It'd be interesting to see a non-US government try to convict Microsoft of criminal fraud for putting in a back-door. I'd imagine Microsoft could just wave away any lawsuit by declaring national security or "NSA made us do it, but we can't legally show you any proof".
The skilled people who find such tricks typically end up selling those tricks to the highest seller. It's in the interest of black hats to keep those exploits secret, otherwise they become less useful and they can't sell them anymore.
All of those problems were entirely obvious and predictable at the time that the decisions were made to use XP and to buy proprietary software solutions that would only run on that one platform. Microsoft have supported XP for far longer than they originally promised (not entirely for good reasons, though) and anyone caught in a lock-in trap should be blaming the original decision makers for their lack of long-term planning.
There's some very good reasons for people to want to be anonymous, so it's not very helpful for you to dismiss someone's comments just because they're not logged in.
I don't think other platforms are impervious, but other platforms have sensible package management that doesn't encourage users to download random unsigned packages from random websites.
I really do think that Windows trains users in the worst possible behaviours - download and install from any website and if you see a dialog, don't bother reading it, just keep clicking "next" or "ok" until it's done.
That's not quite the same situation as the NSA aren't just looking at people who are involved in a terrorist attack, but instead data-mining everyone. If the police were checking phone records of everyone driving, regardless of whether they were involved in a crash, then your analogy would be better.
I'm no fan of the modern lack of privacy and I definitely believe that freedom should trump security. However, if someone is in a crash, then there is a good reason to investigate further and the specific phone records are a reasonable infringement of privacy.
To be honest, I'd be more concerned about being in a traffic accident than the police getting access to phone records. Privacy is important, but so is not driving a ton of steel into someone else. Maybe this would reduce traffic congestion if everyone who values their privacy chooses to not drive their own vehicle in case they crashed.
The vast majority of road incidents involve driver distractions, so I don't think that reducing speed (which is not necessarily a cause of accidents) by increasing the distraction is really going to work out very well.
I've been roasting my own beans for a few years now. I started off using a hot-air popcorn maker to roast very small batches and after a few years of that, I ended up buying a home roaster and roast a batch a week on average.
I've never tried cold brewed myself, but I've heard lots of reports from people who swear by it. I'm an Aeropress man myself, but I do like espressos when they're properly made - I've just never bothered spending enough money on a decent grinder to make proper espressos myself.
The Aeropress doesn't make Americano per se, but it's somewhere in-between espresso and americano in strength. For the record, espresso should be made with 95 degree Celsius water - I doubt that you can get a "perfect" espresso with boiling water. I tend to think of Aeropress coffee as a distinct type of coffee as it produces a distinct strength/flavour that you don't get with other methods.
I've never encountered any instant coffee that is anything but a very poor approximation to properly made coffee. I don't know what part of the making/freezing process destroys the flavour, but there is a huge difference.
I personally think they should use a variant on the Hario vacuum brewers just due to the whole pressure/gravity scientific nature of them.
I've always found JBM to be over-rated. I think there was a period of time when it was excellent, but once it started becoming sought after, they started churning out tons of sub-standard coffee from the region just because people would pay a premium for it.
I do think that the freshness of the beans makes a big difference, but it's not easy for most people to get hold of freshly roasted beans without spending more money. Supermarket coffee beans are hopelessly stale (and don't even get me started the staleness of pod coffee).
There's nothing wrong with it as long as you enjoy scalding the beans and extracting extra bitter compounds. You shouldn't really go above 95 degrees Celsius when making coffee. When I use my Aeropress, I usually go for around 80 degrees or so and like you said, cold brewing is also fine.
I like to think that there's a progression of how to make good coffee (with the first items being the easiest to do):
1) use hot, not boiling water. Just wait about 90 seconds after boiling a kettle to get a suitable temperature.
2) use proper coffee rather than instant.
3) stop using a drip filter machine - they over-extract the middle and under-extract the outside of the filter basket.
4) grind your own coffee with a burr grinder (burr grinders provide a consistent grain size to enable consistent extraction) - once ground, coffee starts to lose a lot of flavour withing minutes.
5) roast your own coffee - once roasted, beans lose their freshness after 3 weeks or so. (Unroasted/green beans can easily keep for about 18 months without degrading).
Nope, not vegan at all. "Eat mainly plants" is not the same as "eat only plants". You're much better off eating mainly plants with small amounts of non-plants (meat, fish, dairy) to get a sensible allocation of nutrients.
Pensioners are adults, but my point is that humans have different metabolic rates and nutritional needs throughout different phases of life.
What's important is the ratio of consumed calories versus expended calories. If energy expenditure changes, then you'd be wanting to change your calorie consumption. However, evolution hasn't really prepared us for having a virtually unlimited supply of food, so it's not easy to get the balance right.
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I always thought fuzzy logic is using a continuous range of truth/false values as opposed to using binary true/false values.
It'd be interesting to see a non-US government try to convict Microsoft of criminal fraud for putting in a back-door. I'd imagine Microsoft could just wave away any lawsuit by declaring national security or "NSA made us do it, but we can't legally show you any proof".
The skilled people who find such tricks typically end up selling those tricks to the highest seller. It's in the interest of black hats to keep those exploits secret, otherwise they become less useful and they can't sell them anymore.
All of those problems were entirely obvious and predictable at the time that the decisions were made to use XP and to buy proprietary software solutions that would only run on that one platform. Microsoft have supported XP for far longer than they originally promised (not entirely for good reasons, though) and anyone caught in a lock-in trap should be blaming the original decision makers for their lack of long-term planning.
There's some very good reasons for people to want to be anonymous, so it's not very helpful for you to dismiss someone's comments just because they're not logged in.
I don't think other platforms are impervious, but other platforms have sensible package management that doesn't encourage users to download random unsigned packages from random websites.
I really do think that Windows trains users in the worst possible behaviours - download and install from any website and if you see a dialog, don't bother reading it, just keep clicking "next" or "ok" until it's done.
That sounds more like an online backup (although geographically distinct) than an offsite backup.
If the backups were offsite, then how did they get wiped?
That's not quite the same situation as the NSA aren't just looking at people who are involved in a terrorist attack, but instead data-mining everyone. If the police were checking phone records of everyone driving, regardless of whether they were involved in a crash, then your analogy would be better.
I'm no fan of the modern lack of privacy and I definitely believe that freedom should trump security. However, if someone is in a crash, then there is a good reason to investigate further and the specific phone records are a reasonable infringement of privacy.
To be honest, I'd be more concerned about being in a traffic accident than the police getting access to phone records. Privacy is important, but so is not driving a ton of steel into someone else. Maybe this would reduce traffic congestion if everyone who values their privacy chooses to not drive their own vehicle in case they crashed.
The vast majority of road incidents involve driver distractions, so I don't think that reducing speed (which is not necessarily a cause of accidents) by increasing the distraction is really going to work out very well.
I just tested out chromium (the non-google version of chrome) and that allows you to add chrome extensions without a Google account.
Are we out of cat food?
Even worse, they claimed to have offsite backups which they clearly didn't have.
No, they just need to stop teaching Father Christmas and the Tooth Fairy in a science class if they want to continue to receive funds.
I've been roasting my own beans for a few years now. I started off using a hot-air popcorn maker to roast very small batches and after a few years of that, I ended up buying a home roaster and roast a batch a week on average.
I've never tried cold brewed myself, but I've heard lots of reports from people who swear by it. I'm an Aeropress man myself, but I do like espressos when they're properly made - I've just never bothered spending enough money on a decent grinder to make proper espressos myself.
The Aeropress doesn't make Americano per se, but it's somewhere in-between espresso and americano in strength. For the record, espresso should be made with 95 degree Celsius water - I doubt that you can get a "perfect" espresso with boiling water. I tend to think of Aeropress coffee as a distinct type of coffee as it produces a distinct strength/flavour that you don't get with other methods.
I've never encountered any instant coffee that is anything but a very poor approximation to properly made coffee. I don't know what part of the making/freezing process destroys the flavour, but there is a huge difference.
I personally think they should use a variant on the Hario vacuum brewers just due to the whole pressure/gravity scientific nature of them.
Yes, but I'm more concerned about the coffee being made correctly than whether someone burns themselves or not.
Priorities.
I've always found JBM to be over-rated. I think there was a period of time when it was excellent, but once it started becoming sought after, they started churning out tons of sub-standard coffee from the region just because people would pay a premium for it.
I do think that the freshness of the beans makes a big difference, but it's not easy for most people to get hold of freshly roasted beans without spending more money. Supermarket coffee beans are hopelessly stale (and don't even get me started the staleness of pod coffee).
There's nothing wrong with it as long as you enjoy scalding the beans and extracting extra bitter compounds. You shouldn't really go above 95 degrees Celsius when making coffee. When I use my Aeropress, I usually go for around 80 degrees or so and like you said, cold brewing is also fine.
I like to think that there's a progression of how to make good coffee (with the first items being the easiest to do):
1) use hot, not boiling water. Just wait about 90 seconds after boiling a kettle to get a suitable temperature.
2) use proper coffee rather than instant.
3) stop using a drip filter machine - they over-extract the middle and under-extract the outside of the filter basket.
4) grind your own coffee with a burr grinder (burr grinders provide a consistent grain size to enable consistent extraction) - once ground, coffee starts to lose a lot of flavour withing minutes.
5) roast your own coffee - once roasted, beans lose their freshness after 3 weeks or so. (Unroasted/green beans can easily keep for about 18 months without degrading).
It's never easy learning to suppress the gag reflex. Or so I've heard.
If you've got boiling water anywhere near coffee beans, you're doing it wrong.
Nope, not vegan at all. "Eat mainly plants" is not the same as "eat only plants". You're much better off eating mainly plants with small amounts of non-plants (meat, fish, dairy) to get a sensible allocation of nutrients.
Pensioners are adults, but my point is that humans have different metabolic rates and nutritional needs throughout different phases of life.
What's important is the ratio of consumed calories versus expended calories. If energy expenditure changes, then you'd be wanting to change your calorie consumption. However, evolution hasn't really prepared us for having a virtually unlimited supply of food, so it's not easy to get the balance right.