The wife and I are fairly indoor types ourselves. We're lost:)
We have to make a conscious effort to get outside, since we wouldn't otherwise. [We've always been much more at home in a casino than in a tent.] We schedule weekend activities with the kids that involve walking - even if it's just touring the outdoor park-and-swap instead of the mall - and are much more apt to do things with our kids outside rather than in. We all enjoy a day at the Ostrich Festival more than an afternoon in front of the TV. The wife and I wouldn't go by ourselves, but we do enjoy those things as a family.
I'm pretty sure more active parents have more active kids, and obviously leading by example is a great way to lead. We're home-bodies, so we make a point of doing pretty much all of our off-the-couch activities with the kids (where possible), and we encourage them (actively) to have their own off-the-couch activities.
As such, we've got some fairly well balanced kids, one involved heavily in sport, the other heavily involved in academics; both of whom spend some of their time playing video games, but neither of whom watch a lot of TV.
I'll no doubt be trolled, but as a complete techno-nerd, it was tough getting our kids outside. We enrolled one in Karate, got him trying out for every sports team, but still he'll play as much LOL or DOTA as we'll let him. [...much the way some animals will eat themselves to death.] My daughter, on the other hand, is a book-nerd, and it's hard to dissuade her from wanting to read endlessly.
The two younger kids both leave the house and seek sunlight on their skin without prodding, so we figure we've done OK for having teenagers in a major city.
I'll admit that's the general flow of events in, say, Fallout or Mass Effect - but that doesn't mean those games (and those that come after them) should be dismissed.
When teaching them Linux, do you just download the latest stable Mint or Ubuntu release and let them take it from there?
When we what?!?
Our kids will be pushed outside for as long as they can take it, and then they'll come inside and play on whatever system is en vogue when they're the right age for it. They don't give a crap about your nostalgia, and your music sucks.
Many replies below mine will be from Nintendo eta hipsters who'll be pushing them Mario, so they can feel good about their 8-bit tattoos.
Fortunately, almost all aluminum is an alloy or some sort, and Alcoa's had almost half a century to work on getting just the right blend since the Cobra. I'd also imagine that the tempering process picked up a bit in the last three of four decades.
Peak usage is generally in the early evenings, when people get home from work, and continues after the sun goes down.
This is exactly why residential solar causes headaches (power when you don't need it - without an expensive battery that cycles every day), and why industrial solar has turned to things like molten salt (which provides power AT PEAK).
[YMMV depending on what part of the country you're in...]
Except as mentioned above, the power company becomes free off-site "storage" for your off-peak power. You generate power you don't need in the morning, and you get it back "free" from them in the afternoon when you get home from work.
I live in Arizona, and I'm not quite ready to put solar on my roof. Getting my connection locked in and grandfathered before the new "tax" on selling solar back to the power company wasn't enough to sway me to jump. The technology keeps getting better, and the current break-even in initial outlay might recoup a lot faster in a few more years. That $30,000 worth of equipment might be $20,000 next year, and I'm a gambler. [This is the same reason I'm leasing a Leaf. Who knows how many miles the 2017 Leaf will get, or how many more purchase options I might have.]
As long as power companies are monopolies, the idea that they should have to buy back solar power to feed the grid makes sense -- but at some point, they'll have a bunch of off-peak power that nobody wants. Arizona's "connect fee" is mostly harmless. Hawaii just seems like they're being dicks.
Hawaiians can still put solar up, and still power their homes, and still fill batteries. They just won't be able to sell off-peak power back to their monopoly power company.
Early production cars have received several software updates already. (My car arrived in late February with version 4.2). I was looking forward to my first update--if for no other reason than to experience first-hand another step into the future of car ownership.
Sure enough, just five weeks after taking delivery, I got in the car one morning last week to find a message on the touchscreen: software update v4.3 was available.
The message suggested I schedule the update for 2 am the next morning. The car needs to be parked and turned off for about two hours to complete the wireless download, which uses the 3G cellphone network.
So, uh, yeah, you get ASKED if you want to update, and the car needs parked and turned off (standby).
"Popular limited-supply microbrews are being re-sold by enterprising hoarders for as much as $7 a can instead of the $4.50 a can they sell for retail."
The woman in the article tried to resell 10 cases of a popular microbrew, so she ran afoul of local liquor laws. [She likely ran afoul of them when reselling ONE of them, but 120 of them put her on the VDLC's radar.]
First, The UPS "guaranteed on-schedule delivery" already includes the following:
The guarantee does not apply to UPS shipments that are delayed due to causes beyond UPS's control, including, but not limited to, the following: [SNIPPED some basic things, strikes, acts of god, government, customs, etc.] disruptions in air or ground transportation networks, such as weather phenomena; and natural disasters. The guarantee does not apply to UPS 2nd Day Air A.M., UPS 2nd Day Air, UPS 3 Day Select, and UPS Ground shipments that are picked up or scheduled to be delivered between December 12 and December 25.
I'm much more interested in where he got the certificates printed; if there's a commercial entity producing nice certificates suitable for gifting that didn't look like they came off my printer...
These exchanges are fly-by-night, and the fact that they got into Bitcoins after Magic and Poker are a good example of that. Why we trust them with millions and millions of dollars is nuts.
They might have the budget for good security and operations staff now, but I suspect it's going in somebody's new house instead.
7.2 Threat selection The malicious web links (URLs) used in the tests were not provided by any anti-malware vendor. They were picked from lists generated by Dennis Technology Labs’ own malicious site detection system, which uses popular search engine keywords submitted to Google. It analyses sites that are returned in the search results from a number of search engines and adds them to a database of malicious websites. In all cases, a control system (Verification Target System - VTS) was used to confirm that the URLs linked to actively malicious sites. Malicious URLs and files are not shared with any vendors during the testing process.
In other words, you get to take his word for it, and we don't know what failed or why.
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The wife and I are fairly indoor types ourselves. We're lost :)
We have to make a conscious effort to get outside, since we wouldn't otherwise. [We've always been much more at home in a casino than in a tent.] We schedule weekend activities with the kids that involve walking - even if it's just touring the outdoor park-and-swap instead of the mall - and are much more apt to do things with our kids outside rather than in. We all enjoy a day at the Ostrich Festival more than an afternoon in front of the TV. The wife and I wouldn't go by ourselves, but we do enjoy those things as a family.
I'm pretty sure more active parents have more active kids, and obviously leading by example is a great way to lead. We're home-bodies, so we make a point of doing pretty much all of our off-the-couch activities with the kids (where possible), and we encourage them (actively) to have their own off-the-couch activities.
As such, we've got some fairly well balanced kids, one involved heavily in sport, the other heavily involved in academics; both of whom spend some of their time playing video games, but neither of whom watch a lot of TV.
We've been slowly building a set of the wooden bookshelf "Vintage" game collection. Wonderful to have and pass down...
I'll no doubt be trolled, but as a complete techno-nerd, it was tough getting our kids outside. We enrolled one in Karate, got him trying out for every sports team, but still he'll play as much LOL or DOTA as we'll let him. [...much the way some animals will eat themselves to death.] My daughter, on the other hand, is a book-nerd, and it's hard to dissuade her from wanting to read endlessly.
The two younger kids both leave the house and seek sunlight on their skin without prodding, so we figure we've done OK for having teenagers in a major city.
I'll admit that's the general flow of events in, say, Fallout or Mass Effect - but that doesn't mean those games (and those that come after them) should be dismissed.
When teaching them Linux, do you just download the latest stable Mint or Ubuntu release and let them take it from there?
When we what?!?
Our kids will be pushed outside for as long as they can take it, and then they'll come inside and play on whatever system is en vogue when they're the right age for it. They don't give a crap about your nostalgia, and your music sucks.
Many replies below mine will be from Nintendo eta hipsters who'll be pushing them Mario, so they can feel good about their 8-bit tattoos.
Wrong.
http://www.daycoindustries.com/pdfs/AluminumAlloysTemperDesignations.pdf
http://www.alumeco.com/Technical_information/Temper_description.aspx
The top end Samsung devices are status symbols as well.
iPhones are ubiquitous. At a glance, people can't tell one from another, especially once they're in their protective case.
Phones are like watches. Gotta have a big one.
http://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-pickup-truck-2013-11
They get four years before it's mostly useless.
Fortunately, almost all aluminum is an alloy or some sort, and Alcoa's had almost half a century to work on getting just the right blend since the Cobra. I'd also imagine that the tempering process picked up a bit in the last three of four decades.
This ain't your father's aluminum.
In a worst-case scenario, an attacker pushes the "check for updates" bit after they've stolen the Tesla server in DNS, and bricks a bunch of cars.
If that's what's keeping you from electric, I guess you're going to have to stay driving gas.
Peak usage is generally in the early evenings, when people get home from work, and continues after the sun goes down.
This is exactly why residential solar causes headaches (power when you don't need it - without an expensive battery that cycles every day), and why industrial solar has turned to things like molten salt (which provides power AT PEAK).
[YMMV depending on what part of the country you're in...]
Except as mentioned above, the power company becomes free off-site "storage" for your off-peak power. You generate power you don't need in the morning, and you get it back "free" from them in the afternoon when you get home from work.
I live in Arizona, and I'm not quite ready to put solar on my roof. Getting my connection locked in and grandfathered before the new "tax" on selling solar back to the power company wasn't enough to sway me to jump. The technology keeps getting better, and the current break-even in initial outlay might recoup a lot faster in a few more years. That $30,000 worth of equipment might be $20,000 next year, and I'm a gambler. [This is the same reason I'm leasing a Leaf. Who knows how many miles the 2017 Leaf will get, or how many more purchase options I might have.]
As long as power companies are monopolies, the idea that they should have to buy back solar power to feed the grid makes sense -- but at some point, they'll have a bunch of off-peak power that nobody wants. Arizona's "connect fee" is mostly harmless. Hawaii just seems like they're being dicks.
Hawaiians can still put solar up, and still power their homes, and still fill batteries. They just won't be able to sell off-peak power back to their monopoly power company.
Early production cars have received several software updates already. (My car arrived in late February with version 4.2). I was looking forward to my first update--if for no other reason than to experience first-hand another step into the future of car ownership.
Sure enough, just five weeks after taking delivery, I got in the car one morning last week to find a message on the touchscreen: software update v4.3 was available.
The message suggested I schedule the update for 2 am the next morning. The car needs to be parked and turned off for about two hours to complete the wireless download, which uses the 3G cellphone network.
So, uh, yeah, you get ASKED if you want to update, and the car needs parked and turned off (standby).
Tesla software updates are OTA, yes.
USPS has a money-back guarantee for Priority Mail Express (in most markets), but charges more for holiday delivery.
https://www.usps.com/ship/priority-mail-express.htm
So, like any consumer, you choose the shipper that best meets your needs based on their well documented service offers.
More like,
"Popular limited-supply microbrews are being re-sold by enterprising hoarders for as much as $7 a can instead of the $4.50 a can they sell for retail."
The woman in the article tried to resell 10 cases of a popular microbrew, so she ran afoul of local liquor laws. [She likely ran afoul of them when reselling ONE of them, but 120 of them put her on the VDLC's radar.]
First, The UPS "guaranteed on-schedule delivery" already includes the following:
The guarantee does not apply to UPS shipments that are delayed due to causes beyond UPS's control, including, but not limited to, the following:
[SNIPPED some basic things, strikes, acts of god, government, customs, etc.]
disruptions in air or ground transportation networks, such as weather phenomena; and natural disasters.
The guarantee does not apply to UPS 2nd Day Air A.M., UPS 2nd Day Air, UPS 3 Day Select, and UPS Ground shipments that are picked up or scheduled to be delivered between December 12 and December 25.
http://www.ups.com/media/en/terms_service_us.pdf
Can you read that? Christmas is excluded. The whole Christmas season is excluded. ...and they're still offering compensation.
Good guy UPS.
I'm much more interested in where he got the certificates printed; if there's a commercial entity producing nice certificates suitable for gifting that didn't look like they came off my printer...
In a world where you can't make a backup of your pillowcase, your analogy would make sense.
This particular ad honinem attack isn't.
These exchanges are fly-by-night, and the fact that they got into Bitcoins after Magic and Poker are a good example of that. Why we trust them with millions and millions of dollars is nuts.
They might have the budget for good security and operations staff now, but I suspect it's going in somebody's new house instead.
I can't figure out why any bitcoin anywhere is in a "bank" that isn't your wallet, or the backup of your wallet.
As if the Magic the Gathering Online Exchange is where I want to keep my money...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mt.Gox
No such thing as bad press if you're Bitcoin. Just keep it in the news, and it'll stay worth something.
$658 as I type this.
7.2 Threat selection
The malicious web links (URLs) used in the tests
were not provided by any anti-malware vendor.
They were picked from lists generated by Dennis
Technology Labs’ own malicious site detection
system, which uses popular search engine
keywords submitted to Google. It analyses sites
that are returned in the search results from a
number of search engines and adds them to a
database of malicious websites.
In all cases, a control system (Verification Target
System - VTS) was used to confirm that the URLs
linked to actively malicious sites.
Malicious URLs and files are not shared with any
vendors during the testing process.
In other words, you get to take his word for it, and we don't know what failed or why.
http://dennistechnologylabs.com/reports/s/a-m/2013/DTL_2013_Q4_Home.1.pdf