You might as well type in random text, and not even bother to remember it, if you're going to use a password manager to store it.
You have to store the answers to the "security questions", because sometimes websites will require you to know them, even if you have your password. It's happened to me more than once.
Of course, they shouldn't actually be called "security questions" (since the purpose is not to enhance security, but to actually weaken it so customer service doesn't have to deal with people who forgot their password) but obviously they can't admit to that. And since they need to pretend it's about security, they also need to make it mandatory, even though it's pointless for people who use PMs and do backups regularly. We just grit our teeth and store the "security questions" in the PM, along with the passwords.
Use a strong random string as the answer, regardless of what the question is, and store it in a password manager (next to the question). Then the question doesn't matter, it's only used for lookup.
What is your mother's maiden name? JbdsxnzvB31M4uW0AxVsh2gIcFHhgN What is your favorite color? ESWKiF0J8IyZj7aZQzCjsAhGcyn4QC
You can view WSJ articles (up to 5 per day) by googling the title ("Nevada's Solar Flare" in this case) and clicking on the WSJ link. It's also possible to bypass the paywall permanently.
Once mass surveillance has been shut down completely, then maybe we can talk about ways for law enforcement to "work around" encryption in very limited and controlled ways[1].
They already have that - they can intercept the message before encryption, or after decryption. Of course, that needs to be narrowly targeted and doesn't work for hoovering up everything.
So on Tuesday, I asked him if he was still on track to reversing the aging process in the next five years or so. He said yes — and that it’s already happening in mice in the laboratory. The best way to predict the future, he said, is to predict things that have already happened.
Details. Is he talking about unpublished work? Does he expect these mice to live forever, or have only some aspects of their aging been reversed? If not all of them, then the ones that aren't will kill them eventually, so it's not true age reversal.
Caps are when bandwidth is cut off or throttled when you hit a threshold. Metering is when you're not capped, but instead price-gouged for any bandwidth over that threshold. The latter is obviously much more lucrative when there's no actual congestion.
I have a machine currently running Windows 7 that's not even capable of running Windows 10 (the processor doesn't support NX). And yet it nagged me to upgrade. I had to remove and hide the W7 updates responsible. It would be nice if those updates would check the hardware before nagging or doing the download.
Actually, it makes good sense to not worry much about asteroids - almost all of those that could cause extinction (1 km or greater) have already been detected.
The OP's article doesn't mention that the original target of discovering 90 percent of NEOs with a size of 1 km or greater (extinction-size) has already been achieved. The bar has been lowered to 140 m, but those aren't an extinction threat.
The article appears to only consider the risk of an individual dying, not the entire human race. The latter is much harder to recover from (we'd basically have to evolve all over again).
00:19:53 Okay, and then you and everybody else will go on making more and more. 00:19:57 And eventually you're gonna run out of places to put it, right? 00:20:00 That is a problem that we're trying to solve, and there are a number of long-range solutions. 00:20:06 Oh, yeah? yeah. 00:20:07 Opening new dump sites, use of salt domes, abandoned mines for long-term storage. 00:20:13 We may even find a permanent solution by rocketing our waste into space, out of the earth's atmosphere, traveling harmlessly out of our solar system. 00:20:25 And what if there's life out there that's not particularly interested in dealing with our garbage? 00:20:31 Well, then I guess they will just have to send it back.
I know it's not exactly what you're asking, but DNA sequencing is getting cheaper, our ability to understand it is growing, and yet it never occurs to most people to save a DNA sample. At some point, when sequencing becomes cheap enough to do casually (not just for medical purposes) people WILL start to understand its value, and wish someone had saved samples from their ancestors, not just some old photos. It's possible to arrange for the samples to be frozen indefinitely, at low cost, for future sequencing (since current technology is not only expensive, but more importantly, isn't actually capable of reading the entire genome yet).
We enjoyed being forgotten until google came along. This is not about imposing a "new" right, this is about enjoying what we the previous generation has as a freedom. This is about reclaiming what search engine stole from us. As I already said multiple time on slashdot, a society which do not forget , helped by a seaerch engine, is a pathologic society which does not forgive, and ruins potentially lifes forever.
Google is a memory prosthesis. The fact that such a thing did not exist until recently, does not mean that there has ever been a right to ban it. We're in a transitional period where people haven't yet learned to adapt to it by properly discounting the importance of long-past events. If we just ban it now, we never will. The damage done by the transitional period is temporary, that caused by continuing to forget as before is not.
"Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." -George Santayana
New Atomic Clock Reaches the Boundaries of Timekeeping
On Earth, maybe. It's not a theoretical limit - the article itself points out that you can put the clocks in space.
Ye suspects the only way we will be able to keep time in the future is to send these new clocks into space. Far from the earth's surface, the clocks would be better able to stay in synch, and perhaps our unified sense of time could be preserved.
You lost me when you assigned an arbitrary number as your cutoff rather than defining the cutoff on reasonably definable measures of physical and mental health.
Yes. Not only that, from the article:
As for the two policy implications, one relates to using life expectancy as a measure of the quality of health care. Japan has the third-highest life expectancy, at 84.4 years (behind Monaco and Macau), while the United States is a disappointing No. 42, at 79.5 years. But we should not care about catching up with—or measure ourselves against—Japan. Once a country has a life expectancy past 75 for both men and women, this measure should be ignored. (The one exception is increasing the life expectancy of some subgroups, such as black males, who have a life expectancy of just 72.1 years. That is dreadful, and should be a major focus of attention.)
Not only did he pick an arbitrary number, but he believes it should be used as public policy.
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Some password managers allow you to store description (arbitrary text) alongside the passwords.
That's what I do. MyPasswordSafe allows storing comment text with each entry, so I put the "security question"/answer pairs in there.
You might as well type in random text, and not even bother to remember it, if you're going to use a password manager to store it.
You have to store the answers to the "security questions", because sometimes websites will require you to know them, even if you have your password. It's happened to me more than once.
Of course, they shouldn't actually be called "security questions" (since the purpose is not to enhance security, but to actually weaken it so customer service doesn't have to deal with people who forgot their password) but obviously they can't admit to that. And since they need to pretend it's about security, they also need to make it mandatory, even though it's pointless for people who use PMs and do backups regularly. We just grit our teeth and store the "security questions" in the PM, along with the passwords.
Use a strong random string as the answer, regardless of what the question is, and store it in a password manager (next to the question). Then the question doesn't matter, it's only used for lookup.
What is your mother's maiden name? JbdsxnzvB31M4uW0AxVsh2gIcFHhgN
What is your favorite color? ESWKiF0J8IyZj7aZQzCjsAhGcyn4QC
Energy subsidies (discusses both fossil and renewable)
You can view WSJ articles (up to 5 per day) by googling the title ("Nevada's Solar Flare" in this case) and clicking on the WSJ link. It's also possible to bypass the paywall permanently.
Someone reading the WSJ editorial might get the impression that fossil fuel subsidies don't exist. Sure, get rid of the subsidies. ALL of them.
Once mass surveillance has been shut down completely, then maybe we can talk about ways for law enforcement to "work around" encryption in very limited and controlled ways[1].
They already have that - they can intercept the message before encryption, or after decryption. Of course, that needs to be narrowly targeted and doesn't work for hoovering up everything.
So on Tuesday, I asked him if he was still on track to reversing the aging process in the next five years or so. He said yes — and that it’s already happening in mice in the laboratory. The best way to predict the future, he said, is to predict things that have already happened.
Details. Is he talking about unpublished work? Does he expect these mice to live forever, or have only some aspects of their aging been reversed? If not all of them, then the ones that aren't will kill them eventually, so it's not true age reversal.
Caps are when bandwidth is cut off or throttled when you hit a threshold. Metering is when you're not capped, but instead price-gouged for any bandwidth over that threshold. The latter is obviously much more lucrative when there's no actual congestion.
I have a machine currently running Windows 7 that's not even capable of running Windows 10 (the processor doesn't support NX). And yet it nagged me to upgrade. I had to remove and hide the W7 updates responsible. It would be nice if those updates would check the hardware before nagging or doing the download.
Actually, it makes good sense to not worry much about asteroids - almost all of those that could cause extinction (1 km or greater) have already been detected.
The OP's article doesn't mention that the original target of discovering 90 percent of NEOs with a size of 1 km or greater (extinction-size) has already been achieved. The bar has been lowered to 140 m, but those aren't an extinction threat.
The article appears to only consider the risk of an individual dying, not the entire human race. The latter is much harder to recover from (we'd basically have to evolve all over again).
Ah, I don't have to reload, flipping between different resolutions is faster.
Getting just a few seconds of video and then having to hit reload, over and over, isn't exactly my idea of live.
From Barney Miller S07E18 Lady and the Bomb:
00:19:53 Okay, and then you and everybody else will go on making more and more.
00:19:57 And eventually you're gonna run out of places to put it, right?
00:20:00 That is a problem that we're trying to solve, and there are a number of long-range solutions.
00:20:06 Oh, yeah? yeah.
00:20:07 Opening new dump sites, use of salt domes, abandoned mines for long-term storage.
00:20:13 We may even find a permanent solution by rocketing our waste into space, out of the earth's atmosphere, traveling harmlessly out of our solar system.
00:20:25 And what if there's life out there that's not particularly interested in dealing with our garbage?
00:20:31 Well, then I guess they will just have to send it back.
I know it's not exactly what you're asking, but DNA sequencing is getting cheaper, our ability to understand it is growing, and yet it never occurs to most people to save a DNA sample. At some point, when sequencing becomes cheap enough to do casually (not just for medical purposes) people WILL start to understand its value, and wish someone had saved samples from their ancestors, not just some old photos. It's possible to arrange for the samples to be frozen indefinitely, at low cost, for future sequencing (since current technology is not only expensive, but more importantly, isn't actually capable of reading the entire genome yet).
I suspect that this will be one of the most expensive treatments ever.
Treating aging directly should be cheaper in the long run than treating all age-related diseases separately, which is what we're doing now.
We enjoyed being forgotten until google came along. This is not about imposing a "new" right, this is about enjoying what we the previous generation has as a freedom. This is about reclaiming what search engine stole from us. As I already said multiple time on slashdot, a society which do not forget , helped by a seaerch engine, is a pathologic society which does not forgive, and ruins potentially lifes forever.
Google is a memory prosthesis. The fact that such a thing did not exist until recently, does not mean that there has ever been a right to ban it. We're in a transitional period where people haven't yet learned to adapt to it by properly discounting the importance of long-past events. If we just ban it now, we never will. The damage done by the transitional period is temporary, that caused by continuing to forget as before is not.
"Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." -George Santayana
New Atomic Clock Reaches the Boundaries of Timekeeping
On Earth, maybe. It's not a theoretical limit - the article itself points out that you can put the clocks in space.
Ye suspects the only way we will be able to keep time in the future is to send these new clocks into space. Far from the earth's surface, the clocks would be better able to stay in synch, and perhaps our unified sense of time could be preserved.
In the long term, the value of a stock is it's future free cash to shareholders, discounted by time and
risk.
The magic phrase is Dividend discount model.
There should be a duress password to indicate coercion.
You lost me when you assigned an arbitrary number as your cutoff rather than defining the cutoff on reasonably definable measures of physical and mental health.
Yes. Not only that, from the article:
As for the two policy implications, one relates to using life expectancy as a measure of the quality of health care. Japan has the third-highest life expectancy, at 84.4 years (behind Monaco and Macau), while the United States is a disappointing No. 42, at 79.5 years. But we should not care about catching up with—or measure ourselves against—Japan. Once a country has a life expectancy past 75 for both men and women, this measure should be ignored. (The one exception is increasing the life expectancy of some subgroups, such as black males, who have a life expectancy of just 72.1 years. That is dreadful, and should be a major focus of attention.)
Not only did he pick an arbitrary number, but he believes it should be used as public policy.
One warrant canary conveys 1 bit of data. How many are allowed? Has anyone gotten away with using more than one?