This far in and nobody mentioned CASIO yet? There's only one true geek wristwear - a humongous CASIO G-Force.
You can get them with lots of gadgets in them - solar panels, thermometers, altimiters, compass, radio controlled, etc. They can even have motion sensors in them to turn the light on when you make the right arm gesture ("auto-light").
Get a really big one.
If you're on a budget get a F91W. Retro cool and there's people locked up in Guantanamo just for wearing one (really).
the only place I've ever heard Western Digital being considered shitty is here on/..
Me too. I think drives like the Velociraptor show they're tech leaders who know a thing or two about making hard disks. I don't see any other brands making disks that come close.
"... less likely to die from heart disease, respiratory disease, stroke, injuries and accidents, diabetes, and infections, although the association was not seen for cancer."
Fuck that. I'd rather have a heart attack than cancer.
I guess the old adage "your mileage may vary" still applies.
I think it's more of a selective reinforcement thing.
Everybody seems to have a brand they're sure fails more than any other so they reinforce their beliefs based on subconscious selection of anecdote.
Me? I prefer WD, too - Velociraptors for performance and 'green' for mass-storage. I don't know if they're any better than other brands but I've got quite a few and never had a problem. The only disks I've owned that actually died on me before they became obsolete were Hitachi and Toshiba.
No encryption is invincible. Especially 5 years from now... Computing power has advanced to the point where you can just brute force "invincible encryption" from a few years back...
Um, no. Nobody sensible ever thought systems with 40 or 56 bit keys were "invincible".
128 bits? That's a different story. Moore's law isn't going to help with that, it's simply too big.
I just looked at the latest CPU hierarchy charts and the conclusion is: "...we're almost-shockingly left without an AMD CPU to recommend at any price point".
No matter how you define it, it's still a massive amount if you want to get past the most basic of cable screening at any useful distance (eg. from a hospital car park).
Cellphone towers and power grids? They're designed to take direct lightning strikes. You can probably cause far more chaos with a portable angle grinder and a bit of determination than with an EMP device.
Um, no. The amount of energy needed to generate a worthwhile EMP is in the nuclear bomb/solar flare range.
If you're a terrorist with that much energy in a transportable package the last thing you'll be thinking of doing with it is taking out a couple of cellphone towers.
It won't be in there very long. He'll soon get fed up his arm sticking to car doors, etc. I don't think he's thought his cunning plan all the way through.
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I dunno. It looks cool but I'm not I want a 'watch' that only lasts a few days without recharging.
"What time is it? Oh, darn, I forgot to charge my watch...again."
Wouldn't you want to look up famous people in the database? See how much tax they pay, etc. I sure would!
This far in and nobody mentioned CASIO yet? There's only one true geek wristwear - a humongous CASIO G-Force.
You can get them with lots of gadgets in them - solar panels, thermometers, altimiters, compass, radio controlled, etc. They can even have motion sensors in them to turn the light on when you make the right arm gesture ("auto-light").
Get a really big one.
If you're on a budget get a F91W. Retro cool and there's people locked up in Guantanamo just for wearing one (really).
If a guy leaves because he has to pay $67 million after earning $4 billion then he doesn't deserve citizenship.
It was the 'system' who allowed him to earn that money in the first place.
the only place I've ever heard Western Digital being considered shitty is here on /..
Me too. I think drives like the Velociraptor show they're tech leaders who know a thing or two about making hard disks. I don't see any other brands making disks that come close.
"... less likely to die from heart disease, respiratory disease, stroke, injuries and accidents, diabetes, and infections, although the association was not seen for cancer."
Fuck that. I'd rather have a heart attack than cancer.
Governments have a way of getting special deals that aren't available to people on the street.
McDonalds isn't bad if you skip the fries and soda. Try ordering two Big Macs instead of a 'menu'.
(Though if you don't order fries+soda they might call security, it's unpatriotic...)
I think they do offer lighter salad dressing choices?
The dressing comes in a little packet so you can choose to add less of it. Or none at all.
256, just to be sure...
256-bit AES turned out weaker than 128-bit AES precisely because some bright spark at NIST followed that line of thinking. (cite)
cryptographers do, after all, find ways to reduce the cost of attacking particular encrption methods occasionally.
If a system is truly broken then adding more bits probably won't save you.
New PC, old OS. Microsoft did a really good job locking people into IE. So good that many people still haven't escaped.
...and me without any mod point's.
I guess the old adage "your mileage may vary" still applies.
I think it's more of a selective reinforcement thing.
Everybody seems to have a brand they're sure fails more than any other so they reinforce their beliefs based on subconscious selection of anecdote.
Me? I prefer WD, too - Velociraptors for performance and 'green' for mass-storage. I don't know if they're any better than other brands but I've got quite a few and never had a problem. The only disks I've owned that actually died on me before they became obsolete were Hitachi and Toshiba.
128 bit (or bigger) encryption keys aren't going to be brute forced.
It simply isn't - do the math sometime.
No encryption is invincible. Especially 5 years from now... Computing power has advanced to the point where you can just brute force "invincible encryption" from a few years back...
Um, no. Nobody sensible ever thought systems with 40 or 56 bit keys were "invincible".
128 bits? That's a different story. Moore's law isn't going to help with that, it's simply too big.
Also for Corporations, lawyers and other paper shredders
(who do far more harm than the terrorists and pedophiles).
If you ask McDonalds customers if they'd like to see more salads and healthy choices they'll say, "Yes, of course!"
But ... when McDonalds put them on the menu they keep right on buying burgers and fries.
Moral: People answering surveys tend to idealize.
The problem is that Facebook is
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Nah, the problem is they're spending 40 million bucks a year on "maintaining a facebook profile".
I'm pretty sure they're doing it wrong. If that's really the way they do things it's no wonder they need bailouts.
No, being poor is the problem.
When you need to feed a family of four on a tight budget, well, you just can't do it healthy unless you grow stuff yourself
Bullshit. Basic foodstuff like flour, rice, vegetables is dirt cheap anywhere.
The prices only go through the roof when you want you salad pre-chopped, pre-washed and in a special little plastic tray of its own.
I'm going to retract that.
I just looked at the latest CPU hierarchy charts and the conclusion is: "...we're almost-shockingly left without an AMD CPU to recommend at any price point".
Strange times, indeed.
The Intel CPUs are so far ahead, in performance and value
"Performance"? Sure. "Value". Not so sure. If you want a top Intel CPU you'd better be prepared to pay big $$$ for it.
I suppose it depends how you define "worthwhile".
No matter how you define it, it's still a massive amount if you want to get past the most basic of cable screening at any useful distance (eg. from a hospital car park).
Cellphone towers and power grids? They're designed to take direct lightning strikes. You can probably cause far more chaos with a portable angle grinder and a bit of determination than with an EMP device.
Seriously, are all the threats realistic
Um, no. The amount of energy needed to generate a worthwhile EMP is in the nuclear bomb/solar flare range.
If you're a terrorist with that much energy in a transportable package the last thing you'll be thinking of doing with it is taking out a couple of cellphone towers.
That doesn't work when both parties are in favor of doing something.
It won't be in there very long. He'll soon get fed up his arm sticking to car doors, etc. I don't think he's thought his cunning plan all the way through.