It's not that smart people don't want the job, smart people aren't electable. During an election they'll inevitably make a comment that hurts a special interest group and get whisked out of the public spot light before the next sun rise.
the key differentiator isn't smart people. it's people of conscience. people of conscience couldn't tie themselves into the mental knots required to say things like the tea party: "keep government hands off our social security!"
It's the pandering that's the hardest part for a person of conscience to accept.
exactly. the criminals get them anyway but the innocent civilians cant protect themselves. do away with the gun laws and let people arm up to protect themselves and their families.
whats wrong with the xbox controller? I think it fits really good and the finger triggers are in a good place. my ownly gripe is that there aren't more dpads.
I think the greatest threat is not that passwords are too simple, but passwords are re-used.
I once queried one of my client's security tables to find the instances where multiple users had the same password (stored as a hash). Even though I expected some repetition, I was shocked at how many people had the same passwords.
I meant that a single user applies the same password to multiple sites. you're referring to many users who use the same password on one site.
which is what I do and what I tell everybody to do. it doesn't have to be hard, it can be a system that is easy to remember. It defeats the two biggest threats to a user: 1) brute forcing "123456" and 2) getting hacked on site X because somebody pwned your password on site Y.
I think the greatest threat is not that passwords are too simple, but passwords are re-used. cuz then it doesn't matter how secure your system is, if some other mofo is hacked and the user has the same pwd in both places, then you'll be compromised.
hint hint when you give users freedom to use a simple password that is easy to remember, they're more likely to use unique passwords. But when they have to use a c0mPleX! password, it will be reused because people's brains are only big enough for one complex password.
They can go through all the passwords with a leading capital letter in the same amount of time instead. (which is the obvious alteration 95% of users will make anyway)
I capitalize the first two letters, so I don't have this problem. Oh shizz jk jk jk I don't do that.
I spent two weeks in the UK recently, with their largely-unarmed police force in full showing (mind you, I also walked by Buckingham Palace and Parliament, where I saw very heavily armed cops). They know that the vast majority of their citizenry is similarly unarmed.
You know, I was in Beijing for the past week, and noticed the same thing. Lots of cops, but no guns. There were many military around tie amen square, posted as guards.they all had nightsticks, riot shields. And in some cases staffs like Donatello. But no guns.
If tablets were a fad, we would have seen sales peak early on and tell off after that once people realize they were a fad or moved on to something new. Instead what we have seen is sales continuously increasing year after year. It's clear that tablets will not sell as crazy as smart phones do, because it's clear that people are using them more as laptop replacement then sell phone supplements. So it looks like they're going to follow upgrade paths somewhere to laptops being multi year, rather than cellphones people getting a new phone with each contract renewal..
The stat that sales continue to be strong indicates that tablets are not a far, and the stat that the majority of visitors to US gov website are desktops indicates the tablets are not being used as a direct replacement to desktops. That should not really surprise anybody. nor does it imply or prove the tablets are a fad.
This is most certainly NOTprotected speech. It is a specific and immediate threat to harm someone. If Isis had posted something like 'death to soldiers' this might be protected because while it is a threat it is not specific or immediate.
maybe we can have enough uranium/plutonium to get the material into the center of the earth, but not enough to get out the other side. then all these nuclear reactions can restart the core!
But here’s a bigger question: If the cores are still so hot to do that – why are they not useful still to boil the water in the nuclear energy process?
usually, the temperature of the core is modulated by inserting carbon control rods. these absorb neutrons and slow down the chin reaction. without the control rods, the nuclear material heated so much that it melted (a "meltdown"), and spilled first to the bottom of the containment vessel and possibly through the vessel. remember as it sits in a pool of liquid uranium it's still really hot and active. the post above about melting down into groundwater, then exploding, seems sensible.
+1. americans are more likely to understand the reference to the china syndrome movie than know where uraguay is. FWIW I immediately saw the reference to the movie (although clever misspelling almost derailed me).
income tax is bunk anyway. according to Rousseau I'm a natural citizen and no nation has sovreignity over me so I decline to accept the imposition of a foreign nation's tax scheme.
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Because smart people don't seem to want the job.
It's not that smart people don't want the job, smart people aren't electable. During an election they'll inevitably make a comment that hurts a special interest group and get whisked out of the public spot light before the next sun rise.
the key differentiator isn't smart people. it's people of conscience. people of conscience couldn't tie themselves into the mental knots required to say things like the tea party: "keep government hands off our social security!"
It's the pandering that's the hardest part for a person of conscience to accept.
Lol I totally responded to the wrong post so my message above seems unrelated...
exactly. the criminals get them anyway but the innocent civilians cant protect themselves. do away with the gun laws and let people arm up to protect themselves and their families.
fun fact I did not do a poop for all of 8th grade. true story bro.
I found the mighty mouse/magic mouse really hard to use, but I really enjoy using the new trackpads, especially when enabling multitouch gestures.
whats wrong with the xbox controller? I think it fits really good and the finger triggers are in a good place. my ownly gripe is that there aren't more dpads.
does anybody use dual mice or track balls or track pads? that would be pretty awesome.
I think the greatest threat is not that passwords are too simple, but passwords are re-used.
I once queried one of my client's security tables to find the instances where multiple users had the same password (stored as a hash). Even though I expected some repetition, I was shocked at how many people had the same passwords.
I meant that a single user applies the same password to multiple sites. you're referring to many users who use the same password on one site.
which is what I do and what I tell everybody to do. it doesn't have to be hard, it can be a system that is easy to remember. It defeats the two biggest threats to a user: 1) brute forcing "123456" and 2) getting hacked on site X because somebody pwned your password on site Y.
I think the greatest threat is not that passwords are too simple, but passwords are re-used. cuz then it doesn't matter how secure your system is, if some other mofo is hacked and the user has the same pwd in both places, then you'll be compromised.
hint hint when you give users freedom to use a simple password that is easy to remember, they're more likely to use unique passwords. But when they have to use a c0mPleX! password, it will be reused because people's brains are only big enough for one complex password.
They can go through all the passwords with a leading capital letter in the same amount of time instead. (which is the obvious alteration 95% of users will make anyway)
I capitalize the first two letters, so I don't have this problem. Oh shizz jk jk jk I don't do that.
looks like I effed the url. https://takingsenseaway.wordpr...
Heres a better link: https://takingsenseaway.wordpr...
Now I read Papers Please . similar content, unfortunately lacks the humor/absurdity of taking sense away.
One of my favorite blogs calls these BDO's "truth wizards". Too bad the blog is dormant, it was always good for a laugh. Www.takingsenseaway.com.
I spent two weeks in the UK recently, with their largely-unarmed police force in full showing (mind you, I also walked by Buckingham Palace and Parliament, where I saw very heavily armed cops). They know that the vast majority of their citizenry is similarly unarmed.
You know, I was in Beijing for the past week, and noticed the same thing. Lots of cops, but no guns. There were many military around tie amen square, posted as guards.they all had nightsticks, riot shields. And in some cases staffs like Donatello. But no guns.
That's right. Look at Dick Cheney. He has no tattoos either.
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Why do Americans automatically accept that kicking the door down and holding everyone at gunpoint is a reasonable response to an anonymous 911 call?
Yes. This is the question that no one asks. Why we tolerate a culture in which police are empowered to kick in doors all the time.
If tablets were a fad, we would have seen sales peak early on and tell off after that once people realize they were a fad or moved on to something new. Instead what we have seen is sales continuously increasing year after year. It's clear that tablets will not sell as crazy as smart phones do, because it's clear that people are using them more as laptop replacement then sell phone supplements. So it looks like they're going to follow upgrade paths somewhere to laptops being multi year, rather than cellphones people getting a new phone with each contract renewal..
The stat that sales continue to be strong indicates that tablets are not a far, and the stat that the majority of visitors to US gov website are desktops indicates the tablets are not being used as a direct replacement to desktops. That should not really surprise anybody. nor does it imply or prove the tablets are a fad.
This is most certainly NOTprotected speech. It is a specific and immediate threat to harm someone. If Isis had posted something like 'death to soldiers' this might be protected because while it is a threat it is not specific or immediate.
maybe we can have enough uranium/plutonium to get the material into the center of the earth, but not enough to get out the other side. then all these nuclear reactions can restart the core!
But here’s a bigger question: If the cores are still so hot to do that – why are they not useful still to boil the water in the nuclear energy process?
usually, the temperature of the core is modulated by inserting carbon control rods. these absorb neutrons and slow down the chin reaction. without the control rods, the nuclear material heated so much that it melted (a "meltdown"), and spilled first to the bottom of the containment vessel and possibly through the vessel. remember as it sits in a pool of liquid uranium it's still really hot and active. the post above about melting down into groundwater, then exploding, seems sensible.
+1. americans are more likely to understand the reference to the china syndrome movie than know where uraguay is. FWIW I immediately saw the reference to the movie (although clever misspelling almost derailed me).
No, the reason Apple can't 'solve the TV problem' is because Apple is squarely a mobile-device company and TV is not a mobile problem.
i thought we were talkking about the company that has been making macintosh desktops for 30 years.
ATV has Netflix but not Amazon prime or Hulu. Also, wifey likes watching physical discs.
income tax is bunk anyway. according to Rousseau I'm a natural citizen and no nation has sovreignity over me so I decline to accept the imposition of a foreign nation's tax scheme.