There still needs to be a means to use the database. There also needs to be a means for automated software (ie, that which is installed as a client on the compromised phone) to authenticate into the database. There's going to be a weakness somewhere even for an encrypted database otherwise the database is useless. For all we know it was encrypted and it was compromised through a phone that had itself been compromised with the company's software.
If that's how it happened, or if analysis of a compromised device gave the people what they needed to break in, then I really can't be sympathetic.
Sintering is also not a new technology by any means either. The use of the laser in the process is relatively new at around 20 years, but additive methods of working with specific materials, then machining the assembly to final size is quite old. It's an injustice to the process to call it 3d printing.
I don't think it's that either, at least not exclusively.
When we're young we have no frame of reference for life. We roll with whatever life throws at us because there's no preconceived notion of what life is. Even into early adulthood we're still learning what life entails, but by the time we reach our thirties we usually have enough notion of life that we start to seek to stabilize it.
I think that with music there's a distinct difference between what is good, what is popular, and what is both good and popular. When one looks at top-40 and top-100 lists from the past, one can see music that topped the charts when it was new that's not popular today right along with music that is still played. There's a lot of music that isn't played anymore that was popular; I'm sure the same will be said of music made today. We might well find that Taylor Swift becomes the next Linda Rhonstadt, almost completely disappearing from popular culture despite having made quite the splash for many years. By contrast, we might find Amy Winehouse being looked at as the next Janis Joplin twenty to thirty years from now.
Another side is the following of short term trends or fads versus following long term trends. If the buying public trends away from autotone and other heavy post-production techniques, there will be a decade of music that falls into a catergory similar to how 'eighties' defines a genre whose constituent parts don't necessarly otherwise have a lot in common. We may look back on this era's music and those who continue to listen to it with the same mirth as we look at fans of groups like KC and the Sunshine Band.
I still listen to new music. Some of it's good, some of it's crap. I also listen to older music that I didn't know about when it was new. Life would be kind of dull if I was stuck on bands from the late eighties and nineties; I can only take so much Hootie and the Blowfish.
I remember when the Linux Documentation Project and Howto.org (if I'm remembering the URL right) had just about everything. Then the UI-side exploded and went crazy, no one kept the docs up to date, and it all fell on its face.
Honestly I go back to UNIX books that were not actually intended for Linux specifically at all; those for System V worked great when it came to administering early Linux.
I've found later literature to not be as well written, and I've found many projects that aren't well documented at all, like the various GUI windowmanagers and login managers lately.
I suppose this bias toward old, good documentation is contributing to my dislike of Systemd, I don't see the same docs for Systemd that I saw for System V and BSD init structures.
The problem is, entities that are willing to extend credit or otherwise deal with fairly large sums of money generally want to guarantee that the person they're doing business with is indeed who they claim to be. They attempt to collect such information to use it for verification, but when too many entities collect this information then inevitably it gets stolen or accidentally exposed. Unfortunately there's no real-world equivalent of PGP signing or other means to generate a one-way signature that can prove that the individual is who they claim to be. I don't see a practical way to create such a thing either, between the potential for abuse and the need to ensure that if such a system were created, that it would secure from all those that would seek to exploit it.
The real solution is to stop engaging in transactions that need such means when they're not necessary. That would probably slow the economy though, and if we don't, "spend, spend! SPEND!" then many believe that it harms the country.
Image has always mattered on Slashdot, but it has typically been a different set of constraints and perspectives than the rest of the population.
Trouble is, the perspectives of-old are self-limiting by definition, as they cater to a niche audience. Once an organization (in this case, a website) has hit its upper bounds in that niche audience, it needs to branch-out to a wider audience to continue to grow, and in the process of doing that often such organizations will discard whatever core beliefs let them grow to that size in the first place. Sometimes they successfully make the transition, other times they never attract the mainstream audience while they alienate the original participants, and they simply die off.
To the point of AOL though, I think it's actually starting to shed its original "braindead AOLer" image (with apologies to Mr. Yankovic) in the sense that three-letter ubiquitous TLDs are very convenient for giving someone your e-mail address, especially if the user portion of the address is also concise or memorable. It's also the case that if people don't want to change e-mail addresses often (and deal with the ensuing pain in the ass of notifying EVERYONE of the change), sticking with a provider that has proven to be there for the long haul is useful.
We're past the meaning of the original Endless September; most people on the Internet don't even know what that is even if they would have found distain for it. We're arguably getting past the point where the original negative connotations don't mean anything to anyone anymore. If AOL's frontend service is essentially dead but their other services continue to provide value then perhaps it's time we stop our silliness around them.
It may be a bad symptom, but if you're not an American trying to return to America, then America has no obligation to take you if you're not in some state of duress and seeking asylum. Antagonizing the border guards is not exactly the best way to approach a foreign country.
I was under the impression that Group 2 Alkaline earth metals react with water relatively readily, though not as readily as the Group 1 Alkali metals. It would seem that if water causes a reaction that reacts-away the compound, that would be a bad thing to expose to water even incidentally.
Makes me wonder if the magnesium was good for more even heating. If they switched materials in their castings to make it safe without redesigning the housings that could explain worse performance.
I was under the impression that once they had permission to land on terrain, the barge was not going to be needed anymore. He could park it off the coast of Baja and use it as a lair...
For exposure to seawater, because seawater is used to fight fires at-sea because of its abundance? Because the salty air and high humidity at sea means that even those parts that are not in direct contact with the ocean water will still be exposed? Because storms tends to create waves that splash water all over the place, including places that are not normally wet and even places that effort is made to keep water out of?
For the foam metals being magnesium, "New Magnesium-Alloy Foam From NYU's Nikhil Gupta Floats On Water"
I wouldn't do that either. Border entry guards have the power to deny entry to those considered to be undesirable, and given that the only way to get recourse is to have representation within the country that one has been denied access to, being branded as undesirable could get very expensive very quickly, even if such a label were overturned on challenge.
Not my video, but this is a single-chamber version of what we had. The base of the chamber is magnesium too. If one has to replace the lid and the base, one may as well just replace the grille.
It might not be a bad idea to take the computer to a few coffee shops to use their wifi to surf CNN and the BBC and other news websites first, or to at least do this in the originating airport on their wireless to demonstrate that the computer sees casual use. Make it too blank and there's new grounds for suspicion and again, they'll duplicate the disk and attempt to find any deleted files.
Wasn't one of the SpaceX Dragon capsules sent up as a supply ship to the station actually fully equipped with the necessary seating and everything? They're not certified for a crew yet, but I suspect if it came down to it, that certification could be obtained relatively quickly if the Russians suddenly proved incapable of ferrying passengers to the station.
Ours was the model with two distinct compartments. A normal-sized one and a smaller one next to it. Part of why we liked it so much was that the small compartment was perfect for a meal for two, heated up faster and didn't use as much propane as the big compartment.
Ended up replacing it with a Kenmore with a wide side surface. Doesn't cook quite as well as the Perfect Flame, but won't spontaneously ignite either.
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There still needs to be a means to use the database. There also needs to be a means for automated software (ie, that which is installed as a client on the compromised phone) to authenticate into the database. There's going to be a weakness somewhere even for an encrypted database otherwise the database is useless. For all we know it was encrypted and it was compromised through a phone that had itself been compromised with the company's software.
If that's how it happened, or if analysis of a compromised device gave the people what they needed to break in, then I really can't be sympathetic.
Sintering is also not a new technology by any means either. The use of the laser in the process is relatively new at around 20 years, but additive methods of working with specific materials, then machining the assembly to final size is quite old. It's an injustice to the process to call it 3d printing.
That's an extrusion process, not a printing process.
I don't think it's that either, at least not exclusively.
When we're young we have no frame of reference for life. We roll with whatever life throws at us because there's no preconceived notion of what life is. Even into early adulthood we're still learning what life entails, but by the time we reach our thirties we usually have enough notion of life that we start to seek to stabilize it.
I think that with music there's a distinct difference between what is good, what is popular, and what is both good and popular. When one looks at top-40 and top-100 lists from the past, one can see music that topped the charts when it was new that's not popular today right along with music that is still played. There's a lot of music that isn't played anymore that was popular; I'm sure the same will be said of music made today. We might well find that Taylor Swift becomes the next Linda Rhonstadt, almost completely disappearing from popular culture despite having made quite the splash for many years. By contrast, we might find Amy Winehouse being looked at as the next Janis Joplin twenty to thirty years from now.
Another side is the following of short term trends or fads versus following long term trends. If the buying public trends away from autotone and other heavy post-production techniques, there will be a decade of music that falls into a catergory similar to how 'eighties' defines a genre whose constituent parts don't necessarly otherwise have a lot in common. We may look back on this era's music and those who continue to listen to it with the same mirth as we look at fans of groups like KC and the Sunshine Band.
I still listen to new music. Some of it's good, some of it's crap. I also listen to older music that I didn't know about when it was new. Life would be kind of dull if I was stuck on bands from the late eighties and nineties; I can only take so much Hootie and the Blowfish.
I remember when the Linux Documentation Project and Howto.org (if I'm remembering the URL right) had just about everything. Then the UI-side exploded and went crazy, no one kept the docs up to date, and it all fell on its face.
Honestly I go back to UNIX books that were not actually intended for Linux specifically at all; those for System V worked great when it came to administering early Linux.
I've found later literature to not be as well written, and I've found many projects that aren't well documented at all, like the various GUI windowmanagers and login managers lately.
I suppose this bias toward old, good documentation is contributing to my dislike of Systemd, I don't see the same docs for Systemd that I saw for System V and BSD init structures.
The problem is, entities that are willing to extend credit or otherwise deal with fairly large sums of money generally want to guarantee that the person they're doing business with is indeed who they claim to be. They attempt to collect such information to use it for verification, but when too many entities collect this information then inevitably it gets stolen or accidentally exposed. Unfortunately there's no real-world equivalent of PGP signing or other means to generate a one-way signature that can prove that the individual is who they claim to be. I don't see a practical way to create such a thing either, between the potential for abuse and the need to ensure that if such a system were created, that it would secure from all those that would seek to exploit it.
The real solution is to stop engaging in transactions that need such means when they're not necessary. That would probably slow the economy though, and if we don't, "spend, spend! SPEND!" then many believe that it harms the country.
Image has always mattered on Slashdot, but it has typically been a different set of constraints and perspectives than the rest of the population.
Trouble is, the perspectives of-old are self-limiting by definition, as they cater to a niche audience. Once an organization (in this case, a website) has hit its upper bounds in that niche audience, it needs to branch-out to a wider audience to continue to grow, and in the process of doing that often such organizations will discard whatever core beliefs let them grow to that size in the first place. Sometimes they successfully make the transition, other times they never attract the mainstream audience while they alienate the original participants, and they simply die off.
To the point of AOL though, I think it's actually starting to shed its original "braindead AOLer" image (with apologies to Mr. Yankovic) in the sense that three-letter ubiquitous TLDs are very convenient for giving someone your e-mail address, especially if the user portion of the address is also concise or memorable. It's also the case that if people don't want to change e-mail addresses often (and deal with the ensuing pain in the ass of notifying EVERYONE of the change), sticking with a provider that has proven to be there for the long haul is useful.
We're past the meaning of the original Endless September; most people on the Internet don't even know what that is even if they would have found distain for it. We're arguably getting past the point where the original negative connotations don't mean anything to anyone anymore. If AOL's frontend service is essentially dead but their other services continue to provide value then perhaps it's time we stop our silliness around them.
It may be a bad symptom, but if you're not an American trying to return to America, then America has no obligation to take you if you're not in some state of duress and seeking asylum. Antagonizing the border guards is not exactly the best way to approach a foreign country.
Yes. My mistake.
Why did they name the programming language after the byproduct of the corrosion of iron?
Shame, really. They could resort to traditional manufacturing techniques but that wouldn't be in the spirit of being Makers.
I was under the impression that Group 2 Alkaline earth metals react with water relatively readily, though not as readily as the Group 1 Alkali metals. It would seem that if water causes a reaction that reacts-away the compound, that would be a bad thing to expose to water even incidentally.
Makes me wonder if the magnesium was good for more even heating. If they switched materials in their castings to make it safe without redesigning the housings that could explain worse performance.
I was under the impression that once they had permission to land on terrain, the barge was not going to be needed anymore. He could park it off the coast of Baja and use it as a lair...
Can't they just use an existing Makerbot to make a new Makerbot?
For exposure to seawater, because seawater is used to fight fires at-sea because of its abundance? Because the salty air and high humidity at sea means that even those parts that are not in direct contact with the ocean water will still be exposed? Because storms tends to create waves that splash water all over the place, including places that are not normally wet and even places that effort is made to keep water out of?
For the foam metals being magnesium, "New Magnesium-Alloy Foam From NYU's Nikhil Gupta Floats On Water"
I wouldn't do that either. Border entry guards have the power to deny entry to those considered to be undesirable, and given that the only way to get recourse is to have representation within the country that one has been denied access to, being branded as undesirable could get very expensive very quickly, even if such a label were overturned on challenge.
Here is our model.
Wrong model.
Not my video, but this is a single-chamber version of what we had. The base of the chamber is magnesium too. If one has to replace the lid and the base, one may as well just replace the grille.
It might not be a bad idea to take the computer to a few coffee shops to use their wifi to surf CNN and the BBC and other news websites first, or to at least do this in the originating airport on their wireless to demonstrate that the computer sees casual use. Make it too blank and there's new grounds for suspicion and again, they'll duplicate the disk and attempt to find any deleted files.
Wasn't one of the SpaceX Dragon capsules sent up as a supply ship to the station actually fully equipped with the necessary seating and everything? They're not certified for a crew yet, but I suspect if it came down to it, that certification could be obtained relatively quickly if the Russians suddenly proved incapable of ferrying passengers to the station.
Yep.
Ours was the model with two distinct compartments. A normal-sized one and a smaller one next to it. Part of why we liked it so much was that the small compartment was perfect for a meal for two, heated up faster and didn't use as much propane as the big compartment.
Ended up replacing it with a Kenmore with a wide side surface. Doesn't cook quite as well as the Perfect Flame, but won't spontaneously ignite either.
Heh. The monchrome graphics, the 40x25 font overlaid... I think that my 8088 with a CGA monitor could have displayed that content.
Come to think of it I had an Indy-500 car racing game whose graphics were better than this, and would play on that computer.
Apparently he can't land a rocket on a barge intact, but they're working on that.