google is awesome at marketing, the whole planet knows of it. The whole planet uses their main products. meanwhile, you're in a snit about a fringe trial-balloon project most people never heard of and which made google no money. Not only are they awesome at marketing, they are getting awesome at business.
a few billion in server sales per year is chicken shit. yes, Itanium is only a few billion a year, after ten years hasn't even met the projected sales for the first six months! In technical parlance, it's a "massive flop".
Even in the dense urban areas of the U.S., distance makes public transportation a very bad deal for half the people. I once lived in a place near chicago (wheaton, to be specific), where I would have to walk five blocks to a bus, which then took 30 minutes to finally get to the train station, where I'd have to wait 25 minutes for a train......waste of time, I'm supposed to waste two hours of my life every day to save a half gallon of gasoline? fuck that, fuck any enviro-nazi that says that's how we must live. I drove after doing that nonsense a few times. the reality is the world's population will peak at 8.5 billion in about 2075, there is plenty of energy, any shortage of a particular metal or element has alternatives. there is no reason to live like cavemen
Wrong, I read the EU's decision. They are idiots, and the claim they outlawed was not about any particular brand of bottled water nor type of water, bottled or not. I rightly think less of the moron bureaucrats in Brussels, they are incompetent, stupid, and failing at their purpose.
I read and understood what you believe. So after careful consideration, I'm convinced the EU bureaucrats made an incredibly stupid decision, showing their utter lack of competence and intelligence.
I don't find our transport energy intensive at all, we're just stupid how we get our energy since the earth has abundant cheap energy we don't use. The trains and buses don't go where I need to be.
As ID theft victim, I can tell you SS number is only icing on cake, not necessary at all. The DOB and address are trivially obtained, and of course credit card companies send "identity theft kits" whereby any misdelivered mail might give a thief a "check" to steal your money. I've also had a person 800 miles away put medical charges on my insurance account, somehow they had obtained insurance card (misdelivered mail again?) and used in conjunction with their own real ID. So then I get bill with their name on it, thousands of dollars of surgery and services were rendered with no questions asked.
why the "upper tier"? Why not save some money and send them to a local good two-year school, then go to state or good (not premium) university? Yes, do some interships. Tens of thousands of dollars not spent are a great thing.
Out of the dozens of successful coders I know, two have CS degree. Many others have degrees in engineering and science, but computers were tools not the focus of their education. History majors seem to be common also.
amusing the hysteria and fear about health records being randomly revealed, no one in a city far away cares about your case of crotch rot. It's no big deal. really.
No, it won't help earthquake safety, putting a massive enclosure around equipment doesn't make it any more resistant to sideways acceleration of large quake (0.6 g or more, stainless steel plumbing of a reactor is going to break). In civil war, it would only take employee with proper access to suddenly decide one night to "join the revolution", or maybe his family gets kidnapped and threatened. All married guys here, which do you value more, your wife and kids, or a city of ten million people you don't know. I know my answer, screw the multitudes, wipe them from the earth if my family can be returned unharmed. That's reality, it's the xkcd $5 wrench breaking all possible security.
sadly, what is common is for so-called "isolated SCADA network" to be hooked to a card in a PC that also is also on LAN, and then the guy install remote access software so he doesn't have to come into work if there is a problem at 3am....... or just cracking the PC into a router is all it takes to p0wn the works
I've seen "wtr" used, my cousin had part time job at village water works. he didn't get to choose or change the passwords.....however, on the bright side that was only for monitoring, the pumps actually were so very old they had the old "knife throw swiches", the wood panel with those was roped off lest someone touch the open metal and get zapped
Except Randall Munroe underestimated how good that is. If there are 6000 "common words", then a four word password is out of 6000 * 5999 * 5998 * 5997 = 1.3 * 10^15 combinations. That's more than 50 bits of entropy (2^50 = 1.1 * 10^15), his time to guess should be multiplied by 2^6, or 35,000 years by his 1000 guesses a second (and no login will allow that many, multipy by a thousan more for 35 million years!)
The risk is too small to consider. Meteorites aren't even known to have killed anyone, anywhere. There are are a pig and a cow that were believed to have been killed by them, in the last 100 years. Large meteorites are so very rare, and when they do hit they hit unpopulated areas since most of the earth has no people on it.
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google is awesome at marketing, the whole planet knows of it. The whole planet uses their main products. meanwhile, you're in a snit about a fringe trial-balloon project most people never heard of and which made google no money. Not only are they awesome at marketing, they are getting awesome at business.
Gears made no money whatsoever. Search with ads does. end of story.
a few billion in server sales per year is chicken shit. yes, Itanium is only a few billion a year, after ten years hasn't even met the projected sales for the first six months! In technical parlance, it's a "massive flop".
http://www.techfocusmedia.net/archives/articles/20110309-itanium/?printView=true
Even in the dense urban areas of the U.S., distance makes public transportation a very bad deal for half the people. I once lived in a place near chicago (wheaton, to be specific), where I would have to walk five blocks to a bus, which then took 30 minutes to finally get to the train station, where I'd have to wait 25 minutes for a train......waste of time, I'm supposed to waste two hours of my life every day to save a half gallon of gasoline? fuck that, fuck any enviro-nazi that says that's how we must live. I drove after doing that nonsense a few times. the reality is the world's population will peak at 8.5 billion in about 2075, there is plenty of energy, any shortage of a particular metal or element has alternatives. there is no reason to live like cavemen
Wrong, I read the EU's decision. They are idiots, and the claim they outlawed was not about any particular brand of bottled water nor type of water, bottled or not. I rightly think less of the moron bureaucrats in Brussels, they are incompetent, stupid, and failing at their purpose.
The edict is not sane and neither are you. Normal people have more common sense than you or the Brussels bureaucrats. I pity you.
You must like the salty water that comes out of the tap in many places around the Houston area. just add meat or veggies for a salty soup
I read and understood what you believe. So after careful consideration, I'm convinced the EU bureaucrats made an incredibly stupid decision, showing their utter lack of competence and intelligence.
and the best part is after turning on your brain, it can also be used to tun on other parts of the body. it's all good.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W31ue-9u4z4&feature=fvst
Yes, you are the only one. 8D
I don't find our transport energy intensive at all, we're just stupid how we get our energy since the earth has abundant cheap energy we don't use. The trains and buses don't go where I need to be.
As ID theft victim, I can tell you SS number is only icing on cake, not necessary at all. The DOB and address are trivially obtained, and of course credit card companies send "identity theft kits" whereby any misdelivered mail might give a thief a "check" to steal your money. I've also had a person 800 miles away put medical charges on my insurance account, somehow they had obtained insurance card (misdelivered mail again?) and used in conjunction with their own real ID. So then I get bill with their name on it, thousands of dollars of surgery and services were rendered with no questions asked.
Had you lived 150 years ago, you would have said the same about telegraphese
why the "upper tier"? Why not save some money and send them to a local good two-year school, then go to state or good (not premium) university? Yes, do some interships. Tens of thousands of dollars not spent are a great thing.
Out of the dozens of successful coders I know, two have CS degree. Many others have degrees in engineering and science, but computers were tools not the focus of their education. History majors seem to be common also.
Nope, the computer generates the password from the easy words. you memorize the easy words. problem solved
amusing the hysteria and fear about health records being randomly revealed, no one in a city far away cares about your case of crotch rot. It's no big deal. really.
HIPPA is irrelevant, doesn't apply to anyone even remotely connected to this incident
No HIPPA violation, law firms aren't healthcare providers nor reimbursers, and neither are schools
it's also what democrats get for sucking on the very same plutocrat dicks the republicans fellate
No, it won't help earthquake safety, putting a massive enclosure around equipment doesn't make it any more resistant to sideways acceleration of large quake (0.6 g or more, stainless steel plumbing of a reactor is going to break). In civil war, it would only take employee with proper access to suddenly decide one night to "join the revolution", or maybe his family gets kidnapped and threatened. All married guys here, which do you value more, your wife and kids, or a city of ten million people you don't know. I know my answer, screw the multitudes, wipe them from the earth if my family can be returned unharmed. That's reality, it's the xkcd $5 wrench breaking all possible security.
sadly, what is common is for so-called "isolated SCADA network" to be hooked to a card in a PC that also is also on LAN, and then the guy install remote access software so he doesn't have to come into work if there is a problem at 3am....... or just cracking the PC into a router is all it takes to p0wn the works
I've seen "wtr" used, my cousin had part time job at village water works. he didn't get to choose or change the passwords.....however, on the bright side that was only for monitoring, the pumps actually were so very old they had the old "knife throw swiches", the wood panel with those was roped off lest someone touch the open metal and get zapped
Except Randall Munroe underestimated how good that is. If there are 6000 "common words", then a four word password is out of 6000 * 5999 * 5998 * 5997 = 1.3 * 10^15 combinations. That's more than 50 bits of entropy (2^50 = 1.1 * 10^15), his time to guess should be multiplied by 2^6, or 35,000 years by his 1000 guesses a second (and no login will allow that many, multipy by a thousan more for 35 million years!)
The risk is too small to consider. Meteorites aren't even known to have killed anyone, anywhere. There are are a pig and a cow that were believed to have been killed by them, in the last 100 years. Large meteorites are so very rare, and when they do hit they hit unpopulated areas since most of the earth has no people on it.
we need more vulgarity, as mega-corporations take away freedom, quality of life, and useful tools for computation. It raises awareness.