If only we could stop the creation of smog in the first place.
The towers are just a silly stunt. Nobody really thinks that outdoor filters are a realistic solution. Filtering makes sense for enclosed areas, like homes and offices, but not outdoors. Beijing has been cracking down on burning trash and has banned coal for cooking/heating, and China has started imposing smog controls on cars. But diesel engines are common in China, and there are many many two-stroke gasoline engines on scooters and motorcycles. Those are not easy problems to fix. A good first step would be to promote electric scooters, with more convenient charging stations. That would not work in a hilly city like Chongqing, but should help in flat cities like Beijing or Shanghai.
Ebola is nastier thatn that. People profoundly ill with it _bleed_
It doesn't matter if a disease is "nasty" if your chance of getting it is at or near zero. Ebola gained a temporary foothold in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. These are three of the most backward, illiterate, and poorly governed countries on earth. It never got a foothold in countries like Ghana or Nigeria, where people have access to soap and can read.
The time and resources to apply and keep applying the soap, antiseptics, and sterilization of instruments can consume any hospital's budget and supplies in a very short local outbreak.
Hospitals, doctors, and medical treatment all had a negligible effect on the ebola epidemic. It was stopped by public health measures such as distributing soap, and educating people through tribal networks on how the disease is spread and how to avoid it.
The 2015 ebola outbreak was the biggest in history, and will likely never be surpassed. We now know much more about ebola, literacy rates are going up, and sanitation is improving. The conditions that made the outbreak possible are fading away.
Thank God now all we have to worry about is Zika, Cickengunya and Dengue Fever! With an occasional bout of Ebola thrown in for good measure!
For most people, Zika and Dengue are so mild that many don't even realize they are sick. Ebola can be stopped dead in its track with soap. Measles is a far more serious disease than any of these.
Indeed. It will likely end the same way all other productivity improvements have ended throughout history: With greater prosperity and rising living standards.
Seriously, loosing the USPS won't be a good thing in the long run.
They cannot die soon enough. 95% of my mail is paper spam that goes straight into the trash. The rest is either packages (that could go by UPS instead) or bills from Luddite companies that are too dumb to figure out how to save money by sending e-bills.
First class postage is still under $1 for a letter picked up and delivered door to door, usually in a few days.
I haven't sent or received a personal letter in over a decade. Why would anyone prefer that over email?
Perhaps we could scale back delivery days and save labor costs. Say three days a week...
How about zero days a week? That would save even more.
Plenty of countries no longer have a government run postal service. They are doing just fine.
Simulated annealing, which is used to solve a huge number of optimization problems. It is very compute intensive, and is often run on GPUs. If the claimed speed up is real, that would be a really big deal.
NK imprisons the condemned and up to three generations of their direct family members,
How do you know? Do you have first hand knowledge, or are you just regurgitating the propaganda that your government has been spoon feeding you? Most of these stories come from defectors who have a strong incentive to lie and embellish. If everything defectors said was true, there would have been a WMD in every Iraqi backyard.
subjecting them to hard labor for life for political disloyalty.
Engineering errors are not "political disloyalty". There is no evidence that NK punishes people for honest mistakes.
Not really. This is nothing new. Elon doesn't have a filter between his brain and his mouth. He thinks out loud. He spews a constant stream of idea and opinions. But he has made enough of his crazy ideas actually work that it would be foolish to dismiss anything he says.
Fair enough. But I don't think we want to adopt their policy of facing a firing squad for failure.
There is no evidence whatsoever that NK has done that. That is just Western propaganda. They have deliberately chosen a "fail fast" strategy, and that doesn't work if you shoot your best engineers. Sure, Kim shoots people for political disloyalty, but that is an entirely different thing.
Let's try to solve the exploding rocket issue first before we start sending people to Mars, kk, Elon?
That is not the best strategy. It is better to push forward, take risks, and fail fast. You learn more from your failures than from your successes.
Look at North Korea, a poor impoverished country that has made huge strides by developing in fast cycles without worrying too much about failures. Their first rockets either blew up on the launch pad or shortly after liftoff. The world laughed. Yet they were ready to try again just a month or two later. That one blew up too, but it went further. Now, a few years later, they can put satellites in orbit, and they will soon have the technology for ICBMs that can reach North America. Nobody is laughing anymore.
We are born that way. By the time my daughter was 20 months old she would speak English to white or black people and Mandarin to Asian people. I never taught her that. She figured it out on her own.
No, the baby is not an immigrant. I was making a joke. The GPP's suggestion that families desiring healthy children should instead just support a more permissive immigration policy is so patently absurd that I didn't think it deserved a serious answer.
30 year old woman to boyfriend: I want to get married and have a baby. Boyfriend: Sure, we could do that... or we could just make a campaign contribution to Angela Merkel. Woman: Okay, that would be fine, the end result is the same per capita GDP, and that's all that matters.
This is why I keep a transparent-background PNG file with my signature around. Easily inserted into a LyX document and no one on the other end of the fax call can tell the difference.
That is what I meant by "e-sign". They rejected it. They could tell because there were several pages requiring signatures, and they were all exactly the same. They can also tell by the size/speed of the transfer. If only the sig is a scanned image the transfer will be much smaller than if the whole page is rasterized.
As much as hospitals charge, do you seriously believe that they aren't staffed up enough to detect fax cheaters?
If you deal with governments, lawyers, or doctors, you still need to print stuff on paper. I emailed a form to my local hospital, and they called and said I had to fax it. So I "e-signed" it, and sent it with my fax card. They called again and said that they could not accept e-signatures, so I had to print it out, sign it with real physical ink, scan it back in, and then fax the image. That was two months ago, and I haven't used my printer since.
Hardly fair to call the baby malicious names even if you disapprove of this medical technique.
The same thing happened back in 1978, when Louise Brown was born. Today everyone accepts IVF as routine. This time will be the same: The first baby is on the front page, the 2nd baby is mentioned on page 6, and the 3rd baby is ignored.
There is more demand for adopting babies than babies available.
Indeed. My wife and I looked into adoption, and we were told it would be a long arduous and expensive process, and in the end we would probably be rejected because of my age (50+). So we got a dog instead.
Palantir is located across the street from Stanford University. There are plenty of extremely well qualified Asians in Palo Alto. Palantir has a "boys club" culture, and tends to hire by referrals. I don't think they intentionally set out to avoid hiring Asians, it is just their hiring practices are biased toward white guys recommended by white guys.
this is moot if you use a secure channel and appropriately salt the password on the server.
... and your system is absolutely perfectly secure in every other possible way, and all your employees are perfectly competent, and their loyalty has been guaranteed by Suk Imperial Conditioning.
The resultant hash *is* effectively your password and is just as susceptible to password leaks via weak encryption or bad caching practices.
... except the consequences of that leak are less severe because it is worthless for attacking other systems. It doesn't make your site more secure, but it makes your users more secure, and it makes us all collectively more secure.
DO NOT STORE THE PASSWORD ON THE SERVER!!! This, of course, includes caches.
How many PHP back end coders know how to clear a kernel cache?
Sending the plain text password to the server is the way to go
There is no advantage in doing that, and many disadvantages.
since you can't and should not trust the client to do any cryptographic work for you with it.
Hashing on the client is an additional level of security, not a replacement for existing levels, so no extra "trust" is required.
But what you SHOULD do for sure is use HTTPS...
Yes. Duh.
then it doesn't matter that it's plain text, using HTTPS will be your encryption for sending it over the network.
HTTPS only protects you during transmission It does not protect you from server side attacks or from dishonest/incompetent employees.
Chrome has started flagging pages that have login forms submitting to HTTP to notify users the page is not secure. Good move.
Yes, that is a good move. The next step would be to warn users if their just typed password is being transmitted in plaintext. That would encourage best practices, and would have prevented the leak described in TFA.
But there is no reason to send them. You are just exposing yourself and your user to unnecessary extra vulnerabilities.
... and erased immediately after comparison.
How do you ensure they are "erased" from your VM backing store, or the kernel cache, or memory that has just been reallocated to another instance owned by another company?
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If only we could stop the creation of smog in the first place.
The towers are just a silly stunt. Nobody really thinks that outdoor filters are a realistic solution. Filtering makes sense for enclosed areas, like homes and offices, but not outdoors. Beijing has been cracking down on burning trash and has banned coal for cooking/heating, and China has started imposing smog controls on cars. But diesel engines are common in China, and there are many many two-stroke gasoline engines on scooters and motorcycles. Those are not easy problems to fix. A good first step would be to promote electric scooters, with more convenient charging stations. That would not work in a hilly city like Chongqing, but should help in flat cities like Beijing or Shanghai.
Ebola is nastier thatn that. People profoundly ill with it _bleed_
It doesn't matter if a disease is "nasty" if your chance of getting it is at or near zero. Ebola gained a temporary foothold in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. These are three of the most backward, illiterate, and poorly governed countries on earth. It never got a foothold in countries like Ghana or Nigeria, where people have access to soap and can read.
The time and resources to apply and keep applying the soap, antiseptics, and sterilization of instruments can consume any hospital's budget and supplies in a very short local outbreak.
Hospitals, doctors, and medical treatment all had a negligible effect on the ebola epidemic. It was stopped by public health measures such as distributing soap, and educating people through tribal networks on how the disease is spread and how to avoid it.
The 2015 ebola outbreak was the biggest in history, and will likely never be surpassed. We now know much more about ebola, literacy rates are going up, and sanitation is improving. The conditions that made the outbreak possible are fading away.
Thank God now all we have to worry about is Zika, Cickengunya and Dengue Fever! With an occasional bout of Ebola thrown in for good measure!
For most people, Zika and Dengue are so mild that many don't even realize they are sick. Ebola can be stopped dead in its track with soap. Measles is a far more serious disease than any of these.
In most 3rd world countries, the main problem in interior pollution, from cooking fires, candles, etc. The best fix for that is electrification.
You know how this ends ...
Indeed. It will likely end the same way all other productivity improvements have ended throughout history: With greater prosperity and rising living standards.
Seriously, loosing the USPS won't be a good thing in the long run.
They cannot die soon enough. 95% of my mail is paper spam that goes straight into the trash. The rest is either packages (that could go by UPS instead) or bills from Luddite companies that are too dumb to figure out how to save money by sending e-bills.
First class postage is still under $1 for a letter picked up and delivered door to door, usually in a few days.
I haven't sent or received a personal letter in over a decade. Why would anyone prefer that over email?
Perhaps we could scale back delivery days and save labor costs. Say three days a week ...
How about zero days a week? That would save even more.
Plenty of countries no longer have a government run postal service. They are doing just fine.
What can you actually do with this?
Simulated annealing, which is used to solve a huge number of optimization problems. It is very compute intensive, and is often run on GPUs. If the claimed speed up is real, that would be a really big deal.
Which explains why we routinely test novel medicinal compounds on prisoners, and unsuspecting civilians, amirite?
No, we don't do that ... but if we did, we would almost certainly make faster medical progress.
After all, we want to take risks and fail fast - so what if we kill a bunch of people by doing so?!
Number of people known to have been killed or harmed by NK's space program: 0.
NK imprisons the condemned and up to three generations of their direct family members,
How do you know? Do you have first hand knowledge, or are you just regurgitating the propaganda that your government has been spoon feeding you? Most of these stories come from defectors who have a strong incentive to lie and embellish. If everything defectors said was true, there would have been a WMD in every Iraqi backyard.
subjecting them to hard labor for life for political disloyalty.
Engineering errors are not "political disloyalty". There is no evidence that NK punishes people for honest mistakes.
finally musk has lost all his marbles.
Not really. This is nothing new. Elon doesn't have a filter between his brain and his mouth. He thinks out loud. He spews a constant stream of idea and opinions. But he has made enough of his crazy ideas actually work that it would be foolish to dismiss anything he says.
Fair enough. But I don't think we want to adopt their policy of facing a firing squad for failure.
There is no evidence whatsoever that NK has done that. That is just Western propaganda. They have deliberately chosen a "fail fast" strategy, and that doesn't work if you shoot your best engineers. Sure, Kim shoots people for political disloyalty, but that is an entirely different thing.
Let's try to solve the exploding rocket issue first before we start sending people to Mars, kk, Elon?
That is not the best strategy. It is better to push forward, take risks, and fail fast. You learn more from your failures than from your successes.
Look at North Korea, a poor impoverished country that has made huge strides by developing in fast cycles without worrying too much about failures. Their first rockets either blew up on the launch pad or shortly after liftoff. The world laughed. Yet they were ready to try again just a month or two later. That one blew up too, but it went further. Now, a few years later, they can put satellites in orbit, and they will soon have the technology for ICBMs that can reach North America. Nobody is laughing anymore.
Everyone's a little bit lacist.
We are born that way. By the time my daughter was 20 months old she would speak English to white or black people and Mandarin to Asian people. I never taught her that. She figured it out on her own.
The law bans active jamming of Wifi signals. That is not what Hofstra did. They just made a policy announcement. That is not the same thing at all.
Should it be illegal for movie theaters to have cellphone bans? How is this different?
So, the baby is an immigrant to where?
No, the baby is not an immigrant. I was making a joke. The GPP's suggestion that families desiring healthy children should instead just support a more permissive immigration policy is so patently absurd that I didn't think it deserved a serious answer.
30 year old woman to boyfriend: I want to get married and have a baby. ... or we could just make a campaign contribution to Angela Merkel.
Boyfriend: Sure, we could do that
Woman: Okay, that would be fine, the end result is the same per capita GDP, and that's all that matters.
This is why I keep a transparent-background PNG file with my signature around. Easily inserted into a LyX document and no one on the other end of the fax call can tell the difference.
That is what I meant by "e-sign". They rejected it. They could tell because there were several pages requiring signatures, and they were all exactly the same. They can also tell by the size/speed of the transfer. If only the sig is a scanned image the transfer will be much smaller than if the whole page is rasterized.
As much as hospitals charge, do you seriously believe that they aren't staffed up enough to detect fax cheaters?
What is this "printer" thing you people speak of?
If you deal with governments, lawyers, or doctors, you still need to print stuff on paper. I emailed a form to my local hospital, and they called and said I had to fax it. So I "e-signed" it, and sent it with my fax card. They called again and said that they could not accept e-signatures, so I had to print it out, sign it with real physical ink, scan it back in, and then fax the image. That was two months ago, and I haven't used my printer since.
Just increase immigration to compensate and better outcomes for all.
RTFA. This procedure is illegal in the USA, so the parents went to Mexico. This baby IS an immigrant.
Hardly fair to call the baby malicious names even if you disapprove of this medical technique.
The same thing happened back in 1978, when Louise Brown was born. Today everyone accepts IVF as routine. This time will be the same: The first baby is on the front page, the 2nd baby is mentioned on page 6, and the 3rd baby is ignored.
There is more demand for adopting babies than babies available.
Indeed. My wife and I looked into adoption, and we were told it would be a long arduous and expensive process, and in the end we would probably be rejected because of my age (50+). So we got a dog instead.
Palantir is located across the street from Stanford University. There are plenty of extremely well qualified Asians in Palo Alto. Palantir has a "boys club" culture, and tends to hire by referrals. I don't think they intentionally set out to avoid hiring Asians, it is just their hiring practices are biased toward white guys recommended by white guys.
And how, please tell us, are you supposed to do that login without sending the salted hash?
And how, please tells us, would it be better, in any way, to send the plaintext password instead?
Push some code to the client? Not smart at all.
The entire web is based on servers sending stuff to clients. How is sending code over HTTPS any less secure than sending plaintext passwords?
this is moot if you use a secure channel and appropriately salt the password on the server.
... and your system is absolutely perfectly secure in every other possible way, and all your employees are perfectly competent, and their loyalty has been guaranteed by Suk Imperial Conditioning.
The resultant hash *is* effectively your password and is just as susceptible to password leaks via weak encryption or bad caching practices.
... except the consequences of that leak are less severe because it is worthless for attacking other systems. It doesn't make your site more secure, but it makes your users more secure, and it makes us all collectively more secure.
DO NOT STORE THE PASSWORD ON THE SERVER!!! This, of course, includes caches.
How many PHP back end coders know how to clear a kernel cache?
Sending the plain text password to the server is the way to go
There is no advantage in doing that, and many disadvantages.
since you can't and should not trust the client to do any cryptographic work for you with it.
Hashing on the client is an additional level of security, not a replacement for existing levels, so no extra "trust" is required.
But what you SHOULD do for sure is use HTTPS...
Yes. Duh.
then it doesn't matter that it's plain text, using HTTPS will be your encryption for sending it over the network.
HTTPS only protects you during transmission It does not protect you from server side attacks or from dishonest/incompetent employees.
Chrome has started flagging pages that have login forms submitting to HTTP to notify users the page is not secure. Good move.
Yes, that is a good move. The next step would be to warn users if their just typed password is being transmitted in plaintext. That would encourage best practices, and would have prevented the leak described in TFA.
No, the plaintext-passwords can be sent
But there is no reason to send them. You are just exposing yourself and your user to unnecessary extra vulnerabilities.
... and erased immediately after comparison.
How do you ensure they are "erased" from your VM backing store, or the kernel cache, or memory that has just been reallocated to another instance owned by another company?