Whiskey on the rocks? If you're not talking about a fine Scotch Whiskey, you want the whiskey in question diluted and the harsh evils coated in something sweet and flavorful. A nice Speyside Scotch is a beautiful thing. As is a nice whiskey sour, or a whiskey and cranberry. Only the Scotch is fit for the rocks.
Of course, I'm biased by the nice Speyside sitting next to me. It's a light amber, and the condensation is making a little puddle on the sidetable.
It's like love in a glass.
Now back to the humor, and world-ending climate discussion. I care not for either. Beautiful, beautiful Scotch.
I *really* wish the people who don't like either of the two "major candidates" would get out there and vote 3rd. party, rather than skipping the process. That's where I'm at right now, myself. I can't bring myself to cast a vote for yet another person following in the footsteps of Bush, but Obama comes from the typical crooked Chicago politician pool, screwed us over by not fighting the telcom immunity bill, and has professed ideas for public healthcare that I think aren't going to work. Both candidates are apparently fine with a continuation of the "Patriot Act" too, which tells me a LOT about them.
I've been doing this for the last 8 years. I will go out of my way to not vote for either major party, because "The enemy of my enemy is my enemy's enemy, no more, no less."
I'm not going to vote Democrat just because they are anti-Bush policies, because that is just helping support the system. I'm not going to choose the Republican candidate over the corrupt, incompetent Democrat, because that's just supporting the system.
I don't give a damn WHICH third party finally manages to break 10% in a major election. We just need someone to prove that the current system can have more than 2 bad choices. Once we get there, I think this country will get better. And my faith in that happening has me looking at other countries to live in.
My little Asus EEE-PC is too small for its own good. I can balance it on a knee, or the arm of a chair or couch. Because of this, it's taken a faceplant onto the floor a dozen times or more already. The worst thing that's happened is the plastic housing for the screen popped open a little. I gave it a squeeze and it clicked back together.
For that durability alone, the choice of a SSD was fantastic. Well worth the cost of replacing the drive that I could have damaged in any one of those falls.
If by "exploit" you mean "looking at something through a window designed to allow you to do that and then posting a picture of what's inside", I'd agree. There is no "exploit" - the system was DESIGNED to be transparent. What she's pointing out is that if you design it like that, then put things you don't want people to see inside, PEOPLE CAN SEE THOSE THINGS!
It's like putting in a plate glass window, then hanging your underwear in front of it. When someone takes a picture of it and posts it, you complain and sue, rather than A) Removing the underwear, or B) covering the window. The window was your doing, and the underwear was your doing - all they did was draw attention to the fact that you might not want to do one of the two.
In case this poor analogy isn't completely clear, the state could have either A) Disallowed access to this information all together, or B) not have included the SSNs. Instead they tried to use legal means to fix their stupidity.
It's not like storage is that large or expensive. Put in a CD and an IDE drive, a DVD and SATA drive, a USB thumb drive, an SD card and reader, a linux install on a hard drive with all the required software, etc.
Odds are that one of them will survive. While it's not quite 25 years old yet, I still have a few terminators, t-bars, and cards from my old co-ax networking days. If any single one survives, I bet someone will be able to pull data from it with the hardware in their closet.
On paper, that looks great. In reality, the candidate will appear on American Idol and Survivor, send a check for $10,000 to everyone, and put free webcams throughout the white house, so you can see what's going on.
Would that be useful? Hell no. But will enough people vote to execute that candidate? I doubt it.
Which is why I no longer vote for either Democrats or Republicans. I vote for a third party. Any third party, if one I would support isn't available. And if there isn't a third party I write someone else in.
We will NEVER break free from this if everyone keeps voting for the (momentary) lesser of two evils. We will NEVER break free from this if everyone votes for the candidate opposing the one they hate more.
Folks, stand up, and say no. Vote for someone else. There are other options, and the more support they get, the less power the two main corporations...I mean parties have.
That assumes they can randomize enough not to simply try the same solutions over and over. Even randomized starts might lead to a later state which is the same as a previously tried state. Depending on your algorithm, you might then solve it exactly the same way as previously, without finding another solution. Proving that your algorithm is able to find all possible solutions would probably be harder than writing the algorithm.
I currently play a modernized MUD Which does just this. Death is a constant thing, but your family name carries on. As you fight in battles, your "physical age" goes up - that is, how beat up your shell is. As this happens, you have less "time" to play - you just can't get around like you used to. Older characters then either go hero-ing and die in a blaze or glory, or move into bureaucratic roles where they don't see much combat.
Your family has Fame and Gold, which is based on the efforts of all the previous/current members. If some new kid shows up, you can check out his family history to see if that family is a force to be reckoned with, or some no-name family.
In a large-scale MMO, you could easily work this in, with either karma (enough family members in peasant roles) or something even more complex. Grinding as a non-hero could then be rewarded, as once you had enough family members, they would be able to equip your main character. Want a new sword? You need a family member to make it for you. If you don't have one, then you don't get a sword.
This would help with persistence, as now death is not the end for you - when the next kid takes up the sword, there is a family infrastructure already behind him. It will also help make new quests - if someone doesn't like you they will have to have their FAMILY attack your FAMILY - there is no major benefit in just killing the hero. Now you might have to protect and defend your family, and balance that with adventuring.
I know one data point does not mean much, but if I'm eating cheap whitefish, orange roughy is my preference. I find the taste and texture far more pleasant than cod, pollock, haddock, etc.
And after a recent trip to the coast, I I have to agree on lobster being trash. At least, not worth the cost. Give me a good crab or a pile of crawfish instead - far more flavor at the same or lesser cost.
...there's something going on when someone has a self-signed cert.
Like, for instance, a website run by my friends and I. The webmaster wanted some basic encryption. That was it. It services like a dozen or so of us, and doesn't have much sensitive stuff on it, so there is no reason for a major cert. Our forums and mail might be vulnerable to spam, and so the logins needed some protection.
The site is now self-signed, we all were informed of it, accepted the exception, and all is well. There is no further hassle, and we're a bit safer when logging in because that info isn't sent plain-text.
So I would agree that there is "something going on when someone has a self-signed cert". That something is a basic bit of additional security without having to pay someone for the privilege. Now if this was a major corporate or banking site, I'd be worried. But there are plenty of small communities for which a self-signed cert is ideal.
You don't "return" electronic media. You make a micropayment for each one, or pay a subscription fee to access as many as you want in a given time period. The age of "returnable" and "disposable" media is over.
Of course, by that I mean it *should* be over. However, the old way of doing things is being held onto like rats holding onto a sinking brick.
Ideally, you should be able to take your ipod, phone, or portable memory stick into Cracker Barrel and download one of the two books a week you get with your $5 a month subscription package. Or pay $1 each time you go in, no subscription needed. This saves them the cost of buying, handling, tracking, shipping, repairing, storing, discarding, and replacing the physical medium.
Once you have that data, you either plug your ipod into your car stereo, run it through a crappy radio transmitter, or directly plug your portable storage into the data port of the stereo.
The fact that this isn't the way it works blows my mind. We have the technology, but lack the vision, from top to bottom.
I resisted NoScript for a long time, as it looked like a pain in the ass to use. Note to those in the same position:
NoScript is stupid-easy to use.
It tells you clearly what it's blocking, and you can unblock with two clicks - either permanently, or on a session-by-session basis. In my daily browsing, it is completely invisible on my regular sites, which are already fully white/black listed. When I go elsewhere, it discretely lets me know who is running shit on a page, and gives me nearly full control over it.
NoScript is very much worth your time. Give it a few days as you get the most common pages white/black listed, then see how you like it. It takes a bit of setup, but even then it's useful out of the box, and quickly fades into the background.
I've heard of some people having problems after upgrades but I don't believe they are very widespread.
Actually, I'm running Ubuntu on the EEE-PC due to update problems. To get the advanced Xandros desktop working, I had to do an upgrade. Somehow in there I ended up with a circular dependency involving python, I think, which made it impossible to revert back or go forward. Installing EEEUbuntu via USB thumb drive was the easiest way to fix the issue and get a full desktop.
For me, living close would cost me $300-$400 more a month. Yes, that is after subtracting the cost of commuting. That or I would need to settle for half the living space. I've made a choice to do a moderate amount of commuting, to balance cost of living and living space.
But that puts me outside the (minimal) runs of public transportation, and a solid half hour away from a decent grocery store. I make up for that with a small, fuel efficient car. (37-38 mpg) I would love to live within walking/biking distance from work, but it's not financially viable.
And that's the major issue with a good portion of the world. If we could have decent mixed zoning in the US, it would help a great deal. But people have decided they don't want to live near businesses, so we've drastically zoned our cities and towns so that residences can't be near stores and jobs. It's stupid, but the way it is. And appropriately enough, because of this artificial scarcity, those grandfathered in, or somehow exempt from this are in high demand. Still, this doesn't convince people that it's a stupid system.
Part of the problem is risk-aversion. After the Hollywood Boulevard subway tunnel collapse in 1995, nobody else wants to risk putting in subways anywhere in the area. There is some public resistance, and that translates into investment resistance.
And all because one contractor made a brain-dead and irresponsible engineering choice. Look at the Big Dig under Boston - way over budget, and irresponsible/ignorant contractors had enough faulty construction that one person died when parts of a tunnel collapsed and fell on a car.
As a scientist, I look at these events and say, "Looks like a good idea to me." Because I can rationally compare accidents in major public works programs with car accidents which claim thousands of lives a day. The problem is that most of the public, and thus most investors/permit signers/insurance companies/etc, can not. I can calculate engineering errors in mistakes/mile, and assess relatively how effective a project was. Most of the world sees one picture of one small mistake, and immediately assumes the entire thing is garbage, a waste of public funds, and not worth considering.
So basically, this problem comes down the the root of all the problems of humanity: People are stupid. Fix this, and we'll be set.
Thank you for that comment. To flush it out, most cattle herds are on vast swathes of land where nothing but scrub grass can be grown. The pastures behind my childhood home were acres and acres of shale hills which ended in ledges and trickled into swamps. You couldn't put a house there, you couldn't plow it, you couldn't plant anything there. The major plants able to grow there were scrub grass and brambles, both with minimal root depths.
There is some fantasy among environmentalists that envisions herds of cattle trampling wheat and corn fields. "If only we could stop breeding those cows, there'd be food for everyone!" The best beef comes from herds of cows running around on rocky, inhospitable land, eeking out an existence eating scrub grass and brambles. Farming is a low-profit-margin industry - you don't waste a lot of money buying/hoarding lots of human-edible food to feed your cows. Around here, it's 90% grass - 100% during the summer, and in the winter either dried and baled or minced green. The other 10% is field corn - not sweet corn, which we can eat, but cheep, low-sugar, high fiber, tough, nearly inedible corn. It's far cheaper than sweet corn to buy and harvest, since the entire stalk is chopped up and stored. And there is no real concern for yield, since the entire thing - stalk, leaves, and cob are eaten, not just the sweet kernels. This means it can be planted just about anywhere, even places you can't easily grow human food.
So thanks for pointing out something that lots of stupid/city people miss, and thanks for BattleMaster - just about a year of fun for me now.
Users on shared systems can easily set up a simple PIN code to protect any card from use by other users...
That almost sounds like a....password...
Really, this is an article about using things instead of passwords....which function like passwords....and using passwords when those wouldn't be secure enough. What a stupid fucking article.
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Whiskey on the rocks? If you're not talking about a fine Scotch Whiskey, you want the whiskey in question diluted and the harsh evils coated in something sweet and flavorful. A nice Speyside Scotch is a beautiful thing. As is a nice whiskey sour, or a whiskey and cranberry. Only the Scotch is fit for the rocks.
Of course, I'm biased by the nice Speyside sitting next to me. It's a light amber, and the condensation is making a little puddle on the sidetable.
It's like love in a glass.
Now back to the humor, and world-ending climate discussion. I care not for either. Beautiful, beautiful Scotch.
....only an issue if McCain dies.
Blinks.... Don't you mean when McCain dies? Or is she on the ticket so he can sustain his lifeforce with young blood every night?
I *really* wish the people who don't like either of the two "major candidates" would get out there and vote 3rd. party, rather than skipping the process. That's where I'm at right now, myself. I can't bring myself to cast a vote for yet another person following in the footsteps of Bush, but Obama comes from the typical crooked Chicago politician pool, screwed us over by not fighting the telcom immunity bill, and has professed ideas for public healthcare that I think aren't going to work. Both candidates are apparently fine with a continuation of the "Patriot Act" too, which tells me a LOT about them.
I've been doing this for the last 8 years. I will go out of my way to not vote for either major party, because "The enemy of my enemy is my enemy's enemy, no more, no less."
I'm not going to vote Democrat just because they are anti-Bush policies, because that is just helping support the system. I'm not going to choose the Republican candidate over the corrupt, incompetent Democrat, because that's just supporting the system.
I don't give a damn WHICH third party finally manages to break 10% in a major election. We just need someone to prove that the current system can have more than 2 bad choices. Once we get there, I think this country will get better. And my faith in that happening has me looking at other countries to live in.
My little Asus EEE-PC is too small for its own good. I can balance it on a knee, or the arm of a chair or couch. Because of this, it's taken a faceplant onto the floor a dozen times or more already. The worst thing that's happened is the plastic housing for the screen popped open a little. I gave it a squeeze and it clicked back together.
For that durability alone, the choice of a SSD was fantastic. Well worth the cost of replacing the drive that I could have damaged in any one of those falls.
Especially since it probably won't show up in court - I bet you could get a default judgment.
If by "exploit" you mean "looking at something through a window designed to allow you to do that and then posting a picture of what's inside", I'd agree. There is no "exploit" - the system was DESIGNED to be transparent. What she's pointing out is that if you design it like that, then put things you don't want people to see inside, PEOPLE CAN SEE THOSE THINGS!
It's like putting in a plate glass window, then hanging your underwear in front of it. When someone takes a picture of it and posts it, you complain and sue, rather than A) Removing the underwear, or B) covering the window. The window was your doing, and the underwear was your doing - all they did was draw attention to the fact that you might not want to do one of the two.
In case this poor analogy isn't completely clear, the state could have either A) Disallowed access to this information all together, or B) not have included the SSNs. Instead they tried to use legal means to fix their stupidity.
It's not like storage is that large or expensive. Put in a CD and an IDE drive, a DVD and SATA drive, a USB thumb drive, an SD card and reader, a linux install on a hard drive with all the required software, etc.
Odds are that one of them will survive. While it's not quite 25 years old yet, I still have a few terminators, t-bars, and cards from my old co-ax networking days. If any single one survives, I bet someone will be able to pull data from it with the hardware in their closet.
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On paper, that looks great. In reality, the candidate will appear on American Idol and Survivor, send a check for $10,000 to everyone, and put free webcams throughout the white house, so you can see what's going on.
Would that be useful? Hell no. But will enough people vote to execute that candidate? I doubt it.
If it was, say, Natalie Portman's physical body, I'm sure we wouldn't stop at just visualizing it.
And now that I've done that obligatory service, you may mod this post both +5 informative and +5 Fap.
Which is why I no longer vote for either Democrats or Republicans. I vote for a third party. Any third party, if one I would support isn't available. And if there isn't a third party I write someone else in.
We will NEVER break free from this if everyone keeps voting for the (momentary) lesser of two evils. We will NEVER break free from this if everyone votes for the candidate opposing the one they hate more.
Folks, stand up, and say no. Vote for someone else. There are other options, and the more support they get, the less power the two main corporations...I mean parties have.
That assumes they can randomize enough not to simply try the same solutions over and over. Even randomized starts might lead to a later state which is the same as a previously tried state. Depending on your algorithm, you might then solve it exactly the same way as previously, without finding another solution. Proving that your algorithm is able to find all possible solutions would probably be harder than writing the algorithm.
I currently play a modernized MUD Which does just this. Death is a constant thing, but your family name carries on. As you fight in battles, your "physical age" goes up - that is, how beat up your shell is. As this happens, you have less "time" to play - you just can't get around like you used to. Older characters then either go hero-ing and die in a blaze or glory, or move into bureaucratic roles where they don't see much combat.
Your family has Fame and Gold, which is based on the efforts of all the previous/current members. If some new kid shows up, you can check out his family history to see if that family is a force to be reckoned with, or some no-name family.
In a large-scale MMO, you could easily work this in, with either karma (enough family members in peasant roles) or something even more complex. Grinding as a non-hero could then be rewarded, as once you had enough family members, they would be able to equip your main character. Want a new sword? You need a family member to make it for you. If you don't have one, then you don't get a sword.
This would help with persistence, as now death is not the end for you - when the next kid takes up the sword, there is a family infrastructure already behind him. It will also help make new quests - if someone doesn't like you they will have to have their FAMILY attack your FAMILY - there is no major benefit in just killing the hero. Now you might have to protect and defend your family, and balance that with adventuring.
I know one data point does not mean much, but if I'm eating cheap whitefish, orange roughy is my preference. I find the taste and texture far more pleasant than cod, pollock, haddock, etc.
And after a recent trip to the coast, I I have to agree on lobster being trash. At least, not worth the cost. Give me a good crab or a pile of crawfish instead - far more flavor at the same or lesser cost.
Delicious indeed, but my favorite roll of all time is an eel tempura roll. I can only find it at a few places tho.
Like, for instance, a website run by my friends and I. The webmaster wanted some basic encryption. That was it. It services like a dozen or so of us, and doesn't have much sensitive stuff on it, so there is no reason for a major cert. Our forums and mail might be vulnerable to spam, and so the logins needed some protection.
The site is now self-signed, we all were informed of it, accepted the exception, and all is well. There is no further hassle, and we're a bit safer when logging in because that info isn't sent plain-text.
So I would agree that there is "something going on when someone has a self-signed cert". That something is a basic bit of additional security without having to pay someone for the privilege. Now if this was a major corporate or banking site, I'd be worried. But there are plenty of small communities for which a self-signed cert is ideal.
You don't "return" electronic media. You make a micropayment for each one, or pay a subscription fee to access as many as you want in a given time period. The age of "returnable" and "disposable" media is over.
Of course, by that I mean it *should* be over. However, the old way of doing things is being held onto like rats holding onto a sinking brick.
Ideally, you should be able to take your ipod, phone, or portable memory stick into Cracker Barrel and download one of the two books a week you get with your $5 a month subscription package. Or pay $1 each time you go in, no subscription needed. This saves them the cost of buying, handling, tracking, shipping, repairing, storing, discarding, and replacing the physical medium.
Once you have that data, you either plug your ipod into your car stereo, run it through a crappy radio transmitter, or directly plug your portable storage into the data port of the stereo.
The fact that this isn't the way it works blows my mind. We have the technology, but lack the vision, from top to bottom.
I resisted NoScript for a long time, as it looked like a pain in the ass to use. Note to those in the same position:
NoScript is stupid-easy to use.
It tells you clearly what it's blocking, and you can unblock with two clicks - either permanently, or on a session-by-session basis. In my daily browsing, it is completely invisible on my regular sites, which are already fully white/black listed. When I go elsewhere, it discretely lets me know who is running shit on a page, and gives me nearly full control over it.
NoScript is very much worth your time. Give it a few days as you get the most common pages white/black listed, then see how you like it. It takes a bit of setup, but even then it's useful out of the box, and quickly fades into the background.
Actually, I'm running Ubuntu on the EEE-PC due to update problems. To get the advanced Xandros desktop working, I had to do an upgrade. Somehow in there I ended up with a circular dependency involving python, I think, which made it impossible to revert back or go forward. Installing EEEUbuntu via USB thumb drive was the easiest way to fix the issue and get a full desktop.
Actually, you're no longer allowed to compete in the Olympics if you *say* you're 13...because of pedophiles like him.
For me, living close would cost me $300-$400 more a month. Yes, that is after subtracting the cost of commuting. That or I would need to settle for half the living space. I've made a choice to do a moderate amount of commuting, to balance cost of living and living space.
But that puts me outside the (minimal) runs of public transportation, and a solid half hour away from a decent grocery store. I make up for that with a small, fuel efficient car. (37-38 mpg) I would love to live within walking/biking distance from work, but it's not financially viable.
And that's the major issue with a good portion of the world. If we could have decent mixed zoning in the US, it would help a great deal. But people have decided they don't want to live near businesses, so we've drastically zoned our cities and towns so that residences can't be near stores and jobs. It's stupid, but the way it is. And appropriately enough, because of this artificial scarcity, those grandfathered in, or somehow exempt from this are in high demand. Still, this doesn't convince people that it's a stupid system.
Part of the problem is risk-aversion. After the Hollywood Boulevard subway tunnel collapse in 1995, nobody else wants to risk putting in subways anywhere in the area. There is some public resistance, and that translates into investment resistance.
And all because one contractor made a brain-dead and irresponsible engineering choice. Look at the Big Dig under Boston - way over budget, and irresponsible/ignorant contractors had enough faulty construction that one person died when parts of a tunnel collapsed and fell on a car.
As a scientist, I look at these events and say, "Looks like a good idea to me." Because I can rationally compare accidents in major public works programs with car accidents which claim thousands of lives a day. The problem is that most of the public, and thus most investors/permit signers/insurance companies/etc, can not. I can calculate engineering errors in mistakes/mile, and assess relatively how effective a project was. Most of the world sees one picture of one small mistake, and immediately assumes the entire thing is garbage, a waste of public funds, and not worth considering.
So basically, this problem comes down the the root of all the problems of humanity: People are stupid. Fix this, and we'll be set.
Thank you for that comment. To flush it out, most cattle herds are on vast swathes of land where nothing but scrub grass can be grown. The pastures behind my childhood home were acres and acres of shale hills which ended in ledges and trickled into swamps. You couldn't put a house there, you couldn't plow it, you couldn't plant anything there. The major plants able to grow there were scrub grass and brambles, both with minimal root depths.
There is some fantasy among environmentalists that envisions herds of cattle trampling wheat and corn fields. "If only we could stop breeding those cows, there'd be food for everyone!" The best beef comes from herds of cows running around on rocky, inhospitable land, eeking out an existence eating scrub grass and brambles. Farming is a low-profit-margin industry - you don't waste a lot of money buying/hoarding lots of human-edible food to feed your cows. Around here, it's 90% grass - 100% during the summer, and in the winter either dried and baled or minced green. The other 10% is field corn - not sweet corn, which we can eat, but cheep, low-sugar, high fiber, tough, nearly inedible corn. It's far cheaper than sweet corn to buy and harvest, since the entire stalk is chopped up and stored. And there is no real concern for yield, since the entire thing - stalk, leaves, and cob are eaten, not just the sweet kernels. This means it can be planted just about anywhere, even places you can't easily grow human food.
So thanks for pointing out something that lots of stupid/city people miss, and thanks for BattleMaster - just about a year of fun for me now.
Truly, your dizzying intellect towers above the rest of us. However, the lack of Italian seasoning in your post (Basil and Sybil) is disturbing.
That almost sounds like a....password...
Really, this is an article about using things instead of passwords....which function like passwords....and using passwords when those wouldn't be secure enough. What a stupid fucking article.