Adobe has managed to reincarnate ActiveX in the form of Flash. Why is is this junk still being used? It's apparently got an attack surface the size of Jupiter...
It's interesting that all of these "onoes errybody using the same password errywhere" stories fail to point out that the junk logins required by almost every site for the purpose to collecting ad demo data essentially feed weak passwords to black hats. This has trained many people to use the same password everywhere, since no sane person will maintain and memorize separate passwords for dozens of sites, many of which they may just utilize for entertainment. Combined with the weak security even major players (c.f. Sony) have been shown to use, this is now a bottomless cornucopia of id theft data. Since it's well known that a large proportion of user demo data entered along with these logins is also junk, the smart guys use bugs and IP tracking, and profiling of various kinds to collect this data now anyway, so it's not even useful to have local logins for that purpose. It's time for sites to Just Say NO To Junk Logins...
Tidal interaction has nothing to do with it. Actually, the Earth's magnetic field would likely be stronger without the Moon since tidal interactions have transferred angular momentum to the Moon and slowed the Earth's spin over geologic time.
Mars' core has likely long solidified given its small size and Venus rotates very slowly, which is why neither of them has a significant active dynamo.
It seems very scary that on an aircraft with everything working but the airspeed indicators (and I understand that those are very important), after more than 3 1/2 minutes the aircrew was unable to prevent the plane from hitting the ocean. This was a state of the art aircraft. Makes you wonder how many close calls there have been that luckily didn't result in catastrophe.
The project is certainly threatened by Chrome, and has no chance to beat it given that it's Google's own browser, so these efforts to ride along on Chrome's publicity ultimately are doomed to fail. As long as Google commits resources to develop Chrome anyway. The issue is that if you have the skills to produce a browser that is on a par with Chrome, why would you not take a big salary to work ON Chrome.
I personally think Firefox should focus on the privacy/security aspects of the experience and make it clear they are the anti-Chrome aka extension of Google's tentacles onto all aspects of your online existence. I honestly have no idea what the strategy is at Mozilla right now, and I suspect neither do they. Trying to be some kind of cuddlier but much slower version of Chrome is very 'wut?' to me.
Yes, when I saw arXiv, I knew I was dealing with another Sasquatch sighting. I don't know why people insist on reporting stories off there, it's basically tabloid science, aka stuff that will never pass peer review and likely never be heard about again...
Exactly. I'm not "scared" of nuclear power, I'm an engineer and I understand the concepts of risk and failure mode effects analysis. The problem is primarily management failures in most of these high-profile accidents, as summarized by the poster above. There is no way to eliminate those on long enough time scales because human beings make mistakes. The problem with nuclear power is that the catastrophe scenario is very, very bad, and the timescale to react is very short. The latest update from Fukushima is that according to simulations based on the data they have, the Unit 1 reactor began melting down within 16 hours after loss of core cooling.
My feeling from reading some of the responses from people who are in favor of nuclear power is that for some people it reduces to an attachment to the technology. It's pretty cool to have the ability to split the atom to generate power (even though it's ultimately just boiling water). There's a visceral pride we feel in being able to harness something inherently very dangerous. Until it gets away from us.
So it seems clear at this point that all three of the damaged reactors are leaking water, meaning, logically, that the containments are breached in all of them. Building 4's spent fuel pool also is suspected to be leaking. Where are the tons of water they are pumping in every day going? The turbine building basements so not have infinite capacity, and that much water won't evaporate at any speed from inside underground spaces...
That was probably back when the US had graduate students in math and science. They're off discussing CDOs and other advanced variations on the old shell game now.
What happens if (I know this never happens in real life, LOL) but hypothetically, what happens if something interrupts the communication from the plane, say for example when it is upside-down in a raging thunderstorm plunging towards the ocean surface?
You would still need a backup flight recorder. The advantage of the inflight system is that you might obviate having to find wreckage in a case like the Air France flight, but in exchange you would have to be constantly storing telemetry data from thousands of commercial flights a day; this would cost more on a yearly basis than spending $20M to send bots to the ocean floor for the once in a generation crash like this.
This issue at hand is that Dropbox claimed your data was secure. Those with a technical background or a cynical bent would assume that was b.s. but an average person would perhaps take them at their word. So it's valid to call them on the misinformation. The accurate information would be that your data is secure in transit, but accessible to anybody that has direct access to the files, which would of course include Dropbox itself. I actually would hope the keys are not colocated with the data; if that is the case, then at least ONLY Dropbox employees can access your data, otherwise, anybody that can crack the S3 cloud could do it.
The main problem with the short-term mentality is the structure of corporate management and financing, as John Bogle has pointed out. The 'owners' of most large corporations are passive investors. The company is controlled by top management for its own personal renumeration; essentially the enterprise works for the top dozen or so executive managers. In the current compensation system, most of their gains come about via either gross profit based bonus plans or stock price increases. Almost all of these are typically short-term, i.e. 10 years or less systems, so it is economically rational for these managers to pursue whatever strategy will best produce the highest 10 year return to themselves. Given that the compensation generally will produce permanent great wealth for these managers in that time period, the fate of the enterprise past that timeframe is irrelevant.
I don't claim to know how you fix this, it's intrinsic to the current Western corporate structure.
>effective military As you note, these 'asymmetric wars' are part of the reason for negative sentiment, because the US is losing them. The people in the areas we are occupying don't want us there, and it is impossible to win a counter-insurgency war without engaging in mass genocide or a decades-long colonization strategy (usually both are needed, actually) if the population does not support you. So the military has been, and will be ineffective and that certainly makes the US look weak.
Worse, this ineffective military of ours is heinously expensive, we spend more than the next five largest militaries on the planet combined. And this expense is borne by deficit spending, which drains the non-military economy of capital and requires us to get the rest of the world to pay for our armed forces. It's not a sustainable situation, and the "defense" budget is one of the biggest problems with the government deficit. We're bleeding billions of dollars a month overseas that goes straight out of the economy.
Cheap talk coming from someone sitting at their desk with a Big Mac.
These guys didn't know what the rad levels really were, and it's well known that there are always random hotspots where fallout gets concentrated. They weren't going to die on the spot from walking around, but they were certainly risking their health in that area. I credit these guys for getting off their duff and trying to produce some kind of data on the ground in the evacuation zone. This is more enlightening than anything that has come out of TEPCO or the Japanese government.
Maybe you should find out what people are using the DB access for first...at my company, we use it as a working drop for communicating external documents with outside vendors, more convenient than shoveling everything around via email.
My old joke about the ideal network for the network admin is a single computer in a bank vault, unplugged. It's unfortunate that the job basically is all downside in terms of incidents, but ultimately the job should still be to *facilitate* employee access to company data, customers, and each other. Otherwise you are actively impeding the profitability of your company.
This is also not a good link, because that ACLU map is completely wrong at least as far as Chicago is concerned. The United States asserts full territorial sovereignty over Lake Michigan and that is considered to be within the United States in its entirety. This inconveniently removes a large population from the ACLU's Dramatic Map but if they wanted to be accurate, they would remove the "border" region around Lake Michigan.
I don't disagree that it still seems like an overly broad interpretation of "border", but it would be more interesting to know if this has been challenged in Federal Court on constitutional grounds.
Why not just take the Chromium tree and figure out how to run Firefox extensions on there and just call that Firefox? Would save time and have much better memory use and performance. Firefox is basically converging on a Chrome clone with slightly worse performance and some dumb UI hacks that will end up largely unused/abandoned (like Panorama).
Isn't all this what the extension ecosystem is for? Why would a team that already is overwhelmed by the task of testing its product incorporate MORE features to test? My main issue with Firefox right now is not a lack of Facebook integration (-_-) but the obvious memory leakage in the released FF 4 with AdBlock/NoScript, which was present through the entire last half of the beta cycle.
Mozilla has really wandered off the reservation here. I want a solid, fast browser that supports the great extensions that Mozilla didn't write, and continues to support developments in the core web standards space. If I want Chrome or Flock, I'll just download those, seriously.
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Adobe has managed to reincarnate ActiveX in the form of Flash. Why is is this junk still being used? It's apparently got an attack surface the size of Jupiter...
It's interesting that all of these "onoes errybody using the same password errywhere" stories fail to point out that the junk logins required by almost every site for the purpose to collecting ad demo data essentially feed weak passwords to black hats. This has trained many people to use the same password everywhere, since no sane person will maintain and memorize separate passwords for dozens of sites, many of which they may just utilize for entertainment. Combined with the weak security even major players (c.f. Sony) have been shown to use, this is now a bottomless cornucopia of id theft data.
Since it's well known that a large proportion of user demo data entered along with these logins is also junk, the smart guys use bugs and IP tracking, and profiling of various kinds to collect this data now anyway, so it's not even useful to have local logins for that purpose. It's time for sites to Just Say NO To Junk Logins...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamo_theory
Tidal interaction has nothing to do with it. Actually, the Earth's magnetic field would likely be stronger without the Moon since tidal interactions have transferred angular momentum to the Moon and slowed the Earth's spin over geologic time.
Mars' core has likely long solidified given its small size and Venus rotates very slowly, which is why neither of them has a significant active dynamo.
It seems very scary that on an aircraft with everything working but the airspeed indicators (and I understand that those are very important), after more than 3 1/2 minutes the aircrew was unable to prevent the plane from hitting the ocean. This was a state of the art aircraft. Makes you wonder how many close calls there have been that luckily didn't result in catastrophe.
The project is certainly threatened by Chrome, and has no chance to beat it given that it's Google's own browser, so these efforts to ride along on Chrome's publicity ultimately are doomed to fail. As long as Google commits resources to develop Chrome anyway. The issue is that if you have the skills to produce a browser that is on a par with Chrome, why would you not take a big salary to work ON Chrome.
I personally think Firefox should focus on the privacy/security aspects of the experience and make it clear they are the anti-Chrome aka extension of Google's tentacles onto all aspects of your online existence. I honestly have no idea what the strategy is at Mozilla right now, and I suspect neither do they. Trying to be some kind of cuddlier but much slower version of Chrome is very 'wut?' to me.
>safe
"You keep using this word...I do not think it means what you think it means..."
Yes, when I saw arXiv, I knew I was dealing with another Sasquatch sighting. I don't know why people insist on reporting stories off there, it's basically tabloid science, aka stuff that will never pass peer review and likely never be heard about again...
Exactly. I'm not "scared" of nuclear power, I'm an engineer and I understand the concepts of risk and failure mode effects analysis. The problem is primarily management failures in most of these high-profile accidents, as summarized by the poster above. There is no way to eliminate those on long enough time scales because human beings make mistakes. The problem with nuclear power is that the catastrophe scenario is very, very bad, and the timescale to react is very short. The latest update from Fukushima is that according to simulations based on the data they have, the Unit 1 reactor began melting down within 16 hours after loss of core cooling.
My feeling from reading some of the responses from people who are in favor of nuclear power is that for some people it reduces to an attachment to the technology. It's pretty cool to have the ability to split the atom to generate power (even though it's ultimately just boiling water). There's a visceral pride we feel in being able to harness something inherently very dangerous. Until it gets away from us.
What amazed me about this story was that Limewire had that kind of money in the first place...how did they get it?
So it seems clear at this point that all three of the damaged reactors are leaking water, meaning, logically, that the containments are breached in all of them. Building 4's spent fuel pool also is suspected to be leaking. Where are the tons of water they are pumping in every day going? The turbine building basements so not have infinite capacity, and that much water won't evaporate at any speed from inside underground spaces...
Turn off "Open Safe files after downloading" in Safari Preferences. (-_-)
Chrome is definitely faster, but doesn't have NoScript and uses more RAM.
That was probably back when the US had graduate students in math and science. They're off discussing CDOs and other advanced variations on the old shell game now.
It was a CIA op, apparently.
What happens if (I know this never happens in real life, LOL) but hypothetically, what happens if something interrupts the communication from the plane, say for example when it is upside-down in a raging thunderstorm plunging towards the ocean surface?
You would still need a backup flight recorder. The advantage of the inflight system is that you might obviate having to find wreckage in a case like the Air France flight, but in exchange you would have to be constantly storing telemetry data from thousands of commercial flights a day; this would cost more on a yearly basis than spending $20M to send bots to the ocean floor for the once in a generation crash like this.
That spec isn't that uncommon for a 5-6 year old laptop. Also, this comment is ironic from a handle "93 Escort Wagon".
This issue at hand is that Dropbox claimed your data was secure. Those with a technical background or a cynical bent would assume that was b.s. but an average person would perhaps take them at their word. So it's valid to call them on the misinformation. The accurate information would be that your data is secure in transit, but accessible to anybody that has direct access to the files, which would of course include Dropbox itself. I actually would hope the keys are not colocated with the data; if that is the case, then at least ONLY Dropbox employees can access your data, otherwise, anybody that can crack the S3 cloud could do it.
My Chernobyl Red-Star Style will make quick work of your pathetic Fukushima Dawn-Glow Style!
Chernobyl - Jet Li
Fukushima - Toshiro Mifune
Three Mile Island - Wesley Snipes
The main problem with the short-term mentality is the structure of corporate management and financing, as John Bogle has pointed out. The 'owners' of most large corporations are passive investors. The company is controlled by top management for its own personal renumeration; essentially the enterprise works for the top dozen or so executive managers. In the current compensation system, most of their gains come about via either gross profit based bonus plans or stock price increases. Almost all of these are typically short-term, i.e. 10 years or less systems, so it is economically rational for these managers to pursue whatever strategy will best produce the highest 10 year return to themselves. Given that the compensation generally will produce permanent great wealth for these managers in that time period, the fate of the enterprise past that timeframe is irrelevant.
I don't claim to know how you fix this, it's intrinsic to the current Western corporate structure.
Lolno. GE already pays 0% US tax and is a poster child for offshoring jobs. The tax system is not the problem here.
>effective military
As you note, these 'asymmetric wars' are part of the reason for negative sentiment, because the US is losing them. The people in the areas we are occupying don't want us there, and it is impossible to win a counter-insurgency war without engaging in mass genocide or a decades-long colonization strategy (usually both are needed, actually) if the population does not support you. So the military has been, and will be ineffective and that certainly makes the US look weak.
Worse, this ineffective military of ours is heinously expensive, we spend more than the next five largest militaries on the planet combined. And this expense is borne by deficit spending, which drains the non-military economy of capital and requires us to get the rest of the world to pay for our armed forces. It's not a sustainable situation, and the "defense" budget is one of the biggest problems with the government deficit. We're bleeding billions of dollars a month overseas that goes straight out of the economy.
Cheap talk coming from someone sitting at their desk with a Big Mac.
These guys didn't know what the rad levels really were, and it's well known that there are always random hotspots where fallout gets concentrated. They weren't going to die on the spot from walking around, but they were certainly risking their health in that area. I credit these guys for getting off their duff and trying to produce some kind of data on the ground in the evacuation zone. This is more enlightening than anything that has come out of TEPCO or the Japanese government.
Maybe you should find out what people are using the DB access for first...at my company, we use it as a working drop for communicating external documents with outside vendors, more convenient than shoveling everything around via email.
My old joke about the ideal network for the network admin is a single computer in a bank vault, unplugged. It's unfortunate that the job basically is all downside in terms of incidents, but ultimately the job should still be to *facilitate* employee access to company data, customers, and each other. Otherwise you are actively impeding the profitability of your company.
This is also not a good link, because that ACLU map is completely wrong at least as far as Chicago is concerned. The United States asserts full territorial sovereignty over Lake Michigan and that is considered to be within the United States in its entirety. This inconveniently removes a large population from the ACLU's Dramatic Map but if they wanted to be accurate, they would remove the "border" region around Lake Michigan.
I don't disagree that it still seems like an overly broad interpretation of "border", but it would be more interesting to know if this has been challenged in Federal Court on constitutional grounds.
Everyone
This generally is construed to mean "all people" i.e. 100%, which is probably within the sphere of "statistically relevant". Just sayin'.
Why not just take the Chromium tree and figure out how to run Firefox extensions on there and just call that Firefox? Would save time and have much better memory use and performance. Firefox is basically converging on a Chrome clone with slightly worse performance and some dumb UI hacks that will end up largely unused/abandoned (like Panorama).
Isn't all this what the extension ecosystem is for? Why would a team that already is overwhelmed by the task of testing its product incorporate MORE features to test? My main issue with Firefox right now is not a lack of Facebook integration (-_-) but the obvious memory leakage in the released FF 4 with AdBlock/NoScript, which was present through the entire last half of the beta cycle.
Mozilla has really wandered off the reservation here. I want a solid, fast browser that supports the great extensions that Mozilla didn't write, and continues to support developments in the core web standards space. If I want Chrome or Flock, I'll just download those, seriously.