I like KeyPass because the same database file can be used in my Android phone and on me PC. I don't want to use a cloud based password storage as that might be a vulnerability. I also like that KeyPass allows you to use more than just a password to protect the database, you can also have it use a keyfile. So it turns into something you know (the password) and something you have (the keyfile on a USB key). Then you just need to keep the database synchronized between the different systems you use it on. That could be a problem if you add passwords very frequently, but in my useage it has not been a problem. KeePassDroid is a nice Android version.
Perhaps the Universe is deterministic and the results are pre-determined. Or what if the many worlds theory is correct and any worlds where the results of the experiment don't square up are the worlds that cease to exist. We would always find ourselves in one of the branching worlds where the results of the quantum experiments match in the same way as if the detectors were tuned for those results.
It really does not matter if the data is looked at. If they capture it so they can look at it later it is still illegal unless they have a warrant for it. Capturing traffic flow to determine if there is an accident does not require a warrant. If the FBI wants to get to that traffic flow for a criminal investigation they need a warrant. See the difference? Of course you don't see any difference, you believe you and your fellow government criminals should be allowed to do anything you want to do!
What initiates the process is your act of calling internationally, and correllating to a known or suspected threat. 99.999% of us will never "accidentally" call anyone the NSA is interested in.
When you take that 0.001% of the population that will call someone the NSA is interested in and then look at all the other call they made, say to a pizza place to order some pizza, then follow that down to all the other people who called that number and follow that through three levels you get to a very large proportion of the population very quickly.
But I'm sure you are already aware of that and are trying to help cover up for the illegal action of yourself and your friends in the US government, right!
Security expert Bruce Schneier was found dead in his home. The cause of death is unknown but police are investigating possible foul play.
The cause of death has been revealed. Schneier died from a single gunshot wound to the back of the head. Investigators have ruled his death a suicide.
In addition to the gunshot wound he was found naked and locked in a duffle bag that was locked inside a chest which was wrapped completely in wrapping paper, duct tape, and colorful kitty stickers. The authorities say he was a pervert and did all this to himself for sexual reasons.
That doesn't mean that two different GPS receivers will give the same coordinates for one side of your car though. It also does not mean you will get the same coordinates if you use the same GPS receiver at the same exact location at different times. Either morning and afternoon, or two different days. Hell, even if you walked 50 feet away and walked back to the same spot you will probably get slightly different readings.
You need to start looking at the opportunities. Just imagine how rich the weapons manufacturers will get when there are a lot more wars for resources going on all over the world. See, it's a good thing!
Or, I don't know... capture it and burn it as fuel? The problem with you climate alarmists is you lack critical thinking skills.
I find it funny that you are claiming others lack critical thinking skills but you have shown a severe lack of thinking yourself. You do know that natural gas is wasted and allowed to escape when drilling for oil because it just isn't worth the effort to capture it. This is in a situation where they already have a well and the gas is coming out of it. Garbage dumps produce methane and it isn't captured and used for fuel because that would also cost too much money. They just burn it. But you are telling us that they will just build a giant funnel over all of siberia to capture all the methane that starts bubbling out of the ground. Like I said, lack of thinking!
Most of their arguments for a potential global catastrophy hinge one a hypothetical "tipping point" beyond which the climate will no longer be in stable equilibrium and will spiral out of control. I haven't seen a plausible mechanism for this, but based on what we know about the climate, such tipping points probably do exist. On the other hand, we know this kind of thing has happened in the past without human intervention. The causes cited are always much larger than anything humanity has been capable of (huge meteor impacts, super volcanoes, things like that).
If a Blue-Green algae can cause the Oxygen Catastrophe, then why couldn't humans cause a similar large change in the environment.
I can't wait until the put a touch screen steering wheel in there to drive with. Just use two fingers and turn them back and forth as you want to turn the car. Why not put a touch shifter into the car also. Then we will really have reached the awesomeness that the future will bring!
Over 100 years? Come on, we can move anything needed over that timeframe. But someone would have to be insane to build something near enough to the ocean where a foot mattered much anyway.
You make it quite apparent how much of an idiot you truly are. Have you ever looked at what humans actually do rather than just imagine what would be best for them to do? How about New Orleans? "Someone would have to be insane to build something " lower than the sea level and not upgrade the dikes when told they were insufficient. "Someone would have to be insane to " re-build a city in the same location after it gets wiped out from flooding. You really think that they are going to tear down New York because of hurricane Sandy? If they don't tear it down now and rebuild it higher above sea level then what makes you think they will do that in 100 years. Each year of those 100 years is in itself just one year. If New York were to be flooded each and every year like hurricane Sandy did then they might start thinking of abandoning the city. The storms will not all hit the same place. Each time a storm floods a location it will be a new place, a new city destroyed. And they will want to rebuild, just like New Orleans and New York did. Perhaps we should start calling them New New Orleans and New New York.
Yep, that's the solution. Everybody needs to wear decryption goggles and the lights on the bus put out some frequency that the human eye and digital cameras cannot see. It could work similar to night vision cameras but instead of low light levels it would appear pitch black in the bus. The decryption goggles would be able to pick up the frequency of EM radiation that is put out and translate an image for the person to see. I guess you would need the goggles to turn off if they are taken off of the person's head, or they could take a picture through the eyepiece of the goggles.
You would not have paid that original $50 unless you were making a profit from people actually buying your goods. If you feel making a profit is better than not making a profit then you would not close down the company and you would continue to make money.
As I said, I don't think there is danger in cell phone use.
But saying that an ear is similar chemical composition to a brain just sounds pretty unrealistic. The ear is almost all cartilage while the brain has no cartilage. The brain has lots of fluids and is the consistency of jello while the ear can stand up on it's own and is not a bag full of water. The brain is also made of millions of brain cells and nerves while the ear is mostly . . . cartilage.
I do notice heating of my ear when talking on the phone for a while. I am pretty sure it is from direct contact and not the inverse square law of radiation though. The inverse square law sounds reasonable and I would expect that to hold, but there are plenty of things that don't work the way one would expect. Until it is tested we don't know. Like you mentioned with the chemicals in eyes. I do remember reading one study that did find heating occurred in the brain near where the cell phone is held. I do not have any clue if that study is worth anything or is full of crap though so I would not put much into it. But when something like 80% of all scientific studies cannot be reproduced and get the same results, I don't put too much credence into this study either, so take that to mean whatever you want it to.
And the point about fever and brain damage also sounds reasonable at first glance. But a fever happens for a couple of days once every couple of years or so. The cell phone use is much more frequent than that and could cause different effects. Even if the temperature is lower the fact that it is much more frequently experienced is one avenue for a difference to appear.
Your cell phone should not be putting out any thermal energy. The battery and other electronics might put out some as a side effect, but it is undesired. In the end none of that matters one bit. What matters is what happens to the brain cells. When you get a high temperature it only takes a rise of a few degrees before the brain is dead. If the radiation put out from the phone causes a rise in temperature then there is a problem even though there is no ionizing radiation. I am not worried about it as I still use my cell phone. I do believe that cell phones are not causing cancer as the incidence of brain tumors has not been shown to have increased with the increase use of cell phones over the years. The problem I have is with your very simplistic thinking. That only ionizing radiation can cause harm, or only temperatures higher than 700C can kill you or something completely idiotic. There are a lot of ways things can cause harm and if a study is going to be worth anything it needs to consider everything possible and not just some simplistic process of only this one thing is a possible harm.
You are simply an asshole, that is pretty obvious.
The point is that if everyone has to do their own studies of the studies then there is no reason to have scientists doing the studies and giving reports. You can't trust any of them as they are all paid by some industry or are shilling for something. I'm not going to trust any number of studies from industry when it goes against my first hand experience. You can look at all the studies you want about how safe tobacco is for you and die your own horrible little death. I won't miss people like you. Your sig even shows how stupid you are as you feel there is no use in complaining about the end of a very valuable site. You would rather watch it dissapear as long as you don't have to hear people complain about it being ruined. Nice one asshole!
Yes, plenty of studies have be mistaken or even outright fraudulent. But you somehow expect us to believe one side of fraudulent studies over the other side? Look at all the government food recommendations that are being discovered to be unhealthy. Just yesterday I was listening to the radio when they were discussing recent studies that have noticed a correlation between people who drink skim milk getting overweight while people who drink whole milk don't. The recommendation is that kids over 2 should drink skim milk to control their weight. But kids that started out at a healthy weight before switching to skim milk had a much higher incidence of becoming fat than the kids who drink whole milk. And then there is all the sugar substitutes that also appear to act contrary to what the companies and government tell you. Or the messages everyone gets on how they should be using anti-bacterial soaps and cleansers. This just leads to super strains of bacteria that our medicine can't kill off anymore. And we have the studies telling us that the poison on your food is healthy (glyphosate).
Even this study that the article says took 11 years, it was really just a summary of 31 other studies. How do we know they didn't just choose the 31 studies that aligned with what they wanted to show. It's easy to take a list of 100 studies and throw out the 69 of them that show harm and end up with a result that shows there is no harm caused! I am certainly not saying this is what this study has done. In fact I believe this study's results are probably correct. But, like most people, I haven't looked at their papers or how they did the study. I don't have the time, or the interest, to do that for everything I learn about. Instead I am relying on the scientific community to come to a general consensus over time. The older and incorrect studies will be discounted as our knowledge increases. Sometimes this may take a while, especially when big powerful companies spend a lot of money to buy the studies and regulations they want done to control what people think. In some cases I discount studies as they don't align with what I already believe to be healthy. It would take some seriously major shift for me to think denying your body the material your brain is made out of is ever going to be healthy (your brain is made of fat). If eating fat makes one fat, then eating muscle should make me into a bulked up body builder. Of course the rule is "everything in moderation". Even water will kill you if you drink too much of it.
I think this article has a great bit of information for terrorists everywhere to start using. If all the terrorists start using high profile famous people's names as aliases then all these famous people will be on the no-fly list. Imagine how much trouble that would cause in the US. From the terrorist's point of view they would be using the Homeland Security no-fly list as a weapon against a large group of rich and powerful Americans. From my point of view, it might lead to the list being eliminated.
Well here is the main point. I don't care if you believe in Jesus or Astrology. You just can't claim it is a science either way. Actually, I guess you could do some testing of astrology and testing the predictions is a main point of the scientific process. Once you see that the predictions do not hold, then your astrology theory would have to be dropped. So, if you treat it scientifically, you would have to abandon it as false.
I know. Which is more work? Checking through the fridge once a month for food that has expired, or making sure you enter the name and expiration date of every item ever placed into the fridge. Now, getting home late from a nice restaurant with leftovers involves at least 5 minutes of data entry rather than just open door, put food in, shut door. I'll take the simple method thanks. Until Watson (The IBM AI) is small enough to fit in the fridge and smart enough to know what you put in by looking at it with a camera. Then he can give the names and dates and it is the same amount of work for me.
Ok, if that's how you feel. Don't feel bad if you get blown up. You should have had a better president and government. If you get killed by some terrorist organization, then you must have deserved it due to the country you live in and president you have.
I don't know about him being the Steve Jobs of vacuums. Maybe he took some principles that were in use previously, but he did have to refine them quite a bit to get them to work in the vacuum. The original cyclone filter was used to remove sawdust from the air in lumber mills. He had to make thousands of versions over several decades before he got a vacuum that worked. That sounds a little more involved that simply taking something that's already been done and put it into a vacuum.
No, nothing of use there yet. But if you want the valuable low UID you had better sign up soon! I got my 3 digit UID already. Just in case this site crashes and burns and that one takes over as a useful substitute.
They may think that one user is as good as another, but I feel they would be wrong in that thought. If people only came here to read the summaries, then trading in existing users for new users would be an even trade. Since people, by and large, come here to read the comments of other users, trading in the existing users for new ones would be a disaster. These users are the content generation. If you loose your content generators without getting new ones that are at least as good then there is less reason to come to this site. The summary can be read anywhere, the insightful comments by informed users of the site can only be read here while it lasts.
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I like KeyPass because the same database file can be used in my Android phone and on me PC. I don't want to use a cloud based password storage as that might be a vulnerability. I also like that KeyPass allows you to use more than just a password to protect the database, you can also have it use a keyfile. So it turns into something you know (the password) and something you have (the keyfile on a USB key). Then you just need to keep the database synchronized between the different systems you use it on. That could be a problem if you add passwords very frequently, but in my useage it has not been a problem. KeePassDroid is a nice Android version.
Perhaps the Universe is deterministic and the results are pre-determined. Or what if the many worlds theory is correct and any worlds where the results of the experiment don't square up are the worlds that cease to exist. We would always find ourselves in one of the branching worlds where the results of the quantum experiments match in the same way as if the detectors were tuned for those results.
It really does not matter if the data is looked at. If they capture it so they can look at it later it is still illegal unless they have a warrant for it. Capturing traffic flow to determine if there is an accident does not require a warrant. If the FBI wants to get to that traffic flow for a criminal investigation they need a warrant. See the difference? Of course you don't see any difference, you believe you and your fellow government criminals should be allowed to do anything you want to do!
What initiates the process is your act of calling internationally, and correllating to a known or suspected threat. 99.999% of us will never "accidentally" call anyone the NSA is interested in.
When you take that 0.001% of the population that will call someone the NSA is interested in and then look at all the other call they made, say to a pizza place to order some pizza, then follow that down to all the other people who called that number and follow that through three levels you get to a very large proportion of the population very quickly.
But I'm sure you are already aware of that and are trying to help cover up for the illegal action of yourself and your friends in the US government, right!
Security expert Bruce Schneier was found dead in his home. The cause of death is unknown but police are investigating possible foul play.
The cause of death has been revealed. Schneier died from a single gunshot wound to the back of the head. Investigators have ruled his death a suicide.
In addition to the gunshot wound he was found naked and locked in a duffle bag that was locked inside a chest which was wrapped completely in wrapping paper, duct tape, and colorful kitty stickers. The authorities say he was a pervert and did all this to himself for sexual reasons.
That doesn't mean that two different GPS receivers will give the same coordinates for one side of your car though. It also does not mean you will get the same coordinates if you use the same GPS receiver at the same exact location at different times. Either morning and afternoon, or two different days. Hell, even if you walked 50 feet away and walked back to the same spot you will probably get slightly different readings.
You need to start looking at the opportunities. Just imagine how rich the weapons manufacturers will get when there are a lot more wars for resources going on all over the world. See, it's a good thing!
Or, I don't know... capture it and burn it as fuel? The problem with you climate alarmists is you lack critical thinking skills.
I find it funny that you are claiming others lack critical thinking skills but you have shown a severe lack of thinking yourself. You do know that natural gas is wasted and allowed to escape when drilling for oil because it just isn't worth the effort to capture it. This is in a situation where they already have a well and the gas is coming out of it. Garbage dumps produce methane and it isn't captured and used for fuel because that would also cost too much money. They just burn it. But you are telling us that they will just build a giant funnel over all of siberia to capture all the methane that starts bubbling out of the ground. Like I said, lack of thinking!
Most of their arguments for a potential global catastrophy hinge one a hypothetical "tipping point" beyond which the climate will no longer be in stable equilibrium and will spiral out of control. I haven't seen a plausible mechanism for this, but based on what we know about the climate, such tipping points probably do exist. On the other hand, we know this kind of thing has happened in the past without human intervention. The causes cited are always much larger than anything humanity has been capable of (huge meteor impacts, super volcanoes, things like that).
If a Blue-Green algae can cause the Oxygen Catastrophe, then why couldn't humans cause a similar large change in the environment.
I can't wait until the put a touch screen steering wheel in there to drive with. Just use two fingers and turn them back and forth as you want to turn the car. Why not put a touch shifter into the car also. Then we will really have reached the awesomeness that the future will bring!
Over 100 years? Come on, we can move anything needed over that timeframe. But someone would have to be insane to build something near enough to the ocean where a foot mattered much anyway.
You make it quite apparent how much of an idiot you truly are. Have you ever looked at what humans actually do rather than just imagine what would be best for them to do? How about New Orleans? "Someone would have to be insane to build something " lower than the sea level and not upgrade the dikes when told they were insufficient. "Someone would have to be insane to " re-build a city in the same location after it gets wiped out from flooding. You really think that they are going to tear down New York because of hurricane Sandy? If they don't tear it down now and rebuild it higher above sea level then what makes you think they will do that in 100 years. Each year of those 100 years is in itself just one year. If New York were to be flooded each and every year like hurricane Sandy did then they might start thinking of abandoning the city. The storms will not all hit the same place. Each time a storm floods a location it will be a new place, a new city destroyed. And they will want to rebuild, just like New Orleans and New York did. Perhaps we should start calling them New New Orleans and New New York.
Yep, that's the solution. Everybody needs to wear decryption goggles and the lights on the bus put out some frequency that the human eye and digital cameras cannot see. It could work similar to night vision cameras but instead of low light levels it would appear pitch black in the bus. The decryption goggles would be able to pick up the frequency of EM radiation that is put out and translate an image for the person to see. I guess you would need the goggles to turn off if they are taken off of the person's head, or they could take a picture through the eyepiece of the goggles.
You would not have paid that original $50 unless you were making a profit from people actually buying your goods. If you feel making a profit is better than not making a profit then you would not close down the company and you would continue to make money.
As I said, I don't think there is danger in cell phone use.
But saying that an ear is similar chemical composition to a brain just sounds pretty unrealistic. The ear is almost all cartilage while the brain has no cartilage. The brain has lots of fluids and is the consistency of jello while the ear can stand up on it's own and is not a bag full of water. The brain is also made of millions of brain cells and nerves while the ear is mostly . . . cartilage.
I do notice heating of my ear when talking on the phone for a while. I am pretty sure it is from direct contact and not the inverse square law of radiation though. The inverse square law sounds reasonable and I would expect that to hold, but there are plenty of things that don't work the way one would expect. Until it is tested we don't know. Like you mentioned with the chemicals in eyes. I do remember reading one study that did find heating occurred in the brain near where the cell phone is held. I do not have any clue if that study is worth anything or is full of crap though so I would not put much into it. But when something like 80% of all scientific studies cannot be reproduced and get the same results, I don't put too much credence into this study either, so take that to mean whatever you want it to.
And the point about fever and brain damage also sounds reasonable at first glance. But a fever happens for a couple of days once every couple of years or so. The cell phone use is much more frequent than that and could cause different effects. Even if the temperature is lower the fact that it is much more frequently experienced is one avenue for a difference to appear.
Your cell phone should not be putting out any thermal energy. The battery and other electronics might put out some as a side effect, but it is undesired. In the end none of that matters one bit. What matters is what happens to the brain cells. When you get a high temperature it only takes a rise of a few degrees before the brain is dead. If the radiation put out from the phone causes a rise in temperature then there is a problem even though there is no ionizing radiation. I am not worried about it as I still use my cell phone. I do believe that cell phones are not causing cancer as the incidence of brain tumors has not been shown to have increased with the increase use of cell phones over the years. The problem I have is with your very simplistic thinking. That only ionizing radiation can cause harm, or only temperatures higher than 700C can kill you or something completely idiotic. There are a lot of ways things can cause harm and if a study is going to be worth anything it needs to consider everything possible and not just some simplistic process of only this one thing is a possible harm.
You are simply an asshole, that is pretty obvious.
The point is that if everyone has to do their own studies of the studies then there is no reason to have scientists doing the studies and giving reports. You can't trust any of them as they are all paid by some industry or are shilling for something. I'm not going to trust any number of studies from industry when it goes against my first hand experience. You can look at all the studies you want about how safe tobacco is for you and die your own horrible little death. I won't miss people like you. Your sig even shows how stupid you are as you feel there is no use in complaining about the end of a very valuable site. You would rather watch it dissapear as long as you don't have to hear people complain about it being ruined. Nice one asshole!
Yep it's non-ionizing. So is the heat in an incinerator. So you wouldn't mind if I stick you into one then?
There are other ways to cause harm than just ionizing radiation.
Yes, plenty of studies have be mistaken or even outright fraudulent. But you somehow expect us to believe one side of fraudulent studies over the other side? Look at all the government food recommendations that are being discovered to be unhealthy. Just yesterday I was listening to the radio when they were discussing recent studies that have noticed a correlation between people who drink skim milk getting overweight while people who drink whole milk don't. The recommendation is that kids over 2 should drink skim milk to control their weight. But kids that started out at a healthy weight before switching to skim milk had a much higher incidence of becoming fat than the kids who drink whole milk. And then there is all the sugar substitutes that also appear to act contrary to what the companies and government tell you. Or the messages everyone gets on how they should be using anti-bacterial soaps and cleansers. This just leads to super strains of bacteria that our medicine can't kill off anymore. And we have the studies telling us that the poison on your food is healthy (glyphosate).
Even this study that the article says took 11 years, it was really just a summary of 31 other studies. How do we know they didn't just choose the 31 studies that aligned with what they wanted to show. It's easy to take a list of 100 studies and throw out the 69 of them that show harm and end up with a result that shows there is no harm caused! I am certainly not saying this is what this study has done. In fact I believe this study's results are probably correct. But, like most people, I haven't looked at their papers or how they did the study. I don't have the time, or the interest, to do that for everything I learn about. Instead I am relying on the scientific community to come to a general consensus over time. The older and incorrect studies will be discounted as our knowledge increases. Sometimes this may take a while, especially when big powerful companies spend a lot of money to buy the studies and regulations they want done to control what people think. In some cases I discount studies as they don't align with what I already believe to be healthy. It would take some seriously major shift for me to think denying your body the material your brain is made out of is ever going to be healthy (your brain is made of fat). If eating fat makes one fat, then eating muscle should make me into a bulked up body builder. Of course the rule is "everything in moderation". Even water will kill you if you drink too much of it.
I think this article has a great bit of information for terrorists everywhere to start using. If all the terrorists start using high profile famous people's names as aliases then all these famous people will be on the no-fly list. Imagine how much trouble that would cause in the US. From the terrorist's point of view they would be using the Homeland Security no-fly list as a weapon against a large group of rich and powerful Americans. From my point of view, it might lead to the list being eliminated.
Well here is the main point. I don't care if you believe in Jesus or Astrology. You just can't claim it is a science either way. Actually, I guess you could do some testing of astrology and testing the predictions is a main point of the scientific process. Once you see that the predictions do not hold, then your astrology theory would have to be dropped. So, if you treat it scientifically, you would have to abandon it as false.
I know. Which is more work? Checking through the fridge once a month for food that has expired, or making sure you enter the name and expiration date of every item ever placed into the fridge. Now, getting home late from a nice restaurant with leftovers involves at least 5 minutes of data entry rather than just open door, put food in, shut door. I'll take the simple method thanks. Until Watson (The IBM AI) is small enough to fit in the fridge and smart enough to know what you put in by looking at it with a camera. Then he can give the names and dates and it is the same amount of work for me.
Ok, if that's how you feel. Don't feel bad if you get blown up. You should have had a better president and government. If you get killed by some terrorist organization, then you must have deserved it due to the country you live in and president you have.
I don't know about him being the Steve Jobs of vacuums. Maybe he took some principles that were in use previously, but he did have to refine them quite a bit to get them to work in the vacuum. The original cyclone filter was used to remove sawdust from the air in lumber mills. He had to make thousands of versions over several decades before he got a vacuum that worked. That sounds a little more involved that simply taking something that's already been done and put it into a vacuum.
No, nothing of use there yet. But if you want the valuable low UID you had better sign up soon! I got my 3 digit UID already. Just in case this site crashes and burns and that one takes over as a useful substitute.
They may think that one user is as good as another, but I feel they would be wrong in that thought. If people only came here to read the summaries, then trading in existing users for new users would be an even trade. Since people, by and large, come here to read the comments of other users, trading in the existing users for new ones would be a disaster. These users are the content generation. If you loose your content generators without getting new ones that are at least as good then there is less reason to come to this site. The summary can be read anywhere, the insightful comments by informed users of the site can only be read here while it lasts.