Broadcasting about real murders is also big business. What are cnn.com or fox news about? Wars and crime. Humans ENJOY watching or reading about the distress of other humans. Taking one particular piece of distress and making it illegal seems... illogical.
I am Estonian; I play English scrabble; many words I use have no meaning to me but I know they exist within the context of the game.
Every (semi-decent) player knows all two-letter combinations that are essential for putting longer words in parallel.
Give them a look: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki...
How many of those would you consider as a "word"?
THERORETICAL accuracy for measuring energy expenditure from heart rate is:
- 15-25 % if the model and measurements are calibrated for a particular individual in a lab environment
- 20-35 % in a generic case
Source: http://www.firstbeat.com/userD...
Your device, be it a watch or a phone, using chest strap or wrist, CANNOT get more accurate than 20%, whatever the marketing dept would say.
The human body simply is not a precision instrument, and the individual deviation from the formulas cannot be eliminated easily.
I have wondered when will poachers start using drones themselves.
Drones will be much more useful for finding / killing game than for protecting them.
When a serious hunting drone makes it to the market, the rhino etc population will be down within a few months.
If you're a teacher and students find pictures of you? You potentially can kiss your career (or at least your next promotion) good bye.
Why so? People can legally put their naked pictures to the Internet (dating sites, you own webpage etc) and everyone can legally look at them. Why would one profession be so special in this regard?
I live in Europe, I have kids going to school, I have friends working as teachers. I don't imagine the schoolmaster firing a teacher on the basis of "mr so-and-so, your naked picture could be seen online". The employee would complain (to governmental organisations who stand against such abuse) and would win.
I use the
2014 / summer / 2014-vacation-good
2014 / summer / 2014-vacation-bad
structure, and after a delay, I delete all "bad" directories.
It all depends on how many pictures you take or how many "events" or sessions you have, and how much work you do afterwards. If you shoot 100 sessions per month and expect those to searchable by person, location,.. - file system won't do. For a casual family photographer like me, it works very well.
A question to answer is:
WHY do you have a HUGE selection of vacation photos? Nobody, ever, will want to look at those. I think a a few tens of photos, possibly a hundred, are maximum that you need to bring back the memories. For friends & relatives, ever less will do.
It's 10 years past I did anything in EMV, so my knowledge may be outdated, but cards DO make decisions. The terminal (merchant) and card have both a set of policies that they agree upon - which auth methods are acceptable, when to go online, what are the limits etc.
Of course, issuer has the final say over transactions.
Btw, in the context of card payments, never use the word "bank" as this is massively ambiguous.
... as someone completely unaffected by this (not an apple fanboy, russian or gay) I find some kind of weird surreal humour in the whole thing.
Like, how do you even reach this point of reasoning.
I am a neighbour to Russia. They apply the same kind of reasoning everywhere, especially to politics. And as their voice is the loudest, international press buys it off and replicates and you have no good way of fighting it.
Which means that everyone around has to mimic their rhetorics and surreal reasoning, just to stay level in the propaganda war.
From the article:
> "EMV cards don’t have to make contact with a reader to be used."
This is misleading. SOME EMV cards are contactless, but most normal (European) cards require a contact terminal and cannot be read / billed remotely.
The author somehow blames EMV itself on the vulnerability. EMV is a complex beast and there are many ways to get it wrong, but this here is something different.
I play Scrabble.
Both in my native language (Estonian) and in English.
I am much much MUCH faster in English Scrabble than in Estonian one. I believe the reason to be the same. Picking a word from my limited English vocab is fast. Working through all resources of my native language takes time.
As a result, I can beat most native English speakers in a timed game simply because of my speed, whereas my native Scrabble skills are mediocre at best.
Indeed. The money did not disappear into a puff of smoke, but was distributed among Slashdot readers and the rest of UK IT industry. (Of course, various consultants and business process analysts got their share, too.)
Better than spending resources on agriculture or education, any day!
Writing machine code on our school's Videoton 1010B mainframe.
Designed in 1971-1972, it took nothing else - no assembler, nor any higher level language.
The machine is so old that I cannot even get an image of it online.
(Thus it also breaks rule #34.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Videoton_%28company%29 The computer was decommissioned from the state-run radio station next door and donated to the school.
I once forgot to place a boundary check on a hard disk block delete utility I wrote, thus wiping the entire 64 kB disk.
Sweet childhood...
Then we moved on to a class of MSX Yamaha computers. The bright guys who managed the computers later created Skype.
However, the eerie feeling of knowing every single byte in your Videoton memory, following through the long printouts of hex code, and working with the heavy-duty 16x80 text terminals is still somewhere in me.
The rangers are armed and do shoot to kill but are a bit thin on the ground as the parks are self financing. Poachers are highly organized bunch and also heavily armed. Bit of an uphill battle.
Thus, the poachers will soon have air superiority as well.
And they will get their drones faster than the government or park management - as they do not need to follow any "tender process".
Anyone inventing or deploying a new weapon will get an advantage... but a temporary one. After that, the one with more money or a better incentive to use it will win.
Slashdot Mirror
Why does she believe the sexbots to be mostly feminine?
Why only stereotypes of women need reinforcing?
A female chauvinist pig she is!
Broadcasting about real murders is also big business. What are cnn.com or fox news about? Wars and crime. Humans ENJOY watching or reading about the distress of other humans. Taking one particular piece of distress and making it illegal seems... illogical.
I am Estonian; I play English scrabble; many words I use have no meaning to me but I know they exist within the context of the game.
Every (semi-decent) player knows all two-letter combinations that are essential for putting longer words in parallel.
Give them a look: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki...
How many of those would you consider as a "word"?
THERORETICAL accuracy for measuring energy expenditure from heart rate is:
- 15-25 % if the model and measurements are calibrated for a particular individual in a lab environment
- 20-35 % in a generic case
Source: http://www.firstbeat.com/userD...
Your device, be it a watch or a phone, using chest strap or wrist, CANNOT get more accurate than 20%, whatever the marketing dept would say.
The human body simply is not a precision instrument, and the individual deviation from the formulas cannot be eliminated easily.
I have wondered when will poachers start using drones themselves.
Drones will be much more useful for finding / killing game than for protecting them.
When a serious hunting drone makes it to the market, the rhino etc population will be down within a few months.
If you're a teacher and students find pictures of you? You potentially can kiss your career (or at least your next promotion) good bye.
Why so? People can legally put their naked pictures to the Internet (dating sites, you own webpage etc) and everyone can legally look at them. Why would one profession be so special in this regard?
I live in Europe, I have kids going to school, I have friends working as teachers. I don't imagine the schoolmaster firing a teacher on the basis of "mr so-and-so, your naked picture could be seen online". The employee would complain (to governmental organisations who stand against such abuse) and would win.
2014 / summer / 2014-vacation-good
2014 / summer / 2014-vacation-bad
structure, and after a delay, I delete all "bad" directories.
It all depends on how many pictures you take or how many "events" or sessions you have, and how much work you do afterwards. If you shoot 100 sessions per month and expect those to searchable by person, location, .. - file system won't do. For a casual family photographer like me, it works very well.
A question to answer is:
WHY do you have a HUGE selection of vacation photos? Nobody, ever, will want to look at those. I think a a few tens of photos, possibly a hundred, are maximum that you need to bring back the memories. For friends & relatives, ever less will do.
It's 10 years past I did anything in EMV, so my knowledge may be outdated, but cards DO make decisions. The terminal (merchant) and card have both a set of policies that they agree upon - which auth methods are acceptable, when to go online, what are the limits etc. Of course, issuer has the final say over transactions.
Btw, in the context of card payments, never use the word "bank" as this is massively ambiguous.
... as someone completely unaffected by this (not an apple fanboy, russian or gay) I find some kind of weird surreal humour in the whole thing.
Like, how do you even reach this point of reasoning.
I am a neighbour to Russia. They apply the same kind of reasoning everywhere, especially to politics. And as their voice is the loudest, international press buys it off and replicates and you have no good way of fighting it.
Which means that everyone around has to mimic their rhetorics and surreal reasoning, just to stay level in the propaganda war.
So, I *am* affected by this. And so are you.
From the article:
> "EMV cards don’t have to make contact with a reader to be used."
This is misleading. SOME EMV cards are contactless, but most normal (European) cards require a contact terminal and cannot be read / billed remotely.
The author somehow blames EMV itself on the vulnerability. EMV is a complex beast and there are many ways to get it wrong, but this here is something different.
I play Scrabble.
Both in my native language (Estonian) and in English.
I am much much MUCH faster in English Scrabble than in Estonian one. I believe the reason to be the same. Picking a word from my limited English vocab is fast. Working through all resources of my native language takes time.
As a result, I can beat most native English speakers in a timed game simply because of my speed, whereas my native Scrabble skills are mediocre at best.
Indeed. The money did not disappear into a puff of smoke, but was distributed among Slashdot readers and the rest of UK IT industry. (Of course, various consultants and business process analysts got their share, too.) Better than spending resources on agriculture or education, any day!
Writing machine code on our school's Videoton 1010B mainframe.
Designed in 1971-1972, it took nothing else - no assembler, nor any higher level language.
The machine is so old that I cannot even get an image of it online.
(Thus it also breaks rule #34.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Videoton_%28company%29
The computer was decommissioned from the state-run radio station next door and donated to the school.
I once forgot to place a boundary check on a hard disk block delete utility I wrote, thus wiping the entire 64 kB disk.
Sweet childhood...
Other notable computers we used a bit later - about 1985 and 1986 onwards -
"Iskra", http://www.wang2200.org/iskra-226.html
"Agat", http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agat_computer
Those interpreted BASIC, could do graphics and were really easy to work on, compared to the Videoton beast.
Then we moved on to a class of MSX Yamaha computers. The bright guys who managed the computers later created Skype.
However, the eerie feeling of knowing every single byte in your Videoton memory, following through the long printouts of hex code, and working with the heavy-duty 16x80 text terminals is still somewhere in me.
@ for human, # for path is enough.
The rangers are armed and do shoot to kill but are a bit thin on the ground as the parks are self financing. Poachers are highly organized bunch and also heavily armed. Bit of an uphill battle.
Thus, the poachers will soon have air superiority as well. And they will get their drones faster than the government or park management - as they do not need to follow any "tender process".
Anyone inventing or deploying a new weapon will get an advantage... but a temporary one. After that, the one with more money or a better incentive to use it will win.