healthcare plan, the cancellation letters probably came with a menu of plans from the same company to sign up for.
Better public transit so there's a safe way home other than an overpriced cab?