Agreed. I also like how 32% opposed to the restart, and 38% with no opinions in public polls (numbers in the the same NHK feed they sourced) is "widespread public opposition".
IIRC, decent dosimeters require re-calibration at least yearly if not more often. (Sounds like they don't respond well to sudden shock and this increases accuracy drift.)
I wonder how SoftBank is going to handle this. I don't think people are going to appreciate a test sample being delivered to their home, and I think employees wouldn't appreciate it in stores/kiosks. I know 7Elevens sell everything in Japan, but not sure this is going to fit in well on the kombini scene.
Similarly, I don't think having the phones sent to the factory will work. It's a tad inconvenient.
The main reason I mentioned it (but never really got into it) was because of a round up of password storage managers from a few weeks ago that all claimed "military grade" encryption, and all were trivial to compromise. I can't seem to locate the article now but KeePass was not included in this round up specifically cause it didn't try to lump itself into this category.
I've been trying to rack my brain to remeber if there was an alternative suggestion section of the roundups, or if KeePass was mentioned. But since I couldn't find the article, Ieft it in there as a toss away comment. Discount my opinion if you like, I fully realize there is no such thing. There are minimum standards set forth by the NSA and the Military, and differ based on sensitivity and roles, but I really haven't bothered to see if KeePass is up to these standards. Assuming you don't leave the database vulnerable with an easy to guess key phrase, I'm not too concerned about someone managing to access my data from such a database. I'm not that big of a target, and the life of usefulness of such information is relatively short compared to the time it would take to compromise the database. (Assuming proper password complexity rules, aging, and policies are enforced or at least practiced on the information stored)
This! KeePass2 on a shared drive is how my team does it. A shared database with generic passwords and shared resources, and some of use keep our own DB's with our more accountable user id's. Because it's got the tabbed feature it's super easy to have both databases available, and with the advanced features available when you dig a little bit deeper into the entries, it's really versatile.
As the previous poster mentioned it can be run on Mono, and works quite well actually. It also has readers for most cellphone OS's so syncing it to our phones is an option. Being able to access our DB even at a colleague's desk, or when ssh'ing in from my phone has proven to be a real convenience at times.
I don't think I've seen them claim military grade encryption anywhere, but it's pretty strong. The system also allows you to increases the encryption rounds to suit your taste and tolerance. Much of this hardening however is only partially supported in the 1.x flavours of KeePass.
Also, I wonder how money people stop to think that other non-damaged reactors also contain dangerously/lethally high radiation, ya know... cause they are reactors.
Or rather, they should at least give you what various safety levels are. One of the big misconceptions is that we know what is a dangerous level of radiation: in fact all we know is what is too much radiation. Back in the 50's and 60's a group of scientist were asked to provide safety information on radiation and they came up with a scale using the points of zero and you aren't gonna see the end of the week. They then drew a linear line between these points because they had little to go on, and presented it as a best guess and further research was needed to prove it's truly linear, exponential, logarithmic, or what-have-you. Since then the linear graph has become kind of dogma and various groups have picked various points across it to set their safety thresholds.
You'll find that you have a set threshold in most Asian nations that is quite low, due to close experience and some might say paranoia in relation to the deployment of nuclear arms. Roughly double these guidelines, and you get what is considered safe in many European countries. Roughly double them once more, and now you are heading toward the Americas.
I'll toss in the notion that a lot of people I talked to were almost sold on some of the Android tablets out, and were about to make a purchase when Google came out and said Honeycomb would require a multi-core processor. That slammed the brakes on for them. The general sense I am getting right now is that people are looking for something similar to what they had thought they were going to buy but has honeycomb on-board. As of right now the general murmur I'm hearing is LG's slate and new version of Samsung's Galaxy Tab. While there are certainly a number of reasons these could still end up flopping. Given that people aren't going on spending sprees right now, I think the current lineup of slates is being viewed as filler and won't be touched until these two devices are out and can be compared.
While there is a number of mentions of the Xoom, in general, there seems to be a plague treatment of it going on. For some people it's the fact that it's on Verizon, others are it's lackluster designs, and other potential failings. Suffice to say most people are who are contemplating getting an Android are looking at it as a pale comparison to the promise of the Slate or Tab and are going to hold off. Frankly, I think this market is a bit more discerning then the one for phones and I think that coupled with people's current financial cautionary activity is what's mostly being reflected in buy in.
I wonder if this is how my school did it. In grade school we had rather simple looking analogue clocks that essentially mimicked the clock on the control panel for the PA system. If there was a power outage the clocks would stop, and when the power came back we would see them run quick to catch up.
Same with DST, if we got in early enough we would see the clocks run fast to spring 1 hour ahead or run really fast to "fall" 11 hours ahead. (Never ran backwards)
Actually it's all media.. and there's two levies on it. And by media I mean tapes, cd's, harddrives, thumbdrives, and in a twist of stupidity ram chips, because they couldn't figure out the difference between flash memory and running memory.
I never said they weren't, and I never really said anything to support either said. Just that they weren't exactly being truthful.
Do I know how the money is being made? Sure. They use a legal sidestep that has been used by hundreds of times before, in the US and outside the US. Heck, it's a side step University student groups use all the time to avoid copyright issues and still make money for their coffers. It's an argument fair and clear and a good lawyer might be able to point out inconsistencies in previous rulings, which could paint any arbiter, judicial or otherwise into a corner.
Personally, I don't care what happens to hotfile or whatever. I only figured it out by following the trail and looking at the webpage cause the accusations sounded too clean and accusations that clean and easy to negotiate don't exist outside of pulp fiction novels.
Of course, they can easily turn the reward argument around. Simply suggest that the uploaders they are encouraging are say, indie film makers or dj's wanting to spread their work. Make a good indie film, get it popular, get some benefits from the site as well as benefits from all the people talking about your project, and with luck you can see profit. And as of yet, such an indie film maker hasn't done anything illegal.
That's a stretch. So is the pay to download. Technically membership pays for faster, unlimited downloads. Lower bandwidth downloads are free. A technicality I know, but it's one of the same technicalities that MPAA loves to try and get a toehold with.
Actually, that's a surprisingly good description of the floor mat problem. Sometimes it's not a great idea to put a sedan floor mat into an suv. The driver's side foot well may just turn out to not be shaped the same.
It just would have been nice if they gave some figures. I seem to remember some early reports indicating of the massive number of cases they had investigated only 6 were attributable to mechanical/physical issues.
Additionally, I've always thought the floor matt problem was a bit of a red herring cause the incident consistently referenced had a rental agent accidentally put a matt in a particular model car, that belonged in a completely different model and class vehicle. In other-words, the agent put a square peg into a round hole and handed it off to someone who had driven the car for maybe two minutes. That said I do give credit to Toyota for at least going back and installing the same clips my 20 year old car has to keep matts in place, but I doubt that would have done anything to prevent the pedal getting stuck in the accident that started the whole mess with the matts in the first place.
This would be great if it were true, but somehow I highly doubt it. GE's existing Chinese JVs in other businesses (consumer appliances for example) are making either what they are doing here, or stuff that is ahead of what can be done outside of China if only because of materials access.
Short answer is, yes. Longer is.. depends on the car manufacturer. My parents got a car with one of the wireless fobs as an occasional drive car, the problem is the receiver for the fob drains the battery a good 80% quicker with it on, so the manufacturer put a button under the dash near the bottom of the steering column, that when pushed and held for a certain time disables the receiver in the car. Ostensibly, it's a power save feature, however I view it as a security feature as well since the physical keys still work as does the alarm system.
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Agreed. I also like how 32% opposed to the restart, and 38% with no opinions in public polls (numbers in the the same NHK feed they sourced) is "widespread public opposition".
IIRC, decent dosimeters require re-calibration at least yearly if not more often. (Sounds like they don't respond well to sudden shock and this increases accuracy drift.)
I wonder how SoftBank is going to handle this. I don't think people are going to appreciate a test sample being delivered to their home, and I think employees wouldn't appreciate it in stores/kiosks. I know 7Elevens sell everything in Japan, but not sure this is going to fit in well on the kombini scene.
Similarly, I don't think having the phones sent to the factory will work. It's a tad inconvenient.
The main reason I mentioned it (but never really got into it) was because of a round up of password storage managers from a few weeks ago that all claimed "military grade" encryption, and all were trivial to compromise. I can't seem to locate the article now but KeePass was not included in this round up specifically cause it didn't try to lump itself into this category.
I've been trying to rack my brain to remeber if there was an alternative suggestion section of the roundups, or if KeePass was mentioned. But since I couldn't find the article, Ieft it in there as a toss away comment. Discount my opinion if you like, I fully realize there is no such thing. There are minimum standards set forth by the NSA and the Military, and differ based on sensitivity and roles, but I really haven't bothered to see if KeePass is up to these standards. Assuming you don't leave the database vulnerable with an easy to guess key phrase, I'm not too concerned about someone managing to access my data from such a database. I'm not that big of a target, and the life of usefulness of such information is relatively short compared to the time it would take to compromise the database. (Assuming proper password complexity rules, aging, and policies are enforced or at least practiced on the information stored)
This! KeePass2 on a shared drive is how my team does it. A shared database with generic passwords and shared resources, and some of use keep our own DB's with our more accountable user id's. Because it's got the tabbed feature it's super easy to have both databases available, and with the advanced features available when you dig a little bit deeper into the entries, it's really versatile.
As the previous poster mentioned it can be run on Mono, and works quite well actually. It also has readers for most cellphone OS's so syncing it to our phones is an option. Being able to access our DB even at a colleague's desk, or when ssh'ing in from my phone has proven to be a real convenience at times.
I don't think I've seen them claim military grade encryption anywhere, but it's pretty strong. The system also allows you to increases the encryption rounds to suit your taste and tolerance. Much of this hardening however is only partially supported in the 1.x flavours of KeePass.
Probably should point out the original AP story has had the headline updated to little water. http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5izZXHoP17G8R-yOYb9RjczkhL1UQ?docId=dff2ed1434ab430c86596f672dab8414 .
Also, I wonder how money people stop to think that other non-damaged reactors also contain dangerously/lethally high radiation, ya know ... cause they are reactors.
Agreed, but then this is as ibtimes article, so I'm a bit surprised they even mentioned his name in the article, much less the blurb.
That's ok .. the article is on a Fox website. Means you probably followed the same procedure as the person who wrote it...
Right ... so it's officiall Groppler Jobs now?
Or rather, they should at least give you what various safety levels are. One of the big misconceptions is that we know what is a dangerous level of radiation: in fact all we know is what is too much radiation. Back in the 50's and 60's a group of scientist were asked to provide safety information on radiation and they came up with a scale using the points of zero and you aren't gonna see the end of the week. They then drew a linear line between these points because they had little to go on, and presented it as a best guess and further research was needed to prove it's truly linear, exponential, logarithmic, or what-have-you. Since then the linear graph has become kind of dogma and various groups have picked various points across it to set their safety thresholds.
You'll find that you have a set threshold in most Asian nations that is quite low, due to close experience and some might say paranoia in relation to the deployment of nuclear arms.
Roughly double these guidelines, and you get what is considered safe in many European countries.
Roughly double them once more, and now you are heading toward the Americas.
Yep, people seem to forget how much "Hackers looooooooooooooooove noodles". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramen_worm
I'll toss in the notion that a lot of people I talked to were almost sold on some of the Android tablets out, and were about to make a purchase when Google came out and said Honeycomb would require a multi-core processor. That slammed the brakes on for them. The general sense I am getting right now is that people are looking for something similar to what they had thought they were going to buy but has honeycomb on-board. As of right now the general murmur I'm hearing is LG's slate and new version of Samsung's Galaxy Tab. While there are certainly a number of reasons these could still end up flopping. Given that people aren't going on spending sprees right now, I think the current lineup of slates is being viewed as filler and won't be touched until these two devices are out and can be compared.
While there is a number of mentions of the Xoom, in general, there seems to be a plague treatment of it going on. For some people it's the fact that it's on Verizon, others are it's lackluster designs, and other potential failings. Suffice to say most people are who are contemplating getting an Android are looking at it as a pale comparison to the promise of the Slate or Tab and are going to hold off. Frankly, I think this market is a bit more discerning then the one for phones and I think that coupled with people's current financial cautionary activity is what's mostly being reflected in buy in.
....of being wary of geeks bearing gifts?
Uhm, I thought the same thing happened for Haiti. Wasn't that why people on the news were advising against texting in donations?
I wonder if this is how my school did it. In grade school we had rather simple looking analogue clocks that essentially mimicked the clock on the control panel for the PA system. If there was a power outage the clocks would stop, and when the power came back we would see them run quick to catch up.
Same with DST, if we got in early enough we would see the clocks run fast to spring 1 hour ahead or run really fast to "fall" 11 hours ahead. (Never ran backwards)
Quake was upgraded to 8.9 some time ago. Also aftershocks continue.
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Maps/region/Asia_eqs.php
Actually it's all media .. and there's two levies on it. And by media I mean tapes, cd's, harddrives, thumbdrives, and in a twist of stupidity ram chips, because they couldn't figure out the difference between flash memory and running memory.
I never said they weren't, and I never really said anything to support either said. Just that they weren't exactly being truthful.
Do I know how the money is being made? Sure. They use a legal sidestep that has been used by hundreds of times before, in the US and outside the US. Heck, it's a side step University student groups use all the time to avoid copyright issues and still make money for their coffers. It's an argument fair and clear and a good lawyer might be able to point out inconsistencies in previous rulings, which could paint any arbiter, judicial or otherwise into a corner.
Personally, I don't care what happens to hotfile or whatever. I only figured it out by following the trail and looking at the webpage cause the accusations sounded too clean and accusations that clean and easy to negotiate don't exist outside of pulp fiction novels.
Of course, they can easily turn the reward argument around. Simply suggest that the uploaders they are encouraging are say, indie film makers or dj's wanting to spread their work. Make a good indie film, get it popular, get some benefits from the site as well as benefits from all the people talking about your project, and with luck you can see profit. And as of yet, such an indie film maker hasn't done anything illegal.
Yeah, I knew something wasn't right when I was typing. I'd mod up the funny if I could.
That's a stretch. So is the pay to download. Technically membership pays for faster, unlimited downloads. Lower bandwidth downloads are free. A technicality I know, but it's one of the same technicalities that MPAA loves to try and get a toehold with.
Actually, that's a surprisingly good description of the floor mat problem. Sometimes it's not a great idea to put a sedan floor mat into an suv. The driver's side foot well may just turn out to not be shaped the same.
It just would have been nice if they gave some figures. I seem to remember some early reports indicating of the massive number of cases they had investigated only 6 were attributable to mechanical/physical issues.
Additionally, I've always thought the floor matt problem was a bit of a red herring cause the incident consistently referenced had a rental agent accidentally put a matt in a particular model car, that belonged in a completely different model and class vehicle. In other-words, the agent put a square peg into a round hole and handed it off to someone who had driven the car for maybe two minutes. That said I do give credit to Toyota for at least going back and installing the same clips my 20 year old car has to keep matts in place, but I doubt that would have done anything to prevent the pedal getting stuck in the accident that started the whole mess with the matts in the first place.
This would be great if it were true, but somehow I highly doubt it. GE's existing Chinese JVs in other businesses (consumer appliances for example) are making either what they are doing here, or stuff that is ahead of what can be done outside of China if only because of materials access.
Short answer is, yes. Longer is .. depends on the car manufacturer. My parents got a car with one of the wireless fobs as an occasional drive car, the problem is the receiver for the fob drains the battery a good 80% quicker with it on, so the manufacturer put a button under the dash near the bottom of the steering column, that when pushed and held for a certain time disables the receiver in the car. Ostensibly, it's a power save feature, however I view it as a security feature as well since the physical keys still work as does the alarm system.
Agreed, so much of "security" from a lot of these companies is simply ruthless marketing these days anyway.