Periodic copying, on a copier/xerox, of the contents of your wallet works well. Make sure you copy both sides of credit cards and such, as they have numbers to call for cancellation or replacement. You could even simply scan the contents, then encrypt and store it somewhere.
What is this "copier/xerox/scanner" you speak of? Are you also going to telefax the copy you made to the secure location?
The correct method is to place the document on a wooden table and photograph it with your cellphone.
The thing is, the phone didn't cause this, accident rates have not significantly gone up....these people were always out there...they were just less identifiable.
So now we have an easy way to identify them?
Time to put their insurance premiums through the roof.
PS: I scored one of those on eBay after I watched that. Cost me $80 but still a pretty good buy. It still has the "US Army" sticker on it complete with last calibration date (Feb 2011). There's not a mark on either the meter or the carrying case and the probes were brand new in plastic bag. I reckon it never left stores... "beauty!"
We are talking about little kids. You tend to get them the Big Blocks instead.
In what universe?
For the last two years every toddler-owner I meet is incredibly proud that their 2-year old knows how to swipe (and they keep reminding everybody in sight).
If they'd used C++ instead of C, heartbleed would never have happened - std::containers don't need to store their size as a separate variable.
Luckily for us, the people responsible for maintaining the Linux Kernel understand the difference between C and C++ and their software isn't full of manual memory management and arguments over which version of malloc()/free() to use. Oh, wait...
Most authors back in Asimov's day saw the world like that - astrogators using books of navigation tables, slide rules, taking sextant readings from the stars, etc.
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Periodic copying, on a copier/xerox, of the contents of your wallet works well. Make sure you copy both sides of credit cards and such, as they have numbers to call for cancellation or replacement. You could even simply scan the contents, then encrypt and store it somewhere.
What is this "copier/xerox/scanner" you speak of? Are you also going to telefax the copy you made to the secure location?
The correct method is to place the document on a wooden table and photograph it with your cellphone.
The thing is, the phone didn't cause this, accident rates have not significantly gone up....these people were always out there...they were just less identifiable.
So now we have an easy way to identify them?
Time to put their insurance premiums through the roof.
Newsflash: it turns out that rules written on pieces of paper don't actually stop the police from arresting you for parody.
...especially when the person you're parodying is a self-important asshole who happens to have the chief of police in his pocket.
No doubt this "revolution" will be organized on Facebook
(and the police will be waiting with tanks when they arrive to take over the mayors office... Internet surveillance, bitches!)
The image I have in my head right now is Boss Hogg with a big cigar is his hand shouting at some policemen to "do something".
Have they attached the inductor any better since his video? Enquiring minds...
He did eventually fix it up and it still works. It appears in some later videos, eg. this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
PS: I scored one of those on eBay after I watched that. Cost me $80 but still a pretty good buy. It still has the "US Army" sticker on it complete with last calibration date (Feb 2011). There's not a mark on either the meter or the carrying case and the probes were brand new in plastic bag. I reckon it never left stores... "beauty!"
There's people in Guantanamo whose only crime is to wear one of those: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Fluke multimeters...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
"Hardest working"?
I think the point is that off-shore platforms don't sink when the weather changes, tsunami or not.
Neither do the onshore ones...
Rouge waves, typhoons, collisions with tankers, vulnerability to warships, aircraft, submarines.
But hey. It's cool that a tsunami won't screw it up.
Wouldn't it be better on the sea bed? Also tsunami-proof...but also rogue-wave, aircraft and tanker proof.
Even better. Don't build any more reactors than can go into meltdown.
You COULD prevent millions of people from being able to do their job, ... or ... just turn off the heartbeat feature.
(And set up a honeypot it its place to catch the bad people)
The carriers already can (and do) block stolen phones. Each phone has a unique IMEI number, in addition to the SIM card number.
IMEI can be changed. It's usually just a file on a special partition.
They want bureaucracy, they make the paperwork. Tell them to track windows and distro security pages, the changes are there.
Yep. They're the "experts". Just tell them the Microsoft KB number, that's all the information they need.
We are talking about little kids. You tend to get them the Big Blocks instead.
In what universe?
For the last two years every toddler-owner I meet is incredibly proud that their 2-year old knows how to swipe (and they keep reminding everybody in sight).
"Oh, you should see him use the iPhone!".
Having skill at playing with building blocks is not useful to most modern jobs. I'm sure the children are not great at milking cows either.
Either of those would make you stand out in a job interview alongside a bunch of people who only know how to swipe.
Then there's the customer surveys that ask people if they'd like to see more salads and healthy foods in McDonalds.
Of course they'd like to SEE it...but that's not why they go to McDonalds.
I remember a saying when I was learning programming;-
With C it is easy to shoot yourself in the foot, with C++ it is a lot harder, but when you do shoot yourself in the foot you take your entire leg off.
Pity you never bothered to find out who said it or in what context...
I think 1996 just called and wants it's Usenet flamewar back.
UTF8 is great for storing data in files, but ... working with strings in memory? Insanity will follow.
The problem lies squarely with C.
If they'd used C++ instead of C, heartbleed would never have happened - std::containers don't need to store their size as a separate variable.
Luckily for us, the people responsible for maintaining the Linux Kernel understand the difference between C and C++ and their software isn't full of manual memory management and arguments over which version of malloc()/free() to use. Oh, wait...
Most authors back in Asimov's day saw the world like that - astrogators using books of navigation tables, slide rules, taking sextant readings from the stars, etc.
You don't need 4K^2 pixels. Your "retina" can't see them anyway, apparently. At least if you're hardware is "iPC" compatible.
Sure, and your retina can't see VGA resolution resolution either.
Not if you stand far enough away from the screen...
Good catch...
The article makes it abundantly clear that this it's satire.
I'm guessing the submitter didn't bother to click his own link.