True, but:
-Since the 1900s there has never been a train wreck in which every single passenger died (well, when there were a significant # of passengers).
-A train can't be hijacked and run into a building.
-Collateral damage from a train wreck is limited to the immedate vicinity of the rail line (usually warehouses and factories).
-Trains (particularly electric ones, which high speed trains are) do not carry fuel that can be ignited to cause a larger explosion.
Which puts attacking a train on the same level as attacking a highway or shopping mall or anything else... planes are "special" for these reasons, which is why extra security is needed.
Mod Parent Up! The terrorists have yet again managed to make every (air) travelling American's life even more miserable. And killed off landmark-announcing, one of the few remaining holdover practices from when air travel was glamorous. Not being able to have your laptop out for the last hour will go over real well with the business crowd.
I keep hoping at some point their tactic will become counterproductive, and the sheeple might decide they'd rather fly hassle-free with a 0.01% chance of terrorist activity than uncomfortably with a 0.005% chance. So far, not the case. Perhaps if this drives enough people to the train, Amtrak funding will improve?
This reminds me of a story eons ago my fifth grade teacher told us in class (early 90s)... a girl was crying because her parents didn't come to pick her up from school, and couldn't be reached on the phone. A hug goes a long way in these situations, but no one could give her one, so she stayed sad all evening. If there were "no talking to children to build trust" laws, this would have gone worse, since instead of being able to distract her from her problem by talking about other things, the only things the teachers would be able to talk about are "well, what's going to happen to you if we cant find your parents is you'll have to stay with strangers for a while."
At the university I worked for you had the option of joining the union and paying 1% of your salary towards union dues, or not joining and paying a 1% services charge. After several months of employment, all union members got an across the board $500/yr raise, before the annual 3-4% cost of living raise and annual 3-4% discretionary raise. Non-union members did not get the $500, nor did they get that increase calculated into their other annual raises.
There's also a story of a professional who, for 8 years, was present for 8 hours a day, and no one knew what he did. After his bosses changed, the new boss gave him an unsatisfactory review, and he was fired. He got a job at another university, and for two years, the union fought on his behalf, disagreeing with the reason for his termination. After all, he had 8 years of satisfactory reviews, and suddenly with a new boss he fails all categories? Long story short, when the legal battle ended, the employee received 2 years back pay, and the option of returning to his do-nothing job.
The only downside to a union I can possibly see (from an employee perspective) is if you are in a position that is prohibited from striking. If the union calls a strike, it gets very messy and could cost individual employees thousands in fines, like the 2005 NYCTA strike.
Since you're AC, replying so people will see this. I too, thought of the Becuna. I was there a year or two ago. Even alone I would say it's worth the price of admission to the museum...
Anything that relies on anything outside of your head could cause problems if you are trying to access something on a guest system. You could come up with a theme (similar to naming servers) for all of your passwords. Substitute in numbers/special characters/capitalization in a way that directly corresponds to how important what it is guarding is. For example, a password to a forum could be "washington", while a password to a bank could be "r00$3v31t" (it is helpful if your theme is less obvious). Provide a hint vaguely related to the theme (either with the built-in hint system or for a card in your wallet) to help you differentiate. For example:
the fourth sentence spoken in a movie (hint: actor from that movie but not the one who spoke that line)
the same phrase in different languages (hint: a person's name in that language)
fifth sentence on page 42 of a book (hint: the person who is the reason you read that book)
In this way every website has a different password, and not even your closest friends will be able to guess from the hint. And so if a database is compromised or packets are sniffed while you are logging in, only the website in question is affected. If you forget which of your many passwords goes with which site, the hint should help. And if you completely forgot the password, you can look up based on the theme what the password is.
If you are worried that the theme can be easily predicted from the sheet, you can use the position on the sheet of paper, feed it through a formula, and have the resulting number be a number used in determining the word or phrase.
If you are less worried about accessing your stuff remotely, you could do something rudimentary like append what the password is for to the password, run it through crypt(), and use that.
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Methinks you did not read the first line:
As having known a person who had their house raided by the Calgary Police (many times) and their computers stolen as a result of their former employer making false claims, the tool is as useful as the Calgary Police Computer Tech Team (or whatever they are called today).
"Many times" probably occurred due to not finding anything, and said employer continuing to insist there was.
-You are assuming that some sort of frame is being built around this space elevator.
-Third rail electrical systems require substations spaced approximately every 1 mile (for 600 VDC). A more efficient form used in public transportation, 25kv AC on overhead wires, sill requires requires a spacing of every 20 miles. Also, putting the equipment required to convert electrical energy from an easy to transmit form to an easy to use form on the actual elevator would make it quite heavy.
In short, a 'space train' would be even more impractical than an elevator...
In other words, open investments for new movies to the general public, and the resulting product belongs to the public... great concept, actually. Movies with stupid premises that no one in their right mind would go see, wouldn't get funded enough to be made. Meanwhile, blue-ray device manufacturers would toss money towards projects that would benefit most from the format, helping keep alive the special effects budget. Book-to-movie projects could get funding from bookstores and the like, simply because those increase sales for the books they came from.
If the end product sucks, you blame the company you invested in, and groups that cannot turn out anything more than a generic throwaway movie are forced from the field.
The problem this runs into is, you would need a population enlightened enough to go along with this mindset... not gonna happen.
Not necessarily your home computer, a cheap VPS would do the trick. Decent ones are around $20/month. Since you can encrypt however you please, they still would either have to contact you in order to get access to it, or waste a good amount of time trying to decrypt it. The warrant may still go to you anyway, even if the physical machine is not yours, if all the DNS records point to you and not the VPS company.
You don't *have* to drive. And even if a job within public transport pays less, and a home close to a supermarket and bus line costs more, no insurance/gas/car payments/stress is a huge benefit. Higher insurance costs for people who shouldn't drive will help more people see this...
For the record, I do not own a car, and pulled off the above with relative ease... the real problem is, no one even *tries*.
That would be pointless, as the idea is to have no battery on the plane, not that they do not trust the battery you have. If it can interface with your laptop, the same conditions that could have made your normal battery burst into flames would make the substitute one do so as well.
For that matter outlets on the plane are just as dangerous, a simple short from a damaged power cord could make things very bad (if we're talking what-ifs)....
That's not quite the same analogy...
You can fill an empty water bottle at a water fountain or (if your airport has deemed such things unnecessary) the bathroom sink. If they make you separate the battery from the laptop and either transport it as checked or (worse) mail it to your destination, you can't exactly build a new battery on the other side of security...
What are you talking about? It's been a few months since I last used mine, but I recall very regularly being notified of app updates without ever having to browse to the apps in the store, and I simply needed to approve the lot of them in one go.
Maybe if you want the latest and greatest the moment it comes out, but a normal user would be fine with waiting until the automatic updates push it through...
If this is true, then this is what will happen:
-China disregards patents
-China creates better technology than the US (and the rest of the world)
-out of necessity to remain relevant, US (and other) Patent Systems are redesigned.
I read somewhere [citation needed] that Japanese companies are preparing for this eventuality by focusing brand recognition/loyalty tactics on children, as when they become adults the companies will no longer have the quality advantage.
Wtf?
Lesse, movie theater is 5 minute bus ride from work. Home is 20 minute bus ride+walk in opposite direction of movie theater. You're saying that I would rather spend 60 minutes (add in additional waiting time) going home, changing/dropping off laptop, then backtracking, passing my office in the process, to be more "comfortable" for a 90 minute movie?
Simply put, if this were to happen here this change would make it so that I never go to the theater... most of my movies have been watched after work (when you work next to the shopping mall and do not drive, any other way is a colossal waste of time). If it were a good enough movie maybe I'd leave the laptop in my office and pick it up after, but that still adds 20 minutes of waiting to a trip home...
-1 Flamebait if I ever saw one...
If Google's determination on whether a site has malicious content is based solely on crawling it, wouldn't a hacker be able to manipulate robots.txt to ignore the file with the malware? These tools would allow a hacker to test that theory out, by trying different things on his own sites and seeing what generates an email, instead of waiting around for Google to re-crawl them and having to check each one to see if it is filtered...
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You've missed the point.
There is no reason for complex security checkpoints at rail stations, so it will not effect passenger travel time at all.
True, but: -Since the 1900s there has never been a train wreck in which every single passenger died (well, when there were a significant # of passengers).
-A train can't be hijacked and run into a building.
-Collateral damage from a train wreck is limited to the immedate vicinity of the rail line (usually warehouses and factories).
-Trains (particularly electric ones, which high speed trains are) do not carry fuel that can be ignited to cause a larger explosion.
Which puts attacking a train on the same level as attacking a highway or shopping mall or anything else... planes are "special" for these reasons, which is why extra security is needed.
Mod Parent Up! The terrorists have yet again managed to make every (air) travelling American's life even more miserable. And killed off landmark-announcing, one of the few remaining holdover practices from when air travel was glamorous. Not being able to have your laptop out for the last hour will go over real well with the business crowd. I keep hoping at some point their tactic will become counterproductive, and the sheeple might decide they'd rather fly hassle-free with a 0.01% chance of terrorist activity than uncomfortably with a 0.005% chance. So far, not the case. Perhaps if this drives enough people to the train, Amtrak funding will improve?
...But if you are suspected of committing a felony that data will be available to cops. Really not shocking.
Fixed that for ya.
This reminds me of a story eons ago my fifth grade teacher told us in class (early 90s)... a girl was crying because her parents didn't come to pick her up from school, and couldn't be reached on the phone. A hug goes a long way in these situations, but no one could give her one, so she stayed sad all evening. If there were "no talking to children to build trust" laws, this would have gone worse, since instead of being able to distract her from her problem by talking about other things, the only things the teachers would be able to talk about are "well, what's going to happen to you if we cant find your parents is you'll have to stay with strangers for a while."
The US Debt is owed to Japan, China, and a bunch of other countries. Graph is under Foreign Ownership heading...
There's also a story of a professional who, for 8 years, was present for 8 hours a day, and no one knew what he did. After his bosses changed, the new boss gave him an unsatisfactory review, and he was fired. He got a job at another university, and for two years, the union fought on his behalf, disagreeing with the reason for his termination. After all, he had 8 years of satisfactory reviews, and suddenly with a new boss he fails all categories? Long story short, when the legal battle ended, the employee received 2 years back pay, and the option of returning to his do-nothing job.
The only downside to a union I can possibly see (from an employee perspective) is if you are in a position that is prohibited from striking. If the union calls a strike, it gets very messy and could cost individual employees thousands in fines, like the 2005 NYCTA strike.
Since you're AC, replying so people will see this. I too, thought of the Becuna. I was there a year or two ago. Even alone I would say it's worth the price of admission to the museum...
In this way every website has a different password, and not even your closest friends will be able to guess from the hint. And so if a database is compromised or packets are sniffed while you are logging in, only the website in question is affected. If you forget which of your many passwords goes with which site, the hint should help. And if you completely forgot the password, you can look up based on the theme what the password is.
If you are worried that the theme can be easily predicted from the sheet, you can use the position on the sheet of paper, feed it through a formula, and have the resulting number be a number used in determining the word or phrase.
If you are less worried about accessing your stuff remotely, you could do something rudimentary like append what the password is for to the password, run it through crypt(), and use that.
As having known a person who had their house raided by the Calgary Police (many times) and their computers stolen as a result of their former employer making false claims, the tool is as useful as the Calgary Police Computer Tech Team (or whatever they are called today).
"Many times" probably occurred due to not finding anything, and said employer continuing to insist there was.
-You are assuming that some sort of frame is being built around this space elevator.
-Third rail electrical systems require substations spaced approximately every 1 mile (for 600 VDC). A more efficient form used in public transportation, 25kv AC on overhead wires, sill requires requires a spacing of every 20 miles. Also, putting the equipment required to convert electrical energy from an easy to transmit form to an easy to use form on the actual elevator would make it quite heavy.
In short, a 'space train' would be even more impractical than an elevator...
.... you do know what IQ stands for, right?
Yup, only way to avoid the problem where most people who want power are the ones that shouldn't have it...
In other words, open investments for new movies to the general public, and the resulting product belongs to the public... great concept, actually. Movies with stupid premises that no one in their right mind would go see, wouldn't get funded enough to be made. Meanwhile, blue-ray device manufacturers would toss money towards projects that would benefit most from the format, helping keep alive the special effects budget. Book-to-movie projects could get funding from bookstores and the like, simply because those increase sales for the books they came from.
If the end product sucks, you blame the company you invested in, and groups that cannot turn out anything more than a generic throwaway movie are forced from the field.
The problem this runs into is, you would need a population enlightened enough to go along with this mindset... not gonna happen.
Not necessarily your home computer, a cheap VPS would do the trick. Decent ones are around $20/month. Since you can encrypt however you please, they still would either have to contact you in order to get access to it, or waste a good amount of time trying to decrypt it. The warrant may still go to you anyway, even if the physical machine is not yours, if all the DNS records point to you and not the VPS company.
You don't *have* to drive. And even if a job within public transport pays less, and a home close to a supermarket and bus line costs more, no insurance/gas/car payments/stress is a huge benefit. Higher insurance costs for people who shouldn't drive will help more people see this...
For the record, I do not own a car, and pulled off the above with relative ease... the real problem is, no one even *tries*.
That would be pointless, as the idea is to have no battery on the plane, not that they do not trust the battery you have. If it can interface with your laptop, the same conditions that could have made your normal battery burst into flames would make the substitute one do so as well.
For that matter outlets on the plane are just as dangerous, a simple short from a damaged power cord could make things very bad (if we're talking what-ifs)....
That's not quite the same analogy... You can fill an empty water bottle at a water fountain or (if your airport has deemed such things unnecessary) the bathroom sink. If they make you separate the battery from the laptop and either transport it as checked or (worse) mail it to your destination, you can't exactly build a new battery on the other side of security...
for LAN play in SC2.
What are you talking about? It's been a few months since I last used mine, but I recall very regularly being notified of app updates without ever having to browse to the apps in the store, and I simply needed to approve the lot of them in one go. Maybe if you want the latest and greatest the moment it comes out, but a normal user would be fine with waiting until the automatic updates push it through...
Would this be caused by expiring H1-B Visas as discussed previously?
If this is true, then this is what will happen: -China disregards patents
-China creates better technology than the US (and the rest of the world)
-out of necessity to remain relevant, US (and other) Patent Systems are redesigned.
I read somewhere [citation needed] that Japanese companies are preparing for this eventuality by focusing brand recognition/loyalty tactics on children, as when they become adults the companies will no longer have the quality advantage.
Simply put, if this were to happen here this change would make it so that I never go to the theater... most of my movies have been watched after work (when you work next to the shopping mall and do not drive, any other way is a colossal waste of time). If it were a good enough movie maybe I'd leave the laptop in my office and pick it up after, but that still adds 20 minutes of waiting to a trip home... -1 Flamebait if I ever saw one...
If Google's determination on whether a site has malicious content is based solely on crawling it, wouldn't a hacker be able to manipulate robots.txt to ignore the file with the malware? These tools would allow a hacker to test that theory out, by trying different things on his own sites and seeing what generates an email, instead of waiting around for Google to re-crawl them and having to check each one to see if it is filtered...