I know, right? Fuckin' hoopsnakes! So sick of them rolling about the country side, terrifying old grandmas, going above the speed limit, with absolutely no regard for polite society. I was at the pub the other day with Dazza, and we saw a hoopsnake carrying a fucking didgeridoo he'd stolen off some abo, who was limping because he was only wearing one thong!
We thought that was a bloody sight for sore eyes, but we shut our mouths when we realized it was Sir Ernie Dingo. Luckily he was too pissed to realize who it was, and the other 53 people in Australia promised not to tell, so we should be fine. I don't wanna get a kick up the bum again!
Sorry, obviously there's a little confusion here. Lemme clarify that for ya.
A billion in the Australian metric system, is 1/10th of a Waggawagga, or about 3/5ths of a Malala. It doesn't quite work the same as you guys over there.
If you convert it correctly, then it comes out to a little bit above what I quoted ya. However, when you take into account the money you have to pay the Aborginal gangs on your way to the Reserve Money Trader of Australia (it's in Canberra), you'd come out with about what I quoted. If ya don't pay them, they'll bash ya, and make ya walkabout it off.
Seriously, I've lived in Australia all my life, and I can tell ya', there's always been sharks swimming in the streets!
Blimey, if I had a 2 dollar coin for every time I've seen a shark swimming in the streets, I'd be a billionaire! (1 billion AUD ~ 23,540 USD)
We got it all down here, land sharks, flying snakes, drop bears, bunyips, flys that bite, the worlds most poisonous spiders. Basically, if it's an animal that can kill you, we've got it. Crikey, we even import dangerous animals from other countries, just to make sure we've got 'em!
Land sharks? Phft! Nobodies ever died from a land shark!
Now drop bears, that's a lethal animal. I lost my father to a drop bear, came out of no where. R.I.P. Dad.
The prisoner's dilemma optimal solution applies. I cooperate and adapt. You cooperate, so will I. You defect, so will I.
There's many optimal solutions, depending on how you're modelling your opponent, and how you're measuring "optimal" (eg, how the weights are setup). In this case, it would be an iterated game (maybe continuous), and your solution seems to be a retaliating strategy. Though this isn't the only strategy.
It's a good way of looking at it though. However, to really understand an outcome of such a game, you'd need more psychology in the analysis, and refine it to a set of people.
You treat me like something you can squeeze work from and throw away when there's nothing left, so I treat you like something I can squeeze money from and throw away when there's nothing left.
Yes, I treat you like my girlfriend, and you treat me like your boyfriend. Now... where's my lube?
WOW! You must be a hell of a big deal, because you literally just told us how to live our lives.
I wish I had mod points right now, I'd mod you down so hard, you wouldn't shit right for a week.
Regardless of what you think is "right" or "wrong", if you think you can describe what people "need" to do so easily, then you're definitely wrong.
I've got a fair few friends who ONLY have a smart phone, and this smart phone is their entire life line to the world. They don't have a computer, or they have one, but they're continually moving around in rural Australia, that they can't get a good internet connection, and often 3G won't cut it. So they use their phones for all net stuff, and it works well.
But thank you for your message. I shall tell them to put down their only means of doing banking (since many rural towns don't have branches now).
Thanks for biting, though I thought I explained myself well, but perhaps I didn't.
What I'm saying is, if you're going to explain yourself more "honestly" your message is going to get lost amongst the qualifiers, and your analysis is going to become increasingly complicated, to the point that you will likely take a strong point, and make it weak.
So, the seeing something in black and white terms, is completely natural, and necessary for any argument.
If he were to fully qualify what he said, he'd still have to pick an arbitrary point, and define one side as black, and one as white, else he'd essentially end up having to describe each individual in the US.
What he wrote is retarded, it's just something I've been having trouble with, that when you said "Why do you insist on looking at the US in such absolute, black and white terms?" it got to me.
Mainly because I'm the kind of person who has a problem with over qualification, where I attempt to describe something in too much detail, then end up going no where with it. I need to learn that for analysis/arguments sake, we must define arbitrary black/white positions.
Else this analysis will devolve into a completeness problem, which Godel tells us, can't be solved.
Because to describe it in all the shades of grey that would be required for this to be truly reflective of them... we'd end up losing the underlying message, and would spend most of the conversation describing them.
More so, the actual charities say it themselves. They often have to pay fees to government, or have their stuff processed, or similar euphemisms, before getting into the country. Really terrible when you think about it.
I've got family in that area, and I've been around for quite a long time now, and it doesn't nor has it happened, again and again.
You're mixing up the flood plains flooding (which does happen regularly), and everything else flooding.
See the footage with all the houses on stilts? That's the flood plains, that's the understandable part.
See the part where the cars are being washed down the road? The houses at ground level being flooded? Or the Wivenhoe Dam levels? These are the unexpected irregular flooded parts. THIS is not normal, and does not happen regularly.
Else, what you're saying is that Wivenhoe Dam, was built without the capacity to hold the water from this flood that happens regularly. You're saying that in the 70s/80s, they somehow didn't know about this "regular flooding".
Poppy cock!
These are exceptional circumstances. Whether or not its due to climate instability/change, is for someone else, with a background in that, to argue.
Yeah, I just shouldn't post on climate/weather articles, because I got no idea what I'm talking about. Made a pile of egregious errors, which have been pointed out over and over again.
On the plus side, I'll never make these errors again!
It's weird, I didn't really know about weather, and I intuitively thought it would be a measure of volume. So, when I looked at the BOM's site, it even says "millimetres", but somehow I read that as "millilitres", likely because of speed reading and thinking it would be in volume.
That's an insane amount of rain. Considering it basically hasn't stop raining for them this entire month, this months levels are going to be fucking huge! In 3 days, they're already off the highest measurement on the BOM's "average" scale.
In fact, the entire country has had an extremely wet summer, and an extremely dry winter for the last year or two.
If you want to feel the effects of climate instability, you just gotta come down here, where it's sunny and 36 degrees celsius (96 degrees fahrenheit) one day and raining and 22 degrees celsius (71 degrees fahrenheit) the next.
I've got and have been running for quite some time, an "SSO" of sorts, that meets and exceeds all of your requirements...
1: It has the ability to have two factor authentication. In fact, there's several methods of 2 factor authentication, and I think some can be chained (but not sure about that last point). It doesn't support SecurID tokens, but it supports other similar tokens, and has planned support for others. I believe SMS and similar ideas have been floated, but its a small company, running on almost no income, so I'm not sure about that.
2: It ensures that the site that is asking for information is genuine, as a matter of how its implemented. A user would have to go out of their way, to put their information in, and bypass this protection.
3: It has the ability to backup your data, tokens, and similar. You can also store a one time password for a single simple recovery. As a consequence of being able to backup your data, it allows relatively easy migration between other similar providers.
4: It has exceptional password and data storage. Everything is encrypted. They can't even see the hash, or unencrypted data. All they see is the encrypted data. A consequence of this, is they cannot recover your data, and the onus is on you (see point 3), to backup and ensure you can recover your own password. It's as good as TrueCrypt's mechanism (from what I read).
5: Okay, they fail here. I don't believe there is any vetting of their security system, but since most of it is client side, technically anyone can analyse it. You'll see exactly what is sent to and from them, using each of the mechanisms you use. Their weakest mechanism is the website which could be prone to a man in the middle attack. They aren't FIPS compliant, though from what I've read, this is a good thing, as a lot of the FIPS standards are lower than they could be. As for the data center, well you know exactly what they store (if you want) so you know all data in that data centre is relatively useless. Except if they took it over and re-wrote their code, then got us to use it. Basically, only the most insane (or government run) attack on the data center might work.
6: They use SSL (and more, as above) with their authentication process, and they use the regular authentication process of the other providers, which could mean SSL. Also, if one site is broken, and you're maintaining good practices (which they give you a tool to audit yourself with), then that won't affect the other sites.
7: Not sure about this one.
8: They don't have this, but its addressed through other mechanisms, and as you've seen, they got this angle covered.
9: They can store your password with (possibly) unlimited length, but they are bound by the password length of the other services.
10: There aren't third party logins, so one site cannot access another site (without some other mechanism). So the default state is turned off.
11: It allows multiple accounts/personalities, so when you go to a site with multiple accounts, it prompts you with which one you want to login with.
Additionally, it's decentralized, I'm in complete control of it (well, reasonably in control of it), it can store offline passwords, it can store other information and they have so far rapidly responded to problems/help. I lodged a problem the other day, and it was fixed today. I was quite impressed.
It's not an SSO per se, it's LastPass. It's essentially SSO, without giving them too much control, allows me to maintain large complex passwords (extreme entropy, 20+ characters long, upper case, lower case, extended characters, etc). It also has an audit tool to give you an idea on your security strength.
Quite frankly, when I searched around for this (there's several other providers, and OSS solutions), I found this was the best service, and have been continually amazed with it. It changed my security immensely!
Seriously, this SSO idea above, is fucking retarded in comparison.
Good password/account management starts at home (or more so, client side)!
My other post to you stands with only the exception of a BluRay drive. One of those would generally have to be purchased, though I don't know why, since I scarcely know anyone who uses that media.
Oh and with the caveat that it couldn't play PS3 games, which would rule out everything BUT the PS3 (and perhaps a high powered PC with an emulator, but not sure if there are emulators out).
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I know, right? Fuckin' hoopsnakes! So sick of them rolling about the country side, terrifying old grandmas, going above the speed limit, with absolutely no regard for polite society. I was at the pub the other day with Dazza, and we saw a hoopsnake carrying a fucking didgeridoo he'd stolen off some abo, who was limping because he was only wearing one thong!
We thought that was a bloody sight for sore eyes, but we shut our mouths when we realized it was Sir Ernie Dingo. Luckily he was too pissed to realize who it was, and the other 53 people in Australia promised not to tell, so we should be fine. I don't wanna get a kick up the bum again!
Sorry, obviously there's a little confusion here. Lemme clarify that for ya.
A billion in the Australian metric system, is 1/10th of a Waggawagga, or about 3/5ths of a Malala. It doesn't quite work the same as you guys over there.
If you convert it correctly, then it comes out to a little bit above what I quoted ya. However, when you take into account the money you have to pay the Aborginal gangs on your way to the Reserve Money Trader of Australia (it's in Canberra), you'd come out with about what I quoted. If ya don't pay them, they'll bash ya, and make ya walkabout it off.
Fuckin' arseholes if you tell me.
Seriously, I've lived in Australia all my life, and I can tell ya', there's always been sharks swimming in the streets!
Blimey, if I had a 2 dollar coin for every time I've seen a shark swimming in the streets, I'd be a billionaire! (1 billion AUD ~ 23,540 USD)
We got it all down here, land sharks, flying snakes, drop bears, bunyips, flys that bite, the worlds most poisonous spiders. Basically, if it's an animal that can kill you, we've got it. Crikey, we even import dangerous animals from other countries, just to make sure we've got 'em!
Land sharks? Phft! Nobodies ever died from a land shark!
Now drop bears, that's a lethal animal. I lost my father to a drop bear, came out of no where. R.I.P. Dad.
The prisoner's dilemma optimal solution applies. I cooperate and adapt. You cooperate, so will I. You defect, so will I.
There's many optimal solutions, depending on how you're modelling your opponent, and how you're measuring "optimal" (eg, how the weights are setup). In this case, it would be an iterated game (maybe continuous), and your solution seems to be a retaliating strategy. Though this isn't the only strategy.
It's a good way of looking at it though. However, to really understand an outcome of such a game, you'd need more psychology in the analysis, and refine it to a set of people.
You treat me like something you can squeeze work from and throw away when there's nothing left, so I treat you like something I can squeeze money from and throw away when there's nothing left.
Yes, I treat you like my girlfriend, and you treat me like your boyfriend. Now... where's my lube?
WOW! You must be a hell of a big deal, because you literally just told us how to live our lives.
I wish I had mod points right now, I'd mod you down so hard, you wouldn't shit right for a week.
Regardless of what you think is "right" or "wrong", if you think you can describe what people "need" to do so easily, then you're definitely wrong.
I've got a fair few friends who ONLY have a smart phone, and this smart phone is their entire life line to the world. They don't have a computer, or they have one, but they're continually moving around in rural Australia, that they can't get a good internet connection, and often 3G won't cut it. So they use their phones for all net stuff, and it works well.
But thank you for your message. I shall tell them to put down their only means of doing banking (since many rural towns don't have branches now).
You're an idiot.
A Men In Black reference? Well done good Sir, well done indeed!
Next up, I'd like a Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure reference.
Thanks for biting, though I thought I explained myself well, but perhaps I didn't.
What I'm saying is, if you're going to explain yourself more "honestly" your message is going to get lost amongst the qualifiers, and your analysis is going to become increasingly complicated, to the point that you will likely take a strong point, and make it weak.
So, the seeing something in black and white terms, is completely natural, and necessary for any argument.
If he were to fully qualify what he said, he'd still have to pick an arbitrary point, and define one side as black, and one as white, else he'd essentially end up having to describe each individual in the US.
What he wrote is retarded, it's just something I've been having trouble with, that when you said "Why do you insist on looking at the US in such absolute, black and white terms?" it got to me.
Mainly because I'm the kind of person who has a problem with over qualification, where I attempt to describe something in too much detail, then end up going no where with it. I need to learn that for analysis/arguments sake, we must define arbitrary black/white positions.
Else this analysis will devolve into a completeness problem, which Godel tells us, can't be solved.
Because to describe it in all the shades of grey that would be required for this to be truly reflective of them... we'd end up losing the underlying message, and would spend most of the conversation describing them.
Instead it's convenient to use simplifications.
However, I don't agree with the GP's post.
It's because of all those tram's. I don't know how... but it's the only thing that makes sense!
More so, the actual charities say it themselves. They often have to pay fees to government, or have their stuff processed, or similar euphemisms, before getting into the country. Really terrible when you think about it.
Sunny and 35 degrees celsius? In Townsville?
I think you mean 45 degrees celsius?
There. Fixed it for you.
Heat's fine, humidity sucks!
Hold on.
No.
I've got family in that area, and I've been around for quite a long time now, and it doesn't nor has it happened, again and again.
You're mixing up the flood plains flooding (which does happen regularly), and everything else flooding.
See the footage with all the houses on stilts? That's the flood plains, that's the understandable part.
See the part where the cars are being washed down the road? The houses at ground level being flooded? Or the Wivenhoe Dam levels? These are the unexpected irregular flooded parts. THIS is not normal, and does not happen regularly.
Else, what you're saying is that Wivenhoe Dam, was built without the capacity to hold the water from this flood that happens regularly. You're saying that in the 70s/80s, they somehow didn't know about this "regular flooding".
Poppy cock!
These are exceptional circumstances. Whether or not its due to climate instability/change, is for someone else, with a background in that, to argue.
You 'sas'n me boy?
Yeah, I just shouldn't post on climate/weather articles, because I got no idea what I'm talking about. Made a pile of egregious errors, which have been pointed out over and over again.
On the plus side, I'll never make these errors again!
LOL Well, at least I didn't do that.
Would have been good if that typo was a hard coded link in a program.
LOL Yeah.
It's weird, I didn't really know about weather, and I intuitively thought it would be a measure of volume. So, when I looked at the BOM's site, it even says "millimetres", but somehow I read that as "millilitres", likely because of speed reading and thinking it would be in volume.
It's not Adelaide weather at ANY time during the Summer, but it's just about all we've had for the last 2 years.
It's been fucking shit as.
Yeah, sorry, I messed that up. Another commenter corrected me.
Do your 70F to 14F happen like this... ... and so on.
Day 1: 70F
Day 2: 14F
Day 3: 70F
Day 4: 14F
It's not quite that rapid sometimes, but there's been periods of it. Though our temperatures are more like 100F, 70F, 100F, 70F, and so on.
Excellent, wasn't sure about that part, thanks!
That's an insane amount of rain. Considering it basically hasn't stop raining for them this entire month, this months levels are going to be fucking huge! In 3 days, they're already off the highest measurement on the BOM's "average" scale.
Wow, worst typo (it's late here).
Brisband = Brisbane
Remember when you're reading this that it's currently summer down here.
In the region (Brisband) the average temperature for this month is around 27 degrees celsius (80 degrees fahrenheit) and average rainfall is around 100 milliliters for the month (6.1 cubic inches).
In fact, the entire country has had an extremely wet summer, and an extremely dry winter for the last year or two.
If you want to feel the effects of climate instability, you just gotta come down here, where it's sunny and 36 degrees celsius (96 degrees fahrenheit) one day and raining and 22 degrees celsius (71 degrees fahrenheit) the next.
It's been fucking insane.
South Park did it. Several times in fact.
I've got and have been running for quite some time, an "SSO" of sorts, that meets and exceeds all of your requirements...
1: It has the ability to have two factor authentication. In fact, there's several methods of 2 factor authentication, and I think some can be chained (but not sure about that last point). It doesn't support SecurID tokens, but it supports other similar tokens, and has planned support for others. I believe SMS and similar ideas have been floated, but its a small company, running on almost no income, so I'm not sure about that.
2: It ensures that the site that is asking for information is genuine, as a matter of how its implemented. A user would have to go out of their way, to put their information in, and bypass this protection.
3: It has the ability to backup your data, tokens, and similar. You can also store a one time password for a single simple recovery. As a consequence of being able to backup your data, it allows relatively easy migration between other similar providers.
4: It has exceptional password and data storage. Everything is encrypted. They can't even see the hash, or unencrypted data. All they see is the encrypted data. A consequence of this, is they cannot recover your data, and the onus is on you (see point 3), to backup and ensure you can recover your own password. It's as good as TrueCrypt's mechanism (from what I read).
5: Okay, they fail here. I don't believe there is any vetting of their security system, but since most of it is client side, technically anyone can analyse it. You'll see exactly what is sent to and from them, using each of the mechanisms you use. Their weakest mechanism is the website which could be prone to a man in the middle attack. They aren't FIPS compliant, though from what I've read, this is a good thing, as a lot of the FIPS standards are lower than they could be. As for the data center, well you know exactly what they store (if you want) so you know all data in that data centre is relatively useless. Except if they took it over and re-wrote their code, then got us to use it. Basically, only the most insane (or government run) attack on the data center might work.
6: They use SSL (and more, as above) with their authentication process, and they use the regular authentication process of the other providers, which could mean SSL. Also, if one site is broken, and you're maintaining good practices (which they give you a tool to audit yourself with), then that won't affect the other sites.
7: Not sure about this one.
8: They don't have this, but its addressed through other mechanisms, and as you've seen, they got this angle covered.
9: They can store your password with (possibly) unlimited length, but they are bound by the password length of the other services.
10: There aren't third party logins, so one site cannot access another site (without some other mechanism). So the default state is turned off.
11: It allows multiple accounts/personalities, so when you go to a site with multiple accounts, it prompts you with which one you want to login with.
Additionally, it's decentralized, I'm in complete control of it (well, reasonably in control of it), it can store offline passwords, it can store other information and they have so far rapidly responded to problems/help. I lodged a problem the other day, and it was fixed today. I was quite impressed.
It's not an SSO per se, it's LastPass. It's essentially SSO, without giving them too much control, allows me to maintain large complex passwords (extreme entropy, 20+ characters long, upper case, lower case, extended characters, etc). It also has an audit tool to give you an idea on your security strength.
Quite frankly, when I searched around for this (there's several other providers, and OSS solutions), I found this was the best service, and have been continually amazed with it. It changed my security immensely!
Seriously, this SSO idea above, is fucking retarded in comparison.
Good password/account management starts at home (or more so, client side)!
'Tis a fine Barn, English, but surely 'tis no datacenter.
Simpsons Amish
Based on this...
PS3 Hardware
My other post to you stands with only the exception of a BluRay drive. One of those would generally have to be purchased, though I don't know why, since I scarcely know anyone who uses that media.
Oh and with the caveat that it couldn't play PS3 games, which would rule out everything BUT the PS3 (and perhaps a high powered PC with an emulator, but not sure if there are emulators out).