This is a slight reduction in password strength if you're using Blowfish and have a british pound sterling sign in your password, rather than a normal password and using the standard salted MD5 hash or deliberately changing from MD5 to SHA1, which is the only likely change most people would make. It almost never happens and doesn't create an instant break when it does; it's effectively a non-issue, but you know.. if it's loose, tighten it up, I don't care if it's going to fall off or not.
Yes but that particular test is faulty because you can find "a" person who "doesn't give a shit and just wants this shit fixed" in 90% of the market. 90% of the market is not reasonable. 90% of the market that shows up at Best Buy's Geek Squad will think the Genius Bar at Apple is the same thing... Geek Squad, Geek Bar, whatever.
By the way, Best Buy says (internally--this is company proprietary information) that Geek Squad's revenue is supposed to be about 80%; however, each Geek Squad "Agent" gets paid $10.50-ish an hour, maybe $15/hour in the upper tiers, more for out-of-store service. In-store is 80%, which means a revenue of 5 times the $84/day you make, or $420/day in services sold. In truth, however, they push for around $200/hour or about $1600/day.
Think about it. If it's slow up front, one machine an hour is a $60 "diagnostic" service, already breaking (at $10.50/hr) the $52.50 you need to make. While there's no customers, you do all the bench work; it's minimal. Now, diagnostic is mandatory (if you come in saying "I have a virus" it's "We must do a diagnostic, $60"), but I *think* the actual repair is discounted... so if it's a $30 repair, you pay $60 total.
But that'll get you in a load of trouble (I know, I was fired for minimizing profits), so what normally happens is they run the anti-virus installed and it can't remove a virus (funny) or otherwise doesn't fix the problem. Then they tell you, $70 to back up any files, $60 to re-install the OS, $30 to run Windows Update and apply all patches, $30 per software package (Anti-virus, Anti-Spyware, Office) being installed... totals out to a good $250, plus the original repair, over $300 for one customer.
I used to peer at the output and notice what was being found "protected" and irreparable; when you reboot, that file is encrypted and can't be scanned by the offline virus scanner, so it misses the virus. But since the online scanner told you it's in C:\Program Files\Common Files\wx3pd12.exe... you go rename it to.ex_ and reboot. System works? Remove the file. Problem solved, and you just saved the customer $250 with 5 minutes of extra work. Now your supervisor is pissed and you get fired.
While I agree with this, I still question the concept of legal repercussions for animal abuse. The concept confuses me. When we decided black people were people with rights, that was important: they were human, and more important sentient and capable of reason. We raise pigs and sheep as food, though; we consider them... mainly objects. We don't expect them to seek sympathy, or revolution, or attempt to communicate with us. We expect them to learn where food and comfort comes from, and go there; they are not philosophers, or warriors, or family men. They are meat.
If you surmise that an animal is of a mental and spiritual development such that it has social and philosophical concerns, then why are you using it for meat? Yes, I feel people should not simply crush bugs out of boredom, because I feel life is an essential thing that should be left alone; but life also entails death and suffering, and survival depends on that. We should not over-consume, because to do so we must inflict death and suffering on other life.
That makes it wrong and a great spiritual failing to torment animals. But does it make a crime? The animal is meat, and there is a difference between "legal" and "right." That difference is important.
You have five hundred thousand dollars in BTC. Goldman Sachs it. Sell some, buy back at a higher price--from yourself!--then sell at higher, buy at higher, sell at higher... buy some from the market, some from you; then sell back to the market, buy about half your own stock, let others catch up... your actual money bobbles up and down, so does you BTC... sink yourself, get down to $400,000 by loss, but with the same BTC, except now those BTC are worth $7.5M, and start selling like crazy at the new inflated price. GMS did it, so can you.
On a more cynical note, pharmacy companies want a drug to control alz. That way you pay, they make money. You become a wage slave to the drug companies, working to make your money so you can save yourself from brain degradation.
But really, drug interactions, diagnosis and adjustment of dosage, supplements to control odd drug reactions we can recognize, etc. Why?
Here's a fact for you: if you sit around gawking at the TV all day, your brain will rot away and you'll become senile. If you stare at debate and scientific news, and your take-away is a deep analysis of whatever they say, poking holes in everything, applying logical fallacies, extending their arguments, doing what-if hypothesisation, and whatever else, you're going to be a fierce old man that doesn't take bullshit from anyone because you know how to god damn think.
It's like martial arts. You spend 3 hours a week in Kung Fu or Aikido or Pentjak Silat or Judo study. It's not a lot. You're an old man. You know what? Your body's being flexed and used... yeah, you have to be a bit more careful sometimes; but you're not going to degrade nearly as fast. I've thrown 70... 80 year old women, in the air, upside down, and watched them land head first on the ground and roll out of it with no problem. You would die if you got into a fight with these people, even if you tried attacking them with a crowbar.
Yes, your body wears out as you get old. For active people, the wear tends to be slow and sudden: they stay fit and flexible and relatively damage-resistant (hey, there is weakening) until the last few months of their lives, and then suddenly get sick and weak and then die. Beats being sick and frail for 30 years while nurses wait on you. It's the same with your brain, really: keep it active and it will suddenly fall apart just before you die, and you can be incoherent for the last few weeks or days or hours instead of the last decade or two of your life. It takes very little upkeep to manage it.
Go is not a difficult game to advance in; it is impossible to master, and those at the top are those that fight fiercely to keep their position.
I know, I grabbed that one from manga; but it's surprisingly insightful. You fight your way to the top... Tyson stays where he is because he is a boxer with fists, and when he exercises and boxes his arms stay strong and his fists stay deadly. Go players... Go players are still discovering more; the top pros and even some mid-range amateurs are discovering new joseki, new tesuji, creative and insightful ways out of difficult problems.
The game of Go is... very dynamic. Mathematically, the search space for a move is huge; and with the depth of multiple moves and the size of the board, interactions are complex. It is beyond mastery because the amount of data needed for a complete view with reasonable processing time is beyond the storage capacity of the entire universe.
I would not worry that you suck at Go. Improvement is easy: it's a huge game. I've found, however, that improvement is more than just strategy, tactics, tesuji, game study... Go is not a game of stones and grid lines. I've recently started to advance rapidly through my rank, aiming for the next rank; it's slower than when I was absorbing completely new concepts, but it just sort of "happened," and I've been winning a lot. The major change? I'd been struggling with an internal error: my playing was thoughtless, greedy, impatient, arrogant... personality flaws that clouded my judgment. Study didn't help; I had to advance myself before I could advance my play.
That's why I encourage the study of Go. It helps the mind, it gives a basis for philosophical discussion and understanding, but it does more than that. Improvement in Go requires improvement in yourself. Right now I'm studying an elementary book on Attack and Defense (actually Kiseido K14 by Ishida and Davies), and the very first 10 pages have framed for me what I must do. It's not easy, either. The "balance of territory" discussion shows various board positions and possibilities, risks, aggression or protection, and the manner of thinking required to pick your battles wisely. In short, the very concept is both awe-inspiring and frightening; it's like being told how to climb a mountain... while you're staring up a two thousand foot sheer vertical cliff with no rest spots. I am... ill equipped; I'll easily learn these attack and defense concepts, but I do not have the fundamental ability to make these sorts of assessments and apply these tactics effectively... yet.
Interestingly enough, as you say, that is the human condition. We're bad at evaluating risk... that's something we all know. We're bad at everything else, too; humans want everything, and they want to give nothing. That's why we have "gun control" as "ban all guns" and we tell people "violence is bad" and think it'll stop violent crimes. The risk of mugging someone is that they'll break you with their elite ninja skills... oh, right, everyone is afraid of violence, that won't happen. And nobody will come to your aid because they're all afraid of your friends showing up at their homes at night for retribution. Nobody can defend themselves, and nobody will help you... that's what we've really given up.
We do it all the time. Zero tolerance in schools leading to ridiculous shit because it's essentially the removal of situational judgment from the administration. Ineffective "security" measures to "protect" us from terrorism while we give up our rights. Diet versus exercise, and people who think they can "cut calories" while sitting on the couch all day to lose weight. Fad diets, for that matter. All the copyright bullshit, all of it. Health care. Taxes. Elimination of the death penalty (for serial murder-rapists, because it's so horrible that we'd execute someone who murdered 40 people in a wee
This is a very philosophically complex subject; but, less complex, is the fact that "civilized" societies are extremely childish and immature in general.
In that scenario, even if a document listed in robots.txt contains personal information about someone, there's no argument that "someone could find it anyway by searching, so Google is doing you a favor by listing it," because nobody would be able to find it by searching unless Google lists it.
Which is why you download robots.txt when you want to hack a site. Oh, look, this file contains the root password? ssh... oh that worked.:D Yes this has happened a lot.
Right, because a small wind turbine has as much power output as a piece of radioactive rock that was created in an especially large supermassive star collapse.
You're not trading the company, and you're not interested in receiving medical information. If you sit quiet until they realize this went somewhere and they didn't get a 503, then come looking for you, they will want to know why you sat quiet receiving information.
I live in a world where people walk right by rape and violent muggings, don't report or stand witness for murders, etc, because it's "not their problem" and they don't want to "get involved" because of time commitment or retaliation or personal danger.
Why the hell are you worried about "Scary" for your daughter? What's wrong with something scaring the kids? It's not a giant floating head giving somebody a blow job, it's fine, she'll get over it. I played Metroid when I was a kid a lot, that was scary as hell back then. You're all alone, on an uninhabited planet, diving deep into its core with no hope of seeing the surface again in a long time, looking for monsters that can kill you with lighting, dealing with acid pools, darkness, mutants... and you have the Wave Beam to help you get by.
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Except 90% of the market can be stupid enough to think that anyone who works on a computer is Geek Squad.
are generally outweighed? You mean you shouldn't do it?
This is a slight reduction in password strength if you're using Blowfish and have a british pound sterling sign in your password, rather than a normal password and using the standard salted MD5 hash or deliberately changing from MD5 to SHA1, which is the only likely change most people would make. It almost never happens and doesn't create an instant break when it does; it's effectively a non-issue, but you know.. if it's loose, tighten it up, I don't care if it's going to fall off or not.
not to mention people who manage to get paid for the hobby of pointing out everyone else's mistakes...
It only costs short investors money; long-position investors make money because of the increased (over)valuation of the company.
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Yes but that particular test is faulty because you can find "a" person who "doesn't give a shit and just wants this shit fixed" in 90% of the market. 90% of the market is not reasonable. 90% of the market that shows up at Best Buy's Geek Squad will think the Genius Bar at Apple is the same thing... Geek Squad, Geek Bar, whatever.
By the way, Best Buy says (internally--this is company proprietary information) that Geek Squad's revenue is supposed to be about 80%; however, each Geek Squad "Agent" gets paid $10.50-ish an hour, maybe $15/hour in the upper tiers, more for out-of-store service. In-store is 80%, which means a revenue of 5 times the $84/day you make, or $420/day in services sold. In truth, however, they push for around $200/hour or about $1600/day.
Think about it. If it's slow up front, one machine an hour is a $60 "diagnostic" service, already breaking (at $10.50/hr) the $52.50 you need to make. While there's no customers, you do all the bench work; it's minimal. Now, diagnostic is mandatory (if you come in saying "I have a virus" it's "We must do a diagnostic, $60"), but I *think* the actual repair is discounted ... so if it's a $30 repair, you pay $60 total.
But that'll get you in a load of trouble (I know, I was fired for minimizing profits), so what normally happens is they run the anti-virus installed and it can't remove a virus (funny) or otherwise doesn't fix the problem. Then they tell you, $70 to back up any files, $60 to re-install the OS, $30 to run Windows Update and apply all patches, $30 per software package (Anti-virus, Anti-Spyware, Office) being installed... totals out to a good $250, plus the original repair, over $300 for one customer.
I used to peer at the output and notice what was being found "protected" and irreparable; when you reboot, that file is encrypted and can't be scanned by the offline virus scanner, so it misses the virus. But since the online scanner told you it's in C:\Program Files\Common Files\wx3pd12.exe ... you go rename it to .ex_ and reboot. System works? Remove the file. Problem solved, and you just saved the customer $250 with 5 minutes of extra work. Now your supervisor is pissed and you get fired.
"Legal" and "Right" are two different things, and the separation is important. You can't be arrested for cheating on your wife.
They're being raised for meat. I don't see how this is a crime.
Buddhism much?
While I agree with this, I still question the concept of legal repercussions for animal abuse. The concept confuses me. When we decided black people were people with rights, that was important: they were human, and more important sentient and capable of reason. We raise pigs and sheep as food, though; we consider them ... mainly objects. We don't expect them to seek sympathy, or revolution, or attempt to communicate with us. We expect them to learn where food and comfort comes from, and go there; they are not philosophers, or warriors, or family men. They are meat.
If you surmise that an animal is of a mental and spiritual development such that it has social and philosophical concerns, then why are you using it for meat? Yes, I feel people should not simply crush bugs out of boredom, because I feel life is an essential thing that should be left alone; but life also entails death and suffering, and survival depends on that. We should not over-consume, because to do so we must inflict death and suffering on other life.
That makes it wrong and a great spiritual failing to torment animals. But does it make a crime? The animal is meat, and there is a difference between "legal" and "right." That difference is important.
And what are we going to do? Charge farmers who beat cows to death with violent murder, and put them on death row?
Actually I was thinking of Hamming-encoding post-encryption such that damage to one part didn't destroy the whole block...
What? What do you mean? You mean someone would be retarded enough to write an encryption method that doesn't use ECC or such internally?
You have five hundred thousand dollars in BTC. Goldman Sachs it. Sell some, buy back at a higher price--from yourself!--then sell at higher, buy at higher, sell at higher ... buy some from the market, some from you; then sell back to the market, buy about half your own stock, let others catch up ... your actual money bobbles up and down, so does you BTC ... sink yourself, get down to $400,000 by loss, but with the same BTC, except now those BTC are worth $7.5M, and start selling like crazy at the new inflated price. GMS did it, so can you.
Yes but I prefer Occam's Razor.
On a more cynical note, pharmacy companies want a drug to control alz. That way you pay, they make money. You become a wage slave to the drug companies, working to make your money so you can save yourself from brain degradation.
But really, drug interactions, diagnosis and adjustment of dosage, supplements to control odd drug reactions we can recognize, etc. Why?
Here's a fact for you: if you sit around gawking at the TV all day, your brain will rot away and you'll become senile. If you stare at debate and scientific news, and your take-away is a deep analysis of whatever they say, poking holes in everything, applying logical fallacies, extending their arguments, doing what-if hypothesisation, and whatever else, you're going to be a fierce old man that doesn't take bullshit from anyone because you know how to god damn think.
It's like martial arts. You spend 3 hours a week in Kung Fu or Aikido or Pentjak Silat or Judo study. It's not a lot. You're an old man. You know what? Your body's being flexed and used ... yeah, you have to be a bit more careful sometimes; but you're not going to degrade nearly as fast. I've thrown 70... 80 year old women, in the air, upside down, and watched them land head first on the ground and roll out of it with no problem. You would die if you got into a fight with these people, even if you tried attacking them with a crowbar.
Yes, your body wears out as you get old. For active people, the wear tends to be slow and sudden: they stay fit and flexible and relatively damage-resistant (hey, there is weakening) until the last few months of their lives, and then suddenly get sick and weak and then die. Beats being sick and frail for 30 years while nurses wait on you. It's the same with your brain, really: keep it active and it will suddenly fall apart just before you die, and you can be incoherent for the last few weeks or days or hours instead of the last decade or two of your life. It takes very little upkeep to manage it.
Go is not a difficult game to advance in; it is impossible to master, and those at the top are those that fight fiercely to keep their position.
I know, I grabbed that one from manga; but it's surprisingly insightful. You fight your way to the top... Tyson stays where he is because he is a boxer with fists, and when he exercises and boxes his arms stay strong and his fists stay deadly. Go players ... Go players are still discovering more; the top pros and even some mid-range amateurs are discovering new joseki, new tesuji, creative and insightful ways out of difficult problems.
The game of Go is ... very dynamic. Mathematically, the search space for a move is huge; and with the depth of multiple moves and the size of the board, interactions are complex. It is beyond mastery because the amount of data needed for a complete view with reasonable processing time is beyond the storage capacity of the entire universe.
I would not worry that you suck at Go. Improvement is easy: it's a huge game. I've found, however, that improvement is more than just strategy, tactics, tesuji, game study ... Go is not a game of stones and grid lines. I've recently started to advance rapidly through my rank, aiming for the next rank; it's slower than when I was absorbing completely new concepts, but it just sort of "happened," and I've been winning a lot. The major change? I'd been struggling with an internal error: my playing was thoughtless, greedy, impatient, arrogant ... personality flaws that clouded my judgment. Study didn't help; I had to advance myself before I could advance my play.
That's why I encourage the study of Go. It helps the mind, it gives a basis for philosophical discussion and understanding, but it does more than that. Improvement in Go requires improvement in yourself. Right now I'm studying an elementary book on Attack and Defense (actually Kiseido K14 by Ishida and Davies), and the very first 10 pages have framed for me what I must do. It's not easy, either. The "balance of territory" discussion shows various board positions and possibilities, risks, aggression or protection, and the manner of thinking required to pick your battles wisely. In short, the very concept is both awe-inspiring and frightening; it's like being told how to climb a mountain... while you're staring up a two thousand foot sheer vertical cliff with no rest spots. I am ... ill equipped; I'll easily learn these attack and defense concepts, but I do not have the fundamental ability to make these sorts of assessments and apply these tactics effectively ... yet.
Interestingly enough, as you say, that is the human condition. We're bad at evaluating risk... that's something we all know. We're bad at everything else, too; humans want everything, and they want to give nothing. That's why we have "gun control" as "ban all guns" and we tell people "violence is bad" and think it'll stop violent crimes. The risk of mugging someone is that they'll break you with their elite ninja skills... oh, right, everyone is afraid of violence, that won't happen. And nobody will come to your aid because they're all afraid of your friends showing up at their homes at night for retribution. Nobody can defend themselves, and nobody will help you ... that's what we've really given up.
We do it all the time. Zero tolerance in schools leading to ridiculous shit because it's essentially the removal of situational judgment from the administration. Ineffective "security" measures to "protect" us from terrorism while we give up our rights. Diet versus exercise, and people who think they can "cut calories" while sitting on the couch all day to lose weight. Fad diets, for that matter. All the copyright bullshit, all of it. Health care. Taxes. Elimination of the death penalty (for serial murder-rapists, because it's so horrible that we'd execute someone who murdered 40 people in a wee
This is a very philosophically complex subject; but, less complex, is the fact that "civilized" societies are extremely childish and immature in general.
Playing Go is shown to decrease the development of alz.
In that scenario, even if a document listed in robots.txt contains personal information about someone, there's no argument that "someone could find it anyway by searching, so Google is doing you a favor by listing it," because nobody would be able to find it by searching unless Google lists it.
Which is why you download robots.txt when you want to hack a site. Oh, look, this file contains the root password? ssh ... oh that worked. :D Yes this has happened a lot.
Right, because a small wind turbine has as much power output as a piece of radioactive rock that was created in an especially large supermassive star collapse.
You're not trading the company, and you're not interested in receiving medical information. If you sit quiet until they realize this went somewhere and they didn't get a 503, then come looking for you, they will want to know why you sat quiet receiving information.
Are you David Thorne?
I think he's simply trying to be a decent person.
I live in a world where people walk right by rape and violent muggings, don't report or stand witness for murders, etc, because it's "not their problem" and they don't want to "get involved" because of time commitment or retaliation or personal danger.
World of honorless cowards.
Why the hell are you worried about "Scary" for your daughter? What's wrong with something scaring the kids? It's not a giant floating head giving somebody a blow job, it's fine, she'll get over it. I played Metroid when I was a kid a lot, that was scary as hell back then. You're all alone, on an uninhabited planet, diving deep into its core with no hope of seeing the surface again in a long time, looking for monsters that can kill you with lighting, dealing with acid pools, darkness, mutants... and you have the Wave Beam to help you get by.
Nah, they'll get an internet-connected PC and run your credit card through PayPal.