If everybody use timers to start charging at midnight, it will be a good thing, because it will distribute the load through the whole 24 hours.
Electricity consumption is quite big during the day and low during the night. That is a major problem for power suppliers because they would like to have their systems operating at a good rate most of the time. They make money during the day, but lose during the night.
I already have this at my home, I have timers to start the washing machines during the night, because electricity is cheaper. I'm considering buying an electric water heater (I have a natural gas one, and it sucks), and will use a timer so it only heats water at night.
Well, financial institutions didn't care much about the safety of funds they have invested in, and that's their core business, why should they care about IT security?
I guess they couldn't have screwed up worse than they did, even if they had "1234" for all root passwords on their data centers.
They make a perfect cadence, which means F# is the tonic and will be the definitive language that everyone will use for the end of times.
C# was just making us hungry.
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Come to Portugal, the Micro$oft paradise. Here most developers code in VB (oh, the horror) or C#, over a full M$ stack, top to bottom. They don't say "database", they say "SQL Server", they don't say "web server", they say "IIS".
I studied electronics engineering and never worked in that field. My first job was in a small IT company where almost everyone was EE, including the 3 owners. The company made a shitload of money at that time, and they are still doing great.
The ID card has a bunch of physical protection features, like holograms and watermarks. Good luck xeroxing it.
I never said it was copy-protected. The fingerprint is simply not readable at all. And all the data in the card are digitally signed.
Anyway, why would you want to copy a card? You would have to change the picture and fingerprint to successfully steal someone's identity. And after doing that, the digital signature won't match, so the card is useless.
How exactly is the fingerprint not readable if it, rather than just a hash, is stored on the card?
It's not the image that's stored but something called a fingerprint template. You can't read the template from the card, the card will simply refuse to read the file for you. But you can send a template to the card and ask to compare it with the stored one.
Even if you could read the template, you can't retrieve the original fingerprint from it. It's not a hash, but kind of.
It's not exactly like that. The new biometric cards are safer than the old ones.
In my country we had paper ID cards with fingerprint printed on it. Now we have smard cards and the fingerprint is in a file inside chip, and it's not readable. So, it's actually improving privacy, not making it less.
The card can be used to perform a match-on-card (MOC) operation. You put your finger in a reader and it asks the card if it matches. This way you can validate if someone holding the card is REALLY the card owner. No central fingerprint storage involved.
Also the data inside the card are signed by RSA keys belonging to the government, so you can't create a fake copy of one.
The current paper ID cards are slowly being replaced by the new ones, which is good because forging an old one is very easy, I wouldn't say the same for the new ones.
Here in Europe, half of the cars run on gasoil. It's quite good because they spend less, gasoil is cheaper and Diesel engines are much more reliable than gasoline ones. I know that personally, been there, done that.
Taking into account the gas pollution, Diesel engines are a lot better, but there's a downside: particles. These engines emit a lot of particles, and the gasoline ones don't. This could be solved using particle filters, but until there's legislation mandating the use of them, nobody's going to give a fuck, as usual.
I think that the oil price escalade won't stop anytime soon. I drive a 14 year old diesel car now. When I buy my next car I will be making an investment to last for at least some years. During that time the price of a gas tank may rise so much that I save LOTS of €€€.
I'm from Portugal, EU. We have "orders" in certain jobs, like lawyers and doctors. You really CAN'T get a job as a lawyer or a doctor without them.
About most other jobs, it's pretty much like the Belgian guy said. There are many unions, and you choose to join one. It's not required for anything, but you get free legal protection in case your company wants to treat you like shit.
Unfortunately, labour laws are disregarded all the time, everywhere around here. We have weak unions compared to other European countries, but without them, it would be even worse.
Oh, I wish I had the awesome health care system you have there in the US, rather than my poorly managed government health care here. Then we could have the great resultsyou have.
Without state-run, mandatory retirement fund, people living on the edge will never save a penny. In my own country (and yours), millions of people make just enough to eat and pay rent. How are they supposed to make retirement plans and pay health insurance?
Fortunately we have a mandatory retirement and health care systems, if those people are ill they are entitled to medical care and when they are old they'll have a pension.
Try the filthy-rich health companies, including private hospitals, drug industry, etc. When you're paying for healthcare you are spoon feeding incredibly rich businesses.
Costs are less and less related to labor. It's been a steady trend for decades. The share of dividends and profits has been growing a lot more than salaries, in every business. Talk about "rich getting richer"...
I would simply forbid private healthcare, if I had the chance. It's like selling heroin, you can charge how much you want, people that need it will do anything to get it. You can even sell the most shitty product, you'll never be out of business.
Society, organised as a State, should provide quality health care for everyone. Throw away the greedy middlemen.
Yeah, I know what you mean. I used to work in a big multinational. Management moved people from one project to another like they were counting sheep. They didn't even bother to look at the resume. The results were disgraceful, of course but managers had great cars, annual prizes and good salaries. For doing basically nothing.
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Will goatse do?
At least it will prevent them from engaging in teenage sex later.
Or any sex at all.
If everybody use timers to start charging at midnight, it will be a good thing, because it will distribute the load through the whole 24 hours.
Electricity consumption is quite big during the day and low during the night. That is a major problem for power suppliers because they would like to have their systems operating at a good rate most of the time. They make money during the day, but lose during the night.
I already have this at my home, I have timers to start the washing machines during the night, because electricity is cheaper. I'm considering buying an electric water heater (I have a natural gas one, and it sucks), and will use a timer so it only heats water at night.
Great. Let's forbid Nmap. Forget that it's a very useful network administration tool. Hackers use it a lot.
Let's forbid cars. Bank robbers use them to escape.
Well, financial institutions didn't care much about the safety of funds they have invested in, and that's their core business, why should they care about IT security?
I guess they couldn't have screwed up worse than they did, even if they had "1234" for all root passwords on their data centers.
They make a perfect cadence, which means F# is the tonic and will be the definitive language that everyone will use for the end of times.
C# was just making us hungry.
Come to Portugal, the Micro$oft paradise. Here most developers code in VB (oh, the horror) or C#, over a full M$ stack, top to bottom. They don't say "database", they say "SQL Server", they don't say "web server", they say "IIS".
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You are sooooo naive.
I studied electronics engineering and never worked in that field. My first job was in a small IT company where almost everyone was EE, including the 3 owners. The company made a shitload of money at that time, and they are still doing great.
The ID card has a bunch of physical protection features, like holograms and watermarks. Good luck xeroxing it.
I never said it was copy-protected. The fingerprint is simply not readable at all. And all the data in the card are digitally signed.
Anyway, why would you want to copy a card? You would have to change the picture and fingerprint to successfully steal someone's identity. And after doing that, the digital signature won't match, so the card is useless.
There are optical and electrostatic ones. I don't think it's easy to fool them. They even tell me my finger is too wet or too dry for recognition.
How exactly is the fingerprint not readable if it, rather than just a hash, is stored on the card?
It's not the image that's stored but something called a fingerprint template. You can't read the template from the card, the card will simply refuse to read the file for you. But you can send a template to the card and ask to compare it with the stored one.
Even if you could read the template, you can't retrieve the original fingerprint from it. It's not a hash, but kind of.
It's not exactly like that. The new biometric cards are safer than the old ones.
In my country we had paper ID cards with fingerprint printed on it. Now we have smard cards and the fingerprint is in a file inside chip, and it's not readable. So, it's actually improving privacy, not making it less.
The card can be used to perform a match-on-card (MOC) operation. You put your finger in a reader and it asks the card if it matches. This way you can validate if someone holding the card is REALLY the card owner. No central fingerprint storage involved.
Also the data inside the card are signed by RSA keys belonging to the government, so you can't create a fake copy of one.
The current paper ID cards are slowly being replaced by the new ones, which is good because forging an old one is very easy, I wouldn't say the same for the new ones.
Here in Europe, half of the cars run on gasoil. It's quite good because they spend less, gasoil is cheaper and Diesel engines are much more reliable than gasoline ones. I know that personally, been there, done that.
Taking into account the gas pollution, Diesel engines are a lot better, but there's a downside: particles. These engines emit a lot of particles, and the gasoline ones don't. This could be solved using particle filters, but until there's legislation mandating the use of them, nobody's going to give a fuck, as usual.
I think that the oil price escalade won't stop anytime soon. I drive a 14 year old diesel car now. When I buy my next car I will be making an investment to last for at least some years. During that time the price of a gas tank may rise so much that I save LOTS of €€€.
I'm from Portugal, EU. We have "orders" in certain jobs, like lawyers and doctors. You really CAN'T get a job as a lawyer or a doctor without them.
About most other jobs, it's pretty much like the Belgian guy said. There are many unions, and you choose to join one. It's not required for anything, but you get free legal protection in case your company wants to treat you like shit.
Unfortunately, labour laws are disregarded all the time, everywhere around here. We have weak unions compared to other European countries, but without them, it would be even worse.
I guess that, since you can't find any more to say to justify your broken (and absurd) healthcare system, then you post this nonsense.
Good luck, then.
Oh, I wish I had the awesome health care system you have there in the US, rather than my poorly managed government health care here. Then we could have the great results you have.
Yes, people are getting too much health. Those greedy bastards. Like they had the right to it, or something. I hate people.
Troll, yeah? Ok, I must have hurt someone's feelings.
Without state-run, mandatory retirement fund, people living on the edge will never save a penny. In my own country (and yours), millions of people make just enough to eat and pay rent. How are they supposed to make retirement plans and pay health insurance?
Fortunately we have a mandatory retirement and health care systems, if those people are ill they are entitled to medical care and when they are old they'll have a pension.
Your post is the kind of anecdotal hyperbolic bullshit I expect from right-wingers.
Try the filthy-rich health companies, including private hospitals, drug industry, etc. When you're paying for healthcare you are spoon feeding incredibly rich businesses.
Costs are less and less related to labor. It's been a steady trend for decades. The share of dividends and profits has been growing a lot more than salaries, in every business. Talk about "rich getting richer"...
I would simply forbid private healthcare, if I had the chance. It's like selling heroin, you can charge how much you want, people that need it will do anything to get it. You can even sell the most shitty product, you'll never be out of business.
Society, organised as a State, should provide quality health care for everyone. Throw away the greedy middlemen.
Yeah, I know what you mean. I used to work in a big multinational. Management moved people from one project to another like they were counting sheep. They didn't even bother to look at the resume. The results were disgraceful, of course but managers had great cars, annual prizes and good salaries. For doing basically nothing.