That's why you choose a handful of passwords, of differing difficulty, and importance.
For instance, the password to your GMail account should include some number, letters, symbols, whitespace characters, Chinese / Japanese / Thai characters, musical / mathematical notation, and a statement that if read aloud in court would get someone in a heap in trouble (FBI, CIA, NSA, or someone else in trouble).
Conversely, the password to your Amazon account doesn't need the last three types.
We are trying to use technology to fix a social problem. The problem is that we are bred to continue the status quo, of self-selecting candidates who tell the boldest lies and deliver the maximum pain. Tech can't fix stupid...though Apple has proven it can be profitable as hell.
I know what you mean. Asus seems to be a part of that crowd these days, though they are gradually fixing things...
Which reminds me, one of those little patches killed my AI Suite 3 software (throws exceptions, Asus has already has a beta fix for it), and may have been responsible for my wonderful day rebuilding a Windows 2016 Server on an Asus Xenith motherboard (ThreadRipper 1950x). Went to bed fine, woke up with non-stop reboots and bugchecks / BSODs.
As for Asus, only a few more BIOS upgrades before my Corsair RAM starts running at 3200Mhz (currently at 2800Mhz, up from 2666Mhz). Stability, I like that.
Personally, I'd go with the Sound of Silence. Only need 79 or so of those USB Bluetooth dongles, paired with a few 10-port hubs, hooked up to a single laptop to make a moving wall of silence (among other things). No WiFi, no Bluetooth, no problem. Bonus points if you use a waveguide.
I don't know...adding even more distractions to the cellphone using, text-messaging crowd who sometimes pay attention to the road they are driving on sounds like an excellent method for thinning the herd.
Personally, I'm impressed with their ability to model particle physics on a planetary, nay, solar scale. I was not aware that we had a computer in existence with that kind of raw computational power, even for an extrapolation. And all those unknowns! The composition of the soil at the bottom of Marina Trench, the mantle, the inner and outer core, etc....we have surely discovered and confirmed all of these otherwise guesses...
And we can't cure cancer or AIDS, let alone create designer babies. We have nothing to fear. Unless it's idiots in backwoods garages offering 'super-baby' sperm which at best will be regular sperm, at worst someone playing mad gene splicer with human sperm (with predictably bad side effects).
This is more of a Science win (Why did we do it? Because we could!) being dressed up in FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt). The scientists involved did it because it sounded need (make germ cells from proto-germ cells? has anyone done this? why not?), probably tacked on with some "for the people reasoning" to get the necessary funding ("Umm, it could eventually allow couples lacking reproductive organs to reproduce?? At some point, several decades in the future, after many more grants...plz...").
Anyway, since it's not AI / Robot uprising week, or the NSA is out to get you week (and they really are), it must be Gender Wars week. So this piece of research gets politicized because le grand conspiracy of women everywhere to throw off their male oppressors using unproven technology (with the real results only coming to light 30-40 years later, when that 'tweaked' generation grows up), and that's how we got here.
There's that, plus the ability to pin a crime on anyone in a (half-decent) DNA database. Why? Because scientists are getting really good at creating DNA (and what have you) from recipes (electronic encoded information).
Just throw some DNA in the CRISPR, wait a day or two, and you have DNA evidence!
Really? This is hard to understand? The great white elephant that is national security has been ridden as far as it can go; it now is facing backlash (I mean, when the people you hire are unaware that the 'D.C.' abbreviation stands for 'District of Columbia,' you, as a Federal Senator / Representative / Lobbyist / etc., are on some really shaky, and potentially dangerous (to yourself) ground).
So, they are going for a new (and potentially safer, longer lasting) white elephant: space defense / security. Defense contracts that will employ hundreds of millions of people for 'threats' that may or may not exist...like certain forms of 'terrorism'...except without the accidental identification of human beings as potential targets (gotta make sure the aliens are alien enough). NASA will, no doubt, get a giant shot in the arm, to upgrade their observatories, to keep their eyes peeled for any 'strange' asteroids and what not.
Provided we don't actually encounter any aliens, or have encountered any, we are relatively safe from annihilation / self-annihilation for probably the next century. Which by then we will have a working fusion reactor, and a warp engine, and can focus on space colonization, instead of weaponization.
Agreed. It's been at least a year now that the Linux community has failed to put out a driver for AMD's latest that will actually let you drive a 4K monitor @ 60Hz. That just stings.
Prior to the World Wars? One of their own tried to take over Europe.
From a military standpoint, the French have only 'recently' had issues with the Germans. Before that, they had their own empire, and liked to screw with Spain, Britain, etc. for fun.
Whether the world is doomed or not is immaterial; what matters is whether you will wake up one day to find it doing things you don't like (especially to you).
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That's why you choose a handful of passwords, of differing difficulty, and importance.
For instance, the password to your GMail account should include some number, letters, symbols, whitespace characters, Chinese / Japanese / Thai characters, musical / mathematical notation, and a statement that if read aloud in court would get someone in a heap in trouble (FBI, CIA, NSA, or someone else in trouble).
Conversely, the password to your Amazon account doesn't need the last three types.
We are trying to use technology to fix a social problem. The problem is that we are bred to continue the status quo, of self-selecting candidates who tell the boldest lies and deliver the maximum pain. Tech can't fix stupid...though Apple has proven it can be profitable as hell.
Hmm
I know what you mean. Asus seems to be a part of that crowd these days, though they are gradually fixing things...
Which reminds me, one of those little patches killed my AI Suite 3 software (throws exceptions, Asus has already has a beta fix for it), and may have been responsible for my wonderful day rebuilding a Windows 2016 Server on an Asus Xenith motherboard (ThreadRipper 1950x). Went to bed fine, woke up with non-stop reboots and bugchecks / BSODs.
As for Asus, only a few more BIOS upgrades before my Corsair RAM starts running at 3200Mhz (currently at 2800Mhz, up from 2666Mhz). Stability, I like that.
Personally, I'd go with the Sound of Silence. Only need 79 or so of those USB Bluetooth dongles, paired with a few 10-port hubs, hooked up to a single laptop to make a moving wall of silence (among other things). No WiFi, no Bluetooth, no problem. Bonus points if you use a waveguide.
I don't know...adding even more distractions to the cellphone using, text-messaging crowd who sometimes pay attention to the road they are driving on sounds like an excellent method for thinning the herd.
That's because their Management Engine, while anti-customer, does work as intended. Their CPUs, on the other hand...
Personally, I'm impressed with their ability to model particle physics on a planetary, nay, solar scale. I was not aware that we had a computer in existence with that kind of raw computational power, even for an extrapolation. And all those unknowns! The composition of the soil at the bottom of Marina Trench, the mantle, the inner and outer core, etc....we have surely discovered and confirmed all of these otherwise guesses...
If we have a nuclear war, there might be.
Typically, the body eliminates immune cells that see itself as a target. Seems it missed one here.
"neat" not "need"
And we can't cure cancer or AIDS, let alone create designer babies. We have nothing to fear. Unless it's idiots in backwoods garages offering 'super-baby' sperm which at best will be regular sperm, at worst someone playing mad gene splicer with human sperm (with predictably bad side effects).
This is more of a Science win (Why did we do it? Because we could!) being dressed up in FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt). The scientists involved did it because it sounded need (make germ cells from proto-germ cells? has anyone done this? why not?), probably tacked on with some "for the people reasoning" to get the necessary funding ("Umm, it could eventually allow couples lacking reproductive organs to reproduce?? At some point, several decades in the future, after many more grants...plz...").
Anyway, since it's not AI / Robot uprising week, or the NSA is out to get you week (and they really are), it must be Gender Wars week. So this piece of research gets politicized because le grand conspiracy of women everywhere to throw off their male oppressors using unproven technology (with the real results only coming to light 30-40 years later, when that 'tweaked' generation grows up), and that's how we got here.
Wait. You define your existence by your ability to serve up sperm?
Hush. Let the genders think they have edged out each other for once. It's fun to watch.
Please, let them. Playing God with the procreation process is usually a civilization destroying process.
There's that, plus the ability to pin a crime on anyone in a (half-decent) DNA database. Why? Because scientists are getting really good at creating DNA (and what have you) from recipes (electronic encoded information).
Just throw some DNA in the CRISPR, wait a day or two, and you have DNA evidence!
George Carlin didn't understand how the mean (average) works in math, or was saying it ironically to see who would agree with that statement.
Mean, median, mode...
Bingo. Compared to Dick Tracy & 007's watches, these things are glorified LED bracelets.
It's hard for them to see them over the 'Outsource to {country} today!' pamphlet they have stuck in front of their faces.
Really? This is hard to understand? The great white elephant that is national security has been ridden as far as it can go; it now is facing backlash (I mean, when the people you hire are unaware that the 'D.C.' abbreviation stands for 'District of Columbia,' you, as a Federal Senator / Representative / Lobbyist / etc., are on some really shaky, and potentially dangerous (to yourself) ground).
So, they are going for a new (and potentially safer, longer lasting) white elephant: space defense / security. Defense contracts that will employ hundreds of millions of people for 'threats' that may or may not exist...like certain forms of 'terrorism'...except without the accidental identification of human beings as potential targets (gotta make sure the aliens are alien enough). NASA will, no doubt, get a giant shot in the arm, to upgrade their observatories, to keep their eyes peeled for any 'strange' asteroids and what not.
Provided we don't actually encounter any aliens, or have encountered any, we are relatively safe from annihilation / self-annihilation for probably the next century. Which by then we will have a working fusion reactor, and a warp engine, and can focus on space colonization, instead of weaponization.
Agreed. It's been at least a year now that the Linux community has failed to put out a driver for AMD's latest that will actually let you drive a 4K monitor @ 60Hz. That just stings.
Prior to the World Wars? One of their own tried to take over Europe.
From a military standpoint, the French have only 'recently' had issues with the Germans. Before that, they had their own empire, and liked to screw with Spain, Britain, etc. for fun.
The Flynn Effect is a myth.
Whether the world is doomed or not is immaterial; what matters is whether you will wake up one day to find it doing things you don't like (especially to you).
A limitation on your intelligence is not necessarily a limitation on another's intelligence.