I would love to have a 'single sign-on' and forever forget the hassle of remembering and entering passwords, but the flaw you mention and many others mean I don't think it will ever work. The value of pwning someone's 'single sign-on' code (whether it is Microsoft or some other solution) is just too high.
If a 'single sign-on' became everyone's only method of authenticating to anything, then it would make identity theft just too easy.
You can go to extreme lengths to protect all the sign-on pages in the world, but as long as there are people who will click on a 'your account will be deleted in 2 days unless you go to http://i.am.going.to.steal.your.identity.com/verif y.php' link in an email, none of it matters.
I can't think of any way of preventing that problem without there still being the possibility of a "man in the middle" attack...
I think the idea would be that you could only sue the board if you could prove negligence, eg that a problem was pointed out to them but because it would cost money to fix, nothing was done.
120,000 kilometres in 2 years without ever needing a service
I sincerely hope you had at least 9 or 12 oil changes in that time (depending on the schedule). And checked the air filter regularly, especially if you'd been spending time in the fine red dust.
Change your oil regularly and your car will love you.
Have you ever been on a divided highway? The stupid people are the ones doing the speed limit (typically 60-65 MPH here in Ohio), everyone else is going somewhere between 75 and 90.
I live in Australia, and the main freeway I travel on has a speed limit of 110kph (~68mph according to google, but it won't tell me what it is in rods) for most of it. I sit on pretty much exactly that, and pass about as many cars as pass me. I've never had a speeding ticket.
IMO, the stupid people are the ones doing over the speed limit and getting caught and then saying '<whiny voice>But everyone else was speeding... why are you picking on meeeee</whiny voice>'.
FFS, do the proper speed limit and leave 30 minutes earlier. It won't kill you, and you'll save a heap on petrol. If you are going to speed, then at least take it like a man when you get caught, you knew the rules and you broke them, and now you are paying for it.
Of course, if you know you weren't speeding at the time, then fight it to the death:)
I would hope that they have quota's. Of course they are getting a portion of their revenue from traffic offence fines. The alternative is that they would raise taxes for everyone instead of just the people too stupid to stay under the speed limit.
So next time you think about flashing your headlights at oncoming traffic to alert them to a speed trap ahead of them, think again. Every fine that someone else gets is less money you will have to pay in taxes.
Well... you could start with repeat drunk driving offenders. "Okay son, we are not prepared to believe you outright this time - the third time - that you are now rehabilitated and will not re-offend. So instead what we'll offer you is that you can have your license back now on the condition that you fork out $xxx to have this system installed in your car, and in any other car which you need to drive regularly, and that you submit your car regularly for checks that the system has not been tampered with, etc".
I wouldn't worry too much about that, you could just wear gloves. I'm sure a drunk person would *never* think of doing that.
More seriously, I think there is still value in a system that requires a deliberate attempt to subvert it. A person getting into a car and driving after possibly having too much to drink could argue that they thought they were under the limit (0.05% here in Australia). A person getting into a car and deliberately circumventing a system that has already told them quite clearly that they are over the limit could not, or certainly could not nearly as easily.
It won't necessarily stop the first offence, but will mean that there is much less chance of a person being given the benefit of the doubt when they clearly don't deserve it.
I remember having a very long discussion with someone about this. I don't think I ever convinced them that your example is correct.
The best example I could give to describe the physics was to imagine a very thin but immovable wall between the cars at the point of collision. It wouldn't make any difference (all other things being equal) if the wall was there or not, the physics would be the same.
If one of these very light and flimsy cars were to hit something like a Hummer though, it would be like the Hummer experienced a 'hitting an immovable object' crash at 10mph (a number I pulled out of thin air, but it will be substantially less than 30mph) and the flimsy car experienced it at 50mph. Now that's gonna hurt.
I'm pretty sure it could run on flour for example, or haven't you ever heard of flour silo explosions?
Now that would be cool. The catalytic converter could be turned into a bread maker, so you have fresh bread when you get where you're going. "I get 1.25 loaves/100km" you would tell people.
More seriously though, i'm not sure that flour would provide adequate lubrication, and the 'fuel' delivery system would be a nightmare to design, as would the exhaust.
Maybe you should pre-type your slashdot posts in MS Word.
I actually saw that one before I hit 'submit', but left it in intentionally. I was feeling a bit lonely today and that's a sure fire way of getting a response!
Oh, they have these. It's just that very few people use them anymore. They're called "brains".
I'm sure it won't surprise you to know how poorly tuned to grammar and spelling most people's brains are these days, and how little they care. I'm pretty much content to let most such errors slide unless there is obvious ambiguity, or unless I'm bored:)
And for the most part, such a converter would be more useful as a plug in for a web browser, not on the part of the poster but on the part of the viewer, so that they need not be offended by the carelessness of others.
Indeed. Let the spelling/grammar nazi without sin cast the first stone. This is a hard thing to do on slashdot where you can search through a persons prior posts until you find an example of their bad spelling or grammar.
Still... it's fun to tease them, especially by correcting errors in their posts that don't exist.
Another good one is, in a conversation, when someone is being pedantic call them pedantic but pronounce it wrong (eg call them pedontic or peedarntic), then watch them squirm:)
I wouldn't say 'completely useless'. Maybe it's unable to pick up on all errors of grammar, but it certainly helps me out from time to time, especially the ones for which i seem to have a 'blind spot' for.
Only when someone invents a 'what I said' to 'what I meant' converter will all these problems be solved. And that will be a said day indeed - no more Engrish to laugh at.
If you did that, the spelling nazi's from Australia (where it is a federal offence to omit the 'u' from words like colour) would expend many times more energy than that in wreaking their vengence upon you!
Sometimes it's like there is a queue of people that just sit around cataloguing and complaining about alternate spelling styles:)
A CRT works by firing electrons from the back of the screen to the front... from memory most of the energy is used just keeping the electron gun warm enough to fire electrons. I don't think it matters whether they are actually firing or not.
If that's true, then by not firing the electron gun (black) you are actually keeping it warm for nothing. So a black page is actually wasting energy!!!
I think the main advantage of this was only really in the few hundred or so km surrounding the airport, and ground based GPS nodes should be able to take care of that, especially for the altitudes we are talking about. And with a sensible number of ground based GPS nodes we should be able to negate problems with the terrorists shooting down the satellites or of solar flare problems. Taking out the radar is going to be easier than taking out the required number of GPS nodes to cripple the system.
Remember how litigious the world is these days. Nobody is going to authorise a system like this unless they are quite sure that they've covered all the bases that could get them sued!
I've had a few operations which involved putting me completely under (ear op, appendectomy, nose op), and with the exception of the appendectomy, it was literally like I was turned off and then immediately turned back on (of course it was more like 10 or 50 minutes later, but I didn't notice). I was about 7 or something when I had the ear operation, and was only under for 10 minutes, and bounced back afterwards like nothing had happened. Then appendectomy was obviously a more intensive procedure, and I remember waking up and feeling really groggy, and then going to sleep.
I've always imagined that that's what death would be pretty much exactly like that, without the turning you back on bit.
All the funky things that happen as the oxygen level starts dropping and your brain starts to shut down is reasonably well understood (the process, if not the reasons for it), I don't believe that there is any magic about it.
Of course, being able to prove her wrong doesn't necessarily make it a good idea either...
Yes... and as much as Dr Phil bugs me, the one thing he says to guys which really rings true is "Do you want to be right, or do you want to be married?":)
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I wonder if you'll be the sole voice of reason in the US-court-system-bashing that is slashdot... or at least you'll be the only one to read the article!
It's not purely a myth... ever heard of a hemispherectomy? It's exactly what it sounds like, the removal of one of the sides of your brain, and is done where one hemisphere is broken and is pulling the other down with it (constant seizures etc). If done at a young enough age, the person can lead a (mostly) normal life. I believe there are cases of hydrocephalus (wrong spelling i think, but i'm not looking it up:) where a persons brain size has been greatly reduced because of fluid accumulation in the skull before birth, and they have been completely normal. Of course that last bit could be myth... i can't find any references...
To draw the conclusion that "we only use X% of our brain" from "someone with a brain X% the size of normal is fully functional" is probably flawed too, but I wouldn't write the 10% thing off completely as a myth, more as a gross exaggeration.
I have a lot of respect for snopes, it's a great resource to point people at when they get all excited about the latest conspiracy etc, but the researchers don't know everything about everything.
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I would love to have a 'single sign-on' and forever forget the hassle of remembering and entering passwords, but the flaw you mention and many others mean I don't think it will ever work. The value of pwning someone's 'single sign-on' code (whether it is Microsoft or some other solution) is just too high.
f y.php' link in an email, none of it matters.
If a 'single sign-on' became everyone's only method of authenticating to anything, then it would make identity theft just too easy.
You can go to extreme lengths to protect all the sign-on pages in the world, but as long as there are people who will click on a 'your account will be deleted in 2 days unless you go to http://i.am.going.to.steal.your.identity.com/veri
I can't think of any way of preventing that problem without there still being the possibility of a "man in the middle" attack...
I think the idea would be that you could only sue the board if you could prove negligence, eg that a problem was pointed out to them but because it would cost money to fix, nothing was done.
I sincerely hope you had at least 9 or 12 oil changes in that time (depending on the schedule). And checked the air filter regularly, especially if you'd been spending time in the fine red dust.
Change your oil regularly and your car will love you.
And a fifth... YHBT YHL HAND
I live in Australia, and the main freeway I travel on has a speed limit of 110kph (~68mph according to google, but it won't tell me what it is in rods) for most of it. I sit on pretty much exactly that, and pass about as many cars as pass me. I've never had a speeding ticket.
IMO, the stupid people are the ones doing over the speed limit and getting caught and then saying '<whiny voice>But everyone else was speeding... why are you picking on meeeee</whiny voice>'.
FFS, do the proper speed limit and leave 30 minutes earlier. It won't kill you, and you'll save a heap on petrol. If you are going to speed, then at least take it like a man when you get caught, you knew the rules and you broke them, and now you are paying for it.
Of course, if you know you weren't speeding at the time, then fight it to the death
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The first is just how small it is-the 10mm x 7.2mm footprint makes for a board that is about the size of a 2.5 hard drive
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10mm = 1cm ~= 0.4inch... now that is small enough that you'd just end up losing it behind the couch!
I would hope that they have quota's. Of course they are getting a portion of their revenue from traffic offence fines. The alternative is that they would raise taxes for everyone instead of just the people too stupid to stay under the speed limit.
So next time you think about flashing your headlights at oncoming traffic to alert them to a speed trap ahead of them, think again. Every fine that someone else gets is less money you will have to pay in taxes.
Well... you could start with repeat drunk driving offenders. "Okay son, we are not prepared to believe you outright this time - the third time - that you are now rehabilitated and will not re-offend. So instead what we'll offer you is that you can have your license back now on the condition that you fork out $xxx to have this system installed in your car, and in any other car which you need to drive regularly, and that you submit your car regularly for checks that the system has not been tampered with, etc".
I wouldn't worry too much about that, you could just wear gloves. I'm sure a drunk person would *never* think of doing that.
More seriously, I think there is still value in a system that requires a deliberate attempt to subvert it. A person getting into a car and driving after possibly having too much to drink could argue that they thought they were under the limit (0.05% here in Australia). A person getting into a car and deliberately circumventing a system that has already told them quite clearly that they are over the limit could not, or certainly could not nearly as easily.
It won't necessarily stop the first offence, but will mean that there is much less chance of a person being given the benefit of the doubt when they clearly don't deserve it.
I remember having a very long discussion with someone about this. I don't think I ever convinced them that your example is correct.
The best example I could give to describe the physics was to imagine a very thin but immovable wall between the cars at the point of collision. It wouldn't make any difference (all other things being equal) if the wall was there or not, the physics would be the same.
If one of these very light and flimsy cars were to hit something like a Hummer though, it would be like the Hummer experienced a 'hitting an immovable object' crash at 10mph (a number I pulled out of thin air, but it will be substantially less than 30mph) and the flimsy car experienced it at 50mph. Now that's gonna hurt.
I'm pretty sure it could run on flour for example, or haven't you ever heard of flour silo explosions?
Now that would be cool. The catalytic converter could be turned into a bread maker, so you have fresh bread when you get where you're going. "I get 1.25 loaves/100km" you would tell people.
More seriously though, i'm not sure that flour would provide adequate lubrication, and the 'fuel' delivery system would be a nightmare to design, as would the exhaust.
If anyone has seen the trailer they'll know all about spiderpig. There are several clips on youtube too which are just doctored trailer footage.
Maybe you should pre-type your slashdot posts in MS Word.
:)
I actually saw that one before I hit 'submit', but left it in intentionally. I was feeling a bit lonely today and that's a sure fire way of getting a response!
Oh, they have these. It's just that very few people use them anymore. They're called "brains".
I'm sure it won't surprise you to know how poorly tuned to grammar and spelling most people's brains are these days, and how little they care. I'm pretty much content to let most such errors slide unless there is obvious ambiguity, or unless I'm bored
And for the most part, such a converter would be more useful as a plug in for a web browser, not on the part of the poster but on the part of the viewer, so that they need not be offended by the carelessness of others.
Indeed. Let the spelling/grammar nazi without sin cast the first stone. This is a hard thing to do on slashdot where you can search through a persons prior posts until you find an example of their bad spelling or grammar.
:)
Still... it's fun to tease them, especially by correcting errors in their posts that don't exist.
Another good one is, in a conversation, when someone is being pedantic call them pedantic but pronounce it wrong (eg call them pedontic or peedarntic), then watch them squirm
I wouldn't say 'completely useless'. Maybe it's unable to pick up on all errors of grammar, but it certainly helps me out from time to time, especially the ones for which i seem to have a 'blind spot' for.
Only when someone invents a 'what I said' to 'what I meant' converter will all these problems be solved. And that will be a said day indeed - no more Engrish to laugh at.
If you did that, the spelling nazi's from Australia (where it is a federal offence to omit the 'u' from words like colour) would expend many times more energy than that in wreaking their vengence upon you!
:)
Sometimes it's like there is a queue of people that just sit around cataloguing and complaining about alternate spelling styles
A CRT works by firing electrons from the back of the screen to the front... from memory most of the energy is used just keeping the electron gun warm enough to fire electrons. I don't think it matters whether they are actually firing or not.
If that's true, then by not firing the electron gun (black) you are actually keeping it warm for nothing. So a black page is actually wasting energy!!!
I think the main advantage of this was only really in the few hundred or so km surrounding the airport, and ground based GPS nodes should be able to take care of that, especially for the altitudes we are talking about. And with a sensible number of ground based GPS nodes we should be able to negate problems with the terrorists shooting down the satellites or of solar flare problems. Taking out the radar is going to be easier than taking out the required number of GPS nodes to cripple the system.
Remember how litigious the world is these days. Nobody is going to authorise a system like this unless they are quite sure that they've covered all the bases that could get them sued!
As a parent who will likely be paying for their college, I don't feel obliged to provide for their entertainment.
Don't worry... I'm sure your child will find something else to do at college... I know I did
*cough* became a father half way through third year *cough*
Of course... because it doesn't have hands!
where does a robot that walks on water succeed over an autonomous boat?
Presumably our new water walking robot overlords won't need to be as waterproof?
I've had a few operations which involved putting me completely under (ear op, appendectomy, nose op), and with the exception of the appendectomy, it was literally like I was turned off and then immediately turned back on (of course it was more like 10 or 50 minutes later, but I didn't notice). I was about 7 or something when I had the ear operation, and was only under for 10 minutes, and bounced back afterwards like nothing had happened. Then appendectomy was obviously a more intensive procedure, and I remember waking up and feeling really groggy, and then going to sleep.
I've always imagined that that's what death would be pretty much exactly like that, without the turning you back on bit.
All the funky things that happen as the oxygen level starts dropping and your brain starts to shut down is reasonably well understood (the process, if not the reasons for it), I don't believe that there is any magic about it.
Of course, being able to prove her wrong doesn't necessarily make it a good idea either...
:)
Yes... and as much as Dr Phil bugs me, the one thing he says to guys which really rings true is "Do you want to be right, or do you want to be married?"
I wonder if you'll be the sole voice of reason in the US-court-system-bashing that is slashdot... or at least you'll be the only one to read the article!
It's not purely a myth... ever heard of a hemispherectomy? It's exactly what it sounds like, the removal of one of the sides of your brain, and is done where one hemisphere is broken and is pulling the other down with it (constant seizures etc). If done at a young enough age, the person can lead a (mostly) normal life. I believe there are cases of hydrocephalus (wrong spelling i think, but i'm not looking it up :) where a persons brain size has been greatly reduced because of fluid accumulation in the skull before birth, and they have been completely normal. Of course that last bit could be myth... i can't find any references...
To draw the conclusion that "we only use X% of our brain" from "someone with a brain X% the size of normal is fully functional" is probably flawed too, but I wouldn't write the 10% thing off completely as a myth, more as a gross exaggeration.
I have a lot of respect for snopes, it's a great resource to point people at when they get all excited about the latest conspiracy etc, but the researchers don't know everything about everything.