>Read The China Study [amazon.com], and learn about the negative impact too much animal protein (>10% total calories) has on health.
F.F.S. read the china study source data and see that the strongest univariate correlation is between wheat and cancer. Hint: The cancer isn't causing the wheat. Observe that the inference drawn between animal protein and 'health' (which is several different endpoints) are achieved by stringing together univariate associations and so are statistically bogus.
Engage brain before reading populist books by scientists with a non scientific agenda.
Not to mention that I'd as soon sweep tiger cages for a living as do financial transactions through Google.
Why? Do you think it would be worse than paying by presenting the plaintext credentials on a magstripe card through a terminal that uses ancient crypto to communicate the transaction over the open internet?
Except as far as the merchant is concerned, it is no different than a regular NFC card transaction, so no new headaches, no new expenses, no security worries for anyone except Visa/Mastercard/etc. Their current contactless terminals will work with out changes.
I'm a merchant. Our payment terminal has a big sticker on the bottom saying "Triple DES" like that's a good thing. 64 bit block sizes! The 1970s called and they want their bad crypto back.
In the article this: "it’s a reasonable assumption that there might not be anything new to find until energy scales of 100,000,000 TeV or more. " is asserted without supporting evidence.
Solid state physics has plenty to look at and it doesn't need things to be that hot. More commonly it needs things to be cold.
I'm in the US and we have a store (my wife runs it) downstairs.
It's common for customers to have magstripe-only cards. It's common for customers to have chip&pin cards and chip&signature cards issued from US banks, but they swipe the mag stripe anyway. Last year It was the majority of the time that trying to use the EMV or NFC interfaces would fail, except with certain banks. This year, the failure rate is lower and it works most of the time, but it didn't take many failures to train the cardholders to swipe instead of insert so that's what they still do. The banks slowly got their systems in order, they are not all done yet. The credit unions are slower.
In Europe, chip and pin is universal and it became a big problem for US travelers, who turned to temporary 'travel' credit cards to get by.
I read the post. I didn't get the mechanism of the $200 software. I figured it was being clever and matching on-screen movements to sound or something.
The logical thing to do is to start programming a solution if you don't like the $200 solution and you don't like the free options.
Thank you. That makes sense. Nothing new is really happening on the terminal end. The phone, NFC and terminal are doing what they've always done. The changes are at the other end with the payment processing.
We have a new payment terminal with all the interfaces (swipe, C&P, C&S, NFC) but the latter three often don't work because the customer's bank can't handle it, even though they issued the card with the chip.
Perhaps, but good bloody luck trying to find a floppy drive that is high enough quality to actually have head alignment accurate enough to read the aforementioned 'lightly used floppy disk'. Even at their peak there was never any guarantee that a floppy formatted in one drive would work worth a damn in a different drive, especially the further in towards the hub you went.
It's easy to align a floppy disk drive. Especially if you have an alignment disk.
Don't sync to the video, sync to the audio. Your video recorder records the audio "reference" track and you just sync your externally recorded audio to the reference track. Kdenlive has this feature. Other editors may a well.
I don't do video stuff, but I had the same thought. Record crappy audio in the camera and it would be a simple correlation algorithm to sync to the good audio.
>Vegan diets are ALL ABOUT low protein, low fat, high carb. It is NOT a healthy way to live (if you fail to watch your amino and mineral balance, you can have really bad things happen, such as blindness.) The fact is that protein and fat raise blood leptin better than carbohydrates do, which makes you feel more full on less overall calories. The only reason some vegans may appear healthier is because usually they don't consume too much sugar (a simple carb) often found in breads and snacks that are made in part by egg and/or dairy products. However neither egg nor dairy products are inherently bad, it's just the high amount of carbs found in these that are.
It's a bit of an inference nightmare when the Vegans come out of the woodwork talking about how skinny they are. The vegan data is from a strongly self selected group. Many people (most? who knows?) simply can't handle a vegan diet. They feel bad quickly. There are those who are well adapted to a vegan diet. They have high carb tolerance, they can go for years. Some outliers manage to do it for a lifetime. Must most people cannot because they get sick.
Eggs are good food. If the egg board wants to bait the vegans, then they are fighting the good fight.
>What's the difference between an employee and a contractor?
1) The amount of tax paid by the payer and the worker. 2) Employer provided health insurance. 3) Local bureaucratic procedures differ a lot between employing an employee and paying a contractor (It's easier with a contractor).
If they don't offer static addressing, then it's a waste of time.
Anything can be negotiated if the money is right.
Back when it was common to get one's DSL Line through the phone company, but to have one's service provided by a third-party ISP, I had my line through what's now Centurylink and my service through a local ISP that evolved from an old Macintosh User's Group, which provided me with a/29 so I had five usable static IP addresses with complete forward and reverse DNS resolve at my disposal. Was pretty awesome.
Residential customers probably can't expect static IP addresses unless the ISP offers an option to pay a little extra, but then again, if it's cheap residential service they might not permit the subscriber to host much in the way of services or might not want to offer static IPs. Business customers will obviously be able to get static IPs.
If they don't offer static addressing, then it's a waste of time.
Anything can be negotiated if the money is right.
Back when it was common to get one's DSL Line through the phone company, but to have one's service provided by a third-party ISP, I had my line through what's now Centurylink and my service through a local ISP that evolved from an old Macintosh User's Group, which provided me with a/29 so I had five usable static IP addresses with complete forward and reverse DNS resolve at my disposal. Was pretty awesome.
Residential customers probably can't expect static IP addresses unless the ISP offers an option to pay a little extra, but then again, if it's cheap residential service they might not permit the subscriber to host much in the way of services or might not want to offer static IPs. Business customers will obviously be able to get static IPs.
I used to do this with DSL also. The telco regualtions required them to unbundle the DSL service from the ISP service. They didn't unbundle because they wanted to. They unbundled because they had to.
Paying a little extra for static is reasonable. There's a little overhead in managing the route table and reverse DNS, but it could be done through a web interface if they were smart. However where I live, the price for static is greater than a tripling of the service fee. $35 -> $115.
I was simply commenting on the fact that many businesses likely would want static addressing. Not all, but many.
No, most city-sized businesses are not going to worry about static addressing, because most businesses that size are not going to want to be saddled with managing their own servers. They'll hire that function out to a full-time data center that can offer higher reliability and better security. Yes, there are high-profile failures in security, but you're still more likely to have a more secure site if you hire someone to do it that does it on a large scale than if you say "Hey, Billy was the high school computer geek, let's hire him to be our IT department!".
Except we live above my wife's store and I manage the servers because I'm a crypto and security person at a large techy corporation. I don't trust outside vendors to run my services as well or as flexibly as I can and it's a heck of a lot more expensive to outsource. Outsourcing email to Google is easy and cost effective in money and my time. Outsourcing databases, point of sale systems, not so much.
Is this unfair competition? Well, let's see. A city says "big company, if you want to operate here these are all the rules you have to obey", and then the city creates their own rules and uses the power of the taxpayer wallet to undercut the big company they claim they wanted to provide the service. I'd say that would be "yes". You can't restrict a company from providing a service and then use that failure as an excuse to do it at taxpayer expense, at least not in a fair way.
Unbundle the wires from the ISP. That's how it used to work with DSL. I paid for DSL from my telco, which dropped the packets in frame relay to the ISP of my choice. The telco rules required them to unbundle. They couldn't force me to take their stinking telco ISP although they tried and lied all the time.
If the state provides the municipal wire infrastructure to homes and businesses, that opens the market for competitive ISPs. It's the same as roads. You get your roads from the government but there's competition in the car market.
My home is zoned dual use residential and commercial. We have a business downstairs and all the servers and stuff you would expect a business to have.
When Comcast come and try to tell me (monthly) that they can give me faster internet than my Frontier (25/25) fiber connection, I ask can they offer static addressing and the answer is no.
I pay 'bend over and take it' business rates for internet service with a tiny static subnet and port 25 unfiltered.
This is not a good situation. The ISPs are doing what they can get away with, not what the customer needs. Competition clearly isn't working to correct the situation.
The people who write RF management code are not security experts. People who write router code may be.
But the composition of the two into one box is guaranteed to lead to unintended consequences.
Get APs to put on your wired network and a router to connect to the outside world. Putting both in one box has been an ongoing security disaster for a decade.
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I log in a root to the server of my HOA:
Last failed login: Sat Sep 12 11:52:54 PDT 2015 from 43.229.53.41 on ssh:notty
There were 59462 failed login attempts since the last successful login.
So over 59000 attempts since last week, on a server with nothing of interest to anyone.
>Read The China Study [amazon.com], and learn about the negative impact too much animal protein (>10% total calories) has on health.
F.F.S. read the china study source data and see that the strongest univariate correlation is between wheat and cancer. Hint: The cancer isn't causing the wheat. Observe that the inference drawn between animal protein and 'health' (which is several different endpoints) are achieved by stringing together univariate associations and so are statistically bogus.
Engage brain before reading populist books by scientists with a non scientific agenda.
Not to mention that I'd as soon sweep tiger cages for a living as do financial transactions through Google.
Why? Do you think it would be worse than paying by presenting the plaintext credentials on a magstripe card through a terminal that uses ancient crypto to communicate the transaction over the open internet?
Except as far as the merchant is concerned, it is no different than a regular NFC card transaction, so no new headaches, no new expenses, no security worries for anyone except Visa/Mastercard/etc. Their current contactless terminals will work with out changes.
I'm a merchant. Our payment terminal has a big sticker on the bottom saying "Triple DES" like that's a good thing.
64 bit block sizes! The 1970s called and they want their bad crypto back.
In the article this: "it’s a reasonable assumption that there might not be anything new to find until energy scales of 100,000,000 TeV or more. " is asserted without supporting evidence.
Solid state physics has plenty to look at and it doesn't need things to be that hot. More commonly it needs things to be cold.
I'm in the US and we have a store (my wife runs it) downstairs.
It's common for customers to have magstripe-only cards.
It's common for customers to have chip&pin cards and chip&signature cards issued from US banks, but they swipe the mag stripe anyway.
Last year It was the majority of the time that trying to use the EMV or NFC interfaces would fail, except with certain banks.
This year, the failure rate is lower and it works most of the time, but it didn't take many failures to train the cardholders to swipe instead of insert so that's what they still do.
The banks slowly got their systems in order, they are not all done yet. The credit unions are slower.
In Europe, chip and pin is universal and it became a big problem for US travelers, who turned to temporary 'travel' credit cards to get by.
I read the post. I didn't get the mechanism of the $200 software. I figured it was being clever and matching on-screen movements to sound or something.
The logical thing to do is to start programming a solution if you don't like the $200 solution and you don't like the free options.
Thank you. That makes sense. Nothing new is really happening on the terminal end. The phone, NFC and terminal are doing what they've always done. The changes are at the other end with the payment processing.
We have a new payment terminal with all the interfaces (swipe, C&P, C&S, NFC) but the latter three often don't work because the customer's bank can't handle it, even though they issued the card with the chip.
Lightly used floppy disks still work.
Perhaps, but good bloody luck trying to find a floppy drive that is high enough quality to actually have head alignment accurate enough to read the aforementioned 'lightly used floppy disk'. Even at their peak there was never any guarantee that a floppy formatted in one drive would work worth a damn in a different drive, especially the further in towards the hub you went.
It's easy to align a floppy disk drive. Especially if you have an alignment disk.
What digital medium is presumed to be readable 20 years hence?
Paper tape
This sounds like Google Wallet, with a different name. Same technology.
What is new?
Don't sync to the video, sync to the audio. Your video recorder records the audio "reference" track and you just sync your externally recorded audio to the reference track. Kdenlive has this feature. Other editors may a well.
I don't do video stuff, but I had the same thought. Record crappy audio in the camera and it would be a simple correlation algorithm to sync to the good audio.
>Vegan diets are ALL ABOUT low protein, low fat, high carb. It is NOT a healthy way to live (if you fail to watch your amino and mineral balance, you can have really bad things happen, such as blindness.) The fact is that protein and fat raise blood leptin better than carbohydrates do, which makes you feel more full on less overall calories. The only reason some vegans may appear healthier is because usually they don't consume too much sugar (a simple carb) often found in breads and snacks that are made in part by egg and/or dairy products. However neither egg nor dairy products are inherently bad, it's just the high amount of carbs found in these that are.
It's a bit of an inference nightmare when the Vegans come out of the woodwork talking about how skinny they are. The vegan data is from a strongly self selected group. Many people (most? who knows?) simply can't handle a vegan diet. They feel bad quickly. There are those who are well adapted to a vegan diet. They have high carb tolerance, they can go for years. Some outliers manage to do it for a lifetime. Must most people cannot because they get sick.
Eggs are good food. If the egg board wants to bait the vegans, then they are fighting the good fight.
>What's the difference between an employee and a contractor?
1) The amount of tax paid by the payer and the worker.
2) Employer provided health insurance.
3) Local bureaucratic procedures differ a lot between employing an employee and paying a contractor (It's easier with a contractor).
>Are any of my assumptions wrong? Are there any other options I'm not considering?
Yes. Your assumption that homework must be typed is wrong. Accept handwritten homework. Problem solved.
We can read back the hippie mix tape Richard Nixon prepared for Howard Hunt.
Perhaps you can explain that to Frontier internet.
>The anti-religion crowd likes to belittle and attack as stupid anyone that believes in a higher power.
Would you like some fries with your strawman?
I'm not sure why you think you're disagreeing with me,
You must be new here
"If they don't offer static addressing, then it's a waste of time."
I'm sure they will have IPv6, which is the same thing.
My ISP certainly doesn't have IPv6. They've failed to provide a rational explanation.
If they don't offer static addressing, then it's a waste of time.
Anything can be negotiated if the money is right.
Back when it was common to get one's DSL Line through the phone company, but to have one's service provided by a third-party ISP, I had my line through what's now Centurylink and my service through a local ISP that evolved from an old Macintosh User's Group, which provided me with a /29 so I had five usable static IP addresses with complete forward and reverse DNS resolve at my disposal. Was pretty awesome.
Residential customers probably can't expect static IP addresses unless the ISP offers an option to pay a little extra, but then again, if it's cheap residential service they might not permit the subscriber to host much in the way of services or might not want to offer static IPs. Business customers will obviously be able to get static IPs.
If they don't offer static addressing, then it's a waste of time.
Anything can be negotiated if the money is right.
Back when it was common to get one's DSL Line through the phone company, but to have one's service provided by a third-party ISP, I had my line through what's now Centurylink and my service through a local ISP that evolved from an old Macintosh User's Group, which provided me with a /29 so I had five usable static IP addresses with complete forward and reverse DNS resolve at my disposal. Was pretty awesome.
Residential customers probably can't expect static IP addresses unless the ISP offers an option to pay a little extra, but then again, if it's cheap residential service they might not permit the subscriber to host much in the way of services or might not want to offer static IPs. Business customers will obviously be able to get static IPs.
I used to do this with DSL also. The telco regualtions required them to unbundle the DSL service from the ISP service. They didn't unbundle because they wanted to. They unbundled because they had to.
Paying a little extra for static is reasonable. There's a little overhead in managing the route table and reverse DNS, but it could be done through a web interface if they were smart. However where I live, the price for static is greater than a tripling of the service fee. $35 -> $115.
I was simply commenting on the fact that many businesses likely would want static addressing. Not all, but many.
No, most city-sized businesses are not going to worry about static addressing, because most businesses that size are not going to want to be saddled with managing their own servers. They'll hire that function out to a full-time data center that can offer higher reliability and better security. Yes, there are high-profile failures in security, but you're still more likely to have a more secure site if you hire someone to do it that does it on a large scale than if you say "Hey, Billy was the high school computer geek, let's hire him to be our IT department!".
Except we live above my wife's store and I manage the servers because I'm a crypto and security person at a large techy corporation. I don't trust outside vendors to run my services as well or as flexibly as I can and it's a heck of a lot more expensive to outsource. Outsourcing email to Google is easy and cost effective in money and my time. Outsourcing databases, point of sale systems, not so much.
Is this unfair competition? Well, let's see. A city says "big company, if you want to operate here these are all the rules you have to obey", and then the city creates their own rules and uses the power of the taxpayer wallet to undercut the big company they claim they wanted to provide the service. I'd say that would be "yes". You can't restrict a company from providing a service and then use that failure as an excuse to do it at taxpayer expense, at least not in a fair way.
Unbundle the wires from the ISP. That's how it used to work with DSL. I paid for DSL from my telco, which dropped the packets in frame relay to the ISP of my choice. The telco rules required them to unbundle. They couldn't force me to take their stinking telco ISP although they tried and lied all the time.
If the state provides the municipal wire infrastructure to homes and businesses, that opens the market for competitive ISPs. It's the same as roads. You get your roads from the government but there's competition in the car market.
My home is zoned dual use residential and commercial. We have a business downstairs and all the servers and stuff you would expect a business to have.
When Comcast come and try to tell me (monthly) that they can give me faster internet than my Frontier (25/25) fiber connection, I ask can they offer static addressing and the answer is no.
I pay 'bend over and take it' business rates for internet service with a tiny static subnet and port 25 unfiltered.
This is not a good situation. The ISPs are doing what they can get away with, not what the customer needs. Competition clearly isn't working to correct the situation.
If they don't offer static addressing, then it's a waste of time.
The people who write RF management code are not security experts.
People who write router code may be.
But the composition of the two into one box is guaranteed to lead to unintended consequences.
Get APs to put on your wired network and a router to connect to the outside world. Putting both in one box has been an ongoing security disaster for a decade.