Not really. I lived in the middle of nowhere Germany for a while, and calling the public transport options "limited" would be a compliment. The closest train station was 16 km away and buses came maybe about 5 times a day, with the last bus leaving the station at around 5:30 pm, and that was on the weekdays. On Saturday there was 1 bus, and only in 1 direction. Sundays and holidays there was nothing. I opted to live without a car(fortunately I love cycling and most of the winters I was there were incredibly mild), but I would venture well north of 90% of households had a car. It was simply a necessity. A lot of rural Germany is like this, public transport is fairly well developed in the central and northwest parts of the country, but outside of that it's not much better than the US in that regard.
Of course you also have to take into consideration what kind of lifestyle your job dictates. Odd are pretty good that a petroleum engineer is going to have to spend a good chunk of time out on an oil rig or in the middle of nowhere Alaska because thats pretty much the only places there are significant petroleum deposits left in the US. Is the extra cash worth spending half your life away from home? Probably depends both on the person and where they are in life. For a fresh grad, that probably wouldn't be such a big deal, esp. if they can save a lot of money(since they are earning a ton and most of their expenses are covered). For someone going into their 30s, maybe not so much.
and if it's not connected to a network it becomes a very labour intensive task to push out updates to the systems to prevent against the viruses.
Maybe it is with windows with all that Microsoft Genuine advantage bullshit, but pushing out updates to Linux and OS X systems that are not connected to the Internet is pretty easy, i should know, i admined a huge network of them. Linux is probably the easiest. I just created a kickstart with the absolute minimum # of packages, used that as my base, and then put a copy of that system on the Internet to automatically download updates. All I have to do is periodically airgap the files(DVD works fine) over to the update server I set up on the LAN. All the machines just connect to that server and download their updates. Pretty damn simple. And if you are really hardcore, you can configure your machines to only download signed packages from trusted vendors(this is the default in RHEL for example). I spend maybe 15 minutes a week airgapping the things over... Now if you use that festering pile of insecure shit called Windows then you may have a point.
I doubt the acceleration was constant, furthermore it looks like they rolled the plane significantly, which definitely would have been noticed by the passengers.
This. A lot of the oltop Microsoft execs are people that were there when Microsoft hit it's apex and thus still seem to think that their biggest competitor is themselves. You can see this in Microsofts product lines. 3 different, incompatible phone OS's were in development simultaneously. 2 different types of DRM, and let's not get started in how inconsistent the GUIs are both within single products and across product lines.
If Microsoft wants to stay relevant they need a strong leader who realizes it's no longer 1998
What makes you think the guards are sharing anything with the state? The guards could just be keeping the gold money for themselves,which would go a long way towards explaining why they are doing both hard labor AND gold farming, the labor is what is required by the state, the gold farming profits all go to the guards. If the state was really making more money off of farming they would probably have more people skip the labor and just do farming, esp. ones that were good at it.
Well, it looks like at least some of the passwords were hashed(also, please stop saying "encrypted" passwords, there is a world of difference between encryption and hashing!), but it's not clear that all the passwords were hashed.....
"E-mail, password, and names of thousands of users were exposed via text file"
Why...why...WHY do people still insist on plain text passwords? Have these people ever heard of a hash? There is 0 reason ever to store a plaintext password, end of story. Anyone who designs a system that stores passwords in plain text should be fired on the spot.
Basically if there's an accident, the human "driver" of the vehicle is responsible, whether he was on cruise control or his ABS failed or whatever.
Usually thats the case, but if there is a proven defect with the car(see the Toyota case last year) then the car company is responsible. However PROVING that it was the car is another battle altogether.
You've convinced me, I'm going to take a brief trip into the evacuation zone as soon as I can. I just have to make sure to post the pictures anonymously as getting caught going in there could potentially get me deported:P
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But are they useful for testing radiation levels in the air? I live less than 100km from the edge of the evacuation zone and really would like to go there by bicycle(almost impossible to get in by car because they have barricaded off most of the area, but from what people have said, it's pretty easy to sneak in on foot or cycle). How much risk would I actually be exposing myself too? Also, would a geiger counter help?
What "success"? Microsoft has failed at almost every new market it has even attempted to enter into, they are one of the few US based tech companies whose stock price has been falling the past couple years. Windows market share is at an all time low, Windows server is falling even faster. All of this in a couple years time, all of this since Gates retired and Ballmer was put in place. But yeah, I guess all of those facts are just my "naively simplistic and emotional view". Face it, Ballmer is a failure and that's all there is to it. He has no interest in technology, he cannot even control his own staff.
The console arms race has stalled largely because the economy has stalled. Developing a console, investing in manufacturing facilities etc. is quite an expensive process, one that a company really doesn't want to go through unless they feel that they will be able to sell the console as well as a large number of games for it. In this economy, it's going to be very hard for people to rationalize plopping down $500 or $600 for a new console. Furthermore, since console hardware capabilities are (relatively) fixed, by the time the economy picks up again your competitor will be able to utilize the latest and greatest technology to come out with a console that is better than yours, and you will be stuck like that for the entire life cycle of the console. So there is actually a rather large disincentive to release a new console at this point. The risk to reward ratio is simply too great.
Yeah, I am still shocked that Microsoft shareholders have not revolted against Ballmer. The man has shown he has 0 technological vision and about as much business acumen it seems. Microsoft as of late has been a pretty directionless company. It has no idea about "where it wants to go today", let alone tomorrow. Ballmer is good at only one thing, pulling childish pranks, but I can go to any university in the country and find a frat boy who would be more than willing and able to do that at 1% of Ballmer's salary.
Ballmer's only "talent" was being at the right place at the right time. He may have been able to help Microsoft out a bit when it was first getting started, but the man has shown 0 interest in learning anything about technology, what it can do, and where it will go. If Microsoft wants to survive against companies whose leaders actually give 2 shits about technology then they better give Ballmer the boot and fast.
So your point is that you are entitled to endanger everyone else on the road to provide yourself a little extra safety? Your point is you are allowed to consume massive amounts of resources just to make you a tiny bit safer? Your point is that you are entitled to make it harder for everyone else on the road to see, and thus endangering their lives, so you are a little bit safer?
There, I debunked his argument, you happy now? Of course not, you are a fuckhead who drives an SUV and thinks that you are the only thing that matters on the planet. Your solipsistic mindset sickens me. I'm glad I don't live in that shityard of a country called the US where fuckheads such as yourself only think of yourself and nobody else. SUVs are the reason I am not coming home. See, I ride a civilized mode of transport, and I don't want to die just so you can feel safer about yourself and act like a dipshit on the road. The only times I have ever even come close to an accident, the SUV driver was at fault and wasn't even looking. They figure they shouldn't have to look, since us stupid peons who are smart enough to realize that the world's resources are limited are obviously too stupid to deserve life.
...go pray at the apple store... as if hybrids dont crash...
Which would you rather have crash into you, a giant SUV or a Prius? If you say SUV you are either suicidal or a liar. Statistics have shown that crashes involving at least 1 SUV are much more fatal than those that have 0 SUVs involved.
SUVs kill many more Americans every year than died in the September 11 attacks. And yet we are willing to sacrifice our freedoms to ostensibly prevent terror but are not willing or wanting to do anything to prevent those monstrosities from killing a massive number of innocent people every year.
Or you could just freeze yourself and wait for the future, which, according to the movie Idiocracy, will include Starbucks that offer "full release lattes". Two birds with one stone!
TFA doesn't really give a time scale other than "a few days before". I wonder if at least some of this gas was released from the 7.1 preshock that occurred on the exact same fault on March 9(2 days before the big one). Could potentially explain the source.
Unfortunately this isn't an isolated incident in Japan and really the only question was when, not if, something like this would happen. It's a pretty open secret that government has been in bed with TEPCO and the like for quite some time now, and that most "inspections" were mostly rubber stamp affairs. Hell, as recently as summer of 2003 there was a shutdown of a large number of reactors in the Tohoku region because it was found that managers were intentionally papering over gross safety violations. You would have thought that would have spurred the public into action, but it really did nothing.
You also have cultural issues at play. People like to point out how there was virtually no looting after the tsunami, and rightly so, but the downside of that same culture is a lack of whistle-blowing. Japan is still in many ways a Confucian society, and as such there is very little in the way of whistle blowing. And even when there is, people tend not to believe the whistle blower over his "superiors" at work because well, they are his superiors......
That being said, I would be willing to bet Japan goes from the rich country with the worst nuclear safety record to having one of the best. The Japanese throughout history have been a society that is very poor at initiating change, but the best at adapting to it, unfortunately it takes a huge shock for them to really change anything. Case in point, their air safety record. Japan used to have one of the worst air safety records around, but thanks to a string of major accidents in the 60s, and one huge accident(deadliest single airline crash in history) in the 80s, they now have probably the best air traffic safety records on the planet. There have been no passenger deaths in Japan since 1994, and there has only been one fatal incident involving a cargo jet. Considering the amount of air traffic both in Japan and from abroad, that is pretty damn impressive. Doubly so when you consider how small the airports are and how many flights they have to get in and out. The airline industry suffered from a lot of the same problems the nuclear industry does, rubber stamping, no whistle blowing etc. Hopefully this will serve as a wakeup call to the Japanese much in the way the major air accidents did.
but then, who isn't, there was a time when the Italians didn't have pasta
Not just pasta, staples like tomatoes, corn, and potatoes are all new world crops. It's amazing to go into a restaurant in Europe and think what the menu would look like without new world food. "Traditional" European food was actually massive amounts of meat, bread, cheese, and maybe a bit of vegetable matter. European colonization of the Americas radically changed what Europeans ate.
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Not really. I lived in the middle of nowhere Germany for a while, and calling the public transport options "limited" would be a compliment. The closest train station was 16 km away and buses came maybe about 5 times a day, with the last bus leaving the station at around 5:30 pm, and that was on the weekdays. On Saturday there was 1 bus, and only in 1 direction. Sundays and holidays there was nothing. I opted to live without a car(fortunately I love cycling and most of the winters I was there were incredibly mild), but I would venture well north of 90% of households had a car. It was simply a necessity. A lot of rural Germany is like this, public transport is fairly well developed in the central and northwest parts of the country, but outside of that it's not much better than the US in that regard.
Of course you also have to take into consideration what kind of lifestyle your job dictates. Odd are pretty good that a petroleum engineer is going to have to spend a good chunk of time out on an oil rig or in the middle of nowhere Alaska because thats pretty much the only places there are significant petroleum deposits left in the US. Is the extra cash worth spending half your life away from home? Probably depends both on the person and where they are in life. For a fresh grad, that probably wouldn't be such a big deal, esp. if they can save a lot of money(since they are earning a ton and most of their expenses are covered). For someone going into their 30s, maybe not so much.
and if it's not connected to a network it becomes a very labour intensive task to push out updates to the systems to prevent against the viruses.
Maybe it is with windows with all that Microsoft Genuine advantage bullshit, but pushing out updates to Linux and OS X systems that are not connected to the Internet is pretty easy, i should know, i admined a huge network of them. Linux is probably the easiest. I just created a kickstart with the absolute minimum # of packages, used that as my base, and then put a copy of that system on the Internet to automatically download updates. All I have to do is periodically airgap the files(DVD works fine) over to the update server I set up on the LAN. All the machines just connect to that server and download their updates. Pretty damn simple. And if you are really hardcore, you can configure your machines to only download signed packages from trusted vendors(this is the default in RHEL for example). I spend maybe 15 minutes a week airgapping the things over... Now if you use that festering pile of insecure shit called Windows then you may have a point.
I doubt the acceleration was constant, furthermore it looks like they rolled the plane significantly, which definitely would have been noticed by the passengers.
This. A lot of the oltop Microsoft execs are people that were there when Microsoft hit it's apex and thus still seem to think that their biggest competitor is themselves. You can see this in Microsofts product lines. 3 different, incompatible phone OS's were in development simultaneously. 2 different types of DRM, and let's not get started in how inconsistent the GUIs are both within single products and across product lines. If Microsoft wants to stay relevant they need a strong leader who realizes it's no longer 1998
What makes you think the guards are sharing anything with the state? The guards could just be keeping the gold money for themselves,which would go a long way towards explaining why they are doing both hard labor AND gold farming, the labor is what is required by the state, the gold farming profits all go to the guards. If the state was really making more money off of farming they would probably have more people skip the labor and just do farming, esp. ones that were good at it.
Well, it looks like at least some of the passwords were hashed(also, please stop saying "encrypted" passwords, there is a world of difference between encryption and hashing!), but it's not clear that all the passwords were hashed.....
From TFA:
"E-mail, password, and names of thousands of users were exposed via text file"
Why...why...WHY do people still insist on plain text passwords? Have these people ever heard of a hash? There is 0 reason ever to store a plaintext password, end of story. Anyone who designs a system that stores passwords in plain text should be fired on the spot.
Basically if there's an accident, the human "driver" of the vehicle is responsible, whether he was on cruise control or his ABS failed or whatever.
Usually thats the case, but if there is a proven defect with the car(see the Toyota case last year) then the car company is responsible. However PROVING that it was the car is another battle altogether.
What I want to know is what they did with all the spare organs they removed from Dr. Zoidberg. Come on, open the files!
You've convinced me, I'm going to take a brief trip into the evacuation zone as soon as I can. I just have to make sure to post the pictures anonymously as getting caught going in there could potentially get me deported :P
But are they useful for testing radiation levels in the air? I live less than 100km from the edge of the evacuation zone and really would like to go there by bicycle(almost impossible to get in by car because they have barricaded off most of the area, but from what people have said, it's pretty easy to sneak in on foot or cycle). How much risk would I actually be exposing myself too? Also, would a geiger counter help?
What "success"? Microsoft has failed at almost every new market it has even attempted to enter into, they are one of the few US based tech companies whose stock price has been falling the past couple years. Windows market share is at an all time low, Windows server is falling even faster. All of this in a couple years time, all of this since Gates retired and Ballmer was put in place. But yeah, I guess all of those facts are just my "naively simplistic and emotional view". Face it, Ballmer is a failure and that's all there is to it. He has no interest in technology, he cannot even control his own staff.
The console arms race has stalled largely because the economy has stalled. Developing a console, investing in manufacturing facilities etc. is quite an expensive process, one that a company really doesn't want to go through unless they feel that they will be able to sell the console as well as a large number of games for it. In this economy, it's going to be very hard for people to rationalize plopping down $500 or $600 for a new console. Furthermore, since console hardware capabilities are (relatively) fixed, by the time the economy picks up again your competitor will be able to utilize the latest and greatest technology to come out with a console that is better than yours, and you will be stuck like that for the entire life cycle of the console. So there is actually a rather large disincentive to release a new console at this point. The risk to reward ratio is simply too great.
Yeah, I am still shocked that Microsoft shareholders have not revolted against Ballmer. The man has shown he has 0 technological vision and about as much business acumen it seems. Microsoft as of late has been a pretty directionless company. It has no idea about "where it wants to go today", let alone tomorrow. Ballmer is good at only one thing, pulling childish pranks, but I can go to any university in the country and find a frat boy who would be more than willing and able to do that at 1% of Ballmer's salary.
Ballmer's only "talent" was being at the right place at the right time. He may have been able to help Microsoft out a bit when it was first getting started, but the man has shown 0 interest in learning anything about technology, what it can do, and where it will go. If Microsoft wants to survive against companies whose leaders actually give 2 shits about technology then they better give Ballmer the boot and fast.
So your point is that you are entitled to endanger everyone else on the road to provide yourself a little extra safety? Your point is you are allowed to consume massive amounts of resources just to make you a tiny bit safer? Your point is that you are entitled to make it harder for everyone else on the road to see, and thus endangering their lives, so you are a little bit safer?
There, I debunked his argument, you happy now? Of course not, you are a fuckhead who drives an SUV and thinks that you are the only thing that matters on the planet. Your solipsistic mindset sickens me. I'm glad I don't live in that shityard of a country called the US where fuckheads such as yourself only think of yourself and nobody else. SUVs are the reason I am not coming home. See, I ride a civilized mode of transport, and I don't want to die just so you can feel safer about yourself and act like a dipshit on the road. The only times I have ever even come close to an accident, the SUV driver was at fault and wasn't even looking. They figure they shouldn't have to look, since us stupid peons who are smart enough to realize that the world's resources are limited are obviously too stupid to deserve life.
So basically what you are telling me is that you need a microscope to see your penis.
...go pray at the apple store... as if hybrids dont crash...
Which would you rather have crash into you, a giant SUV or a Prius? If you say SUV you are either suicidal or a liar. Statistics have shown that crashes involving at least 1 SUV are much more fatal than those that have 0 SUVs involved.
SUVs kill many more Americans every year than died in the September 11 attacks. And yet we are willing to sacrifice our freedoms to ostensibly prevent terror but are not willing or wanting to do anything to prevent those monstrosities from killing a massive number of innocent people every year.
Or you could just freeze yourself and wait for the future, which, according to the movie Idiocracy, will include Starbucks that offer "full release lattes". Two birds with one stone!
TFA doesn't really give a time scale other than "a few days before". I wonder if at least some of this gas was released from the 7.1 preshock that occurred on the exact same fault on March 9(2 days before the big one). Could potentially explain the source.
Unfortunately this isn't an isolated incident in Japan and really the only question was when, not if, something like this would happen. It's a pretty open secret that government has been in bed with TEPCO and the like for quite some time now, and that most "inspections" were mostly rubber stamp affairs. Hell, as recently as summer of 2003 there was a shutdown of a large number of reactors in the Tohoku region because it was found that managers were intentionally papering over gross safety violations. You would have thought that would have spurred the public into action, but it really did nothing.
You also have cultural issues at play. People like to point out how there was virtually no looting after the tsunami, and rightly so, but the downside of that same culture is a lack of whistle-blowing. Japan is still in many ways a Confucian society, and as such there is very little in the way of whistle blowing. And even when there is, people tend not to believe the whistle blower over his "superiors" at work because well, they are his superiors......
That being said, I would be willing to bet Japan goes from the rich country with the worst nuclear safety record to having one of the best. The Japanese throughout history have been a society that is very poor at initiating change, but the best at adapting to it, unfortunately it takes a huge shock for them to really change anything. Case in point, their air safety record. Japan used to have one of the worst air safety records around, but thanks to a string of major accidents in the 60s, and one huge accident(deadliest single airline crash in history) in the 80s, they now have probably the best air traffic safety records on the planet. There have been no passenger deaths in Japan since 1994, and there has only been one fatal incident involving a cargo jet. Considering the amount of air traffic both in Japan and from abroad, that is pretty damn impressive. Doubly so when you consider how small the airports are and how many flights they have to get in and out. The airline industry suffered from a lot of the same problems the nuclear industry does, rubber stamping, no whistle blowing etc. Hopefully this will serve as a wakeup call to the Japanese much in the way the major air accidents did.
Politicians may break promises they made to you, they rarely break the ones they made to their donors.
I wasn't talking about the holocaust, I was talking about European colonialism, ie the biggest mass slaughter in the history of humanity.
but then, who isn't, there was a time when the Italians didn't have pasta
Not just pasta, staples like tomatoes, corn, and potatoes are all new world crops. It's amazing to go into a restaurant in Europe and think what the menu would look like without new world food. "Traditional" European food was actually massive amounts of meat, bread, cheese, and maybe a bit of vegetable matter. European colonization of the Americas radically changed what Europeans ate.