Years ago, I worked for an ISP. Once they realized that they were able to put expiration dates on employee's passwords, they did so. Not just for things that we could access from home, but for services on the internal LAN that couldn't be reached unless you were physically on site. My response was to make them as rude and vulgar as I could, both as an expression of what I thought of the policy and because I knew that this would make them easier to remember. And, of course, a little bit of creative spelling didn't hurt.
Having a hint or reminder to your password is OK, I'd think, as long as it's clear to you, but obscure to anybody else. As an example, my laptop is named after a planet used in an SF series I like. Even if somebody guessed that, there are enough places, people and things in that series to keep the hint from being any help to anybody except me.
So because climate has changed before, we should just keep doing what we're doing, indefinitely, without worrying about consequences?
No, Mr. Strawman, that's not what it means. What it does mean is that there's ample evidence that the climate has changed a large number of times in the past, long before humanity was able to throw huge quantities of CO2 into the air, so the fact that it's currently getting warmer isn't sufficient evidence in and of itself to prove that humanity is responsible. Granted, I think that running an open-ended experiment to see how much pollution we can put into the air we breath is a very bad idea, but then, I grew up in Los Angeles and know from first-hand experience what the result can be.
I don't know about disability checks, but Social Security has been using direct deposit for several years now, as has the VA for paying travel expenses to vets with low incomes and/or service connected disabilities.
I'm part of a clinical study. When it started up, one of the techs at the study faxed the details of what was going on to my regular doctor. I offered to hand-carry them, as it wasn't out of my way home, but I was told that he was required to fax them. Why? Because that way he had a record from the fax machine that the documents were sent and received.
Faxes are also used quite a bit with legal documents because it's been ruled by the courts that sending a fax (and having it received) counts for meeting a deadline, as long as the hardcopy is also sent over in a timely manner. There is no such ruling for email, so it's no good for this type of thing.
This idea would only work if either the planet's moon was right in front of it from out point of view, just going behind it or just coming out from behind. That means that even if the orbit was oriented just right, we'd only get the filtering effect intermittently. Of course, it's possible that the planet's orbit is such that we only see it at just the right time, but that's pilling one unlikely coincidence on top of another.
Twelve vultures, not thirteen eagles. And, as it happened, the last emperor, Romulus Agustulus was deposed at just about the right time to make the prophecy come true. (The fact that he was named after both the founder and the first emperor didn't hurt.)
Asymmetrical bandwidth, or what you call "unbalanced bandwidth," isn't something the cable companies invented. After all, that's what the A in ADSL stands for, and it came out years before cable internet. And, if you stop and think about it, it makes sense for the average residential user: the vast majority of the data passing through the connection is incoming, with just a tiny fraction of it going out, and that's just as true for cable as for DSL.
I have a classic artillery notch, and there's no way this is going to help me. My hearing loss, btw, isn't from rock concerts, it's a long-term effect of my being exposed to too much outbound shore support back in '72. Yes, when I was topside I had proper hearing protection. Alas, I slept in the forward berthing compartment two decks down and about 50' back from the 5"/54 gun mount, and nobody realized that we should have been using ear plugs down there. One morning, I woke up and found out that there'd been a 40 round bombardment, and I hadn't woken up even once, which will tell you something about how adaptable people are. About the only good thing here is that it's Service Connected, so the VA can't charge me for any hearing-related service, such as giving me hearing aids.
That being said, I think this is a wonderful thing, because I'm sure that there are millions of people out there who can be helped by it.
...forcing people to get insurance, so that they pay ahead of time, seems like the next best thing.
So tell me, now, how you're going to force people who are living on what they can dig out of the dumpsters behind markets because they don't have any money to buy food to buy health insurance?
Tell me this: if the NSA did put a backdoor in the package and if this audit found it, how would the NSA know about it in time to prevent it being reported? Sending a security letter to the auditors would just be considered proof that there was a backdoor to be hidden. The auditors may have been forced not to reveal anything about it to the general public, but you can bet that the people over at TrueCrypt would have found out about it and eliminated it as soon as possible, although they'd probably have had to pretend that they found the flaw themselves to protect both themselves and the auditors.
I fully expect that in 5-10 years most of the users will not know what operating system they are using.
What makes you think that the average home user knows what OS they're using right now? If they're on a PC, they'll know they're using Windows, because that's what came pre-installed, but they probably don't know which version, nor care. If they're on a Mac, they'll probably know that it's OSX, but again, not which version. And, they won't care because as long as it works for them, that's all that matters. If it doesn't work, they'll take it to a computer shop and let a geek fix it for them and the only question they'll ask is how much it costs.
No, Mr. Abrams, the investigation hasn't indicted anything. It indicated that somebody might have taken control of the drone away from you. I don't know if that's actually the word you used or if whoever wrote the story is to blame, but in either case, the Slashdot editors would have caught this if they were actually doing their job of editing the submissions. Why they haven't been replaced by people who know the difference between using a spelling checker and doing proper proof reading to catch misused words is something that only the PHBs at Dice can answer.
I remember asking Dr. Forward that at LACon II, back in '84. He pointed out that a sphere of antimatter could only react to normal matter on its surface, limiting the speed of the reaction. He said that it wouldn't explode, it would evaporate and that it would look something like a drop of water on a hot griddle.
So there's nothing wrong with making stuff scriptable and changeable.
True. I have no issues with extensions as such; in fact, I think they're a great idea, just as browser extensions are. One of the many things I have against Gnome 3 is the fact that it's almost impossible to customize without extensions. Now, consider the case of a "Windows refugee" who's just installed Linux for the first time, with Gnome 3. It doesn't look or work the way they expect, and until they learn about extensions and how to install them they can't even do anything about it. Unless somebody either helps them get the vital extensions installed, or helps them replace Gnome 3 with a less user-hostile DE, they're very likely to give up in disgust, go back to Windows and spend the rest of their lives bad-mouthing Linux because they were stuck with a DE that they couldn't work with. Gnome 3 may be good for Linux geeks that know how to beat it into submission, but I'd never (not even hardly ever) inflict it on a beginner.
In the Linux world, Product X = Gnome 3. Totally unusable for many people without third-party extensions, yet those same people keep telling everybody how great it is. The only way it makes sense for me in either case (Win 8.x or Gnome 3) is if the advocates are all masochists and think that everybody else likes pointless suffering as much as they do. Personally, I use Linux with Xfce because it does what I want, the way I want without using up excessive RAM or CPU.
There are a number of species of small fish that feed on the larvae. Stoking the ponds with these is a well-known method of controlling mosquitoes that's been used for decades. If they're not already being used in your area, it may be that they're not adapted to your climate.
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No. And, what makes you think it's a TV series anyway?
Years ago, I worked for an ISP. Once they realized that they were able to put expiration dates on employee's passwords, they did so. Not just for things that we could access from home, but for services on the internal LAN that couldn't be reached unless you were physically on site. My response was to make them as rude and vulgar as I could, both as an expression of what I thought of the policy and because I knew that this would make them easier to remember. And, of course, a little bit of creative spelling didn't hurt.
Having a hint or reminder to your password is OK, I'd think, as long as it's clear to you, but obscure to anybody else. As an example, my laptop is named after a planet used in an SF series I like. Even if somebody guessed that, there are enough places, people and things in that series to keep the hint from being any help to anybody except me.
Using either hyphens or underscores to replace spaces also helps, especially if you use both of them, e.g., This-is_an_example-of-a_passphrase.
So because climate has changed before, we should just keep doing what we're doing, indefinitely, without worrying about consequences?
No, Mr. Strawman, that's not what it means. What it does mean is that there's ample evidence that the climate has changed a large number of times in the past, long before humanity was able to throw huge quantities of CO2 into the air, so the fact that it's currently getting warmer isn't sufficient evidence in and of itself to prove that humanity is responsible. Granted, I think that running an open-ended experiment to see how much pollution we can put into the air we breath is a very bad idea, but then, I grew up in Los Angeles and know from first-hand experience what the result can be.
Switch them over to Linux, and they'll never know the difference except that they won't have to reboot several times a day.
I don't know about disability checks, but Social Security has been using direct deposit for several years now, as has the VA for paying travel expenses to vets with low incomes and/or service connected disabilities.
I'm part of a clinical study. When it started up, one of the techs at the study faxed the details of what was going on to my regular doctor. I offered to hand-carry them, as it wasn't out of my way home, but I was told that he was required to fax them. Why? Because that way he had a record from the fax machine that the documents were sent and received.
Faxes are also used quite a bit with legal documents because it's been ruled by the courts that sending a fax (and having it received) counts for meeting a deadline, as long as the hardcopy is also sent over in a timely manner. There is no such ruling for email, so it's no good for this type of thing.
This idea would only work if either the planet's moon was right in front of it from out point of view, just going behind it or just coming out from behind. That means that even if the orbit was oriented just right, we'd only get the filtering effect intermittently. Of course, it's possible that the planet's orbit is such that we only see it at just the right time, but that's pilling one unlikely coincidence on top of another.
Twelve vultures, not thirteen eagles. And, as it happened, the last emperor, Romulus Agustulus was deposed at just about the right time to make the prophecy come true. (The fact that he was named after both the founder and the first emperor didn't hurt.)
This is Slashdot; shouldn't you be looking for comments about pink ponies covered with hot grits?
Asymmetrical bandwidth, or what you call "unbalanced bandwidth," isn't something the cable companies invented. After all, that's what the A in ADSL stands for, and it came out years before cable internet. And, if you stop and think about it, it makes sense for the average residential user: the vast majority of the data passing through the connection is incoming, with just a tiny fraction of it going out, and that's just as true for cable as for DSL.
I have a classic artillery notch, and there's no way this is going to help me. My hearing loss, btw, isn't from rock concerts, it's a long-term effect of my being exposed to too much outbound shore support back in '72. Yes, when I was topside I had proper hearing protection. Alas, I slept in the forward berthing compartment two decks down and about 50' back from the 5"/54 gun mount, and nobody realized that we should have been using ear plugs down there. One morning, I woke up and found out that there'd been a 40 round bombardment, and I hadn't woken up even once, which will tell you something about how adaptable people are. About the only good thing here is that it's Service Connected, so the VA can't charge me for any hearing-related service, such as giving me hearing aids.
That being said, I think this is a wonderful thing, because I'm sure that there are millions of people out there who can be helped by it.
...forcing people to get insurance, so that they pay ahead of time, seems like the next best thing.
So tell me, now, how you're going to force people who are living on what they can dig out of the dumpsters behind markets because they don't have any money to buy food to buy health insurance?
Well over a decade? It's more like well over thirty years. There were virus infections written for MS-DOS 3.X back in the 1980s.
"I am not a number, I am a free man!" Not any more, you're not!
Tell me this: if the NSA did put a backdoor in the package and if this audit found it, how would the NSA know about it in time to prevent it being reported? Sending a security letter to the auditors would just be considered proof that there was a backdoor to be hidden. The auditors may have been forced not to reveal anything about it to the general public, but you can bet that the people over at TrueCrypt would have found out about it and eliminated it as soon as possible, although they'd probably have had to pretend that they found the flaw themselves to protect both themselves and the auditors.
I fully expect that in 5-10 years most of the users will not know what operating system they are using.
What makes you think that the average home user knows what OS they're using right now? If they're on a PC, they'll know they're using Windows, because that's what came pre-installed, but they probably don't know which version, nor care. If they're on a Mac, they'll probably know that it's OSX, but again, not which version. And, they won't care because as long as it works for them, that's all that matters. If it doesn't work, they'll take it to a computer shop and let a geek fix it for them and the only question they'll ask is how much it costs.
No, Mr. Abrams, the investigation hasn't indicted anything. It indicated that somebody might have taken control of the drone away from you. I don't know if that's actually the word you used or if whoever wrote the story is to blame, but in either case, the Slashdot editors would have caught this if they were actually doing their job of editing the submissions. Why they haven't been replaced by people who know the difference between using a spelling checker and doing proper proof reading to catch misused words is something that only the PHBs at Dice can answer.
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I remember asking Dr. Forward that at LACon II, back in '84. He pointed out that a sphere of antimatter could only react to normal matter on its surface, limiting the speed of the reaction. He said that it wouldn't explode, it would evaporate and that it would look something like a drop of water on a hot griddle.
So there's nothing wrong with making stuff scriptable and changeable.
True. I have no issues with extensions as such; in fact, I think they're a great idea, just as browser extensions are. One of the many things I have against Gnome 3 is the fact that it's almost impossible to customize without extensions. Now, consider the case of a "Windows refugee" who's just installed Linux for the first time, with Gnome 3. It doesn't look or work the way they expect, and until they learn about extensions and how to install them they can't even do anything about it. Unless somebody either helps them get the vital extensions installed, or helps them replace Gnome 3 with a less user-hostile DE, they're very likely to give up in disgust, go back to Windows and spend the rest of their lives bad-mouthing Linux because they were stuck with a DE that they couldn't work with. Gnome 3 may be good for Linux geeks that know how to beat it into submission, but I'd never (not even hardly ever) inflict it on a beginner.
In the Linux world, Product X = Gnome 3. Totally unusable for many people without third-party extensions, yet those same people keep telling everybody how great it is. The only way it makes sense for me in either case (Win 8.x or Gnome 3) is if the advocates are all masochists and think that everybody else likes pointless suffering as much as they do. Personally, I use Linux with Xfce because it does what I want, the way I want without using up excessive RAM or CPU.
There are a number of species of small fish that feed on the larvae. Stoking the ponds with these is a well-known method of controlling mosquitoes that's been used for decades. If they're not already being used in your area, it may be that they're not adapted to your climate.
...quake-free Texas...
Everyplace is earthquake country if you wait long enough. Deal with it.