I can't blame the Chinese government for wanting to have the encryption information... and I can't blame India for not trusting Chinese technology. Nobody wins when no one trusts each other.
What about the domestic producers of encryption equipment? Don't they stand to gain a little through sales to their government, whether it be India, China, or the U.S.A.?
For my part, I don't understand why any government trusts producers of other countries for their critically sensitive information. In the U.S., we know that our "friends", like Israel, engage in espionage, and I'm pretty sure we spy on them (although I have no evidence to back it up other than fuzzy recollections of news articles over the years). How do I know that a U.S.-produced item doesn't have a back door for NSA to use?
Since I lost the battle to raise my kid with a Linux computer, I bought an anti-virus product (Norton Internet-something) with the XP machine we ended up getting and also installed AppGuard. The Norton product allows me to block certain types of web sites and also catches most malware that may be encountered by MSIE, Firefox, and Thunderbird (I won that skirmish). AppGuard guards against zero-day attacks for stuff that isn't in the anti-virus signatures yet and is an excellent final ring of defense. I also have Windows Defender installed and have Windows auto-update turned on.
I personally believe that employees should be professional enough not to go surfing porn sites and the stuff the web-blocking component blocks, but your parents have a right to run their business the way they choose. It is, however, unrealistic to expect non-IT employees to recognize every possible attack vector, particularly when even IT people with years of experience can be taken in, and it is crazy to run Windows computers in an office environment without an anti-virus.
Full disclosure: I work for the maker of AppGuard, but I work on different products. My recommendation is based on my personal experience with it.
Hmmm. They've done a poor job of getting the word out, if that's what those lines are for. Maybe it's just the locale where you live that does that. The Virginia Driver's Manual says nothing about it.
Like you, I don't have cable; I rely on broadcast. For a long time, my justification was that I didn't see any reason to pay money to encourage my daughter to watch more television. Besides, she's perfectly happy watching her stuff via the web on the DSL link.
Just what we need, more "Japanese are unique" idiocy to justify racism and discrimination in Japan.
TFA was about bacteria in the gut. If I read it right, then I don't see any reason a non-Japanese living on the same diet as Japanese wouldn't acquire the same bacteria and be able to digest the seaweed, too. Nor do I see any reason to see why a person of Japanese parentage living somewhere that doesn't eat raw seaweed would be able to digest it. In other words, this is about the environment where a person lives, not his genetic makeup.
I'm not sure who exhibited more stupidity, the guy who mailed the hard drive, or the police, who didn't stop to ask who could have removed the hard drive in the first place before jumping on the husband.
The simplest course would have been to plant the photos and then give an anonymous tip to the wife.
And how many of you guys have backup systems for your car's brakes? No? No one? OMG!!! Really? You could skid through an intersection at any time!
Actually, there is a backup system. It's called the emergency brake -- or, sometimes, the parking brake -- and it's operated by a cable, not a hydraulic line. Beyond that, some manufacturers have other systems in place. At least one car in my life (either my late 1989 VW or my mom's very deceased 1967 Mustang) had a dual-piston hydraulic brake system, with each piston controlling one front brake and the diagonally opposite rear brake. If the hydraulic line were to spring a leak, only half the brakes would go out. Since the front brakes provide more stopping power than the rear, retaining function in a front brake is even better than relying on the rear brakes (which is what the emergency brake uses).
IMHO, a little armchair engineering isn't a bad thing. Even professionals overlook things.
I hope they're not going to rely on the GPS for altitude. I've notice a number of times on my bike that my wrist GPS says I'm going downhill when it's obvious to me that I'm going uphill.
The U.S. Postal Service is really pretty good at what they do. For starters, you can mail a letter anywhere in the country for $0.44 and be pretty sure it will get there within a week. Stay within the same general postal zone (first three digits), and the letter will probably get there overnight, or certainly within two days. I don't believe UPS or Fedex could do first class mail service any better, or for any less.
Secondly, you don't have to worry about your letter being lost in the mail, as it's a rare occurrence. The U.S. Treasury did a cost analysis for the loss of collectible coins sent through first class mail and found that the cost of the few losses that did occur was well below the cost of insuring or tracking the items. (Source: a friend who retired from Treasury 2-3 years ago.) I can only recall one letter I have sent in the last ten years that did not arrive at its destination. People I know from other countries tell me this is not the case where they used to live.
Thirdly, USPS is cheaper than the private companies. You can now get online tracking and delivery information for $2.80 beyond the basic postage. With the private companies, you get this as well, but you can't opt out of it to save money.
The only problems I have with USPS at the moment are that I can't print postage using Linux the way I can with UPS, and because of the Unabomber, I can't just drop a package in the mail if it's over 12 ounces.
Would you rather be dead or incontinent? I'll take the diapers. Impotent? I'll have to think about it.
For me, the notion of diapers in my fifties was far worse than impotence. As another prostate cancer patient observed, you've got a lot better chance getting a woman into bed if you have bladder control. Luckily, the odds are better for continence than potency, and the former comes back much faster. (But neither one comes back soon enough!)
FWIW, I considered both open and Da Vinci surgery, and I chose the open surgery after lots of reading and discussion, but mainly because I felt like the Da Vinci surgeon was trying to sell me on his method, while the traditional surgeon didn't seem to even be selling surgery; he freely explained reasons that I might want to consider radiation. In one of my meetings with my surgeon, I asked him which he would choose if he were in my situation, and he said "Open, without question!" He said the feel of the tissue was more useful than seeing it. He also said that more Da Vinci patients report dissatisfaction about recovery than open surgery patients, mainly, he believed, because their expectations for Da Vinci were too high. He is learning to use the Da Vinci robot only because more people are demanding it.
The bottom line, though, is that if you are in the situation of needing a prostatectomy, you don't want to look at the statistics of method A vs. method B. You want to look at the statistics of the individual surgeons you are considering and go with the one you are completely confident with. There are no guarantees of full recovery, no matter whom you choose, and when you're recovering, you do not want to be asking "What if?" It's a moot question, anyway: there is only what is.
I think that's right. It's like eyeglasses: very hard to get any solid information about the quality and characteristics of what's being offered. One difference is that acoustics seems to be much harder to nail down than optics. You have complications like what is noise, and what isn't, and the spatial relationship between the patient and the sound source.
I like the idea of the filters, though, and when I start needing hearing aids, I'm getting the wife filter.
To alter your body (tattoos, organ donations) is to desecrate it (the temple of God) is to disrespect God. So you could donate your organs, but you couldn't be buried in a Jewish cemetery, which as far as I can tell is their form of excommunication.
Marking the body is expressly forbidden in at least one of the mitzvot (commands) in Exodus or Leviticus. It was apparently a practice of neighboring idol worshipers. Organ donation, however, isn't anywhere in Torah, based on my admittedly incomplete readings.
The general opinion in the Reform tradition is that organ donation is okay. And, in the Introduction to Judaism class I took several years ago, the rabbi teaching it said that all but a handful of mitzvot are secondary to preserving life. Organ donation was not listed in the handful of inviolable mitzvot, and since organ donation preserves life, I don't see where there is a conflict.
There are, of course, outliers in any faith -- that is, to say, religious nut jobs -- and Judaism is no exception. My driver's license has the organ donor box checked, and so does my wife's. The meshuginah few who believe Torah teaches that they aren't to give that gift to others can take a hike -- to the back of the line.
Good point, but I was thinking of the problem of smuggling a card in and out of a government building. I still think I'd just stick the card under my shoe's insole, and maybe stick a thumbtack into the sole as a decoy, just in case the magnetometer is really that sensitive. 'Course, if they X-ray my shoe, then my goose is cooked. (Speaking hypothetically, of course.)
I had to do a web search to learn how to decipher the MacSpeak.
Really?
Preferences -> Sharing -> File sharing (tick). Choose the folder you want to share.
I use Linux on my desktop machine (though not Ubuntu, I prefer Arch), but I can't say file sharing is any easier there. I don't see how it could be.
I didn't say Linux was easier. It was just that the Mac online help required me to look up terminology just to understand it. It was just about as intuitive as file sharing from Windows once I got past that.
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. . . as a pubic service?
(I needed to burn off some karma.)
Just breasts.
Bloody puritans.
Well said.
I can't blame the Chinese government for wanting to have the encryption information ... and I can't blame India for not trusting Chinese technology. Nobody wins when no one trusts each other.
What about the domestic producers of encryption equipment? Don't they stand to gain a little through sales to their government, whether it be India, China, or the U.S.A.?
For my part, I don't understand why any government trusts producers of other countries for their critically sensitive information. In the U.S., we know that our "friends", like Israel, engage in espionage, and I'm pretty sure we spy on them (although I have no evidence to back it up other than fuzzy recollections of news articles over the years). How do I know that a U.S.-produced item doesn't have a back door for NSA to use?
Since I lost the battle to raise my kid with a Linux computer, I bought an anti-virus product (Norton Internet-something) with the XP machine we ended up getting and also installed AppGuard. The Norton product allows me to block certain types of web sites and also catches most malware that may be encountered by MSIE, Firefox, and Thunderbird (I won that skirmish). AppGuard guards against zero-day attacks for stuff that isn't in the anti-virus signatures yet and is an excellent final ring of defense. I also have Windows Defender installed and have Windows auto-update turned on.
I personally believe that employees should be professional enough not to go surfing porn sites and the stuff the web-blocking component blocks, but your parents have a right to run their business the way they choose. It is, however, unrealistic to expect non-IT employees to recognize every possible attack vector, particularly when even IT people with years of experience can be taken in, and it is crazy to run Windows computers in an office environment without an anti-virus.
Full disclosure: I work for the maker of AppGuard, but I work on different products. My recommendation is based on my personal experience with it.
That is a great article! The tail-mounted engines on the "Boeing 737" are a fine touch.
I distinctly remember several missions to the moon when I was a kid. Or were those faked?
People drive like jerks everywhere. If the insurance laws are ridiculous, it probably reflects efforts by the insurance companies to cut their losses.
Hmmm. They've done a poor job of getting the word out, if that's what those lines are for. Maybe it's just the locale where you live that does that. The Virginia Driver's Manual says nothing about it.
Like you, I don't have cable; I rely on broadcast. For a long time, my justification was that I didn't see any reason to pay money to encourage my daughter to watch more television. Besides, she's perfectly happy watching her stuff via the web on the DSL link.
Just what we need, more "Japanese are unique" idiocy to justify racism and discrimination in Japan.
TFA was about bacteria in the gut. If I read it right, then I don't see any reason a non-Japanese living on the same diet as Japanese wouldn't acquire the same bacteria and be able to digest the seaweed, too. Nor do I see any reason to see why a person of Japanese parentage living somewhere that doesn't eat raw seaweed would be able to digest it. In other words, this is about the environment where a person lives, not his genetic makeup.
TomLehrerium!!
Beautiful! I'll second that!
Let me know when they've created a mole.
I'm sorry, but I don't think anything beats the World's Fastest Indian.
I'm not sure who exhibited more stupidity, the guy who mailed the hard drive, or the police, who didn't stop to ask who could have removed the hard drive in the first place before jumping on the husband.
The simplest course would have been to plant the photos and then give an anonymous tip to the wife.
And how many of you guys have backup systems for your car's brakes? No? No one? OMG!!! Really? You could skid through an intersection at any time!
Actually, there is a backup system. It's called the emergency brake -- or, sometimes, the parking brake -- and it's operated by a cable, not a hydraulic line. Beyond that, some manufacturers have other systems in place. At least one car in my life (either my late 1989 VW or my mom's very deceased 1967 Mustang) had a dual-piston hydraulic brake system, with each piston controlling one front brake and the diagonally opposite rear brake. If the hydraulic line were to spring a leak, only half the brakes would go out. Since the front brakes provide more stopping power than the rear, retaining function in a front brake is even better than relying on the rear brakes (which is what the emergency brake uses).
IMHO, a little armchair engineering isn't a bad thing. Even professionals overlook things.
I hope they're not going to rely on the GPS for altitude. I've notice a number of times on my bike that my wrist GPS says I'm going downhill when it's obvious to me that I'm going uphill.
It's a power saw, for crying out loud! It's supposed to be able to do that! (Or how else will I get rid of the bodies?)
Sign me up baby! I want one of those snazzy brown shirts!!
Would that be from UPS, or SS?
The U.S. Postal Service is really pretty good at what they do. For starters, you can mail a letter anywhere in the country for $0.44 and be pretty sure it will get there within a week. Stay within the same general postal zone (first three digits), and the letter will probably get there overnight, or certainly within two days. I don't believe UPS or Fedex could do first class mail service any better, or for any less.
Secondly, you don't have to worry about your letter being lost in the mail, as it's a rare occurrence. The U.S. Treasury did a cost analysis for the loss of collectible coins sent through first class mail and found that the cost of the few losses that did occur was well below the cost of insuring or tracking the items. (Source: a friend who retired from Treasury 2-3 years ago.) I can only recall one letter I have sent in the last ten years that did not arrive at its destination. People I know from other countries tell me this is not the case where they used to live.
Thirdly, USPS is cheaper than the private companies. You can now get online tracking and delivery information for $2.80 beyond the basic postage. With the private companies, you get this as well, but you can't opt out of it to save money.
The only problems I have with USPS at the moment are that I can't print postage using Linux the way I can with UPS, and because of the Unabomber, I can't just drop a package in the mail if it's over 12 ounces.
Would you rather be dead or incontinent? I'll take the diapers. Impotent? I'll have to think about it.
For me, the notion of diapers in my fifties was far worse than impotence. As another prostate cancer patient observed, you've got a lot better chance getting a woman into bed if you have bladder control. Luckily, the odds are better for continence than potency, and the former comes back much faster. (But neither one comes back soon enough!)
FWIW, I considered both open and Da Vinci surgery, and I chose the open surgery after lots of reading and discussion, but mainly because I felt like the Da Vinci surgeon was trying to sell me on his method, while the traditional surgeon didn't seem to even be selling surgery; he freely explained reasons that I might want to consider radiation. In one of my meetings with my surgeon, I asked him which he would choose if he were in my situation, and he said "Open, without question!" He said the feel of the tissue was more useful than seeing it. He also said that more Da Vinci patients report dissatisfaction about recovery than open surgery patients, mainly, he believed, because their expectations for Da Vinci were too high. He is learning to use the Da Vinci robot only because more people are demanding it.
The bottom line, though, is that if you are in the situation of needing a prostatectomy, you don't want to look at the statistics of method A vs. method B. You want to look at the statistics of the individual surgeons you are considering and go with the one you are completely confident with. There are no guarantees of full recovery, no matter whom you choose, and when you're recovering, you do not want to be asking "What if?" It's a moot question, anyway: there is only what is.
It's a guess but a solid one: competition.
I think that's right. It's like eyeglasses: very hard to get any solid information about the quality and characteristics of what's being offered. One difference is that acoustics seems to be much harder to nail down than optics. You have complications like what is noise, and what isn't, and the spatial relationship between the patient and the sound source.
I like the idea of the filters, though, and when I start needing hearing aids, I'm getting the wife filter.
To alter your body (tattoos, organ donations) is to desecrate it (the temple of God) is to disrespect God. So you could donate your organs, but you couldn't be buried in a Jewish cemetery, which as far as I can tell is their form of excommunication.
Marking the body is expressly forbidden in at least one of the mitzvot (commands) in Exodus or Leviticus. It was apparently a practice of neighboring idol worshipers. Organ donation, however, isn't anywhere in Torah, based on my admittedly incomplete readings.
The general opinion in the Reform tradition is that organ donation is okay. And, in the Introduction to Judaism class I took several years ago, the rabbi teaching it said that all but a handful of mitzvot are secondary to preserving life. Organ donation was not listed in the handful of inviolable mitzvot, and since organ donation preserves life, I don't see where there is a conflict.
There are, of course, outliers in any faith -- that is, to say, religious nut jobs -- and Judaism is no exception. My driver's license has the organ donor box checked, and so does my wife's. The meshuginah few who believe Torah teaches that they aren't to give that gift to others can take a hike -- to the back of the line.
Good point, but I was thinking of the problem of smuggling a card in and out of a government building. I still think I'd just stick the card under my shoe's insole, and maybe stick a thumbtack into the sole as a decoy, just in case the magnetometer is really that sensitive. 'Course, if they X-ray my shoe, then my goose is cooked. (Speaking hypothetically, of course.)
If you've got to hide the micro SD card in a coin, you've also got the problem of where to hide the card reader.
I had to do a web search to learn how to decipher the MacSpeak.
Really? Preferences -> Sharing -> File sharing (tick). Choose the folder you want to share.
I use Linux on my desktop machine (though not Ubuntu, I prefer Arch), but I can't say file sharing is any easier there. I don't see how it could be.
I didn't say Linux was easier. It was just that the Mac online help required me to look up terminology just to understand it. It was just about as intuitive as file sharing from Windows once I got past that.