Chrome already encrypts your data (on Windows at least) using your Windows login credentials using the Crypto API. If the user is not logged in, the passwords are impossible to read [...]
Really? Then wouldn't changing your Windows password brick the data store?
It's not like smoking, or drinking (to excess). What's the big deal. I have never seen any proof of a health risk from drinking coffee. Why should I put up feeling crappy for a couple of months. Seriously.
It's not like smoking, or drinking (to excess). What's the big deal. I have never seen any proof of a health risk from drinking coffee. Why should I put up feeling crappy for a couple of months.Seriously.
Pass the sugar.
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The same (or more) emissions would be created in a hydrogen-fueled infrastructure, just that that CO2 would be produced at the hydrogen production facility, rather than at the point of use.
This is a myth. Simple counter-example: nuclear reactors powering water electolysis. More complex counter-example: centralizing fossil-derived production simplifies the ability to perform CO2 sequestration (easier than doing it in your car, for example). Even more complex counter-example: use microbes to produce hydrogen.
This is too important an issue to allow this myth to keep perpetuating!
They have been collecting it for years, and keep trying to increase the amount of levy, and extending, such as charging ISPs, and even planning to charge it on "technologies not yet invented". But according to a CBC radio program last weekend, NO MONEY COLLECTED HAS EVER BEEN GIVEN TO ANY ARTIST to compensate them for their "loss". They have never gotten around to that part of the plan, I guess it isn't a priority.
The "overdue" claim is arguable: sometimes it hasn't flipped for very long periods.
The whole 10% decrease thingy bugs me. It looks like a complicated oscillation. Yes, today's level it 10% less than 30 years ago, but higher than it was a couple of hundred years ago. So what?
What exists on the Moon that cannot be found or created at a price tag magnitudes lower on the Earth?
Since you ask:
low gravity, which is hard to find on the earth at any price. It's useful because it reducing mixing (e.g., in electrophoresis) allowing for the creation of purer pharmaceuticals (less side-effects) and materials. It's also useful in creating industrial ceramics, which are currently sintered on things called "saggers" because hot things sag under gravity, greatly decreasing the yield.
high vacuum in endless quantity. Ever tried to use a large vessel? It's a big deal. Useful for LOTS of stuff. Even the moon's vacuum isn't high enough for some applications, but it's a pretty good start!
Helium-3 from the solar wind is probably found in the regolith, an ideal fusion fuel
assuming an industrial base anywhere in near-earth space, it makes more sense to get what raw materials you can from the moon instead of the earth because it's a much shallower gravity well. You can get aluminium and silicon (think "glass") which are great construction materials, and oxygen and (probably) water which are also pretty useful.
no atmospheric distortion means nice telescopes. And, with a base on the moon, you can actually walk over and fix the damn things, rather than spending US$1B per repair to launch a shuttle. Use the telescopes to look for other earths...
Should I go on, or are you now enlightened?
Another argument: when every mistyped domain name returns a valid page, your DNS server can't tell which ones aren't worth caching. So the crapflood means that a lot of low-trafic valid domain names get purged. If you're on a high traffic DNS (or one with a small cache), this means that you regularly have to refresh a few times to get to your site.
A couple of my email addresses sometimes show up as the from address in spam (no, my systems haven't been trojaned). This is a nasty form of identity theft since I get delivery failure notices and complaints from recipients. What would be really nasty would be a subpoena for the same.
False positives are bad when you're filtering spam, worse when you handing out subpoenas.
I'm glad that someone finally pointed this out! I have automated a few tasks out of existence in my day, whether through shop-floor automation or better information processing. Rarely has anyone lost a job though, usually it's just that the output increased (on the shop floor), or they had more time to do higher value work (instead of simply pushing paper around, managers start making well-informed decisions).
In some cases though, sure a job was lost. In my opinion, if a job is repetitive enough to be easily automated, then it should be automated, freeing up that person for a more rewarding opportunity elsewhere.
And another reply to some comments (that appear to be ripped from/.) on MSN. He is not saying that Google sucks (and therefore, as many/.ers infer, MS is better), in the article he says it's brilliant. In the response he reemphasizes his point was that its results are biased:
Steven Johnson Responds:
Folks, obviously *obviously* you can refine searches on Google to get better results than the ones I suggested, and obviously Google can't read minds. The point is that when Google quite understandably fails to read your mind, it doesn't direct you randomly to the wrong URLs -- it directs you to certain types of URLs more often than others. It has BIAS, in other words. And when millions of people are using the engine every day, many of whom aren't inclined to refine their searches, that bias shouldn't be underestimated. Here's perhaps a better example than the Apple one. My blog alternates between being the number 1 and number 2 result when you search on the word "steven." So Google is guessing on average that more people searching for Steven are looking for me than for Spielberg, Seagal, Soderbergh, etc. I'd like to flatter myself and think this is true, but alas I think it's pretty unlikely. What google is reflecting there is the bias of the blogging community, which benefits me, of course, but it certainly doesn't reflect the general interests of the overall population, or even the general web surfing population. No search engine is perfect, but each search engine is imperfect in specific ways. If we're going to rely on search engines increasingly to make sense of the world, we should 1) come up with more refined search techniques that get us around these imperfections, and 2) be aware of the imperfections themselves, and their biases. This essay was trying to wrestle with the latter -- but it by no means denies the importance of the former...
BTW, he completely missed my pet googehole, it doesn't search synomyms at all.
It can be done, even in an an area that isn't an island (which certainly simplifies things). I live in Alberta, a very large Canadian province which produces a lot of grain. Because rats like to eat grain, it was worth getting rid of them. Alberta has been rat-free for 50 years. The return on that investment must be huge, some of the best tax dollars ever spent.
Alberta is fortunate to be bounded by Rockies on the west, and the arctic on the north, and rat-free Montana on the south: there was only Saskatchewan on the east to worry about: we get about 12 infestations a year, most coming from Saskatchewan. Those are dealt with by a few government employees with poison and rifles (no, they're not called the Rat Patrol). Saskatchewan (which also produces grain) keeps its rats, because of the same "I don't believe it" attitude, "It's impossible to get rid of all the rats", even though there is proof right next door.
Not true -- if you look at the website, it has just been re-released in a new version (which is what likely triggered the review).
I bought the first version when I was a newbie to the topic. I found it to be a good introduction, except that there was NO INDEX. That made it very difficult to use as a reference: so much so that, unless the second version has an index, I recommend you give it a pass. The on-line table of contents doesn't mention an index...
I would like everyone to note how full of BS the guys who put up these cameras were when they said the CC cameras would only be used to prevent crime.
No BS, they just changed the definition of 'crime'.
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>The result [...] is a button on your personal toolbar allowing you to
>lookup a word which you have highlighted in any webpage
Or, if you're a Windows user (I can't be the only here, can I?) get a client-side utility that lets you alt-click a word in any application (not just the browser) to get a definition. I put it on every machine I touch.
Apparently in South Africa 3 1/2" disks were (are?) referred to as 'stiffies' to distinguish them from 5 1/4" 'floppies' (which are, in fact, floppier).
Count yourself lucky that didn't have to show him how to mount a stiffy.
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Chrome already encrypts your data (on Windows at least) using your Windows login credentials using the Crypto API. If the user is not logged in, the passwords are impossible to read [...]
Really? Then wouldn't changing your Windows password brick the data store?
http://interviews.slashdot.org/story/02/12/05/1444246/William-Shatner-Replies
And you're going to ask him about Galaxy Quest and Saturday Night Live, again?
To reply to my own posting, today's slash article even hints at a health benefit!
Pass the sugar.
This is a myth. Simple counter-example: nuclear reactors powering water electolysis. More complex counter-example: centralizing fossil-derived production simplifies the ability to perform CO2 sequestration (easier than doing it in your car, for example). Even more complex counter-example: use microbes to produce hydrogen.
This is too important an issue to allow this myth to keep perpetuating!
Yes, the levy is simply a cash-grab.
The whole 10% decrease thingy bugs me. It looks like a complicated oscillation. Yes, today's level it 10% less than 30 years ago, but higher than it was a couple of hundred years ago. So what?
Pun intended?
Since you ask:
Another argument: when every mistyped domain name returns a valid page, your DNS server can't tell which ones aren't worth caching. So the crapflood means that a lot of low-trafic valid domain names get purged. If you're on a high traffic DNS (or one with a small cache), this means that you regularly have to refresh a few times to get to your site.
I had seen that article, and loved the movie, but never made the connection. "I wish I had said that."
False positives are bad when you're filtering spam, worse when you handing out subpoenas.
Then try this one (which links to an article in "Science").
In some cases though, sure a job was lost. In my opinion, if a job is repetitive enough to be easily automated, then it should be automated, freeing up that person for a more rewarding opportunity elsewhere.
Alberta is fortunate to be bounded by Rockies on the west, and the arctic on the north, and rat-free Montana on the south: there was only Saskatchewan on the east to worry about: we get about 12 infestations a year, most coming from Saskatchewan. Those are dealt with by a few government employees with poison and rifles (no, they're not called the Rat Patrol). Saskatchewan (which also produces grain) keeps its rats, because of the same "I don't believe it" attitude, "It's impossible to get rid of all the rats", even though there is proof right next door.
According to Gurunet, LAMP stands for:
I bought the first version when I was a newbie to the topic. I found it to be a good introduction, except that there was NO INDEX. That made it very difficult to use as a reference: so much so that, unless the second version has an index, I recommend you give it a pass. The on-line table of contents doesn't mention an index...
No BS, they just changed the definition of 'crime'.
>lookup a word which you have highlighted in any webpage
Or, if you're a Windows user (I can't be the only here, can I?) get a client-side utility that lets you alt-click a word in any application (not just the browser) to get a definition. I put it on every machine I touch.
The article also mentioned that her boyfriend was a drug user. He (or someone else) could have contributed to that sample. It was a tampon after all.
And how do you pronounce giraffe, gigantic, or(dare I say it) GIF?
Stupid jit.
Apparently in South Africa 3 1/2" disks were (are?) referred to as 'stiffies' to distinguish them from 5 1/4" 'floppies' (which are, in fact, floppier).
Count yourself lucky that didn't have to show him how to mount a stiffy.
There is an open bet on this.