I used to pay 0.25EUR/minute and 0.12EUR/SMS here in Belgium,
until I went to an "unlimited" plan where you pay a fixed 25EUR for "unlimited" communication within the same provider. You get about 30hours a week calltime and unlimited SMSes.
Since I've got my gf a subscription as well we're paying 700%-800% less each month.
But I still don't like the idea my cellphone provider just billing me for every transaction I do. I have the bank for that.
I don't want to get a 700+ phonebill each month for my expenses, I would never consider my cellphone Provider as my banking service. (because they en effect become your "banking service" if you only use your cellphone)
Proton has been around for a decade in Belgium already with the same philosophy. It's very convenient, and you can almost use it everywhere and where I can't I use my Credit Card.
I had the idea that it might be more secure to use full-travel keyswitches with built-in OLED or LCD display elements {rather than a touchscreen, which creates errors through the absence of negative feedback} and scramble the key layout for each user {possibly even for each digit, though this might be too confusing}. This way, although you know what keys the person in the next checkout lane was pressing, you don't know what number they were entering.
I think you're absolutely right with this. It would be more secure, and I would applaud it and implement it myself where possible if that sortof added security were available...
It's just because of "habit" of typing my passwords that I memorized most my passwords by pattern. (as I often don't think anymore when I type about each what each individual finger is doing but I still type quite well.)
Just look at nearly every keyboard or input-device; the F and J have some sort of deviating surface to identify the position on your keyboard by touch. ("touch-typing"). On numerical input-devices you always have the 5 standing out. Which is a convenience which helps you orientate on your input-device, but as you pointed out it's a security risk as everything has such a standard "lay-out" it's possible to get to know passwords by observing not what, but how one enters a password. (this reminds me to this program which could capture passwords by "listening" how one entered a password)
It's a problem, definatly. I think authentication via eID's and other smart-cards are a plausable sollution, but it's kindof creepy privacy-wise. (and those can be quite easily stolen. And for the signature you again have a PIN... back to start.)
There's no way in H*LL I would be able to remember any of those.
After typing a certain random generated password for a few times, its engraved in your memory, no?
I find myself unable to "pronounce" most of my passwords, but I remember them without much thinking. (It's more remembering how to move my hands over my keyboard as to actually remember what I'm actually typing.)
It's the same with my PIN-codes. I just remember a figure and how to draw it in a certain order. Not the numbers themselves..
It's a common trend, my employer said before he hired me that he wanted me to "rather work 2 hours at home instead of standing 2 hours in traffic each day."
I haven't seen the office customers interface with, but I'm their main programmer working remotely on virtual machines on our serverfarm and having meetings occasionally wherever is most convenient for everyone needing to be present. (depends where my employer is networking with customers or wherever my collegues at the helpdesk are on interventions at the moment.) I might get 2 junior programmers which might require me to work in the office though.
Actually, the US politics are more people's business then you might realize as it impacts more people then just Americans. I mean if your family gets shot in the face by Americans -in your country, at your home!-, it becomes your business. When oil-prices skyrocket because your president feels he has to go murder some people, then it becomes your business, if your president doesn't feel like trying to do something at pollution -being the head of the country with the highest pollution rate- then it becomes everyone's business.
btw, it's business. It's a shame you don't even master your own language added to your ignorance.
Zodra hij contact maakt met de prooi, doet de vis zijn bek herhaaldelijk open en dicht tot het insect stevig tussen zijn kaken vastgeklemd zit. De typische zuigbeweging van in het water komt ook op het land van pas, hier om grotere prooien gemakkelijker naar binnen te werken.
Dit -voor een vis- merkwaardige gedrag kan licht werpen op de evolutie van water- naar landdier en op de ingrijpende lichamelijke aanpassingen die daarvoor nodig waren.
Quick translation:
As soon it contacts the prey, the fish opens and closes its mouth repeatedly until the insect is locked fermly between its jaws. The typical suction-movement from in the water comes handy on the land, here to work bigger prey inside more easily.
This -for a fish- weird behaviour can shed light on the evolution from water- to landanimals and on the serious adjustments which were required for this.
It sounds in the journal as they are able to feed on the land, with the help of their longer and flexible spine. So the movement of the head is required to feed on the land. (the article states "without it they'd just push their prey over the ground and it would be impossible to eat it.")
I'm just relaying what I read, I'm not an expert on fish nor evolutionary biology and I don't want to dispute one source and blindly trust another. It's fascinating nonetheless.
This was recently in the news; The scientist on the study noted the amazing thing was that the fish can eat prey exactly in the way they do underwater by "sucking it in" which doesn't allow air to come in their mouths. It would be considered a breakthrough as it proved there isn't a long evolutionary progress required to be able to feed on land as previously assumed.
I heard about this situation where the Asian market would drop goods for under the price of production, rendering the local industry unable to compete and destroying them. To eventually gaining the loss back with the newly created monopoly on the market. The EU has actually put in trade-laws to protect local industries to protect the local market. If people would care, there wouldn't be a need for such tradelaws.
Other nations actually purchase that debt, in the form of U.S. Treasury bonds and notes. Those bonds have increasingly been snapped up not just by private investors but by foreign banks. Japanese investors hold the most U.S. debt, but China has been buying more than any other country in recent months.
The biggest trade deficit is with China, too, at $162 billion. Japan is next, at $75 billion.
This is an excellent question that causes a great deal of controversy. Since every possible outcome, event and possibility is happening and will happen, then all good and all evil balances out in the superverse. After the reality of multiple worlds sank into our collective thought, the one basic change to all religious dogma is the concept that good and evil does not exist as an organized force in our lives nor can it be used as a useful way to judge what God may think of a situation. Good and evil are personal experiences that can only guide what we do as individuals and how we relate to others. This outlook also makes it impossible for me to judge any other person or event. We cannot see the entire universe as God sees it therefore we will never be Gods or be capable of judging anything outside of ourselves. My actions can only be judged as good and bad by me and my God.
If humans in then stone-age were aware of how to handle toothdecay in such detail. (not just knocking out the affected teeth, but drilling) how come in the mideavil ages humans seemed to have reached a deep low? (I thought the French used anise to cover the smell of their rotting teeth and themselves)
The more scientists discover about humans in the stone-age, the more they appear to be very peaceful and more develloped as priorly portraited.
3) You're kidding, right? The advantage from even simple photosensitivity is pretty obvious.
As it's obviously, it's not as straightforward but it's a fascinating thought;
Imagine you and anyone of your environment don't know sight.
Your being is without photosensitivity ENTIRELY. But suddenly there's something causing for something usefull to evolve... and in a very complex form... adapting to perceive and interprent this "vision". (Logically, it should've evolved out of tentacles of "feelers" which got sensitive for light and going from there...).
It's like humans evolving with some sensory organs with sensitivity for something we don't know yet and cannot comprehend because our organism isn't adjusted and adapted to interprent or even to grasp the concept thereof. (like out brains have evolved to interprent light as vision, and you're trying to explain a mole what sight is.)
There could be advantage out for some people to develop infrared sight, how hard you wish you want it, you don't really have control over your evolution. Maybe if you sit for generations-long in the dark, however that more likely will result in blindness and other sensory-organs to enhance as your eyes have become absolete.
I'm not an ID-believer, but it's fascinating to think these things over. It's easiest hoewever to just say "my mind cannot grasp it, so there must be some higher almighty force which created everything and that explains it."
And the computer geek lifestyle leaves little time for excercising.
I still have to get to my office, so I use that to bike which forces me to bike about 8km a day. At first it was a drag and took some adjustment, but now I couldn't do without my bike anymore and it's faster for me to get to the trainstation by bike then by car or public transportation. It's also a moment for me where I can "tune out" and some sollutions come easier to mind. It's teh same as walking around when you're stuck to clear your head to come to a sollution It's less stressfull; no traffic jams (I bike pass those frustrated automobilists) and the other half of my traject to my office I use the train, so I have some time to relax and overview my planning before walking into the office and start working. Oh, and it's environment friendly.
... who feels this seems to be pretty intimidating and ego-centric as a non-American?
That's it! I'm going to make my own protocol and call it "NAP" or "No Americans Protocol".
An attack to my network could then be considered an act of war.. and.. um.. I.. could get nuked:(
This is very intimidating and comes off as very dominant.
I don't know if someone knows these flashing stickers indicating an incoming phonecall? I've tried some, and they only work -with the phones I tried- at the back of the phone. The front (where you hold it against your head) doesn't seem to be giving off a signal strong enough to make the stickers flash.
So I suspect there is a difference in what type of cellphone (external antenna, generation of cellphone, brand...) which increases or decreases the amount of radiation taken.
Slashdot Mirror
You call that a mirror?
THIS is a mirror.
you're free to move to Cambodia - Because your *country* is quite probably physically smaller than my *state*. The entire land mass of Europe...
Combodia isn't located in Europe. You missed by a half planet; Learn your geography first, aye?
Deep Brain Stimulation :P
This technique is old
Alot of people said the same about the SMART. Even though the smart is much safer then some SUVs and others.
I used to pay 0.25EUR/minute and 0.12EUR/SMS here in Belgium,
until I went to an "unlimited" plan where you pay a fixed 25EUR for "unlimited" communication within the same provider. You get about 30hours a week calltime and unlimited SMSes.
Since I've got my gf a subscription as well we're paying 700%-800% less each month.
But I still don't like the idea my cellphone provider just billing me for every transaction I do. I have the bank for that.
I don't want to get a 700+ phonebill each month for my expenses, I would never consider my cellphone Provider as my banking service. (because they en effect become your "banking service" if you only use your cellphone)
Proton has been around for a decade in Belgium already with the same philosophy. It's very convenient, and you can almost use it everywhere and where I can't I use my Credit Card.
I think you're absolutely right with this. It would be more secure, and I would applaud it and implement it myself where possible if that sortof added security were available...
It's just because of "habit" of typing my passwords that I memorized most my passwords by pattern. (as I often don't think anymore when I type about each what each individual finger is doing but I still type quite well.)
Just look at nearly every keyboard or input-device; the F and J have some sort of deviating surface to identify the position on your keyboard by touch. ("touch-typing"). On numerical input-devices you always have the 5 standing out. Which is a convenience which helps you orientate on your input-device, but as you pointed out it's a security risk as everything has such a standard "lay-out" it's possible to get to know passwords by observing not what, but how one enters a password. (this reminds me to this program which could capture passwords by "listening" how one entered a password)
It's a problem, definatly. I think authentication via eID's and other smart-cards are a plausable sollution, but it's kindof creepy privacy-wise. (and those can be quite easily stolen. And for the signature you again have a PIN... back to start.)
I know; I'm using AZERTY ;)
There's no way in H*LL I would be able to remember any of those.
After typing a certain random generated password for a few times, its engraved in your memory, no?
I find myself unable to "pronounce" most of my passwords, but I remember them without much thinking. (It's more remembering how to move my hands over my keyboard as to actually remember what I'm actually typing.)
It's the same with my PIN-codes. I just remember a figure and how to draw it in a certain order. Not the numbers themselves..
It's a common trend, my employer said before he hired me that he wanted me to "rather work 2 hours at home instead of standing 2 hours in traffic each day."
I haven't seen the office customers interface with, but I'm their main programmer working remotely on virtual machines on our serverfarm and having meetings occasionally wherever is most convenient for everyone needing to be present. (depends where my employer is networking with customers or wherever my collegues at the helpdesk are on interventions at the moment.)
I might get 2 junior programmers which might require me to work in the office though.
Actually, the US politics are more people's business then you might realize as it impacts more people then just Americans.
I mean if your family gets shot in the face by Americans -in your country, at your home!-, it becomes your business.
When oil-prices skyrocket because your president feels he has to go murder some people, then it becomes your business, if your president doesn't feel like trying to do something at pollution -being the head of the country with the highest pollution rate- then it becomes everyone's business.
btw, it's business. It's a shame you don't even master your own language added to your ignorance.
turn it up!
Just another reason to continue using a more robust system
I agree. I'm happy its spring now so I can finally post back on slashdot with TCP/IP using pigeons.
(2 pigeons were corrupted by posting this message)
Dutch Fragment:
Zodra hij contact maakt met de prooi, doet de vis zijn bek herhaaldelijk open en dicht tot het insect stevig tussen zijn kaken vastgeklemd zit. De typische zuigbeweging van in het water komt ook op het land van pas, hier om grotere prooien gemakkelijker naar binnen te werken.
Quick translation:Dit -voor een vis- merkwaardige gedrag kan licht werpen op de evolutie van water- naar landdier en op de ingrijpende lichamelijke aanpassingen die daarvoor nodig waren.
As soon it contacts the prey, the fish opens and closes its mouth repeatedly until the insect is locked fermly between its jaws. The typical suction-movement from in the water comes handy on the land, here to work bigger prey inside more easily.
This -for a fish- weird behaviour can shed light on the evolution from water- to landanimals and on the serious adjustments which were required for this.
It sounds in the journal as they are able to feed on the land, with the help of their longer and flexible spine. So the movement of the head is required to feed on the land. (the article states "without it they'd just push their prey over the ground and it would be impossible to eat it.")
I'm just relaying what I read, I'm not an expert on fish nor evolutionary biology and I don't want to dispute one source and blindly trust another. It's fascinating nonetheless.This was recently in the news; The scientist on the study noted the amazing thing was that the fish can eat prey exactly in the way they do underwater by "sucking it in" which doesn't allow air to come in their mouths. It would be considered a breakthrough as it proved there isn't a long evolutionary progress required to be able to feed on land as previously assumed.
This is tragically very true.
I heard about this situation where the Asian market would drop goods for under the price of production, rendering the local industry unable to compete and destroying them. To eventually gaining the loss back with the newly created monopoly on the market. The EU has actually put in trade-laws to protect local industries to protect the local market. If people would care, there wouldn't be a need for such tradelaws.
From the first reference I could find. Note that it is dated back in "8/27/2005". A more recent estimate on US debt can be found on the US National Debt Clock
Other nations actually purchase that debt, in the form of U.S. Treasury bonds and notes. Those bonds have increasingly been snapped up not just by private investors but by foreign banks. Japanese investors hold the most U.S. debt, but China has been buying more than any other country in recent months.
The biggest trade deficit is with China, too, at $162 billion. Japan is next, at $75 billion.
Neither is bug 279867 fixed which is older then a year.
They're not really comparable
This is an excellent question that causes a great deal of controversy. Since every possible outcome, event and possibility is happening and will happen, then all good and all evil balances out in the superverse. After the reality of multiple worlds sank into our collective thought, the one basic change to all religious dogma is the concept that good and evil does not exist as an organized force in our lives nor can it be used as a useful way to judge what God may think of a situation. Good and evil are personal experiences that can only guide what we do as individuals and how we relate to others. This outlook also makes it impossible for me to judge any other person or event. We cannot see the entire universe as God sees it therefore we will never be Gods or be capable of judging anything outside of ourselves. My actions can only be judged as good and bad by me and my God.
If humans in then stone-age were aware of how to handle toothdecay in such detail. (not just knocking out the affected teeth, but drilling) how come in the mideavil ages humans seemed to have reached a deep low? (I thought the French used anise to cover the smell of their rotting teeth and themselves)
The more scientists discover about humans in the stone-age, the more they appear to be very peaceful and more develloped as priorly portraited.
As it's obviously, it's not as straightforward but it's a fascinating thought;
Imagine you and anyone of your environment don't know sight.
Your being is without photosensitivity ENTIRELY. But suddenly there's something causing for something usefull to evolve... and in a very complex form... adapting to perceive and interprent this "vision". (Logically, it should've evolved out of tentacles of "feelers" which got sensitive for light and going from there...).
It's like humans evolving with some sensory organs with sensitivity for something we don't know yet and cannot comprehend because our organism isn't adjusted and adapted to interprent or even to grasp the concept thereof. (like out brains have evolved to interprent light as vision, and you're trying to explain a mole what sight is.)
There could be advantage out for some people to develop infrared sight, how hard you wish you want it, you don't really have control over your evolution. Maybe if you sit for generations-long in the dark, however that more likely will result in blindness and other sensory-organs to enhance as your eyes have become absolete.
I'm not an ID-believer, but it's fascinating to think these things over. It's easiest hoewever to just say "my mind cannot grasp it, so there must be some higher almighty force which created everything and that explains it."
I still have to get to my office, so I use that to bike which forces me to bike about 8km a day.
At first it was a drag and took some adjustment, but now I couldn't do without my bike anymore and it's faster for me to get to the trainstation by bike then by car or public transportation. It's also a moment for me where I can "tune out" and some sollutions come easier to mind. It's teh same as walking around when you're stuck to clear your head to come to a sollution
It's less stressfull; no traffic jams (I bike pass those frustrated automobilists) and the other half of my traject to my office I use the train, so I have some time to relax and overview my planning before walking into the office and start working.
Oh, and it's environment friendly.
... who feels this seems to be pretty intimidating and ego-centric as a non-American?
.. could get nuked :(
That's it! I'm going to make my own protocol and call it "NAP" or "No Americans Protocol".
An attack to my network could then be considered an act of war.. and.. um.. I
This is very intimidating and comes off as very dominant.
I don't know if someone knows these flashing stickers indicating an incoming phonecall? I've tried some, and they only work -with the phones I tried- at the back of the phone. The front (where you hold it against your head) doesn't seem to be giving off a signal strong enough to make the stickers flash.
So I suspect there is a difference in what type of cellphone (external antenna, generation of cellphone, brand...) which increases or decreases the amount of radiation taken.