The other day, Facebook suggested I friend someone that I literally have had no contact with for over thirty years. We are talking childhood friends who never went to the same schools, I have had absolutely no recent contact with this person or their family. My only explanation is that Facebook knows every home I have ever lived at, every home they ever lived at, and made the connection that we might have been childhood friends.
Amazing data mining; I'm sure CIA/NSA/FBI are jealous (I kid; I'm sure they have a fully supported back door.)
If you create an account on a website, and you give them your email address, and you use the same password that you use for email, guess what you've given them access to?
Same goes for your Apple ID. If Apple ID = email, and you use the same password, you've given them access to your email AND to your Apple account....and probably a dozen other websites, like PayPal, eBay, etc.
For those in the U.S., Amateur Radio is largely self policing and certifying. To become a "ham" you train, then attend a testing session where your identity is verified, you pass the test, pay a small fee, and then the testing panels submits your information for licensing. What if a CA operated in a similar fashion? - Those wanting a certificate would show up at scheduled certification sessions, verify their identity, pay a nominal fee to cover costs, and dispense with the current CA system. It would be arguably more secure than CA certs are now, and less profit driven. I think community driven CAs, with certs that are accepted and recognized by the various SSL product vendors, would be fantastic.
This is fantastic. I can have one instance in the middle of booting, another instance in the middle of crashing, and a third that's frozen waiting for the other two to give it some CPU time...
(I love my Samsung Galaxy, but the constant freezing/lockups are getting old...)
Your password should be a direct admission of any crime you are actively engaged in. Your password could then be used under a "fruits of a poisonous tree" defense.
From the crude schematics they show, I would suspect that the engine speed is tied to the speed of the expanding wavefront through the chamber. It probably has a very narrow optimal range, and altering that would require changing the size of the chamber.
You went full douchebag, man. Never go full douchebag. You don't buy that? Ask Steve Jobs, 1991, "NeXT." Remember? Went full douchebag, went home empty handed...
For years the American public has been duped into believing that our manufacturing jobs would be shipped overseas, but we would all be retrained for high tech jobs. Poor overseas workers would become richer, we'd be better trained and better paid, and everything would be a free-market utopia.
Oops.
Turns out, you can virtualize all of those servers. Host them physically somewhere like Iceland, with cheap electricity and no cooling costs, and then have them managed by for 10 rupees an hour by a systems engineer in India.
I would suggest we all go back for more job training, but what's left? We could all become brain surgeons, but big business has half this country acting lobotomized already...
... as opposed to that poorly written work of fiction that he and his compatriots have been flogging for the better part of 2,000 years? Give us back the Library at Alexandria and keep your Bible, thx.
I think the first thing you need to do is stop and assess your own emotions over this situation and how you are reacting to it. Your wife is living with a terminal illness, and you are feeling absolutely helpless about her condition. On some level, I think that your obsession over preserving her memories is an attempt to find something in this situation that you can control and focusing on that rather than the situation itself.
This project is in a sense insulating you, but its counter-productive.
Put down the cameras, the microphones, and reconnect with your family.
Next, change your mindset. Your wife is not dying of cancer; she is living with it. Dying is that brief moment in time from when your heart stops beating, until your brain stops caring. Your wife isn't there yet, and now more than ever you need to live in the moment and concentrate on finding whatever joy and happiness that your family can experience today. and the next, and however many more days you get.
The sooner you can acknowledge this subconscious panic you are in, the sooner you'll be able to bring it under control.
What I really have trouble grasping is that over the last three months, we've watched one (1) oil well in the Gulf of Mexico cause widespread devastation. Few people would deny the ecological effects of this one well.
Now replace that one well with TEN THOUSAND, and replace those ninety days with ninety YEARS, and take all of that oil and burn it in the atmosphere. Add to that another two centuries worth of coal burning, and you start to grasp the amount of carbon we've placed into the atmosphere. What amazes me is not that the atmospheric levels of CO2 have risen, but that our planet has absorbed enough of that pollution that we can still breath.
Given the inertia and resistance to CO2 mitigation, I think our only real hope is that the oil runs out sooner, rather than later, because we seem to be unredeemably addicted to burning it.
On a related note, the author of ImageMaster took his code off Codeplex, and has not as of yet announced an alternative site for it. Has anyone seen Imagemaster, or know where the source can be obtained?
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The other day, Facebook suggested I friend someone that I literally have had no contact with for over thirty years. We are talking childhood friends who never went to the same schools, I have had absolutely no recent contact with this person or their family. My only explanation is that Facebook knows every home I have ever lived at, every home they ever lived at, and made the connection that we might have been childhood friends.
Amazing data mining; I'm sure CIA/NSA/FBI are jealous (I kid; I'm sure they have a fully supported back door.)
I am issuing a blanket "double-whoosh alert" for this and all other replies.
If you create an account on a website, and you give them your email address, and you use the same password that you use for email, guess what you've given them access to?
Same goes for your Apple ID. If Apple ID = email, and you use the same password, you've given them access to your email AND to your Apple account. ...and probably a dozen other websites, like PayPal, eBay, etc.
For those in the U.S., Amateur Radio is largely self policing and certifying. To become a "ham" you train, then attend a testing session where your identity is verified, you pass the test, pay a small fee, and then the testing panels submits your information for licensing. What if a CA operated in a similar fashion? - Those wanting a certificate would show up at scheduled certification sessions, verify their identity, pay a nominal fee to cover costs, and dispense with the current CA system. It would be arguably more secure than CA certs are now, and less profit driven. I think community driven CAs, with certs that are accepted and recognized by the various SSL product vendors, would be fantastic.
This is fantastic. I can have one instance in the middle of booting, another instance in the middle of crashing, and a third that's frozen waiting for the other two to give it some CPU time...
(I love my Samsung Galaxy, but the constant freezing/lockups are getting old...)
How small does your penis have to be for this to compensate?
Your password should be a direct admission of any crime you are actively engaged in. Your password could then be used under a "fruits of a poisonous tree" defense.
Now the hacker knows two things:
1. Your network is completely insecure, and your Board knows it.
2. Your Board is composed of idiots.
All they've done is open the floodgates.
For future reference, the correct response is to stall while you collect the money, call the FBI, and let them handle it from there.
I am guessing all of those "No Foreigners / Japanese Only" signs are going to be lit with LEDs now?
From the crude schematics they show, I would suspect that the engine speed is tied to the speed of the expanding wavefront through the chamber. It probably has a very narrow optimal range, and altering that would require changing the size of the chamber.
You went full douchebag, man. Never go full douchebag. You don't buy that? Ask Steve Jobs, 1991, "NeXT." Remember? Went full douchebag, went home empty handed...
For years the American public has been duped into believing that our manufacturing jobs would be shipped overseas, but we would all be retrained for high tech jobs. Poor overseas workers would become richer, we'd be better trained and better paid, and everything would be a free-market utopia.
Oops.
Turns out, you can virtualize all of those servers. Host them physically somewhere like Iceland, with cheap electricity and no cooling costs, and then have them managed by for 10 rupees an hour by a systems engineer in India.
I would suggest we all go back for more job training, but what's left? We could all become brain surgeons, but big business has half this country acting lobotomized already...
My sympathies for you and your family.
I think the first thing you need to do is stop and assess your own emotions over this situation and how you are reacting to it. Your wife is living with a terminal illness, and you are feeling absolutely helpless about her condition. On some level, I think that your obsession over preserving her memories is an attempt to find something in this situation that you can control and focusing on that rather than the situation itself.
This project is in a sense insulating you, but its counter-productive.
Put down the cameras, the microphones, and reconnect with your family.
Next, change your mindset. Your wife is not dying of cancer; she is living with it. Dying is that brief moment in time from when your heart stops beating, until your brain stops caring. Your wife isn't there yet, and now more than ever you need to live in the moment and concentrate on finding whatever joy and happiness that your family can experience today. and the next, and however many more days you get.
The sooner you can acknowledge this subconscious panic you are in, the sooner you'll be able to bring it under control.
Clearly, the solution is for the parents of missing children to copyright their children's DNA. The FBI will be all over it then...
What I really have trouble grasping is that over the last three months, we've watched one (1) oil well in the Gulf of Mexico cause widespread devastation. Few people would deny the ecological effects of this one well.
Now replace that one well with TEN THOUSAND, and replace those ninety days with ninety YEARS, and take all of that oil and burn it in the atmosphere. Add to that another two centuries worth of coal burning, and you start to grasp the amount of carbon we've placed into the atmosphere. What amazes me is not that the atmospheric levels of CO2 have risen, but that our planet has absorbed enough of that pollution that we can still breath.
Given the inertia and resistance to CO2 mitigation, I think our only real hope is that the oil runs out sooner, rather than later, because we seem to be unredeemably addicted to burning it.
my Nick is relevant to a Slashdot story.
ThinkGeek FTW!
I was going to send a complaint to the editors, but it looks like their page got Slashdotted.
As someone who is Dutch, how exactly did you become an expert on the US and African energy grids?
I've lived in the US almost all of my life, so I had no idea that Africa had such a reliable electrical system.
On a related note, the author of ImageMaster took his code off Codeplex, and has not as of yet announced an alternative site for it. Has anyone seen Imagemaster, or know where the source can be obtained?
If I promise to drive 20 MPH on the wrong side of the road in the game, will they buy me a copy of Grand Theft Auto?
What if I promise to drive 200KPH through tunnels, killing all occupants, will the French pick up the tab?
Of course they do, because the Twenty-First Century is when everything changes.
Yeah, but everybody knows it doesn't become feature complete until at least v3.1
ParanoidLinux was created by the NSA and CIA to setup a global spy network, running on the very computers they would most like to spy on.
Discuss...
I kept seeing a new LINKSYS SSID popping up for about 5 of every 90 minutes. Thanks for the explanation.