And when you are charging it, it is a drain. What, will we just charge it with other batteries? I don't think that will help with actual sources of power.
Listing "battery" as a power "source" when comparing to fossil fuels, nuclear, biomass, wind, solar, geothermal, hydro, makes no sense at all. If it is being listed as ways to improve power distribution, reliability, or even help cut costs, then great- but that is not what the summary says.
>"Anyway, him saying Trump is a bit of a buffoon is going to resonate with Trump voters. It'll be a significant hit to Trump's reputation with his base."
Maybe, maybe not. I don't believe being "smart" was high on the list of his base's wishes this time- it was mostly that he:
1) Wasn't Hillary 2) Was purporting to be conservative 3) Wasn't an "establishment" politician
I think the vast majority of voters already knew he was a bit of a loud-mouth, bully, buffoon long before the election.... but I believe they very much wanted a shake up and not an Obama sequel. In my mind, there is no question that mission was accomplished. Being smart, charismatic, or well spoken don't necessarily mean having positions that voters will agree with, nor do they necessarily mean the candidate would have a better chance of getting anything accomplished.
>"Battery, hydroelectric, and biomass facilities make up the small percentage of "other" sources "
Sorry, but "battery" is not a "source" of electricity, it is just a storage of one.
>"Of the 475 MW of capacity that came online in February, 81 percent was wind, 16 percent was solar photovoltaic, and the remaining 3 percent was hydro and biomass."
Kewl! Reduction of fossil fuel usage is great for everyone, regardless of ideology or party. Energy independence, sustainability, and long-term cost control (because it doesn't "run out") are vitally important to security, peace, and the economy. Everything else is icing on an already delicious cake:)
I went to comments to post the same thing. It is far from "free", they are just forcing everyone to pay for it through taxes, whether they use it or not. This could be a bad thing or a good thing, or something in-between depending on lots of factors (and whose opinion). But make no mistake, it isn't "free". Oh, and the summary then says "cost-free transit" and that is just as inaccurate. Had they said "ticket free" or "admission free", that would be better.
The article helps to explain the actual COST of this "freeness", which is 13 million Euros more (on top of the existing, presumably annual, 31 million Euros per year).
>"With Steam Link App, Your Smartphone" >"tablet, mobile phone, or Apple TV" >"launches today for Android 5.0+ devices; iOS support is pending further review from Apple."
>"I first tested iPad" >"iPad's full"
Exactly where does an "ipad" fit with "smartphone" or Android? They pretty much imply the only released client from the three is Android, and the review is about an ipad? Yes, I even read the article... same thing. There is no "first tested ipad", that was the ONLY thing tested in the article. Confused.
>"Sounds like a creative DoS. Spoof different IPs and spam the login to the site with known accounts. Lock everybody out."
If not carefully set up, you are correct that things like "fail to ban" can, indeed, lead to what is like a denial of service attack. Generally, accounts are not completely locked out, but the IP trying to break in is locked out... for a while, at least. An account lockout would only occur on some configurations, perhaps if it is being sensed as being attacked from many different IP addresses within some amount of time. IP's can also be blocked if they were recently used to try and login to more than X number of accounts.
>"Database hash dumps don't care about what online-attack rules you put in place. Once they have the hashed-password database"
But how did they get such a database in the first place? It seems that is a pretty big feat on most systems. But brute-forcing most certainly is a thing, apparently, since my ssh ports get hammered constantly, all day long, 24x7. However, with fail-to-ban (or similar) installed, it is a 100% useless effort by those brute-forcers, regardless of password strength.
If one already has the entire database of the hashed passwords, then I am not sure it really matters all that much if a password is weak or medium or strong.... eventually they can be cracked and get at least some accounts. And if they could get their hands on the password database (typically a highly protected file), couldn't they already get their hands on any other information they wanted that was on the computer?
Any information that is collected can and probably will be abused at some point. It doesn't matter what laws are enacted. This is why any "privacy" methods that don't prevent the collection in the first place are fairly doomed.
With our current technology, cell operators HAVE to know where a phone is so calls can be routed to them. However, there is no reason they should be SAVING that information, much less giving it or selling it to ANYONE.
So, OS and settings and GPS aside, just having your phone "on" the cell network means you ARE being tracked.
>"Smarter People Don't Have Better Passwords, Study Finds" >"students with better grades use bad passwords in the same proportion as students with bad ones"
Um, students with better grades are not necessarily "smarter." Just saying...
>"because all of these exposed passwords have most likely been added to even the most basic password-guessing brute-forcing tools."
Any system that allows fast, unlimited login attempts (which is necessary for brute force) is BROKEN. Even weak passwords can't be "brute forced" when you only have X attempts in X attempts per minute across X seconds and then that account is locked for X minutes/hours/days.
I find Claws to be wonderful. It is fast, easy to use, portable, reliable, extremely configurable, and very flexible. Claws has dozens of nice plugins and addons. Rather than being "pretty" and hiding everything from the user, it takes an older-school approach and gives you everything you need, and where you need it. Plus, you are not FORCED to use a mouse- there are key commands for just about everything and you can customize them to death. Has full scripting, filters, and connections for every type of delivery available out there.
There are a few odd things about it, but of all Email systems and clients I have used, I like it the most. I have hundreds of users using it every day. It is based on Sylpheed, which has been around forever, and development is still going on constantly. Available instantly for every Linux machine and has also been ported to MacOS and MS-Windows.
As for the problems with encrypted Email and HTML- that is completely due to poorly designed clients that render HTML immediately. Claws allows you to control how Email is displayed. For example, Claws will happily-
1) Not display the HTML part at all and just show plain-text (the default). 2) If the Email is in violation of rules and has no plain-text part, it will just invent one out of the HTML body. 3) If you DO want it to display the HTML (with a plugin), then there are settings to disable any external component loading
The one thing you can't do with Claws is COMPOSE html Email in it. And you know what? That is just 100% fine and a nice feature:)
>"Oh my good lord, I remember the last time I tried to use Claws. I spent probably two or three days tweaking it to not be terrible."
Hmm, I find Claws to be wonderful. It is fast, easy to use, portable, reliable, extremely configurable, and very flexible. There are a few odd things about it, but of all Email systems and clients I have used, I like it the most.
Don't use HTML Email and the problem goes away. I find that 99% of the time, there is no need for an HTML part to Email, anyway. This whole vulnerability is due to HTML parts being displayed AUTOMATICALLY and WITH loading external parts/links. (If you want to show something external, then just send a link, I don't need a web site "Emailed" to me).
Or, use a "real" Email client (like Claws and perhaps others) that allows you to control how Email is displayed. For example, Claws will happily-
1) Not display the HTML part at all and just show plain-text (the default). 2) If the Email is in violation of rules and has no plain-text part, it will just invent one out of the HTML body. 3) If you DO want it to display the HTML (with a plugin), then there are settings to disable any external component loading
>Well, in latin america is pretty common to have four names.. even more. The only place were I have problems with my 5 names ( you read that right) is when I'm in the US..
That actually is no problem at all, as long as one dosn't insist on trying to define them all as last names. They all just become middle names, except the very last one. Although many systems in the US only have room for a single middle name.
>"As someone born in Aug of 1928 that has never had an accident, I think this is unfair. I first got my divers license in 1942 when I was 14, I have never even gotten a speeding ticket. I know I'm a safer driver than millennials."
You are 89 years old and posting on Slashdot? Hmmm.... In any case, what is not "fair" about a driving test? I don't know ANY 90-year-olds who can drive safely. And the majority in their 80's who are very poor drivers. Do you think driving ability gets BETTER with extreme age? You think as reaction time slows and vision and hearing gets poor and confusion sets in that somehow driving ability remains the same? Or is aging just unfair?
Or perhaps this is just a silly hoax posting (by an "anonymous coward") to stir the pot...
>"If you are talking about kernel, say Linux. If the subject matter is Ubuntu distribution, call it Ubuntu."
+1
That is exactly what I do the most. I call it "Mageia Linux" or "CentOS Linux" or "Android Linux" or XXX Linux where XXX is whatever the distro is. If I mean just Linux distros in general, I often say "Linux distro". Although I will often generically refer to all Linux distributions as "Linux".
Why would I call it "GNU/Linux" when there are hundreds of other projects that make a Linux distro that are, collectively, just as important? How about X11/Linux or Firefox/Linux or LibreOffice/Linux or Audacity/Linux. Dare I even mention Systemd...
>"Btw, my kids have both lastnames, and it's just so inconvenient for them. "
That's because it is pretty stupid. So exactly what would THEIR children have? Potentially FOUR last names? Then 16? Then 32 last names?
It is about as illogical as hyphenated last names for married women. "I want to retain MY last name too," well, that was probably just YOUR FATHER'S last name, so are you dissin' your mother? Oh yeah, your mother's last name was just your grandfather's last name. Etc.
Pick whatever last name you want for yourself and your children, but please just pick ONE! How about this: no changing of last names ever- name female children with the mother's last name and male children with the father's last name. Seems odd, but at least it is logical.:)
>"It's amazing how many people rant about seeing the source code for breathalysers (in case there's some hidden DWB routine or something) while actually believing in field sobriety tests which are purely subjective and also totally fucking rubbish."
Conversely, even an absolutely precise measure of blood alcohol is ALSO rubbish. It says nothing about how much an individual is or is not impaired.... unless you know THAT PERSON'S EXACT baselines. There are lots of very valid factors that can complicate how impaired someone is- weight, age, base reflexes, brain type, gender, tolerance. One person could be over the limit and barely impaired at all, while someone else could be UNDER the limit and totally wasted.
Oh, and there are a zillion ways one could be "impaired" (intoxicated) that have nothing to do with alcohol. Illicit drugs, prescription drugs, lack of sleep, medical conditions, etc.
Those "subjective" tests are actually very useful in quickly determining impairment. In fact, I think it would be great to ditch alcohol tests completely and use some technological device that tests reaction time objectively....
>"I'm pro-abortion, but I'm against bringing politics and religion into software development"
I don't think anyone is "pro-abortion". More likely you are "pro-choice" (pro-abortion-choice). There is difference. Like probably most people, I abhor abortion. But I also think it isn't the governments right to dictate what someone can't do with their own body. So while I think the government should, in no way fund, support, or promote abortion... and don't have any problem with requiring education and warnings, I don't think it should be made illegal.
Another example- I am not "pro-alcohol" but I am "pro-alcohol-choice."
This is not a potential cure for baldness. It is a potential cure for GOING bald IN THE FUTURE (or when it just starts). If my understanding is correct, once you have lost your hair, most of those follicles die and can never produce hair again. So those of us (me included) who have already lost a lot of hair (for years), this drug (or any other known drug) would do pretty much nothing. Our only current recourse is hair transplant.
>"It's a worthless number. As if calories are all the same. You body handles sugar very differently than fat."
No, it is NOT a worthless number. It is far from ideal, but way far from "worthless." Most people eat far too many calories each meal/day, regardless of the source or types of calories. And you can't come up with a single, unified, number that explains the energy content AND use of sugars, fats, proteins, and other components that will be useful... especially to lay-people.
If one has an "average American" metabolism, I guarantee if he/she eats 4,000 calories a day, he/she will gain weight. I don't care what "type" of calories those are. Lower that to 2,000 and it becomes less clear what would happen. Lower it to 1,000 and he/she is going to lose weight- again, regardless of calorie source.
>"You may not need that plug-in anymore. Firefox also has built-in autoplay blocking, and has had it for quite a number of versions now. It is however still an experimental, hidden feature. It can be turned on in about:config by toggling "media.autoplay.enabled" to false."
I am aware of their feature tried it for years, and it is, unfortunately, quite broken. There are lots of bug reports on it. Many sites can't be made to play video at all with it set to false. The add-on I mentioned works much better AND has a white-list too. The add-on that worked REALLY REALLY well, was destroyed when Firefox rolled out the add-on framework changes, and I tried again to use the built-in blocking and it was just as flaky as before, so I have to make due with the newer add-on for now.
Last I checked, Firefox was looking at changing to what Chrome does, which will make it even WORSE, because it is not about muting audio, it is about not having autoplaying anything.
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>"When it's providing energy, it's a source."
And when you are charging it, it is a drain. What, will we just charge it with other batteries? I don't think that will help with actual sources of power.
Listing "battery" as a power "source" when comparing to fossil fuels, nuclear, biomass, wind, solar, geothermal, hydro, makes no sense at all. If it is being listed as ways to improve power distribution, reliability, or even help cut costs, then great- but that is not what the summary says.
>"Anyway, him saying Trump is a bit of a buffoon is going to resonate with Trump voters. It'll be a significant hit to Trump's reputation with his base."
Maybe, maybe not. I don't believe being "smart" was high on the list of his base's wishes this time- it was mostly that he:
1) Wasn't Hillary
2) Was purporting to be conservative
3) Wasn't an "establishment" politician
I think the vast majority of voters already knew he was a bit of a loud-mouth, bully, buffoon long before the election.... but I believe they very much wanted a shake up and not an Obama sequel. In my mind, there is no question that mission was accomplished. Being smart, charismatic, or well spoken don't necessarily mean having positions that voters will agree with, nor do they necessarily mean the candidate would have a better chance of getting anything accomplished.
>"Battery, hydroelectric, and biomass facilities make up the small percentage of "other" sources "
Sorry, but "battery" is not a "source" of electricity, it is just a storage of one.
>"Of the 475 MW of capacity that came online in February, 81 percent was wind, 16 percent was solar photovoltaic, and the remaining 3 percent was hydro and biomass."
Kewl! Reduction of fossil fuel usage is great for everyone, regardless of ideology or party. Energy independence, sustainability, and long-term cost control (because it doesn't "run out") are vitally important to security, peace, and the economy. Everything else is icing on an already delicious cake :)
>"There is no such thing as free."
+1
I went to comments to post the same thing. It is far from "free", they are just forcing everyone to pay for it through taxes, whether they use it or not. This could be a bad thing or a good thing, or something in-between depending on lots of factors (and whose opinion). But make no mistake, it isn't "free". Oh, and the summary then says "cost-free transit" and that is just as inaccurate. Had they said "ticket free" or "admission free", that would be better.
The article helps to explain the actual COST of this "freeness", which is 13 million Euros more (on top of the existing, presumably annual, 31 million Euros per year).
>"With Steam Link App, Your Smartphone"
>"tablet, mobile phone, or Apple TV"
>"launches today for Android 5.0+ devices; iOS support is pending further review from Apple."
>"I first tested iPad"
>"iPad's full"
Exactly where does an "ipad" fit with "smartphone" or Android? They pretty much imply the only released client from the three is Android, and the review is about an ipad? Yes, I even read the article... same thing. There is no "first tested ipad", that was the ONLY thing tested in the article. Confused.
>"What's LPR?"
License Plate Reader
+1 informative. Thanks!
>"Sounds like a creative DoS. Spoof different IPs and spam the login to the site with known accounts. Lock everybody out."
If not carefully set up, you are correct that things like "fail to ban" can, indeed, lead to what is like a denial of service attack. Generally, accounts are not completely locked out, but the IP trying to break in is locked out... for a while, at least. An account lockout would only occur on some configurations, perhaps if it is being sensed as being attacked from many different IP addresses within some amount of time. IP's can also be blocked if they were recently used to try and login to more than X number of accounts.
>"Database hash dumps don't care about what online-attack rules you put in place. Once they have the hashed-password database"
But how did they get such a database in the first place? It seems that is a pretty big feat on most systems. But brute-forcing most certainly is a thing, apparently, since my ssh ports get hammered constantly, all day long, 24x7. However, with fail-to-ban (or similar) installed, it is a 100% useless effort by those brute-forcers, regardless of password strength.
If one already has the entire database of the hashed passwords, then I am not sure it really matters all that much if a password is weak or medium or strong.... eventually they can be cracked and get at least some accounts. And if they could get their hands on the password database (typically a highly protected file), couldn't they already get their hands on any other information they wanted that was on the computer?
Any information that is collected can and probably will be abused at some point. It doesn't matter what laws are enacted. This is why any "privacy" methods that don't prevent the collection in the first place are fairly doomed.
With our current technology, cell operators HAVE to know where a phone is so calls can be routed to them. However, there is no reason they should be SAVING that information, much less giving it or selling it to ANYONE.
So, OS and settings and GPS aside, just having your phone "on" the cell network means you ARE being tracked.
>"Smarter People Don't Have Better Passwords, Study Finds"
>"students with better grades use bad passwords in the same proportion as students with bad ones"
Um, students with better grades are not necessarily "smarter." Just saying...
>"because all of these exposed passwords have most likely been added to even the most basic password-guessing brute-forcing tools."
Any system that allows fast, unlimited login attempts (which is necessary for brute force) is BROKEN. Even weak passwords can't be "brute forced" when you only have X attempts in X attempts per minute across X seconds and then that account is locked for X minutes/hours/days.
I don't think so. Address book is one of its weaker points.
Claws Mail. http://www.claws-mail.org/
I find Claws to be wonderful. It is fast, easy to use, portable, reliable, extremely configurable, and very flexible. Claws has dozens of nice plugins and addons. Rather than being "pretty" and hiding everything from the user, it takes an older-school approach and gives you everything you need, and where you need it. Plus, you are not FORCED to use a mouse- there are key commands for just about everything and you can customize them to death. Has full scripting, filters, and connections for every type of delivery available out there.
There are a few odd things about it, but of all Email systems and clients I have used, I like it the most. I have hundreds of users using it every day. It is based on Sylpheed, which has been around forever, and development is still going on constantly. Available instantly for every Linux machine and has also been ported to MacOS and MS-Windows.
As for the problems with encrypted Email and HTML- that is completely due to poorly designed clients that render HTML immediately. Claws allows you to control how Email is displayed. For example, Claws will happily-
1) Not display the HTML part at all and just show plain-text (the default).
2) If the Email is in violation of rules and has no plain-text part, it will just invent one out of the HTML body.
3) If you DO want it to display the HTML (with a plugin), then there are settings to disable any external component loading
The one thing you can't do with Claws is COMPOSE html Email in it. And you know what? That is just 100% fine and a nice feature :)
>"Oh my good lord, I remember the last time I tried to use Claws. I spent probably two or three days tweaking it to not be terrible."
Hmm, I find Claws to be wonderful. It is fast, easy to use, portable, reliable, extremely configurable, and very flexible. There are a few odd things about it, but of all Email systems and clients I have used, I like it the most.
Don't use HTML Email and the problem goes away. I find that 99% of the time, there is no need for an HTML part to Email, anyway. This whole vulnerability is due to HTML parts being displayed AUTOMATICALLY and WITH loading external parts/links. (If you want to show something external, then just send a link, I don't need a web site "Emailed" to me).
Or, use a "real" Email client (like Claws and perhaps others) that allows you to control how Email is displayed. For example, Claws will happily-
1) Not display the HTML part at all and just show plain-text (the default).
2) If the Email is in violation of rules and has no plain-text part, it will just invent one out of the HTML body.
3) If you DO want it to display the HTML (with a plugin), then there are settings to disable any external component loading
>Well, in latin america is pretty common to have four names.. even more. The only place were I have problems with my 5 names ( you read that right) is when I'm in the US..
That actually is no problem at all, as long as one dosn't insist on trying to define them all as last names. They all just become middle names, except the very last one. Although many systems in the US only have room for a single middle name.
>"As someone born in Aug of 1928 that has never had an accident, I think this is unfair. I first got my divers license in 1942 when I was 14, I have never even gotten a speeding ticket. I know I'm a safer driver than millennials."
You are 89 years old and posting on Slashdot? Hmmm....
In any case, what is not "fair" about a driving test? I don't know ANY 90-year-olds who can drive safely. And the majority in their 80's who are very poor drivers. Do you think driving ability gets BETTER with extreme age? You think as reaction time slows and vision and hearing gets poor and confusion sets in that somehow driving ability remains the same? Or is aging just unfair?
Or perhaps this is just a silly hoax posting (by an "anonymous coward") to stir the pot...
>"If you are talking about kernel, say Linux. If the subject matter is Ubuntu distribution, call it Ubuntu."
+1
That is exactly what I do the most. I call it "Mageia Linux" or "CentOS Linux" or "Android Linux" or XXX Linux where XXX is whatever the distro is. If I mean just Linux distros in general, I often say "Linux distro". Although I will often generically refer to all Linux distributions as "Linux".
Why would I call it "GNU/Linux" when there are hundreds of other projects that make a Linux distro that are, collectively, just as important? How about X11/Linux or Firefox/Linux or LibreOffice/Linux or Audacity/Linux. Dare I even mention Systemd...
>"Btw, my kids have both lastnames, and it's just so inconvenient for them. "
That's because it is pretty stupid. So exactly what would THEIR children have? Potentially FOUR last names? Then 16? Then 32 last names?
It is about as illogical as hyphenated last names for married women. "I want to retain MY last name too," well, that was probably just YOUR FATHER'S last name, so are you dissin' your mother? Oh yeah, your mother's last name was just your grandfather's last name. Etc.
Pick whatever last name you want for yourself and your children, but please just pick ONE! How about this: no changing of last names ever- name female children with the mother's last name and male children with the father's last name. Seems odd, but at least it is logical. :)
>"It's amazing how many people rant about seeing the source code for breathalysers (in case there's some hidden DWB routine or something) while actually believing in field sobriety tests which are purely subjective and also totally fucking rubbish."
Conversely, even an absolutely precise measure of blood alcohol is ALSO rubbish. It says nothing about how much an individual is or is not impaired.... unless you know THAT PERSON'S EXACT baselines. There are lots of very valid factors that can complicate how impaired someone is- weight, age, base reflexes, brain type, gender, tolerance. One person could be over the limit and barely impaired at all, while someone else could be UNDER the limit and totally wasted.
Oh, and there are a zillion ways one could be "impaired" (intoxicated) that have nothing to do with alcohol. Illicit drugs, prescription drugs, lack of sleep, medical conditions, etc.
Those "subjective" tests are actually very useful in quickly determining impairment. In fact, I think it would be great to ditch alcohol tests completely and use some technological device that tests reaction time objectively....
>"I'm pro-abortion, but I'm against bringing politics and religion into software development"
I don't think anyone is "pro-abortion". More likely you are "pro-choice" (pro-abortion-choice). There is difference. Like probably most people, I abhor abortion. But I also think it isn't the governments right to dictate what someone can't do with their own body. So while I think the government should, in no way fund, support, or promote abortion... and don't have any problem with requiring education and warnings, I don't think it should be made illegal.
Another example- I am not "pro-alcohol" but I am "pro-alcohol-choice."
Just an FYI....
This is not a potential cure for baldness. It is a potential cure for GOING bald IN THE FUTURE (or when it just starts). If my understanding is correct, once you have lost your hair, most of those follicles die and can never produce hair again. So those of us (me included) who have already lost a lot of hair (for years), this drug (or any other known drug) would do pretty much nothing. Our only current recourse is hair transplant.
>"It's a worthless number. As if calories are all the same. You body handles sugar very differently than fat."
No, it is NOT a worthless number. It is far from ideal, but way far from "worthless." Most people eat far too many calories each meal/day, regardless of the source or types of calories. And you can't come up with a single, unified, number that explains the energy content AND use of sugars, fats, proteins, and other components that will be useful... especially to lay-people.
If one has an "average American" metabolism, I guarantee if he/she eats 4,000 calories a day, he/she will gain weight. I don't care what "type" of calories those are. Lower that to 2,000 and it becomes less clear what would happen. Lower it to 1,000 and he/she is going to lose weight- again, regardless of calorie source.
>"You may not need that plug-in anymore. Firefox also has built-in autoplay blocking, and has had it for quite a number of versions now. It is however still an experimental, hidden feature. It can be turned on in about:config by toggling "media.autoplay.enabled" to false."
I am aware of their feature tried it for years, and it is, unfortunately, quite broken. There are lots of bug reports on it. Many sites can't be made to play video at all with it set to false. The add-on I mentioned works much better AND has a white-list too. The add-on that worked REALLY REALLY well, was destroyed when Firefox rolled out the add-on framework changes, and I tried again to use the built-in blocking and it was just as flaky as before, so I have to make due with the newer add-on for now.
Last I checked, Firefox was looking at changing to what Chrome does, which will make it even WORSE, because it is not about muting audio, it is about not having autoplaying anything.
>Does your autoplay blocker also block motion JPEG implemented in pure CSS?
Unfortunately, no. I have to manually use "Nuke Anything" to stop it.