If your system has a spelling checker, then simply run any submitted password through that (locally, not online). If there isn't a pselling checker (that was accidental. But WTF, I'll let it stand.), then not long after installation, compile a list of text files and-or PDFs, parse them into words, and use that as your dictionary (repeat occasionally).
If it's in the dictionary, it's not allowed. Then add other rules.
Microsloth might be reacting slowly to a perceived problem, but they are doing some sort of reaction.
You'll note that my suggestion doesn't include any component of transmitting the dictionary online. That's deliberate. Cut the cord, install your OS from DVD, start adding your data from back-up, and at some point the customised dictionary starts to be compiled.
I'm sure that there are better schemes out there - I've read Zimmermann's "snake oil" warnings. But it's a start (as is this action from Microsloth.)
Someone is going to call me a Microsloth fanboi now. Well, I'm typing on a Trisquel machine, and I burned Fedora onto a Win-10 machine last week.
IF (a big "IF") the systems were robustly designed in the first case (see previous mention of "big IF") , then an ICBM, relying on gravity (not proved to change, on decadal time-scales) and magnetic field (for orientation), Then BigFuckingDeal if they install updates via a "Stone Slab Reader" Unless there is a change in destruction-radius of the warheads, so what?
If I have a "fucks everything up" warhead with an effective footprint 30km in radius, sub-millimetre landing is not relevant.
These are weapons of Mass Destruction. Precision is not necessary, and may be counterproductive.
Work out the tonne-kilometres of wear on your cable.
you may be surprised to learn that there is a lot of monitoring that goes on in cranes, and the level of cable wear (as predicted by the tonnes of load multiplied by the kilometres of travel of the "fast line" on and off the drum) is one thing that even quite cavalier crane operators keep a close eye on. When the wear reaches a certain level, you spool some line through from your storage reel into the live system, re-clamp the dead line, then cut the same amount off from the fast line. Lather, rinse, repeat.
The maintenance costs would be definitely non-trivial.
For contingencies - say there is a flaw in your cable and it breaks unexpectedly. Your lines unspool, dropping your load to the bottom of the hole, followed shortly by the travelling block and several miles of steel cable. Your problem is to now recover from the disaster. It's by no means an unknown situation, and is a real pain, because of the tangle of cable sitting on top of the hardware you want to "fish". It's not fun. "Don't do that" is the normal advice.
I get home, I put the heating on if I think I need it. Heating is a luxury, and I've spent enough time living in accommodations without heating - frost on the inside of the window is nothing new to wake up to. Hot water is produced when I turn the tap on (and stops being produced when I turn the tap off). The washing machine handles it's task perfectly well once I've put a load in - which is not TTBOMK planned to be automated. Oh, and the heating system actually has an anti-frost feature to protect the water pipes while I'm away in winter. Or spring, or autumn.
Explain to me again what I'll gain - which I consider to be of value - from this "home automation" concept.
No chance. Couldn't build pipelines without x raying the welds.
... for which you don't actually need radioactive sources, if you're talking about X-rays. What you do is build a high-voltage electricity generator (a few tens of kilovolts) and use it to accelerate electrons to collide with a metal target (copper, tungsten, it varies with need) whereupon an uncollimated beam of x-rays is produced. A guy called Roentgen started development in the 1880s ; they're quite a mature technology.
Used as parts of sensors when drilling. Oil industry can't live without a radioisotope, here or there.
Hmmm, speaking as an oilfield geologist, supervising the use of thse machines on a day-to-day basis, you clearly haven't heard of developments over the last decade or so. Because of the surface costs (clearing non-essential personnel from the area when handling sources) and the contingency costs (fishing for sources "lost in hole" along with drill strings can cost tens of millions of dollars per event ; also, in some countries, the truckload of soldiers to "escort" the sources to the site are basically a tax, which takes some days to pay), most logging companies have put substantial effort into developing source-less logging suites. Now, they are billed more expensively (it's "ecological", so you charge higher), and more importantly, their results are not directly comparable with wells (or the same well) logged with radioactive logs. So they've by no means taken over the industry. But they do exist and they're not new. 2003 was the first time I supervised a source-free logging job, which was being done as a freebie "technology demonstrator". It worked no worse than the conventional tools (which were paid to run as well).
For large ones, lakes work, though there's a definite real estate issue there,
A definite "real estate issue". My country as been using it's pumped-storage capacity for approaching 50 years now. It averages one pumped storage scheme per 30 million people. We're not a particularly mountainous country, and you do need mountainous country to get the elevation difference between your upper and lower reservoirs.
What's that, Lassie? You don't understand why you need a lower reservoir? Well, if you're trying to pump water uphill to store energy, and your pump sucks air, that doesn't do nice things to the pump?
What's that, Lassie? You don't understand why the two reservoirs need to be close to each other? Well, shockingly, building pipelines (particularly ones that can handle substantial flows at substantial pressures) actually costs money. So, the shorter your pipeline, the lower your construction and maintenance costs.
What's that, Lassie? You don't understand why your pumped storage scheme needs to be as close as possible to your major centres of population. Well, again, power lines cost money - both for construction and maintenance. So you want to make them as short as possible.
Yes, pumped storage is useful and an element of a rationally managed integrated power grid. But it's not a panacea, and it's quite expensive. With a real "real estate" issue.
One minor complicating factor in my country's use of pumped storage is that mountain areas close to population centres have what is called "recreational value," which further increases the legal and logistical complications of such schemes. Expect years or decades of argument in court before breaking ground on any such scheme.
My first computer - which cost me nearly 4 months of wges - booted to GEM. Since my previous experience with computers was (literally) with teletype terminals churning out 11-inch wide printouts as a form of user interaction, this was a change. 3 years of change from final-year university to "debt-paid-off, buy toys" time.
They chose the wrong parents. That's the same reason that all children of a religion different to your parent's religion will burn in the hell of your parent's religion - they too chose the wrong parents.
Having had to have molten plastic (*) scraped from the surface of my eyeball using the sharp-edge of a scalpel, I for one am perfectly happy wearing a headset.
I've explained this to the morons trying to sell "laser eye treatment" in the street, watched them do their "drowning fish" impersonation, and then try to get back onto script with "but everyone thinks wearing glasses is so ugly. I really do not give one tenth of a flying fuck about ugly, compared to not wanting to see the blade of that scalpel coming towards my eye and having to NOT BLINK. They seem to have a mental problem accepting the concept that "ugly" isn't the most important thing in the universe.
If you can't change your focus between infinity and the metre-or-so range to a windscreen, then I suspect you've got some other serious issues going on with your vision. When did you last see your (opthalmic) optician? You should be doing it every couple of years at lest, if you're over your mid-30s.
I don't think I would feel more comfortable about the exam if he was watching me through a transparent display, but maybe he would. It's an interesting idea that deserves further research.
And this would be how many times more wonderful than using a half-silvered mirror. At how many times the price?
That has been working for decades using reflection. It's not terribly helpful in daylight - but exactly that problem would affect a transparent display.
Plus there's the minor detail of repair costs. That springs to mind since the wife's car got broken into using a brick a couple of months ago, which bounced off the inside of the windscreen cracking that.
A drug test would show that I'd recently consumed alcohol to excess (I think it would, anyway -- I don't know a lot about the chemistry involved)
Before Scotland dropped it's blood-alcohol-while-driving limit by about a third last year, the rule of thumb was that for each pint you'd drunk the night before, it'd take an hour of sleep (possibly including breakfast/ shower time) to clear out of your blood stream. That's for typical British beer of about 4-5% by volume. If your beer is stronger or weaker, scale appropriately ; also we have 8 pints to the gallon, and a gallon weighs ten pounds. So you'd need to scale for whatever size of bottle you were drinking from.
And it's nly a rule of thumb. Allow 50% each way for individual variation.
As in the job title of "knocker-upper" - the person who would get up an hour or two earlier than the rest of the factory workers and go around the streets knocking everyone else up to make sure they got to the gates on time.
The "they" you refer to being, of course, the NSA, CIA and other agencies who keep on doing illegal things in secret and then writing reports about it so that people can leak them and expose them to the unwanted glare of public scrutiny?
While I don't know the details, doesn't the law to which you refer have a name, paragraph and clause number which would be cited on the charge sheet were the la ever enforced? For example, here in th UK, the police's "catch-all" charge is "public disorder as per Section 5 of the Public Order Act of 1986" (which basically means anything the officer, or anyone else, wants it to).
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Any counter examples? Any?
If it's in the dictionary, it's not allowed. Then add other rules.
Microsloth might be reacting slowly to a perceived problem, but they are doing some sort of reaction.
You'll note that my suggestion doesn't include any component of transmitting the dictionary online. That's deliberate. Cut the cord, install your OS from DVD, start adding your data from back-up, and at some point the customised dictionary starts to be compiled.
I'm sure that there are better schemes out there - I've read Zimmermann's "snake oil" warnings. But it's a start (as is this action from Microsloth.)
Someone is going to call me a Microsloth fanboi now. Well, I'm typing on a Trisquel machine, and I burned Fedora onto a Win-10 machine last week.
This is inimical to the interests of the legal industry. That's why they don't do it.
This is inimical to the interests of the legal industry. That's why they don't do it.
This is inimical to the interests of the legal industry. That's why they don't do it.
This is not the legal industry's problem.
About 2333 hour. Good business choice.
IF (a big "IF") the systems were robustly designed in the first case (see previous mention of "big IF") , then an ICBM, relying on gravity (not proved to change, on decadal time-scales) and magnetic field (for orientation), Then BigFuckingDeal if they install updates via a "Stone Slab Reader" Unless there is a change in destruction-radius of the warheads, so what? If I have a "fucks everything up" warhead with an effective footprint 30km in radius, sub-millimetre landing is not relevant. These are weapons of Mass Destruction. Precision is not necessary, and may be counterproductive.
Am I sufficiently interested to try to break the paywall? No. That is extremely BAD NEWS for the AdvertCorp behind the paywall.
you may be surprised to learn that there is a lot of monitoring that goes on in cranes, and the level of cable wear (as predicted by the tonnes of load multiplied by the kilometres of travel of the "fast line" on and off the drum) is one thing that even quite cavalier crane operators keep a close eye on. When the wear reaches a certain level, you spool some line through from your storage reel into the live system, re-clamp the dead line, then cut the same amount off from the fast line. Lather, rinse, repeat.
The maintenance costs would be definitely non-trivial.
For contingencies - say there is a flaw in your cable and it breaks unexpectedly. Your lines unspool, dropping your load to the bottom of the hole, followed shortly by the travelling block and several miles of steel cable. Your problem is to now recover from the disaster. It's by no means an unknown situation, and is a real pain, because of the tangle of cable sitting on top of the hardware you want to "fish". It's not fun. "Don't do that" is the normal advice.
Explain to me again what I'll gain - which I consider to be of value - from this "home automation" concept.
... for which you don't actually need radioactive sources, if you're talking about X-rays. What you do is build a high-voltage electricity generator (a few tens of kilovolts) and use it to accelerate electrons to collide with a metal target (copper, tungsten, it varies with need) whereupon an uncollimated beam of x-rays is produced. A guy called Roentgen started development in the 1880s ; they're quite a mature technology.
Hmmm, speaking as an oilfield geologist, supervising the use of thse machines on a day-to-day basis, you clearly haven't heard of developments over the last decade or so. Because of the surface costs (clearing non-essential personnel from the area when handling sources) and the contingency costs (fishing for sources "lost in hole" along with drill strings can cost tens of millions of dollars per event ; also, in some countries, the truckload of soldiers to "escort" the sources to the site are basically a tax, which takes some days to pay), most logging companies have put substantial effort into developing source-less logging suites. Now, they are billed more expensively (it's "ecological", so you charge higher), and more importantly, their results are not directly comparable with wells (or the same well) logged with radioactive logs. So they've by no means taken over the industry. But they do exist and they're not new. 2003 was the first time I supervised a source-free logging job, which was being done as a freebie "technology demonstrator". It worked no worse than the conventional tools (which were paid to run as well).
A definite "real estate issue". My country as been using it's pumped-storage capacity for approaching 50 years now. It averages one pumped storage scheme per 30 million people. We're not a particularly mountainous country, and you do need mountainous country to get the elevation difference between your upper and lower reservoirs.
What's that, Lassie? You don't understand why you need a lower reservoir? Well, if you're trying to pump water uphill to store energy, and your pump sucks air, that doesn't do nice things to the pump?
What's that, Lassie? You don't understand why the two reservoirs need to be close to each other? Well, shockingly, building pipelines (particularly ones that can handle substantial flows at substantial pressures) actually costs money. So, the shorter your pipeline, the lower your construction and maintenance costs.
What's that, Lassie? You don't understand why your pumped storage scheme needs to be as close as possible to your major centres of population. Well, again, power lines cost money - both for construction and maintenance. So you want to make them as short as possible.
Yes, pumped storage is useful and an element of a rationally managed integrated power grid. But it's not a panacea, and it's quite expensive. With a real "real estate" issue.
One minor complicating factor in my country's use of pumped storage is that mountain areas close to population centres have what is called "recreational value," which further increases the legal and logistical complications of such schemes. Expect years or decades of argument in court before breaking ground on any such scheme.
And FOOOF is even more fun. Personally, I want some octanitrocubane to play with. It's just a beautifully symmetrical molecule.
Of course, this was millennia before the development of effective anaesthetics.
My first computer - which cost me nearly 4 months of wges - booted to GEM. Since my previous experience with computers was (literally) with teletype terminals churning out 11-inch wide printouts as a form of user interaction, this was a change. 3 years of change from final-year university to "debt-paid-off, buy toys" time.
They chose the wrong parents. That's the same reason that all children of a religion different to your parent's religion will burn in the hell of your parent's religion - they too chose the wrong parents.
I've explained this to the morons trying to sell "laser eye treatment" in the street, watched them do their "drowning fish" impersonation, and then try to get back onto script with "but everyone thinks wearing glasses is so ugly. I really do not give one tenth of a flying fuck about ugly, compared to not wanting to see the blade of that scalpel coming towards my eye and having to NOT BLINK. They seem to have a mental problem accepting the concept that "ugly" isn't the most important thing in the universe.
Actually, not one twentieth of a flying fuck.
* - (well, hardened, formerly-molten plastic)
If you can't change your focus between infinity and the metre-or-so range to a windscreen, then I suspect you've got some other serious issues going on with your vision. When did you last see your (opthalmic) optician? You should be doing it every couple of years at lest, if you're over your mid-30s.
And this would be how many times more wonderful than using a half-silvered mirror. At how many times the price?
That has been working for decades using reflection. It's not terribly helpful in daylight - but exactly that problem would affect a transparent display.
Plus there's the minor detail of repair costs. That springs to mind since the wife's car got broken into using a brick a couple of months ago, which bounced off the inside of the windscreen cracking that.
Music has value?
News to me. I always wondered why people wasted time with it plugged into their ears like brain-sucking vampire.
... like unplugging his internet access and living in the real world instead of online.
Before Scotland dropped it's blood-alcohol-while-driving limit by about a third last year, the rule of thumb was that for each pint you'd drunk the night before, it'd take an hour of sleep (possibly including breakfast/ shower time) to clear out of your blood stream. That's for typical British beer of about 4-5% by volume. If your beer is stronger or weaker, scale appropriately ; also we have 8 pints to the gallon, and a gallon weighs ten pounds. So you'd need to scale for whatever size of bottle you were drinking from.
And it's nly a rule of thumb. Allow 50% each way for individual variation.
As in the job title of "knocker-upper" - the person who would get up an hour or two earlier than the rest of the factory workers and go around the streets knocking everyone else up to make sure they got to the gates on time.
Seriously.
FTFY.
The "they" you refer to being, of course, the NSA, CIA and other agencies who keep on doing illegal things in secret and then writing reports about it so that people can leak them and expose them to the unwanted glare of public scrutiny?
While I don't know the details, doesn't the law to which you refer have a name, paragraph and clause number which would be cited on the charge sheet were the la ever enforced? For example, here in th UK, the police's "catch-all" charge is "public disorder as per Section 5 of the Public Order Act of 1986" (which basically means anything the officer, or anyone else, wants it to).