This is misleading. While we are listed at 17th on that list, the number is wrong from the CDC. The 10.27 number is for all gun RELATED deaths. This includes both accidents and suicides. If you look at just the homicides we're more in the ballpark of 4.07. We also have much better records than other countries.
Three are a few reasons we are worried about climate change and sea level rise:
1. Who moved my cheese!?
2. Some people actually think we're at the utopia of climate and land mass.
3. While large affluant coastal cities will need more sophisticated ways to deal with SLR, they will be able to handle this with money (ie: tech know how). The poor coastal cities will require mass migration of humans, and this will likely result in deaths if there is any amount of rapid SLR in those poverty striken highly populous areas (deaths will come from starvation, not the water killing them).
4. Stability is better for insurance companies, economies, urban planning, etc.
5. We don't know that the direction we're going will be better or worse for us, but we do know how to cope with what we have.
So, just as we wouldn't want global cooling (ice ages arn't fun) we also don't want global warming. There are figures showing that a slightly warmer earth with slight SLR will give us more arable and habitable land, but I'm sure someone has predicted the opposite. The fact is we know SLR will displace and cause temporary poblems, and if there is a solution that is less costly than the SLR option we should probably take it. But it's hard to quantify the "cost" of most of the solutions proposed and thus hard to make a decision on how that compares to the "cost" of letting CC/SLR continue. Especially as we have vastly different models as to their costs on both ends.
You are correct Slew. It is less "cryptographically secure." And I did break the golden rule of cryptography "Don't roll your own."
Yet, the idea behind what I stated still makes sense. Security through obscurity shouldn't be thrown out just because it's trivial once you know it. Ideally you would just use a traditional salt and store it some place "obscure". (ie: not your db, or store it AES encoded in the DB with the key in the code). You arn't inventing anything new, but you are making them know more than find a tool online that knows how to crack passwords given a salt. They would need to decompile your code for the AES key.
If they don't know your salt (code based) and you don't allow people to do multiple login attempts on your site, it does effectively stop brute force attacks at your passwords even if your salted hashes get out in the open. Still not the best idea to give out your database.
I read this article with the hope of seeing some of the benifits and drawbacks (as the title implied). No talk of scalability, indexing, speed, etc. I actually feel dumber for having read the article.
Yeah, look at the alternative to spending all that money on entertainment: they could waste it paying off those 18% interest credit cards, instead of just paying last month's interest.
If you ever spent a life with no entertainment, just working in order to get your next paycheck to "pay off those 18% interest credit cards", you might just realize that a really quick way of getting rid of that debt would be killing yourself. Debt gone.
Entertainment is the single most important thing we do. That's why we live. You're suggesting people just work to feed themselves to sleep to work the next day. Why the fuck would they do that?
I don't know where he got the idea that they spent so much money on entertainment. Video games seem like a cheap form of entertainment, for the amount of hours it can provide. When I was in debt I could go to the movies or play 60 hours worth of video games for around the same price. I chose the later and payed off debt.
The first time I heard about people being upset that winRT only supported IE as its default browser I thought that Microsoft must of thought of this (think anti-trust with IE in europe).
The only reason to do this is either they think they can change it once it becomes a dominant player, or they want to force the issue so Apple must change. I can't think of any benefit to M$ for making Apple open up it's browser integration in iOS. But someone let me know if there is a benefit?
My guess is they thought through it and came to the conclusion that recoiledsnake mentioned.
If someone dies because a TV is thrown out of a window, you shouldn't just arrest the person with the open window. Maybe that's sufficient evidence to go search the room for a missing TV, but maybe it was the neighbor. In that scenario they would look at who might have sent the TV flying, not just the weak evidence that it was someone from within my apartment.
Same with bomb threats. If bomb threats are originating from my IP address, I would imagine society (ie: throough the police authority) would like to see my computer and know more about me. They shouldn't send a class action lawsuit against me, and/or bully me just because a hacker has hijacked my computer.
The WP8 marketing is included with the Windows RT slate marketing. The tools are the same: Windows 8 with Visual Studio 11 (which they have been marketing fairly loudly to developers). The phone is just a small piece of the picture. Your xbox, PC, phone, slate, and any other Windows device will have the same "metro" apps. They're going to do a hard push this fall with the slate and wp8. Whether or not they get the marketshare is TBD, but they're putting a lot on the line this time. The whole picture where all your M$ devices are tied into a single account is still a few years off if I'm guessing correctly.
If you wanted to mass lawsuit and try for a settlement against terrorists, that would be banned as you can't declare the IP address identifies the user that did it. If, on the other hand, you want to get a search warrant to look for terrorist activities, the IP address is more than sufficient in giving probable cause for a search.
Or would you rather be sent to Guantanamo because your network was compromised and your IP address sent terrorist data?
I work in the legal field and I can tell you the days of throwing money it at no longer fly. Corporate clients actually want to know costs and where their money is going now. The point is they have the leverage to get that information. Your friend got an itemized bill, my hospital wouldn't give me one, and in fact they didn't know the charges that I would have.
I asked them if I had paid everything and their response was "We don't know, you might get another bill from someone."
I then asked when I would know once I had paid everything. Their response "When you stop receiving bills."
Still want to put that $90k under her nose and offer to have her sign her death certificate to get it? No, I didn't think so.
While I don't think that's the best solution, I think it's much more equitable than what we have today. As long as she is informed of all the ramifications.
1) Mortality rate != quality of life. My "health care" is about the latter, while the former also plays a role. 2) Insurance Scheme != Free Market. If you went to an old lady and said you can either have the $90,000 that a hip replacement costs, or you can get the replacement, THAT is free market. People would be more diligent about the VALUE of their treatment. Can $90K buy more quality of life than the replacement? I suppose that depends on the situation, but at least the person getting the treatment could actually have "informed consent"!
Good solution as their rolling releases will have bugs pop up from time to time. The tinyMCE issue was a BUG in FF and has been resolved in the nightly build. See the source: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=737784
Hardware companies make money selling you a product. The drivers are bundled in there. We buy video cards because they are fast. Let's say that if you removed all proprietary and patent encumbered parts of the video driver it slows the speed by 10%. Now it's in their interest to make sure the patented things are licensed and put in the driver so that you choose their "fast" video card.
If I bring my work laptop home, I sure as hell am not going to do anything on it that I wouldn't do at work. I know it doesn't automatically VPN into work, but it's still my work computer and should be used for work purposes. If the student has a school computer that should only be used for school purposes, that is fine. I still think the punishment for cussing is ludicrous.
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This is misleading. While we are listed at 17th on that list, the number is wrong from the CDC. The 10.27 number is for all gun RELATED deaths. This includes both accidents and suicides. If you look at just the homicides we're more in the ballpark of 4.07. We also have much better records than other countries.
This is just flat wrong. 45 murders happen on average every day in the US. 65% of murders involve a fire arm. Get your facts right.
I'm more worried about accidental shootings from guns than I am from violent crimes. I'd rather be shot than beheaded slowly.
His whole argument is to let the "over there" states get nukes also and we can no longer fight on their turf at risk of being nuked ourselves.
Questioner: Are you in favor of your neighbor eating cake?
Respondent: Yes
Questioner: Are you in favor of buying your neighbor a cake?
Respondent: No
Three are a few reasons we are worried about climate change and sea level rise:
1. Who moved my cheese!?
2. Some people actually think we're at the utopia of climate and land mass.
3. While large affluant coastal cities will need more sophisticated ways to deal with SLR, they will be able to handle this with money (ie: tech know how). The poor coastal cities will require mass migration of humans, and this will likely result in deaths if there is any amount of rapid SLR in those poverty striken highly populous areas (deaths will come from starvation, not the water killing them).
4. Stability is better for insurance companies, economies, urban planning, etc.
5. We don't know that the direction we're going will be better or worse for us, but we do know how to cope with what we have.
So, just as we wouldn't want global cooling (ice ages arn't fun) we also don't want global warming. There are figures showing that a slightly warmer earth with slight SLR will give us more arable and habitable land, but I'm sure someone has predicted the opposite. The fact is we know SLR will displace and cause temporary poblems, and if there is a solution that is less costly than the SLR option we should probably take it. But it's hard to quantify the "cost" of most of the solutions proposed and thus hard to make a decision on how that compares to the "cost" of letting CC/SLR continue. Especially as we have vastly different models as to their costs on both ends.
Well damn, stink has sure one-upped the neutrino.
You are correct Slew. It is less "cryptographically secure." And I did break the golden rule of cryptography "Don't roll your own."
Yet, the idea behind what I stated still makes sense. Security through obscurity shouldn't be thrown out just because it's trivial once you know it. Ideally you would just use a traditional salt and store it some place "obscure". (ie: not your db, or store it AES encoded in the DB with the key in the code). You arn't inventing anything new, but you are making them know more than find a tool online that knows how to crack passwords given a salt. They would need to decompile your code for the AES key.
The salt I'm talking about is unique per user. The difference is the salt generating algorithm is in the code and not known.
If they don't know your salt (code based) and you don't allow people to do multiple login attempts on your site, it does effectively stop brute force attacks at your passwords even if your salted hashes get out in the open. Still not the best idea to give out your database.
I read this article with the hope of seeing some of the benifits and drawbacks (as the title implied). No talk of scalability, indexing, speed, etc. I actually feel dumber for having read the article.
Yeah, look at the alternative to spending all that money on entertainment: they could waste it paying off those 18% interest credit cards, instead of just paying last month's interest.
If you ever spent a life with no entertainment, just working in order to get your next paycheck to "pay off those 18% interest credit cards", you might just realize that a really quick way of getting rid of that debt would be killing yourself. Debt gone.
Entertainment is the single most important thing we do. That's why we live. You're suggesting people just work to feed themselves to sleep to work the next day. Why the fuck would they do that?
I don't know where he got the idea that they spent so much money on entertainment. Video games seem like a cheap form of entertainment, for the amount of hours it can provide. When I was in debt I could go to the movies or play 60 hours worth of video games for around the same price. I chose the later and payed off debt.
Apple doesn't call its OS for iPad/iPhone/etc. "OSX" anything, even though that's what it's derived from. It calls it "iOS."
you forgot your /sarcasm
The first time I heard about people being upset that winRT only supported IE as its default browser I thought that Microsoft must of thought of this (think anti-trust with IE in europe).
The only reason to do this is either they think they can change it once it becomes a dominant player, or they want to force the issue so Apple must change. I can't think of any benefit to M$ for making Apple open up it's browser integration in iOS. But someone let me know if there is a benefit?
My guess is they thought through it and came to the conclusion that recoiledsnake mentioned.
Here's my take on the matter:
If someone dies because a TV is thrown out of a window, you shouldn't just arrest the person with the open window. Maybe that's sufficient evidence to go search the room for a missing TV, but maybe it was the neighbor. In that scenario they would look at who might have sent the TV flying, not just the weak evidence that it was someone from within my apartment.
Same with bomb threats. If bomb threats are originating from my IP address, I would imagine society (ie: throough the police authority) would like to see my computer and know more about me. They shouldn't send a class action lawsuit against me, and/or bully me just because a hacker has hijacked my computer.
The WP8 marketing is included with the Windows RT slate marketing. The tools are the same: Windows 8 with Visual Studio 11 (which they have been marketing fairly loudly to developers). The phone is just a small piece of the picture. Your xbox, PC, phone, slate, and any other Windows device will have the same "metro" apps. They're going to do a hard push this fall with the slate and wp8. Whether or not they get the marketshare is TBD, but they're putting a lot on the line this time. The whole picture where all your M$ devices are tied into a single account is still a few years off if I'm guessing correctly.
Wait till October. WP8 will come out and you'll see so much marketing your eyes will bleed. At least that's what my sources say.
If you wanted to mass lawsuit and try for a settlement against terrorists, that would be banned as you can't declare the IP address identifies the user that did it. If, on the other hand, you want to get a search warrant to look for terrorist activities, the IP address is more than sufficient in giving probable cause for a search.
Or would you rather be sent to Guantanamo because your network was compromised and your IP address sent terrorist data?
I work in the legal field and I can tell you the days of throwing money it at no longer fly. Corporate clients actually want to know costs and where their money is going now. The point is they have the leverage to get that information. Your friend got an itemized bill, my hospital wouldn't give me one, and in fact they didn't know the charges that I would have.
I asked them if I had paid everything and their response was "We don't know, you might get another bill from someone."
I then asked when I would know once I had paid everything. Their response "When you stop receiving bills."
What? That "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."?
Still want to put that $90k under her nose and offer to have her sign her death certificate to get it? No, I didn't think so.
While I don't think that's the best solution, I think it's much more equitable than what we have today. As long as she is informed of all the ramifications.
1) Mortality rate != quality of life. My "health care" is about the latter, while the former also plays a role.
2) Insurance Scheme != Free Market. If you went to an old lady and said you can either have the $90,000 that a hip replacement costs, or you can get the replacement, THAT is free market. People would be more diligent about the VALUE of their treatment. Can $90K buy more quality of life than the replacement? I suppose that depends on the situation, but at least the person getting the treatment could actually have "informed consent"!
That's just the point. They see how cutting out the middleman makes them more money.
Good solution as their rolling releases will have bugs pop up from time to time. The tinyMCE issue was a BUG in FF and has been resolved in the nightly build. See the source: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=737784
Hardware companies make money selling you a product. The drivers are bundled in there. We buy video cards because they are fast. Let's say that if you removed all proprietary and patent encumbered parts of the video driver it slows the speed by 10%. Now it's in their interest to make sure the patented things are licensed and put in the driver so that you choose their "fast" video card.
If I bring my work laptop home, I sure as hell am not going to do anything on it that I wouldn't do at work. I know it doesn't automatically VPN into work, but it's still my work computer and should be used for work purposes. If the student has a school computer that should only be used for school purposes, that is fine. I still think the punishment for cussing is ludicrous.