For personal local passwords, yea you could use a sentence password. But many websites, especially banking sites, require capital letters and numbers. Once you throw those into the mix it's game over and you can easily forget it.
Use a sentence like "hsbcisagreatbank" (noone would guess that as it's so blatently false). Then stick H5BC on the front and store that part on a piece of paper.
Or just write your passwords down and put them in your sock drawer.
Amnesia is most often associated with major brain damage, which means you have a lot more to worry about than your passwords.
Depends, you can get very specific amnesia which leaves you otherwise fine. Friends and family can help you get memories back, but if you can't get into your bank account, email account that's a major stumbling block.
Now zombies, those are real, which is why I'm holed up here in the middle of Nebraska with enough ammo to put the entire state out. You hear that zombies, you'll never take me alive!
If zombies come back from the dead and you're all tucked inside your bed, put down your guns use tea instead (and use the cup to smash their head)
Clearly you don't do a lot of networking between home computers like a NAS or something.
If your internal home network is so large that you need a router, and you're worried about speed, then you're not going to be buying a SOHO router to manage it. And since you probably don't need a router, you'll buy a full-duplex gigabit managed switch for $100 or so like the HP1810-8g. Then you'll buy a $50 or less wireless access point if you need wireless, and a $50 or less router to the outside, and still be $100 ahead.
My internal network isn't that large, but I do like to segment it, wifi backbone @5G, dropping into 4 wired networks arround the place, and a single AP at 2.4G. As is quite typical I share it out via a VPN so I can connect home, and a bit of OSPF to handle the routing as I'm far too lazy to set up manual routes. Multicast/broadcast when you have wireless on the same network causes major problems.
However given my network interconnects are only wireless, I don't need to be routing at gigabit speeds, the local switch in each area does that fine.
In the last dozen years we have had about two dozen victims of terrorism and 100,000 victims of gun crime. Yet we are devoting so many more resources to terrorism. The main danger of terrorism is causing overreaction. Bin Laden's strategy was to bankrupt the United States and we are helping him succeed.. The main danger of terrorism is causing overreaction. With this, NSA and Iraq he is on the way to success,
Your post was true 10 years ago, you're way beyond it now. Bin Laden went to his grave knowing he had won, truly and completely. The only question is will China be enough to stop an Islamic superstate from emerging from the forthcoming civil war.
There are 'papers please' sty;e checkpoints a hundred or more miles inland from your borders, in zones which the fourth amendment does not apply. Warrantless search and seizure has just been confirmed as 'legal' again last week. There are 'free speech zones'. The NSA ans possibly other agencies spy oin the people of the country and have threatened to blackmail 'extremists' with the information they find. Call it what you want, but I'm calling it a police state.
Ahh, but I've still got my 9mm handgun, so it's not a police state!
I'm not sure the analogy was ever meant to be a rigorous and exact model, but more of a kind of way of visualizing space-time. All analogies break down if you try to map them exactly to the phenomenon you're trying to explain. After all, it's an analogy, not a model.
Try getting a network engineer for a 5 hour project. See if they bill at $50-80k annually.
Sure, contractors earn far more per hour. However when you tie in the costs of contracting (overheads, taxes, uncertainty, benefits) effective annual income drops.
How do you like the look and feel of Slashdot Redesign compared with the classic Slashdot site (www.slashdot.org)? Significantly better Better About the same Not as good.
Which leads to "Well many [2] of our readers thought the site was significantly better, but the worst response was it wasn't quite as good as the old one"
No, most US citizens are slaves to whoever has the money.
Not sure if you've noticed but your famed constitution now has about same importance as toilet paper because the people in charge translate it however the fuck they like.
Toilet paper you use to clean up shit. The constitution isn't like that any more.
And if you wipe your ass with the constitution you'll (ironically) end up in gitmo
Setting aside all the blather, I hope Jeff is doing 'ok'.
In the UK today 220 people were admitted to hospital with kidney stones. Extrapolating globally thats 30,000. Today. 30,000 tomorrow and 30,000 yesterday. That's one every 3 seconds.
I hope you hope all these people are doing ok too? I expect 30,000 replies from you, one for each person with kidney stones.
Business people who travel the world usually have global medical plans. Most of those plans include evacuation coverage. Medical transfers off a ship are customarily handled by a coast guard. I'm sure the insurance company had to pay for the service.
If anything the insurance company saved a little money because Bezos already had the private jet in position and that saved them the cost of an airline ticket.
Personal travel insurance in the real world covers all that, and pretty much anyone in my country travelling internationally has it. Medical is not a cheap $5k plane ticket, a 4000 mile evac will easily cost 6 figures, in some cases 7 figures.
He has a private jet. He's also the CEO of a billion dollar company. You're right, people need to get on with their lives and stop reacting every time someone is in the news because they used the wealth they've managed to acquire. FWIW, my employers travel insurance and healthcare plan would get me to a local hospital for trauma treatment then have me put on a commercial airliner back to the U.S.
My employers travel insurance is a little special as it covers war zones, Somalia, disaster areas that I enter after the disaster etc.
My personal travel insurance costs about $100 a year. The u.s.a add on doubles the price. It covers a private medical flight back home if need be, forget commercial travel. Also covers lost bags, stolen property, and delayed flights.
The u.s. Seems weird in that it doesn't generally "do" travel insurance.
The tone and substance of this story is more than a little suspect. The hospital at Peurto Aoyra (the biggest one) is used to transporting people off island for various problems although kidney stones are usually just treated with morphine and fluids initially. They certainly could handle that. The place is sparse, but clean. The docs there are mostly military (the military, such as it is has a large presence on the island) the commercial airline is owned by the military, and, at least at Baltra (the main airport) there is no evidence of anything else but military aircraft (a grey 737 and a helicopter when I was there).
So, the story line that the "Navy" "rescued" Bezos is a bit overdone. They shipped him to the mainland on a helicopter because that's pretty much the only way to get him to the mainland short of firing up a bigger aircraft. Like pretty much anybody else.
Must be International Drama Queen Day or something.
Standard for island communities, Women in labour in the Isles of Scilly off the Cornish Coast get airlifted to hospital on the mainland by the RAF. For free of course, it's a civilised country.
Since when does a Klingon resign from anything? This must be a hoax. The only reason the word "resign" would be in the Klingon language is to describe other weakling species. Doh!
Sure, if they were signing a deed for a new ship, and then spilt bloodwine over the signature, they're have to re-sign it.
I face much the same thing when I have to fly because I am a television broadcast engineer, who often has to pack up his tools and go someplace to resuscitate a tv station or their transmitter. I can't take my tools, several thousand dollars worth, with me to the job via anyplace that takes me past a TSA checkpoint, so now the stations who need my talents have to send their corporate airplanes to come and get me and bring me home.
Really. I'm a broadcast engineer too, and my work takes my all over the world, from Kabul to New York. I never have problems with my tools, or any expensive equipment, as long as the really expensive stuff (say a spectrum analyser, or cheaper stuff like mixers and matrices) is on a carnet. There's a few countries where a back hander is needed to ensure a camera gets through correctly, although I don't get involved there as that would be illegal, but the U.S. is not one of them.
However props to you for still working, and keeping on top of technology, in your 80s. The move from analog to SDI must have come in past your normal retirement age? And nowadays more and more broadcast technology is computers and networking.
An armed population is a dangerous population to such ideas after all.
No you're not. The USA is an armed society, yet as soon as a crinimal killed 3 people in Boston you all cowered in your homes while the militarised police went door to door searching and showing off their equipment. When the armed forces were shooting up downtown miami (they were blanks, but noone knew that at the time) you just hit. Where were your glorious armed militia? Don't bring up Athens, the federal government and a militarised police force were not involved.
As long as Americans have bread and circuses (tax breaks and american idol), you'll be happy. If you ever weren't, there's nothing you can do.
I learned one musical instrument at school. It was a single piece of metal, bent twice, and suspended by a string. I used another piece of metal to hit it. I wasn't very good at timing, but otherwise I was perfect.
Why do you have two APs? WiFi penetrates to adjacent floors on a typical residential home with no trouble. I have a 3-story (including the basement) house with my AP on the middle floor, and I have no connectivity problems at all. The problem with WiFi is line-of-sight distance; if your house is a giant 6000sf McMansion and is really spread out, you could have a problem, but as long as you're not far away from the AP it should
There's your problem. At least you didn't include the word just. If anyone ever tells me "it should just work", I know it's broken.
(1) If you don't want to pay for an anti-virus program, at least install a free one.
If you don't have antivirus, you shouldn't have a computer. Note that AVG works fine.
Which "antivirus" (when was the last time you saw a virus) product should I install on my Mac mini, macbook, ubuntu T410, android phone, ipad, raspberry pi, and mikrotik routers?
Oh, like my mom - who has a S4 phone and wants to install skype on it so she can call her boyfriend on his phone (on the same plan!).
I asked her - "So you have a phone, acting like a computer, that you want to install software on so it will act like a phone?"
I've got a voip app on my phone. It ties in with my company's internal exchange, which allows me to make internal calls for free, and external and international calls for almost free.
This is particularly useful when * you're in areas with patchy phone signals but plenty of wifi (our offices in India and the hotel I frequent in Jerusalem spring to mind) * You are tying to keep your phone bill below $1k a month
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For personal local passwords, yea you could use a sentence password. But many websites, especially banking sites, require capital letters and numbers. Once you throw those into the mix it's game over and you can easily forget it.
Use a sentence like "hsbcisagreatbank" (noone would guess that as it's so blatently false). Then stick H5BC on the front and store that part on a piece of paper.
Or just write your passwords down and put them in your sock drawer.
Amnesia is most often associated with major brain damage, which means you have a lot more to worry about than your passwords.
Depends, you can get very specific amnesia which leaves you otherwise fine. Friends and family can help you get memories back, but if you can't get into your bank account, email account that's a major stumbling block.
Now zombies, those are real, which is why I'm holed up here in the middle of Nebraska with enough ammo to put the entire state out. You hear that zombies, you'll never take me alive!
If zombies come back from the dead and you're all tucked inside your bed, put down your guns use tea instead (and use the cup to smash their head)
Remember, posting your password on the internet will show the password to you as as your password, but others will see it as stars.
See, look at my password ************
So now if I get amnesia all I have to do is come back and check my comment history and I'll find my password.
So your password is hunter2?
Clearly you don't do a lot of networking between home computers like a NAS or something.
If your internal home network is so large that you need a router, and you're worried about speed, then you're not going to be buying a SOHO router to manage it. And since you probably don't need a router, you'll buy a full-duplex gigabit managed switch for $100 or so like the HP1810-8g. Then you'll buy a $50 or less wireless access point if you need wireless, and a $50 or less router to the outside, and still be $100 ahead.
My internal network isn't that large, but I do like to segment it, wifi backbone @5G, dropping into 4 wired networks arround the place, and a single AP at 2.4G. As is quite typical I share it out via a VPN so I can connect home, and a bit of OSPF to handle the routing as I'm far too lazy to set up manual routes. Multicast/broadcast when you have wireless on the same network causes major problems.
However given my network interconnects are only wireless, I don't need to be routing at gigabit speeds, the local switch in each area does that fine.
In the last dozen years we have had about two dozen victims of terrorism and 100,000 victims of gun crime. Yet we are devoting so many more resources to terrorism. The main danger of terrorism is causing overreaction. Bin Laden's strategy was to bankrupt the United States and we are helping him succeed.. The main danger of terrorism is causing overreaction. With this, NSA and Iraq he is on the way to success,
Your post was true 10 years ago, you're way beyond it now. Bin Laden went to his grave knowing he had won, truly and completely. The only question is will China be enough to stop an Islamic superstate from emerging from the forthcoming civil war.
That's right. Blame the victims.
If only there was some way for the population to change their government...
You have too much faith in people. The people are stupid obedient morons who are perfectly happy to suck STASI cock. The people are the problem.
True, and they ARE revolting. Everyone wins.
There are 'papers please' sty;e checkpoints a hundred or more miles inland from your borders, in zones which the fourth amendment does not apply. Warrantless search and seizure has just been confirmed as 'legal' again last week. There are 'free speech zones'. The NSA ans possibly other agencies spy oin the people of the country and have threatened to blackmail 'extremists' with the information they find. Call it what you want, but I'm calling it a police state.
Ahh, but I've still got my 9mm handgun, so it's not a police state!
which filtered out many non-porn site, including Slashdot.org
Citation?
I'm not sure the analogy was ever meant to be a rigorous and exact model, but more of a kind of way of visualizing space-time. All analogies break down if you try to map them exactly to the phenomenon you're trying to explain. After all, it's an analogy, not a model.
Could you explain this using a car analogy?
Try getting a network engineer for a 5 hour project. See if they bill at $50-80k annually.
Sure, contractors earn far more per hour. However when you tie in the costs of contracting (overheads, taxes, uncertainty, benefits) effective annual income drops.
on top left of the main site there's a link to
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/sdredesign
Oh yes, with such unbiased options as:
How do you like the look and feel of Slashdot Redesign compared with the classic Slashdot site (www.slashdot.org)?
Significantly better
Better
About the same
Not as good.
Which leads to "Well many [2] of our readers thought the site was significantly better, but the worst response was it wasn't quite as good as the old one"
No, most US citizens are slaves to whoever has the money.
Not sure if you've noticed but your famed constitution now has about same importance as toilet paper because the people in charge translate it however the fuck they like.
Toilet paper you use to clean up shit. The constitution isn't like that any more.
And if you wipe your ass with the constitution you'll (ironically) end up in gitmo
Setting aside all the blather, I hope Jeff is doing 'ok'.
In the UK today 220 people were admitted to hospital with kidney stones. Extrapolating globally thats 30,000. Today. 30,000 tomorrow and 30,000 yesterday. That's one every 3 seconds.
I hope you hope all these people are doing ok too? I expect 30,000 replies from you, one for each person with kidney stones.
Business people who travel the world usually have global medical plans. Most of those plans include evacuation coverage. Medical transfers off a ship are customarily handled by a coast guard. I'm sure the insurance company had to pay for the service.
If anything the insurance company saved a little money because Bezos already had the private jet in position and that saved them the cost of an airline ticket.
Personal travel insurance in the real world covers all that, and pretty much anyone in my country travelling internationally has it. Medical is not a cheap $5k plane ticket, a 4000 mile evac will easily cost 6 figures, in some cases 7 figures.
He has a private jet. He's also the CEO of a billion dollar company. You're right, people need to get on with their lives and stop reacting every time someone is in the news because they used the wealth they've managed to acquire. FWIW, my employers travel insurance and healthcare plan would get me to a local hospital for trauma treatment then have me put on a commercial airliner back to the U.S.
My employers travel insurance is a little special as it covers war zones, Somalia, disaster areas that I enter after the disaster etc.
My personal travel insurance costs about $100 a year. The u.s.a add on doubles the price. It covers a private medical flight back home if need be, forget commercial travel. Also covers lost bags, stolen property, and delayed flights.
The u.s. Seems weird in that it doesn't generally "do" travel insurance.
The tone and substance of this story is more than a little suspect. The hospital at Peurto Aoyra (the biggest one) is used to transporting people off island for various problems although kidney stones are usually just treated with morphine and fluids initially. They certainly could handle that. The place is sparse, but clean. The docs there are mostly military (the military, such as it is has a large presence on the island) the commercial airline is owned by the military, and, at least at Baltra (the main airport) there is no evidence of anything else but military aircraft (a grey 737 and a helicopter when I was there).
So, the story line that the "Navy" "rescued" Bezos is a bit overdone. They shipped him to the mainland on a helicopter because that's pretty much the only way to get him to the mainland short of firing up a bigger aircraft. Like pretty much anybody else.
Must be International Drama Queen Day or something.
Standard for island communities, Women in labour in the Isles of Scilly off the Cornish Coast get airlifted to hospital on the mainland by the RAF. For free of course, it's a civilised country.
Since when does a Klingon resign from anything? This must be a hoax. The only reason the word "resign" would be in the Klingon language is to describe other weakling species. Doh!
Sure, if they were signing a deed for a new ship, and then spilt bloodwine over the signature, they're have to re-sign it.
Why do we as Americans give up our 4th Amendment protections if we fly?
Because you've already given up your 1st, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th and 10th.
You'd probably give up the 3rd if you had the chance given your fawning over the military.
I face much the same thing when I have to fly because I am a television broadcast engineer, who often has to pack up his tools and go someplace to resuscitate a tv station or their transmitter. I can't take my tools, several thousand dollars worth, with me to the job via anyplace that takes me past a TSA checkpoint, so now the stations who need my talents have to send their corporate airplanes to come and get me and bring me home.
Really. I'm a broadcast engineer too, and my work takes my all over the world, from Kabul to New York. I never have problems with my tools, or any expensive equipment, as long as the really expensive stuff (say a spectrum analyser, or cheaper stuff like mixers and matrices) is on a carnet. There's a few countries where a back hander is needed to ensure a camera gets through correctly, although I don't get involved there as that would be illegal, but the U.S. is not one of them.
However props to you for still working, and keeping on top of technology, in your 80s. The move from analog to SDI must have come in past your normal retirement age? And nowadays more and more broadcast technology is computers and networking.
An armed population is a dangerous population to such ideas after all.
No you're not. The USA is an armed society, yet as soon as a crinimal killed 3 people in Boston you all cowered in your homes while the militarised police went door to door searching and showing off their equipment. When the armed forces were shooting up downtown miami (they were blanks, but noone knew that at the time) you just hit. Where were your glorious armed militia? Don't bring up Athens, the federal government and a militarised police force were not involved.
As long as Americans have bread and circuses (tax breaks and american idol), you'll be happy. If you ever weren't, there's nothing you can do.
I learned one musical instrument at school. It was a single piece of metal, bent twice, and suspended by a string. I used another piece of metal to hit it. I wasn't very good at timing, but otherwise I was perfect.
No wood involved.
Why do you have two APs? WiFi penetrates to adjacent floors on a typical residential home with no trouble. I have a 3-story (including the basement) house with my AP on the middle floor, and I have no connectivity problems at all. The problem with WiFi is line-of-sight distance; if your house is a giant 6000sf McMansion and is really spread out, you could have a problem, but as long as you're not far away from the AP it should
There's your problem. At least you didn't include the word just. If anyone ever tells me "it should just work", I know it's broken.
(1) If you don't want to pay for an anti-virus program, at least install a free one.
If you don't have antivirus, you shouldn't have a computer. Note that AVG works fine.
Which "antivirus" (when was the last time you saw a virus) product should I install on my Mac mini, macbook, ubuntu T410, android phone, ipad, raspberry pi, and mikrotik routers?
Oh, like my mom - who has a S4 phone and wants to install skype on it so she can call her boyfriend on his phone (on the same plan!).
I asked her - "So you have a phone, acting like a computer, that you want to install software on so it will act like a phone?"
I've got a voip app on my phone. It ties in with my company's internal exchange, which allows me to make internal calls for free, and external and international calls for almost free.
This is particularly useful when
* you're in areas with patchy phone signals but plenty of wifi (our offices in India and the hotel I frequent in Jerusalem spring to mind)
* You are tying to keep your phone bill below $1k a month