When the facts say that men are on average stronger and taller than women, are the facts wrong?
Some things are fact. Other things are uncomfortable facts. When facts conflict with beliefs (especially politically), which do you think will win?
The real bear is losing extensions that take out LSOs - aka SuperCookies. The "suggested replacement" for Self-Destructing Cookies doesn't remove LSOs... thus it is not a replacement. The API is there now, but the author hasn't gotten off his ass yet to implement it. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-...
Also no more tab groups - aka Panorama - which sucks ass. Not upgrading until I can get that, and will in fact LEAVE FIREFOX until I can get that.
And... and... and... WTF WERE THEY THINKING??? Make it so addon authors need to update things and/or re-create is bad enough, but then remove the underlying functionality? That's insane! It shouldn't be LESS CAPABLE.
Fair enough. I'd put this very similarly to somebody taking a course on how to paint a simple scene, or a weekend carpentry thing. Just enough to show you some basics, get a feeling for things, and probably appreciate a whole lot more those who are actual professionals at it. The adult will almost-certainly not take it up, but for a kid it may be a gateway for more later in their life.
Either way, I think that things like that are good gateways into appreciating others' work. They're not an instant "I know how how to (whatever)!" but just broaden what you know ABOUT rather than something you can do full-steam.
Agreed. She makes the comments BEFORE the course. If you say stupid shit afterwards, then that's something else. But blaming somebody for not knowing, while TRYING to learn is just not helpful.
Vancouver is massive for Tech in Canada... and I turned down $50,000 more money because I'd have to get a tiny apartment to be within an HOUR of where I'd work, for comparable money to a house just about anywhere else except Toronto.
That Vancouver wasn't on this list is very very weird.
Actually if I were building another PC soon, I'd do exactly that. Get a 2TB drive cheap ($50-60) and then this for $77. Cheaper than a $99 SSD and the same hard drive, and I don't need to worry about getting a "very large" %APPDATA% directory or have to do configuration of my media, which (large) games are on my SSD versus not, etc. I'm willing to do that now, but I'd be glad to not have to worry about all of that. Just put it all on "C" and then let the Intel "magic" do its job for what I'm running most frequently.
It's the "just make it simple" approach which is good.
I hate SMS as well, but realize that many people like it. Sure it has all the problems, but many (usually older, sometimes younger) like the idea of "give me this one number, and I can contact you from it" without needing an email, or some other type of ID. They WANT to contact you via your phone number. Sure they want it secure, via the internet, etc, but they still want your phone number first for that.
So any "universal" solution must support SMS, but I also think that it shouldn't require it, which therefore makes it a non-universal solution, as some people will not want to contact anybody they can't use "a phone number" for, for whatever reason, and others will exclusively use non-phones for it, separating the two groups. But it's still a better solution to have both. Skype I guess is a bit like this, but I don't know how their SMS support is.
Honestly, the "old" Google Hangouts that would mix your SMS and "computer" accounts together when contacting people was the closest thing to universal IMO. Shame more people didn't use it. Skype may be the next alternative due to user base, and "support" of phone numbers (as I said, not sure how this works).
In a properly functioning government, independent bodies are created to gather data for use by the public and politicians. Those bodies are overseen by bi-partisan groups with representatives from multiple parties, and their mandate is independence, transparency and impartiality.
I'd say you're missing one main part there: "bi-partisan groups" is itself one of your problems. In more functional democracies, they're called "all-party committees" because we're not two-party systems.
I agree with most of what you posted, but remember to focus on one of your other major problems, that being your two-party system.
As for those knocking the submitter, at least they were self-aware enough to realize that this may always have been a problem that they were for some reason (ie: their own political bias) ignoring before.
Of course, that doesn't change the fact that forcing everyone to switch to UTC would be the most hare-brained idea in history of timekeeping.
Oh it's bad, but I think the 28-hour day is worse: The 28 Hour Day. But we're arguing over which pile of shit is worse, which just means we both agree they're horrible. Let's leave it at that.
That would actually break other things. Things like the header that you suggest are already encrypted on any "https" website, and thus TOR doesn't know what that is, and can't manipulate it. So the only way for that to work would be to ban https on TOR, which would be stupid, which they wouldn't do.
I'll endorse the M-Disc thing. I have one myself, and like it for exactly this type of thing, like my wedding photos. I need to be more paranoid, and get more of my stuff on it, but the really REALLY important stuff is.
Link: http://www.mdisc.com/
Only the 2nd should be illegal. There is an increasing trend (decades I mean, if not longer) to criminalize what "might" occur, rather than just criminalizing actual harm.
Here's a summary of what I "think" should be the laws:
Shooting somebody - illegal
Just carrying a gun, openly or not - not illegal.
Recklessly shooting into the woods - maybe
The last one's the hard part, but it slips so easily into "pre-crime" that it gets weird, and makes people afraid to do anything that "might" end up being a crime, though nobody was hurt.
Thus this issue:
Putting a gun on a drone - legal
Shooting somebody with a gun on a drone - DEFINITELY ILLEGAL
All IMO.
I agree, find SOME way to get that onto a local network, and that will be BY FAR the easiest way to do things. Maybe dig up an old ISA 10Mbps card on Ebay or something, as the original poster suggested if you can't find a suitable PCMCIA card.
And combining with something said above, it's not difficult to find a usb->serial port device/cable (it's not just pin-out, so it's a device, not merely a cable). Pretty cheap. Same with a null-modem cable. Both together should run you in the range of $20-$40 or less. Then hook it directly up to whatever computer you want that has a USB cable, and get a terminal emulator (plenty available) and transfer.
It CAN be done, but I'm with the parent that windows file sharing via ethernet is going to be the fastest by far.
Small earthquakes keep big ones from happening. Each magnitude level represents about 31.6 times more energy released. It takes 32 magnitude 3s to equal the energy released in a magnitude 4, 1,000 magnitude 3s to equal a magnitude 5 and a billion magnitude 3s to equal a single magnitude 9. So while a small quake may temporarily ease stress on a fault line, it does not prevent a large temblor.
This basically says "no effect either way" from my non-expert reading of it.
Also, small quakes cause no damage. If fracking causes damaging quakes, then that's an issue. It's like saying "that wind from the desk fan is damaging me, like a hurricane would!" Umm, no it isn't. If it doesn't hit the threshold, you're being an idiot.
I do the same, except I use Google Drive as my "sharepoint" for the file. After looking at a bunch of the "costs money" ones, Keepass just made the most sense.
I echo somebody else's comment above that comparing this to a school board is disingenuous. A court order is far different than a school board going fishing.
For this case, a court order for information from a person's web account should have a way to subpoena the information necessary without requiring disclosure of passwords. That's reasonable, just like how with a court order a suspect must provide the keys and/or open up a safe on their property if such is specified in a search warrant. It's similar. The problem comes that with some models of computer security, that information is not available without a privacy violation (giving up a password). It's quite a conundrum.
That being said, in this case (and many others) I'm shocked that Facebook (& friends) don't have some type of "legal request mechanism" that would work as a "backdoor" for this type of thing. They can reset passwords and such, so it's hard to believe they don't have a mechanism to handle requests from legal systems for a history of posts, images, etc. The law should always require a warrant to access it if it's not publicly posted, but other than that, I'm surprised it isn't already there.
Click on a link from your email appearing to be from your bank/microsoft/your friend you trust, and then download the.exe and run it. You're compromised. Phishing and/or social engineering still works, and it doesn't even need a person on the other end to work.
Not the same thing IMO. A great amount of malware requires that the user does something. So "download our.exe and ignore the security prompts!" is still a very large section of things, and has nothing to do with a secure OS or not. Programs running as a user has as many rights as a user themselves. That's what most virus software is for: detecting that you're trying to run something that's "bad" but it's not exploiting security holes to do so. It's just running with "full trust" just like any other program on your machine, and behaving badly.
Exactly. The international report, we're doing not so hot. The one funded by one of the largest communications companies in the country who has an interest in the status quo: we're awesome!
I have not bought ANY fps games on consoles because of this issue (closest is metroid, and that at least had lock-on, and such, and so was OK). And there ARE exclusives, so no, I can't necessarily play some games, so the company is losing money because of this.
If you want to put out separate matches for each type, then fine, have you able to set up matches with controller-only, K+M only, or mixed. But don't just cut it out entirely. They ARE losing sales from this policy.
There was a rumour a while back that the UT players on the PS3 using M+K were just destroying the controller players. Which is not a surprise to me in the least.
I too hope this to become universal. It is the #1 reason I can't play FPSs on consoles, because I feel like I'm playing with one hand tied behind my back when using the controller.
I bet it's peak power for a tiny fraction of a second. Aren't lasers usually pulsed in this kind of situation?
This is what seems most plausible to me. Somebody had a number about the laser power (fraction of a second pulse, but still), and somebody else put that out as the energy source's power.
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When the facts say that men are on average stronger and taller than women, are the facts wrong? Some things are fact. Other things are uncomfortable facts. When facts conflict with beliefs (especially politically), which do you think will win?
Ah yes, "proven" https://thedailywtf.com/articl...
The real bear is losing extensions that take out LSOs - aka SuperCookies. The "suggested replacement" for Self-Destructing Cookies doesn't remove LSOs... thus it is not a replacement. The API is there now, but the author hasn't gotten off his ass yet to implement it. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-...
Also Gestures extensions are worse, though at least somebody's trying. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-...
Also no more tab groups - aka Panorama - which sucks ass. Not upgrading until I can get that, and will in fact LEAVE FIREFOX until I can get that.
And... and... and... WTF WERE THEY THINKING??? Make it so addon authors need to update things and/or re-create is bad enough, but then remove the underlying functionality? That's insane! It shouldn't be LESS CAPABLE.
Ugh.
Fair enough. I'd put this very similarly to somebody taking a course on how to paint a simple scene, or a weekend carpentry thing. Just enough to show you some basics, get a feeling for things, and probably appreciate a whole lot more those who are actual professionals at it. The adult will almost-certainly not take it up, but for a kid it may be a gateway for more later in their life.
Either way, I think that things like that are good gateways into appreciating others' work. They're not an instant "I know how how to (whatever)!" but just broaden what you know ABOUT rather than something you can do full-steam.
Agreed. She makes the comments BEFORE the course. If you say stupid shit afterwards, then that's something else. But blaming somebody for not knowing, while TRYING to learn is just not helpful.
Vancouver is massive for Tech in Canada... and I turned down $50,000 more money because I'd have to get a tiny apartment to be within an HOUR of where I'd work, for comparable money to a house just about anywhere else except Toronto. That Vancouver wasn't on this list is very very weird.
Actually if I were building another PC soon, I'd do exactly that. Get a 2TB drive cheap ($50-60) and then this for $77. Cheaper than a $99 SSD and the same hard drive, and I don't need to worry about getting a "very large" %APPDATA% directory or have to do configuration of my media, which (large) games are on my SSD versus not, etc. I'm willing to do that now, but I'd be glad to not have to worry about all of that. Just put it all on "C" and then let the Intel "magic" do its job for what I'm running most frequently.
It's the "just make it simple" approach which is good.
I hate SMS as well, but realize that many people like it. Sure it has all the problems, but many (usually older, sometimes younger) like the idea of "give me this one number, and I can contact you from it" without needing an email, or some other type of ID. They WANT to contact you via your phone number. Sure they want it secure, via the internet, etc, but they still want your phone number first for that.
So any "universal" solution must support SMS, but I also think that it shouldn't require it, which therefore makes it a non-universal solution, as some people will not want to contact anybody they can't use "a phone number" for, for whatever reason, and others will exclusively use non-phones for it, separating the two groups. But it's still a better solution to have both. Skype I guess is a bit like this, but I don't know how their SMS support is.
Honestly, the "old" Google Hangouts that would mix your SMS and "computer" accounts together when contacting people was the closest thing to universal IMO. Shame more people didn't use it. Skype may be the next alternative due to user base, and "support" of phone numbers (as I said, not sure how this works).
In a properly functioning government, independent bodies are created to gather data for use by the public and politicians. Those bodies are overseen by bi-partisan groups with representatives from multiple parties, and their mandate is independence, transparency and impartiality.
I'd say you're missing one main part there: "bi-partisan groups" is itself one of your problems. In more functional democracies, they're called "all-party committees" because we're not two-party systems.
I agree with most of what you posted, but remember to focus on one of your other major problems, that being your two-party system.
As for those knocking the submitter, at least they were self-aware enough to realize that this may always have been a problem that they were for some reason (ie: their own political bias) ignoring before.
Of course, that doesn't change the fact that forcing everyone to switch to UTC would be the most hare-brained idea in history of timekeeping.
Oh it's bad, but I think the 28-hour day is worse: The 28 Hour Day. But we're arguing over which pile of shit is worse, which just means we both agree they're horrible. Let's leave it at that.
That would actually break other things. Things like the header that you suggest are already encrypted on any "https" website, and thus TOR doesn't know what that is, and can't manipulate it. So the only way for that to work would be to ban https on TOR, which would be stupid, which they wouldn't do.
I'll endorse the M-Disc thing. I have one myself, and like it for exactly this type of thing, like my wedding photos. I need to be more paranoid, and get more of my stuff on it, but the really REALLY important stuff is. Link: http://www.mdisc.com/
Only the 2nd should be illegal. There is an increasing trend (decades I mean, if not longer) to criminalize what "might" occur, rather than just criminalizing actual harm. Here's a summary of what I "think" should be the laws: Shooting somebody - illegal Just carrying a gun, openly or not - not illegal. Recklessly shooting into the woods - maybe The last one's the hard part, but it slips so easily into "pre-crime" that it gets weird, and makes people afraid to do anything that "might" end up being a crime, though nobody was hurt. Thus this issue: Putting a gun on a drone - legal Shooting somebody with a gun on a drone - DEFINITELY ILLEGAL All IMO.
I agree, find SOME way to get that onto a local network, and that will be BY FAR the easiest way to do things. Maybe dig up an old ISA 10Mbps card on Ebay or something, as the original poster suggested if you can't find a suitable PCMCIA card.
And combining with something said above, it's not difficult to find a usb->serial port device/cable (it's not just pin-out, so it's a device, not merely a cable). Pretty cheap. Same with a null-modem cable. Both together should run you in the range of $20-$40 or less. Then hook it directly up to whatever computer you want that has a USB cable, and get a terminal emulator (plenty available) and transfer.
It CAN be done, but I'm with the parent that windows file sharing via ethernet is going to be the fastest by far.
Small earthquakes keep big ones from happening. Each magnitude level represents about 31.6 times more energy released. It takes 32 magnitude 3s to equal the energy released in a magnitude 4, 1,000 magnitude 3s to equal a magnitude 5 and a billion magnitude 3s to equal a single magnitude 9. So while a small quake may temporarily ease stress on a fault line, it does not prevent a large temblor.
This basically says "no effect either way" from my non-expert reading of it. Also, small quakes cause no damage. If fracking causes damaging quakes, then that's an issue. It's like saying "that wind from the desk fan is damaging me, like a hurricane would!" Umm, no it isn't. If it doesn't hit the threshold, you're being an idiot.
I'm not a candidate because my eyes never stop changing. So if I had it, in a year or two I'd just need glasses again.
When the figure out a way to "stabilize" the eye itself, or whatever's affecting things, then great. But until then, glasses/contacts for me.
I do the same, except I use Google Drive as my "sharepoint" for the file. After looking at a bunch of the "costs money" ones, Keepass just made the most sense.
I agree. Fullscreen the VM, and they'll probably never even know that they weren't using your "actual" PC.
I echo somebody else's comment above that comparing this to a school board is disingenuous. A court order is far different than a school board going fishing.
For this case, a court order for information from a person's web account should have a way to subpoena the information necessary without requiring disclosure of passwords. That's reasonable, just like how with a court order a suspect must provide the keys and/or open up a safe on their property if such is specified in a search warrant. It's similar. The problem comes that with some models of computer security, that information is not available without a privacy violation (giving up a password). It's quite a conundrum.
That being said, in this case (and many others) I'm shocked that Facebook (& friends) don't have some type of "legal request mechanism" that would work as a "backdoor" for this type of thing. They can reset passwords and such, so it's hard to believe they don't have a mechanism to handle requests from legal systems for a history of posts, images, etc. The law should always require a warrant to access it if it's not publicly posted, but other than that, I'm surprised it isn't already there.
Click on a link from your email appearing to be from your bank/microsoft/your friend you trust, and then download the .exe and run it. You're compromised. Phishing and/or social engineering still works, and it doesn't even need a person on the other end to work.
Not the same thing IMO. A great amount of malware requires that the user does something. So "download our .exe and ignore the security prompts!" is still a very large section of things, and has nothing to do with a secure OS or not. Programs running as a user has as many rights as a user themselves. That's what most virus software is for: detecting that you're trying to run something that's "bad" but it's not exploiting security holes to do so. It's just running with "full trust" just like any other program on your machine, and behaving badly.
Exactly. The international report, we're doing not so hot. The one funded by one of the largest communications companies in the country who has an interest in the status quo: we're awesome!
Gee, you think there might be some bias?
I have not bought ANY fps games on consoles because of this issue (closest is metroid, and that at least had lock-on, and such, and so was OK). And there ARE exclusives, so no, I can't necessarily play some games, so the company is losing money because of this.
If you want to put out separate matches for each type, then fine, have you able to set up matches with controller-only, K+M only, or mixed. But don't just cut it out entirely. They ARE losing sales from this policy.
There was a rumour a while back that the UT players on the PS3 using M+K were just destroying the controller players. Which is not a surprise to me in the least.
I too hope this to become universal. It is the #1 reason I can't play FPSs on consoles, because I feel like I'm playing with one hand tied behind my back when using the controller.
I bet it's peak power for a tiny fraction of a second. Aren't lasers usually pulsed in this kind of situation?
This is what seems most plausible to me. Somebody had a number about the laser power (fraction of a second pulse, but still), and somebody else put that out as the energy source's power.