But the Internet is different, since it's easier to check, and the penalties aren't really there, not to mention jurisdiction problems. Someone breaks into my house? Then it was almost certainly a local job, and the police will be interested.
You reckon? I've had intruders a couple of times, the cops came over, did a standard report then I never heard from them again. Most property crimes these days are treated simply as insurance issues.
My server is compromised by some kid in Romania? No one will care.
Firstly, most security issues are internal, so protecting yourself from kids in Romania should be way down the list of priorities.
Secondly, my piont was about the stupid recommendation for complex passwords. A complex password is more likely to be written down, thus making it less secure to your main threat, internal attack.
I don't think I've ever had a case where someone walked up to the door of my house and jiggled the doorknob just to see if it was unlocked, or walk around the side of the building to look through the window.
How would you know? When I was much younger, stupider and poorer we used to roam car parks checking door handles for unlocked cars to steal loose change and CDs. And I'd be lying if I said we didn't try it once or twice on houses too.
But if I set up a random generic computer facing the 'net, it won't take long before I can look through the logs and see dozens of random doorknob-jiggling events a day.
Which a stupidly complex password isn't going to solve, just like a door with 50 different locks on it won't make your house safer.
I'm not saying don't have a strong password, but since most attacks aren't brute force password guessing, stupidly complex passwords are almost worthless.
but for people like me with a very specific, sought after but in limited geographic areas, well paid skillset, I can't do better by going to New Zealand
I have no problem with this, your case is unusual. But you implied that this is also the case for 'many millions' of others Brits, which I don't think it is.
Based on my own experience, bus lanes often do create congestion.
Causes of congestion are well understood, and more lanes for cars doesn't help
Anyway the real problem is city planning. Because of traditions, everyone believes that higher density is the way to go. But it is the opposite. We should lower density by spreading out cities. Lower density not only means higher quality of life, but also lower congestion. More particularly, city centers should be eliminated. Office and shops should be spread out. to avoid everyone going at the same place at the same time.
Most cities have growing populations, and to cater for more people you can only go out (sprawl), or go up (density).
Sprawl means you need a car to get around, but the car simply does not scale as a solution in large cities, it is the cause of congestion. Underground/overhead rail is the only transport solution that scales to city sized populations. And Rail works best when everyone is within walking distance of a station (ie higher density).
I also hate all the buzz words and talk about being more agile, flexible, dynamic, and all that jazz. I'm sure IT personnel all around the world cringe when they hear words like that.
We love the word Agile around here. Where I work it means make it up as you go, or just get it done. No bureaucratic processes, no silly meetings, or review process, just give a capable person a task and trust they'll get it mostly right, and it works. I'm sure it's not supposed to be so loose, but the misunderstanding of Agile is actually producing results.
People driving beaters in my home town don't have $11k, nor the credit to finance such a purchase. They buy cars for under $2k and drive them for 10-15 years.
Since you can't buy a new car for under $2k we'll assume they are buying second hand. And where do you think second hand cars come from?
The purpose of bus lanes is to force people to use public transportation by giving it an unfair advantages by forcing everyone to waste resources so that it can monopolize them, which in turn actually creates traffic congestion. It's a stupid idea by and for stupid people.
I'm not even sure what gibberish you've written there, but it sounds like you're saying that bus lanes create congestion?
Cars do not scale in large cities, any simpleton knows that. And if you do some simple math, you'll realise there not enough land to build enough roads for everyone to drive their own car. So what's your solution smart one?
2) Each one better be 25+ characters of RANDOM data. Otherwise, you face a very realistic threat from brute force / rainbow tables cracking you in trivial amounts of time now or in the near future.
This is why no-one like Security 'experts'. Just because something can be broken into, doesn't mean it will. As demonstrated by the millions of locked houses with glass windows that aren't being broken into right now.
I don't think you can realistically de-link the two,
Of course you can, as I stated if you look beyond public transport as you only transport option. I live more than 45 public transport minutes from my office, but I cut that travel time in half by riding a motorbike. By doing this, I get a bigger house, and you could too.
That's all I was taking issue with - the idea that you'll inherently get a bigger house by moving to New Zealand - sure, if you live in London or some similar high density UK inner city area, but there's the whole of the rest of the country outside of London so it's an astoundingly ignorant comment to make.
The average house size in Britain outside of London is only 89m2: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/u...
I don't even know how you squeeze 3 bedrooms into 89m2.
As I said in my original response, do you have examples you could provide? Because I think your opinion is not based on reality.
This is why Imperial units got replaced, they are antiquated and make no sense in the 21st century.
Ya, base 2 systems have no place in the modern world.
Number systems with consistent bases have every place in the modern world, which is why Metric, which is decimal, Binary, Hex, etc are used so widely. Imperial on the other hand is sometimes base60, then base14, but sometimes base28, or base4, then there's the times it's base8, or base22, or base12. And that's not even scratching the surface. Do you you see the problem there?
I was looking at having to go from a decent size two story 5 bedroom detached house to a single story 2 - 3 bedroom detached house last time I looked about 6 months ago in the Auckland region where I could get an equivalent financial services software development job unless I was willing to pay much more.
Your issue is not one of house size, but public transport options, which of course will always be worse in a smaller, lower density location.
Where I live (not NZ) also has shit public transport options, so I ride a motorbike. You can move a lot further out to the bigger houses when you expand your transport options into the faster, more agile vehicle categories:)
Fahrenheit is a much better system for measuring human weather temperatures.
That's nice. Now how about all the other things temperature is used for?
I agree though, Imperial units are great if you a goat herder from the 8th century. It's just that we've all moved on since then.
You can evenly divide 12 sheep between 2,3,4 or 6 people. You can divide 60 sheep between 2,3,4,5,6,10,12,15,20,30 people. Not bad if you consider trying it with 10 or 100.
I'll remember that next time I have exactly 12 sheep and a group of either 2,3,4, or 6 people to divide them among. Hopefully I won't have 5,7,8,9,10, or 11 people, or any number of sheep other than 12 or 60 or I'm screwed.
This is why Imperial units got replaced, they are antiquated and make no sense in the 21st century.
Just imagine the harm that could befall the nation if one of those were to be intercepted.
Imagine if his unsecured phone gets hacked and foreign agents have access to his microphone and GPS. You'd be naive to think this hasn't already happened.
Perfect typography won't prevent someone from reading part of the text and ignoring the rest.
Of course it will, that is how typography works. Font sizes, colours and placement all help guide the eye to the important parts of any text. If you've ever marked up some text you'll know how useful some circling of words or a highlighter can be to put emphasis on the important bits
when I looked at moving to NZ I couldn't get anywhere near the same size house for equivalent money as I have in the UK. It was one of the things that put me off, knowing I'd have to downsize to move there.
Got any examples to compare? Google tells me the average house size in the UK is 76m2 compared to 205m2 in NZ.
They did when I went there about 10 years ago. I believe they changed the rules for the Beijing Olympics, but prior to 2007 you could rock up to the border and get a visa on the spot. I did it twice, once in Shenzhen and once in Pingxiang
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But the Internet is different, since it's easier to check, and the penalties aren't really there, not to mention jurisdiction problems. Someone breaks into my house? Then it was almost certainly a local job, and the police will be interested.
You reckon? I've had intruders a couple of times, the cops came over, did a standard report then I never heard from them again. Most property crimes these days are treated simply as insurance issues.
My server is compromised by some kid in Romania? No one will care.
Firstly, most security issues are internal, so protecting yourself from kids in Romania should be way down the list of priorities.
Secondly, my piont was about the stupid recommendation for complex passwords. A complex password is more likely to be written down, thus making it less secure to your main threat, internal attack.
I don't think I've ever had a case where someone walked up to the door of my house and jiggled the doorknob just to see if it was unlocked, or walk around the side of the building to look through the window.
How would you know? When I was much younger, stupider and poorer we used to roam car parks checking door handles for unlocked cars to steal loose change and CDs. And I'd be lying if I said we didn't try it once or twice on houses too.
But if I set up a random generic computer facing the 'net, it won't take long before I can look through the logs and see dozens of random doorknob-jiggling events a day.
Which a stupidly complex password isn't going to solve, just like a door with 50 different locks on it won't make your house safer.
I'm not saying don't have a strong password, but since most attacks aren't brute force password guessing, stupidly complex passwords are almost worthless.
but for people like me with a very specific, sought after but in limited geographic areas, well paid skillset, I can't do better by going to New Zealand
I have no problem with this, your case is unusual. But you implied that this is also the case for 'many millions' of others Brits, which I don't think it is.
beater == second hand in rough shape
Yes I know, and where do they come from?
Based on my own experience, bus lanes often do create congestion.
Causes of congestion are well understood, and more lanes for cars doesn't help
Anyway the real problem is city planning. Because of traditions, everyone believes that higher density is the way to go. But it is the opposite. We should lower density by spreading out cities. Lower density not only means higher quality of life, but also lower congestion. More particularly, city centers should be eliminated. Office and shops should be spread out. to avoid everyone going at the same place at the same time.
Most cities have growing populations, and to cater for more people you can only go out (sprawl), or go up (density).
Sprawl means you need a car to get around, but the car simply does not scale as a solution in large cities, it is the cause of congestion. Underground/overhead rail is the only transport solution that scales to city sized populations. And Rail works best when everyone is within walking distance of a station (ie higher density).
I also hate all the buzz words and talk about being more agile, flexible, dynamic, and all that jazz. I'm sure IT personnel all around the world cringe when they hear words like that.
We love the word Agile around here. Where I work it means make it up as you go, or just get it done. No bureaucratic processes, no silly meetings, or review process, just give a capable person a task and trust they'll get it mostly right, and it works. I'm sure it's not supposed to be so loose, but the misunderstanding of Agile is actually producing results.
People driving beaters in my home town don't have $11k, nor the credit to finance such a purchase. They buy cars for under $2k and drive them for 10-15 years.
Since you can't buy a new car for under $2k we'll assume they are buying second hand. And where do you think second hand cars come from?
The purpose of bus lanes is to force people to use public transportation by giving it an unfair advantages by forcing everyone to waste resources so that it can monopolize them, which in turn actually creates traffic congestion. It's a stupid idea by and for stupid people.
I'm not even sure what gibberish you've written there, but it sounds like you're saying that bus lanes create congestion?
Cars do not scale in large cities, any simpleton knows that. And if you do some simple math, you'll realise there not enough land to build enough roads for everyone to drive their own car. So what's your solution smart one?
2) Each one better be 25+ characters of RANDOM data. Otherwise, you face a very realistic threat from brute force / rainbow tables cracking you in trivial amounts of time now or in the near future.
This is why no-one like Security 'experts'. Just because something can be broken into, doesn't mean it will. As demonstrated by the millions of locked houses with glass windows that aren't being broken into right now.
I don't think you can realistically de-link the two,
Of course you can, as I stated if you look beyond public transport as you only transport option. I live more than 45 public transport minutes from my office, but I cut that travel time in half by riding a motorbike. By doing this, I get a bigger house, and you could too.
That's all I was taking issue with - the idea that you'll inherently get a bigger house by moving to New Zealand - sure, if you live in London or some similar high density UK inner city area, but there's the whole of the rest of the country outside of London so it's an astoundingly ignorant comment to make.
The average house size in Britain outside of London is only 89m2: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/u...
I don't even know how you squeeze 3 bedrooms into 89m2.
As I said in my original response, do you have examples you could provide? Because I think your opinion is not based on reality.
Typography would not have helped put the information in a better order.
Order was one problem, clarity was the other, as pointed out in TFS...
This is why Imperial units got replaced, they are antiquated and make no sense in the 21st century.
Ya, base 2 systems have no place in the modern world.
Number systems with consistent bases have every place in the modern world, which is why Metric, which is decimal, Binary, Hex, etc are used so widely. Imperial on the other hand is sometimes base60, then base14, but sometimes base28, or base4, then there's the times it's base8, or base22, or base12. And that's not even scratching the surface. Do you you see the problem there?
I was looking at having to go from a decent size two story 5 bedroom detached house to a single story 2 - 3 bedroom detached house last time I looked about 6 months ago in the Auckland region where I could get an equivalent financial services software development job unless I was willing to pay much more.
Your issue is not one of house size, but public transport options, which of course will always be worse in a smaller, lower density location. :)
Where I live (not NZ) also has shit public transport options, so I ride a motorbike. You can move a lot further out to the bigger houses when you expand your transport options into the faster, more agile vehicle categories
They still make sense, you just don't use them in practical ways.
Right, I'm holding it wrong....
Fahrenheit is a much better system for measuring human weather temperatures.
That's nice. Now how about all the other things temperature is used for?
I agree though, Imperial units are great if you a goat herder from the 8th century. It's just that we've all moved on since then.
You can evenly divide 12 sheep between 2,3,4 or 6 people. You can divide 60 sheep between 2,3,4,5,6,10,12,15,20,30 people. Not bad if you consider trying it with 10 or 100.
I'll remember that next time I have exactly 12 sheep and a group of either 2,3,4, or 6 people to divide them among. Hopefully I won't have 5,7,8,9,10, or 11 people, or any number of sheep other than 12 or 60 or I'm screwed.
This is why Imperial units got replaced, they are antiquated and make no sense in the 21st century.
Who cares. It's just a scale no different than celcius.
If it's no different then just use metric and we avoid these stupid arguments every fucking time this primitive unit of measure get mentioned
Car guys have known this for years except they use cooler words like stoichiometry.
I'm pretty sure researchers at the Carnegie Institute for Science know what it is too...
Trump is using an unsecured phone...
Just imagine the harm that could befall the nation if one of those were to be intercepted.
Imagine if his unsecured phone gets hacked and foreign agents have access to his microphone and GPS. You'd be naive to think this hasn't already happened.
Perfect typography won't prevent someone from reading part of the text and ignoring the rest.
Of course it will, that is how typography works. Font sizes, colours and placement all help guide the eye to the important parts of any text. If you've ever marked up some text you'll know how useful some circling of words or a highlighter can be to put emphasis on the important bits
Wellington has an excess of I.T. people... ...an unwillingness to pay a decent amount.
If you ever do a course in economics you'll learn how these two things are connected...
when I looked at moving to NZ I couldn't get anywhere near the same size house for equivalent money as I have in the UK. It was one of the things that put me off, knowing I'd have to downsize to move there.
Got any examples to compare? Google tells me the average house size in the UK is 76m2 compared to 205m2 in NZ.
I wouldn't say "significantly lower." Top income tax rate in California (state and federal combined) is around 39 percent..
Except the NZ top rate kicks in at $49kUSD ($70k NZD) compared to $418k in the US.
Not only that, but the economy is government heavy and doesn't pay their own people very well...
True, but money isn't everything
200Mbps products are the result of good telco policy.
Isn't UFB a govt initiative? Fucking socialists and your superior public services...
And others do not... China, for example.
They did when I went there about 10 years ago. I believe they changed the rules for the Beijing Olympics, but prior to 2007 you could rock up to the border and get a visa on the spot. I did it twice, once in Shenzhen and once in Pingxiang