I never really understood why we "fell back" to standard time during winter,
I do. They tried not falling back one year in 1974. We schoolkids had to walk to school in the dark. It was no big deal for me at the time, as school was 5-6 blocks away.
But all the parents freaked out ("Little Johnny will get hit by a car!"*) and that was the end of it.
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* No one worried about kids being kidnapped and raped while walking to school in the dark, because we weren't all pussies back then. You're welcome and get off my lawn.
Free as in Beer. Not free as in "doesn't cost anything to implement and maintain".
~ and likely more secure.
Oh my, no. Security is not a function of source openness. Security is a function of actual security implementation.
You're confusing Linus' Law ("given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow") with Schneier's Law ("Any person can invent a security system so clever that he or she can't imagine a way of breaking it.")
[ ] It isn't that bad [ ] You have nothing to fear if you have nothing to hide [ ] It's for your protection [ ] B-But Obama [ ] Now is not the time to question [ ] No, YOU'RE racist!
the majority of respondents understanding that passwords should contain uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers and symbols
Yup. A password under 8-12 characters in length, consisting of a simple dictionary word (with simple digit substitution of a = 4, e = 3, i = !, random capitalization, etc) can be solved by a GPU in less than a second or two.
Combine several non-related words together and you might have a fighting chance.
Don't even get me started about how many friends and relatives don't use 2-factor auth.
Sure they don't sell bombers and guided missiles, but then if we ever get to that point, there won't be much of a military left for the gov't to use against us, because they are US.
LOL. It is so cute when someone who has never served brings out the "they'll never attack US citizens!!! DERP!" line.
Here's how it goes down. First, the military brass will come up with some disparaging name for the citizens who are the new enemy, just as they did for every other war:
"Haji" is the troops' term of choice for an Iraqi. It's used the way "gook" or "Charlie" was used in Vietnam.
"From 'Gook' to 'Raghead'"
Next, the citizens (the bad ones) are depicted as subhuman. (The government will also direct the news to depict the new enemy as dangerous psychopaths, so the average citizen will not join in the revolt.)
Final step: 6-round burst, every time. Change barrels every 10 minutes.
A huge amount of the patents approved in the US boil down to "a system and methodology for doing something well known, but with a (computer|cell phone|tablet)". They're crap patents.
You're not innovating,
Yes, we are! We have increased efficiency! Used to be that one had to actually invent something useful, but we've found a way to go around all that, going directly from "something already done often, and by many" to "magic computer pixie dust, nyeh!" in one step.
And the vast majority of these patents are paid for by your asshole corporations with the full knowledge they're lousy patents to begin with.
It is the nature of capitalism to do the least possible to get the most profit. Reduce effort to zero and profit goes to infinity!
Fuck America and your deluded view about how awesome you are.
And yet, "Canada's Pants" runs the whole show.
You're a country which started off ignoring everyone else's patents and copyrights. So why the hell should the rest of the world give a shit about the stuff you do? Especially since you often just patent things other people have already invented.
Because we convinced you that we're too legit to quit. NOW who's the sucker?
Americunts go fuck yourself.
We do, regularly, and dry, too. Ever hear of Ferguson?
I have been in a few jobs where the managers were verbally and/or emotionally abusive. In both cases I left ASAP.
THIS. Life's too short to put up with loser companies.
That being said, one needs a financial cushion of 6 months-ish. The easiest way to do that is to skim off 10% from every paycheck, no matter what.
Remember, you canâ"and should!â"evaluate the company you work for, daily. If they "fail the interview" (i.e., it is more hassle to work there than to find another job) then it is time to Let Them Go.
It would actually be easy enough for Walmart to anonymize them, by simply recording the transaction as "$50 Prepaid Debit Card" and not record which particular debit card number went to which customer. Also, if you anonymously acquire a prepaid debit card used for a transaction involved with some nefarious purpose, you still don't get picked up, because it may trace to that transaction, but it doesn't trace to you.
It would actually be easy enough for Walmart to switch to paper debit cards that had the amount of the card printed on the front. When you used that card, the cashier simply gave you lower-denomination of cards (say, a $5 debit card when you paid for a 5 dollar item with a $10 debit card).
Once this practice became pervasive enough, unfortunately the government would have to step in to create rules and regulations as to how all the printing would appear, and to prevent fraud. I suggest they mandate the use of engraved printing plates; green magnetic ink; and heavy cotton rag for the card. Oh, and to certain security features like holograms, watermarks, embedded plastic strips, etc.
My god, the level of convenience we'd enjoy would blow away any other form of paying for goods and services literally overnight.
For instance, there was the putz I had to see this week who thought he was being really clever. It seems as though someone gave him the book of Microsoft interview questions and he was eager to show off his new "knowledge". This style of interviewing gives you abstract questions that have no relationship whatsoever to the work you'll be doing. Or to the real world.
Proponents say they're trying to see how creatively you can think. Normal humans say it's a waste of time.
For the random people that use Orkut like others use Facebook, it really is not a lot of time to figure out what to do with potentially gigabytes of information. That holds particularly true for anyone that is not technically savvy.
How long does it take to slide over to Google Takeout and download all of your data?
A few minutes? An hour?
When Goog crushed Wave, I downloaded all my stuff in a matter of minutes. Couldn't really do much with it, but it lowered my White Hot Rage down to Red.
The alternative I would like to see would be to forbid the company from doing business for a time equivalent of what the prison sentence would be.
Imagine if the US wasn't bought and paid for? If an oil company poisoned the gulf like what happened with the Deepwater Horizon (11 dead and massive damage to the fishing industry and the environment), the US government would simply pull its charter and be done with it: that company would cease to exist.
All the other corporations would thereafter straighten up and fly right, lest the same thing happen to them. (Or they would try to buy the government and defang it like it is now).
He should have remained silent. Being a lawyer he should have known that.
He must be a pretty shite lawyer. (Hopefully he isn't a criminal defense lawyer, because then he really IS a shite lawyer.)
FTFA:
“During his postarrest interview with State police Trooper Patrick M. Johnson, the defendant stated... ‘[e]verything is encrypted and no one is going to get to it.’ The defendant acknowledged that he was able to perform decryption.”
What a dumb-bumble-fark. He deserves to burn for bragging/taunting the cops.
Rules for Talking to Cops
ONE
Don't talk to cops, except what you are legally required to say (you must ID yourself, to whatever extent your state's laws specify)
TWO
The only thing that should come out of your piehole from the time your are arrested (especialy during any "post-arrest 'let's get the suspect to incriminate himself' interview") are the words: "I wish to remain silent and I want a lawyer."
TREE
STFU until you get a lawyer
FOUR
Remember that Everything you say will be used to burn you. Cops can lie and get away with it, and if you lie to a cop, you're fried. Do not believe anything they say, and don't try to talk your way out of it because you'll lose.
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Getting (and following) legal advice from random people on the internets is about the stupidest thing you could do.
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I've seen the fractal article, and then I fact-checked it
Did you fact check [phpsadness.com] it using PHP [phpsadness.com]?
I am not sure what that second bit of PHP sadness it really moaning about to be honest.
JS is NOT a big contender for PHP, because it isn't the functional equivalent of the double-clawed hammer.
The unwashed masses gravitate to PHP because it is very easy to get something running and imposes almost no restrictions on the developer. Thus, we get nightmares like phpBB and vBulletin.
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That'll show 'em!
I do. They tried not falling back one year in 1974. We schoolkids had to walk to school in the dark. It was no big deal for me at the time, as school was 5-6 blocks away.
But all the parents freaked out ("Little Johnny will get hit by a car!"*) and that was the end of it.
.
.
.
. * No one worried about kids being kidnapped and raped while walking to school in the dark, because we weren't all pussies back then. You're welcome and get off my lawn.
government oversight
I bet you miss the good old days, huh?
If the mom stopped paying, time to go.
Business is business and friendship doesn't put food on the table.
Free as in Beer. Not free as in "doesn't cost anything to implement and maintain".
Oh my, no. Security is not a function of source openness. Security is a function of actual security implementation.
You're confusing Linus' Law ("given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow") with Schneier's Law ("Any person can invent a security system so clever that he or she can't imagine a way of breaking it.")
Says so right on the tin.
Yes, I'll take three of those, please.
Keep going - you still several to do!
Yup. A password under 8-12 characters in length, consisting of a simple dictionary word (with simple digit substitution of a = 4, e = 3, i = !, random capitalization, etc) can be solved by a GPU in less than a second or two. Combine several non-related words together and you might have a fighting chance. Don't even get me started about how many friends and relatives don't use 2-factor auth.
LOL. My 2002 Prius got 45 mpg (not to mention much, much lower emissions).
33 mpg is in the same class as "can't be bothered". If you want to crow, you need to get more than 50 mpg, son.
Sure they don't sell bombers and guided missiles, but then if we ever get to that point, there won't be much of a military left for the gov't to use against us, because they are US.
LOL. It is so cute when someone who has never served brings out the "they'll never attack US citizens!!! DERP!" line.
Here's how it goes down. First, the military brass will come up with some disparaging name for the citizens who are the new enemy, just as they did for every other war:
Next, the citizens (the bad ones) are depicted as subhuman. (The government will also direct the news to depict the new enemy as dangerous psychopaths, so the average citizen will not join in the revolt.)
Final step: 6-round burst, every time. Change barrels every 10 minutes.
~ if you want to stay married long you had better answer correctly.
Wife: "Honey, does this dress make me look fat?"
Husband: (curls up into fetal position and starts sobbing quietly to himself)
~ but they're practically begging FSB and PLA to infiltrate them.
Why would the Fuqua School of Business and the Public Library Association want to infiltrate the FBI?
[Business] Leaders are [Federal] Readers?
A huge amount of the patents approved in the US boil down to "a system and methodology for doing something well known, but with a (computer|cell phone|tablet)". They're crap patents.
You're not innovating,
Yes, we are! We have increased efficiency! Used to be that one had to actually invent something useful, but we've found a way to go around all that, going directly from "something already done often, and by many" to "magic computer pixie dust, nyeh!" in one step.
It is the nature of capitalism to do the least possible to get the most profit. Reduce effort to zero and profit goes to infinity!
And yet, "Canada's Pants" runs the whole show.
Because we convinced you that we're too legit to quit. NOW who's the sucker?
We do, regularly, and dry, too. Ever hear of Ferguson?
THIS. Life's too short to put up with loser companies.
That being said, one needs a financial cushion of 6 months-ish. The easiest way to do that is to skim off 10% from every paycheck, no matter what.
Remember, you canâ"and should!â"evaluate the company you work for, daily. If they "fail the interview" (i.e., it is more hassle to work there than to find another job) then it is time to Let Them Go.
It would actually be easy enough for Walmart to anonymize them, by simply recording the transaction as "$50 Prepaid Debit Card" and not record which particular debit card number went to which customer. Also, if you anonymously acquire a prepaid debit card used for a transaction involved with some nefarious purpose, you still don't get picked up, because it may trace to that transaction, but it doesn't trace to you.
It would actually be easy enough for Walmart to switch to paper debit cards that had the amount of the card printed on the front. When you used that card, the cashier simply gave you lower-denomination of cards (say, a $5 debit card when you paid for a 5 dollar item with a $10 debit card).
Once this practice became pervasive enough, unfortunately the government would have to step in to create rules and regulations as to how all the printing would appear, and to prevent fraud. I suggest they mandate the use of engraved printing plates; green magnetic ink; and heavy cotton rag for the card. Oh, and to certain security features like holograms, watermarks, embedded plastic strips, etc.
My god, the level of convenience we'd enjoy would blow away any other form of paying for goods and services literally overnight.
Who says you can't have a second child after you sold the first one?
Peasant Han: "Honest officer! Our child was sold into slavery over a year ago!"
Officer Zau kicks over the wood stove, lifts open a patch of the tile floor and shines his light into the darkness below. A dozen eyes shine back.
Officer Zau (screaming): Zui cha. Chaqu. Yongyuan!
Officer Zau unholsters her Type 15 pistol, takes aim at Han and puts her finger on the trigger.
(fade to black)
More of that high-quality Slashdot/Dice.com editing.
Is there any other kind?</snark>
Yeah. They destroy legitimate businesses with their wonderful algorithms...
You went long on Demand Media stock, didn't you?
That butthurt's gotta burn!
Ahh, reminds me of the Angry Aussie and his response to pointless interview questions:
How long does it take to slide over to Google Takeout and download all of your data?
A few minutes? An hour?
When Goog crushed Wave, I downloaded all my stuff in a matter of minutes. Couldn't really do much with it, but it lowered my White Hot Rage down to Red.
Imagine if the US wasn't bought and paid for? If an oil company poisoned the gulf like what happened with the Deepwater Horizon (11 dead and massive damage to the fishing industry and the environment), the US government would simply pull its charter and be done with it: that company would cease to exist.
All the other corporations would thereafter straighten up and fly right, lest the same thing happen to them. (Or they would try to buy the government and defang it like it is now).
He should have remained silent. Being a lawyer he should have known that.
He must be a pretty shite lawyer. (Hopefully he isn't a criminal defense lawyer, because then he really IS a shite lawyer.)
FTFA:
“During his postarrest interview with State police Trooper Patrick M. Johnson, the defendant stated ... ‘[e]verything is encrypted and no one is going to get to it.’ The defendant acknowledged that he was able to perform decryption.”
What a dumb-bumble-fark. He deserves to burn for bragging/taunting the cops.
Rules for Talking to Cops
ONE Don't talk to cops, except what you are legally required to say (you must ID yourself, to whatever extent your state's laws specify) TWO The only thing that should come out of your piehole from the time your are arrested (especialy during any "post-arrest 'let's get the suspect to incriminate himself' interview") are the words: "I wish to remain silent and I want a lawyer." TREE STFU until you get a lawyer FOUR Remember that Everything you say will be used to burn you. Cops can lie and get away with it, and if you lie to a cop, you're fried. Do not believe anything they say, and don't try to talk your way out of it because you'll lose. NaN Getting (and following) legal advice from random people on the internets is about the stupidest thing you could do.I've seen the fractal article, and then I fact-checked it
Did you fact check [phpsadness.com] it using PHP [phpsadness.com]?
I am not sure what that second bit of PHP sadness it really moaning about to be honest.
And that...is why you fail.
JS is NOT a big contender for PHP, because it isn't the functional equivalent of the double-clawed hammer.
The unwashed masses gravitate to PHP because it is very easy to get something running and imposes almost no restrictions on the developer. Thus, we get nightmares like phpBB and vBulletin.