Once the payment systems make their case, the bill will die. And it will die when people get into encrypted databases because someone in the government allowed the key and knowledge to backdoors to become common knowledge.
The US is a leader, not a follower, therefore it won't get rid of the penny like Canada did in 2013, no matter how good the idea is.
Canada got rid of the penny, now a collector's item. If your paying by debit or credit card, the pennies count. Otherwise, paying by cash causes rounding Cash rules are: Three cents rounds to a nickel, Two cents round down. And 7 cents rounds down to a nickel.
The USA can do likewise.
Canada also got rid of the dollar and two dollar bills. (loony a tooney nicknames for the 1 dollar coin and 2 dollar coin.) We soon learn to pay with coins so as to not carry many. And we make more use of plastic.
Speaking of plastic. our paper currency has been replaced with plastic currency. Its more durable, very very costly to counterfeit, and this change saved the government mint millions in raplacing warren out bills.
Does the following make sense? The engineers brought back the above code, because the people who knew about it and why it should not be used, had retired. This retirement situation allowed for it's re-introduction. No, Intel will not be accepting returns for Skylake. It will be a microcode patch. The microcode patch is a backdoor input to the cpu to allow fixing instructions and breaking security.
as well as developing a complete and commercially viable system for safely electrifying your home our shop.
Really? Last I checked his DC system didn't get used, whereas Tesla invented the AC power system we use worldwide.
Hi voltage DC is returning. I am told that long distance transmission of high voltage DC power from generators to target delivery sites is much more efficient than the equivalent High Voltage AC. With DC there is no RMS or Volt-Amp concerns or phase problems to manage.
At the target site, motors can power generators to create AC. The power loss due to motor generator combinations at the far away destination site is less than if AC power were shipped the same distance.
This is yet another example of why rolling your own encryption is a very bad idea. Not only is it a weak algorithm but it also relies on obscurity. Their literature even says that due to it's proprietary nature that makes it even more secure because it's more difficult to reverse engineer. Good job, morons!
They were using DES. DES is an encryption algorithm. DES with cypher block chaining is quite secure, given that the information is not financial data. Financial data would be studied to determine the encryption keys, but dental records do not carry financial data.
Can dental information be monetized? Please explain to me why someone would want to decrypt a dental database? A typical dental practice rarely has more than 10k patients active and perhaps adds 2k patients per year and prunes that many records that are past the legal limit of retentions.
Most SSDs are garbage from an engineering perspective. No one in his right mind would use them to store important data, not in a RAID or any other configuration, if he can avoid it. They are unreliable and when they fail it is generally not a lost sector or two here and there, it is their entire contents.
This is nothing but engineering malpractice. A mirrored pair of real hard drives is not generally susceptible to catastrophically losing all your data at a moments notice. RAID solves that problem. Whereas on most SSDs a simple power loss will destroy all the data in your RAID group simultaneously. Say good bye to everything stored since your most recent backup.
RAID means Redundant Array of Inexpensive Drives. It doesn't work with a Redundant Array of Defective Drives, which is what most SSDs are, in this most crucial respect.
Simple SSD raid systems will fail as you indicated. However, other raid systems that need fast access and reliability have the SSD drives separately powered via battery backup to the drive(s), and they also include the extended ECC checking, smart technology and soforth detect failures and pending failures.
SSDs will replace spinning drives, and it is a fact of life. Should the same argument be made that DDR3 dimms will fail catastrophically, causing the entire system to be lost, and therefore all critical systems should be twinned or tripled.
> The bottom line is ALL DRIVES FAIL. You HAVE to backup. You WILL be restoring from backup.
Guess what? The entire modern financial system revolves around the proposition that block devices do not lose their entire contents during a power failure. Sorry we wired a large sum of money to somewhere but don't quite recall where doesn't quite fly in the real world.
The quaint notion of a data "backup" does not suffice when you can't lose any data recorded since your last one. Such as email messages recently sent and received, for example.
Going out of your way to make borderline defective devices that will force users to resort to backups of varying degrees of staleness simply because you wanted to save a few cents on manufacturing costs isn't common sense, it is more like engineering malpractice.
I would presume that pairs of SSD's would be raid connected, and as was the case with some Raid systems, the cache to the drives were (lead) acid battery backed up along with sufficient power to insure the last operation is/was safely completed..
As part of the infrastructure they build in defences to prevent the mirrors getting sandblasted. Those can be anything from trees to walls. One of the benefits of a project like this is that it halts and reverses desertification.
I agree with your comment. A good example is Israel. When the state was created, Jews around the world were asked to give presents of trees. A ten dollars contribution planted and maintained a tree. Over the 30 years and until today, for a wedding, birthday, anniversery, or festive occasion, we make donations for trees (in the name of a parent, self, child,relative). I cannot tell you about the millions of hectors of reclaimed desert that now comprises productive land. If the Sahara tree program was started by the countries bordering the desert, that forest would counter global warming. And yes, it would help with the establishment of solar farms.
With ADRUINO AND RASBERRY cpus, and an adapter card to detect a few sensors, you can do better than trying to hack a controller. The best controllers were the clockwork mechanical drum ones with mechanical cam actuated contacts. Cheap, easy to repair, and reliable.
The Corrections Department is now trying to track down released inmates to make some of them finish their terms.
Wow... How fucking maliciously vindictive and petty can Uncle Sam get?
"Yeah, good job getting your life back together, congrats on landing that new job - Now get back in the goddamned cage."
I concur with you. I am willing to bet that most, if not all of the released (on error) inmates are not recidivists. They returned to home, job, and in many cases, back to spouse. The reason the government wants them back is for the contract--for profit prisons are great. Its time that the USA should empty their prisons of pot smokers, or bad debt prisoners.
Public schools in the US are beholden to teacher's unions, and teacher's unions are all about funnelling dues collected from members into contributions to politicians who tend to do things that increase the power of the teacher's unions.
And the kids be damned - especially poor kids with no alternative.
Ever notice how politician's kids go to private schools?
I have a different viewpoint. Different areas of the state have different school boards. The school tax, instead of being uniformly applied state-wide, is based on the individual school boards budget and ability to collect taxes. The result is that poor areas get under-funded, whereas affluent area school-boards are comfortably funded. Charter schools are one example of rich/poor dichotomy.
Teacher salaries stop during the summer months. If the teacher is lucky, he/she gets unemployment, otherwise it is to find a summer job or do without $$$. No large salaries here. Many teachers take summer courses so as to learn new advanced teaching techniques, psychology and dealing with exceptional children. No, not many people would want a teacher's job ever.
The rest of the world (billions of people) don't trust the United States to be neutral with managing domains, etc. etc. The USA has a habit of allowing corporations to take over what is a state or federal responsibility. (Example, For profit institutions in healthcare, internet, prisons, food inspection, etc.)
Dogs bark when something is wrong, or when they perceive that something is wrong. Letting your dog keep barking for any length of time (I think 10 minutes is too long in this case) is animal abuse. Either the dog needs something, is afraid of something, or is trying to warn you of something; ignoring it and letting it keep barking is not the answer. So yes, calling the cops over ANIMAL ABUSE is perfectly reasonable and only a narcissistic asshole dog owner would argue otherwise.
Some dogs are bonded to their owners. If they are outside and the dog knows the owner is inside, barking will persevere. My own dog likes to watch TV with me. If I leave for a nature call, there is growling and barking. If I leave for work, and the house is empty, the dog is quiet, after 5 minutes of wimpering.
When you talk about the president needing Congress to pass laws, you're thinking of the old system, the Constitutional process. The Constitution is now just "an old piece of paper".
This president has already unilaterally changed immigration law after Congress denied his request and the news today is that he plans to issue new gun laws within the next few days.
Even before he was elected president, he pointed out that a law was unconstitutional- just before he voted to pass it. Meaning he knowingly, intentionally voted to pass a law that he knew to be unconstitutional. The Constitution is meaningless under this administration.
I thought that the reason for guns was the founding fathers desire to insure the British or others could not attack and destroy the new country. Today, that need rests with the army. Civilians taking up arms against tanks, airplanes, submarines and nuclear bombs seems to suggest that the Gun Laws should be extended to allow civilians to purchase said types of armoured vehicles for their personal protection.
I would conjecture that sleep slooowsss down circulation, and aids in clogging arteries. And the slowing down lowers blood pressure, allowing arteries to contract. These two cumulative actions take place over many years
Also hiring people because of their handicap regardless of whether they're as suitable as another normal candicate is not only patronising to all concerned but is doing the austistic a disservice as they'll more than likely struggle in the role and reinforce the stereotype.
Wow. How about you treat autistic people like human beings and accept that if they tell you they can do a job and appear qualified and make a good impression at the interview, maybe they are not lying?
I have a disability. If I tell someone I can do a job it's not because I'm lying to get the job. That would be pointless, I'd switch to their company, be found out and end up unemployed. In fact I'd make damn sure that I could do the job and they would be accommodating before even accepting it.
Autistic people are gifted. They can focus, and do a job exceedingly well. Give them programming, quality-control testing, and well defined tasks, and many can do that part better than the "brilliant, but scatterbrained" software engineer. SAP is in a win-win situition.
Every time I read another Trumpism I piss in my pants from laughter. My wife is annoyed, as I am running out of underwear and I only had a 10 day supply. This joker Trump's sphere of knowledge is in real-estate. Even with that narrow mindedness, I wonder if he has those skills. His daddy did. I am not saying that Trump is dumb, he has a good IQ, but he is unknowledgeable. You can't keep putting your foot in your mouth all the time. True the toes taste good at first, but then ecchhh.
I don't understand the logic of disarming your people to prevent terrorists attacks by people who will always be able to get weapons.
I don't understand the hysteria of disarming your people to prevent terrorists attacks by people who will always be able to get weapons.
FTFY
If the USA joins the other countries in the universe, to become a gun-free society, the consequences or penalty of being stopped with a (untraceable) gun from an unknown owner can be set to a very high penalty. As the number of guns disappear, as they should, the accidental deaths from guns or deaths due to being angry and stressed (rage) while holding a weapon also drops.
Can I see you out walking with your child and a gun strapped to your body, when a terrorist attacks? Are you going to be a first responder? And what will you do if you kill the innocent bystander?
At the time of the constitution, there was a fear of a violent overthrow of the government by government militia. Today the militia has tanks, drones planes, bombs and missiles. Can you protect yourself from your own army with a paltry hand gun or rifle? 1053 group shooting deaths in 2 years does not speak well for the USA. Ten thousand deaths from guns each year is a shame.
In 1563, Ponce de Leon said we would have a cure for aging within 5 years. 2 years later he claimed to have found the Fountain of Youth.
I would expect the scientific method and a lot of elbow grease to be more successful at this task than yet another real estate scam in Florida.
A cure for aging is a few years away, and always will be.
You're probably right for now, but scientific progress sooner or later is going to real that goal.
i MAY stop ageing, but MY PROSTRATE will have to be advised to stop growing. IHe could arrest one bodily action, but others will continue, like prostrate, teeth fall-out, memory... and more.
Expect a bunch of Arizonians to join them. Climate change is going to make it too hot in summer to enjoy Arizona. I can see Arizona being mothballed from June to beginning of October, and then enjoying a rush of golden ager's for the remaining months.
And where flooding is a problem, expect those regions to send another influx of people. Arkansas has a low cost of housing.
It can be different paid tasks of an individual in a company. A good secretary drafts letters, handles the mail, makes coffee, does banking, acts as receptionist, as order taker for food, party planner and more.
Quite the other way around, most of Europe has extensive parental leave provisions by law. In a nutshell, for most of Europe, Zuck can take his 4 months and stick 'em.
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Once the payment systems make their case, the bill will die. And it will die when people get into encrypted databases because someone in the government allowed the key and knowledge to backdoors to become common knowledge.
The US is a leader, not a follower, therefore it won't get rid of the penny like Canada did in 2013, no matter how good the idea is.
Canada got rid of the penny, now a collector's item. If your paying by debit or credit card, the pennies count. Otherwise, paying by cash causes rounding
Cash rules are: Three cents rounds to a nickel, Two cents round down. And 7 cents rounds down to a nickel.
The USA can do likewise.
Canada also got rid of the dollar and two dollar bills. (loony a tooney nicknames for the 1 dollar coin and 2 dollar coin.) We soon learn to pay with coins so as to not carry many. And we make more use of plastic.
Speaking of plastic. our paper currency has been replaced with plastic currency. Its more durable, very very costly to counterfeit, and this change saved the government mint millions in raplacing warren out bills.
Old-timers will remember the Pentium 5 FDIV bug where the chip sometimes yielded incorrect results for complex mathematical calculations.
Does the following make sense?
The engineers brought back the above code, because the people who knew about it and why it should not be used, had retired. This retirement situation allowed for it's re-introduction. No, Intel will not be accepting returns for Skylake. It will be a microcode patch. The microcode patch is a backdoor input to the cpu to allow fixing instructions and breaking security.
as well as developing a complete and commercially viable system for safely electrifying your home our shop.
Really? Last I checked his DC system didn't get used, whereas Tesla invented the AC power system we use worldwide.
Hi voltage DC is returning. I am told that long distance transmission of high voltage DC power from generators to target delivery sites is much more efficient than the equivalent High Voltage AC. With DC there is no RMS or Volt-Amp concerns or phase problems to manage.
At the target site, motors can power generators to create AC. The power loss due to motor generator combinations at the far away destination site is less than if AC power were shipped the same distance.
This is yet another example of why rolling your own encryption is a very bad idea. Not only is it a weak algorithm but it also relies on obscurity. Their literature even says that due to it's proprietary nature that makes it even more secure because it's more difficult to reverse engineer. Good job, morons!
They were using DES. DES is an encryption algorithm. DES with cypher block chaining is quite secure, given that the information is not financial data. Financial data would be studied to determine the encryption keys, but dental records do not carry financial data.
Can dental information be monetized? Please explain to me why someone would want to decrypt a dental database? A typical dental practice rarely has more than 10k patients active and perhaps adds 2k patients per year and prunes that many records that are past the legal limit of retentions.
Most SSDs are garbage from an engineering perspective. No one in his right mind would use them to store important data, not in a RAID or any other configuration, if he can avoid it. They are unreliable and when they fail it is generally not a lost sector or two here and there, it is their entire contents.
This is nothing but engineering malpractice. A mirrored pair of real hard drives is not generally susceptible to catastrophically losing all your data at a moments notice. RAID solves that problem. Whereas on most SSDs a simple power loss will destroy all the data in your RAID group simultaneously. Say good bye to everything stored since your most recent backup.
RAID means Redundant Array of Inexpensive Drives. It doesn't work with a Redundant Array of Defective Drives, which is what most SSDs are, in this most crucial respect.
Simple SSD raid systems will fail as you indicated. However, other raid systems that need fast access and reliability have the SSD drives separately powered via battery backup to the drive(s), and they also include the extended ECC checking, smart technology and soforth detect failures and pending failures.
SSDs will replace spinning drives, and it is a fact of life. Should the same argument be made that DDR3 dimms will fail catastrophically, causing the entire system to be lost, and therefore all critical systems should be twinned or tripled.
> The bottom line is ALL DRIVES FAIL. You HAVE to backup. You WILL be restoring from backup.
Guess what? The entire modern financial system revolves around the proposition that block devices do not lose their entire contents during a power failure. Sorry we wired a large sum of money to somewhere but don't quite recall where doesn't quite fly in the real world.
The quaint notion of a data "backup" does not suffice when you can't lose any data recorded since your last one. Such as email messages recently sent and received, for example.
Going out of your way to make borderline defective devices that will force users to resort to backups of varying degrees of staleness simply because you wanted to save a few cents on manufacturing costs isn't common sense, it is more like engineering malpractice.
I would presume that pairs of SSD's would be raid connected, and as was the case with some Raid systems, the cache to the drives were (lead) acid battery backed up along with sufficient power to insure the last operation is /was safely completed..
It the backdoor is immutable, it means that a first discovery of it's entrance is available to all.
If there is to be a backdoor, then it must change with every encryption, and it must not be detectable because of a consistent pattern of access.
Two successive encryptions of a same file should produce different results and different backdoors.
The USA's saviour is this balding blond guy with tinted hair. You know the one from New York. The one with casino money.
Whats his name again???
As part of the infrastructure they build in defences to prevent the mirrors getting sandblasted. Those can be anything from trees to walls. One of the benefits of a project like this is that it halts and reverses desertification.
I agree with your comment. A good example is Israel. When the state was created, Jews around the world were asked to give presents of trees. A ten dollars contribution planted and maintained a tree. Over the 30 years and until today, for a wedding, birthday, anniversery, or festive occasion, we make donations for trees (in the name of a parent, self, child,relative). I cannot tell you about the millions of hectors of reclaimed desert that now comprises productive land. If the Sahara tree program was started by the countries bordering the desert, that forest would counter global warming. And yes, it would help with the establishment of solar farms.
With ADRUINO AND RASBERRY cpus, and an adapter card to detect a few sensors, you can do better than trying to hack a controller. The best controllers were the clockwork mechanical drum ones with mechanical cam actuated contacts. Cheap, easy to repair, and reliable.
The Corrections Department is now trying to track down released inmates to make some of them finish their terms.
Wow... How fucking maliciously vindictive and petty can Uncle Sam get?
"Yeah, good job getting your life back together, congrats on landing that new job - Now get back in the goddamned cage."
I concur with you. I am willing to bet that most, if not all of the released (on error) inmates are not recidivists. They returned to home, job, and in many cases, back to spouse. The reason the government wants them back is for the contract--for profit prisons are great. Its time that the USA should empty their prisons of pot smokers, or bad debt prisoners.
Public schools in the US are beholden to teacher's unions, and teacher's unions are all about funnelling dues collected from members into contributions to politicians who tend to do things that increase the power of the teacher's unions.
And the kids be damned - especially poor kids with no alternative.
Ever notice how politician's kids go to private schools?
I have a different viewpoint. Different areas of the state have different school boards. The school tax, instead of being uniformly applied state-wide, is based on the individual school boards budget and ability to collect taxes. The result is that poor areas get under-funded, whereas affluent area school-boards are comfortably funded. Charter schools are one example of rich/poor dichotomy.
Teacher salaries stop during the summer months. If the teacher is lucky, he/she gets unemployment, otherwise it is to find a summer job or do without $$$. No large salaries here. Many teachers take summer courses so as to learn new advanced teaching techniques, psychology and dealing with exceptional children. No, not many people would want a teacher's job ever.
This is change you can believe in..
It's only possible because the US gave it up.
The rest of the world (billions of people) don't trust the United States to be neutral with managing domains, etc. etc. The USA has a habit of allowing corporations to take over what is a state or federal responsibility. (Example, For profit institutions in healthcare, internet, prisons, food inspection, etc.)
Dogs bark when something is wrong, or when they perceive that something is wrong. Letting your dog keep barking for any length of time (I think 10 minutes is too long in this case) is animal abuse. Either the dog needs something, is afraid of something, or is trying to warn you of something; ignoring it and letting it keep barking is not the answer. So yes, calling the cops over ANIMAL ABUSE is perfectly reasonable and only a narcissistic asshole dog owner would argue otherwise.
Some dogs are bonded to their owners. If they are outside and the dog knows the owner is inside, barking will persevere. My own dog likes to watch TV with me. If I leave for a nature call, there is growling and barking. If I leave for work, and the house is empty, the dog is quiet, after 5 minutes of wimpering.
When you talk about the president needing Congress to pass laws, you're thinking of the old system, the Constitutional process. The Constitution is now just "an old piece of paper".
This president has already unilaterally changed immigration law after Congress denied his request and the news today is that he plans to issue new gun laws within the next few days.
Even before he was elected president, he pointed out that a law was unconstitutional- just before he voted to pass it. Meaning he knowingly, intentionally voted to pass a law that he knew to be unconstitutional. The Constitution is meaningless under this administration.
I thought that the reason for guns was the founding fathers desire to insure the British or others could not attack and destroy the new country. Today, that need rests with the army. Civilians taking up arms against tanks, airplanes, submarines and nuclear bombs seems to suggest that the Gun Laws should be extended to allow civilians to purchase said types of armoured vehicles for their personal protection.
I would conjecture that sleep slooowsss down circulation, and aids in clogging arteries. And the slowing down lowers blood pressure, allowing arteries to contract. These two cumulative actions take place over many years
Also hiring people because of their handicap regardless of whether they're as suitable as another normal candicate is not only patronising to all concerned but is doing the austistic a disservice as they'll more than likely struggle in the role and reinforce the stereotype.
Wow. How about you treat autistic people like human beings and accept that if they tell you they can do a job and appear qualified and make a good impression at the interview, maybe they are not lying?
I have a disability. If I tell someone I can do a job it's not because I'm lying to get the job. That would be pointless, I'd switch to their company, be found out and end up unemployed. In fact I'd make damn sure that I could do the job and they would be accommodating before even accepting it.
Autistic people are gifted. They can focus, and do a job exceedingly well. Give them programming, quality-control testing, and well defined tasks, and many can do that part better than the "brilliant, but scatterbrained" software engineer. SAP is in a win-win situition.
Every time I read another Trumpism I piss in my pants from laughter. My wife is annoyed, as I am running out of underwear and I only had a 10 day supply. This joker Trump's sphere of knowledge is in real-estate. Even with that narrow mindedness, I wonder if he has those skills. His daddy did.
I am not saying that Trump is dumb, he has a good IQ, but he is unknowledgeable. You can't keep putting your foot in your mouth all the time. True the toes taste good at first, but then ecchhh.
I don't understand the hysteria of disarming your people to prevent terrorists attacks by people who will always be able to get weapons.
FTFY
If the USA joins the other countries in the universe, to become a gun-free society, the consequences or penalty of being stopped with a (untraceable) gun from an unknown owner can be set to a very high penalty. As the number of guns disappear, as they should, the accidental deaths from guns or deaths due to being angry and stressed (rage) while holding a weapon also drops.
Can I see you out walking with your child and a gun strapped to your body, when a terrorist attacks? Are you going to be a first responder? And what will you do if you kill the innocent bystander?
At the time of the constitution, there was a fear of a violent overthrow of the government by government militia. Today the militia has tanks, drones planes, bombs and missiles. Can you protect yourself from your own army with a paltry hand gun or rifle? 1053 group shooting deaths in 2 years does not speak well for the USA. Ten thousand deaths from guns each year is a shame.
In 1563, Ponce de Leon said we would have a cure for aging within 5 years. 2 years later he claimed to have found the Fountain of Youth.
I would expect the scientific method and a lot of elbow grease to be more successful at this task than yet another real estate scam in Florida.
A cure for aging is a few years away, and always will be.
You're probably right for now, but scientific progress sooner or later is going to real that goal.
i MAY stop ageing, but MY PROSTRATE will have to be advised to stop growing. IHe could arrest one bodily action, but others will continue, like prostrate, teeth fall-out, memory... and more.
Expect a bunch of Arizonians to join them. Climate change is going to make it too hot in summer to enjoy Arizona. I can see Arizona being mothballed from June to beginning of October, and then enjoying a rush of golden ager's for the remaining months.
And where flooding is a problem, expect those regions to send another influx of people. Arkansas has a low cost of housing.
It can be different paid tasks of an individual in a company. A good secretary drafts letters, handles the mail, makes coffee, does banking, acts as receptionist, as order taker for food, party planner and more.
Thats one job description
Quite the other way around, most of Europe has extensive parental leave provisions by law. In a nutshell, for most of Europe, Zuck can take his 4 months and stick 'em.
Ditto for Canada's Quebec province.
Republican or Democrat, which one, or is it both? Congress makes the laws, so you know it is not the latter.