I have started non-reusing my passwords since I have implemented a "shared vault" - the user names/passwords are encrypted and hidden in a file that is shared across my various machines using a cloud mirroring service (e.g. Dropbox).
Dropbox security by itself is not terribly comforting, but the combination of my own memory-hard crypto inside the Dropbox system at least feels better. Having the "important" file shared means I have access to my secrets wherever I am, and it's harder to accidentally wipe out the file.
Perfectly secure? No - especially if I talk about it like this. Better than reusing the same password everywhere? I think definitely.
Bitcoin is NOT anonymous, a pain to trace, but not anonymous.
The value of currency requires trust. Anonymity is a cloak that erases trust. You can push back and forth, but the two principles oppose each other.
If there really was a "high value anonymous currency" digital or otherwise, I could steal $2M (copy it easily if it's digital), trade it to you for high value goods worth $1.5M (diamonds, gold, computer chips, designer handbags, whatever), then immediately trade the goods to someone else for $1M. I have $1M of laundered cash, you're up $500K over what your goods were worth, the other guy got $1.5M worth of goods for $1M, and the guy who lost the $2M can't do anything because the cash transaction is anonymous and untraceable. The more traceable the cash is, the easier it is to get to the actual bad actor.
The real value in money is the police and court system that will come around and punish people who don't play by the rules - that's the backing of the full faith and trust bit...
Lasers with sufficient energy density to cause gaseous phase change of asteroid surface materials might not be strong enough to do anything impressive on the Earth's surface... lots of atmosphere to get through here.
The idea of a fleet of lower powered satellites is also less likely to be hijacked than a single "super cannon" - though, if you control the whole fleet, I suppose you could "turn up the heat on the Kremlin" if you ever wanted to....
I wouldn't be surprised if the staffer actually internalized as her personal beliefs the lobbyists positions she was indoctrinated with for several months.
Personal perception varies, often far from reality.
Not to mention the fact that Jimmy Carter was right: 55 saves fuel.
Better to say that 55 trades fuel for time.
Gasoline isn't nearly expensive enough for me to be willing to take two days to get to my parents' house...
Depends on the context - personal time, no, I'd rather get 15mpg at 100mph than 45mpg at 50mph.
Tractor-trailer delivery of food to the grocery store, since fuel is already more than half the cost of a lot of food, yeah, I'd like to save some fuel cost on my food, and if spoilage due to travel time is a problem, then just don't ship it as far - why the hell is my Florida grocery store is full of California oranges?
Intel awarded me a $3500 gift certificate which must be spent on a single laptop containing some new chipset they just came out with (thus, the no MacBookPro 17, which was my first choice...)
At that price point, I was looking at either an 18"+ portable theater, or an ultra-light, and once I decided on ultra-light, Sony won. I had just gotten a PS3 at the time, and hadn't started hating the PS3 (yet), the Vaio came with a defective backlight and was seven kinds of hell to get repaired - built-in webcam is dead now, left mouse button is half broken, but otherwise it soldiers on. Based on Sony's treatment of PS3 owners and the quality issues in the Vaio, I'm done with Sony as a company for quite a while.
While the $3K+ Vaio was in for its second factory service in the first year, I bought a $600 Asus pre-ultrabook to cover the gap, it won't play StarCraft II, and takes roughly 2x as long to compile a program, but for 20% of the cost, I'd say it's 80% of the goodness of the Vaio.
Vaio screen is higher resolution (1600x900), brighter (when the backlight works), and viewable from wider angles, but we still use the ASUS for in-bed Netflix watching because the Vaio has cooling fan roar like a jet plane.
28 years late... 1984 was a cautionary dystopia, and also basically unavoidable after things like electronic transmission of sound and picture started developing. If you don't like the monitored life in Western cities, there's still 99% of the planet surface that's not covered by high resolution cameras 24/7, for now.
Also, carrying a cellphone is still optional to the vast majority of humans on the planet - most people choose to, benefits outweighing the costs.
If you don't like working a tracked job, don't drive a semi-truck, among other things. I have noticed that about 95% of tractor trailer trucks in the US seem to be obeying speed limits now, as opposed to about 5% in the pre-GPS tracking recorder days. While this may suck from a libertarian viewpoint, as a driver of a passenger vehicle on the highway, I think it is a major improvement.
The open market's competition to Apple has been lame. I was given a $3500 gift certificate for a notebook PC (couldn't be a MacBook), and the best the market had to offer at the time was a Sony Vaio, I have been using it for 2 years, and a MacBook Air it is not. Even though the Sony wins in some specs, overall it feels cheap, it runs hotter than a MacBook Pro, and it was ungodly expensive. Most of the features it "wins" on paper (BluRay drive, killer speed & graphics) it loses in real life because they generate too much heat and noise to use comfortably. It's not just Sony that's been missing the mark.
Surface is a very bold attempt to out Apple Apple, I can't say whether it will succeed or fail - I do look forward to the pricing announcements which will decide whether or not I get a Surface or dual booting Air when this Vaio finally bites the dust.
Remember what happened the last time Microsoft tried to compete with Apple hardware by themselves. I predict this hitting the market with the giant *THUD* usually associated with MS products.
'Not only was this page unsecured, it was actually referenced in their robots.txt file.'
Sounds more like they took the door off the hinges, and put up a big sign saying "NO DOOR! COME ON IN!".
Yes, but only for 0.01% of the population, everybody else saw a stone wall.
Seriously, if a bank left the vault door open (which they do), would you feel comfortable walking in with a camera and taking pictures of account numbers?
The history of computation, since the 1940s (before even my time) has always been "computation is cheap, memory is expensive"
That may have changed now with 2TB for $99....
I/O bandwidth on the memory is still a little more expensive than the CPUs it connects to, but 2TB is a pretty infinite storage pool if you've got the patience to wait for it.
Hell, even 2GB of DRAM, or 256MB of cache feels infinite in terms of pre-1980s computers.
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I have started non-reusing my passwords since I have implemented a "shared vault" - the user names/passwords are encrypted and hidden in a file that is shared across my various machines using a cloud mirroring service (e.g. Dropbox).
Dropbox security by itself is not terribly comforting, but the combination of my own memory-hard crypto inside the Dropbox system at least feels better. Having the "important" file shared means I have access to my secrets wherever I am, and it's harder to accidentally wipe out the file.
Perfectly secure? No - especially if I talk about it like this. Better than reusing the same password everywhere? I think definitely.
iGoogle and my.yahoo are the primary reasons I "use" both services.
So do you have an opinion on how they stack up against my.msn ?
No experience, no opinion, no interest.
iGoogle and my.yahoo are the primary reasons I "use" both services.
I suppose they have something new, but "spring cleaning" my iGoogle may just leave me sticking with my.yahoo
Some of us are happy with the old interfaces - now: GET OFF OUR LAWN!
Bitcoin is NOT anonymous, a pain to trace, but not anonymous.
The value of currency requires trust. Anonymity is a cloak that erases trust. You can push back and forth, but the two principles oppose each other.
If there really was a "high value anonymous currency" digital or otherwise, I could steal $2M (copy it easily if it's digital), trade it to you for high value goods worth $1.5M (diamonds, gold, computer chips, designer handbags, whatever), then immediately trade the goods to someone else for $1M. I have $1M of laundered cash, you're up $500K over what your goods were worth, the other guy got $1.5M worth of goods for $1M, and the guy who lost the $2M can't do anything because the cash transaction is anonymous and untraceable. The more traceable the cash is, the easier it is to get to the actual bad actor.
The real value in money is the police and court system that will come around and punish people who don't play by the rules - that's the backing of the full faith and trust bit...
Two relevant sayings:
1) You can't fall off the floor
2) You can, however, hit rock bottom and continue to dig
I actually like the 7", fits in a big pocket, form factor better than 10" for a lot of use cases.
Now, if they would make the screens daylight readable....
Eventually, yes. Targeting is a little tricky for now.
Lasers with sufficient energy density to cause gaseous phase change of asteroid surface materials might not be strong enough to do anything impressive on the Earth's surface... lots of atmosphere to get through here.
The idea of a fleet of lower powered satellites is also less likely to be hijacked than a single "super cannon" - though, if you control the whole fleet, I suppose you could "turn up the heat on the Kremlin" if you ever wanted to....
I wouldn't be surprised if the staffer actually internalized as her personal beliefs the lobbyists positions she was indoctrinated with for several months.
Personal perception varies, often far from reality.
Better to say that 55 trades fuel for time.
Gasoline isn't nearly expensive enough for me to be willing to take two days to get to my parents' house...
Depends on the context - personal time, no, I'd rather get 15mpg at 100mph than 45mpg at 50mph.
Tractor-trailer delivery of food to the grocery store, since fuel is already more than half the cost of a lot of food, yeah, I'd like to save some fuel cost on my food, and if spoilage due to travel time is a problem, then just don't ship it as far - why the hell is my Florida grocery store is full of California oranges?
Not to mention the fact that Jimmy Carter was right: 55 saves fuel.
Intel awarded me a $3500 gift certificate which must be spent on a single laptop containing some new chipset they just came out with (thus, the no MacBookPro 17, which was my first choice...)
At that price point, I was looking at either an 18"+ portable theater, or an ultra-light, and once I decided on ultra-light, Sony won. I had just gotten a PS3 at the time, and hadn't started hating the PS3 (yet), the Vaio came with a defective backlight and was seven kinds of hell to get repaired - built-in webcam is dead now, left mouse button is half broken, but otherwise it soldiers on. Based on Sony's treatment of PS3 owners and the quality issues in the Vaio, I'm done with Sony as a company for quite a while.
While the $3K+ Vaio was in for its second factory service in the first year, I bought a $600 Asus pre-ultrabook to cover the gap, it won't play StarCraft II, and takes roughly 2x as long to compile a program, but for 20% of the cost, I'd say it's 80% of the goodness of the Vaio.
Vaio screen is higher resolution (1600x900), brighter (when the backlight works), and viewable from wider angles, but we still use the ASUS for in-bed Netflix watching because the Vaio has cooling fan roar like a jet plane.
UPS/FedEx package tracking is hardly home grown.
But can' technology ALSO be used to UN-track people?
Like, leaving my tracked cell-phone at my workdesk, but having the calls forwarded to my untracked personal phone at the location of my chosing?
But you're right, it sure as hell is 1984
28 years late... 1984 was a cautionary dystopia, and also basically unavoidable after things like electronic transmission of sound and picture started developing. If you don't like the monitored life in Western cities, there's still 99% of the planet surface that's not covered by high resolution cameras 24/7, for now.
Also, carrying a cellphone is still optional to the vast majority of humans on the planet - most people choose to, benefits outweighing the costs.
If you don't like working a tracked job, don't drive a semi-truck, among other things. I have noticed that about 95% of tractor trailer trucks in the US seem to be obeying speed limits now, as opposed to about 5% in the pre-GPS tracking recorder days. While this may suck from a libertarian viewpoint, as a driver of a passenger vehicle on the highway, I think it is a major improvement.
Today they're tracking us during office hours, tomorrow they're tracking us after-hours. What's next?
Hmm, perhaps
Mandatory yearly physicals that only the company gets to see the results of.
Pre-employment genetic testing.
Employment termination due to not living in an approved community.
Background checks of all family, friends, and neighbors.
Oh, so you want to work in the Defense industry?
The open market's competition to Apple has been lame. I was given a $3500 gift certificate for a notebook PC (couldn't be a MacBook), and the best the market had to offer at the time was a Sony Vaio, I have been using it for 2 years, and a MacBook Air it is not. Even though the Sony wins in some specs, overall it feels cheap, it runs hotter than a MacBook Pro, and it was ungodly expensive. Most of the features it "wins" on paper (BluRay drive, killer speed & graphics) it loses in real life because they generate too much heat and noise to use comfortably. It's not just Sony that's been missing the mark.
Surface is a very bold attempt to out Apple Apple, I can't say whether it will succeed or fail - I do look forward to the pricing announcements which will decide whether or not I get a Surface or dual booting Air when this Vaio finally bites the dust.
Remember what happened the last time Microsoft tried to compete with Apple hardware by themselves. I predict this hitting the market with the giant *THUD* usually associated with MS products.
Like Xbox360?
The pineapple plantation is slated to be converted to a new "Highest Best Use" as a luxury resort. The state property taxes should be impressive.
Not on Lanai. The royals got that deal for a small percentage of lands.
141 sqmi:
90,000 acres
36,500 hectacres
39,308,544 squares
28% of the surface area of Demios
Then, where would the servants live? If you own their land that would make them slaves.
'Not only was this page unsecured, it was actually referenced in their robots.txt file.'
Sounds more like they took the door off the hinges, and put up a big sign saying "NO DOOR! COME ON IN!".
Yes, but only for 0.01% of the population, everybody else saw a stone wall.
Seriously, if a bank left the vault door open (which they do), would you feel comfortable walking in with a camera and taking pictures of account numbers?
Virtual designs - software - FPGAs, get frustrated by the build environments instead of your soldering iron.
The history of computation, since the 1940s (before even my time) has always been "computation is cheap, memory is expensive"
That may have changed now with 2TB for $99....
I/O bandwidth on the memory is still a little more expensive than the CPUs it connects to, but 2TB is a pretty infinite storage pool if you've got the patience to wait for it.
Hell, even 2GB of DRAM, or 256MB of cache feels infinite in terms of pre-1980s computers.