So now I just wonder how my card has been stolen so much. I sometimes use it online, but not very often. Could one of the stores where I used it be to blame?
The answer is basically, yes.
The online stores are almost always to blame - usually using bad security practices or improperly storing the data.
Usually for the dodgier stores, I revert to using Paypal - once I started doing this, me number of times i had to change my card dropped from once a year to I haven't had to in the past 5. One year it was so bad I changed my card number 3 times.
(I usually use Paypal especially on sites that disallow different shipping/billing addresses - it is really unusual to have someone not want to have a package delivered at home where it will sit on the porch all day rather than at work, where there are people ready to accept it? Maybe in the past if you had 1-2 packages a year you could stay home, but online shopping is so prevalent, it's impractical).
Likewise, I'll prefer Amazon over your non-Paypal taking website, even if I have to pay more.
But I'm old enough to remember being in a computing lab filled with clicky keyboards back then. Heck, I remember how a room filled with typewriters sounded.
I'll take today's quiet keyboards, thank you very much.
They make quiet mechanical keyboards - Cherry seems to have taken things to heart and have a line of quiet and noisy switches. I have a Logitech one using Cherry MX Browns and it's not as loud. Sure I can make it loud, but it's a lot quieter. Not as quiet as membrane/dome keyboards, but a LOT quieter.
At least, OSHA wouldn't have to come around and force your office to pick up ear defenders for everyone.
I have to admit, after work got me my mechanical keyboard, I rather enjoy them. It's not a model M by far, but it's a nice experience.
False. Cannabidiol has lots of medical uses, from alleviating seizures to relieving pain that requires opiods to generally control.
Cannabidiol should NOT be confused with THC, the "addictive" part of marijuana. In fact, the two exist in inverse proportions - as THC levels go up, cannabidiol levels go down, so high THC pot is less effective. The low THC stuff works best. Look up CBD Oil, one or two drops is generally the prescribed dose for a day, so you're not going to make edibles or anything else - you just take it with food.
The only reason there's a lack of research is because it's illegal to grow marijuana and research is controlled. Though it has been slowly trickling out as it becomes more acceptable.
In fact, around WWI or WWII, the US Government was actively promoting the use of marijuana among the troops. The propaganda film is little known because after the war was over, the US Government withdrew it and denies all knowledge of it. It's only because of modern day someone found a copy and posted it on YouTube.
Don't confuse medical marijuana with stoners who want the high THC stuff. That stuff's the addictive kind with little beyond addictiveness.
Well, you could move to apps, which do exactly that. I mean, you need to run the Netflix app to watch Netflix, or with this, you can use the web browser as another option, instead of having to have an app.
It's curious, since people hate the proliferation and closing off of content using apps, wanting it to be on the web. Yet people also don't want these technologies on the web, wanting people that want those things to close it all off on apps, instead.
Content's already spreading towards the app area, and if it goes further, soon the web would be like a bunch of iTunes landing pages asking you to install apps to view the content. Already annoying enough that forums start to bug you if you access them via the website on a mobile device to install the app.
If my dishwasher is flooding my kitchen, then I probably shouldn't leave that mess for my wife. But it's always something, if I only went out when every chore was done I would never go out. Sometimes things are critical and force me to change plans, something they are not and I can put them off for a while.
Also, I'm at that age where people in my extended family die and parents get hospitalized. After comforting my Mom because her Aunt died, I don't really feel like going fishing.
If it's a true emergency, then you excuse yourself just fine. Everyone understands if you cancel at the last minute because your dishwasher flooded the kitchen. It happens. Of course, if you repeatedly do it to skip out on things you agreed to weeks ago, then you're a flake for agreeing to and bailing. Your dishwasher flooding is a rare event. Just like you getting in a car accident the day before. It's rare enough that people understand you may cancel at the last minute because of it.
If your relative is dying, then people would understand it too - though if you know they were ill, it would've been poorly advised to agree to take the fishing trip knowing you'll likely have to cancel or not be in the mood. In that case, your friends might ask just out of politeness, but really expecting a negative response.
And yes, planning a fishing trip may require 2 whole weeks to prepare for it. If not enough people are willing to come, then the trip is cancelled. This includes getting the boat - either reserving the rental, or getting the boat ready by cleaning it and getting it gassed up and all that other stuff. Then you gotta get the bait, prep the gear, etc. So people do plan it out because things can take time - if you planned on fishing at the last minute, you might not get a boat, or your boat might need cleaning or gas or a thousand other little chores that you have to do so you do them instead of fishing, so no one has a good time.
People make plans so they can prepare. Maybe for you you're always ready to go fishing, but for someone else, they need to arrange to borrow or rent or gather the necessary materials. And if you're not willing to go, then they'd do something else rather than go by themselves and save the time and expense.
That's really the problem with "bailing" - people make plans because if you need to do anything to prepare, you can do that ahead of time as not all of them can be done day of. (Fishing permits too).
Going to the movies might not seem like something that needs much planning, but perhaps you want a meal first? Or reserve tickets (some have reserved seating)? Sure you can fight it out, but sometimes, especially if you're a big group, it's nice to sit together rather than try to find a block of seats that will accommodate everyone without being in the corners or up in the front.
The rebuilding process shouldn't be that long. Especially if most of the modules are (mostly) precompiled. But with the random order that things will be re-compiled, will a bad order effect the overall performance of the system?
It's not recompiling, it's re-linking. The code's already compiled and unchanging. Just instead of linking a.o, b.o, c.o and d.o in that order, you link a.o, c.o, d.o, b.o.
The result may not LOOK too different, but most linkers work linearly - so all the sections in the second binary will have a.o at the beginning, followed by c.o, d.o and b.o, while the first binary will have a.o, b.o, c.o and d.o in that order. The symbol addresses WILL be different even though in general the code is the same (after all, the only real thing that's changed is the jump addresses).
About the biggest issue would be things that use linker magic to produce arrays of pointers to symbols. For example, the order of the list of initialization functions to call will be different, and if there is a subtle dependency that is not captured properly, a submodule may initialize before its parent module. (This is how you can write a driver with proper flagging and have the kernel auto-initialize it even though you didn't put in an explicit call to the init function).
Linux has always been vulnerable. If Linux for desktop ever takes off it will get PAWNED left right and center. At the moment though very few people are targeting it.
Linux right now is getting pwned. Or rather, Linux servers running vulnerable applications.
You don't hear much about them because they're Linux servers, and the vulnerable application is usually named instead of Linux, like WordPress, for example.
Of course, the goal is not to infect other Linux servers, but to infect websites hosted by Linux so people visiting those websites, invariably running Windows, will get infected. In other words, Linux is helping spread Windows malware.
(Snarky conclusion - get rid of Linux servers to get rid of Windows malware)
Can you explain what happens when nobody is working because they all expect "a living wage" for not doing anything? Because I can.
Most humans are basically lazy, and will do minimal work for maximum pay. That is called "Capitalism", and the fact that liberals cannot fathom a world under actual economic values still exist in an elitist egalitarian world, where the CEO and Janitor are paid equally,
That's not what UBI is. And most humans will NOT want to stay at what qualifies for UBI housing. Either it's a single room with shared toilet, living space and kitchen, or it's a barracks style bunk beds with a foot locker for your personal stuff. That's what UBI provides. Sure, if you're lazy, you might be happy with shared living quarters, but most people want at least their own personal bathroom, which requires more money. Where's that money come from? Working, of course.
But instead of having to be forced to work as a janitor just to live, as you do today, perhaps you can work as a craftsman - whittling wood or something, who makes enough money to not only afford a better location, but doing what they love. And of course, paying taxes.
And people may be lazy, but they also are not lazy. Think of it this way - why do people do things for recreation instead of staying in bed all day on the weekend? They run, they do exercise, they do hobbies, etc. When instead they could be sitting on the couch watching TV with a beer in their hands?
Hell, even with UBI, most people like where they live, so they'll continue to work at their present jobs. Those who are unhappy will likely quit and find more satisfying jobs, not being stuck in a job just to make the mortgage payment and otherwise live. Others may take a pay cut to work less hours because they're not forced to work long hours just to survive, and use the spare time for things they may enjoy more, including raising kids.
No, UBI is not a utopia, but it's far from a disaster. There's a reason why people want to house the homeless and give them healthcare - it's cheaper to do so than for them to live on the streets and incur increased policing costs and healthcare costs. Hell, jailing someone costs over $100K a year. And those without healthcare use ER, the most expensive form of medical treatment available. It's far cheaper for them to be able to access a regular doctor and do proactive treatment than reactive treatment in an ER.
And if there's some idiot homeless person who spent all their UBI money on drugs, well, you can't really feel sorry for them anymore. Lock 'em up, I guess if they can't take care of themselves properly.
Be careful when choosing to host images via Someone Else's System. If you're not paying them, they've got some other business plan going on, and it may not be to every end user's advantage.
I believe eBay now self-hosts the images that show in the image side, but allow linking to external images in the listing itself. (So you have to post an image on eBay's system in order for the listing to have an image where people expect it).
And hotlinking of other people's images isn't an uncommon thing. I've seen many websites relink their photos because some idiot on eBay hotlinks the images. So what they do is simply replace the hotlinked image with something else and relink the image in their text with it.
And I've seen images changed from the item to clearly broken versions of the item (with the auction claiming "works!" but the screen is cracked, for example), to missing pieces (for "complete!" items, but now the image is missing a charger or other accessory), to goat porno and worse.
Soooo missing a big part of the story....so if someone bought a lot of Google or Apple stock at $123.47 and the price goes back to what it really was, do they get the keep the stock at the correct price? The person bought in good faith, and provided real money to do so, and we have to have FULL confidence in the way stock is purchased or the whole system collapses. If someone bought stock at the wrong price unknowingly, the people that posted the wrong price need to be responsible for posting the wrong price and make good. I watch stocks closely and when I see a large dip I buy, it would really piss me off if they came back to me and said "opps we posted test pricing, so your purchases are invalid" no, you posted wrong prices you are responsible to make good on that.
A stock exchange is a marketplace. It's a place where buyers and sellers gather. For you to sell a stock, someone has to buy it. And for you to buy a stock, someone has to sell it to you.
The price you see quoted is the "last trade" price - the price at which the buyer and seller agreed to trade stocks. There are two more prices - the "buy" and "sell" prices - the "buy" price is what the highest bidder is willing to pay, while the "sell" price is the lowest price a seller is willing to sell for.
When you trade, you may find your trade partially completed - that is, the seller only has 100 stock to sell, but you wanted to buy 200. In which case, most exchanges will complete the order for 100 stock and put you back in the buyer's queue for the remaining stock. (When you buy stock, you can put in a price and a duration for how long you're willing to offer to buy at that price. Likewise when you sell, you put in a price and a duration on how long you want to offer it for sale at that price).
If you want to play around, Steam is the best place because the trading system works exactly like a small scale stock market.
And if you need more examples - it's why news media reports about "oh look, hard to get item is on eBay for 10 times retail price" are completely meaningless - with stocks, just like with collectibles or hard to find stuff, you can ask whatever price you want. The real measure is whether the item SELLS at that price. If you ask 10 times retail price, and no one buys it, it's meaningless. You're just a chump trying to sell something and no one is buying.
The only thing with the stock market is that people can put stop-loss orders in which basically says if a stock suddenly goes down in value, to just sell it at whatever price you get for them, so basically whatever price the buyers will pay. But that's if they reacted and put in sell orders for that price. Buyers who see the low price and put in bids may not get them because none of the sellers are willing to sell at that price.
Apple is raising the bar... by using an authentication that's been in other devices (including even Windows and Windows Phone!) for years?
Uh, no one's done 3D facial scanning for authentication. Windows Phone and Windows itself (Windows Hello) use an IR camera purely because IR works better in more lighting conditions than RGB cameras do. (The image captured by IR cameras is more consistently lit even as you go from a bright room to darkness, whereas using a regular RGB camera will result in having to take multiple captures in various lighting conditions in order to be able to reliably authenticate in varying lighting conditions.
But it's still a 2D image, which people have faked using a simple photo.
SO presumably Apple's method will also use depth to verify it's a face and not a photo, and everyone hacking will need a 3D printed version of your face instead of just displaying your face on their phone...
MS-DOS 4.00 to 6.22 did have the ability to ALT-TAB between programs using DOSSHELL.EXE. It was more limited that doing it in Windows in that all the programs had to share conventional memory (in the 640KB area). Here is a video showing how this works. Once you launch the programs from DOSSHELL, you can ALT-TAB between them.
I believe DOSSHELL was actually a version of Windows internally - 1.0 or so. Windows/386 didn't actually come about until 2.something which was able to run in "enhanced" mode that let you actually bust through the 640k barrier (I believe Windows/286 let you do it up to 1MB or so).
The graphical environment is very reminiscent of Windows 1.0, and 1.0 would run exclusively in conventional memory at the time.
I too, would like hardware completely missing 'binary blobs'.
However, what about the firmware in the embedded controller in the hard drives of these laptops? What about the embedded controllers in the keyboard, the pointing device, etc.? Those all matter too. Replacing some binary blobs in the OS and the top level hardware drivers is not "turtles all the way down."
GNU considers "binary blobs" or firmware to count only if it has to be loaded by the OS into the device. Firmware that is contained in some non-volatile storage medium on hardware is not considered to be "non-free".
So you can have two WiFi boards, one uses a firmware loader to load a firmware image from hard disk to it on bootup, and one that has the exact same image running from flash on the hardware. The FSF will consider the latter "free" the former not. Even though the software is identical on both.
The big problem with 7 year old hardware is the WiFi will be pre-N, and anyone using 802.11a/g would find transfers painfully slow. The only good thing is GigE is somewhat standard by then...
The first time I used a grocery store in Ontario, it was nearly deserted. After checkout, the cashier and I both stared at my pile of groceries. I then realized I was expected to bag them myself. From that point on, when I find myself in Ontario I will only shop where there is a self checkout. Whoever is scanning the items is in the best position to bag them, cashiers who don't bag are completely unnecessary. Anything they would do, the one person watching 4 self checkouts can do just as well. Whatever union won that concession, won the battle but lost the war.
I find the places that expect you to bag yourself charges for plastic bags as well.
Which works fine for me - I bring my own (plastic) bags, so instead of advertising for them, I advertise for Walmart instead. OR since Safeway still gives free bags, I'll leave the non-Safeway grocery store advertising for Safeway.
OF course, I don't have kids or a spouse to help me out, and I shop for the week, so I have a few bags that I fill, which means if the cashier doesn't help me out, the next customer will be getting his stuff scanned and the cashier has to stop and wait for me because his stuff backed onto the scanner.
Can't rush me, I'm packing my goods using my own bags. Oh sure, the other customer can pack his stuff, but his stuff is right where the payment terminals are, so he's got to reach over, so even wife and kids are standing around waiting for me to pack my stuff.
At T&T Supermarket (Asian supermarket in western Canada), the cashiers DO help you - after you paid, they will pack your stuff in the bags while you sort yourself out to speed the line along. (You got to put cash back in your wallet and wallet back in pocket, etc, which can take a little time). So instead of the cashier looking around stupidly waiting for you to put your money away and your food into bags, they'll bag while they wait.
And they're scary fast - I was putting my money and coins away and by the time I was done, it was all neatly packed in bags.
Protip - never go in line with a single person who has a lot of groceries in a store with a pay-for-shopping-bags policy. Like me, they'll hold up the line packing their stuff away. If you see a spouse and kids hanging around, it's A-OK as they'll be packing while checkout is happening.
It's more likely that Zillow wrote a cease and desist to cover their asses just in case the actual copyright holders tried to put set the lawyers on them.
And I'm sure Zillow would be perfectly happy taking down the photos on the listings that the copyright holders have issue with. (It doesn't affect Zillow at all - only the homeowner whose listing is now without photos).
Restaurants and meals in Spain generally are a different thing than in anglo-centered countries. They have very heavy social component to it, as if it were a party of sorts. And we enjoy good food. Very hobbit-like, so to speak.
I think it's a general thing in Romantic countries - France and Italy are similar. My dad was convinced there's something about Italian beer and wine because while on a trip in Italy, he'd have a drink with dinner and not feel the effects as much as back here in Canada. I simply pointed out that our dinners in Italy typically lasted 2-3 hours with his drink lasting the entire time. While back home, the dinner is over in half an hour or so.
A slow dinner is a very nice thing to do on a vacation, and I know France/Italy/Spain have it as a social event.
And we're not talking about "fine dining" experiences either - I don't think the meals were particularly expensive (or the food particularly upscale), so it's really more an experience where eating happens to be a component of it. And no, you don't leave hungry or wish for the food to come out faster - it comes out "fast enough" while you enjoy the entertainment and time passes quickly. You might start dinner at 7pm and before you realize, it's 9pm when you finish dessert.
I wish that more employers whose workers didn't do shift-work or didn't have to work closely with other people were more flexible about downtime during the day. There have been days when a quick 30 minute nap would've really benefited me, but I've seen coworkers get in trouble when discovered asleep at their desks.
I believe there's been scientific study into showing that the siesta isn't just something cultural, but actually human. And afternoon performance does significantly improve after the siesta. It's also not strictly Spanish, for Italy also has it.
The value is that all the fake Paypal sites and banking sites are now secure! See the https? Secure! Like we taught everyone to trust the lock! Never visit a financial site unless you see the lock symbol in the corner of the window. It's the surest way to tell a fake site from a real site!
(Yes, it's a sad fact that a good majority of certificates are issued to phish users. We have to train users how to tell a real site from a fake site - no more relying on the lock).
I also miss actual Write Protect switches on USB media. Originally they had them, now at best it's a software mode. ("I promise I won't write anything else -- REALLY! Let me just write that down so I don't forget about it. OK, Done." Now let's re-enable writing. "But you told me not to earlier and that's still set. Oh well, updating that's no problem whatsoever, just like the rest of your read-only data.")
They were always software switches. Because there's nothing physical you can hard wire to "write protect" the device. You can't do it to the flash chip because writing to the flash chip is a normal procedure in order to be able to read to it (you have to write commands and addresses to the chip).
Pre-USB days, you could hardware protect them by removing programming power - the old EEPROM chips required an external +12V supply in order to physically write to the array, so your write protect would simply ground the power pin. These days, program power is internally generated and internally controlled in order to program the chip optimally (the voltage required can be altered to keep the array at the optimal programming levels as well as to prevent excess wear).
Old-style BIOS chips could be write protected (Pentium era). Modern BIOS chips are LPC based.
If you exclude all the employees from businesses that have multiple locations, then focus only on single-location businesses that are under pressure by the excluded businesses, you're pretty much guaranteed to get that result.
But consider what it means. It means if you're a larger multinational or corporate franchise, you're likely just going to pay up because you can - everyone still visits their starbucks, for example.
But if you're a mom and pop coffeeshop, or other small business with one location, then the minimum wage is hurting your employees because you're forced to cut back on hours (and basically the owners work for free to make up for it).
In other words, the higher minimum wage helps you, if you're a larger corporate entity that can absorb it into the system (i.e. raise prices to compensate). If you're a small business, it's likely to hurt you - both your employees suffer (less hours) and you the owner suffer (more hours worked)
So it can be true that the "living wage" requirement both helps and hurts. If you're big enough, the employees benefit. If you're a tiny operation, everyone suffers. More starbucks, more chain stores, less individual boutique stores. Move over tiny coffeeshop, you're obsolete, make way for the starbucks train because you cannot survive.
Given this statement, why haven't we seen widespread ransomware deployed to what the Internet is essentially made of (Linux servers)? I mean, that's where the *real* money is. Why go after petty consumers for $300 a pop when you could go after a ton of wealthy corporations that have real money at stake by losing millions of ecommerce dollars an hour, running their businesses on Linux server farms?
Because the companies that make millions per hour in e-commerce spend money on security. Those that don't, don't usually make a heck of a lot money.
In fact, infected Linux machines is a popular way to infect Windows PCs - perhaps you heard of something called WordPress? Seems like vulnerable versions of it, as well as other CMS products are often ways to insert nasty javascript downloaders or other things to infect users.
And yes, infecting users at $100 a pop is far more profitable than infecting Linux servers - so you take down some guy's blog, big whoop - the guy loses out on $3 of ad revenue. But if you get to infect that guy's 1,000 visitors a day, that's a lot of money. Even if most don't pay up, that's easily $10,000 if just 10 visitors do.
Infecting Linux machines isn't profitable in an of itself, unless you manage to command enough of them that you can do some Bitcoin mining, but most machines are on VPSes that may send out alerts when the CPU load exceeds nominal. But using Linux boxes to hijack more valuable Windows ones is much more profitable, and since most of the changes are unseen, it can hide out for a very long time. Maybe even beyond the original infection vector.
It will take time for people to find out they can't get their files back even if they pay.
That's the reason.
Think about it for a second. Ransomware only works when the malware developers are honest. In fact, many will walk you through the process of getting bitcoins and how to fix your computer, because they know it takes just one f**k-up to hose the entire business model.
All the user has is trust. Trust in that if they do these things, they'll get their data back. Once that trust is violated, it's game over.
So if the user sent the money, and didn't get the unlock key, you think the user will go around paying next time? No, and in fact, they'd post all over facebook about how they got ripped off and thus ending the problem once and for all. In fact, the malware authors are probably scrambling because they know that new victims are getting snared and there's no way to tell them how to pay to get their data back. And those new infected users are likely to be the ones who blast out that they got screwed over.
Letting users get screwed is the way to kill ransomware. If users cannot trust the person who holds their data hostage to give it back, they'll be unlikely to pay the person at all, leaving no money in it.
Harsh, but true. As long as people know that if they can pay, they'll get their data back, they will continue to pay. If people pay and get ripped off, they're not likely going to pay, and they'll tell others who are in the same boat that they got screwed so don't bother paying.
Unless apps become available to the very poorest and also the people who don't want to use apps, over 90% of the world using apps is impossible.
Exactly. I can't figure out how they didn't even spot-check that number. Sure the number of people on earth has nearly doubled in the past 100 years or so, but that's more of a fluke. At 6.3B people, that's a good chunk of the population (over 7B) most of whom are not able to get a smartphone capable of running apps that support the app economy.
It's not like the population of the earth is changing at such a rapid rate that it's unknowable. Just knowing it's over 7B means if your result is in the same magnitude as that means it's a big chunk of the population. Even if the last time you were told it's 5M (about 25 years ago) that's still something that makes you pause.
Apps are stupid. Most the same can be done through regular web pages (http/html/dom/js). Improve the bookmarking and perhaps page caching options* if they want web sites/services to act like apps, but otherwise installing software is 1990's, and a security risk.
But then you run into people who want apps because they oppose DRM and things like EME in browsers so you can avoid using apps because the web should be free of such stuff.
And people who want half the stuff out of HTML5 because why does HTML5 need access to sensors and cameras and GPS and touch screens so you can implement apps as web apps without needing apps.
He's clearly saying that some people are too cheap to support the entertainment that they consume.
He's got a point though - there's a lot of entertainment out there and supply and demand and all. It's why I hardly buy games full price anymore - always looking for a discount. Steam sales are one I'm ruthless about - if you really want to pique my interest, get it below $5. I've learned to not bother otherwise - because I have so many games available, by the time I get to yours, you'd probably sell it for under $5 at that time.
Given the amount of entertainment out there, be it movies, TV, games, etc, there's a lot of supply for things to occupy time. Sure most of it isn't fungible, but who cares? I just have to wait and the price will come down eventually.
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The answer is basically, yes.
The online stores are almost always to blame - usually using bad security practices or improperly storing the data.
Usually for the dodgier stores, I revert to using Paypal - once I started doing this, me number of times i had to change my card dropped from once a year to I haven't had to in the past 5. One year it was so bad I changed my card number 3 times.
(I usually use Paypal especially on sites that disallow different shipping/billing addresses - it is really unusual to have someone not want to have a package delivered at home where it will sit on the porch all day rather than at work, where there are people ready to accept it? Maybe in the past if you had 1-2 packages a year you could stay home, but online shopping is so prevalent, it's impractical).
Likewise, I'll prefer Amazon over your non-Paypal taking website, even if I have to pay more.
They make quiet mechanical keyboards - Cherry seems to have taken things to heart and have a line of quiet and noisy switches. I have a Logitech one using Cherry MX Browns and it's not as loud. Sure I can make it loud, but it's a lot quieter. Not as quiet as membrane/dome keyboards, but a LOT quieter.
At least, OSHA wouldn't have to come around and force your office to pick up ear defenders for everyone.
I have to admit, after work got me my mechanical keyboard, I rather enjoy them. It's not a model M by far, but it's a nice experience.
False. Cannabidiol has lots of medical uses, from alleviating seizures to relieving pain that requires opiods to generally control.
Cannabidiol should NOT be confused with THC, the "addictive" part of marijuana. In fact, the two exist in inverse proportions - as THC levels go up, cannabidiol levels go down, so high THC pot is less effective. The low THC stuff works best. Look up CBD Oil, one or two drops is generally the prescribed dose for a day, so you're not going to make edibles or anything else - you just take it with food.
The only reason there's a lack of research is because it's illegal to grow marijuana and research is controlled. Though it has been slowly trickling out as it becomes more acceptable.
In fact, around WWI or WWII, the US Government was actively promoting the use of marijuana among the troops. The propaganda film is little known because after the war was over, the US Government withdrew it and denies all knowledge of it. It's only because of modern day someone found a copy and posted it on YouTube.
Don't confuse medical marijuana with stoners who want the high THC stuff. That stuff's the addictive kind with little beyond addictiveness.
Well, you could move to apps, which do exactly that. I mean, you need to run the Netflix app to watch Netflix, or with this, you can use the web browser as another option, instead of having to have an app.
It's curious, since people hate the proliferation and closing off of content using apps, wanting it to be on the web. Yet people also don't want these technologies on the web, wanting people that want those things to close it all off on apps, instead.
Content's already spreading towards the app area, and if it goes further, soon the web would be like a bunch of iTunes landing pages asking you to install apps to view the content. Already annoying enough that forums start to bug you if you access them via the website on a mobile device to install the app.
If it's a true emergency, then you excuse yourself just fine. Everyone understands if you cancel at the last minute because your dishwasher flooded the kitchen. It happens. Of course, if you repeatedly do it to skip out on things you agreed to weeks ago, then you're a flake for agreeing to and bailing. Your dishwasher flooding is a rare event. Just like you getting in a car accident the day before. It's rare enough that people understand you may cancel at the last minute because of it.
If your relative is dying, then people would understand it too - though if you know they were ill, it would've been poorly advised to agree to take the fishing trip knowing you'll likely have to cancel or not be in the mood. In that case, your friends might ask just out of politeness, but really expecting a negative response.
And yes, planning a fishing trip may require 2 whole weeks to prepare for it. If not enough people are willing to come, then the trip is cancelled. This includes getting the boat - either reserving the rental, or getting the boat ready by cleaning it and getting it gassed up and all that other stuff. Then you gotta get the bait, prep the gear, etc. So people do plan it out because things can take time - if you planned on fishing at the last minute, you might not get a boat, or your boat might need cleaning or gas or a thousand other little chores that you have to do so you do them instead of fishing, so no one has a good time.
People make plans so they can prepare. Maybe for you you're always ready to go fishing, but for someone else, they need to arrange to borrow or rent or gather the necessary materials. And if you're not willing to go, then they'd do something else rather than go by themselves and save the time and expense.
That's really the problem with "bailing" - people make plans because if you need to do anything to prepare, you can do that ahead of time as not all of them can be done day of. (Fishing permits too).
Going to the movies might not seem like something that needs much planning, but perhaps you want a meal first? Or reserve tickets (some have reserved seating)? Sure you can fight it out, but sometimes, especially if you're a big group, it's nice to sit together rather than try to find a block of seats that will accommodate everyone without being in the corners or up in the front.
It's not recompiling, it's re-linking. The code's already compiled and unchanging. Just instead of linking a.o, b.o, c.o and d.o in that order, you link a.o, c.o, d.o, b.o.
The result may not LOOK too different, but most linkers work linearly - so all the sections in the second binary will have a.o at the beginning, followed by c.o, d.o and b.o, while the first binary will have a.o, b.o, c.o and d.o in that order. The symbol addresses WILL be different even though in general the code is the same (after all, the only real thing that's changed is the jump addresses).
About the biggest issue would be things that use linker magic to produce arrays of pointers to symbols. For example, the order of the list of initialization functions to call will be different, and if there is a subtle dependency that is not captured properly, a submodule may initialize before its parent module. (This is how you can write a driver with proper flagging and have the kernel auto-initialize it even though you didn't put in an explicit call to the init function).
Linux right now is getting pwned. Or rather, Linux servers running vulnerable applications.
You don't hear much about them because they're Linux servers, and the vulnerable application is usually named instead of Linux, like WordPress, for example.
Of course, the goal is not to infect other Linux servers, but to infect websites hosted by Linux so people visiting those websites, invariably running Windows, will get infected. In other words, Linux is helping spread Windows malware.
(Snarky conclusion - get rid of Linux servers to get rid of Windows malware)
That's not what UBI is. And most humans will NOT want to stay at what qualifies for UBI housing. Either it's a single room with shared toilet, living space and kitchen, or it's a barracks style bunk beds with a foot locker for your personal stuff. That's what UBI provides. Sure, if you're lazy, you might be happy with shared living quarters, but most people want at least their own personal bathroom, which requires more money. Where's that money come from? Working, of course.
But instead of having to be forced to work as a janitor just to live, as you do today, perhaps you can work as a craftsman - whittling wood or something, who makes enough money to not only afford a better location, but doing what they love. And of course, paying taxes.
And people may be lazy, but they also are not lazy. Think of it this way - why do people do things for recreation instead of staying in bed all day on the weekend? They run, they do exercise, they do hobbies, etc. When instead they could be sitting on the couch watching TV with a beer in their hands?
Hell, even with UBI, most people like where they live, so they'll continue to work at their present jobs. Those who are unhappy will likely quit and find more satisfying jobs, not being stuck in a job just to make the mortgage payment and otherwise live. Others may take a pay cut to work less hours because they're not forced to work long hours just to survive, and use the spare time for things they may enjoy more, including raising kids.
No, UBI is not a utopia, but it's far from a disaster. There's a reason why people want to house the homeless and give them healthcare - it's cheaper to do so than for them to live on the streets and incur increased policing costs and healthcare costs. Hell, jailing someone costs over $100K a year. And those without healthcare use ER, the most expensive form of medical treatment available. It's far cheaper for them to be able to access a regular doctor and do proactive treatment than reactive treatment in an ER.
And if there's some idiot homeless person who spent all their UBI money on drugs, well, you can't really feel sorry for them anymore. Lock 'em up, I guess if they can't take care of themselves properly.
I believe eBay now self-hosts the images that show in the image side, but allow linking to external images in the listing itself. (So you have to post an image on eBay's system in order for the listing to have an image where people expect it).
And hotlinking of other people's images isn't an uncommon thing. I've seen many websites relink their photos because some idiot on eBay hotlinks the images. So what they do is simply replace the hotlinked image with something else and relink the image in their text with it.
And I've seen images changed from the item to clearly broken versions of the item (with the auction claiming "works!" but the screen is cracked, for example), to missing pieces (for "complete!" items, but now the image is missing a charger or other accessory), to goat porno and worse.
A stock exchange is a marketplace. It's a place where buyers and sellers gather. For you to sell a stock, someone has to buy it. And for you to buy a stock, someone has to sell it to you.
The price you see quoted is the "last trade" price - the price at which the buyer and seller agreed to trade stocks. There are two more prices - the "buy" and "sell" prices - the "buy" price is what the highest bidder is willing to pay, while the "sell" price is the lowest price a seller is willing to sell for.
When you trade, you may find your trade partially completed - that is, the seller only has 100 stock to sell, but you wanted to buy 200. In which case, most exchanges will complete the order for 100 stock and put you back in the buyer's queue for the remaining stock. (When you buy stock, you can put in a price and a duration for how long you're willing to offer to buy at that price. Likewise when you sell, you put in a price and a duration on how long you want to offer it for sale at that price).
If you want to play around, Steam is the best place because the trading system works exactly like a small scale stock market.
And if you need more examples - it's why news media reports about "oh look, hard to get item is on eBay for 10 times retail price" are completely meaningless - with stocks, just like with collectibles or hard to find stuff, you can ask whatever price you want. The real measure is whether the item SELLS at that price. If you ask 10 times retail price, and no one buys it, it's meaningless. You're just a chump trying to sell something and no one is buying.
The only thing with the stock market is that people can put stop-loss orders in which basically says if a stock suddenly goes down in value, to just sell it at whatever price you get for them, so basically whatever price the buyers will pay. But that's if they reacted and put in sell orders for that price. Buyers who see the low price and put in bids may not get them because none of the sellers are willing to sell at that price.
Uh, no one's done 3D facial scanning for authentication. Windows Phone and Windows itself (Windows Hello) use an IR camera purely because IR works better in more lighting conditions than RGB cameras do. (The image captured by IR cameras is more consistently lit even as you go from a bright room to darkness, whereas using a regular RGB camera will result in having to take multiple captures in various lighting conditions in order to be able to reliably authenticate in varying lighting conditions.
But it's still a 2D image, which people have faked using a simple photo.
SO presumably Apple's method will also use depth to verify it's a face and not a photo, and everyone hacking will need a 3D printed version of your face instead of just displaying your face on their phone...
I believe DOSSHELL was actually a version of Windows internally - 1.0 or so. Windows/386 didn't actually come about until 2.something which was able to run in "enhanced" mode that let you actually bust through the 640k barrier (I believe Windows/286 let you do it up to 1MB or so).
The graphical environment is very reminiscent of Windows 1.0, and 1.0 would run exclusively in conventional memory at the time.
GNU considers "binary blobs" or firmware to count only if it has to be loaded by the OS into the device. Firmware that is contained in some non-volatile storage medium on hardware is not considered to be "non-free".
So you can have two WiFi boards, one uses a firmware loader to load a firmware image from hard disk to it on bootup, and one that has the exact same image running from flash on the hardware. The FSF will consider the latter "free" the former not. Even though the software is identical on both.
The big problem with 7 year old hardware is the WiFi will be pre-N, and anyone using 802.11a/g would find transfers painfully slow. The only good thing is GigE is somewhat standard by then...
I find the places that expect you to bag yourself charges for plastic bags as well.
Which works fine for me - I bring my own (plastic) bags, so instead of advertising for them, I advertise for Walmart instead. OR since Safeway still gives free bags, I'll leave the non-Safeway grocery store advertising for Safeway.
OF course, I don't have kids or a spouse to help me out, and I shop for the week, so I have a few bags that I fill, which means if the cashier doesn't help me out, the next customer will be getting his stuff scanned and the cashier has to stop and wait for me because his stuff backed onto the scanner.
Can't rush me, I'm packing my goods using my own bags. Oh sure, the other customer can pack his stuff, but his stuff is right where the payment terminals are, so he's got to reach over, so even wife and kids are standing around waiting for me to pack my stuff.
At T&T Supermarket (Asian supermarket in western Canada), the cashiers DO help you - after you paid, they will pack your stuff in the bags while you sort yourself out to speed the line along. (You got to put cash back in your wallet and wallet back in pocket, etc, which can take a little time). So instead of the cashier looking around stupidly waiting for you to put your money away and your food into bags, they'll bag while they wait.
And they're scary fast - I was putting my money and coins away and by the time I was done, it was all neatly packed in bags.
Protip - never go in line with a single person who has a lot of groceries in a store with a pay-for-shopping-bags policy. Like me, they'll hold up the line packing their stuff away. If you see a spouse and kids hanging around, it's A-OK as they'll be packing while checkout is happening.
And I'm sure Zillow would be perfectly happy taking down the photos on the listings that the copyright holders have issue with. (It doesn't affect Zillow at all - only the homeowner whose listing is now without photos).
I think it's a general thing in Romantic countries - France and Italy are similar. My dad was convinced there's something about Italian beer and wine because while on a trip in Italy, he'd have a drink with dinner and not feel the effects as much as back here in Canada. I simply pointed out that our dinners in Italy typically lasted 2-3 hours with his drink lasting the entire time. While back home, the dinner is over in half an hour or so.
A slow dinner is a very nice thing to do on a vacation, and I know France/Italy/Spain have it as a social event.
And we're not talking about "fine dining" experiences either - I don't think the meals were particularly expensive (or the food particularly upscale), so it's really more an experience where eating happens to be a component of it. And no, you don't leave hungry or wish for the food to come out faster - it comes out "fast enough" while you enjoy the entertainment and time passes quickly. You might start dinner at 7pm and before you realize, it's 9pm when you finish dessert.
I believe there's been scientific study into showing that the siesta isn't just something cultural, but actually human. And afternoon performance does significantly improve after the siesta. It's also not strictly Spanish, for Italy also has it.
There's a natural low in energy around 2pm or so.
The value is that all the fake Paypal sites and banking sites are now secure! See the https? Secure! Like we taught everyone to trust the lock! Never visit a financial site unless you see the lock symbol in the corner of the window. It's the surest way to tell a fake site from a real site!
(Yes, it's a sad fact that a good majority of certificates are issued to phish users. We have to train users how to tell a real site from a fake site - no more relying on the lock).
They were always software switches. Because there's nothing physical you can hard wire to "write protect" the device. You can't do it to the flash chip because writing to the flash chip is a normal procedure in order to be able to read to it (you have to write commands and addresses to the chip).
Pre-USB days, you could hardware protect them by removing programming power - the old EEPROM chips required an external +12V supply in order to physically write to the array, so your write protect would simply ground the power pin. These days, program power is internally generated and internally controlled in order to program the chip optimally (the voltage required can be altered to keep the array at the optimal programming levels as well as to prevent excess wear).
Old-style BIOS chips could be write protected (Pentium era). Modern BIOS chips are LPC based.
But consider what it means. It means if you're a larger multinational or corporate franchise, you're likely just going to pay up because you can - everyone still visits their starbucks, for example.
But if you're a mom and pop coffeeshop, or other small business with one location, then the minimum wage is hurting your employees because you're forced to cut back on hours (and basically the owners work for free to make up for it).
In other words, the higher minimum wage helps you, if you're a larger corporate entity that can absorb it into the system (i.e. raise prices to compensate). If you're a small business, it's likely to hurt you - both your employees suffer (less hours) and you the owner suffer (more hours worked)
So it can be true that the "living wage" requirement both helps and hurts. If you're big enough, the employees benefit. If you're a tiny operation, everyone suffers. More starbucks, more chain stores, less individual boutique stores. Move over tiny coffeeshop, you're obsolete, make way for the starbucks train because you cannot survive.
Because the companies that make millions per hour in e-commerce spend money on security. Those that don't, don't usually make a heck of a lot money.
In fact, infected Linux machines is a popular way to infect Windows PCs - perhaps you heard of something called WordPress? Seems like vulnerable versions of it, as well as other CMS products are often ways to insert nasty javascript downloaders or other things to infect users.
And yes, infecting users at $100 a pop is far more profitable than infecting Linux servers - so you take down some guy's blog, big whoop - the guy loses out on $3 of ad revenue. But if you get to infect that guy's 1,000 visitors a day, that's a lot of money. Even if most don't pay up, that's easily $10,000 if just 10 visitors do.
Infecting Linux machines isn't profitable in an of itself, unless you manage to command enough of them that you can do some Bitcoin mining, but most machines are on VPSes that may send out alerts when the CPU load exceeds nominal. But using Linux boxes to hijack more valuable Windows ones is much more profitable, and since most of the changes are unseen, it can hide out for a very long time. Maybe even beyond the original infection vector.
That's the reason.
Think about it for a second. Ransomware only works when the malware developers are honest. In fact, many will walk you through the process of getting bitcoins and how to fix your computer, because they know it takes just one f**k-up to hose the entire business model.
All the user has is trust. Trust in that if they do these things, they'll get their data back. Once that trust is violated, it's game over.
So if the user sent the money, and didn't get the unlock key, you think the user will go around paying next time? No, and in fact, they'd post all over facebook about how they got ripped off and thus ending the problem once and for all. In fact, the malware authors are probably scrambling because they know that new victims are getting snared and there's no way to tell them how to pay to get their data back. And those new infected users are likely to be the ones who blast out that they got screwed over.
Letting users get screwed is the way to kill ransomware. If users cannot trust the person who holds their data hostage to give it back, they'll be unlikely to pay the person at all, leaving no money in it.
Harsh, but true. As long as people know that if they can pay, they'll get their data back, they will continue to pay. If people pay and get ripped off, they're not likely going to pay, and they'll tell others who are in the same boat that they got screwed so don't bother paying.
Exactly. I can't figure out how they didn't even spot-check that number. Sure the number of people on earth has nearly doubled in the past 100 years or so, but that's more of a fluke. At 6.3B people, that's a good chunk of the population (over 7B) most of whom are not able to get a smartphone capable of running apps that support the app economy.
It's not like the population of the earth is changing at such a rapid rate that it's unknowable. Just knowing it's over 7B means if your result is in the same magnitude as that means it's a big chunk of the population. Even if the last time you were told it's 5M (about 25 years ago) that's still something that makes you pause.
But then you run into people who want apps because they oppose DRM and things like EME in browsers so you can avoid using apps because the web should be free of such stuff.
And people who want half the stuff out of HTML5 because why does HTML5 need access to sensors and cameras and GPS and touch screens so you can implement apps as web apps without needing apps.
You can't win.
He's got a point though - there's a lot of entertainment out there and supply and demand and all. It's why I hardly buy games full price anymore - always looking for a discount. Steam sales are one I'm ruthless about - if you really want to pique my interest, get it below $5. I've learned to not bother otherwise - because I have so many games available, by the time I get to yours, you'd probably sell it for under $5 at that time.
Given the amount of entertainment out there, be it movies, TV, games, etc, there's a lot of supply for things to occupy time. Sure most of it isn't fungible, but who cares? I just have to wait and the price will come down eventually.