They should - as soon as the story broke - have moved their servers outside Russia and the reach of Putin, just to eliminate any possibility of interference. They didn't do that, which could be interpreted as unwillingness or similar, possibly due to legal pressure within Russia, keeping the rumor of (forced?) surveillance intact.
"I need to be able to reach my child in an emergency!"
"My child is special. He/She must be permitted to carry their cell phone."
It's the other way around - the child need to be able to reach his/her parents, in case of emergencies. No, using school facilities is not an option because quite often bullying is more or less 'protected' by the school, and extreme situations would have ended quite differently if parents have a direct knowledge of school-sponsored or encouraged bullying. Before Columbine it was quite normal to allow 'jocks' to bully 'nerds' or other groups that didn't conform to the schools idea of wholesome lives. Today we've seen a rise in religious bullying where non-christian (especially atheistic) students are openly bullied by other students and teachers alike for 'not believing' or 'not accepting God'. It is optimal to report incidents as they happen as many seem to lose the courage as the day goes by so they're quiet when they come home from school.
I was diagnosed with type 2 about 5-6 years ago. This was a 'random' diagnosis as it was detected in a blood test intended to check cholesterol levels.
I have never had a single of the symptoms usually associated with type 2: - No excessive thirst - No excessive urination - No hunger - No tiredness - No unexplained weight loss - Normal bowel movements - No strange pains in the extremities - No foot ulcers or similar issues. - No eye problems.
I'm never really sick (except for a cold maybe once a year) and I feel fine. I am overweight but I eat varied and lots of greens and a walk a lot, usually several miles a day, often more. I still take Metformin twice daily.
First issue is tracking employees without individual consent. Here I find it perfectly okay to use anti-tracking means. Second issue is the employee playing golf 140 times on company time. That is not okay.
One of the first things I learned in Computer Science 101 was to test properly. If you do a proper internal and external testing you can actually prove that your code will do exactly what it should under any circumstances. There can no be any overflows or unexpected behavior because the tests will already have tested that and revealed the problem.
The problem is - even a very simple program requires hundreds of tests. A slightly more complex program quickly ends up with many thousands. I wrote a simple chess program (simulates just the board and validates moves, not any AI to make moves) and the number of tests required to test it was in the neighborhood of 300.000 tests. Doing such testing on an OS or major application requires billions of tests and that is simply not feasible. Then you cut corners and approximate, testing only a tiny subset and catch maybe 80-90% of the issues. But the devil is in the details and that's where the hackers find their gold.
Exactly. Unless the system is beyond stupid and reveals the password to be correct before proceeding to the second factor. No need to tell the hacker that the password is still valid. With 2FA you have the option not to validate until all parts have been submitted and then you get either PASS or FAIL. Not knowing which (or both) factors failed with increase the search space by orders of magnitude. You may need to try every single password in the world with every single possible username and with every single possible second factor...
Restricting and blocking access to certain information is pure censorship. Why has it suddenly become both okay and the thing to do? This is wrong on so many levels.
That's the important question here. Why should we resist the spread of technology?
Just think about it. We've been dependent of various form of technology for centuries now. The post talks about smartphones (and cellphones) but that's just the latest piece of technology. How about houses? Heating? Electricity? Refrigeration? Vaccines? Cars? Roads? Trains?
The Unabomber basically advocated going back to the caves. Is that what we should? It's all a never-ending evolution of evermore complex technology so who or what decides where to 'stop' (if we can)? Was dumbphones really better than smartphones? Was it a better time when we were dependent on payphones outside our homes and businesses instead of cellphones? Was horse and buggy better than automobiles?
My personal opinion is to embrace technology and to push for an even faster technological evolution. I want my flying car, dammit!;)
I use DownThemAll daily and they can't upgrade as many of the OS/filesystem related functions they need simply don't exist in the new API, so I'm staying with 56 no matter what.
Been coding since early 1980's and I don't even own a hoodie... I've had plenty of friends, including girlfriends... For me coding was a social event, meeting up with friends and creating exciting stuff. Sure there are geeks living in the parents basement, but I doubt computer geeks do this more than other types of geeks. I think it's more or less pure fiction created by Hollywood.
Didn't the Supreme Court strike down every new version of the CDA on the exact grounds that 'offensive' wasn't clearly defined? - Because what is offensive to one may not even remotely be to others... Doubt that Facebook can do better in defining this.
Soon someone will launch an application to fight fake news fighters... and then a fake news fighter fighter... and a fake news fighter fighter fighter... Mine is bigger than yours!
I remember when it was possible to send someone in a car from Denmark to Spain or Portugal to buy hundreds of insulin pens from retail pharmacies, drive back to Denmark, replace the packaging and include danish language documents and still sell them with a comfortable profit to half the retail price in Denmark.
Of course they made that (parallel import) illegal because it cut into the massive profits reaped in countries where the national health service pay most or all of the costs of the chronic medicine users (like the diabetics using the insulin pens).
I don't like having pornography shoved in my face.
Huh? - If someone sends you pornography against your will - report it. It is banned at most workplaces anyway. Is this really a big problem? - Do women get sent pornography at work much? I've heard about female celebrities getting sent dick pics but that's about it.
Here at work I have a session with a gmail tab, a Google calendar tab, a Google docs tab, a zendesk tab and a dozen Atlassian Confluence tabs. It starts out with a usage of about 2.5GB and at the end of the day reaches 3.7GB... Opening the same tabs in Chrome takes about 800MB.
First of all, The Guardian is hardly a neutral media source; it's rather radical left leaning with a clear agenda.
Now, let me remind everybody that global warming is a theory like everything else in science. Even the laws of nature we use every day are basically just theories, usually backed up by a lot of evidence sure, but still just theories. Plenty of laws have been struck down or modified as new evidence comes to light.
Same thing with global warming. Right now lots of evidence seems to confirm this theory so that's what we chose to believe in.
But lots of evidence also indicate that we are not seeing the whole picture. Geological data points to much more radical temperature changes in the distant past and while we have theories that can explain cooling (nuclear winter effects from volcanic eruptions or meteor impacts etc.) we still have no causes except "humans" for warming, and yet it is clear that we've had periods with a much higher average temperature than we do now, even with the global warming in effect, at times when mammals were barely invented yet, let alone anything remotely like humans.
So - I'm inclined to invoke Occam's Razor here. Given the still unknown factor at play in the distant past, I'd rather believe that the same factor is a play again than something new and complex is doing the same thing.
Note that I'm not saying that humans are not causing some warming. I'm just saying that it might not be the complete picture.
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They should - as soon as the story broke - have moved their servers outside Russia and the reach of Putin, just to eliminate any possibility of interference. They didn't do that, which could be interpreted as unwillingness or similar, possibly due to legal pressure within Russia, keeping the rumor of (forced?) surveillance intact.
Trump gets a hard-on every time he gets to undo anything Obama managed to accomplish during his presidency.
This is exactly the point. Trump doesn't know or doesn't care about the topic, only that Obama did it so it must be undone.
"I need to be able to reach my child in an emergency!"
"My child is special. He/She must be permitted to carry their cell phone."
It's the other way around - the child need to be able to reach his/her parents, in case of emergencies. No, using school facilities is not an option because quite often bullying is more or less 'protected' by the school, and extreme situations would have ended quite differently if parents have a direct knowledge of school-sponsored or encouraged bullying. Before Columbine it was quite normal to allow 'jocks' to bully 'nerds' or other groups that didn't conform to the schools idea of wholesome lives. Today we've seen a rise in religious bullying where non-christian (especially atheistic) students are openly bullied by other students and teachers alike for 'not believing' or 'not accepting God'. It is optimal to report incidents as they happen as many seem to lose the courage as the day goes by so they're quiet when they come home from school.
I was diagnosed with type 2 about 5-6 years ago. This was a 'random' diagnosis as it was detected in a blood test intended to check cholesterol levels.
I have never had a single of the symptoms usually associated with type 2:
- No excessive thirst
- No excessive urination
- No hunger
- No tiredness
- No unexplained weight loss
- Normal bowel movements
- No strange pains in the extremities
- No foot ulcers or similar issues.
- No eye problems.
I'm never really sick (except for a cold maybe once a year) and I feel fine. I am overweight but I eat varied and lots of greens and a walk a lot, usually several miles a day, often more. I still take Metformin twice daily.
First issue is tracking employees without individual consent. Here I find it perfectly okay to use anti-tracking means.
Second issue is the employee playing golf 140 times on company time. That is not okay.
One of the first things I learned in Computer Science 101 was to test properly. If you do a proper internal and external testing you can actually prove that your code will do exactly what it should under any circumstances. There can no be any overflows or unexpected behavior because the tests will already have tested that and revealed the problem.
The problem is - even a very simple program requires hundreds of tests. A slightly more complex program quickly ends up with many thousands. I wrote a simple chess program (simulates just the board and validates moves, not any AI to make moves) and the number of tests required to test it was in the neighborhood of 300.000 tests. Doing such testing on an OS or major application requires billions of tests and that is simply not feasible. Then you cut corners and approximate, testing only a tiny subset and catch maybe 80-90% of the issues. But the devil is in the details and that's where the hackers find their gold.
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How many left wing nutjobs and so-called anti-fascistic fascists have had their twitter recognition and/or accounts removed?
Thought so. This is standard censorship where we block those voices we don't like hearing, leaving more room for those we do like.
Exactly. Unless the system is beyond stupid and reveals the password to be correct before proceeding to the second factor. No need to tell the hacker that the password is still valid. With 2FA you have the option not to validate until all parts have been submitted and then you get either PASS or FAIL. Not knowing which (or both) factors failed with increase the search space by orders of magnitude. You may need to try every single password in the world with every single possible username and with every single possible second factor...
Restricting and blocking access to certain information is pure censorship.
Why has it suddenly become both okay and the thing to do?
This is wrong on so many levels.
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Still not on. Not on snapchat nor on instagram.
That's the important question here. Why should we resist the spread of technology?
Just think about it. We've been dependent of various form of technology for centuries now. The post talks about smartphones (and cellphones) but that's just the latest piece of technology. How about houses? Heating? Electricity? Refrigeration? Vaccines? Cars? Roads? Trains?
The Unabomber basically advocated going back to the caves. Is that what we should? It's all a never-ending evolution of evermore complex technology so who or what decides where to 'stop' (if we can)? Was dumbphones really better than smartphones? Was it a better time when we were dependent on payphones outside our homes and businesses instead of cellphones? Was horse and buggy better than automobiles?
My personal opinion is to embrace technology and to push for an even faster technological evolution. I want my flying car, dammit! ;)
This is a flagship phone... Wonder how long it takes Samsung to patch.
I use DownThemAll daily and they can't upgrade as many of the OS/filesystem related functions they need simply don't exist in the new API, so I'm staying with 56 no matter what.
Been coding since early 1980's and I don't even own a hoodie... I've had plenty of friends, including girlfriends... For me coding was a social event, meeting up with friends and creating exciting stuff. Sure there are geeks living in the parents basement, but I doubt computer geeks do this more than other types of geeks. I think it's more or less pure fiction created by Hollywood.
Didn't the Supreme Court strike down every new version of the CDA on the exact grounds that 'offensive' wasn't clearly defined? - Because what is offensive to one may not even remotely be to others... Doubt that Facebook can do better in defining this.
Soon someone will launch an application to fight fake news fighters... and then a fake news fighter fighter... and a fake news fighter fighter fighter... Mine is bigger than yours!
The price differences are huge across Europe.
I remember when it was possible to send someone in a car from Denmark to Spain or Portugal to buy hundreds of insulin pens from retail pharmacies, drive back to Denmark, replace the packaging and include danish language documents and still sell them with a comfortable profit to half the retail price in Denmark.
Of course they made that (parallel import) illegal because it cut into the massive profits reaped in countries where the national health service pay most or all of the costs of the chronic medicine users (like the diabetics using the insulin pens).
I don't like having pornography shoved in my face.
Huh? - If someone sends you pornography against your will - report it. It is banned at most workplaces anyway.
Is this really a big problem? - Do women get sent pornography at work much?
I've heard about female celebrities getting sent dick pics but that's about it.
"The only difference is that Uber drivers don't have 1/10 of the knowledge of the streets and traffic patterns as real taxi drivers."
Which is a feature, not a bug. Uber drivers follow the company GPS route rather than the 'creative' route dreamed up by the medallion cabbie.
Exactly. There's much less route inflation with Uber.
Smaller memory footprint?
Here at work I have a session with a gmail tab, a Google calendar tab, a Google docs tab, a zendesk tab and a dozen Atlassian Confluence tabs. It starts out with a usage of about 2.5GB and at the end of the day reaches 3.7GB... Opening the same tabs in Chrome takes about 800MB.
First of all, The Guardian is hardly a neutral media source; it's rather radical left leaning with a clear agenda.
Now, let me remind everybody that global warming is a theory like everything else in science. Even the laws of nature we use every day are basically just theories, usually backed up by a lot of evidence sure, but still just theories. Plenty of laws have been struck down or modified as new evidence comes to light.
Same thing with global warming. Right now lots of evidence seems to confirm this theory so that's what we chose to believe in.
But lots of evidence also indicate that we are not seeing the whole picture. Geological data points to much more radical temperature changes in the distant past and while we have theories that can explain cooling (nuclear winter effects from volcanic eruptions or meteor impacts etc.) we still have no causes except "humans" for warming, and yet it is clear that we've had periods with a much higher average temperature than we do now, even with the global warming in effect, at times when mammals were barely invented yet, let alone anything remotely like humans.
So - I'm inclined to invoke Occam's Razor here. Given the still unknown factor at play in the distant past, I'd rather believe that the same factor is a play again than something new and complex is doing the same thing.
Note that I'm not saying that humans are not causing some warming. I'm just saying that it might not be the complete picture.
Running with the exact same number of tabs (pinned and regular) in two windows and similar extensions I get:
Startup and tab load:
Firefox: 72 seconds
Chrome: 15 seconds
Launch a new zendesk.com tab from a link in a mail (I do this a lot):
Firefox: 35 seconds
Chrome: 1 second
Memory use:
Firefox: 1750 MB
Chrome 114 MB
Firefox really needs to pick up its game!
I used to use this, because it was the best out there... but these days, and with all the pointless (to me) updates, I am close to removing it.
I have removed it. I use Solid Explorer now and it's better in just about every way.