According to the California Office of Traffic Safety there were 3,995 fatalities from car crashes in 2008 alone. More people die in car accidents in one year in California than nationally from mesothelioma.
Do these pesky politicians actually think they're doing good with laws like these? How do people like Sen. Gloria Romero prioritize risk and public safety?
That's an even worse solution. Do you really think end users are going to be willing to type a 200 letter phrase in instead? We use passwords for a reason- its as much as most people are willing to type before becoming annoyed.
Yes. Assuming I'm an "end user" - I've been in I.T. for 13 years and still haven't quite figured out why the word "end" is put in front of user.
Anyway...
I use passphrases for everything that will take something more than a short-digit PIN. My favorite is 27 characters long. At work I cull my memory for a passphrase, use that, and recall it much quicker than a coworker who enters part of the previous password, hits the backspace button, and mumbles "Now what was my new password again?" By the time he's done that I've entered in my 20 - 30 character passphrase.
If you really think the truth is however you answer that question as far as the polygraph is concerned you are being truthful, so I am not sure I understand what the point of your proposed exercise would be.
I think headkase was being funny. Which passed my humor detector because I got a chuckle out it:-)
It won't be long until people try to light shoes on fire on cross-Atlantic flights or attempt something on a plane landing in, oh, say, Detroit or something. All because people have something to hide...
I think you are giving the Goog too much credit. Were they not sniffing wifi packets, like wardrivers?
Yeah, you may be right. I recall reading an article where they admitted guilt for that, and the reason they gave was the tool they were using had capabilities they did not intend for it to have.
Plausible? Sure... I've been in software DEV and QA for 12 years and know it's possible to merge with unintended consequences and release with functionality you didn't intend to.
"Caught?" That's funny. If you don't want to "catch" people "recording" your shit, stop broadcasting it and put some encryption on it and use a hidden SSID. You know, like the hundred or so Slashdot posts have pointed out.
It is amazing how people scramble to have them fix their security so my data (which I give them, because it's spelled out in the TOS) is 'secure.' I would have agreed with Schmidt's statement if he instead had said:
'If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it out in public where everyone can see it in the first place.'
Lock down your home's access point and read the TOS before you start posting crap about your boss or employer. Can't get much simpler than that.
Yeah, I've seen that, too. I guess, in retrospect, the only thing that's sad about their lives is they have made more of themselves with children. I can only imagine their kids are growing up in lives where bullying is encourage/rewarded enough to persist that rotten cycle that led to them being who they were.
Looking up former high school bullies on www.classmates.com can also be a cathartic experience. It's amazing how those kids turned out as adults. The correlation, at least in my experience, is too good to be coincidental (or perhaps it's a self fulfilling prophecy). In either case it's rather karmic to see the behavioral traits that led to bullying in junior and senior high school also led to dead end jobs, too many children to support on their unskilled salary, and multiple marriages.
I suppose the flip side of this, though, is that they seem to raise more kids that may likely turn out to be bullies; assuming that's a cycle that repeats itself.
I can't, for the life of me, imagine why Africa needs cyber cafes. In all seriousness... there aren't internet cafes in rural Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Utah or Idaho - places I drive through or hike in. Do those folks want internet cafes? Can you order something from Amazon and have it delivered there? If they go to news sites all they see is how bad their continent is compared to the rest of the world, at least if the BBC, Reuters, CNN, etc... have anything to say on that.
I seriously hope more EU countries will demand the same thing.
Couldn't that mean more copies of that data floating around? I think the best solution is to keep what they have sequestrated and secured (whatever the hell that means these days) so it's at least in one place, assuming that's the state of the data now. If that's the case and I knew I had data like that collected by Google, I'd want the single source destroyed with appropriate folks watching. If nothing else we'll see some geeks dressed up watching a few servers go up in flames, or get to watch CNN broadcast a terminal window processing rm -r yourdir.
... given how many lasers are in my house. The DVD and CD players, game systems - hell, even my toolbox has a laser level to help me hang a row of pictures straight on a wall.
And yet my geared bicycle requires nothing shy of a virgin, a volcano and some extraordinary good luck to get the rear derailleur aligned so it shifts clean and taught. Bicycle gears, in their current form, have been around since the 1950s [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicycle_gearing#History], and yet the shifting technology hasn't changed much. Until CDs and DVDs came along I'd bet there were thousands upon thousands of bicycles for each laser, and yet the bicycle gets nowhere near the attention the laser does.
You know, I forgot to add to that list the inability to migrate downloaded content from my DSi to my DSi XL. Fortunately I only bought a few titles I no longer played, but when I realized that limitation *after* I bought the unit (copied my DLC to SD card first, then put that SD card in my new unit) I had some bad heartburn.
That's like getting a new girlfriend but the old one keeps your dog!
My son and I have had every Nintendo DS since they were first released. Since that time eBook readers and 'Smart Phones' have not only come down in price but they have increased in capability. What we're finding is how burdensome the DS has become, compared to our phones. I have a DSi XL, and my wife and son each have a DSi.
The Wifi capabilities are generally good, but it's hit and miss if it will work when I'm at a coffee shop. Not so with our phones - the Wifi seems to work fine and there's the 3G connection as well.
The cameras on the DS? Poor in comparison to the phones we have. And all of our phones connect to a PC or Mac to copy photos over. The DS requires an SD Card.
Same thing with music. A cable versus an SD card, and the DS can only handle AAC; our phones can use AAC and MP3. Our phones can play music and let us pause it when we're on the web on taking a phone call. The DS is a one-shot device. Music or game, never both.
Playing a game on the DS is, generally speaking, better than on a phone. Two screens, a stylus, held in the hand or placed on the table - it is superior to a phone.
But it's also another piece of technology I have to carry.
For us the biggest threat isn't the iPhone or similar mobile Apple technology but the limitation of the DS. We don't have iPhones and the DS has rapidly lost its usefulness for us - a family with only mobile phones, an XBox 360 and Wii, and a DS for Mom, Dad and Junior.
Yep. I can devote the time I gain from not watching television to listen to friends and family grouse about their ability to not watch television. Hell, this may make things a bit quieter for me, given how many people I know would lose what appears to be their only readily available topic of conversation!
Yeah, FTA:
"“Take the time to sit down up front and ask, ‘What would we look like if we got really busy?’ and then plan to that."
I remember yawning through micro economics in college. Then it was “Take the time to sit down up front and ask, ‘What would we look like if we got really *expensive*?’ and then plan to that." Same problem, different charlatan with a marketing budget.
...our brains aren't perfect arbiters of the physical world, they interpolate quite a bit, so occasionally they get tripped up.
Which makes your statement
No, they can't because it's an illusion. Your brain gets into a tight sensing/remembering loop for a short time, so it seems like you're recalling stuff that just happened, but it's the other way around. You're not used to that, so it's confusing and easily misinterpreted.
Kind of suspect, doesn't it? How can you be so certain? You can't... because
...our brains aren't perfect arbiters of the physical world, they interpolate quite a bit, so occasionally they get tripped up.
In addition to carbon data there are other strata around things dug up that give an indication to its relative age. Another indication of a tool's age is mentioned in the article's fourth paragraph: style of manufacturer.
Since those folks didn't leave readme files or cookbooks around, everything was taught by learning how the person a little older than you did things. For that reason there's a remarkable amount of consistency in materials and manufacturer, given how difficult making stone tools with stone tools can be. The tools they used were fashioned to provide enough direct force at an angle of impact to provide the right fracture on the right material so a chip would flake off. For example, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clovis_culture.
It was so difficult to make those tools stone age peoples in Colorado, USA would carry them over the Continental Divide west of the Denver area to the present day Denver area when hunting. A cache of them were found recently in a private yard where some landscaping work was done. Their protected condition and careful placement suggested the original people may have stashed a set here for a return hunting trip or similar.
These tools are very hard to make. Given a few months of time people today would do nothing but learn how to live with two fingers instead of ten. When I was an anthropology student I not only the chance to see these tools up close but watch a demonstration of someone making them. And that was rock on obsidian for arrow heads and knives.
Slashdot Mirror
by Amazon, a few years back.
The Environmental Working Group cites 2,509 deaths from mesothelioma per year. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration cites, in 2008 alone, 34,107 fatal crashes, which sent 26,689 people to their own funeral.
According to the California Office of Traffic Safety there were 3,995 fatalities from car crashes in 2008 alone. More people die in car accidents in one year in California than nationally from mesothelioma.
Do these pesky politicians actually think they're doing good with laws like these? How do people like Sen. Gloria Romero prioritize risk and public safety?
That's an even worse solution. Do you really think end users are going to be willing to type a 200 letter phrase in instead? We use passwords for a reason- its as much as most people are willing to type before becoming annoyed.
Yes. Assuming I'm an "end user" - I've been in I.T. for 13 years and still haven't quite figured out why the word "end" is put in front of user.
Anyway ...
I use passphrases for everything that will take something more than a short-digit PIN. My favorite is 27 characters long. At work I cull my memory for a passphrase, use that, and recall it much quicker than a coworker who enters part of the previous password, hits the backspace button, and mumbles "Now what was my new password again?" By the time he's done that I've entered in my 20 - 30 character passphrase.
The end of a reign of terror for CPUs the world over.
What I remember most fondly about CompuServe on my 300 baud modem and Commodore 64 was the lack of ads ...
I think headkase was being funny. Which passed my humor detector because I got a chuckle out it :-)
It won't be long until people try to light shoes on fire on cross-Atlantic flights or attempt something on a plane landing in, oh, say, Detroit or something. All because people have something to hide ...
Yeah, you may be right. I recall reading an article where they admitted guilt for that, and the reason they gave was the tool they were using had capabilities they did not intend for it to have.
Plausible? Sure ... I've been in software DEV and QA for 12 years and know it's possible to merge with unintended consequences and release with functionality you didn't intend to.
It is amazing how people scramble to have them fix their security so my data (which I give them, because it's spelled out in the TOS) is 'secure.' I would have agreed with Schmidt's statement if he instead had said:
Lock down your home's access point and read the TOS before you start posting crap about your boss or employer. Can't get much simpler than that.
Yeah, I've seen that, too. I guess, in retrospect, the only thing that's sad about their lives is they have made more of themselves with children. I can only imagine their kids are growing up in lives where bullying is encourage/rewarded enough to persist that rotten cycle that led to them being who they were.
Looking up former high school bullies on www.classmates.com can also be a cathartic experience. It's amazing how those kids turned out as adults. The correlation, at least in my experience, is too good to be coincidental (or perhaps it's a self fulfilling prophecy). In either case it's rather karmic to see the behavioral traits that led to bullying in junior and senior high school also led to dead end jobs, too many children to support on their unskilled salary, and multiple marriages.
I suppose the flip side of this, though, is that they seem to raise more kids that may likely turn out to be bullies; assuming that's a cycle that repeats itself.
I can't, for the life of me, imagine why Africa needs cyber cafes. In all seriousness ... there aren't internet cafes in rural Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Utah or Idaho - places I drive through or hike in. Do those folks want internet cafes? Can you order something from Amazon and have it delivered there? If they go to news sites all they see is how bad their continent is compared to the rest of the world, at least if the BBC, Reuters, CNN, etc ... have anything to say on that.
Couldn't that mean more copies of that data floating around? I think the best solution is to keep what they have sequestrated and secured (whatever the hell that means these days) so it's at least in one place, assuming that's the state of the data now. If that's the case and I knew I had data like that collected by Google, I'd want the single source destroyed with appropriate folks watching. If nothing else we'll see some geeks dressed up watching a few servers go up in flames, or get to watch CNN broadcast a terminal window processing rm -r yourdir.
I'm just waiting for airlines to start selling tickets through Ticketmaster so we can pay that convenience fee as well.
... given how many lasers are in my house. The DVD and CD players, game systems - hell, even my toolbox has a laser level to help me hang a row of pictures straight on a wall.
And yet my geared bicycle requires nothing shy of a virgin, a volcano and some extraordinary good luck to get the rear derailleur aligned so it shifts clean and taught. Bicycle gears, in their current form, have been around since the 1950s [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicycle_gearing#History], and yet the shifting technology hasn't changed much. Until CDs and DVDs came along I'd bet there were thousands upon thousands of bicycles for each laser, and yet the bicycle gets nowhere near the attention the laser does.
And the bicycle won't put your eye out!
You know, I forgot to add to that list the inability to migrate downloaded content from my DSi to my DSi XL. Fortunately I only bought a few titles I no longer played, but when I realized that limitation *after* I bought the unit (copied my DLC to SD card first, then put that SD card in my new unit) I had some bad heartburn.
That's like getting a new girlfriend but the old one keeps your dog!
My son and I have had every Nintendo DS since they were first released. Since that time eBook readers and 'Smart Phones' have not only come down in price but they have increased in capability. What we're finding is how burdensome the DS has become, compared to our phones. I have a DSi XL, and my wife and son each have a DSi.
The Wifi capabilities are generally good, but it's hit and miss if it will work when I'm at a coffee shop. Not so with our phones - the Wifi seems to work fine and there's the 3G connection as well.
The cameras on the DS? Poor in comparison to the phones we have. And all of our phones connect to a PC or Mac to copy photos over. The DS requires an SD Card.
Same thing with music. A cable versus an SD card, and the DS can only handle AAC; our phones can use AAC and MP3. Our phones can play music and let us pause it when we're on the web on taking a phone call. The DS is a one-shot device. Music or game, never both.
Playing a game on the DS is, generally speaking, better than on a phone. Two screens, a stylus, held in the hand or placed on the table - it is superior to a phone.
But it's also another piece of technology I have to carry.
For us the biggest threat isn't the iPhone or similar mobile Apple technology but the limitation of the DS. We don't have iPhones and the DS has rapidly lost its usefulness for us - a family with only mobile phones, an XBox 360 and Wii, and a DS for Mom, Dad and Junior.
Yep. I can devote the time I gain from not watching television to listen to friends and family grouse about their ability to not watch television. Hell, this may make things a bit quieter for me, given how many people I know would lose what appears to be their only readily available topic of conversation!
Yeah, FTA: "“Take the time to sit down up front and ask, ‘What would we look like if we got really busy?’ and then plan to that." I remember yawning through micro economics in college. Then it was “Take the time to sit down up front and ask, ‘What would we look like if we got really *expensive*?’ and then plan to that." Same problem, different charlatan with a marketing budget.
Aren't we going to be relying upon other countries just to cart stuff and people to and from the ISS after the space shuttles hit the Smithsonian?
Don't we already have this with the Internet?
Which makes your statement
No, they can't because it's an illusion. Your brain gets into a tight sensing/remembering loop for a short time, so it seems like you're recalling stuff that just happened, but it's the other way around. You're not used to that, so it's confusing and easily misinterpreted.
Kind of suspect, doesn't it? How can you be so certain? You can't ... because
... elected officials do better than that, and they get the girls.
In addition to carbon data there are other strata around things dug up that give an indication to its relative age. Another indication of a tool's age is mentioned in the article's fourth paragraph: style of manufacturer.
Since those folks didn't leave readme files or cookbooks around, everything was taught by learning how the person a little older than you did things. For that reason there's a remarkable amount of consistency in materials and manufacturer, given how difficult making stone tools with stone tools can be. The tools they used were fashioned to provide enough direct force at an angle of impact to provide the right fracture on the right material so a chip would flake off. For example, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clovis_culture.
It was so difficult to make those tools stone age peoples in Colorado, USA would carry them over the Continental Divide west of the Denver area to the present day Denver area when hunting. A cache of them were found recently in a private yard where some landscaping work was done. Their protected condition and careful placement suggested the original people may have stashed a set here for a return hunting trip or similar.
These tools are very hard to make. Given a few months of time people today would do nothing but learn how to live with two fingers instead of ten. When I was an anthropology student I not only the chance to see these tools up close but watch a demonstration of someone making them. And that was rock on obsidian for arrow heads and knives.
left behind when some friends and I were camping. You can keep them.