Likewise the Fourier Transformation. It started out as pure mathematics that Fourier came across and it was cool and all. And possibly fairly pointless for a while. (I don't nearly know enough math to know if it had an impact in the field on it's inherent merits) And lo and behold, these days the Fast Fourier Transformation must be one of the most run algorithms in CS. JPEGs, Spectroscopy, MRIs, anything at all to do with frequency analysis uses this maths.
It wasn't pointless at all. It was based on mathematics that had been in development for over 100 years and was developed specifically to help understand heat transfer during the boring of cannons. It was also useful well before the development of the FFT for all sorts of electronics analysis. The FFT was developed quickly after computers became powerful enough to actually do them because the FT was already an extremely useful mathematical tool.
Employers aren't required to give you anything when they let you go, other than your final paycheck for whatever time you've worked but they haven't yet paid.
It depends. If they've got 100 or more employees and they're laying off 50 or more in one geographical area it's likely considered a mass layoff and they're required to publish a 60 day notice under the WARN act. Usually the way companies get around it if they want to give no notice is pay everybody for the 60 days that they would have still had a job. They could say in the severance "we're paying you to keep working for us for 60 days, but we don't want you to come in unless we call you" and that might not be considered unconscionable. But paying you for 60 days and expecting you to be on call for 2 years? That probably won't fly anywhere.
Hmm, 1M digital subscribers...New York's population in north of 8M. So maybe 12.5% of New York's population has signed up. At most. Assuming every digital subscriber is in NYC.
The locals buy a paper copy at the bodega on their block.
Digital is for those of us outside the local area who want a comprehensive news source that they have reasonably well calibrated. All news sources are biased, but the big ones are at least reasonably consistent about it.
Perhaps a subset of that million just believes in "paying it back" to the journalistic institutions of their communities. Just saying.
That's what convinced me to subscribe. I signed up when I realized I was paying about the same per year to my local public radio station, and that it was a quite reasonable price to support the times.
I was probably one of their earliest digital only subscribers - way back I used to get the sunday times and sit around all morning with coffee and a baguette to read it. I stopped getting LA times delivered to my door because I didn't want the paper accumulating.
I've had similar experiences with Chase. Once they caught someone buying a big screen TV from walmart.com on Dec 27. I was off on a multi-day bike ride and happened to check my email during a break and it had an email asking if I spent $2700 at walmart.com. A short phone call later and a new card was being fedexed.
Another time I did several legitimate but commonly fraud related transactions one morning (new cell phone, some software purchased by phone, a couple other things I don't remember) and they called me. It wasn't any of those that had alerted, but a $9.99 charge from some anonymous sounding company that's some kind of default name for whatever tool the fraudsters were using. A few minutes later the card was cancelled and a new one on the way.
The current method with text/email confirmation on potentially sketchy charges works well and quickly.
If you're going to make out of the ordinary purchases for overseas, or travel overseas, you always want to call your bank ahead of time. This is a standard operating procedure, and nothing to complain about on Slashdot.
Which kind of defeats the purpose and convenience of having a credit card.
It's also generally not necessary - I've gone on foreign travel on short notice and had no issues with my card, and even gone to some pretty unusual places and used various cards with no issues (the most difficult was that the card I prefer to use for travel didn't have a chip in places that were chip only). The only false positives I've had that turned the card off have been when I went to buy gas at a particular gas station in Montreal before return rental cars. It happened more than once because it was about a mile from my partner's house there. The same card provider has reliably caught a number of real positives, and their email/text system now works fast enough that other false positives get caught before they turn the card off.
Except with OPM it's a lot more than just your credit card number and SSN-- for a lot of people it's their entire personal history that was collected in the process of getting a security clearance, which can include a *lot* of details, all nicely collected in one spot and verified. Including fingerprints...
And that doesn't even address the possible issues that will come up if the hackers also wrote new information to the database so that what people self report may no longer match their history when it's time to renew the clearance...
Sure, use uncertainty drive. Localize your momentum really really really really well by getting really really really really cold so your position wavefunction gets big. Then wait for someone to look.
The 25 years is since I started racing. I've been riding much longer than that. Racing, I crashed about once a year, and have avoided a *lot* of crashes around me. Non-racing (and non-winter riding) there's really no reason to hit the ground, and most situations where people get hit on bikes are foreseeable and avoidable, even when they're the motorist's fault (e.g. cop blowing through your intersection, right hooks, left hooks). I know what you're saying, but "accidents" don't happen out of nowhere, and your chances of being in one can be drastically reduced by how you ride.
Motorcycle or bicycle - if you ride, the question is not, "Will I go down?" but "When will I go down?" If you're on two wheels, you WILL FALL. You either accept that, or you don't, but it doesn't change the facts of life.
That's really not true.
While learning, yes, but outside of riding on icy roads or racing, you should never crash. Really. I've been riding for decades (road, mountain, track, including a lot of racing) and once enumerated all my crashes for a study. They were all either racing or riding in winter on icy snow roads. If you're falling on dry roads you're doing it wrong.
I don't know it works in Toronto, but here in California everyone is required to pull over to permit passing when possible if there are five or more vehicles being held up by them. Well, many a time I've been a part of a chain of more than five vehicles being held up by some douche taking up a lane in the city, or practicing his downhill on the mountain roads, and not doing very well. In either case, the cyclist is required to simply pull over and permit the vehicles to pass, just like any other user of the road.
I'm also in California and ride in the mountains at least one and often two days every weekend. I also drive in the mountains. Do you know how often I see traffic bunched up behind a bicycle (up or down)? Almost never. Do you know how often I see it bunched up behind a slow car? Every 20 minutes on low traffic roads. Do you know how many drivers I see passing other drivers (who are doing the speed limit) across double yellow though blind curves on mountain roads? At least once per ride, and if you're out at commute times it's every few miles. Fortunately when these idiots hit a wall or another car and shut the road for a while, I can at least most to the front of the line so I can get down the mountain before the next guy sticks his car or motorcycle into a wall.
I can trigger most induction loops with just a standard box-rim aluminum wheel. The catch is that you have to find them, and sometimes find the active one because they've been butchered and replaced a number of times and there are cuts all over the road. You also have to know the right spot for each geometry of loop-- Google the ones you most commonly see.
You just notice them because they stand out among the drivers. I drive and I ride. Virtually all drivers are continually breaking laws, from speeding to rolling stop signs without coming to a complete stop, to failure to signal (or in many cases even look!) before changing lanes. And in Toronto? Canadians are on average nice, polite people, more so than in the US, but are also terrible scofflaw drivers, possibly worse than I see in LA.
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It's also useful for making short notice announcements that have to get distributed to a lot of people whose contact info you don't have directly.
I used to run the website for a local sports venue that was part of a large complex. People would come long distances to use the venue, but the complex owners didn't provide any support for the venue manager (which is why I ran the web site). There was often news to get out that was short notice (use the south gate to enter because of another event, things cancelled tonight due to water leak, etc) and I couldn't get things like that up on a few minutes notice all the time. We put a twitter box with his feed on the front page and a) everybody could check the website for updates before they made the trek, and b) people who subscribed by their phone got direct tweets. It worked very well.
Not too much of a difference these days that I can see. Except in the case of the government you, at least theoretically, have Constitutional protections.
The SC has said very little about privacy in the last many decades, but the basic principle is that you have no right to privacy for information that has ever been shared with anyone else. So you have no constitutional protections. You have some *very* weak protections through the privacy act. Depending on what state you live in, you likely have more legal protection in the case of data breaches at private companies.
The most shocking statement in this article, to me, is that there are more than 20 million government employees in the US...that's over half the population of Canada!
It's not 20M current employees.
It's everybody who's worked directly for the government or worked as a contractor who needed regulary access to a government facility or needed a security clearance (probably mostly contractors) since 2000, and maybe before. And people who applied in that period and got as far as the investigation forms and were declined. It's everyone who filled out one of three forms: SF-85 (people in non-sensitive positions), SF-85P (people in "public trust" but not national security positions, and SF-86 (security clearances secret or higher), including all the information from the investigation.
The first one was about 4M people, all direct USG employees. The second was at least 22M people, a very large fraction of whom are contractors who work for companies of various sizes and need regular access to USG facilities or sensitive information. It's more significant information about many more people, and they've done pretty much nothing about it other than blame China for doing exactly the same thing the the US would have done (and may have...)
They should just contract with whoever boosted the data - they have everything they need to verify that they've contact the correct people and probably have more interest in knowing your current address than OPM does.
Yes I do. And if you think you haven't lost SSN; or the equivalent in your country; age, sex, address, and other information from banks, retailers and other companies you are naive.
The OPM breach is a whole lot more than that for anybody with a clearance. It includes lists of friends, neighbors, associates, their contact information, things that they know about you that may not be in any database, how long they've known you, plus financial information, in some cases medical information, all neatly collated and verified for millions of people.
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Likewise the Fourier Transformation.
It started out as pure mathematics that Fourier came across and it was cool and all. And possibly fairly pointless for a while. (I don't nearly know enough math to know if it had an impact in the field on it's inherent merits)
And lo and behold, these days the Fast Fourier Transformation must be one of the most run algorithms in CS. JPEGs, Spectroscopy, MRIs, anything at all to do with frequency analysis uses this maths.
It wasn't pointless at all. It was based on mathematics that had been in development for over 100 years and was developed specifically to help understand heat transfer during the boring of cannons. It was also useful well before the development of the FFT for all sorts of electronics analysis. The FFT was developed quickly after computers became powerful enough to actually do them because the FT was already an extremely useful mathematical tool.
Employers aren't required to give you anything when they let you go, other than your final paycheck for whatever time you've worked but they haven't yet paid.
It depends. If they've got 100 or more employees and they're laying off 50 or more in one geographical area it's likely considered a mass layoff and they're required to publish a 60 day notice under the WARN act. Usually the way companies get around it if they want to give no notice is pay everybody for the 60 days that they would have still had a job. They could say in the severance "we're paying you to keep working for us for 60 days, but we don't want you to come in unless we call you" and that might not be considered unconscionable. But paying you for 60 days and expecting you to be on call for 2 years? That probably won't fly anywhere.
Hmm, 1M digital subscribers...New York's population in north of 8M. So maybe 12.5% of New York's population has signed up. At most. Assuming every digital subscriber is in NYC.
The locals buy a paper copy at the bodega on their block.
Digital is for those of us outside the local area who want a comprehensive news source that they have reasonably well calibrated. All news sources are biased, but the big ones are at least reasonably consistent about it.
Perhaps a subset of that million just believes in "paying it back" to the journalistic institutions of their communities. Just saying.
That's what convinced me to subscribe. I signed up when I realized I was paying about the same per year to my local public radio station, and that it was a quite reasonable price to support the times.
I was probably one of their earliest digital only subscribers - way back I used to get the sunday times and sit around all morning with coffee and a baguette to read it. I stopped getting LA times delivered to my door because I didn't want the paper accumulating.
I've had similar experiences with Chase. Once they caught someone buying a big screen TV from walmart.com on Dec 27. I was off on a multi-day bike ride and happened to check my email during a break and it had an email asking if I spent $2700 at walmart.com. A short phone call later and a new card was being fedexed.
Another time I did several legitimate but commonly fraud related transactions one morning (new cell phone, some software purchased by phone, a couple other things I don't remember) and they called me. It wasn't any of those that had alerted, but a $9.99 charge from some anonymous sounding company that's some kind of default name for whatever tool the fraudsters were using. A few minutes later the card was cancelled and a new one on the way.
The current method with text/email confirmation on potentially sketchy charges works well and quickly.
If you're going to make out of the ordinary purchases for overseas, or travel overseas, you always want to call your bank ahead of time. This is a standard operating procedure, and nothing to complain about on Slashdot.
Which kind of defeats the purpose and convenience of having a credit card.
It's also generally not necessary - I've gone on foreign travel on short notice and had no issues with my card, and even gone to some pretty unusual places and used various cards with no issues (the most difficult was that the card I prefer to use for travel didn't have a chip in places that were chip only). The only false positives I've had that turned the card off have been when I went to buy gas at a particular gas station in Montreal before return rental cars. It happened more than once because it was about a mile from my partner's house there. The same card provider has reliably caught a number of real positives, and their email/text system now works fast enough that other false positives get caught before they turn the card off.
They haven't said, but if I had to guess, I'd guess everybody who has a PIV-II card had their fingerprints stolen.
Except with OPM it's a lot more than just your credit card number and SSN-- for a lot of people it's their entire personal history that was collected in the process of getting a security clearance, which can include a *lot* of details, all nicely collected in one spot and verified. Including fingerprints...
And that doesn't even address the possible issues that will come up if the hackers also wrote new information to the database so that what people self report may no longer match their history when it's time to renew the clearance...
Sure, use uncertainty drive. Localize your momentum really really really really well by getting really really really really cold so your position wavefunction gets big. Then wait for someone to look.
The 25 years is since I started racing. I've been riding much longer than that. Racing, I crashed about once a year, and have avoided a *lot* of crashes around me. Non-racing (and non-winter riding) there's really no reason to hit the ground, and most situations where people get hit on bikes are foreseeable and avoidable, even when they're the motorist's fault (e.g. cop blowing through your intersection, right hooks, left hooks). I know what you're saying, but "accidents" don't happen out of nowhere, and your chances of being in one can be drastically reduced by how you ride.
Circles are usually most sensitive just inside the tangent.
You've most likely been lucky.
More than 25 years isn't luck, it's learning early on to compensate for inattention by others.
Coaster brakes aren't effective brakes. Rear brakes in general aren't very effective-- all your braking power comes from the front.
Adding brake lights to brake levers would be easy though.
Motorcycle or bicycle - if you ride, the question is not, "Will I go down?" but "When will I go down?" If you're on two wheels, you WILL FALL. You either accept that, or you don't, but it doesn't change the facts of life.
That's really not true.
While learning, yes, but outside of riding on icy roads or racing, you should never crash. Really. I've been riding for decades (road, mountain, track, including a lot of racing) and once enumerated all my crashes for a study. They were all either racing or riding in winter on icy snow roads. If you're falling on dry roads you're doing it wrong.
I don't know it works in Toronto, but here in California everyone is required to pull over to permit passing when possible if there are five or more vehicles being held up by them. Well, many a time I've been a part of a chain of more than five vehicles being held up by some douche taking up a lane in the city, or practicing his downhill on the mountain roads, and not doing very well. In either case, the cyclist is required to simply pull over and permit the vehicles to pass, just like any other user of the road.
I'm also in California and ride in the mountains at least one and often two days every weekend. I also drive in the mountains. Do you know how often I see traffic bunched up behind a bicycle (up or down)? Almost never. Do you know how often I see it bunched up behind a slow car? Every 20 minutes on low traffic roads. Do you know how many drivers I see passing other drivers (who are doing the speed limit) across double yellow though blind curves on mountain roads? At least once per ride, and if you're out at commute times it's every few miles. Fortunately when these idiots hit a wall or another car and shut the road for a while, I can at least most to the front of the line so I can get down the mountain before the next guy sticks his car or motorcycle into a wall.
I can trigger most induction loops with just a standard box-rim aluminum wheel. The catch is that you have to find them, and sometimes find the active one because they've been butchered and replaced a number of times and there are cuts all over the road. You also have to know the right spot for each geometry of loop-- Google the ones you most commonly see.
You just notice them because they stand out among the drivers. I drive and I ride. Virtually all drivers are continually breaking laws, from speeding to rolling stop signs without coming to a complete stop, to failure to signal (or in many cases even look!) before changing lanes. And in Toronto? Canadians are on average nice, polite people, more so than in the US, but are also terrible scofflaw drivers, possibly worse than I see in LA.
It's also useful for making short notice announcements that have to get distributed to a lot of people whose contact info you don't have directly.
I used to run the website for a local sports venue that was part of a large complex. People would come long distances to use the venue, but the complex owners didn't provide any support for the venue manager (which is why I ran the web site). There was often news to get out that was short notice (use the south gate to enter because of another event, things cancelled tonight due to water leak, etc) and I couldn't get things like that up on a few minutes notice all the time. We put a twitter box with his feed on the front page and a) everybody could check the website for updates before they made the trek, and b) people who subscribed by their phone got direct tweets. It worked very well.
Twitter removes very little, pretty much only stuff that is illegal under US law or that contains personal data.
Which is what makes Twitter-shaming the only way to get customer service from companies like Comcast.
You would be safe in assuming your wife's data was also taken: https://www.opm.gov/cybersecur...
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Not too much of a difference these days that I can see. Except in the case of the government you, at least theoretically, have Constitutional protections.
The SC has said very little about privacy in the last many decades, but the basic principle is that you have no right to privacy for information that has ever been shared with anyone else. So you have no constitutional protections. You have some *very* weak protections through the privacy act. Depending on what state you live in, you likely have more legal protection in the case of data breaches at private companies.
The most shocking statement in this article, to me, is that there are more than 20 million government employees in the US...that's over half the population of Canada!
It's not 20M current employees.
It's everybody who's worked directly for the government or worked as a contractor who needed regulary access to a government facility or needed a security clearance (probably mostly contractors) since 2000, and maybe before. And people who applied in that period and got as far as the investigation forms and were declined. It's everyone who filled out one of three forms: SF-85 (people in non-sensitive positions), SF-85P (people in "public trust" but not national security positions, and SF-86 (security clearances secret or higher), including all the information from the investigation.
The first one was about 4M people, all direct USG employees. The second was at least 22M people, a very large fraction of whom are contractors who work for companies of various sizes and need regular access to USG facilities or sensitive information. It's more significant information about many more people, and they've done pretty much nothing about it other than blame China for doing exactly the same thing the the US would have done (and may have...)
They should just contract with whoever boosted the data - they have everything they need to verify that they've contact the correct people and probably have more interest in knowing your current address than OPM does.
Yes I do. And if you think you haven't lost SSN; or the equivalent in your country; age, sex, address, and other information from banks, retailers and other companies you are naive.
The OPM breach is a whole lot more than that for anybody with a clearance. It includes lists of friends, neighbors, associates, their contact information, things that they know about you that may not be in any database, how long they've known you, plus financial information, in some cases medical information, all neatly collated and verified for millions of people.