We're getting Chip and Signature, which is much less secure.
No it isn't. The "chip" part is what provides most of the security. Pins are easy to skim or eyeball. Yes chip & pin is more secure than chip & signature.... but not by much.
Banks in US looked at the pros and cons, and decided that the slight additional security provided by a PIN was not worth the inconvenience to the customer and also the fact that a whole lot of merchants who do not have PIN pads will have to buy one. It was not a stupid decision, it was quite logical.
I also support Bernie Sanders. I would really love to see Sanders become the Democratic nominee and Trump become the GOP nominee. That way we're guaranteed to get a president who will reduce (or hopefully eliminate) H1B.
Aside from H1B, Trump will also reduce illegal immigration, while Sanders will not. Therefore I am rooting for Trump. But if Trump flames out for whatever reason, I would take Sanders over Bush/Rubio/Clinton any day.
And if you're wondering why I'm bringing illegal immigration into this when we were talking about H1B: they are both closely related issues. H1B brings in cheap IT labor and depresses the wages for American IT workers. Illegal immigration brings in cheap manual labor and depresses the wages for American blue collar workers. See the resemblance?
Yes it's useful. But what happens when you're sitting at home, watching Netflix or Youtube on your phone, and your wifi router craps out? I'm thinking it might automatically switch to cellular without me knowing about it, and there goes my 4 GB for the month.
He was just a low/mid-level analyst who leaked a bunch of shit. Why are people treating him like any sort of authority on anything?
That's actually what I thought too initially, without knowing much about the situation.
But as I kept reading, I learned that he was by far the smartest programmer at NSA (at least in the branch that he was at), he was THE man according to his former NSA colleagues. He took off with everything, he got the keys to the whole kingdom using his knowledge and mad skillz. No other low/mid-level analyst (as you put it) could've pulled that off.
I would probably be sad if I knew that I would never again be able to return home or travel because I had exposed the illegal practices of my government.
Obama won't be in office much longer. President Trump or President Sanders might well give him some kind of a deal or even an outright pardon.
All we know is radio, and listening with radio telescopes has yielded nothing. What if they use neutrinos or some other weird method that we don't know of?
Neither the surface nor the subsurface of the Moon, nor any part thereof or natural resources in place
This reads like the USGA's official rules of golf. In golf you are allowed to pick up and move "loose impediments" out of your ball's way, but you are not allowed to move things in place, such as trees or grass.
I think if they had to dig for it, it would fall under the treaty... but if it's a loose rock lying on the surface that anyone can just pick up, it's fair game.
Probably means they buy in bulk, so they get to pick the more overclock-able chips.
Say, Core i7 xxxx runs at 3.0ghz and i7 yyyy chip runs at 3.4ghz. They make a batch of i7s and test them at 3.4ghz. Some barely pass QC and are sold as retail i7 yyyy. Some fail at 3.4ghz so they're marked as i7 xxxx 3.0ghz. Some pass at 3.4ghz with flying colors, these are the ones overclockers want the most. Retail buyers like us don't get to pick which ones we get when we buy the i7 yyyy, but Amazon might.
Does the car look around with a video camera, and if it sees a bunch of nerds in white coats holding a clipboard, it decides that it's being tested for emissions and switches the engine management algorithm?
If so Volkswagen should be commended for making breakthroughs in AI and machine vision. While at the same time flogged for fraud, of course.
I worked in the IT dept of a paper box company once. If there's one thing I still remember from the experience, it's that we never ever called it cardboard. It was always corrugated paper.
I swear, if anyone ever said "carboard" the CEO would punch him in the face.
Google calls the URL bar "Omnibox", and it will search Google as soon as you start typing in it. I would suspect this is causing the problem, since a regular (non-Omni) URL bar is a very simple thing.
I went to Settings to disable Omnibox and test my theory. Unfortunately there seems to be no way to disable the Omnibox in Chrome.
The money laundering charge he received wasn't because bitcoin is money, it's because he agreed to take $30,000 and help them pay for stolen credit cards by converting their US dollars (money) into bitcoin with which they can swap for the CC numbers. Instead of bitcoin they could've used gold bars or silver or pearl necklaces, it's just that bitcoin was more convenient.
Guess what, those old people milling about in Congress and running around Iowa trying to become President, when they were young they didn't trust anyone over 30. They were the generation of Rock N Roll and psychedelic drugs. They were so special that they were going to change the world forever and usher in a new utopian age.
Now they're just old fogeys and the world still has war and poverty and nuclear weapons.
This article basically confirms it, but the topic was covered extensively in the health media last year. I don't remember the study but they noted that white anglo population in England had a much higher rate of myopia than the white anglo population in Australia. Australians get a lot of sunshine, England is cursed with a lot of fog and rain. Genetics is not a factor since the two populations are virtually identical with only ~100 years separating them.
Anyways the key factors are light and focus. Bright lights (such as sunlight) = healthy eyes. Time spent with eyes focused on close objects (such as reading or computering) = myopia. Of course spending time outdoors on a sunny day leads to eyes exposed to high levels of light and focused on distant objects, while playing Gameboy indoors will lead to the opposite.
Note that this effect concerns growing children. Adults already have their eyeball shape pretty much fixed and it's rare to develop myopia in adulthood.
Anyways my point was that it's not necessarily outdoors that prevents myopia in children, it's light and focal distance. So if a child were to spend all their time indoors but the house was brightly lit and a lot of that time was spent watching a TV far away (like 6 meters or more), they won't develop myopia. Of course that's hard to do since most house lights are nowhere near bright enough to match sunlight levels, and if you're indoors it's hard to keep your eyes focused far away for extended periods.
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We're getting Chip and Signature, which is much less secure.
No it isn't. The "chip" part is what provides most of the security. Pins are easy to skim or eyeball. Yes chip & pin is more secure than chip & signature.... but not by much.
Banks in US looked at the pros and cons, and decided that the slight additional security provided by a PIN was not worth the inconvenience to the customer and also the fact that a whole lot of merchants who do not have PIN pads will have to buy one. It was not a stupid decision, it was quite logical.
I support Bernie Sanders.
Supporting Trump is just idiotic.
I also support Bernie Sanders. I would really love to see Sanders become the Democratic nominee and Trump become the GOP nominee. That way we're guaranteed to get a president who will reduce (or hopefully eliminate) H1B.
Aside from H1B, Trump will also reduce illegal immigration, while Sanders will not. Therefore I am rooting for Trump. But if Trump flames out for whatever reason, I would take Sanders over Bush/Rubio/Clinton any day.
And if you're wondering why I'm bringing illegal immigration into this when we were talking about H1B: they are both closely related issues. H1B brings in cheap IT labor and depresses the wages for American IT workers. Illegal immigration brings in cheap manual labor and depresses the wages for American blue collar workers. See the resemblance?
Trump says her face is a form of waterboarding.
Why? I'm leaving it on because it's damn useful.
Yes it's useful. But what happens when you're sitting at home, watching Netflix or Youtube on your phone, and your wifi router craps out? I'm thinking it might automatically switch to cellular without me knowing about it, and there goes my 4 GB for the month.
Turning off Wi-fi assist now.
It's located at: Settings -> Cellular -> W-Fi Assist (all the way at the bottom). Yes, it was turned on by default, which I've now disabled.
He was just a low/mid-level analyst who leaked a bunch of shit. Why are people treating him like any sort of authority on anything?
That's actually what I thought too initially, without knowing much about the situation.
But as I kept reading, I learned that he was by far the smartest programmer at NSA (at least in the branch that he was at), he was THE man according to his former NSA colleagues. He took off with everything, he got the keys to the whole kingdom using his knowledge and mad skillz. No other low/mid-level analyst (as you put it) could've pulled that off.
I would probably be sad if I knew that I would never again be able to return home or travel because I had exposed the illegal practices of my government.
Obama won't be in office much longer. President Trump or President Sanders might well give him some kind of a deal or even an outright pardon.
TrueCrypt encrypted volumes remain no more or less vulnerable because of this. But, you still should not be using TrueCrypt.
Then what should I be using, O wise one?
and Windows 95
All we know is radio, and listening with radio telescopes has yielded nothing. What if they use neutrinos or some other weird method that we don't know of?
The ingenuity that they showed during the invasion of Europe 1944, they'll need it to thwart the invasion of Europe 2015 (happening now).
I still remember in the old days the CEO/founder guy would hold up a new Blackberry model to the audience and yell,
"Canadian Technology!"
and the crowd would cheer.
Neither the surface nor the subsurface of the Moon, nor any part thereof or natural resources in place
This reads like the USGA's official rules of golf. In golf you are allowed to pick up and move "loose impediments" out of your ball's way, but you are not allowed to move things in place, such as trees or grass.
I think if they had to dig for it, it would fall under the treaty... but if it's a loose rock lying on the surface that anyone can just pick up, it's fair game.
TFA says: "The headset, called the Gear VR, will cost $99 and work with mobile devices, including Samsung's lineup of phones from this year"
Not exactly stellar reporting there by Cnet.
Probably means they buy in bulk, so they get to pick the more overclock-able chips.
Say, Core i7 xxxx runs at 3.0ghz and i7 yyyy chip runs at 3.4ghz. They make a batch of i7s and test them at 3.4ghz. Some barely pass QC and are sold as retail i7 yyyy. Some fail at 3.4ghz so they're marked as i7 xxxx 3.0ghz. Some pass at 3.4ghz with flying colors, these are the ones overclockers want the most. Retail buyers like us don't get to pick which ones we get when we buy the i7 yyyy, but Amazon might.
Corporate profits.
In case you haven't noticed, American politicians are more than willing to entrench corporate profits into law.
This is why we should all vote for Donald Trump. Bush and Clinton will do whatever Big Pharma tells them to do, but Trump won't.
Does the car look around with a video camera, and if it sees a bunch of nerds in white coats holding a clipboard, it decides that it's being tested for emissions and switches the engine management algorithm?
If so Volkswagen should be commended for making breakthroughs in AI and machine vision. While at the same time flogged for fraud, of course.
I worked in the IT dept of a paper box company once. If there's one thing I still remember from the experience, it's that we never ever called it cardboard. It was always corrugated paper.
I swear, if anyone ever said "carboard" the CEO would punch him in the face.
Google calls the URL bar "Omnibox", and it will search Google as soon as you start typing in it. I would suspect this is causing the problem, since a regular (non-Omni) URL bar is a very simple thing.
I went to Settings to disable Omnibox and test my theory. Unfortunately there seems to be no way to disable the Omnibox in Chrome.
playing the AT&T theme song
I can't find it on torrent sites.
The money laundering charge he received wasn't because bitcoin is money, it's because he agreed to take $30,000 and help them pay for stolen credit cards by converting their US dollars (money) into bitcoin with which they can swap for the CC numbers. Instead of bitcoin they could've used gold bars or silver or pearl necklaces, it's just that bitcoin was more convenient.
Guess what, those old people milling about in Congress and running around Iowa trying to become President, when they were young they didn't trust anyone over 30. They were the generation of Rock N Roll and psychedelic drugs. They were so special that they were going to change the world forever and usher in a new utopian age.
Now they're just old fogeys and the world still has war and poverty and nuclear weapons.
but Apple rejected the "Ditch Apple and switch to Android" app in iTunes?
This article basically confirms it, but the topic was covered extensively in the health media last year. I don't remember the study but they noted that white anglo population in England had a much higher rate of myopia than the white anglo population in Australia. Australians get a lot of sunshine, England is cursed with a lot of fog and rain. Genetics is not a factor since the two populations are virtually identical with only ~100 years separating them.
Anyways the key factors are light and focus. Bright lights (such as sunlight) = healthy eyes. Time spent with eyes focused on close objects (such as reading or computering) = myopia. Of course spending time outdoors on a sunny day leads to eyes exposed to high levels of light and focused on distant objects, while playing Gameboy indoors will lead to the opposite.
Note that this effect concerns growing children. Adults already have their eyeball shape pretty much fixed and it's rare to develop myopia in adulthood.
Anyways my point was that it's not necessarily outdoors that prevents myopia in children, it's light and focal distance. So if a child were to spend all their time indoors but the house was brightly lit and a lot of that time was spent watching a TV far away (like 6 meters or more), they won't develop myopia. Of course that's hard to do since most house lights are nowhere near bright enough to match sunlight levels, and if you're indoors it's hard to keep your eyes focused far away for extended periods.