Does this mean that I now have to switch back to OpenOffice instead of using LibreOffice? Oh, the problems and expense of Open Source, is it worth it?/sarcasm
So the officers deliberately get too close, natural reaction it to preserve personal space and step back. Three small steps and now you are resisting arrest.
Throw in the fact that the cure rate for thyroid cancer is 95%
For the most common types of Thyroid cancer, doctors will often recommend no treatment for older patients because the rates at which it develops is very slow.
If anything, the workers know that this is true, understand the technicals for why it is mitigated with potassium tablets
I think that you mean Iodine tablets. The idea is to flood the thyroid with (non-radioactive) Iodine, so that the uptake of any radioactive Iodine by the thyroid is minimized. No other organ absorbs Iodine.
You know, aside from the fact that 95%+ of consumer machines which support Secure Boot also support (per mandate from Microsoft) that you be able to turn it off
You know, aside from the fact that some manufacturers have made it very difficult to turn off secure boot.
Wild underestimate. My own LinkedIn network (3 hops) is about 12 million people That's just one person. That's just one form of connection.
Probably the people in the watch list overlap quite heaviliy in terms of their contacts, but I would expect the the 3-hops rule covers 50% of the population of the USA, if not more.
Facebook says most people really only associate with 30 'friends'.
Do you really think, at this point, that the NSA takes a minimalist view of what constitutes an association? If so, I have a bridge to sell you!
I turned off Backup on Android after discovering this
Unfortunately, that is not sufficient. I recently got a new phone and, despite my setting my old phone to not backup the passwords (some time after I started using the old phone), they were downloaded to my new phone.
As far as I can tell, turning off the backup merely prevents the phone from sending more data to Google. Once Google has it, Google keeps it.
According to the government, it's still a secret program. If something becomes public it does not remove its security designation.
The government can claim that black is white also, but it doesn't make it true. The government has to convince the court that the plain meaning of the word "secret" doesn't apply. Of course, with the Roberts court, the government has a high probablility of doing just that.
Question: how do you get promoted as a judge? By tending to favor people who sue the government or by tending to favor the very people who make appointments to judicial positions?
And I should also note that, according to TFA, the problem is not duplicate numbers in the DMV database, because these special plates (issued to people, not vehicles) are not in the database.
I wonder if the DMV database can even cope with a license plate that is issued to a person and not a vehicle? There are also dealer and manufacturer plates which are not assigned to a vehicle: I wondoer if they are in the database?
Actually they should fine the DBA that allowed duplicate plate numbers into the database. What the hell was he thinking?
I assume that the plates are different types, thus having overlapping numbers should not be a problem as long as the database includes details of the plate types and the photo-ticket system can distinguish between plate types.
some executives were getting noticed too much, so I decided to fire a couple and shake up the rest so that there is no-one to challenge my position as CEO.
I never understood why he was ridiculed for "developers developers" anyway. I don't remember the rest of the speech
And you answered your own question -- you don't remember the rest of the speech.
The message may have been a good one, but the way it was presented invited ridicule and was so memorable that the only thing people remember is the way the message was presented and not the message itself.
One can infer from this that Ballmer either does not invite criticism or does not listen to criticism. A properly prepared person would have tried his moneky boy dance in advance in front of a small group of insiders who would have told him what a terrible idea it was.
But then, perhaps rehersals are not part of Microsoft's culture. Remember the Surface RT presentation in which the device crashed?
I expect some MS fanboi will mod me down for this, but:
We should begin in Silicon Valley, which resents Microsoftâ(TM)s chief executive at least in part because he has helped grow what the Internet industry has so rarely managed in all its decades of boom and bust: a stable, profitable company, built on a solid grasp of numbers and proven sales techniques, with wildly successful products that people actually pay for. Contrast that with social networking companies such as Twitter and Facebookâ"and of course Google, with its rapey contextual advertisingâ"all of which throw their users âoefreeâ toys but violate them with privacy-invading ad sales and user-data scandals. Microsoft can seem positively virtuous by comparison.
This is pure Microsoft talking points.
Given the most recent revelations about Microsoft, the author should be reconsidering that claim to Microsoft's virtue.
No, but it's a good plan for convenience and possibly backups as long as you aren't stashing your bank records and private info unencrypted in the cloud without a second thought.
You might have a second thought when you travel to mainland China and find you can't access Dropbox.
It's all political BS. Lifetime healthcare costs for smokers are similar to non-smokers. Smokers tend to die younger, and lung cancer is an average-cost way to die.
But those who do die from lung cancer tend to stop paying premiums.
If for no other reason, I haven't the foggiest idea why someone would want to simultaneously search the internet and a local drive for the same search string.
The answer is in the article: It's because you want to see advertisements! Don't tell me that you don't want the ads: Microsoft has determined that you do!
It seems that it might be better to have at least three backups, that way you can have one that is local to the data,
Actually, I do have a local backup in addition to the backups that are usually off-site. Nevertheless, the chance of losing my original data at the same time as my off-site backups is very, very low. I reduce the chance of losing my original data by monitoring the SMART data.
The first thing the theft will do: an offline OS installation.
Exactly. My daughter's Ubuntu laptop was stolen some years back. It was configured to start OpenVPN on boot-up. The VPN never connected after the theft, so I can safely conclude that it was never connected to the Internet while the original Linux install was present.
Why not a second or third or fourth backup at a different location all in common computer readable form?
I use two Luks-encrypted backups that I can take and leave at work. Becasue it is encrypted, I don't need to worry about it being compromised at work or in transit. I have two of these so that one is always out of my house.
Another location could be a safe-deposit box at a bank. Remember that, even if it is destroyed in a fire, it doesn't matter because the chance of all my copies and backups being destroyed at the same time is very, very low.
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Does this mean that I now have to switch back to OpenOffice instead of using LibreOffice? Oh, the problems and expense of Open Source, is it worth it? /sarcasm
Don't forget Newton with his occult studies.
Your taxes don't go up as much? Or, more realistically, the 1%'s taxes don't go up so much.
Taking 3 steps back = Resisting arrest.
So the officers deliberately get too close, natural reaction it to preserve personal space and step back. Three small steps and now you are resisting arrest.
For the most common types of Thyroid cancer, doctors will often recommend no treatment for older patients because the rates at which it develops is very slow.
I think that you mean Iodine tablets. The idea is to flood the thyroid with (non-radioactive) Iodine, so that the uptake of any radioactive Iodine by the thyroid is minimized. No other organ absorbs Iodine.
You know, aside from the fact that some manufacturers have made it very difficult to turn off secure boot.
Probably the people in the watch list overlap quite heaviliy in terms of their contacts, but I would expect the the 3-hops rule covers 50% of the population of the USA, if not more.
Do you really think, at this point, that the NSA takes a minimalist view of what constitutes an association? If so, I have a bridge to sell you!
Unfortunately, that is not sufficient. I recently got a new phone and, despite my setting my old phone to not backup the passwords (some time after I started using the old phone), they were downloaded to my new phone.
As far as I can tell, turning off the backup merely prevents the phone from sending more data to Google. Once Google has it, Google keeps it.
The motto of the CEO at a company I worked for many years ago.
The government can claim that black is white also, but it doesn't make it true. The government has to convince the court that the plain meaning of the word "secret" doesn't apply. Of course, with the Roberts court, the government has a high probablility of doing just that.
Question: how do you get promoted as a judge? By tending to favor people who sue the government or by tending to favor the very people who make appointments to judicial positions?
Please RTFA. One of the duplicate numbers is assigned to a person, not a vehicle. That number is not even in the DMV database.
And I should also note that, according to TFA, the problem is not duplicate numbers in the DMV database, because these special plates (issued to people, not vehicles) are not in the database.
I wonder if the DMV database can even cope with a license plate that is issued to a person and not a vehicle? There are also dealer and manufacturer plates which are not assigned to a vehicle: I wondoer if they are in the database?
I assume that the plates are different types, thus having overlapping numbers should not be a problem as long as the database includes details of the plate types and the photo-ticket system can distinguish between plate types.
some executives were getting noticed too much, so I decided to fire a couple and shake up the rest so that there is no-one to challenge my position as CEO.
And you answered your own question -- you don't remember the rest of the speech.
The message may have been a good one, but the way it was presented invited ridicule and was so memorable that the only thing people remember is the way the message was presented and not the message itself.
One can infer from this that Ballmer either does not invite criticism or does not listen to criticism. A properly prepared person would have tried his moneky boy dance in advance in front of a small group of insiders who would have told him what a terrible idea it was.
But then, perhaps rehersals are not part of Microsoft's culture. Remember the Surface RT presentation in which the device crashed?
This is pure Microsoft talking points.
Given the most recent revelations about Microsoft, the author should be reconsidering that claim to Microsoft's virtue.
You might have a second thought when you travel to mainland China and find you can't access Dropbox.
the lawyers!
But those who do die from lung cancer tend to stop paying premiums.
The answer is in the article: It's because you want to see advertisements! Don't tell me that you don't want the ads: Microsoft has determined that you do!
Actually, I do have a local backup in addition to the backups that are usually off-site. Nevertheless, the chance of losing my original data at the same time as my off-site backups is very, very low. I reduce the chance of losing my original data by monitoring the SMART data.
It's a backup, not an archive. If LUKS becomes obsolete, then I will migrate my backups to another format.
Exactly. My daughter's Ubuntu laptop was stolen some years back. It was configured to start OpenVPN on boot-up. The VPN never connected after the theft, so I can safely conclude that it was never connected to the Internet while the original Linux install was present.
I use two Luks-encrypted backups that I can take and leave at work. Becasue it is encrypted, I don't need to worry about it being compromised at work or in transit. I have two of these so that one is always out of my house.
Another location could be a safe-deposit box at a bank. Remember that, even if it is destroyed in a fire, it doesn't matter because the chance of all my copies and backups being destroyed at the same time is very, very low.