WPA w/TKIP isn't 'broken' in the strictest sense of the word, but is considered insecure enough that there is no good reason to use it if all your hardware supports WPA2.
What I really want is for the Doctor to take on a non-human companion
That sort of defeats the point of the companion. They exist in the show as a surrogate for the audience, someone who will ask the same questions as the audience and allow The Doctor to explain things for the benefit of the audience without breaking the fourth wall. An alien companion can work, but only if there is also a human companion.
Sci-Fi usually operates on the basis that any alien we meet will be significantly more advanced and worldy (universly?) than us mere humans, but that is because we are working on the assumption that they have arrived on our planet and therefore have accomplished space travel, which we haven't.
That assumption doesn't necessarily hold for a Doctor companion though. He could arrive on an alien planet where the aliens are around our level of technology (and coincidentally speak english!) and it could still work. It could be a little more interesting as the alien could be asking questions about earthlings...
Thinking about an alien companion, a Doctor Who / Star Wars crossover with Jar Jar Binks as the companion would be really cool. Especially the bit where Jar Jar gets brutally murdered 5 minutes into the episode.
Hardly. Right now it's a very delicate balance of taking enough performance enhancing drugs to give you the edge, but not enough that it's too obvious and trying to choose the right drugs to not get detected. If they removed all obstacles then things would be much more interesting!
Check their pockets and make them play in a giant Faraday cage! In a room with only them and an impartial referee. No outside influences, and nobody else to give signals or otherwise interfere.
Two problems with that - what if someone needs to go the bathroom, and where are you going to find this impartial referee?
Even more awesome would be to put her own skin back on top of the bionic hand. Even more awesome than that would be if they could retain the sensory nerves in the skin while doing this (although it would make the slice-skin-open-show-robot-inside trick like on terminator a bit hurty)
I guess we're a decade or two away from a bionic hand that is maintenance free enough to allow this, plus all the issues of keeping the skin alive without being attached to an actual hand, and by then hopefully we can just grow new hands.
Doesn't everyone with a clue use it via a VPN anyway?
RDP with NLA gives you just as much protection as a VPN, and one less layer to worry about.
Use a VPN if you need to expose services in addition to RDP or need to support really old RDP clients but otherwise a VPN is just additional complexity.
tldr: Microsoft gave hole in Windows to security guys. Security guys gave it to black hats. Customers lost (probably not for the first time...)
As soon as you release a patch fixing a problem you've given the black hats enough to exploit it if it is exploitable. A simple binary diff should be enough to figure out what was changed and then it's all over. Releasing actual exploit code only lowers the barrier to entry but a small amount.
A person deluded by a cognitive bias sharing an experience does not equal flamebait. The post is interesting even if only as an example of why people believe in such things.
There will be a higher percentage of car crashes tomorrow due to people being awake an hour earlier. Then in fall, there will be higher suicides when there is suddenly, with no logical explanation to your circadian cycle, dramatically less sunlight.
You're kidding right? The reduction of sunlight in Autumn is due to the tilt of the planet. It's nothing to do with DST - there is the same amount of daylight during the day with DST or without. DST just shifts the work day to make more use of the available daylight.
This is an abomination and really has a horrible effect on me and other each year.
Go to bed increasingly earlier/later and set your alarm clock increasingly earlier/later in the preceeding week or two prior to the change so the adjustment is less abrupt. It doesn't have to be a matter of suddenly waking up one hour earlier or later, you can do it progressively if you are blessed(?) with a stubborn circadian cycle.
Melatonin can help too.
It needs to go away with other anachronisms
You say that word, but I do not think you know what it means.
However, when you consider that lighting is becoming more and more efficient and most of our personal energy consumption now goes to heating and cooling, the picture changes. Since the Earth takes time to warm and cool each day, the daily temperature cycle lags behind the sun by a few hours. Getting up early in the winter just means more energy spent heating your home and office, and working late in the day during summer means high A/C bills.
Better designed buildings solves some of that. And some really heavy stone statues to provide thermal mass inside the buildings:)
I used to live in northern Western Australia which never got around to making DST permanent (they trial it from time to time). We just started school at 8am and finished at 2:30pm instead of starting at 9am and finishing at 3:30pm. That was more a result of climate than DST but it still worked just fine and meant that we could do whatever worked best for us without imposing any changes to the southern part of the state. Leaving the clocks alone and just starting your day at a different time makes a lot more sense to me.
OTOH, within a given region the service based industries need to be working at similar times to the people they service, and your proposition would increase the total number of hours they need to operate. It's not a problem without a solution though.
But I definitely agree with your thoughts on night-shifts. People need exposure to daylight during their waking hours and darkness while they sleep. Or daylight lamps and synthetic melatonin...
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It does seem kind of dumb. If someone is paying $750k for an organ, why can't they pay $751 so the patient can get the anesthetic? Given the number of people who appear to be turned off by the idea of going without it it might be worth it. It also reduces the chance that the patient would sit up during the procedure and demand their liver back.
Do you have a reputable link for that fact, or is it just something you heard once? Negotiating a surrender on terms that make it more like suing for peace doesn't really count if that's what you are referring to.
As a matter of fact, I have. Politely ask somebody to quiet down and they will most likely apologize and comply. Sure, some will be rude and beligerent, but that is rare (I've actually never had it happen). I don't know when everybody got so terrified of talking to other people, but it really is not that bad.
It's the first time I've ever seen any attempt at copyright protection that didn't resulted in worse outcome for their customers! For example...
. Funny sectors on floppy disks. Legitimate users can't make backup copies, pirates (with the copy protection removed) can make all the copies they want. . "Find the nth word in the nth paragraph on the nth page of the manual". Legitimate users have to dig up the manual every time they want to play a game, while pirates (with the copy protection removed) can play any time they want without such annoyances . Parallel port dongles. Legitimate users have to muck around with parallel port dongles that interfere with their printer. Pirates don't. . Funny sectors on CDROM's. As per floppy disks, but it turns out that some CDROM drives couldn't play the games at all (RA2? or was it C&C2?). Pirates have no such problems . Phone home via internet every time you want to play?... you see where this is going
It seems like every time the software industry introduces a new copy protection scheme, it really only annoys their paying customers. It doesn't hinder the pirates one little bit.
But it is still way faster than going to a real store, buying it and playing it. Especially if you are on a budget.
But on the other hand now it seems that the software industry has put enough pressure on the illegal file sharers that doing it that way is harder, or at least slower than it was. If the software industry allowed you to download the game direct from them for a reasonable price, they might be in with a chance. We all know they'll still continue to screw it up though.
Bullshit. I saw a documentary way back in the 60's that clearly showed the wheel and axle existing in the stone age. It was called The Flintstones.
I saw that documentary too. It clearly showed that the wheels certainly did not need to be round, only round-ish. And you could build the wheel (and the whole car!) out of stone and/or wood and it would still be light enough for a man to push along with his bare feet.
Seriously, does nobody do proper research these days!
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I had a WEP SSID for my daughters Nintendo DS, but had it locked down to the point that a hacker without a DS wouldn't be able to do much with it.
WPA and WPA2 isn't broken.
WPA w/TKIP isn't 'broken' in the strictest sense of the word, but is considered insecure enough that there is no good reason to use it if all your hardware supports WPA2.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi_Protected_Access#Security
What I really want is for the Doctor to take on a non-human companion
That sort of defeats the point of the companion. They exist in the show as a surrogate for the audience, someone who will ask the same questions as the audience and allow The Doctor to explain things for the benefit of the audience without breaking the fourth wall. An alien companion can work, but only if there is also a human companion.
Sci-Fi usually operates on the basis that any alien we meet will be significantly more advanced and worldy (universly?) than us mere humans, but that is because we are working on the assumption that they have arrived on our planet and therefore have accomplished space travel, which we haven't.
That assumption doesn't necessarily hold for a Doctor companion though. He could arrive on an alien planet where the aliens are around our level of technology (and coincidentally speak english!) and it could still work. It could be a little more interesting as the alien could be asking questions about earthlings...
Thinking about an alien companion, a Doctor Who / Star Wars crossover with Jar Jar Binks as the companion would be really cool. Especially the bit where Jar Jar gets brutally murdered 5 minutes into the episode.
You try pulling something like that at the olympic games and tell me how that works out for you...
Or the same...
Hardly. Right now it's a very delicate balance of taking enough performance enhancing drugs to give you the edge, but not enough that it's too obvious and trying to choose the right drugs to not get detected. If they removed all obstacles then things would be much more interesting!
Check their pockets and make them play in a giant Faraday cage! In a room with only them and an impartial referee. No outside influences, and nobody else to give signals or otherwise interfere.
Two problems with that - what if someone needs to go the bathroom, and where are you going to find this impartial referee?
Yes I meant protection from the enormous attack surface that an unauthenticated GUI gives you.
Even more awesome would be to put her own skin back on top of the bionic hand. Even more awesome than that would be if they could retain the sensory nerves in the skin while doing this (although it would make the slice-skin-open-show-robot-inside trick like on terminator a bit hurty)
I guess we're a decade or two away from a bionic hand that is maintenance free enough to allow this, plus all the issues of keeping the skin alive without being attached to an actual hand, and by then hopefully we can just grow new hands.
Doesn't everyone with a clue use it via a VPN anyway?
RDP with NLA gives you just as much protection as a VPN, and one less layer to worry about.
Use a VPN if you need to expose services in addition to RDP or need to support really old RDP clients but otherwise a VPN is just additional complexity.
tldr: Microsoft gave hole in Windows to security guys. Security guys gave it to black hats. Customers lost (probably not for the first time...)
As soon as you release a patch fixing a problem you've given the black hats enough to exploit it if it is exploitable. A simple binary diff should be enough to figure out what was changed and then it's all over. Releasing actual exploit code only lowers the barrier to entry but a small amount.
A person deluded by a cognitive bias sharing an experience does not equal flamebait. The post is interesting even if only as an example of why people believe in such things.
I suspect that if DHS set up a pre-crime department it wouldn't actually matter if the psychics really could predict anything...
Look. Nobody enjoys killing animals, but if you have to kill animals, you might as well enjoy it.
Sounds more like evidence that the US needs to sit down, shut up, and take a chill pill. Just mellow out.
Agreed. If you see someone with a gun you should wait until people started dropping before calling the cops. This pre-crime nonsense has to stop.
There will be a higher percentage of car crashes tomorrow due to people being awake an hour earlier. Then in fall, there will be higher suicides when there is suddenly, with no logical explanation to your circadian cycle, dramatically less sunlight.
You're kidding right? The reduction of sunlight in Autumn is due to the tilt of the planet. It's nothing to do with DST - there is the same amount of daylight during the day with DST or without. DST just shifts the work day to make more use of the available daylight.
This is an abomination and really has a horrible effect on me and other each year.
Go to bed increasingly earlier/later and set your alarm clock increasingly earlier/later in the preceeding week or two prior to the change so the adjustment is less abrupt. It doesn't have to be a matter of suddenly waking up one hour earlier or later, you can do it progressively if you are blessed(?) with a stubborn circadian cycle.
Melatonin can help too.
It needs to go away with other anachronisms
You say that word, but I do not think you know what it means.
However, when you consider that lighting is becoming more and more efficient and most of our personal energy consumption now goes to heating and cooling, the picture changes. Since the Earth takes time to warm and cool each day, the daily temperature cycle lags behind the sun by a few hours. Getting up early in the winter just means more energy spent heating your home and office, and working late in the day during summer means high A/C bills.
Better designed buildings solves some of that. And some really heavy stone statues to provide thermal mass inside the buildings :)
I used to live in northern Western Australia which never got around to making DST permanent (they trial it from time to time). We just started school at 8am and finished at 2:30pm instead of starting at 9am and finishing at 3:30pm. That was more a result of climate than DST but it still worked just fine and meant that we could do whatever worked best for us without imposing any changes to the southern part of the state. Leaving the clocks alone and just starting your day at a different time makes a lot more sense to me.
OTOH, within a given region the service based industries need to be working at similar times to the people they service, and your proposition would increase the total number of hours they need to operate. It's not a problem without a solution though.
But I definitely agree with your thoughts on night-shifts. People need exposure to daylight during their waking hours and darkness while they sleep. Or daylight lamps and synthetic melatonin...
It does seem kind of dumb. If someone is paying $750k for an organ, why can't they pay $751 so the patient can get the anesthetic? Given the number of people who appear to be turned off by the idea of going without it it might be worth it. It also reduces the chance that the patient would sit up during the procedure and demand their liver back.
From what I recall, SPLA is not concurrent usage, it's "per account per month".
That's pretty much it. You count up the number of users that used the product over the month and tell Microsoft.
Do you have a reputable link for that fact, or is it just something you heard once? Negotiating a surrender on terms that make it more like suing for peace doesn't really count if that's what you are referring to.
As a matter of fact, I have. Politely ask somebody to quiet down and they will most likely apologize and comply. Sure, some will be rude and beligerent, but that is rare (I've actually never had it happen). I don't know when everybody got so terrified of talking to other people, but it really is not that bad.
Confrontation? Do people still do that??
30 years ago no one had cell phones...
But if they did have cell phones, people would be just as rude as they are now.
Also, ginger sounds a bit like ninja. Coincidence?
It's the first time I've ever seen any attempt at copyright protection that didn't resulted in worse outcome for their customers! For example...
. Funny sectors on floppy disks. Legitimate users can't make backup copies, pirates (with the copy protection removed) can make all the copies they want.
. "Find the nth word in the nth paragraph on the nth page of the manual". Legitimate users have to dig up the manual every time they want to play a game, while pirates (with the copy protection removed) can play any time they want without such annoyances
. Parallel port dongles. Legitimate users have to muck around with parallel port dongles that interfere with their printer. Pirates don't.
. Funny sectors on CDROM's. As per floppy disks, but it turns out that some CDROM drives couldn't play the games at all (RA2? or was it C&C2?). Pirates have no such problems
. Phone home via internet every time you want to play?... you see where this is going
It seems like every time the software industry introduces a new copy protection scheme, it really only annoys their paying customers. It doesn't hinder the pirates one little bit.
But it is still way faster than going to a real store, buying it and playing it. Especially if you are on a budget.
But on the other hand now it seems that the software industry has put enough pressure on the illegal file sharers that doing it that way is harder, or at least slower than it was. If the software industry allowed you to download the game direct from them for a reasonable price, they might be in with a chance. We all know they'll still continue to screw it up though.
Bullshit. I saw a documentary way back in the 60's that clearly showed the wheel and axle existing in the stone age. It was called The Flintstones.
I saw that documentary too. It clearly showed that the wheels certainly did not need to be round, only round-ish. And you could build the wheel (and the whole car!) out of stone and/or wood and it would still be light enough for a man to push along with his bare feet.
Seriously, does nobody do proper research these days!