In a recent job interview my employer conducted, the lack of online activity was considered a red flag for the interviewee. We did not hire him for a few reasons and that was, in fact, one of the reasons. Of course, we did not tell him that nor even imply it.
I wonder what your employer's policy on internet usage, especially social media usage, during working hours would be. At a previous employer of mine it was "frowned upon" and I got myself weaned off the addiction. And evenings at home have much more productive and interesting ways to be spent than updating FB statuses...
We need more landers and rovers, everywhere we can put them. The science benefit is high, but the cost is magnitudes lower than launching meatbags and all the attendant support they need.
I haven't loaded the Facebook app on my phone, and do not want the app for this either. Because it is Facebook-owned. And the privacy issues have already been reported a couple of years back (see e.g. the Wikipedia article).
In fact, I have the data on my phone turned off most of the time. No need for $HANDSET_COMPANY to spy on me and drain my batteries.
Also, no need for constant interruptions.
I just tell my friends that want me to also use it No. They can send me whatever via good old e-mail, etc. Will get it at the same time, whether e-mail or Whatsapp - at the moment I activate the data. Or of course phone me or SMS me. Yes, the fact that it costs a trivial amount of money is a desirable feature in my mind. I get enough drivel as it is.
Because saying "no" and walk out to do the right thing does not keep your family fed and clothed? It does however get you persecution by whatever authorities and ostracism from society.
I've recently read a couple of more popular articles on Neanderthals (including on Wikipedia). All seem to allude that there was some happy-go-lucky "free love" get-togethers, or intermarriage, with the "other" neighbors way back when.
The Wikipedia article however alsostates: "While modern humans share some nuclear DNA with the extinct Neanderthals, the two species do not share any mitochondrial DNA,[54] which in primates is always maternally transmitted."
Or, translated to more modern hominid: The genetics indicate that H. sapiens do not have female H. neanderthalensis ancestors, only male ones.
I wasn't there to know exactly what happened, but it does narrow the possibilities a bit, doesn't it...
I've been happily using Stack Overflow for a couple of years now. I've learned a lot, despite many participants often being at the school/junior professional level, thus only regurgitating the stuff from tutorials without necessarily much depth of insight or practical use experience. I've also been able to contribute some things, which seem to be helpful to a number of people.
I never realized there were ads on the site until this article. But then again, I've had AdBlock / hosts file since before I signed up...
I always imagine that it is fair that when people contribute some original content, if the site does not remunerate them (in money) for it, some other incentive might be in order - e.g. free use and option out of advertising (kudos Slashdot). (And unlike e.g. Facebook, to which I've contributed countless translated words and phrases in the beginning years... and where the translated interface's overall impression is still that of a million unpaid monkeys typing away at a million keyboards even today.)
But I can't help but wonder in practice if it won't leave a lot of poor people with no internet access at all.
Sure, it's nice to have an even playing field. But when you're starving, do you really want the government telling McDonalds that they can't give you free food because that wouldn't be fair to Burger King?
No internet access at all, is still better than access to only Facebook.... I doubt that browsing FB all day long is going to help people out of that poverty.
If everybody is speeding, maybe the speed limit is too low.
Probably not, as The Fine Article states near the top: "... installed a camera on his roof and began writing speed-monitoring software after a 12-year-old pedestrian was injured by a car last October."
... Another may involve tweaking your gut microbiome to change how you extract energy from certain foods....
Whatever happened to eating a balanced diet...?
My guess is that if you eat fresh/raw foods (i.e. not processed junk), or foods that have been "processed" via age-old traditional methods like Lactobacillus fermentation preservation as well as sprouting, you may be getting a whole lot closer to both goals.
On Saturday mornings, I wanted to sleep late. So you know what I did? I made sure there were science projects available, and that's what he did with our two daughters and our son.
Amazing. One would think that a family with that sort of wealth at their disposal might be able to hire all sorts of nannies/governesses/tutors at any hour of the month to keep their kids occupied (and educated) while they slept in - whether on a weekend or on any other day of the week.
Cudos for keeping it real and staying in touch with how the other half ^H^H^H^H 99.9999% lives.
naturally? And maybe they'll pick up hobbies that interest them on their own.
Disagree. Having an environment where something can develop is pretty important in my opinion.
Anecdotes from my childhood:
* Positives: free availability of encyclopaedias, the town library, "how to" books, books about experiments, workshop with many hand and power tools, some scrap materials.
* Negatives: Due to financial constraints and living far away from shops on farm, scarcity of some materials like light/torch bulbs, batteries, good quality wire, magnets, some chemicals. Due to improvising with scrap materials, results were often failures or not adequate outcomes.
To this day I like to read up on all sorts of subjects and making designs. Actually implementing one is however difficult, I seem to have this huge mental block about failure that I have to work hard at to overcome. Even for throw-away prototypes.
In my humble opinion, I have found that people that are qualified teachers in something are often not the best choice to inspire interest in that subject (to the contrary - and I've been a part time teacher myself). IMO, role models (e.g., parents and other adult relatives) that are (even mildly) passionate about something are much better at that. Parents are passionate organic farmers? Chances are, kids might become that too, or at least be the ones that plant a bed of veggies instead of flowers. Parent a fairly good sports shooter? Kids might just surpass him (happened to my brother). Etc. etc.
1. The Zika virus has been Africa and Southeast Asia since forever.
2. They don't seem to have microcephalic cases like Brazil has.
As I am a citizen of an African country, I wish to disagree and posit an alternative theory. I think that the virus mutated in the recent past. Before that, it only affected the brains and not the more exterior and visible tissue. It has now mutated to affect larger areas in that region of the body.
Source: a majority of politicians in my country and neighboring countries, born anywhere in the past 3 decades and further back. Although, to be sure, one would need to research the travels of all these peoples' mothers, and I haven't gotten around to that yet...
one must question that assertion.
are the accounts these passwords belong to really in need of security in the 1st place? are they not, most of them, throwaway accounts with not much value in them?
without some measure of value of accounts secured by the passwords identified, lists like this don't tell us much.
so called "security experts" should do more worthwhile research to find out the sort of insecure passwords used by people who want to keep some thing valuable secure.
True. But the answer depends. As the longish Wired article linked to above also hints at, if you link ("daisychain") your accounts, you might consider a simple throwaway e-mail account as not important. But then you go use the e-mail address as the login for another account, and/or as a backup where password resets for the other account get sent to. It now has become the weakest link in your daisychain (to mix metaphors).
And that's one of the password's weak spots in the modern economy: having so many services and devices that each require their username/password as if they are the most important or sole login the user will ever do in his life.
I for one consider the fact that SMSs are not free a good thing rather than a bad thing. In other words, if someone sends me something, it has to be worth the few cents it costs him.
I for one do not want to be connected ("on the line" for those that have seen The Internship) 24/7. I switch on my data/wifi only when I want to send something, do a little surfing, check e-mail, waste time on/. I can not stand constant attention-grabbing interruptions, it kills my productivity dead.
So whenever someone asks we "Are you on Whatsapp?" I tell them no, and I'll never be. Send me an e-mail when you get around to it (incidentally it's much more platform-independent and interoperable than Whatsapp, and it's been around a lot longer than Whatsapp or Skype or Yahoo IM or or or a hundred other apps that Whatsapp hasn't really improved on either), and I'll read it when I get around to it and respond when I get around to it. It's going to arrive at the same time than that Whatsapp. If you need to contact me more urgently than that, you can always phone or SMS. At a slight cost.
You find two-stroke engines in poorer countries because they're cheap
I have a Stihltrimmer. Bought because it is decent German build quality (albeit Made in Brazil), thus being much more expensive (but also needs much less adjustment, repair and eventually replacement) compared to the Chinese models available where I'm at. (As an aside: The dealer that sold it to me had ads up on lampposts the other day: "Buy once" - with various products of this company displayed. Although he also carries other brands.) It also has a very noisy (wearing ear muffs together with eye protection) 2-stroke that emits some nasty-smelling stuff and gets hot enough that you have to be careful not to get it too close to your arm under which it is used.
That said, I for one can hardly understand the first world's fascination with leaf blowers. I do have a fairly large property (around.36 Ha or 1 acre) with quite a few deciduous trees. Leaves do need to get picked up, else they form a dense lawn-chocking mat. But this gets done in any case when the lawn mower runs over them and picks them up together with the lawn clippings. This nice mixture then goes to the compost pile, where it automatically gets turned into wonderful growing medium for my vegetable garden - thus saving me a run to the municipal dumping site for garden refuse and later on another run to buy fertilizer, and eventually lowers my need to go grocery shopping. So I get extremely fresh and organic food, and save carbon emissions at the same time as saving money. When I do go to the shops, these days it's usually by bicycle with a smallish backpack, so I also save on gym fees and still having health that's much better than a few years ago. I think they call it an integrated systems approach.
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In a recent job interview my employer conducted, the lack of online activity was considered a red flag for the interviewee. We did not hire him for a few reasons and that was, in fact, one of the reasons. Of course, we did not tell him that nor even imply it.
I wonder what your employer's policy on internet usage, especially social media usage, during working hours would be. At a previous employer of mine it was "frowned upon" and I got myself weaned off the addiction. And evenings at home have much more productive and interesting ways to be spent than updating FB statuses...
We need more landers and rovers, everywhere we can put them. The science benefit is high, but the cost is magnitudes lower than launching meatbags and all the attendant support they need.
More landers and rovers, less potatoes and sh*t.
Police have attempted to serve this warrant at the Notre-Dame de Paris several times, but without success.
Exactly. Spot on.
I haven't loaded the Facebook app on my phone, and do not want the app for this either. Because it is Facebook-owned. And the privacy issues have already been reported a couple of years back (see e.g. the Wikipedia article).
In fact, I have the data on my phone turned off most of the time. No need for $HANDSET_COMPANY to spy on me and drain my batteries.
Also, no need for constant interruptions.
I just tell my friends that want me to also use it No. They can send me whatever via good old e-mail, etc. Will get it at the same time, whether e-mail or Whatsapp - at the moment I activate the data. Or of course phone me or SMS me. Yes, the fact that it costs a trivial amount of money is a desirable feature in my mind. I get enough drivel as it is.
In soviet Russia, the Matrix exists in you.
Because saying "no" and walk out to do the right thing does not keep your family fed and clothed? It does however get you persecution by whatever authorities and ostracism from society.
genes picked up in these trysts
I've recently read a couple of more popular articles on Neanderthals (including on Wikipedia). All seem to allude that there was some happy-go-lucky "free love" get-togethers, or intermarriage, with the "other" neighbors way back when.
The Wikipedia article however also states: "While modern humans share some nuclear DNA with the extinct Neanderthals, the two species do not share any mitochondrial DNA,[54] which in primates is always maternally transmitted."
Or, translated to more modern hominid: The genetics indicate that H. sapiens do not have female H. neanderthalensis ancestors, only male ones.
I wasn't there to know exactly what happened, but it does narrow the possibilities a bit, doesn't it...
In Soviet Russia, "Neandertal" has a tiny little bit of "Homo sapiens" in him.
You'd first need to convince me that doing something detrimental to a strong western country is not the actual intended side effect.
I've been happily using Stack Overflow for a couple of years now. I've learned a lot, despite many participants often being at the school/junior professional level, thus only regurgitating the stuff from tutorials without necessarily much depth of insight or practical use experience. I've also been able to contribute some things, which seem to be helpful to a number of people.
I never realized there were ads on the site until this article. But then again, I've had AdBlock / hosts file since before I signed up...
I always imagine that it is fair that when people contribute some original content, if the site does not remunerate them (in money) for it, some other incentive might be in order - e.g. free use and option out of advertising (kudos Slashdot). (And unlike e.g. Facebook, to which I've contributed countless translated words and phrases in the beginning years... and where the translated interface's overall impression is still that of a million unpaid monkeys typing away at a million keyboards even today.)
I couldn't find out what pages are available on the service, but it seems "all of the internet" it is not.
But I can't help but wonder in practice if it won't leave a lot of poor people with no internet access at all.
Sure, it's nice to have an even playing field. But when you're starving, do you really want the government telling McDonalds that they can't give you free food because that wouldn't be fair to Burger King?
No internet access at all, is still better than access to only Facebook.... I doubt that browsing FB all day long is going to help people out of that poverty.
If everybody is speeding, maybe the speed limit is too low.
Probably not, as The Fine Article states near the top: "... installed a camera on his roof and began writing speed-monitoring software after a 12-year-old pedestrian was injured by a car last October."
Wouldn't it be nice if ISPs wrote a rebate check each month to reflect the percentage of their promised throughput that was actually available?
You must be new here....
Be smart.
Don't be a Twit.
That is all.
... Another may involve tweaking your gut microbiome to change how you extract energy from certain foods. ...
Whatever happened to eating a balanced diet...?
My guess is that if you eat fresh/raw foods (i.e. not processed junk), or foods that have been "processed" via age-old traditional methods like Lactobacillus fermentation preservation as well as sprouting, you may be getting a whole lot closer to both goals.
Thank you, dear anonymous coward.
On Saturday mornings, I wanted to sleep late. So you know what I did? I made sure there were science projects available, and that's what he did with our two daughters and our son.
Amazing. One would think that a family with that sort of wealth at their disposal might be able to hire all sorts of nannies/governesses/tutors at any hour of the month to keep their kids occupied (and educated) while they slept in - whether on a weekend or on any other day of the week.
Cudos for keeping it real and staying in touch with how the other half ^H^H^H^H 99.9999% lives.
naturally? And maybe they'll pick up hobbies that interest them on their own.
Disagree. Having an environment where something can develop is pretty important in my opinion.
Anecdotes from my childhood:
* Positives: free availability of encyclopaedias, the town library, "how to" books, books about experiments, workshop with many hand and power tools, some scrap materials.
* Negatives: Due to financial constraints and living far away from shops on farm, scarcity of some materials like light/torch bulbs, batteries, good quality wire, magnets, some chemicals. Due to improvising with scrap materials, results were often failures or not adequate outcomes.
To this day I like to read up on all sorts of subjects and making designs. Actually implementing one is however difficult, I seem to have this huge mental block about failure that I have to work hard at to overcome. Even for throw-away prototypes.
I can't quite find her resumé.
Is she qualified to teach science and math?
In my humble opinion, I have found that people that are qualified teachers in something are often not the best choice to inspire interest in that subject (to the contrary - and I've been a part time teacher myself). IMO, role models (e.g., parents and other adult relatives) that are (even mildly) passionate about something are much better at that. Parents are passionate organic farmers? Chances are, kids might become that too, or at least be the ones that plant a bed of veggies instead of flowers. Parent a fairly good sports shooter? Kids might just surpass him (happened to my brother). Etc. etc.
1. The Zika virus has been Africa and Southeast Asia since forever.
2. They don't seem to have microcephalic cases like Brazil has.
As I am a citizen of an African country, I wish to disagree and posit an alternative theory. I think that the virus mutated in the recent past. Before that, it only affected the brains and not the more exterior and visible tissue. It has now mutated to affect larger areas in that region of the body.
Source: a majority of politicians in my country and neighboring countries, born anywhere in the past 3 decades and further back. Although, to be sure, one would need to research the travels of all these peoples' mothers, and I haven't gotten around to that yet...
one must question that assertion. are the accounts these passwords belong to really in need of security in the 1st place? are they not, most of them, throwaway accounts with not much value in them?
without some measure of value of accounts secured by the passwords identified, lists like this don't tell us much.
so called "security experts" should do more worthwhile research to find out the sort of insecure passwords used by people who want to keep some thing valuable secure.
True. But the answer depends. As the longish Wired article linked to above also hints at, if you link ("daisychain") your accounts, you might consider a simple throwaway e-mail account as not important. But then you go use the e-mail address as the login for another account, and/or as a backup where password resets for the other account get sent to. It now has become the weakest link in your daisychain (to mix metaphors).
And that's one of the password's weak spots in the modern economy: having so many services and devices that each require their username/password as if they are the most important or sole login the user will ever do in his life.
I for one consider the fact that SMSs are not free a good thing rather than a bad thing. In other words, if someone sends me something, it has to be worth the few cents it costs him.
I for one do not want to be connected ("on the line" for those that have seen The Internship) 24/7. I switch on my data/wifi only when I want to send something, do a little surfing, check e-mail, waste time on /. I can not stand constant attention-grabbing interruptions, it kills my productivity dead.
So whenever someone asks we "Are you on Whatsapp?" I tell them no, and I'll never be. Send me an e-mail when you get around to it (incidentally it's much more platform-independent and interoperable than Whatsapp, and it's been around a lot longer than Whatsapp or Skype or Yahoo IM or or or a hundred other apps that Whatsapp hasn't really improved on either), and I'll read it when I get around to it and respond when I get around to it. It's going to arrive at the same time than that Whatsapp. If you need to contact me more urgently than that, you can always phone or SMS. At a slight cost.
You find two-stroke engines in poorer countries because they're cheap
I have a Stihl trimmer. Bought because it is decent German build quality (albeit Made in Brazil), thus being much more expensive (but also needs much less adjustment, repair and eventually replacement) compared to the Chinese models available where I'm at. (As an aside: The dealer that sold it to me had ads up on lampposts the other day: "Buy once" - with various products of this company displayed. Although he also carries other brands.) It also has a very noisy (wearing ear muffs together with eye protection) 2-stroke that emits some nasty-smelling stuff and gets hot enough that you have to be careful not to get it too close to your arm under which it is used.
That said, I for one can hardly understand the first world's fascination with leaf blowers. I do have a fairly large property (around .36 Ha or 1 acre) with quite a few deciduous trees. Leaves do need to get picked up, else they form a dense lawn-chocking mat. But this gets done in any case when the lawn mower runs over them and picks them up together with the lawn clippings. This nice mixture then goes to the compost pile, where it automatically gets turned into wonderful growing medium for my vegetable garden - thus saving me a run to the municipal dumping site for garden refuse and later on another run to buy fertilizer, and eventually lowers my need to go grocery shopping. So I get extremely fresh and organic food, and save carbon emissions at the same time as saving money. When I do go to the shops, these days it's usually by bicycle with a smallish backpack, so I also save on gym fees and still having health that's much better than a few years ago. I think they call it an integrated systems approach.
... and the post has an on-topic sig.