... the brain of those transsexuals, those XXY, those XYY people, how their brains have been wired ?
Instead of from front to back or side to side, how their brains are being wired ??
Well women are wired side to side and men a wired front to back. So consider that a car engine can be mounted latitudinally (side to side) in a front wheel drive car or longitudinally (front to back) as in a rear wheel drive car, transsexuals would be all wheel drive.
The fight over "begging the question" was lost decades ago. The modern usage makes more sense anyway: the logical fallacy would be better off renamed "assuming the premise", which both serves as a more descriptive name and is a better translation of the Latin petitio principii.
Save your time and effort for the "literally" folks. It's wasted here.
This,
English is a living language and constantly subject to change.
People who complain about "begging" the question are just displaying their ignorance of colloquial definitions. Sure the formal way is "raising" but "begging" is a perfectly valid colloquial usage.
I agree with the Parent, save your time for the "literally" folks.
>because gender and sexuality are social constructs
WTF?
There may be social constructs around gender and sexuality, but for sure no body's bits change gender when they move to a new social situation. Gender and Sexuality are physical constructs. Don't try and inject your social construct voodoo into physical reality.
Erm.. Some species of West African frogs have been know to change gender in a single sex environment.
Also, whilst you've got a point about gender (it is a physical trait) sexuality is a social trait. Different cultures have very different attitudes and approaches to sexuality, if you dont believe me, spend some time dating in a South American Christian country and then go to an Asian Buddhist country.
Sorry, but I cannot feel anything but utterly patronized by your comment.
The reason you feel patronised by TapeCutter's comment is because he's right.
This is the cognitive dissonance caused by hearing something that disagrees with your world view... The problem is you cant seem to handle that your world view is quite wrong.
I don't think Volvos use Ford transmissions. My 2007 S80 uses an Aisin transmission, which I think is used on the S60 as well.
It's a six speed with the "shiftmatic" option that lets you manually go up/down a gear if you want, which is great for passing/merging.
Ford dont build their own transmissions, they buy them from companies who do.
What Ford do is select them and connect them to the engine and drive trains. If Ford screw this up, it doesn't matter how good the transmission is (or if the transmission is not suitable for the engine)
BTW, the manumatic "shiftmatic" or "SelectShift" on the Mustang is exactly the bit that doesn't work. You press the shift up or down button and start counting the seconds before the gearbox remembers it's a gearbox and starts moving cogs around.
My Sony Z1 cost £30 more than my iPhone 5 did the previous year (both bought unsubsidised). Even accounting for inflation, it still works out more in real terms.
Based on this true anecdote, let's reverse your statement and see how ridiculous it sounds.
All you've demonstrated is that you overpaid for the Z1.
A high end Android phone is cheaper than a low end Apple device.
*sigh* iOS devices are more expensive to begin with. iOS users obviously have more money to spend than brains. It has nothing to do with the quality of the device, and everything to do with being willing to be gouged.
Really? The last time I looked at Verizon's site both the high end HTC and Samsung models were going for the same as an iPhone 5s with contract. I could see your point if it was without contract even though the Samsung was only 50 dollars cheaper but let's be honest, the vast majority of smartphone users on Verizon are under a contract.
Erm, trying to obfuscate it doesn't help.
Samsung phones are expensive, but still cheaper than Iphones so this is simply Verizon stuffing their pockets.
Even though the SGS is also an EU import as well, it's over $350 cheaper. And the new cheaper Iphone 5C is still $700, making it $100 more expensive than the top of the line Samsung.
But Samsung is an expensive brand for Android phone, you've got the Nexus 5 which are still pretty pricey for Android but a full $400 cheaper than an Iphone 5S. So IOS devices are expensive, a lot more expensive than equivalent Android devices.
Actually it demonstrates that Iphone users cant recognise that sales are traps for people with more money than sense.
Android users probably bought what they wanted months ago when it was cheap.
Certainly in Australia, if you want a bargain get it in late June as retailers get desperate to clear stock before tax time.
In December retailers know people are shopping without thinking, especially during a large sale like black Friday. You can put a 50% off sign on it and jack up the price 20% and people will still buy because its on sale. Retailers know that idiots are attracted to impulse sales like moths to a flame. They do the same thing in Australia on Boxing day (26th of December) but you can guarantee when things go back to normal in Febuary, prices will be lower. It's all because people get caught up in the frenzy of a sale and need to buy something to show for it.
BTW, only 20% of online shoppers were using a mobile device, that seems pretty low for all the retards who keep proclaiming its a "post PC world".
I live in a small town in the western US. I used to get four channels over the air on a good day with analog. Now, I get one. Not saying you're wrong, but I think people in more rural areas suffer more when the analog signal is cut.
Referring to Australia only.
The digital signal has a greater range than the older analogue signals (different frequencies and signal strengths). This may be different in your neck of the woods, as they may use worse frequencies (or probably in your case, change the transmission sites completely).
That's pretty bleak. The Geely takeover appears to have been largely successful and they're appearing to do a lot more innovating than they did under the lost decade of Ford.
What do you expect, its Ford.
I've driven a number of 2012/13 Fords in the last few months from the Australian XR6T to the Thai made Focus and the American Mustang. They're all pretty crap and really have the technological sophistication of a 15 yr old Honda Civic without the ride quality or mechanical reliability. However the number 1 let down of the all the fords were the automatic transmissions. The XR6 and Mustang had the same problem, serious lag when changing gears but the Focus was worse, when this thing shifted gear it could best be described as "bone jarringly violent". Seriously an hour in this thing under normal traffic conditions would make a good back sore as hell, the worst part was because it was an auto, you had no warning when it changed gear until your spine was massaged by a pile driver.
I'm not just having a go at these cars just because they're auto's, they're bad auto's. The Automatic transmissions in a 2013 Chevy Camaro or 2010 Subaru Impreza dont have the same problems (they were positively smooth in comparison). Three different cars, three different tranny's, from three different countries, all terrible. There is a serious problem with Ford at the senior level.
Digital - everything has to go through their pipes.
Analog - you can get an antenna and tune in to non-official sources.
Don't take my word for it, come to Singapore and see if you can view Malaysian or Indonesian channels via the digital channels. (hint: you cannot).
Erm, you don know that they cant actually stop an over the air signal.
The only thing stopping you from receiving Malaysian broadcasts over the air is that your equipment cant receive it.
Considering that if I mounted a satellite dish on my roof in Perth, Western Australia I can pick up satellite broadcasts from as far away as Italy (with a big enough dish). A pirate digital signal would still work in Singapore, as would Malaysian digital signals, you just need the right equipment to pick it up. Sorry but your conspiracy does not hold water.
In Australia switching to digital was all about freeing up the 700 MHz spectrum for govt sale. The good side effect is that we now get more channels, but the bad part is there is also nothing to watch on these new channels.
Digital is pretty much "all or nothing", with freezes, posterizing, etc.. if you've got a bad signal.
If you've got a bad analog signal, you'll get snow and static, but you'll still be able to see what's happening.
But digital goes further, so if you're on the fringe of an analogue signal, you'll get a decent digital signal (well, as long as they're being transmitted from the same approximate location).
To be fair, the paper currency issue was addressed ten years ago, it's just taking a little time to get the last few bits of old money out of circulation. I haven't seen an old bill in a while, though I don't deal with cash that often.
The sizes are still the same, but the color issue has been fixed and there are other differences to help distinguish the different notes.
It took 20 years for Australia to completely phase out old paper notes.
But the big problem remains, the two most common notes in the US are the $1 and $20 in my experience, these still look very similar. Someone with bad eyesight (or drunk) will still have a bit of trouble. Even with good eyesight I still sorted my notes before I went out (singles folded in half, 20's in the back pocket, 5's and 10's in the front pocket).
The Australian banknotes are a good example of how to make each note unique and instantly recognisable. At a glance I know how much cash I have on me.
Dimes and nickels were another thing that annoyed me, but I ended up leaving them for the housekeeper or feeding them into a vending machine until I had enough for a drink.
If somebody has a tape system that can store terabytes on a cartridge, reliably
LTO does this.
Ensuring data integrity is the job of the sysadmin. To be 100% honest, I've never had a restore from an LTO tape fail, even when the tape was 6 years old (the biggest problem I had was plugging in the LTO 4 drive to read an LTO 3 tape). Remember that backups aren't done until they're tested.
OTOH, we have disks in an EMC SAN fail every 2nd or third week. These systems have so much redundancy for a reason.
$10/TB or less, and the system costs less than $200, I'd look at it, though. Otherwise, it is still more worthwhile just to use hard drives to back up data (even at their inflated prices)
Way to frame the argument with unrealistic expectations.
Show me a SAN or NAS that costs less than $200 and HDD media that costs less than $10 per TB otherwise I'll bring you back to planet earth.
1.5TB LTO5 cartridge = $50
1 TB HDD = $75.
So for a modest business with 10 TB that sends 1 full backup off site each month, that's 10 HDD's at $750 or 7 tapes at $350.
An LTO 5 tape loader with 8 slots cost $6-7000, 24 slots costs $8-9000... How much does the head for a SAN costs... then you need the shelves.
BTW, dont compare this with some dodgy home built white box which some neckbeard pulls the side off each week and changes disks, you specified reliability, I want a system known for reliability.
Random access speed = Disk is better.
Longevity = Tape is better.
Tape is still better for backup simply because it's more portable and durable than disks. Disks are vulnerable to electromagnetic fields and shock. If you break open a tape, recovery is a simple as putting the tape into a new cartridge, breaking a hard drive, recovery becomes very expensive. Also, per TB tape is still cheaper with LTO 5 tapes being about $50 and 1 TB HDD's still being $75. Not to mention warranties, LTO tapes come with a lifetime warranty (which is going to end up being decades) whilst if you want longer than 5 years expect to pay big bucks. So sending 10 TB off site every month is going to be a lot cheaper and easier with tape.
That does seem like a lot, but I imagine they've only stayed at 25c in the US because that's the largest value coin that's in wide enough circulation. If the $1 coin had caught on, they'd almost certainly be required by now.
This.
Having travelled recently in the US, washing machines at coin-op laundries used 8 to 12 quarters. This seemed a bit silly to me as in Australia that's going to be a maximum of 3 coins (assuming that the machine doesn't accept $2 coins, which to be fair in Oz, a lot dont).
But there's a lot wrong with the design of US money (most notably the $100 note is the same size, colour and texture as a $1 note).
I don't think you understand the concept that the xkcd advocates.
This.
Also, what the article doesn't say is that the programs it uses as examples aren't that fast over a network, so if they're cracking the passwords at full speed, they've already compromised the site. Network speed plus other forms of detecting password crackers (such as locking out after 5 or 10 attempts) really slow down attempts to crack a password. This is why they tend to use dictionary attacks rather than brute force, dictionary attacks are faster and yield decent results.
The XKCD is making a different point: that passwords comprised of unrelated words
This again,
Along with being unrelated words they are easy to remember. For example "Shotgun, Raptor; clever girl" are pretty unrelated outside of the context (and I expect most/.ers to know where this is from) but extremely unlikely to be found in a dictionary attack, especially with the punctuation (which is not 100% correct, but they're mistakes I make commonly, Grammar nazi's can bite me). So the only real way an attacker has to defeat this is via brute force, so the longer and more complex the password, the longer it will take over a network.
The other issue is password reuse.
A lot of people get around password resuse by using a password safe (such as key pass) but all this does is introduce a single point of failure. What people need to realise is that reuse can be managed, using the same password for/. as you do for your knitting forum isn't that bad. However using the same password on your webmail or work account as you have on Facebook is terrible, so important accounts should have unique passwords whilst ones that are potentially vulnerable (such as a forum for your lawn bowls club) should never use a password that is the same as something important... Doubly so if that password is the same as the password you use on the email address you joined the forum with.
Or place a small explosive charge within the drive itself that will be triggered unless an authorised command is sent. (yes, it can be done).
I doubt that a explosive charge that small could guarantee a destruction of the hard drive that is rules out forensic recovery of at least part of the data. Now thermite neatly wrapped around the hard drive burning at 2400 C now that would leave nothing left to work with unless there is a way to physically rebuild a hard drive from a smoldering pile of molten metal, plastic and cement. Though I have to admit to being paranoid I am also far too attached to my genitals for ever even considering rigging such a thing in my laptop, and so should everyone else be with the exception of aspiring Darwin award winners
Jesus the fucking lawnmowing guy.
You lot are pissweak amateurs.
If you're going to use explosives to protect your data, do it bloody properly. Use enough semtex to take out the entire room, all the disks and the pesky agents trying to get your data. Double points for having it set up in a controlled demolition so that aerial photos display the logo of your evil organisation.
If this were Apple removing an app, everyone would be complaining about the walled garden!
You see, if Apple removes an app I cant install it from an external source.
Google is free to determine what they do and do not keep in their store. The difference between Android and IOS is that only on Android am I free to go elsewhere if I dont like it.
so your hunter friends never fly to go on hunting trip? Canada is huge. how about competition target shooting? those are reasons to fly with a gun, though when I did target shooting decades ago I would drive because the gear is heavy (gun case with spotting scope, cleaning tools, ammo...who wants to walk through large major city airport with 60+ lbs. box)
Its probably the same as Australia. You can fly with weapons but they have to be declared before hand. Ammunition is a different story, airlines reserve the right to flat out refuse to carry it.
Buying ammo at your destination is usually a better option
Why do anti-gun people feel the need to ask this question every single time the subject comes up?
Because it's puzzling to us and we continue to seek out someone, anyone, who can explain it to us.
As a Canadian, our country has many, many cultural traits in common with the USA. However, what boggles my mind most about Americans Is the whole âgun thing.â(TM) I just donâ(TM)t get it. I live in Vancouver, I donâ(TM)t own a gun and amongst my wide circle of friends I only know one person who owns a gun (and heâ(TM)s a police officer). Now certainly my friends in rural parts of Canada own long guns for hunting, but thatâ(TM)s different. In Canada to buy a gun you need to be licensed, the same way you do to drive a car or own a dog. To Canadians this seems perfectly reasonable and the fact that many of my American friends go bananas if you even suggest such a thing is a complete and utter head-scratcher to us.
+1.
As an Australian it's pretty much the same, but I know a few more people with guns due to living in a mining town for a few years. However these people are responsible gun owners who have little to no risk of shooting themselves, let alone anyone else. In Australia if you're not a responsible gun owner, you cant own guns.
Same as someone with multiple high range DUI convictions, after a few times in front of a judge the judge decides you aren't fit to drive a car again, ever, in your life.
But watch Americans go nuts over that, impinging on that poor drink drivers right to drive drunk. Its not like they're going to kill someone...
Conversely, domestic air travel in Australia is much nicer, no LAG limits, a simple metal detector, you dont get treated like a crook. It surprised me that applying for an ESTA to travel to the United States required slightly more info than getting an Australian police clearance (working with children clearance and sensitive facilities clearance), the mind boggles that such wholesale disregard for privacy is permitted. Don't know about the Yanks, but I'd wouldn't trade our good air travel for more drink drivers on the road.
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... the brain of those transsexuals, those XXY, those XYY people, how their brains have been wired ?
Instead of from front to back or side to side, how their brains are being wired ??
Well women are wired side to side and men a wired front to back. So consider that a car engine can be mounted latitudinally (side to side) in a front wheel drive car or longitudinally (front to back) as in a rear wheel drive car, transsexuals would be all wheel drive.
The fight over "begging the question" was lost decades ago. The modern usage makes more sense anyway: the logical fallacy would be better off renamed "assuming the premise", which both serves as a more descriptive name and is a better translation of the Latin petitio principii.
Save your time and effort for the "literally" folks. It's wasted here.
This,
English is a living language and constantly subject to change.
People who complain about "begging" the question are just displaying their ignorance of colloquial definitions. Sure the formal way is "raising" but "begging" is a perfectly valid colloquial usage.
I agree with the Parent, save your time for the "literally" folks.
>because gender and sexuality are social constructs
WTF?
There may be social constructs around gender and sexuality, but for sure no body's bits change gender when they move to a new social situation. Gender and Sexuality are physical constructs. Don't try and inject your social construct voodoo into physical reality.
Erm.. Some species of West African frogs have been know to change gender in a single sex environment.
Also, whilst you've got a point about gender (it is a physical trait) sexuality is a social trait. Different cultures have very different attitudes and approaches to sexuality, if you dont believe me, spend some time dating in a South American Christian country and then go to an Asian Buddhist country.
Sorry, but I cannot feel anything but utterly patronized by your comment.
The reason you feel patronised by TapeCutter's comment is because he's right.
This is the cognitive dissonance caused by hearing something that disagrees with your world view... The problem is you cant seem to handle that your world view is quite wrong.
I don't think Volvos use Ford transmissions. My 2007 S80 uses an Aisin transmission, which I think is used on the S60 as well.
It's a six speed with the "shiftmatic" option that lets you manually go up/down a gear if you want, which is great for passing/merging.
Ford dont build their own transmissions, they buy them from companies who do.
What Ford do is select them and connect them to the engine and drive trains. If Ford screw this up, it doesn't matter how good the transmission is (or if the transmission is not suitable for the engine)
BTW, the manumatic "shiftmatic" or "SelectShift" on the Mustang is exactly the bit that doesn't work. You press the shift up or down button and start counting the seconds before the gearbox remembers it's a gearbox and starts moving cogs around.
If it's at the door wouldn't CCTV on the building be far cheaper and easier?
It'd take what, 5 mins to rewind to the point of spotting it and recognising the resident no?
Nope, you'd have to go through hours of footage to find the offending canine and the owner may be off camera at the time.
My Sony Z1 cost £30 more than my iPhone 5 did the previous year (both bought unsubsidised). Even accounting for inflation, it still works out more in real terms.
Based on this true anecdote, let's reverse your statement and see how ridiculous it sounds.
Really,
Iphone 5C = GBP 469
Sony Xperia Z1 = GBP 419
All you've demonstrated is that you overpaid for the Z1.
A high end Android phone is cheaper than a low end Apple device.
*sigh* iOS devices are more expensive to begin with. iOS users obviously have more money to spend than brains. It has nothing to do with the quality of the device, and everything to do with being willing to be gouged.
Fixed (again).
iOS devices are more expensive to begin with.
Really? The last time I looked at Verizon's site both the high end HTC and Samsung models were going for the same as an iPhone 5s with contract. I could see your point if it was without contract even though the Samsung was only 50 dollars cheaper but let's be honest, the vast majority of smartphone users on Verizon are under a contract.
Erm, trying to obfuscate it doesn't help.
Samsung phones are expensive, but still cheaper than Iphones so this is simply Verizon stuffing their pockets.
If you want to buy an unlocked Iphone in the US it costs significantly more because they have to be EU imports.
Apple Iphone 5S 16 GB = $960.
Samsung Galaxy S4 16GB = $600
Even though the SGS is also an EU import as well, it's over $350 cheaper. And the new cheaper Iphone 5C is still $700, making it $100 more expensive than the top of the line Samsung.
But Samsung is an expensive brand for Android phone, you've got the Nexus 5 which are still pretty pricey for Android but a full $400 cheaper than an Iphone 5S. So IOS devices are expensive, a lot more expensive than equivalent Android devices.
Actually it demonstrates that Iphone users cant recognise that sales are traps for people with more money than sense.
Android users probably bought what they wanted months ago when it was cheap.
Certainly in Australia, if you want a bargain get it in late June as retailers get desperate to clear stock before tax time.
In December retailers know people are shopping without thinking, especially during a large sale like black Friday. You can put a 50% off sign on it and jack up the price 20% and people will still buy because its on sale. Retailers know that idiots are attracted to impulse sales like moths to a flame. They do the same thing in Australia on Boxing day (26th of December) but you can guarantee when things go back to normal in Febuary, prices will be lower. It's all because people get caught up in the frenzy of a sale and need to buy something to show for it.
BTW, only 20% of online shoppers were using a mobile device, that seems pretty low for all the retards who keep proclaiming its a "post PC world".
I live in a small town in the western US. I used to get four channels over the air on a good day with analog. Now, I get one. Not saying you're wrong, but I think people in more rural areas suffer more when the analog signal is cut.
Referring to Australia only. The digital signal has a greater range than the older analogue signals (different frequencies and signal strengths). This may be different in your neck of the woods, as they may use worse frequencies (or probably in your case, change the transmission sites completely).
That's pretty bleak. The Geely takeover appears to have been largely successful and they're appearing to do a lot more innovating than they did under the lost decade of Ford.
What do you expect, its Ford.
I've driven a number of 2012/13 Fords in the last few months from the Australian XR6T to the Thai made Focus and the American Mustang. They're all pretty crap and really have the technological sophistication of a 15 yr old Honda Civic without the ride quality or mechanical reliability. However the number 1 let down of the all the fords were the automatic transmissions. The XR6 and Mustang had the same problem, serious lag when changing gears but the Focus was worse, when this thing shifted gear it could best be described as "bone jarringly violent". Seriously an hour in this thing under normal traffic conditions would make a good back sore as hell, the worst part was because it was an auto, you had no warning when it changed gear until your spine was massaged by a pile driver.
I'm not just having a go at these cars just because they're auto's, they're bad auto's. The Automatic transmissions in a 2013 Chevy Camaro or 2010 Subaru Impreza dont have the same problems (they were positively smooth in comparison). Three different cars, three different tranny's, from three different countries, all terrible. There is a serious problem with Ford at the senior level.
Digital - everything has to go through their pipes.
Analog - you can get an antenna and tune in to non-official sources.
Don't take my word for it, come to Singapore and see if you can view Malaysian or Indonesian channels via the digital channels. (hint: you cannot).
Erm, you don know that they cant actually stop an over the air signal.
The only thing stopping you from receiving Malaysian broadcasts over the air is that your equipment cant receive it.
Considering that if I mounted a satellite dish on my roof in Perth, Western Australia I can pick up satellite broadcasts from as far away as Italy (with a big enough dish). A pirate digital signal would still work in Singapore, as would Malaysian digital signals, you just need the right equipment to pick it up. Sorry but your conspiracy does not hold water.
In Australia switching to digital was all about freeing up the 700 MHz spectrum for govt sale. The good side effect is that we now get more channels, but the bad part is there is also nothing to watch on these new channels.
Analog degrades better if you're on the fringe.
Digital is pretty much "all or nothing", with freezes, posterizing, etc.. if you've got a bad signal.
If you've got a bad analog signal, you'll get snow and static, but you'll still be able to see what's happening.
But digital goes further, so if you're on the fringe of an analogue signal, you'll get a decent digital signal (well, as long as they're being transmitted from the same approximate location).
To be fair, the paper currency issue was addressed ten years ago, it's just taking a little time to get the last few bits of old money out of circulation. I haven't seen an old bill in a while, though I don't deal with cash that often.
The sizes are still the same, but the color issue has been fixed and there are other differences to help distinguish the different notes.
It took 20 years for Australia to completely phase out old paper notes.
But the big problem remains, the two most common notes in the US are the $1 and $20 in my experience, these still look very similar. Someone with bad eyesight (or drunk) will still have a bit of trouble. Even with good eyesight I still sorted my notes before I went out (singles folded in half, 20's in the back pocket, 5's and 10's in the front pocket).
The Australian banknotes are a good example of how to make each note unique and instantly recognisable. At a glance I know how much cash I have on me.
Dimes and nickels were another thing that annoyed me, but I ended up leaving them for the housekeeper or feeding them into a vending machine until I had enough for a drink.
LTO does this.
Ensuring data integrity is the job of the sysadmin. To be 100% honest, I've never had a restore from an LTO tape fail, even when the tape was 6 years old (the biggest problem I had was plugging in the LTO 4 drive to read an LTO 3 tape). Remember that backups aren't done until they're tested.
OTOH, we have disks in an EMC SAN fail every 2nd or third week. These systems have so much redundancy for a reason.
Way to frame the argument with unrealistic expectations.
Show me a SAN or NAS that costs less than $200 and HDD media that costs less than $10 per TB otherwise I'll bring you back to planet earth.
1.5TB LTO5 cartridge = $50
1 TB HDD = $75.
So for a modest business with 10 TB that sends 1 full backup off site each month, that's 10 HDD's at $750 or 7 tapes at $350.
An LTO 5 tape loader with 8 slots cost $6-7000, 24 slots costs $8-9000... How much does the head for a SAN costs... then you need the shelves.
BTW, dont compare this with some dodgy home built white box which some neckbeard pulls the side off each week and changes disks, you specified reliability, I want a system known for reliability.
Random access speed = Disk is better.
Longevity = Tape is better.
Tape is still better for backup simply because it's more portable and durable than disks. Disks are vulnerable to electromagnetic fields and shock. If you break open a tape, recovery is a simple as putting the tape into a new cartridge, breaking a hard drive, recovery becomes very expensive. Also, per TB tape is still cheaper with LTO 5 tapes being about $50 and 1 TB HDD's still being $75. Not to mention warranties, LTO tapes come with a lifetime warranty (which is going to end up being decades) whilst if you want longer than 5 years expect to pay big bucks. So sending 10 TB off site every month is going to be a lot cheaper and easier with tape.
Why use a Station Wagon? Why not a 747?
Because a 747 has never been refereed to as a "Shaggin Wagon"
Why use a Station Wagon? Why not a 747?
When's the last time you saw a 747 with that totally swank wood trim on the outside?
1944,
Except we called it a Mosquito.
Or we could just admit that all those chimps we sent into space came back super intelligent.
That does seem like a lot, but I imagine they've only stayed at 25c in the US because that's the largest value coin that's in wide enough circulation. If the $1 coin had caught on, they'd almost certainly be required by now.
This.
Having travelled recently in the US, washing machines at coin-op laundries used 8 to 12 quarters. This seemed a bit silly to me as in Australia that's going to be a maximum of 3 coins (assuming that the machine doesn't accept $2 coins, which to be fair in Oz, a lot dont).
But there's a lot wrong with the design of US money (most notably the $100 note is the same size, colour and texture as a $1 note).
I don't think you understand the concept that the xkcd advocates.
This.
Also, what the article doesn't say is that the programs it uses as examples aren't that fast over a network, so if they're cracking the passwords at full speed, they've already compromised the site. Network speed plus other forms of detecting password crackers (such as locking out after 5 or 10 attempts) really slow down attempts to crack a password. This is why they tend to use dictionary attacks rather than brute force, dictionary attacks are faster and yield decent results.
The XKCD is making a different point: that passwords comprised of unrelated words
This again,
/.ers to know where this is from) but extremely unlikely to be found in a dictionary attack, especially with the punctuation (which is not 100% correct, but they're mistakes I make commonly, Grammar nazi's can bite me). So the only real way an attacker has to defeat this is via brute force, so the longer and more complex the password, the longer it will take over a network.
/. as you do for your knitting forum isn't that bad. However using the same password on your webmail or work account as you have on Facebook is terrible, so important accounts should have unique passwords whilst ones that are potentially vulnerable (such as a forum for your lawn bowls club) should never use a password that is the same as something important... Doubly so if that password is the same as the password you use on the email address you joined the forum with.
Along with being unrelated words they are easy to remember. For example "Shotgun, Raptor; clever girl" are pretty unrelated outside of the context (and I expect most
The other issue is password reuse.
A lot of people get around password resuse by using a password safe (such as key pass) but all this does is introduce a single point of failure. What people need to realise is that reuse can be managed, using the same password for
Or place a small explosive charge within the drive itself that will be triggered unless an authorised command is sent. (yes, it can be done).
I doubt that a explosive charge that small could guarantee a destruction of the hard drive that is rules out forensic recovery of at least part of the data. Now thermite neatly wrapped around the hard drive burning at 2400 C now that would leave nothing left to work with unless there is a way to physically rebuild a hard drive from a smoldering pile of molten metal, plastic and cement. Though I have to admit to being paranoid I am also far too attached to my genitals for ever even considering rigging such a thing in my laptop, and so should everyone else be with the exception of aspiring Darwin award winners
Jesus the fucking lawnmowing guy.
You lot are pissweak amateurs.
If you're going to use explosives to protect your data, do it bloody properly. Use enough semtex to take out the entire room, all the disks and the pesky agents trying to get your data. Double points for having it set up in a controlled demolition so that aerial photos display the logo of your evil organisation.
If this were Apple removing an app, everyone would be complaining about the walled garden!
You see, if Apple removes an app I cant install it from an external source.
Google is free to determine what they do and do not keep in their store. The difference between Android and IOS is that only on Android am I free to go elsewhere if I dont like it.
so your hunter friends never fly to go on hunting trip? Canada is huge. how about competition target shooting? those are reasons to fly with a gun, though when I did target shooting decades ago I would drive because the gear is heavy (gun case with spotting scope, cleaning tools, ammo...who wants to walk through large major city airport with 60+ lbs. box)
Its probably the same as Australia. You can fly with weapons but they have to be declared before hand. Ammunition is a different story, airlines reserve the right to flat out refuse to carry it.
Buying ammo at your destination is usually a better option
Why do anti-gun people feel the need to ask this question every single time the subject comes up?
Because it's puzzling to us and we continue to seek out someone, anyone, who can explain it to us.
As a Canadian, our country has many, many cultural traits in common with the USA. However, what boggles my mind most about Americans Is the whole âgun thing.â(TM) I just donâ(TM)t get it. I live in Vancouver, I donâ(TM)t own a gun and amongst my wide circle of friends I only know one person who owns a gun (and heâ(TM)s a police officer). Now certainly my friends in rural parts of Canada own long guns for hunting, but thatâ(TM)s different. In Canada to buy a gun you need to be licensed, the same way you do to drive a car or own a dog. To Canadians this seems perfectly reasonable and the fact that many of my American friends go bananas if you even suggest such a thing is a complete and utter head-scratcher to us.
+1.
As an Australian it's pretty much the same, but I know a few more people with guns due to living in a mining town for a few years. However these people are responsible gun owners who have little to no risk of shooting themselves, let alone anyone else. In Australia if you're not a responsible gun owner, you cant own guns.
Same as someone with multiple high range DUI convictions, after a few times in front of a judge the judge decides you aren't fit to drive a car again, ever, in your life.
But watch Americans go nuts over that, impinging on that poor drink drivers right to drive drunk. Its not like they're going to kill someone...
Conversely, domestic air travel in Australia is much nicer, no LAG limits, a simple metal detector, you dont get treated like a crook. It surprised me that applying for an ESTA to travel to the United States required slightly more info than getting an Australian police clearance (working with children clearance and sensitive facilities clearance), the mind boggles that such wholesale disregard for privacy is permitted. Don't know about the Yanks, but I'd wouldn't trade our good air travel for more drink drivers on the road.