A good password for wifi, since it doesn't really need to be memorized, is one generated by something like keepass2: 15 characters long random letters numbers and punctuation:
DHDukBDL04Pt2ZT
for example (note that is not a password I use, just one I randomly generated).
Since no-one actually has to type this in more than once per device, it's really not a major problem that you can't memorize it.
It may not need to be memorized, but it does need to be typed into every Wifi device you own, sometimes through a clunky on screen or "scroll through the letters" LCD interface. So random string passwords are annoying enough that many people avoid them.
If you're susceptible to that level of paranoia you should probably wear a full-body tinfoil suit, just in case someone put a tiny listening device on your clothes.
you mean like the level of paranoia where you don't trust the off button on your phone? I you think someone has tampered with your phone or software enough to disable the soft-off button, why don't you think that they've tampered it in such a way that the device can still record when it's "off"?
Frankly, for many jobs I think having a smartphone at all is probably not a good idea -- for that matter devices like smart speakers. Anything like that needs to have a hardware "off" button that ensures they aren't listening or transmitting.
But I'm not sure how secure modern feature phones either in the era of enhanced 911.
How do you know that hardware off button is really a hardware off button on your particular device? Even if you take out the batteries, maybe there's a hidden capacitor that's powering the secret listening device. Do you need to do a complete tear-down periodically?
Land is not the only issue -- if t was, then why is traffic in Austin so bad?
Land is a necessary, although not sufficient condition. The real issue is control. That's the problem. You see, Liberals, and most especially the kind that run San Francisco, like to control your life. They want to force you to live how they want you to live because they think they know best and that we're all just dumb white men with too much privilege. You will never have the necessary level of control over your own business in San Francisco because the miserable Liberal busybodies who run the place and their lazy bum voters cannot resist meddling in your private affairs.
Ahh, got it... so it's those Texas Liberals that are forcing residents of Dallas, Houston and Austin to sit in some of the worse congestion in the USA (all ranked in the top 13 USA cities for congestion). They have plenty of land, but don't want to use it, they want to force you to sit in your car in traffic. If only Texas weren't so full of liberals, then those cities would have 30 lane freeways and traffic would be free flowing all the time.
It's expensive to live there, it's overrun by homeless drunks and drug addicts, the streets are covered in human feces and whinny liberals keep sticking their noses in your business. Why not move to a state like Texas where there's so much land that you can build an entirely new city just the way you want it? San Francisco is a shit hole city, literally. You couldn't pay me to live there.
Why not? Because the employers and employees at these tech companies want to stay in the bay area, and until that change, there won't be another place like it. It may not be to your liking, but no one is forcing you to live there.
Land is not the only issue -- if t was, then why is traffic in Austin so bad?
Hm, well, speaking from experience, the corporate cafeteria is more like an attractive nuisance. It's good enough that you don't bother to go out, but not as good as what you'd get if you went out. And because everybody is doing it, if you don't, you stand out, which a lot of people aren't comfortable with.
I don't think this ordinance has a chance in hell of passing constitutional muster, but I actually think the idea behind it is good. Sometimes the only way to get the right result for individuals is to have a collective norm.
My company isn't large enough to have a full cafeteria, so they do catering, and the catered food is as good as any local restaurant in the $10 - $20 price range I'd be willing to pay every day. The choices are limited so some people chose to eat out and no one cares.
I actually think the idea behind it is good.
Why stop at food? Why not require that employees purchase gas locally... and haircuts... and groceries... and everything else that could be purchased locally? After all, the employers are indirectly paying for all of that through the pay they give employees.
Or, if towns want employees to buy more local products, then maybe they ought to relax their tight zoning laws and allow much more housing to be built near the offices... then they wouldn't have to force people to shop locally, it would happen naturally.
This is a bunch of crap. If your head is so far up your butt that you don't realize the end of the world is happening, then there is no saving you anyway. WASTE OF MONEY.
Weren't Hawaii the dumbasses that told their citizens that an incoming ICBM was happening.
Sometimes it's helpful to know in advance -- like if a derailed railcar is spewing toxic chemicals in the air, it'd be nice to know, so instead of going outside to sit on the back deck, I know I should shelter in place or head out of town.
Though I don't really need (or want) my TV to tell me, I think enough people have a cell phone nearby that there's no reason to make every single online content provider do it.
But that's $50K a year for half-time work and when you only need to drive to work a few times a month (assuming you're doing long-hauls with overnight stays), you can live well outside of expensive cities.
That makes the pay more attractive.
Long hauls are the most desirable routes, and routes are usually bid according to seniority. A captain on an A-320 flying Detroit to Hong Kong has a very different work life than a first officer on a Bombardier regional jet working for a feeder airline, flying Chicago to Iowa City to Fargo to Duluth.
PEDANTIC ALERT!!!!
There is no way an A320 would ever be assigned to a Detroit-Hong Kong route. The range isn't there, and it isn't ETOPS certified.
The distance from Detroit, MI to Hong Kong is approximately 12,620 km. The typical range of an Airbus A320 with 150 passengers is around 6,100 km.
Any captain scheduled to fly such a route should look for a transfer immediately, not matter what the pay is!
Since you're being pedantic, the A320 does have ETOPS-180 certification, which AFAIK is sufficient for DTW-Hong Kong.
$50-60k/year is garbage for a skilled technical field that requires travel 100% of the time. Pay the pilots more and the shortage will go away. Also, the airlines should start paying for training programs if they really want pilots - just like other industries need to train operators for manufacturing plants, IT staff, or maintenance workers.
But that's $50K a year for half-time work and when you only need to drive to work a few times a month (assuming you're doing long-hauls with overnight stays), you can live well outside of expensive cities.
Apple for giving me an entirely new laptop body; but what happens when the same failures happen in two years and I DON'T have Apple Care?
The same thing that happens anytime a 4 year old computer fails -- you need to make the decision of whether it's cheaper to pay for the repair or buy a new one (possibly from a different manufacturer). My last Macbook lasted just under 4 years before I ran into problems (screen blanked out randomly), and since that was in daily use (including commuting on the back of my bike), I consider that to be pretty reasonable.
I have a 7 year old Lenovo laptop that still runs fine, but it rarely leaves the house.
I did not even consider buying a non-name brand CO detector.
I had to throw away a name-brand CO/smoke detector. It went off when there was not CO or smoke. Reviews on Amazon show that this behaviour is common for this model. It was a newer model, with a built-in battery: the only way to stop it sounding its alarm is destructive.
It's possible that the alarm was merely over-sensitive: there is probably some CO in the air in my house, but no other sensor has ever alarmed, before or after, but still, this suggests bad design from a brand-name manufacturer.
While annoying, when it comes to fire/smoke alarms, I'd rather have a false positive than a false negative.
I don't know any namebrand CO detectors because I buy them once every decade. That is my beef with Amazon, in the areas where people need guidance because they don't recognize any of the brands due to an infrequent purchase, Amazon seems to steer you to these garbage products.
But you do know name-brand stores, right? Buy from Home Depot, Walmart, etc.
Or take 10 seconds and research something that you're relying on to save your life. Never trust Amazon reviews for life-safety equipment.
Here's a freebie: the top rated CO detector by Consumer Reports is the First Alert CO615.
But don't buy it from Amazon, they are well known to have counterfeit items in their inventory, purchase from a legitimate local store.
Some states like California require CO detectors when a house is sold (if it has natural gas or an attached garage). I can see sellers using the cheapest product that meets the legal requirement and passes the home inspection.
The sellers of my house did exactly that -- each level of the house has one of these knockoff detectors and noted by the inspector ("CO detectors installed, tested, and compliant with code" - where I'm sure "tested" meant "I pressed the button and it beeped")
This was nearly a year ago before I knew about this recall, but as soon as I saw the unbranded detectors, I replaced them all with name-brand detectors... (and replaced the 15 year old smoke alarms too).
Given that these CO detectors looked brand new, apparently they were living without any CO detectors at all (with gas heat, hot water and cooking), and an attached garage.
Put the alarm in a sealed box and add an item that is glowing/smoking (e.g. a cigarette will do). Within a minute or two, the alarm should sound. That is how I tested my alarms before mounting them.
How did you calibrate it so you know it sounds the alarm before you die from a high concentration of CO?
...if you have that one use case that you can't run on a Mac, then it's useless.
That's quite the sense of entitlement you're expressing there.
I'd like my Lenovo laptop to be able to crack RSA keys in under a minute, but it can't. Perhaps I should just throw it in the trash.
Yeah, it's annoying how people think they are entitled to have the laptop that they use for their job to be able to run the workloads that they need for their job.
If people would just use hardware that doesn't do what they need, Apple could sell many more 5 year old Macbooks!
It's not good enough that a given computer can perform all sorts of useful functions. It has to be reinvented as more powerful every 374 days.
Yet the Mac is not able to perform "all sorts of useful functions", it can perform "Many sorts of useful functions", but if you have that one use case that you can't run on a Mac, then it's useless.
In my case, it's memory, I run a couple VM's and a memory hungry IDE. My 16GB Macbook was no longer able to keep up, so I finally traded it in for a 32GB Lenovo and haven't looked back -- twice the RAM, faster CPU, more disk storage (a big SSD for real work, and an even bigger HDD for automatic SSD backups and archiving old datasets. Oh, and all of the ports I need are built right into the machine, no dongles needed (unlike the usb-c only MBP where I need a dongle to use HDMI, ethernet, even USB3 needs a dongle).
Oh yeah, and one other big factor -- it has an Escape key.
Unless they let entrants pick where they are in the list, it doesn't matter if the random number generator is not completely fair.
Maybe it's biased such that entrants 50,000 - 51,000 are much more likely to end up sorted to the top, but unless the entrants can choose where they are in the list, I don't see why that really matters. Sure, someone that controls the list could move their friends to that range to make them more likely to end up at the top, but they could also move their friends to whatever random numbers and up at the top.
Xfinity phone service is VoIP, not "landlines", outages are expected (and common). If your phone is important to you, don't use VoIP... voice T1's are cheap these days and if you don't need all 24 voice lines, you can split it between voice and data and get a reliable (though slow) backup internet connection.
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A good password for wifi, since it doesn't really need to be memorized, is one generated by something like keepass2: 15 characters long random letters numbers and punctuation:
DHDukBDL04Pt2ZT
for example (note that is not a password I use, just one I randomly generated).
Since no-one actually has to type this in more than once per device, it's really not a major problem that you can't memorize it.
It may not need to be memorized, but it does need to be typed into every Wifi device you own, sometimes through a clunky on screen or "scroll through the letters" LCD interface. So random string passwords are annoying enough that many people avoid them.
If you're susceptible to that level of paranoia you should probably wear a full-body tinfoil suit, just in case someone put a tiny listening device on your clothes.
you mean like the level of paranoia where you don't trust the off button on your phone? I you think someone has tampered with your phone or software enough to disable the soft-off button, why don't you think that they've tampered it in such a way that the device can still record when it's "off"?
Frankly, for many jobs I think having a smartphone at all is probably not a good idea -- for that matter devices like smart speakers. Anything like that needs to have a hardware "off" button that ensures they aren't listening or transmitting.
But I'm not sure how secure modern feature phones either in the era of enhanced 911.
How do you know that hardware off button is really a hardware off button on your particular device? Even if you take out the batteries, maybe there's a hidden capacitor that's powering the secret listening device. Do you need to do a complete tear-down periodically?
Land is not the only issue -- if t was, then why is traffic in Austin so bad?
Land is a necessary, although not sufficient condition. The real issue is control. That's the problem. You see, Liberals, and most especially the kind that run San Francisco, like to control your life. They want to force you to live how they want you to live because they think they know best and that we're all just dumb white men with too much privilege. You will never have the necessary level of control over your own business in San Francisco because the miserable Liberal busybodies who run the place and their lazy bum voters cannot resist meddling in your private affairs.
Ahh, got it... so it's those Texas Liberals that are forcing residents of Dallas, Houston and Austin to sit in some of the worse congestion in the USA (all ranked in the top 13 USA cities for congestion). They have plenty of land, but don't want to use it, they want to force you to sit in your car in traffic. If only Texas weren't so full of liberals, then those cities would have 30 lane freeways and traffic would be free flowing all the time.
It's expensive to live there, it's overrun by homeless drunks and drug addicts, the streets are covered in human feces and whinny liberals keep sticking their noses in your business. Why not move to a state like Texas where there's so much land that you can build an entirely new city just the way you want it? San Francisco is a shit hole city, literally. You couldn't pay me to live there.
Why not? Because the employers and employees at these tech companies want to stay in the bay area, and until that change, there won't be another place like it. It may not be to your liking, but no one is forcing you to live there.
Land is not the only issue -- if t was, then why is traffic in Austin so bad?
In order for a meal break to be unpaid for non-exempt employees
None of the employers targeted by this proposal hire significant numbers of non-exempt employees
Hm, well, speaking from experience, the corporate cafeteria is more like an attractive nuisance. It's good enough that you don't bother to go out, but not as good as what you'd get if you went out. And because everybody is doing it, if you don't, you stand out, which a lot of people aren't comfortable with.
I don't think this ordinance has a chance in hell of passing constitutional muster, but I actually think the idea behind it is good. Sometimes the only way to get the right result for individuals is to have a collective norm.
My company isn't large enough to have a full cafeteria, so they do catering, and the catered food is as good as any local restaurant in the $10 - $20 price range I'd be willing to pay every day. The choices are limited so some people chose to eat out and no one cares.
I actually think the idea behind it is good.
Why stop at food? Why not require that employees purchase gas locally... and haircuts... and groceries... and everything else that could be purchased locally? After all, the employers are indirectly paying for all of that through the pay they give employees.
Or, if towns want employees to buy more local products, then maybe they ought to relax their tight zoning laws and allow much more housing to be built near the offices... then they wouldn't have to force people to shop locally, it would happen naturally.
Since they apparently have room to spare, I'd much rather have a MicroSD slot than a second SIM slot.
Trucks can't drive around extra miles at US$0 / mile cost. No matter how cheap the gas or how little they pay their drivers.
That's only relevant if you think the price of fuel or wages includes all environmental costs.
This is a bunch of crap. If your head is so far up your butt that you don't realize the end of the world is happening, then there is no saving you anyway. WASTE OF MONEY.
Weren't Hawaii the dumbasses that told their citizens that an incoming ICBM was happening.
Sometimes it's helpful to know in advance -- like if a derailed railcar is spewing toxic chemicals in the air, it'd be nice to know, so instead of going outside to sit on the back deck, I know I should shelter in place or head out of town.
Though I don't really need (or want) my TV to tell me, I think enough people have a cell phone nearby that there's no reason to make every single online content provider do it.
Zuckerberg: If Someone Gets Fired For Data Abuse 'It Should Be Me'
Oh, so he's stepping down? How refreshing to see a CEO take personal responsibility for something. Hopefully the next CEO does a better job.
But that's $50K a year for half-time work and when you only need to drive to work a few times a month (assuming you're doing long-hauls with overnight stays), you can live well outside of expensive cities.
That makes the pay more attractive.
Long hauls are the most desirable routes, and routes are usually bid according to seniority. A captain on an A-320 flying Detroit to Hong Kong has a very different work life than a first officer on a Bombardier regional jet working for a feeder airline, flying Chicago to Iowa City to Fargo to Duluth.
PEDANTIC ALERT!!!!
There is no way an A320 would ever be assigned to a Detroit-Hong Kong route. The range isn't there, and it isn't ETOPS certified.
The distance from Detroit, MI to Hong Kong is approximately 12,620 km. The typical range of an Airbus A320 with 150 passengers is around 6,100 km.
Any captain scheduled to fly such a route should look for a transfer immediately, not matter what the pay is!
Since you're being pedantic, the A320 does have ETOPS-180 certification, which AFAIK is sufficient for DTW-Hong Kong.
https://www.airbus.com/newsroo...
$50-60k/year is garbage for a skilled technical field that requires travel 100% of the time. Pay the pilots more and the shortage will go away. Also, the airlines should start paying for training programs if they really want pilots - just like other industries need to train operators for manufacturing plants, IT staff, or maintenance workers.
But that's $50K a year for half-time work and when you only need to drive to work a few times a month (assuming you're doing long-hauls with overnight stays), you can live well outside of expensive cities.
That makes the pay more attractive.
Apple for giving me an entirely new laptop body; but what happens when the same failures happen in two years and I DON'T have Apple Care?
The same thing that happens anytime a 4 year old computer fails -- you need to make the decision of whether it's cheaper to pay for the repair or buy a new one (possibly from a different manufacturer). My last Macbook lasted just under 4 years before I ran into problems (screen blanked out randomly), and since that was in daily use (including commuting on the back of my bike), I consider that to be pretty reasonable.
I have a 7 year old Lenovo laptop that still runs fine, but it rarely leaves the house.
Shut down the full station just to fix one bad pump? Maybe the clerk did not know how to full reboot
When I worked at a gas station, I knew where the breaker panel was and we had separate breakers for each pump.
So, the easy solution would have been to just power off the hacked pump.
The tax will be deducted by service providers
I predict that most of the revenue they are expecting will be going to foreign (i.e. non-tax-collecting) VPN providers.
I had to throw away a name-brand CO/smoke detector. It went off when there was not CO or smoke. Reviews on Amazon show that this behaviour is common for this model. It was a newer model, with a built-in battery: the only way to stop it sounding its alarm is destructive.
It's possible that the alarm was merely over-sensitive: there is probably some CO in the air in my house, but no other sensor has ever alarmed, before or after, but still, this suggests bad design from a brand-name manufacturer.
While annoying, when it comes to fire/smoke alarms, I'd rather have a false positive than a false negative.
I don't know any namebrand CO detectors because I buy them once every decade. That is my beef with Amazon, in the areas where people need guidance because they don't recognize any of the brands due to an infrequent purchase, Amazon seems to steer you to these garbage products.
But you do know name-brand stores, right? Buy from Home Depot, Walmart, etc.
Or take 10 seconds and research something that you're relying on to save your life. Never trust Amazon reviews for life-safety equipment.
Here's a freebie: the top rated CO detector by Consumer Reports is the First Alert CO615.
But don't buy it from Amazon, they are well known to have counterfeit items in their inventory, purchase from a legitimate local store.
Some states like California require CO detectors when a house is sold (if it has natural gas or an attached garage). I can see sellers using the cheapest product that meets the legal requirement and passes the home inspection.
https://thelawdictionary.org/article/what-are-californias-requirements-for-carbon-monoxide-detectors/
The sellers of my house did exactly that -- each level of the house has one of these knockoff detectors and noted by the inspector ("CO detectors installed, tested, and compliant with code" - where I'm sure "tested" meant "I pressed the button and it beeped")
This was nearly a year ago before I knew about this recall, but as soon as I saw the unbranded detectors, I replaced them all with name-brand detectors... (and replaced the 15 year old smoke alarms too).
Given that these CO detectors looked brand new, apparently they were living without any CO detectors at all (with gas heat, hot water and cooking), and an attached garage.
Put the alarm in a sealed box and add an item that is glowing/smoking (e.g. a cigarette will do). Within a minute or two, the alarm should sound.
That is how I tested my alarms before mounting them.
How did you calibrate it so you know it sounds the alarm before you die from a high concentration of CO?
...if you have that one use case that you can't run on a Mac, then it's useless.
That's quite the sense of entitlement you're expressing there.
I'd like my Lenovo laptop to be able to crack RSA keys in under a minute, but it can't. Perhaps I should just throw it in the trash.
Yeah, it's annoying how people think they are entitled to have the laptop that they use for their job to be able to run the workloads that they need for their job.
If people would just use hardware that doesn't do what they need, Apple could sell many more 5 year old Macbooks!
It's not good enough that a given computer can perform all sorts of useful functions. It has to be reinvented as more powerful every 374 days.
Yet the Mac is not able to perform "all sorts of useful functions", it can perform "Many sorts of useful functions", but if you have that one use case that you can't run on a Mac, then it's useless.
In my case, it's memory, I run a couple VM's and a memory hungry IDE. My 16GB Macbook was no longer able to keep up, so I finally traded it in for a 32GB Lenovo and haven't looked back -- twice the RAM, faster CPU, more disk storage (a big SSD for real work, and an even bigger HDD for automatic SSD backups and archiving old datasets. Oh, and all of the ports I need are built right into the machine, no dongles needed (unlike the usb-c only MBP where I need a dongle to use HDMI, ethernet, even USB3 needs a dongle).
Oh yeah, and one other big factor -- it has an Escape key.
Unless they let entrants pick where they are in the list, it doesn't matter if the random number generator is not completely fair.
Maybe it's biased such that entrants 50,000 - 51,000 are much more likely to end up sorted to the top, but unless the entrants can choose where they are in the list, I don't see why that really matters. Sure, someone that controls the list could move their friends to that range to make them more likely to end up at the top, but they could also move their friends to whatever random numbers and up at the top.
Xfinity phone service is VoIP, not "landlines", outages are expected (and common). If your phone is important to you, don't use VoIP... voice T1's are cheap these days and if you don't need all 24 voice lines, you can split it between voice and data and get a reliable (though slow) backup internet connection.
When the key feature of new new release is "Dark theme" UI theming, you know that Apple is done innovating with OSX.