True, I never considered that since where I live we haven't had a natural disaster strong enough to destroy even a single house in over a hundred years.
Also disappointing is the windows> audio apps. Winamp 2.81 is still the best on Windows. Audacious is good on Linux, but there's no Windows version, so.....
FTFW. Windows appears to be the *only* operating system that is still stuck with horrible music software.
There are only about 7.5B people born every year, it would take 6.2 * 10 ^ 68 years to reach that number. In 1000 years, we'd still only have 10 digit numbers.
1) Find a trusted person you see often or have easy access to (friend, neighbor, relative, coworker, etc).
2) Each buy enough HDD's to duplicate your stuff
3) On a regular basis trade drives, update backups, trade back
4) If you are worried about security (either from them or someone breaking in), encrypt the drive(s) and keep one copy of the key with yourself and another in a safety deposit box (or another friend, etc).
pi simply can't be expressed *digitally*, but it can be expressed using an analog system. Since it's a ratio, you simply need 2 things that are 1/pi different from each other (like to line lengths). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_computer
Exactly. One of the bigger (and most overlooked) issues with online voting that the officials don't talk about is that it doesn't matter ONE iota how secure your online voting system is. Unless you can also verify that the computer being used to connect to said system is ALSO secure, the whole thing is pointless.
Other than iTunes, there have been practically NO instances of drm being removed from any service, in fact everything is moving in exactly the OPPOSITE direction. Remember when you could tape your favorite TV show while you were on vacation using any off the shelf VCR? Now cable companies (at least mine is) are heavily pushing digital television which SURPRISE is 100% encrypted. They downplay this by saying "But the PVR does everything your VCR did and more!", but you are required to use THEIR pvr. This means they have effectively killed all aftermarket PVR devices and severely limited what you can do with the recorded media. Dump it to a raid for increased storage? Nope. Stream it to your laptop in the den? Nope. Copy it to your external drive for that plane ride? Nope. This is what the DRM provision is allowing them to do and almost every media production and distribution company is quickly implementing it.
You example does not apply since you have to drive across town every time you want to save the $50. You only have to give them your information ONCE and then you can get the discount forever (even if they ask for it every time, they already have it so it's a zero cost). A more accurate analogy would be if your car allowed you to teleport (free) to any location you've already driven. If the store was selling hot-tubs, chance are you'll only go there once, so it may not be worth it. But if it's the grocery store you can bet your ass it would pay off in the long run.
Ok, so they used sonar, photos, fiber optic cameras, extracted paint samples and a bunch of other fancy stuff to determine that a lost painting was present on a false wall behind a priceless mural and yet none of the pictures show ANY of this. If this is seriously a "research" project, why are they not posting pictures of the sonar, photos from the fiber optic camera or readings from the paint samples instead of just a bunch of "scientists" standing together for group shots? the closest they have is some student looking at a macbook that's mostly covered by a plant.
I can't believe people still keep bringing this up. It's amazing that some people ACTUALLY believe that forcing completely politically uninformed people to pick a name on a list will make democracy better. Compulsory Voting only works if you can also somehow force everyone to educate themselves about the choices and GIVE A DAMN about who they pick. Otherwise 90% of the "forced" voters are just going to pick a random name or nullify their vote (your countries elections are non-traceable RIGHT?). And you better hope your country doesn't always have the candidates in the same order, cause a large majority of the "forced" voters that don't nullify their vote will just pick the first one on the list, wait and see how THAT screws with the percentages!
B) Because polling stations are set up so that nobody can tell who you voted for. Nobody is going to pay you $10 to change your vote if they can't verify you actually did it!
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Oops, miscounted the zeros, that would be 13 digits after a thousand years. Still not much more than a phone number in most countries.
That clock is taking deaths into account, I was calculating on GP's original condition that numbers are not recycled.
True, I never considered that since where I live we haven't had a natural disaster strong enough to destroy even a single house in over a hundred years.
Also disappointing is the windows> audio apps. Winamp 2.81 is still the best on Windows. Audacious is good on Linux, but there's no Windows version, so.....
FTFW. Windows appears to be the *only* operating system that is still stuck with horrible music software.
Set up ssh keys (takes 10 seconds) and never worry about such things again.
tsocks can be used to add SOCKS support to anything.
There are only about 7.5B people born every year, it would take 6.2 * 10 ^ 68 years to reach that number. In 1000 years, we'd still only have 10 digit numbers.
1) Find a trusted person you see often or have easy access to (friend, neighbor, relative, coworker, etc).
2) Each buy enough HDD's to duplicate your stuff
3) On a regular basis trade drives, update backups, trade back
4) If you are worried about security (either from them or someone breaking in), encrypt the drive(s) and keep one copy of the key with yourself and another in a safety deposit box (or another friend, etc).
Guess we're stuck using the trusty old currant bush.
Whooooooosh.
pi simply can't be expressed *digitally*, but it can be expressed using an analog system. Since it's a ratio, you simply need 2 things that are 1/pi different from each other (like to line lengths). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_computer
per cell or per strand?
Of course it would be, but they'll still probably notice a truck going through a month's worth of gas every day.
If they are checking plates to make sure you are insured, you can bet your ass they'll notice someone filling up 5 times a day.
Well, at least this will be new tool to get messages through the thick skulls of certain managerial PHB's.
And right out the other side, just like normal.
Then I fail to see how it solves anything.
Exactly. One of the bigger (and most overlooked) issues with online voting that the officials don't talk about is that it doesn't matter ONE iota how secure your online voting system is. Unless you can also verify that the computer being used to connect to said system is ALSO secure, the whole thing is pointless.
Not to mention RSS feeds, etc.
Other than iTunes, there have been practically NO instances of drm being removed from any service, in fact everything is moving in exactly the OPPOSITE direction. Remember when you could tape your favorite TV show while you were on vacation using any off the shelf VCR? Now cable companies (at least mine is) are heavily pushing digital television which SURPRISE is 100% encrypted. They downplay this by saying "But the PVR does everything your VCR did and more!", but you are required to use THEIR pvr. This means they have effectively killed all aftermarket PVR devices and severely limited what you can do with the recorded media. Dump it to a raid for increased storage? Nope. Stream it to your laptop in the den? Nope. Copy it to your external drive for that plane ride? Nope. This is what the DRM provision is allowing them to do and almost every media production and distribution company is quickly implementing it.
I find it interesting how you are in no way concerned about identity thieves, credit card scammers, etc.
You example does not apply since you have to drive across town every time you want to save the $50. You only have to give them your information ONCE and then you can get the discount forever (even if they ask for it every time, they already have it so it's a zero cost). A more accurate analogy would be if your car allowed you to teleport (free) to any location you've already driven. If the store was selling hot-tubs, chance are you'll only go there once, so it may not be worth it. But if it's the grocery store you can bet your ass it would pay off in the long run.
Ok, so they used sonar, photos, fiber optic cameras, extracted paint samples and a bunch of other fancy stuff to determine that a lost painting was present on a false wall behind a priceless mural and yet none of the pictures show ANY of this. If this is seriously a "research" project, why are they not posting pictures of the sonar, photos from the fiber optic camera or readings from the paint samples instead of just a bunch of "scientists" standing together for group shots? the closest they have is some student looking at a macbook that's mostly covered by a plant.
No idea, but knowing their past security measures, anyone else probably could.
I can't believe people still keep bringing this up. It's amazing that some people ACTUALLY believe that forcing completely politically uninformed people to pick a name on a list will make democracy better. Compulsory Voting only works if you can also somehow force everyone to educate themselves about the choices and GIVE A DAMN about who they pick. Otherwise 90% of the "forced" voters are just going to pick a random name or nullify their vote (your countries elections are non-traceable RIGHT?). And you better hope your country doesn't always have the candidates in the same order, cause a large majority of the "forced" voters that don't nullify their vote will just pick the first one on the list, wait and see how THAT screws with the percentages!
B) Because polling stations are set up so that nobody can tell who you voted for. Nobody is going to pay you $10 to change your vote if they can't verify you actually did it!