Speaking of dumb, do the math.
30 miles/day * 20 days = 600 miles/month .
600miles / 30 miles/gallon = 20 gallons/month .
20 * 3$/gal = $60 of gas per month.
Even if charging is free, and batteries are not a wear item like break pads, where am I going to get an electric car for $60 more a month? Even if the electric car is the same price as gas car if I rent a car more than once or twice I'm in the hole.
I actually want an electric car. The problem is the batteries are a wear item, I did the math a few years ago and for me back then gas would have had to hit $8 a gallon for the break even, and that was with me eating the conversion cost because I just wanted an electric.
Google makes more money when their search results are not very good, you are more likely to click on the adds. Lately I think they've been making a lot of money. They were risking losing their reputation as the most relevant search engine. By adding this they can make the more savvy users happy again, while at the same time still serve up the spam they've been serving to Joe Public. This is exactly like coupons. Rather than cut the price for everyone, they just cut the price the cheapskates. Here, rather than fix the results for everyone, those of us in the know are getting a coupon.
The point of the story was rainbow tables are unnecessary, it doesn't matter how long your salt is they can iterate through most of the hashes in a matter of days. If you use a different salt for every account then they would have to repeat the process for each account, which definitely limits the damage, but doesn't make you feel any better if you're the account they are going after.
TFA says we need to slow down their ability to iterate through all the possible hashes.
I used to be all impressed with ancient astronomy stories, things like being able to predict where the sun would be on a given day. I read all the Von Daneken books when I was a kid. Then one day it occurred to me that anyone with a stick and the ability to stick it in the ground could also predict where the sun was going to rise exactly 1 year in the future. Solar observatories are just a series of sticks stuck in the ground.
Agreed, I bought a new phone last week. I ended up buying a 6.5 phone instead of a 7. Looking at the feature list even WM 6.5 is better more compelling than 7.
It happened in the small town I lived in. The fire department showed up said he was on the wrong side of the street and hadn't paid up and they couldn't do anything. Turns out the city had been sending him tax bills for years though and he'd been paying them. They had to buy him a new house.
That was the most famous one I can remember. It was excellent, everyone I knew had a copy of it. Turns out they only sold a few thousand copies and the programmer quit doing games.
Occasionally in the winter the difference is much higher. I've seen diesel as much as $2.50 extra or 100% more than regular unleaded.
The fact that this sometimes happens is enough to keep me from ever owning a diesel and I'm a diesel mechanic so I'm well aware of the advantages.
I've heard the reason being is they can shift some of the crude oil from diesel to home heating oil.
I agree. We are looking at changing now and the only sticking point is Outlook. Currently we are testing thunderbird with imap for email but that is not working out. It's just not as useful as outlook and apparently Exchange doesn't like public folders over imap.
I disagree with his reasoning that the cracking method is obsolete. A couple of years ago I ran our password database through a cracker just out of curiousity. Of course 99% cracked immediately during the dictionary attack, but the ones with odd characters did in fact take over a month to crack. Iirc it took 6 weeks to get all of the users passwords.
I agree for the most part. They don't care about professional pirates. They've already figured out they can't do much about them. They are trying to keep the average user from being able to copy it. Analog is a huge hole in that regard, because even the hopelessly incompetent can use it.
I'm one of the tinkerers. The problem is I can buy a tube of 15 chips off the internet for the same price as I can buy 1 chip in their store, if they even stock it.
I remember that article, it was different lights though. It was the spooklight in southwest missouri. Iirc they put colored lenses on the cars headlights to see if the light changed color and it did.
The problem with piracy is when Hollywood puts out bad movies more people find out about it quicker. I think that's what they are afraid of, they might have to actually put out good movies.
You know what, so what, when a bus mechanic messes up a lot of people die too, and they don't even require a high school diploma or any education whatsoever. There's lots of jobs that will get people killed if you mess up, a lot more surely than the guy who designed my ipod will get me killed. Think about that the next time you pass a truck on the highway. That wheel may have been designed by an engineer but every single one of those wheels was manufactured and installed by people who weren't.
That may be fine for you but for a lot of people that's not acceptable. My first month on gmail I found 5 or 6 emails in my spam folder. I can't afford to lose any business, to lose business because I threw away an order or a sales contact... I went back to the white list/challenge response system. I mostly have the same customers anyway. I may lose a new order if they don't follow the emails, but at least I didn't throw it away.
There's way too much porn, even worse anybody can put up a web page and say anything. Clearly these two problems need to be addressed and I'm sure they will be.
You're explaining why the UN is broken. Not exactly the best argument for putting them in charge of more things.
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Speaking of dumb, do the math. 30 miles/day * 20 days = 600 miles /month .
600miles / 30 miles /gallon = 20 gallons/month .
20 * 3$ /gal = $60 of gas per month.
Even if charging is free, and batteries are not a wear item like break pads, where am I going to get an electric car for $60 more a month? Even if the electric car is the same price as gas car if I rent a car more than once or twice I'm in the hole.
I actually want an electric car. The problem is the batteries are a wear item, I did the math a few years ago and for me back then gas would have had to hit $8 a gallon for the break even, and that was with me eating the conversion cost because I just wanted an electric.
Holy Cr@p! Did no one think this through? Fuses pop all the time! I assume when they say fail they mean "not work as well" but still.
Google makes more money when their search results are not very good, you are more likely to click on the adds. Lately I think they've been making a lot of money. They were risking losing their reputation as the most relevant search engine. By adding this they can make the more savvy users happy again, while at the same time still serve up the spam they've been serving to Joe Public. This is exactly like coupons. Rather than cut the price for everyone, they just cut the price the cheapskates. Here, rather than fix the results for everyone, those of us in the know are getting a coupon.
The point of the story was rainbow tables are unnecessary, it doesn't matter how long your salt is they can iterate through most of the hashes in a matter of days. If you use a different salt for every account then they would have to repeat the process for each account, which definitely limits the damage, but doesn't make you feel any better if you're the account they are going after. TFA says we need to slow down their ability to iterate through all the possible hashes.
I used to be all impressed with ancient astronomy stories, things like being able to predict where the sun would be on a given day. I read all the Von Daneken books when I was a kid. Then one day it occurred to me that anyone with a stick and the ability to stick it in the ground could also predict where the sun was going to rise exactly 1 year in the future. Solar observatories are just a series of sticks stuck in the ground.
Agreed, I bought a new phone last week. I ended up buying a 6.5 phone instead of a 7. Looking at the feature list even WM 6.5 is better more compelling than 7.
It happened in the small town I lived in. The fire department showed up said he was on the wrong side of the street and hadn't paid up and they couldn't do anything. Turns out the city had been sending him tax bills for years though and he'd been paying them. They had to buy him a new house.
That was the most famous one I can remember. It was excellent, everyone I knew had a copy of it. Turns out they only sold a few thousand copies and the programmer quit doing games.
Occasionally in the winter the difference is much higher. I've seen diesel as much as $2.50 extra or 100% more than regular unleaded. The fact that this sometimes happens is enough to keep me from ever owning a diesel and I'm a diesel mechanic so I'm well aware of the advantages. I've heard the reason being is they can shift some of the crude oil from diesel to home heating oil.
I agree. We are looking at changing now and the only sticking point is Outlook. Currently we are testing thunderbird with imap for email but that is not working out. It's just not as useful as outlook and apparently Exchange doesn't like public folders over imap.
When it can run MS Office faster.
I disagree with his reasoning that the cracking method is obsolete. A couple of years ago I ran our password database through a cracker just out of curiousity. Of course 99% cracked immediately during the dictionary attack, but the ones with odd characters did in fact take over a month to crack. Iirc it took 6 weeks to get all of the users passwords.
I agree for the most part. They don't care about professional pirates. They've already figured out they can't do much about them. They are trying to keep the average user from being able to copy it. Analog is a huge hole in that regard, because even the hopelessly incompetent can use it.
If this is the sort of list any moron could walk up and request on a floppy disk then what possible misuse of the list could there be?
I'm one of the tinkerers. The problem is I can buy a tube of 15 chips off the internet for the same price as I can buy 1 chip in their store, if they even stock it.
I notice a lot of quotes from the old testament. People who follow the old testament are known as Jews, not Christians. k'thanx
I remember that article, it was different lights though. It was the spooklight in southwest missouri. Iirc they put colored lenses on the cars headlights to see if the light changed color and it did.
Then run it in mame. It runs on more systems than I've even seen. It'll even run on digital camera's.
The problem with piracy is when Hollywood puts out bad movies more people find out about it quicker. I think that's what they are afraid of, they might have to actually put out good movies.
You know what, so what, when a bus mechanic messes up a lot of people die too, and they don't even require a high school diploma or any education whatsoever. There's lots of jobs that will get people killed if you mess up, a lot more surely than the guy who designed my ipod will get me killed. Think about that the next time you pass a truck on the highway. That wheel may have been designed by an engineer but every single one of those wheels was manufactured and installed by people who weren't.
That may be fine for you but for a lot of people that's not acceptable. My first month on gmail I found 5 or 6 emails in my spam folder. I can't afford to lose any business, to lose business because I threw away an order or a sales contact... I went back to the white list/challenge response system. I mostly have the same customers anyway. I may lose a new order if they don't follow the emails, but at least I didn't throw it away.
There's way too much porn, even worse anybody can put up a web page and say anything. Clearly these two problems need to be addressed and I'm sure they will be.
You're explaining why the UN is broken. Not exactly the best argument for putting them in charge of more things.
I just looked up some facts. Percent of people living in poverty: Missouri 10.1 % Now some blue states Oregon 11.7 Washington 11.4 California 12.9 Illinois 11.8 Michigan 10.8 DC 17.3 Rhode Island 10.7 New York 14.2 Hawaii 10.7
I don't have to visit it. Per captia income $2600. No thanks, I'll stay in Missouri.