There aren't any 50 year old CFLs. There aren't even any 10 year old CFLs. Not because they didn't exist then, but because they stopped working 5 years ago, about the same as an incandescent bulb.
How can the information be outdated? How can it be proven that newer bulbs are going to last 20 years until 20 years actually passes and they are all still lit. The only thing we currently have to go on is that CFLs don't last any longer than convention, take longer to warm up, cost more money and don't save that much electricity.
How do CFLs save you money? They cost 10 times as much, don't last any longer, and the only real savings is the energy cost over the short life of the bulb. The energy savings is not enough to justify the extra cost. Then you can't just throw them in the trash, they have to be recycled. The wikipedia article for CFL reads like an advertisement. But I've used probably 30 or more CFLs and I can tell you, the lifespan is not there, and therefore, neither are the savings.
I'm sure they could have gotten somebody locally for $60k if they wanted to. The reason they are even bringing this guy in is because they want to pay less money.
It seems that every "weather" event is trotted out as evidence FOR Global Warming by someone.
Ah, you're finally getting it. Yes, Global Warming is the grand unified theory. EVERYTHING is evidence of it. If something contradicts Global Warming, it is absorbed into the theory and becomes evidence for it. Cooler than normal, warmer than normal, cooling trends, warming trends, more ice, less ice, more significant weather, less significant weather, more rain, less rain, it is all due to Global Warming. It is the scientific equivalent of "God did it". There is literally no way to falsify it.
It was the same when I went to school. At most, you needed a parent signature and a teacher recommendation. Even the curriculum was barely different between AP and regular classes. At my school, they only counted an extra.002 toward your GPA. ie, if you got straight As and had one AP class, you would have a 4.002 GPA. The only thing that kept me from taking them was scheduling conflicts because I was in band.
some states where not a single member of one of these groups took the test last year...
etc., etc. if you're wondering what the hell test is being talked about, you'll need to check the actual article to find it's the Advanced Placement computer science exam.
Yes, I read the article, too, and thus I think the whole thing can be thrown out. It is not appropriate to try to gather statistics about general enrollment in a discipline by the number of people who attempt to go for advanced placement in that discipline. Particularly if you are going by numbers where one of the largest states to participate had 50 whole people take the test. Many states had no one take the test, probably because they have their own standards for determining advanced placement, as probably do most school districts. It's not like there is a federal standard for determining whether a child can be in the AP computer science class.
Talk about jumping to conclusions. Only John "Correlation is Causation" Tesh manages to abuse statistics more.
140 million Americans are affected by the Target breach.
Surely not directly? Are they saying 2 of every 3 adult Americans shopped at a brick and mortar Target in December and used a credit card? I can vouch that I was one of those that did not.
Are they saying everyone who has a Visa or Mastercard is "affected"? That number does seem pretty close to the number of adults with a visa or mastercard (estimated at well above half of the adult population but I couldn't find an exact number).
I wonder were the stolen cards used to purchase online or in person. If they were used in person, They must have been used for small POS purchases like gas or fast food, which don't require even a signature. If they were used online, then a zip code should have been used to verify the billing address. Some gas stations also require the zip code. Also, I don't believe that the credit cards are even encoded with the 3 or 4 digit security code on the card, so it can't be read by an infected reader, and those codes are usually asked for online.
Unfortunately, it is rather easy to find retailers willing to let you buy without any confirmation checks on the owner of the credit card. I guess if they consider that to be worth the effort of a few chargeback sales, then so be it.
First initial Lastname at yahoo.com. Haven't actually used the account for outgoing e-mail in many years, if ever, but its still mine. I get e-mails for some lady who is apparently an extreme liberal, an avid shopper who signs up for department store newsletters and also a Verizon customer (as am I, which I found very confusing as those were the first e-mails I got on her behalf. Her bills were about 1/10th of mine. She must have some kind of government subsidized plan). But for some reason, she feels the need to sign up for all these things with my account. She shares the same first initial and last name, but I am not related. Of course, none of the services she signs up for require a two step verification, and are happy to send her private information, shopping history, outstanding orders, phone payment information, etc. out to any old e-mail address she happens to provide.
I always found the GT AI just follows the best line regardless of whether you are there or not. They act like they are aware of each other but not aware of the player. They never run into each other, but they will happily run into you.
The AI is adaptive too. If you hang in back, their total race time might be 5:00, but if you race out front and finish in 4:00, they will be just seconds behind. What was entertaining in some previous versions was that if you had a really good car, you could get the AI to push themselves beyond their limits, you could sometimes get to see them wipe out, especially on Laguna Seca's famous S curve.
So does it work better , worse, or the same as the free app for Android my buddy showed me the other day that does the same thing (actually, it may just be something built in, I didn't actually ask if it was an app).
That's because other currencies are deflationary. Holding them is idiocy. You might as well spend whatever you have now because if you spend it next year it won't buy you as much. The only point to holding a currency is if you expect it to rise against some other currency.
There's no such thing as a secure password that's been in use for 30 or 40 years.
Why, do passwords decay as the get older? If you haven't told it to anybody, then how can it have gotten any less secure? If someone is trying hashing attacks against your server, a 30 year old password has the same chance of being found as a 1 day old one. A keylogger works just as well on one day old passwords. A password saved encrypted instead of hashed is just as vulnerable at 1 day old as a 30 year old one.
You won't forget a secure password that you've been using for 30 or 40 years. You might forget a password because the company makes you change it every 90 days even though it is a secure password and you have not shared it with anybody. Company security policy is its own worst enemy.
Umm... what about server passwords? What about core router and switch passwords? What if you work at a telecommunications company and are in charge of the a large part of the network?
That is a different story. Those are not YOUR passwords. Those belong to the company. Of course, your servers are locked down such that no one logs in as root. More than one person has root access, but they login as themselves so that there is individual identifiable information and an audit trail.
So what happens when we build a moon colony to avoid the supervolcano catastrophe and then the people back on Earth are still alive and well after the moon colony gets smashed by a meteorite.
Yeah, I never heard of canceling school for cold until the last 10 years. Inevitably when they do this, there are kids outside playing. My assumption is that it is less dangerous for the kids to be in school, but if something were to happen it would be the school's fault, but if something happens to the kids at home, it is the parent's fault. Same reason they cut down on bussing. It is probably 10 times more dangerous for 500 parents to drive their kids to school, than for 10 busses to pick the kids up, but the risk is all on the parents, so the schools are fine with it.
I've owned big dogs my entire life, I have never had even an attempted break in despite living in some really rough neighborhoods. Any "security" system will just let you know some hoodie wearing punk broke in and stole your stuff. A good dog makes that never even happen.
I had a paranoid stepfather before that had multiple guard dogs. Had an alarm system, too. Didn't stop someone from breaking in, stealing stuff and setting the house on fire.
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I'd like it to block noisy tabs, block metro 8 and block malware. Maybe I should just go back to lynx.
I see, so they are great if you don't use them in typical lighting applications.
There aren't any 50 year old CFLs. There aren't even any 10 year old CFLs. Not because they didn't exist then, but because they stopped working 5 years ago, about the same as an incandescent bulb.
How can the information be outdated? How can it be proven that newer bulbs are going to last 20 years until 20 years actually passes and they are all still lit. The only thing we currently have to go on is that CFLs don't last any longer than convention, take longer to warm up, cost more money and don't save that much electricity.
How do CFLs save you money? They cost 10 times as much, don't last any longer, and the only real savings is the energy cost over the short life of the bulb. The energy savings is not enough to justify the extra cost. Then you can't just throw them in the trash, they have to be recycled. The wikipedia article for CFL reads like an advertisement. But I've used probably 30 or more CFLs and I can tell you, the lifespan is not there, and therefore, neither are the savings.
I'm sure they could have gotten somebody locally for $60k if they wanted to. The reason they are even bringing this guy in is because they want to pay less money.
It seems that every "weather" event is trotted out as evidence FOR Global Warming by someone.
Ah, you're finally getting it. Yes, Global Warming is the grand unified theory. EVERYTHING is evidence of it. If something contradicts Global Warming, it is absorbed into the theory and becomes evidence for it. Cooler than normal, warmer than normal, cooling trends, warming trends, more ice, less ice, more significant weather, less significant weather, more rain, less rain, it is all due to Global Warming. It is the scientific equivalent of "God did it". There is literally no way to falsify it.
It was the same when I went to school. At most, you needed a parent signature and a teacher recommendation. Even the curriculum was barely different between AP and regular classes. At my school, they only counted an extra .002 toward your GPA. ie, if you got straight As and had one AP class, you would have a 4.002 GPA. The only thing that kept me from taking them was scheduling conflicts because I was in band.
etc., etc. if you're wondering what the hell test is being talked about, you'll need to check the actual article to find it's the Advanced Placement computer science exam.
Yes, I read the article, too, and thus I think the whole thing can be thrown out. It is not appropriate to try to gather statistics about general enrollment in a discipline by the number of people who attempt to go for advanced placement in that discipline. Particularly if you are going by numbers where one of the largest states to participate had 50 whole people take the test. Many states had no one take the test, probably because they have their own standards for determining advanced placement, as probably do most school districts. It's not like there is a federal standard for determining whether a child can be in the AP computer science class.
Talk about jumping to conclusions. Only John "Correlation is Causation" Tesh manages to abuse statistics more.
140 million Americans are affected by the Target breach.
Surely not directly? Are they saying 2 of every 3 adult Americans shopped at a brick and mortar Target in December and used a credit card? I can vouch that I was one of those that did not.
Are they saying everyone who has a Visa or Mastercard is "affected"? That number does seem pretty close to the number of adults with a visa or mastercard (estimated at well above half of the adult population but I couldn't find an exact number).
I wonder were the stolen cards used to purchase online or in person. If they were used in person, They must have been used for small POS purchases like gas or fast food, which don't require even a signature. If they were used online, then a zip code should have been used to verify the billing address. Some gas stations also require the zip code. Also, I don't believe that the credit cards are even encoded with the 3 or 4 digit security code on the card, so it can't be read by an infected reader, and those codes are usually asked for online.
Unfortunately, it is rather easy to find retailers willing to let you buy without any confirmation checks on the owner of the credit card. I guess if they consider that to be worth the effort of a few chargeback sales, then so be it.
First initial Lastname at yahoo.com. Haven't actually used the account for outgoing e-mail in many years, if ever, but its still mine. I get e-mails for some lady who is apparently an extreme liberal, an avid shopper who signs up for department store newsletters and also a Verizon customer (as am I, which I found very confusing as those were the first e-mails I got on her behalf. Her bills were about 1/10th of mine. She must have some kind of government subsidized plan). But for some reason, she feels the need to sign up for all these things with my account. She shares the same first initial and last name, but I am not related. Of course, none of the services she signs up for require a two step verification, and are happy to send her private information, shopping history, outstanding orders, phone payment information, etc. out to any old e-mail address she happens to provide.
I always found the GT AI just follows the best line regardless of whether you are there or not. They act like they are aware of each other but not aware of the player. They never run into each other, but they will happily run into you.
The AI is adaptive too. If you hang in back, their total race time might be 5:00, but if you race out front and finish in 4:00, they will be just seconds behind. What was entertaining in some previous versions was that if you had a really good car, you could get the AI to push themselves beyond their limits, you could sometimes get to see them wipe out, especially on Laguna Seca's famous S curve.
Hopefully Sony's engineers that did the Gran Turismo AI are not in charge of the AI for self-driving cars.
So does it work better , worse, or the same as the free app for Android my buddy showed me the other day that does the same thing (actually, it may just be something built in, I didn't actually ask if it was an app).
I meant inflationary, of course. It should be clear from the rest of the post.
That's because other currencies are deflationary. Holding them is idiocy. You might as well spend whatever you have now because if you spend it next year it won't buy you as much. The only point to holding a currency is if you expect it to rise against some other currency.
There's no such thing as a secure password that's been in use for 30 or 40 years.
Why, do passwords decay as the get older? If you haven't told it to anybody, then how can it have gotten any less secure? If someone is trying hashing attacks against your server, a 30 year old password has the same chance of being found as a 1 day old one. A keylogger works just as well on one day old passwords. A password saved encrypted instead of hashed is just as vulnerable at 1 day old as a 30 year old one.
Well, that could mean that only extreme conservatives comment in newspapers, or it could mean that extreme conservatives are the norm.
Yeah, he will probably have the website only open from 8:30 to 5:30 Eastern time, too.
You won't forget a secure password that you've been using for 30 or 40 years. You might forget a password because the company makes you change it every 90 days even though it is a secure password and you have not shared it with anybody. Company security policy is its own worst enemy.
Umm... what about server passwords? What about core router and switch passwords? What if you work at a telecommunications company and are in charge of the a large part of the network?
That is a different story. Those are not YOUR passwords. Those belong to the company. Of course, your servers are locked down such that no one logs in as root. More than one person has root access, but they login as themselves so that there is individual identifiable information and an audit trail.
Probably harder to hide the smoke and mirrors in an existing engine.
So what happens when we build a moon colony to avoid the supervolcano catastrophe and then the people back on Earth are still alive and well after the moon colony gets smashed by a meteorite.
Yeah, I never heard of canceling school for cold until the last 10 years. Inevitably when they do this, there are kids outside playing. My assumption is that it is less dangerous for the kids to be in school, but if something were to happen it would be the school's fault, but if something happens to the kids at home, it is the parent's fault. Same reason they cut down on bussing. It is probably 10 times more dangerous for 500 parents to drive their kids to school, than for 10 busses to pick the kids up, but the risk is all on the parents, so the schools are fine with it.
I've owned big dogs my entire life, I have never had even an attempted break in despite living in some really rough neighborhoods. Any "security" system will just let you know some hoodie wearing punk broke in and stole your stuff. A good dog makes that never even happen.
I had a paranoid stepfather before that had multiple guard dogs. Had an alarm system, too. Didn't stop someone from breaking in, stealing stuff and setting the house on fire.