The internet is a communication medium. Its "structure" allows to send messages. No, there is nothing we can do about a lot of people sending messages. And i don't suppose we want.
I change passwords every year or two, generally adding complexity (length) to the previous password. By now, they are pretty good passwords, but I've memorized them a piece at a time.
Because alas, people don't care about that. If it's "easy", "free" and "works", they'll go for it. I guess whatsapp was among the first smartphone "apps" that delivered on all three points (in their respective quotation marks), and then it was simply a matter of inertia and network effect.
Yes, it's shit, but no, there's nothing one can do about it.
I arranged myself around it with bitlbee (linked against libpurple (for which a plugin exists that speaks the whapsapp protocol)).
That would susprise me since the 'remote' host is 10m worth of cabling away. Reverse (non-)DNS lookup on the remote end takes approx. 300ms (but we're still talking about a raspberry pi here...)
$ while true; do time ssh pi:; done
1.84 real 0.11 user 0.01 sys
2.02 real 0.16 user 0.02 sys
1.64 real 0.16 user 0.01 sys
2.17 real 0.16 user 0.00 sys
1.76 real 0.18 user 0.01 sys
1.93 real 0.13 user 0.00 sys
1.83 real 0.16 user 0.00 sys ^C $
Highway speeds like this are already routine in Germany
No, they're the exception. On the about 1/3 of the Autobahn where it is legal to speed, you'll find only about one in a (few) hundred cars going 180+ (km/h). One in ~50 goes 160+. The vast majority cruises at around 120-130, many even below that.
And guess why? Not because it isn't *fun* to speed, no. Because it is damn expensive, the non-linear way (note the v^2). And frankly we already have to pay the equivalent of over $6 per gallon on gas. It really makes you think twice.
(I have driven there).
Really. Once?
Drivers are a more select part of the German population than in the US, because the less skilled have alternative transportation.
1 second is for you to react and start applying the brakes
Pretty much a worst-case assumption, but okay.
and 1 second is for the brakes to stop the car.
[...] at whatever speed [...]
Uh, what? I'm pretty sure that the time to stop is a function of the speed, and for common cruising speeds significantly above one second.
It doesn't really matter, though, because as so many, your statement is based on the assumption that the car in front will just go from cruising speed to stationary in zero time.
Re:Why is a minor release news here?!
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Mutt 1.5.24 Released
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· Score: 4, Interesting
Because mutt is amazing software.
Fun fact, this "preview branch" (it's not a preview branch) was branched in 2002.
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The internet is a communication medium. Its "structure" allows to send messages. No, there is nothing we can do about a lot of people sending messages. And i don't suppose we want.
Why all these constants?
Because we're using the wrong units.
If you meaningfully fill in the 'security answers', then you're already doing it wrong
I change passwords every year or two, generally adding complexity (length) to the previous password. By now, they are pretty good passwords, but I've memorized them a piece at a time.
That's actually a nice idea
That was his point.
Highest-modded whoosh i've seen on slashdot in a long time.
That happened a few years ago. Of course, this begs the question "why?".
Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
Yeah. No need to explain this to me, I fully agree on the matter. I'm just realistic enough to realize it ain't gonna happen.
Phone, email and telegraph were actual innovations, and people went for them for a lack of alternatives, so that comparison doesn't really hold.
Because alas, people don't care about that. If it's "easy", "free" and "works", they'll go for it. I guess whatsapp was among the first smartphone "apps" that delivered on all three points (in their respective quotation marks), and then it was simply a matter of inertia and network effect.
Yes, it's shit, but no, there's nothing one can do about it.
I arranged myself around it with bitlbee (linked against libpurple (for which a plugin exists that speaks the whapsapp protocol)).
formerly
I don't think this word means what you think it means.
My "on" was actually an "on", not a typo'ed "of"
I...guess I meant to post that as AC.
HEY! What's over there?!
You'll have your hands full with confused seamen.
After which you have your face full with produced semen.
That would susprise me since the 'remote' host is 10m worth of cabling away. Reverse (non-)DNS lookup on the remote end takes approx. 300ms (but we're still talking about a raspberry pi here...)
Yes, but it's kind of slow to authenticate.
$ while true; do time ssh pi :; done
1.84 real 0.11 user 0.01 sys
2.02 real 0.16 user 0.02 sys
1.64 real 0.16 user 0.01 sys
2.17 real 0.16 user 0.00 sys
1.76 real 0.18 user 0.01 sys
1.93 real 0.13 user 0.00 sys
1.83 real 0.16 user 0.00 sys
^C
$
Indeed. Can we discover the discoverers into jail already?
A few weeks ago?
the reality is this would boost Linux, bring apps, and give a shoe in for a possible desktop future for Linux.
And why exactly would existing users care about "a possible desktop future" or running OS X "apps"?
Good grief.
Highway speeds like this are already routine in Germany
No, they're the exception. On the about 1/3 of the Autobahn where it is legal to speed, you'll find only about one in a (few) hundred cars going 180+ (km/h). One in ~50 goes 160+. The vast majority cruises at around 120-130, many even below that.
And guess why? Not because it isn't *fun* to speed, no. Because it is damn expensive, the non-linear way (note the v^2). And frankly we already have to pay the equivalent of over $6 per gallon on gas. It really makes you think twice.
(I have driven there).
Really. Once?
Drivers are a more select part of the German population than in the US, because the less skilled have alternative transportation.
What a ridiculous statement.
Am I the only one to notice that this story disproves Betteridge's law of headlines?
as highway traffic blurs by at a hundred miles an hour.
They become self-driving, they don't become self-paying. It turns out solving the self-driving problem does not do away with the air-drag problem.
1 second is for you to react and start applying the brakes
Pretty much a worst-case assumption, but okay.
and 1 second is for the brakes to stop the car.
[...] at whatever speed [...]
Uh, what? I'm pretty sure that the time to stop is a function of the speed, and for common cruising speeds significantly above one second.
It doesn't really matter, though, because as so many, your statement is based on the assumption that the car in front will just go from cruising speed to stationary in zero time.
Because mutt is amazing software.
Fun fact, this "preview branch" (it's not a preview branch) was branched in 2002.
with a hand gesture (not the one-fingered kind [...])
Oh that one works pretty well, too, no matter whether you or them go first.