Yeah it's up to them whether the minuscule cost of me visiting X without seeing ads is worth the fact that if I'm not citing or linking X to my friends and so on, I will in fact be linking, recommending, and citing Y instead. I say let the market decide which is worth more. *shrug*
My personal solution is to have 3-6 prepaid cards in my possession, and keep reasonably small balances on them. Each card has a specific set of payment responsibilities, so to speak. One card pays utilities and so on, one pays for groceries, one is for incidentals, and one or more lie mostly dormant.
When a card is inevitably compromised, it's one of many, has limits to the damage, and I have an immediate drop in replacement available. I can then proceed with typical fraud recovery without there being any real urgency on my side, other than the desire to recover the funds. When asked for photo ID I never present my drivers license; I use either my work issued ID or if government issued ID is required, my passport card, which supplies much less excess information.
Paranoia and defense in depth. Also, sign up for LifeLock.
My 20-something galpal just let off a long litany of gripes about Skype into my ear just yesterday, so it's not just old 1960s model nerds like me that think the changes are complete dogsh*t. But it's by god got a whizzy new sine wave "i'm working on it" animation, so it must be good right? Idiots.
After more research it seems you're half right; the initial scale was 0 as the temperature of a brine solution at it's phase change point and 96, not 100, was selected as body temperature. Those seem like perfectly useful reference points really,
for daily use.
A common misconception. Zero F is actually the freezing point of salt water of a specific salinity. The other points were chosen such that the distance from pure water freezing to boiling was 180 degrees.
That might be from the numbers true. But:
a) robbery on a gasoline station or a drug store with guns and potential murder: that never happens in Europe (well never is exaggerated, somewhere at some time that might happen, but it is unlikely one gets killed) Murder basically only happen among friends or family.
b) if you stop with your car (as a tourist), and a guy shoots your wife: in Europe the first idea is, there is a murderer running around with a gun, we need to get him. In the USA the first idea is: the husband killed his wife, where is the gun?
c) in Europe police and state attorney work hard to get the right people. In the USA they work hard to get convictions and get as Sheriff, Judge or State Attorney reelected.
Yes, I exaggerate. But there are enough Germans in death row because of b) and c) in the USA, and I don't really want to visit such a country.
Somebody has been watching too many movies or something.
(a) No one dies from a robber almost deciding to shoot them, and again, violent crime that's not murder is generally the same or lower in the USA than Europe. In fact our overall crime rate is about half that of Canada, Germany, Belgium, Denmark, and Finland, for instance.
Men have to try harder the older they get, but the odds of the eventual child being defective doesn't rise precipitously like it does for women over 40. Some studies suggest the odds of a defective child rise slightly but perhaps detectably with the age of the father, while the drop in fertility is no secret and never has been. This article is hardly news. The good news? If an older guy wants a kid, all he has to do is have his career in order and find a younger gal who's willing to try, try again. The trying isn't that rough, as near as I can remember.
Modern AV is not even primarily based on old fashioned signatures; this is a common misconception. Top tier AV vendors still include and devote significant resources to signature based protection but it's just one facet of the overall defense. Reviewers that concentrate on testing against the sort of threats signature based portions of AV protection excel against probably don't help with killing this misconception. Other means of determining the validity of a process image or data include crowd sourced reputation, behavior analysis, on demand local sandboxing, IDS, and a host of other techniques.
However I believe your basic points stand; modern anti-malware packages are difficult to analyse due to being complex, multifaceted, and subject to rapid innovation and other change. They are also constantly treading a very fine line between protection and facility. For instance one very popular AV product will reliably block online games and other such rapidly mutating applications if the application vendor in question fails to digitally sign even a single module. Personally I'm OK with this but I know many gamers who have had strong negative reactions to it after the game vendor (Trion in the cases I've seen) has failed in this way.
I work for a fairly large ISV, and my manager said we should take a 4 day holiday this weekend. Here I am posting on/. during a build. Some people enjoy the work.
Oh I understand it's easy for you to get slightly the wrong amount of milk by measuring 250g and assuming the specific gravity is the same as pure water instead of just eyeballing it or going by an actual volume measure. Seriously, have you EVER really had to do that? What would be the use case for that in real life? The easy conversions to caloric units are not useful in daily life, but in general the huge advantage of the metric system is the interrelatedness of the units. Being decimal... not so sure about but it's OK. The meter? As I said, I'd much rather, if we're going for interrelated units, do it right and use something like a light nanosecond as the base unit of linear measure.
Saying "I prefer 22 point 5 as my ideal room temperature" is just evidence of a hack. If C is better than F for that, then for all the same reasons K is better than C - use that..
As for violence, if you stick to interacting with the non-gang part of the culture the rate of violence is actually on par with a typical european country. For instance as a middle class white person, my odds of being murdered per year are around 1:100,000, which is pretty average for europe, but higher than places like Japan. If you want to come here and hang out in the urban jungle and maybe score some meth, well yeah, you might become a victim; if you plan to get into the business, even more likely.
Yeah security software in particular tends to also be pretty complex, with a lot of hooking, filtering, and other kernel shenanigans along with service level support and user mode hooking. I guess source would help in looking for obvious remote backdoors a lot, but actual full on analysis would be probably beyond most if not all enterprises and probably a lot of state agencies.
And in Celsius humans are comfortable in the range of 20 to 30 degrees.
And virtually no one, anywhere, adjusts their comfort with a C thermostat that adjusts in 1 degree C increments. I've lived quite a lot, years on end, in places where C is the norm. My passport required extra visa pages last time around, I've lived with both systems, something you perhaps cannot truthfully claim. In any case I don't see any convergence of opinion on this one.
Yes, it's because 24 is evenly divisible by many factors. A 10 hour day would require factories to operate on 3.33 hour shifts and so on, not something natural to deal with in day to day life, much like a thermostat that offers fractional degree adjustments. I'm not claiming F is great either,it's a stupid system for a host of other reasons, but for expressing the temperature in terms of human comfort it's (for me and others) a superior system. In this context (which is what the thread is about) the ridiculous 32F freezing point is irrelevant. Humans are comfortable between maybe 60 and 80, and they don't require fractions of that range to express their precise preference.
Outside science, what is the advantage of C over F? Also, I grew up using both, in the Carter era, and I used C in my automation and science work since. It's great for that. But not for expressing everything. If it was we wouldn't have C, F, K and so on. Each has a domain.
Consider the difficulty in implementing decimal time, where a day was 10 hours instead of 24.
That was a political problem, and honestly makes no sense anyway.
what is next? A ten month year? With what... 3 ten month weeks and a 'break week'?
Could be 10 months of 36 and 37 days I guess. But working out the reason for not having decimal time is a good exercise toward understanding why C being too coarse for conveniently expressing temps that humans care about most is a decided shortcoming. Personally I'm pretty comfortable in base 2, 8, 10, 12, or 16 but I guess I could learn others if there was a good reason. The ones I know all have utility in my life.
if it were perfect, the thermostats wouldn't all have to have 0.5C graduations, for instance
Yes, and the prices in the grocery store would always be whole Euros.
When I walk into a hotel room, the thermostat is going to either be graduated in whole degrees F or 0.5 degrees C, because in the range for human comfort (a very common range to measure) the graduations that most people care about are about that amount. When I go for a tablespoon of oil, I don't think 15ml. Well I do but that's because I know the conversion. The meter itself is based on a goofy arbitrary standard. Something like a light nanosecond would make a lot more sense actually.
Even base 10 is OK, but again, it's not ideal really, base 12 (or 24) actually has a lot of advantages, as does base 16. Consider the difficulty in implementing decimal time, where a day was 10 hours instead of 24.
I've spent a lot of time in 'metric' places; if it were perfect, the thermostats wouldn't all have to have 0.5C graduations, for instance. Units of metric volume and cooking is another domain example where the utility of metric units is not ideal.
Celsius is a pretty poor system for expressing temperatures people experience. If you're going to get on a high horse, use Kelvin. At least it has a few viable claims.
Yeah I wouldn't be shocked if that wouldn't be detected reliably as a gunshot by this system. That's probably OK, essentially no one uses a 22lr long gun in violent crimes. The guns criminals use (pistols) run about 20-30 db higher which doesn't look like much, but 160db is actually 1000x louder than 130db.....
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Yeah it's up to them whether the minuscule cost of me visiting X without seeing ads is worth the fact that if I'm not citing or linking X to my friends and so on, I will in fact be linking, recommending, and citing Y instead. I say let the market decide which is worth more. *shrug*
Either way they get no ad revenue from me, one way they drive me to an alternative, one way they don't.
I thought that was what we were going to use 3D organ printing for.
The old distract with chaff and return fire ploy eh?
Pretty sure they all have DSG boxes now.
My personal solution is to have 3-6 prepaid cards in my possession, and keep reasonably small balances on them. Each card has a specific set of payment responsibilities, so to speak. One card pays utilities and so on, one pays for groceries, one is for incidentals, and one or more lie mostly dormant.
When a card is inevitably compromised, it's one of many, has limits to the damage, and I have an immediate drop in replacement available. I can then proceed with typical fraud recovery without there being any real urgency on my side, other than the desire to recover the funds. When asked for photo ID I never present my drivers license; I use either my work issued ID or if government issued ID is required, my passport card, which supplies much less excess information.
Paranoia and defense in depth. Also, sign up for LifeLock.
Or I can stick with WebEx and switch to whatsapp for personal use ....
My 20-something galpal just let off a long litany of gripes about Skype into my ear just yesterday, so it's not just old 1960s model nerds like me that think the changes are complete dogsh*t. But it's by god got a whizzy new sine wave "i'm working on it" animation, so it must be good right? Idiots.
Someone needs fired for this.
After more research it seems you're half right; the initial scale was 0 as the temperature of a brine solution at it's phase change point and 96, not 100, was selected as body temperature. Those seem like perfectly useful reference points really, for daily use.
As for crime rates: http://www.nationmaster.com/co...
F: 0 is a completely meaningless temperature.
A common misconception. Zero F is actually the freezing point of salt water of a specific salinity. The other points were chosen such that the distance from pure water freezing to boiling was 180 degrees.
That might be from the numbers true. But: a) robbery on a gasoline station or a drug store with guns and potential murder: that never happens in Europe (well never is exaggerated, somewhere at some time that might happen, but it is unlikely one gets killed) Murder basically only happen among friends or family. b) if you stop with your car (as a tourist), and a guy shoots your wife: in Europe the first idea is, there is a murderer running around with a gun, we need to get him. In the USA the first idea is: the husband killed his wife, where is the gun? c) in Europe police and state attorney work hard to get the right people. In the USA they work hard to get convictions and get as Sheriff, Judge or State Attorney reelected.
Yes, I exaggerate. But there are enough Germans in death row because of b) and c) in the USA, and I don't really want to visit such a country.
Somebody has been watching too many movies or something.
(a) No one dies from a robber almost deciding to shoot them, and again, violent crime that's not murder is generally the same or lower in the USA than Europe. In fact our overall crime rate is about half that of Canada, Germany, Belgium, Denmark, and Finland, for instance.
(b) False.
(c) False
Men have to try harder the older they get, but the odds of the eventual child being defective doesn't rise precipitously like it does for women over 40. Some studies suggest the odds of a defective child rise slightly but perhaps detectably with the age of the father, while the drop in fertility is no secret and never has been. This article is hardly news. The good news? If an older guy wants a kid, all he has to do is have his career in order and find a younger gal who's willing to try, try again. The trying isn't that rough, as near as I can remember.
Modern AV is not even primarily based on old fashioned signatures; this is a common misconception. Top tier AV vendors still include and devote significant resources to signature based protection but it's just one facet of the overall defense. Reviewers that concentrate on testing against the sort of threats signature based portions of AV protection excel against probably don't help with killing this misconception. Other means of determining the validity of a process image or data include crowd sourced reputation, behavior analysis, on demand local sandboxing, IDS, and a host of other techniques.
However I believe your basic points stand; modern anti-malware packages are difficult to analyse due to being complex, multifaceted, and subject to rapid innovation and other change. They are also constantly treading a very fine line between protection and facility. For instance one very popular AV product will reliably block online games and other such rapidly mutating applications if the application vendor in question fails to digitally sign even a single module. Personally I'm OK with this but I know many gamers who have had strong negative reactions to it after the game vendor (Trion in the cases I've seen) has failed in this way.
I work for a fairly large ISV, and my manager said we should take a 4 day holiday this weekend. Here I am posting on /. during a build. Some people enjoy the work.
Microsoft is all about the platform, always has been. The platform isn't just Windows now, is all.
Oh I understand it's easy for you to get slightly the wrong amount of milk by measuring 250g and assuming the specific gravity is the same as pure water instead of just eyeballing it or going by an actual volume measure. Seriously, have you EVER really had to do that? What would be the use case for that in real life? The easy conversions to caloric units are not useful in daily life, but in general the huge advantage of the metric system is the interrelatedness of the units. Being decimal ... not so sure about but it's OK. The meter? As I said, I'd much rather, if we're going for interrelated units, do it right and use something like a light nanosecond as the base unit of linear measure.
Saying "I prefer 22 point 5 as my ideal room temperature" is just evidence of a hack. If C is better than F for that, then for all the same reasons K is better than C - use that..
As for violence, if you stick to interacting with the non-gang part of the culture the rate of violence is actually on par with a typical european country. For instance as a middle class white person, my odds of being murdered per year are around 1:100,000, which is pretty average for europe, but higher than places like Japan. If you want to come here and hang out in the urban jungle and maybe score some meth, well yeah, you might become a victim; if you plan to get into the business, even more likely.
Yeah security software in particular tends to also be pretty complex, with a lot of hooking, filtering, and other kernel shenanigans along with service level support and user mode hooking. I guess source would help in looking for obvious remote backdoors a lot, but actual full on analysis would be probably beyond most if not all enterprises and probably a lot of state agencies.
And in Celsius humans are comfortable in the range of 20 to 30 degrees.
And virtually no one, anywhere, adjusts their comfort with a C thermostat that adjusts in 1 degree C increments. I've lived quite a lot, years on end, in places where C is the norm. My passport required extra visa pages last time around, I've lived with both systems, something you perhaps cannot truthfully claim. In any case I don't see any convergence of opinion on this one.
The reason why we have 24 hours is super simple.
Yes, it's because 24 is evenly divisible by many factors. A 10 hour day would require factories to operate on 3.33 hour shifts and so on, not something natural to deal with in day to day life, much like a thermostat that offers fractional degree adjustments. I'm not claiming F is great either,it's a stupid system for a host of other reasons, but for expressing the temperature in terms of human comfort it's (for me and others) a superior system. In this context (which is what the thread is about) the ridiculous 32F freezing point is irrelevant. Humans are comfortable between maybe 60 and 80, and they don't require fractions of that range to express their precise preference.
Outside science, what is the advantage of C over F? Also, I grew up using both, in the Carter era, and I used C in my automation and science work since. It's great for that. But not for expressing everything. If it was we wouldn't have C, F, K and so on. Each has a domain.
Consider the difficulty in implementing decimal time, where a day was 10 hours instead of 24. That was a political problem, and honestly makes no sense anyway. what is next? A ten month year? With what ... 3 ten month weeks and a 'break week'?
Could be 10 months of 36 and 37 days I guess. But working out the reason for not having decimal time is a good exercise toward understanding why C being too coarse for conveniently expressing temps that humans care about most is a decided shortcoming. Personally I'm pretty comfortable in base 2, 8, 10, 12, or 16 but I guess I could learn others if there was a good reason. The ones I know all have utility in my life.
if it were perfect, the thermostats wouldn't all have to have 0.5C graduations, for instance Yes, and the prices in the grocery store would always be whole Euros.
When I walk into a hotel room, the thermostat is going to either be graduated in whole degrees F or 0.5 degrees C, because in the range for human comfort (a very common range to measure) the graduations that most people care about are about that amount. When I go for a tablespoon of oil, I don't think 15ml. Well I do but that's because I know the conversion. The meter itself is based on a goofy arbitrary standard. Something like a light nanosecond would make a lot more sense actually.
Even base 10 is OK, but again, it's not ideal really, base 12 (or 24) actually has a lot of advantages, as does base 16. Consider the difficulty in implementing decimal time, where a day was 10 hours instead of 24.
Celsius is actually perfect.
I've spent a lot of time in 'metric' places; if it were perfect, the thermostats wouldn't all have to have 0.5C graduations, for instance. Units of metric volume and cooking is another domain example where the utility of metric units is not ideal.
Celsius is a pretty poor system for expressing temperatures people experience. If you're going to get on a high horse, use Kelvin. At least it has a few viable claims.
In what universe is accessing a system using the device password you were issued "hacking"? Attack, yes, unauthorized access, yes, hack? Not so much.
Yeah I wouldn't be shocked if that wouldn't be detected reliably as a gunshot by this system. That's probably OK, essentially no one uses a 22lr long gun in violent crimes. The guns criminals use (pistols) run about 20-30 db higher which doesn't look like much, but 160db is actually 1000x louder than 130db .....
A typical gunshot is over 150db, a 9mm pistol runs about 160db. That would be one amazing paper bag. Unbelieveable, actually.