A) You can keep saying that, but people aren't going to listen.
B) If people did listen, our population growth would crash hard and not walk away. Can you guarantee you'll have a job for the next 16 years so you can support your kid? Well, if you lack psychic powers, do you at least have $220k on hand in your emergency cash supply dedicated to raising the kid and not to be touched for any other emergency? No? Don't have a kid.
There is no plausible selection bias for preferentially observing and recording 8.5+ quakes that favors those that occur during solar minima over those that occur at other periods.
The solar minima meant it was too dark to see the quake, duh!
that allowed it to "get to that point" are also allowing it to be appealed... I guess it would be inconvenient to your delusions to mention that.
Because you're paying for this? Oh no wait, the blogger is going to have to pay for it, or find someone like the ACLU to pay for it through donations, and it will probably take several more years and several times the cost that just paying to make it go away would cost.
Capitalism can't cope with diversity without spending millions of dollars on raising irrational fanboys through advertising. Otherwise, there will always be a cheapest option, and that will be the one everyone goes with.
Yeah, well, I installed VLC last weekend in order to watch DVDs on my Windows 7 computer at home because after watching a couple, Windows Media Player suddenly announced that there had been some kind of problem with my monitor (funny, I can see the popup message, monitor looks fine to me) and would not play the next disc. I probably could have rebooted and moved on with my life (that seems to be the One True Fix after all these years, though when my audio stopped working I was able to restart the "audio service" (and I thought that I had finally ditched the audio server bullshit when I switched away from Linux)).
VLC worked fine, without even rebooting. It'd be nice if it was organized a little better (a sea of fiddly options all alike, along with a half-dozen deinterlacer options with no explanation of what "X" means or if I should choose it if I want the headaches to stop), but I suspect that VLC will never tell me it can't play a DVD I own because of some phantom "monitor problem".
Some people who do use BCC sometimes don't know exactly how it works. Like the one time I received an email from an attorney To: their client and apparently BCC: everyone else. Whoever sent it probably heard that it was important to use BCC so that nobody gets to see anyone else's email addresses, but didn't realize that instead of sending an email To: each person individually, it sends the email with the original To: address to every person.
Which honestly, doesn't make sense. Even if you think of secretaries of days gone by, they'd have put the carbon copy into an envelope and addressed it to the person that copy should be sent to. Then again, it does makes sense once you realize that "To" is not the field used to identify who should receive the email.
if there was a strong regulation that existed the whole time whereby the poor ignorant bastards were told straight up, "Hey Stupid. It's $1500 per month right now, but 24 months later it will be twice that. At that point it will be %75 of your combined monthly incomes. Do you still want the loan?".
"Yes! In two years we'll have flipped the house for two... no, three times what we paid for it!"
The majority of the first wave of foreclosures in some "hot" regions weren't poor bums off the street, they were "non-owner-occupied" (read: investment) houses that had been bought by the dozens by people who thought they'd strike it rich in real estate. As soon as the troubles started and housing prices fell, most of the "investors" realized that their investment was sunk and walked away.
God bless technical school, who give their students a good mix of technical knowledge, workplace procedures, laboratory experience, generic knowledge and common sense
Good for you. I'm glad you're one of the three employers not demanding a Bachelor's or Master's degree for every job position.
Most of all, they are looking for people who don't have that damn college mentality. THAT is the real barrier.
Then they should stop demanding college degrees, and stop giving excuses for why they want a college degree but they don't want college educated students.
You're going to have to show me some citations to convince me that the government is keeping anyone other than Amtrak from opening an interstate passenger railroad, especially in the face of state/metro-runnon-Amtrakinterstate lines in New England. The closest thing I can find are the ICC rate controls, but they predated Amtrak by 60-some-odd years, and the ICC ceased to exist in 1995, 15 years after the Staggers Rail Act removed its power to set rates. Entirely privately owned interstate passenger rail existed until 1983 when the Rio Grande Zephyr was sold to Amtrak because the company that was running it was losing money trying to serve the wrong coast even though for its last three years, they could have charged whatever they wanted (though at some point, the "end of the line" in Utah was a bus stop, so maybe it was too far gone to save by the time the rate controls were eliminated).
BTW, I've used fedex to deliver letters. The only thing they can't do is deliver to a post office box. Or get enough junk mail delivered through their system to make "fedex ground" for a flat "package" cost half a dollar.
Is it true that on DSL I can choose any provider I want
It used to be, but then the FCC "deregulated" it and phone companies pretty much immediately stopped allowing other companies to have access once the government stopped telling them they had to. In Canada there are still resellers, but they're at the mercy of the telco (see Bell Canada's throttling of reseller connections), so it's likely that even if we hadn't had "deregulation" here in the US, we'd still be having the same issues, with the added bonus that no matter which competitor you chose, all of them would be getting throttled.
Amtrak may be a poorly run government service, screwed over by stupid decisions like not building its own rails and having to yield the right of way to every freight train ever while stopping at least twice in every representative's district, but the only reason Amtrak is a "monopoly" is because for the vast majority of the country, nobody else wants to waste their money providing passenger rail cross-country. If the government cancelled it, nothing at all would take its place on a national scale.
Anybody else who is willing to spend their money buying a long line of land between A and B, laying down track, buying cars, and marketing and selling tickets is more than welcome to try. And when they go bankrupt, banks and investors will make it that much harder to borrow money to try again. But if you don't want to play capitalist rail baron, the 1997 Amtrak reforms allowed states to partner together to create state-run interstate rail lines. And these do exist, and do compete with Amtrak. In New England, anyway. Nobody else cares.
If you read the actual Fox News article it is not the opinion of the article it is the opinion of an expert in the field that claims it is a problem, an opposing view is also expressed so the article takes no sides.
So if Fox ran a segment with some kind of self-proclaimed expert calling you an idiot then cutting to 5 seconds of your mom saying "well, he's not all that bad", would you not be the least bit offended?
If you are the least bit offended, then you might understand how gamers feel when Fox runs a segment with some kind of self-proclaimed expert calling gamers responsible for "the increase in rapes". Especially when there has not been an "increase in rapes" since at least 2006, with preliminary 2010 data indicating more than 10% decrease since 2009.
No single country can veto something, it takes a majority to agree to the veto.
That's not what it says. Assuming that by "consensus" they mean "majority", then unless a majority of the GAC members oppose the veto, ICANN shall reject the application. If a bunch of people don't bother to object to some dinky country's objection, you lose by default.
Secrecy of the salt is not important for its purpose (however, having a unique salt for each hash is). Everyone just stores the salt along with the hash.
The purpose of the salt is to prevent comparing two hashes to determine if the passwords are identical, and to prevent comparing hashes to a precalculated rainbow table of hashes. It isn't intended to prevent against guessing weak passwords or spending the time to calculate an entire rainbow table for every possible salt.
If I can get the clear-text of that password, I have the opportunity to do things like try the e-mail account for the e-mail address your profile lists. If it's used the same password, I now have access to your e-mail
If I rooted the site, I'd just have the login screen log whatever you typed in rather than trying to decrypt all these hashes, salted or not.
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If you can't afford them, don't have them.
A) You can keep saying that, but people aren't going to listen.
B) If people did listen, our population growth would crash hard and not walk away. Can you guarantee you'll have a job for the next 16 years so you can support your kid? Well, if you lack psychic powers, do you at least have $220k on hand in your emergency cash supply dedicated to raising the kid and not to be touched for any other emergency? No? Don't have a kid.
There is no plausible selection bias for preferentially observing and recording 8.5+ quakes that favors those that occur during solar minima over those that occur at other periods.
The solar minima meant it was too dark to see the quake, duh!
that allowed it to "get to that point" are also allowing it to be appealed... I guess it would be inconvenient to your delusions to mention that.
Because you're paying for this? Oh no wait, the blogger is going to have to pay for it, or find someone like the ACLU to pay for it through donations, and it will probably take several more years and several times the cost that just paying to make it go away would cost.
My mome raths are outgrabed by this news article!
Capitalism can't cope with diversity without spending millions of dollars on raising irrational fanboys through advertising. Otherwise, there will always be a cheapest option, and that will be the one everyone goes with.
Wear glasses? Subtract again.
Unless you find that people wearing glasses look smart, in which case you add.
Of course, the subtractors would declare this a "fetish" and subtract double.
"First impression" may be human nature, but your reaction to many of the things that impress you (or not) are learned socially.
Except that it actually WAS a UNIX system, SGI IRIX to be exact. And it was a real file browser as well.
Yeah, well, I installed VLC last weekend in order to watch DVDs on my Windows 7 computer at home because after watching a couple, Windows Media Player suddenly announced that there had been some kind of problem with my monitor (funny, I can see the popup message, monitor looks fine to me) and would not play the next disc. I probably could have rebooted and moved on with my life (that seems to be the One True Fix after all these years, though when my audio stopped working I was able to restart the "audio service" (and I thought that I had finally ditched the audio server bullshit when I switched away from Linux)).
VLC worked fine, without even rebooting. It'd be nice if it was organized a little better (a sea of fiddly options all alike, along with a half-dozen deinterlacer options with no explanation of what "X" means or if I should choose it if I want the headaches to stop), but I suspect that VLC will never tell me it can't play a DVD I own because of some phantom "monitor problem".
So Microsoft followed the law.
There's a law that says your OS has to crash the soundcard?
Some people who do use BCC sometimes don't know exactly how it works. Like the one time I received an email from an attorney To: their client and apparently BCC: everyone else. Whoever sent it probably heard that it was important to use BCC so that nobody gets to see anyone else's email addresses, but didn't realize that instead of sending an email To: each person individually, it sends the email with the original To: address to every person.
Which honestly, doesn't make sense. Even if you think of secretaries of days gone by, they'd have put the carbon copy into an envelope and addressed it to the person that copy should be sent to. Then again, it does makes sense once you realize that "To" is not the field used to identify who should receive the email.
Pretty sure I ran X -configure and the result just worked.
if there was a strong regulation that existed the whole time whereby the poor ignorant bastards were told straight up, "Hey Stupid. It's $1500 per month right now, but 24 months later it will be twice that. At that point it will be %75 of your combined monthly incomes. Do you still want the loan?".
"Yes! In two years we'll have flipped the house for two... no, three times what we paid for it!"
The majority of the first wave of foreclosures in some "hot" regions weren't poor bums off the street, they were "non-owner-occupied" (read: investment) houses that had been bought by the dozens by people who thought they'd strike it rich in real estate. As soon as the troubles started and housing prices fell, most of the "investors" realized that their investment was sunk and walked away.
God bless technical school, who give their students a good mix of technical knowledge, workplace procedures, laboratory experience, generic knowledge and common sense
Good for you. I'm glad you're one of the three employers not demanding a Bachelor's or Master's degree for every job position.
Most of all, they are looking for people who don't have that damn college mentality. THAT is the real barrier.
Then they should stop demanding college degrees, and stop giving excuses for why they want a college degree but they don't want college educated students.
US Medicare issues people ID numbers that consist of their SSN followed by the letter A (sometimes other letters).
You're going to have to show me some citations to convince me that the government is keeping anyone other than Amtrak from opening an interstate passenger railroad, especially in the face of state/metro-run non-Amtrak interstate lines in New England. The closest thing I can find are the ICC rate controls, but they predated Amtrak by 60-some-odd years, and the ICC ceased to exist in 1995, 15 years after the Staggers Rail Act removed its power to set rates. Entirely privately owned interstate passenger rail existed until 1983 when the Rio Grande Zephyr was sold to Amtrak because the company that was running it was losing money trying to serve the wrong coast even though for its last three years, they could have charged whatever they wanted (though at some point, the "end of the line" in Utah was a bus stop, so maybe it was too far gone to save by the time the rate controls were eliminated).
Searching for amtrak monopoly just tells me that it is a de facto monopoly (outside of the new england corridor) but I can't find anything to suggest that it's a de jure monopoly. Did I mention that Obama is apparently unaware of this law banning interstate rail and thinks other railroads can run passenger rail too (I guess the government handouts are to convince them to break the law)?
BTW, I've used fedex to deliver letters. The only thing they can't do is deliver to a post office box. Or get enough junk mail delivered through their system to make "fedex ground" for a flat "package" cost half a dollar.
But... but... I just bought a special unicode keyboard just so I could write code that could never be posted on slashdot!
Is it true that on DSL I can choose any provider I want
It used to be, but then the FCC "deregulated" it and phone companies pretty much immediately stopped allowing other companies to have access once the government stopped telling them they had to. In Canada there are still resellers, but they're at the mercy of the telco (see Bell Canada's throttling of reseller connections), so it's likely that even if we hadn't had "deregulation" here in the US, we'd still be having the same issues, with the added bonus that no matter which competitor you chose, all of them would be getting throttled.
Amtrak may be a poorly run government service, screwed over by stupid decisions like not building its own rails and having to yield the right of way to every freight train ever while stopping at least twice in every representative's district, but the only reason Amtrak is a "monopoly" is because for the vast majority of the country, nobody else wants to waste their money providing passenger rail cross-country. If the government cancelled it, nothing at all would take its place on a national scale.
Anybody else who is willing to spend their money buying a long line of land between A and B, laying down track, buying cars, and marketing and selling tickets is more than welcome to try. And when they go bankrupt, banks and investors will make it that much harder to borrow money to try again. But if you don't want to play capitalist rail baron, the 1997 Amtrak reforms allowed states to partner together to create state-run interstate rail lines. And these do exist, and do compete with Amtrak. In New England, anyway. Nobody else cares.
So you'd rather they didn't have employees in Texas?
That's what Amazon is threatening, we'll see if losing 1000 jobs is enough to force Texas to change the law just for Amazon.
If you read the actual Fox News article it is not the opinion of the article it is the opinion of an expert in the field that claims it is a problem, an opposing view is also expressed so the article takes no sides.
So if Fox ran a segment with some kind of self-proclaimed expert calling you an idiot then cutting to 5 seconds of your mom saying "well, he's not all that bad", would you not be the least bit offended?
If you are the least bit offended, then you might understand how gamers feel when Fox runs a segment with some kind of self-proclaimed expert calling gamers responsible for "the increase in rapes". Especially when there has not been an "increase in rapes" since at least 2006, with preliminary 2010 data indicating more than 10% decrease since 2009.
annoyingly no one has enough time to watch both biased sources of information in order to make an informed decision.
If you put a crazy extreme right-winger and a crazy extreme left-winger in a room, you get an insane asylum, they do not cancel each other out.
No single country can veto something, it takes a majority to agree to the veto.
That's not what it says. Assuming that by "consensus" they mean "majority", then unless a majority of the GAC members oppose the veto, ICANN shall reject the application. If a bunch of people don't bother to object to some dinky country's objection, you lose by default.
Who needs an end run when religious prudes drilled a giant hole straight through?
Just declare anything you don't like "obscene".
Secrecy of the salt is not important for its purpose (however, having a unique salt for each hash is). Everyone just stores the salt along with the hash.
The purpose of the salt is to prevent comparing two hashes to determine if the passwords are identical, and to prevent comparing hashes to a precalculated rainbow table of hashes. It isn't intended to prevent against guessing weak passwords or spending the time to calculate an entire rainbow table for every possible salt.
If I can get the clear-text of that password, I have the opportunity to do things like try the e-mail account for the e-mail address your profile lists. If it's used the same password, I now have access to your e-mail
If I rooted the site, I'd just have the login screen log whatever you typed in rather than trying to decrypt all these hashes, salted or not.