It's a shame they haven't adopted what3words (https://www.ted.com/talks/chris_sheldrick_a_precise_three_word_address_for_every_place_on_earth) instead - Easily rememberable addresses like "blocks.evenly.breed", vs "F26X+9F Gurugram" as a Plus Code.
1. Stop reading the news. It's amazing how (1) information isn't really all that important, nor informative and (2) you tend to get to know important information by IRL socialising. 2. Deactivate your Facebook. Or at least, remove the bloody app from your phone and stop checking it every damn day. 3. Socialise with real people, in real life. Have meaningful conversations.
Intuitive really doesn't exist in the computing world. It's all about familiarity.
How are you meant to know that moving the plastic thing with a wheel corresponds to moving pixels on a screen? Or caressing the touchpad on your laptop. You only know about the F/J keys because you were told (in some way).
The Mac and PC HIDs are sufficiently different enough that PC people really struggle with Mac keyboard/Mouse shortcuts and use (and vice-versa).
People don't buy a phone to get Google Now or Siri, it's a convenient extra. People buy the Echo almost certainly for the voice control as that is it's main selling point. Numbers aside, 3x growth at that scale appears to indicate ongoing and growing demand.
The scanning part isn't the problem, it's everything else that is: The triplicate passport checks, the questions, the confused passengers, having to take off your belt, coats (and sometimes shoes), laptops, loading onto the belt... and the reverse after scanning - And that's just the inefficiency in the security line process.
Tesla took a huge risk by taking a completely new technology (battery-powered cars) and applying it in a completely new and untested way (performance car). They went into it knowing that they'd be taking a loss for the medium term.
If Tesla are already at taking only a $4k loss / 10% loss, they're doing extremely well: - The "Supercharger" units that are being aggressively installed across many countries will be accounted for within this unit cost... It won't be long until they reach diminshing returns on their deployment, and the impact of this will tail off. - They added a number of new product lines, all sinking huge money into R&D. They're close to establishing a range of products so the impact of this will tail off shortly.
Musk could easily choose to add $4k to the sale cost of each cars with minimal impact and result in a 0-dollar P/L, but increasing production count ensures far better long-term return by economies of scale improvements, as well as learning opportunities when scaling aggressively.
"There is, however, one large problem: What if a person mistypes a password? In that scenario, a fake vault is generated, and a user is locked out of his or her accounts."
This is the weak point - It forces the user, or the system, to generate an additional artifact to inform the user (but hopefully not the attacker) that the password safe is correctly unlocked.
"One possible fix is to create a hash of the master password that is linked to an image that is shown when the password is entered. The authorized user should recognize when the wrong image is displayed, but an attacker would not."
I'd expect this one image to be shown only when the master password is entered. i.e. it is an unique indicator. Fake images will need to be generated for all other passwords, and if there are duplicates then they can be eliminated as false-positives. Strategies like this will always be the weak point. It's commendable that they're attempting to fix the problem, lets just hope the additional complexity doesn't weaken the system overall.
Amazon isn't 'losing money' - Just take a look at it's top-line growth vs capital expenditure.
Amazon is re-invest revenue instead of distributing back to stakeholders, or keeping cash in the bank. Cash in the bank is seen as waste. Instead, cash re-invested is being leveraged to create accelerated future growth.
I hope the malware writers (or the US gov't) have agreed their license fees with the respective record companies, otherwise they'll find themselves in a world of pain!
And we do have an idea of what's actually going on. Here's a detailed example of the recent Facebook IPO problems: http://www.nanex.net/aqck/3099.html.
Privacy and security are almost never a zero sum game. In this case, reducing privacy isn't going to help find more 'criminal/terrorist activity'; It will just cause them to use Freenet, TOR, steganography, for comunication etc. instead and result in making it even harder to track real criminal activity.
Secondly, common people are really really bad at making these risk-reward trade-offs (for instance, many people have a fear of flying, but a more rational reaction would be to have a fear of travelling to get a flight as you're more likely to get killed in a car/bus on the way to your flight, than actually flying; you may tell your children to 'never talk to strangers', but in fact that would put them in a far worse position if they ever got lost -- the huge majority of people are not evil! etc.) - we'd be better off delegating to a panel of economists and statisticians to determine the outcome.
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The challenge vs skill image at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mihaly_Csikszentmihalyi sums this up I think - Anxiety happens because you're not in control (either you've not organised your thoughts/tasks as well as you need, or you haven't yet enough skill to be able to counteract it).
Exercise will help, but it won't get rid of the underlying reason for your anxiety. Find out what it is then determine how you can fix it.
The business will go on if you're not around for a day/week/month. Know this and stop holding everything on your own shoulders. Stop thinking about work out of work (turn your phone off when you're not in work (and not 'on call')) and enjoy life more.
A non-technical manager of a technical department will never be able to make the type of informed decision that a previously technical manager would be able to.
That's why companies like Google and Amazon are performing and scaling so well - because their IT management structure were geeks too.
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It's a shame they haven't adopted what3words (https://www.ted.com/talks/chris_sheldrick_a_precise_three_word_address_for_every_place_on_earth) instead - Easily rememberable addresses like "blocks.evenly.breed", vs "F26X+9F Gurugram" as a Plus Code.
How do you avoid information overload?
Make space in your life.
1. Stop reading the news. It's amazing how (1) information isn't really all that important, nor informative and (2) you tend to get to know important information by IRL socialising.
2. Deactivate your Facebook. Or at least, remove the bloody app from your phone and stop checking it every damn day.
3. Socialise with real people, in real life. Have meaningful conversations.
You could roll your own remote/Cloud backup with Duply/Duplicity and AWS S3. It will be a few dollars per month
http://duply.net/
Intuitive really doesn't exist in the computing world. It's all about familiarity.
How are you meant to know that moving the plastic thing with a wheel corresponds to moving pixels on a screen? Or caressing the touchpad on your laptop. You only know about the F/J keys because you were told (in some way).
The Mac and PC HIDs are sufficiently different enough that PC people really struggle with Mac keyboard/Mouse shortcuts and use (and vice-versa).
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People don't buy a phone to get Google Now or Siri, it's a convenient extra. People buy the Echo almost certainly for the voice control as that is it's main selling point. Numbers aside, 3x growth at that scale appears to indicate ongoing and growing demand.
The scanning part isn't the problem, it's everything else that is: The triplicate passport checks, the questions, the confused passengers, having to take off your belt, coats (and sometimes shoes), laptops, loading onto the belt... and the reverse after scanning - And that's just the inefficiency in the security line process.
Tesla took a huge risk by taking a completely new technology (battery-powered cars) and applying it in a completely new and untested way (performance car). They went into it knowing that they'd be taking a loss for the medium term.
If Tesla are already at taking only a $4k loss / 10% loss, they're doing extremely well:
- The "Supercharger" units that are being aggressively installed across many countries will be accounted for within this unit cost... It won't be long until they reach diminshing returns on their deployment, and the impact of this will tail off.
- They added a number of new product lines, all sinking huge money into R&D. They're close to establishing a range of products so the impact of this will tail off shortly.
Musk could easily choose to add $4k to the sale cost of each cars with minimal impact and result in a 0-dollar P/L, but increasing production count ensures far better long-term return by economies of scale improvements, as well as learning opportunities when scaling aggressively.
"There is, however, one large problem: What if a person mistypes a password? In that scenario, a fake vault is generated, and a user is locked out of his or her accounts."
This is the weak point - It forces the user, or the system, to generate an additional artifact to inform the user (but hopefully not the attacker) that the password safe is correctly unlocked.
"One possible fix is to create a hash of the master password that is linked to an image that is shown when the password is entered. The authorized user should recognize when the wrong image is displayed, but an attacker would not."
I'd expect this one image to be shown only when the master password is entered. i.e. it is an unique indicator. Fake images will need to be generated for all other passwords, and if there are duplicates then they can be eliminated as false-positives. Strategies like this will always be the weak point. It's commendable that they're attempting to fix the problem, lets just hope the additional complexity doesn't weaken the system overall.
That's fine, just be aware that Indispensable == Unpromotable.
The Gap Between What The US Public Thinks And What Scientists Know.
Amazon isn't 'losing money' - Just take a look at it's top-line growth vs capital expenditure.
Amazon is re-invest revenue instead of distributing back to stakeholders, or keeping cash in the bank. Cash in the bank is seen as waste. Instead, cash re-invested is being leveraged to create accelerated future growth.
*braces self for goatse picture*
I hope the malware writers (or the US gov't) have agreed their license fees with the respective record companies, otherwise they'll find themselves in a world of pain!
And we do have an idea of what's actually going on. Here's a detailed example of the recent Facebook IPO problems: http://www.nanex.net/aqck/3099.html.
Announcement: http://www.gimp.org/
Release Notes: http://www.gimp.org/release-notes/gimp-2.8.html
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Privacy and security are almost never a zero sum game. In this case, reducing privacy isn't going to help find more 'criminal/terrorist activity'; It will just cause them to use Freenet, TOR, steganography, for comunication etc. instead and result in making it even harder to track real criminal activity.
Secondly, common people are really really bad at making these risk-reward trade-offs (for instance, many people have a fear of flying, but a more rational reaction would be to have a fear of travelling to get a flight as you're more likely to get killed in a car/bus on the way to your flight, than actually flying; you may tell your children to 'never talk to strangers', but in fact that would put them in a far worse position if they ever got lost -- the huge majority of people are not evil! etc.) - we'd be better off delegating to a panel of economists and statisticians to determine the outcome.
More to the point, the phones would have to be Ethernet compatible. This pretty much means VoIP and the large infrastructure that comes with it.
The biggest concern is probably land line availability in an emergency.
This plugin has been really useful to fix this problem: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/is-it-compatible/
Sounds like a job for dpkg
The challenge vs skill image at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mihaly_Csikszentmihalyi sums this up I think - Anxiety happens because you're not in control (either you've not organised your thoughts/tasks as well as you need, or you haven't yet enough skill to be able to counteract it).
Exercise will help, but it won't get rid of the underlying reason for your anxiety. Find out what it is then determine how you can fix it.
The business will go on if you're not around for a day/week/month. Know this and stop holding everything on your own shoulders. Stop thinking about work out of work (turn your phone off when you're not in work (and not 'on call')) and enjoy life more.
Congratulations, you have just invented VBA and macros.
A non-technical manager of a technical department will never be able to make the type of informed decision that a previously technical manager would be able to.
That's why companies like Google and Amazon are performing and scaling so well - because their IT management structure were geeks too.
It doesn't make a lot of sense to me to implement this into the driver, considering no windows code can interface with it.
Wouldn't it have made more sense to just implement this at the Wine layer?