Welcome to America where the opinion of someone whose only redeeming feature are a pair of nice tits and the ability to be autotuned to sound tolerable is actually considered important.
1: The music is great! 2: The music is just not great anymore. 3: The music could be great (because it's all covers of the songs I loved in my youth) but they play it ALL WRONG!
Because power, while critical for electronic devices, is pretty much a no-brainer. There is only one way to power your cellphone, with a rechargeable battery. You certainly won't put any kind of fuel cell into it, you won't power it with gas or an ICE. Size restraints and the mobility requirement dictate the form of power supply here.
A house or even car is kinda different in that aspect.
I'm not talking about perfection, I'm talking about knowing whether we're putting our money on the right horse. Right now, energy driven cars seem to be the future, but we don't even know what kind of energy storage is the best. When it comes to energy density, the ICE and petrol are still superior to other forms on a pure power-per-kg level. We should first of all figure out how to replace this, and what to replace that with, before we start planning a whole house around it only to discover that eventually we'll start over from scratch.
We're still far away from batteries reaching their peak performance. We develop more powerful batteries (ok, dear nitpickers, accumulators) that can store more power per kilogram of battery at a rather fast pace, and I guess discussing today what we'll do with them in 10 or 20 years when "everyone" has a battery powered car (if it ever gets to that, anyway, and the electric car isn't replaced by something completely different in the meantime) is a bit like gazing into the crystal ball.
Let's first of all finish inventing the storage before we ponder spending the energy.
That's why your friends should not have your correct information either.
There are people who have known me for 20 years who still don't know my real name. Then again, I don't know theirs either. It's fine. A name is just a label used to address a person, and if you provide an alternative it's just as good.
Correction: It should be a "no shit" observation. It isn't. Not by a longshot.
The mere fact that there are still webpages out there, and I'm talking about relatively important and security critical pages, still use this "security questions" bullshit for password recovery should be a testament to how much it is unfortunately not a "no shit" observation.
There are very few questions "only I can answer". And those that only I can answer, only I can answer for a very good reason: I don't want to tell anyone the answer. DUH.
Use the same method for choosing a "security" answer that you use for choosing a password. I.e. let a random generator do it and note it in a password safe.
I started informing companies that the phone call can be recorded for security and training purposes. You get a whole range of very funny reactions to something like this.
Quite frankly. We keep telling people to use 20 character passwords with numbers and special characters and preferably even characters that can't be typed with a latin keyboard... and then we let them recover that password if lost with the answer for the name of their pet dog they had as a child.
Are you fuckin' serious?
This is from a security standpoint even worse than them using that pooch's name as the friggin' password. Because then a potential attacker would at least not know that the key to the account is the pooch's name.
Who came up with this bullshit? And how is it that even admins don't see that the password and the answer to the security question are in essence the same: A way to gain access to the account.
Every time I see these questions, I question the sanity of such a company's security setup. And it also creates a problem for me, because my password safe only stores one password per account sensibly. So where am I supposed to store that the name of my elementary teacher was qSwHbW66xkwp4A9gXK2A?
Yes, she was an alien. Ask any of my classmates.
But what REALLY gets my piss to a boil is those incredibly stupid sites that don't even ALLOW you to do this because "that does not look like a real name". Are you fucking kidding me? You deliberately disallow me to make my account secure.
When you have a government that is basically owned by corporations, then yes. You shouldn't expect them to fix the problems caused by corporations running your country...
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Welcome to America where the opinion of someone whose only redeeming feature are a pair of nice tits and the ability to be autotuned to sound tolerable is actually considered important.
I probably means that the BBC identified correctly that people care about YouTube while not giving a fuck about either Israel or Palestine.
Probably because people care more about YouTube than Palestine?
The three steps of getting old:
1: The music is great!
2: The music is just not great anymore.
3: The music could be great (because it's all covers of the songs I loved in my youth) but they play it ALL WRONG!
Because power, while critical for electronic devices, is pretty much a no-brainer. There is only one way to power your cellphone, with a rechargeable battery. You certainly won't put any kind of fuel cell into it, you won't power it with gas or an ICE. Size restraints and the mobility requirement dictate the form of power supply here.
A house or even car is kinda different in that aspect.
I'm not talking about perfection, I'm talking about knowing whether we're putting our money on the right horse. Right now, energy driven cars seem to be the future, but we don't even know what kind of energy storage is the best. When it comes to energy density, the ICE and petrol are still superior to other forms on a pure power-per-kg level. We should first of all figure out how to replace this, and what to replace that with, before we start planning a whole house around it only to discover that eventually we'll start over from scratch.
We're still far away from batteries reaching their peak performance. We develop more powerful batteries (ok, dear nitpickers, accumulators) that can store more power per kilogram of battery at a rather fast pace, and I guess discussing today what we'll do with them in 10 or 20 years when "everyone" has a battery powered car (if it ever gets to that, anyway, and the electric car isn't replaced by something completely different in the meantime) is a bit like gazing into the crystal ball.
Let's first of all finish inventing the storage before we ponder spending the energy.
That's why your friends should not have your correct information either.
There are people who have known me for 20 years who still don't know my real name. Then again, I don't know theirs either. It's fine. A name is just a label used to address a person, and if you provide an alternative it's just as good.
But I'm color blind!
Correction: It should be a "no shit" observation. It isn't. Not by a longshot.
The mere fact that there are still webpages out there, and I'm talking about relatively important and security critical pages, still use this "security questions" bullshit for password recovery should be a testament to how much it is unfortunately not a "no shit" observation.
There are very few questions "only I can answer". And those that only I can answer, only I can answer for a very good reason: I don't want to tell anyone the answer. DUH.
Use the same method for choosing a "security" answer that you use for choosing a password. I.e. let a random generator do it and note it in a password safe.
fFz0fPEDX63wFZK2ZKaO
07avA68VFskVredZl5VV
RASCcLqjYcseOU00HicJ
0002. Damn Roosevelt.
I started informing companies that the phone call can be recorded for security and training purposes. You get a whole range of very funny reactions to something like this.
Quite frankly. We keep telling people to use 20 character passwords with numbers and special characters and preferably even characters that can't be typed with a latin keyboard... and then we let them recover that password if lost with the answer for the name of their pet dog they had as a child.
Are you fuckin' serious?
This is from a security standpoint even worse than them using that pooch's name as the friggin' password. Because then a potential attacker would at least not know that the key to the account is the pooch's name.
Who came up with this bullshit? And how is it that even admins don't see that the password and the answer to the security question are in essence the same: A way to gain access to the account.
Every time I see these questions, I question the sanity of such a company's security setup. And it also creates a problem for me, because my password safe only stores one password per account sensibly. So where am I supposed to store that the name of my elementary teacher was qSwHbW66xkwp4A9gXK2A?
Yes, she was an alien. Ask any of my classmates.
But what REALLY gets my piss to a boil is those incredibly stupid sites that don't even ALLOW you to do this because "that does not look like a real name". Are you fucking kidding me? You deliberately disallow me to make my account secure.
The hot air produced by their marketing department alone should be enough to power both Apple AND Google.
Here's a phone, call someone who gives a fuck.
What ain't safe is iOS updates. They keep breaking functionality on phones that worked prior to the update.
Duh.
Next question?
Users are idiots for truthfully filling out all of these damned questionnaires on Facebook.
Otherwise, it would be a lot of fun.
Now how does she come into the equation again?
That's gonna be SO last year!
I wonder if there are any Iranian cloud services...
It may be that we in Europe are used to parties that don't just disagree on minute details that have no impact on how they run the show.
When you have a government that is basically owned by corporations, then yes. You shouldn't expect them to fix the problems caused by corporations running your country...
Whores ain't as expensive as many people think.