I used it years back. I had to confirm my bank account number by means of a couple sub-1 euro transactions that confirmed I was the account holder. All cool, seemed secure enough. After the transaction I deleted the bank account number. The next transaction I didn't have to confirm it, because it had already been confirmed. My thoughts: NO IT HASN'T. I deleted that and with that deletion I clearly signaled I wanted the account number deleted. There should be no way to enable it without confirming it because it has been deleted. So: No, Paypal does not delete your account number. It just makes it invisible. Even worse: If someone knows you well enough to guess the password (that shouldn't be possible, but still) or hacked your computer and stole the stored passwords they are able to find out your bank account number. This would give them full access to your paypal account, and thus your money.
There is another security issue they added: Back in the day it was required, with a bank account, to send money to paypal in order to pay something. Nowadays they enabled pulling money from your account. That's the reason I didn't use a credit card, to prevent exactly that.
Now, combine those flaws: It is possible to hack your paypall account. It is plausible the hacker may know your account number. If it has both it can enable a disabled account and draw money directly from your bank account.
Even the most perfect complaint system will not be able to get the money back from the hacker. The hacker wins. Paypal loses (more if their complaint system will not give the money back, just the direct amount if they do.)
The key is in how you work. If you have a decent squirting bottle (thin stream) and squirt with high pressure it can be done quite safely. You must also be careful when you stop: you should stop fast. Do not let the stream falter when you stop. You must try to prevent the air from drawing back into the bottle by keeping the bottle in shape.
The problem is: most people are not able to do this properly (and/or are drunk) when they try. They let air into the bottle and squirt air out again. The fluid makes a nice spray of droplets which ignites very fast. The shock of that causes the user to loosen the pressure on the bottle and suck in the flaming droplets. The pressure builds in the bottle and within a couple of seconds the bottle can explode.
So: If you know enough about physics and use that knowledge you can be safe. You just can't play with fire, be drunk and be safe.
A true HDR *display* (unfathomably difficult to imagine, I won't begin to go into the problems with the source for all the light being in one location, while other light is also hitting the eye from the real-world outside of the display, making visual processing of the HDR display massively erronous), would offer no advantage to a tone-mapped image, as your eye still can't see more than a certain range at any given time.
I am no expert on the subject, but would a really good DAC (with enough bits to display full HDR pictures correctly) and a good led display combine to a HDR display? The dark parts of the screen would still show a bit of colour and the light parts would not be fully on. The eye would be able to focus on the dark parts and open the iris a bit to see the details, while on the light parts the eye could close a bit to see the details. With tone mapping you are simply able to see it all at once, which isn't what happens in real life.
You really have to think about what colors you want on the walls. Color psychology is quite true. If you want your people to be quick on reflexes, choose red walls. The downside is: there may be some increased aggression and a lot of testosterone. If you want them to make the best informed decisions possible, albeit a bit slower you should choose green. It will also lower testosterone levels quite a bit. It would, however, lower their ability to react fast in the event of an emergency because they think a bit longer and deeper.
This statement is worded badly. More risk means higher expected returns.
I'd say: more risk requires higher returns. More risk doesn't always mean higher returns: If you try to shoot a rabbit you have a choice between using a gun and hitting the bullet on the back with a hammer, manually. The manual way has a lot more risk, no chance of success to speak of. The gun is the preferred method. It has a lower risk and a higher expected return. In economics this means you'd spend on the company that uses guns, not on the manual idiots. To spend money on a more risky project you'd require higher expected returns. If you'd take 1000 theoretical projects with the same expected results and sort them according to risk (ceteris paribus) the high risk projects have, on average, lower actual results. In this light there is something to be said for "more risk means lower results".
I do basically the same thing: I walk my dog for 30 minutes each day. The dog is well trained, so I do not have to keep close tabs on her. I let my mind wander and think of reasons to be happy. It works wonders. The movement even gives some exercise.
It's a stretch, but the nukes of the cold war could be seen as a defensive system. Nobody wanted to use them, but the availability and the willpower to do so prevented the other side from using theirs. The nukes were defensive: they defended from the use of nukes from the other side.
Stretching things a bit further you may be able to imagine all offensive weapons as defensive, on the condition the "defending" country doesn't start of course. If you can't attack your opponent you will probably find yourself invaded in no time. This is doubly so in the mind (and partly the reality) of the people in control in the middle east.
In any case this is a very fine line to walk. The other country cannot read your intent with certainty, so they will make educated guesses based on what they can see. If you show them you have heavy attack weapons they might send a preemptive strike, and thus a self for-filling prophecy is born.
It may be caused by an on-board soundcard.
Usually these problems are solved by using a PCI (express) audio card. They are a bit further away from the interference hell that is the motherboard and generally designed better and tested better.
TFA states that the drives are in a NAS. I presume the NAS is far enough away to prevent the sata interference from having a direct effect on the soundcard. I also presume TFS (The Fucking Swindler) used a separate soundcard, or changed that when he switched the SATA cable.
Well, my ADSL provider may sell me an 20 Mb/s connection. That does not mean I will get it. The max at my distance from the little house with the phone stuff in it (and the ADSL netcards) means I will get up to 6 (with default netcards). It wouldn't be a lie, for the speed of that connection package is up to 20.
BTW: they would probably test it and advise against the expensive high speed connection. That's common courtesy, and if they didn't it would create a bad name.
It wasn't really meant as a explanation of the joke. I saw the joke, and included the woosh because of it. It was meant to supplement. The PDF attack actually doesn't really have anything to do with iframes (although it was a good joke). Using this attack method it may or may not be possible to install viruses as easily as on Windows, but it's still dangerous that it's possible to steal the login and password.
You have every right to disagree, but I do not think it was redundant. It wasn't karma whoring either since I do not care much about karma, although it may look like it.
Why? I assume you mean an IEC 169-2 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEC_169-2) by coax. This would be a pointless wasting of space. It seems you'd like to use cable TV (upto about 950 MHz) and sat (1GHz to 2 GHz) on one device, with connectors for each. Both cables are 75 Ohms. The F connector is simply usable up to higher frequencies. There are conversion connectors to switch between them. There even are combiners to combine a TV signal and a satellite signal on one cable. I even saw an LNB with an IEC 169-2 input, so it combined the signals in the LNB itself (I wouldn't trust an IEC to the weather though).
What I mean to say is: You don't need both. Only the F connector. If you'd want to use only the TV signal, simply convert it. For the sat signal: it should use F already. For both: combine them.
Now that I would like to see is an Ethernet Over Power connection. Simply plug it into the wall. Let it connect to an already available EOP network and have fun. I heard someone say something like "A PC needs only a power outlet and a network cable to be useful" Why not remove half of those connections, to make it even more foolproof?
[woosh]
Some of the attacks would still affect you. You could enter your login and password at a known webshop and have the hacker get those. The next move they could make is to alter your data and send themselves a lot of stuff and send the bill to you.
[/woosh]
Seriously? Off all the possible names Apple could have chosen from they chose to use a name that also describes an antiquated but still used technique that is abused in attacks?
Let me add mine to that.
I bought an OCZ Core SSD 32 GB about 2 years ago. It was meant as an OS drive, with my data spanned over some old disks. It was great.
The problem is with all those people thinking a SSD should cover all your harddisk needs as well. It isn't really usefull for that now. An analogy: Everyone knowledgeable would consider you insane if you'd use almost no RAM and a lot of cache on your spinning platter, because it's too slow. Similarly, in most use cases you's be insane to install 256 GB of ram and transfer all of your data to a tmpFS (file system in your RAM). Just because it's way to expensive.
Similarly the SSD should do different things than a spinner. It just isn't perfect in all cases.
The OS usually loads a shitload of small files upon boot. Everytime you start a program it loads a shitload of small files (correct me if I am wrong). In these (normal) use cases a disk with about 120 GB of space (or enough to put your OS and your programs) and a low access time can speed things up.
Now when you start to watch a movie, you open one big ass file (ignoring the media player of course, for it should be on the programs disk). The access time is quite irrelevant, for it counts only once. In this case the SSD is not the best answer. The 20 GB for an average 1080P movie file is way to expensive for that. So the answer is a spinner.
Of course since laptop manufacturers do not incorporate SSD's in their motherboards and there is only one 2.5 inch slot available there are some issues with this. Hybrid drives are one answer, although I do not think they are the best answer.
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I used it years back. I had to confirm my bank account number by means of a couple sub-1 euro transactions that confirmed I was the account holder. All cool, seemed secure enough. After the transaction I deleted the bank account number. The next transaction I didn't have to confirm it, because it had already been confirmed. My thoughts: NO IT HASN'T. I deleted that and with that deletion I clearly signaled I wanted the account number deleted. There should be no way to enable it without confirming it because it has been deleted.
So: No, Paypal does not delete your account number. It just makes it invisible. Even worse: If someone knows you well enough to guess the password (that shouldn't be possible, but still) or hacked your computer and stole the stored passwords they are able to find out your bank account number. This would give them full access to your paypal account, and thus your money.
There is another security issue they added: Back in the day it was required, with a bank account, to send money to paypal in order to pay something. Nowadays they enabled pulling money from your account. That's the reason I didn't use a credit card, to prevent exactly that.
Now, combine those flaws: It is possible to hack your paypall account. It is plausible the hacker may know your account number. If it has both it can enable a disabled account and draw money directly from your bank account.
Even the most perfect complaint system will not be able to get the money back from the hacker. The hacker wins. Paypal loses (more if their complaint system will not give the money back, just the direct amount if they do.)
The key is in how you work. If you have a decent squirting bottle (thin stream) and squirt with high pressure it can be done quite safely. You must also be careful when you stop: you should stop fast. Do not let the stream falter when you stop. You must try to prevent the air from drawing back into the bottle by keeping the bottle in shape.
The problem is: most people are not able to do this properly (and/or are drunk) when they try. They let air into the bottle and squirt air out again. The fluid makes a nice spray of droplets which ignites very fast. The shock of that causes the user to loosen the pressure on the bottle and suck in the flaming droplets. The pressure builds in the bottle and within a couple of seconds the bottle can explode.
So: If you know enough about physics and use that knowledge you can be safe. You just can't play with fire, be drunk and be safe.
Like the Eye-phone!
From TFA: "at a similar energy footprint"
A true HDR *display* (unfathomably difficult to imagine, I won't begin to go into the problems with the source for all the light being in one location, while other light is also hitting the eye from the real-world outside of the display, making visual processing of the HDR display massively erronous), would offer no advantage to a tone-mapped image, as your eye still can't see more than a certain range at any given time.
I am no expert on the subject, but would a really good DAC (with enough bits to display full HDR pictures correctly) and a good led display combine to a HDR display? The dark parts of the screen would still show a bit of colour and the light parts would not be fully on. The eye would be able to focus on the dark parts and open the iris a bit to see the details, while on the light parts the eye could close a bit to see the details. With tone mapping you are simply able to see it all at once, which isn't what happens in real life.
TLS == three letter acronym, by the way.
True, TLS is a 3 letter acronym. But what does it stand for? :P
Actually: rickrolling a goatse website would be nicer to the vieuwer.
Is that a camera in your pocket or are you happy to see me?
No! The analogy needs cars! Where are the cars?
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Why then is Windows still allowed?
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And some parts of the entertainment industry do not even pay to the artists, so they have even more money to create laws and have them enforced.
You really have to think about what colors you want on the walls. Color psychology is quite true.
If you want your people to be quick on reflexes, choose red walls. The downside is: there may be some increased aggression and a lot of testosterone.
If you want them to make the best informed decisions possible, albeit a bit slower you should choose green. It will also lower testosterone levels quite a bit. It would, however, lower their ability to react fast in the event of an emergency because they think a bit longer and deeper.
This statement is worded badly. More risk means higher expected returns.
I'd say: more risk requires higher returns. More risk doesn't always mean higher returns: If you try to shoot a rabbit you have a choice between using a gun and hitting the bullet on the back with a hammer, manually. The manual way has a lot more risk, no chance of success to speak of. The gun is the preferred method. It has a lower risk and a higher expected return.
In economics this means you'd spend on the company that uses guns, not on the manual idiots. To spend money on a more risky project you'd require higher expected returns.
If you'd take 1000 theoretical projects with the same expected results and sort them according to risk (ceteris paribus) the high risk projects have, on average, lower actual results. In this light there is something to be said for "more risk means lower results".
It depends on the music. Enya would be perfect for shutting of your mind. Dimmu Borgir causes the polar opposite in me.
2. Read TFA every three hours
No, you don't read TFA. TFA is so overrated!
I do basically the same thing: I walk my dog for 30 minutes each day. The dog is well trained, so I do not have to keep close tabs on her. I let my mind wander and think of reasons to be happy. It works wonders.
The movement even gives some exercise.
It's a stretch, but the nukes of the cold war could be seen as a defensive system. Nobody wanted to use them, but the availability and the willpower to do so prevented the other side from using theirs. The nukes were defensive: they defended from the use of nukes from the other side.
Stretching things a bit further you may be able to imagine all offensive weapons as defensive, on the condition the "defending" country doesn't start of course. If you can't attack your opponent you will probably find yourself invaded in no time. This is doubly so in the mind (and partly the reality) of the people in control in the middle east.
In any case this is a very fine line to walk. The other country cannot read your intent with certainty, so they will make educated guesses based on what they can see. If you show them you have heavy attack weapons they might send a preemptive strike, and thus a self for-filling prophecy is born.
It may be caused by an on-board soundcard.
Usually these problems are solved by using a PCI (express) audio card. They are a bit further away from the interference hell that is the motherboard and generally designed better and tested better.
TFA states that the drives are in a NAS. I presume the NAS is far enough away to prevent the sata interference from having a direct effect on the soundcard. I also presume TFS (The Fucking Swindler) used a separate soundcard, or changed that when he switched the SATA cable.
I thought Minority Report. The adds (when he had his eyes switched) were quite clear: the data will become available to all.
Well, my ADSL provider may sell me an 20 Mb/s connection. That does not mean I will get it. The max at my distance from the little house with the phone stuff in it (and the ADSL netcards) means I will get up to 6 (with default netcards). It wouldn't be a lie, for the speed of that connection package is up to 20.
BTW: they would probably test it and advise against the expensive high speed connection. That's common courtesy, and if they didn't it would create a bad name.
By the way MEAN != max, so it's a bit offtopic.
It wasn't really meant as a explanation of the joke. I saw the joke, and included the woosh because of it. It was meant to supplement. The PDF attack actually doesn't really have anything to do with iframes (although it was a good joke). Using this attack method it may or may not be possible to install viruses as easily as on Windows, but it's still dangerous that it's possible to steal the login and password.
You have every right to disagree, but I do not think it was redundant. It wasn't karma whoring either since I do not care much about karma, although it may look like it.
I'll want a F plug and coax connection on mine.
Why? I assume you mean an IEC 169-2 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEC_169-2) by coax.
This would be a pointless wasting of space. It seems you'd like to use cable TV (upto about 950 MHz) and sat (1GHz to 2 GHz) on one device, with connectors for each. Both cables are 75 Ohms. The F connector is simply usable up to higher frequencies. There are conversion connectors to switch between them. There even are combiners to combine a TV signal and a satellite signal on one cable. I even saw an LNB with an IEC 169-2 input, so it combined the signals in the LNB itself (I wouldn't trust an IEC to the weather though).
What I mean to say is: You don't need both. Only the F connector. If you'd want to use only the TV signal, simply convert it. For the sat signal: it should use F already. For both: combine them.
Now that I would like to see is an Ethernet Over Power connection. Simply plug it into the wall. Let it connect to an already available EOP network and have fun. I heard someone say something like "A PC needs only a power outlet and a network cable to be useful" Why not remove half of those connections, to make it even more foolproof?
[woosh]
Some of the attacks would still affect you. You could enter your login and password at a known webshop and have the hacker get those. The next move they could make is to alter your data and send themselves a lot of stuff and send the bill to you.
[/woosh]
Seriously? Off all the possible names Apple could have chosen from they chose to use a name that also describes an antiquated but still used technique that is abused in attacks?
Let me add mine to that.
I bought an OCZ Core SSD 32 GB about 2 years ago. It was meant as an OS drive, with my data spanned over some old disks. It was great.
The problem is with all those people thinking a SSD should cover all your harddisk needs as well. It isn't really usefull for that now. An analogy: Everyone knowledgeable would consider you insane if you'd use almost no RAM and a lot of cache on your spinning platter, because it's too slow. Similarly, in most use cases you's be insane to install 256 GB of ram and transfer all of your data to a tmpFS (file system in your RAM). Just because it's way to expensive.
Similarly the SSD should do different things than a spinner. It just isn't perfect in all cases.
The OS usually loads a shitload of small files upon boot. Everytime you start a program it loads a shitload of small files (correct me if I am wrong). In these (normal) use cases a disk with about 120 GB of space (or enough to put your OS and your programs) and a low access time can speed things up.
Now when you start to watch a movie, you open one big ass file (ignoring the media player of course, for it should be on the programs disk). The access time is quite irrelevant, for it counts only once. In this case the SSD is not the best answer. The 20 GB for an average 1080P movie file is way to expensive for that. So the answer is a spinner.
Of course since laptop manufacturers do not incorporate SSD's in their motherboards and there is only one 2.5 inch slot available there are some issues with this. Hybrid drives are one answer, although I do not think they are the best answer.