And yet Priuses aren't all that awesome because of how they're manufactured all over the world and assembled someplace where everything comes by wasting huge amounts of carbofuels.
The problem, I think, isn't that people aren't taking these green vehicles seriously, it's that they're doing it just because they're frugal and that's the wrong reason if you ask me. Buying an expensive car just because it's frugal doesn't equate to buying an expensive car because it helps the environment.
Why did this get moded Troll? Concerns over just how much energy is being spent in actually PRODUCING these types of green cars are very real and shouldn't be censored just because they go against the current mob mentality.
My sources may be wrong, but I've read that producing green cars is more wasteful than they end up saving. For now at least, but if we ignore this issue improvement will never be made.
People aren't going to take green technology seriously until it wins in rally or 24 hour le mans or somethign similarly awesome to win. Having to make a special competition just for green cars seems like, well, these cars are cool and all, but just not actually competitive with already existant technology. This isn't good for the public image.
Plant a horribly looking but not serious bug. Then when somebody complains just say that if you had a proper development cycle none of this would've happened.
Dude it scared ME away and I was using alternative browsers since before FF even existed. The problem isn't so much that the message is there, the problem is that it's way way too scary and once you get over the knee-jerk reaction of shitting your pants you're left with a cumbersome process of adding the website to a trusted list and whatever all that stuff is, I've never paid attention through the whole process.
The problem with javascript isn't that it's a bad language, the problem is that everyone continues on thinking about it as a tool for quick and dirty hacks. But guess what, that's how PHP started out and look where it came.
All javascript really needs is to be well supported in all browser and that people would stop thinking about it as just a script kiddie tool. Javascript is perfect for what it was intended to do and it's very good even for what it wasn't exactly intended to do and THAT's why there hasn't been a "better" language yet, because this one is good enough for the job. Frankly, outside of becoming standardised all over, I don't see what more you might want in javascript that you absolutely cannot live without.
It's the same here in Slovenia and I guess most Europe. Further to this, I don't think many people even buy the original books, we just buy the photocopied versions photocopying shops sell for a fraction of the price. I have no idea about how legal or illegal this is, but then, I don't much care either.
In other words the Linux kernel is opensource merely on paper. In practice it's developed by a close group of developers who don't let anybody in and write code practically nobody but them understands.
I'm certain it's easier to become a major Microsoft developer because they'll at least give your resume a read, the linux guys blow you off a priori.
In Slovenia we have those guys in all the large supermarkest, especially during "rushhour" when there's up to five and each has their own scale. Really makes the whole process easier on everyone, but I bet none of those weighers love their job... who cares though, they're our robots until we can figure out a way to properly replace them with actual robots.
The average American (at least the ones I talk to) don't think that scientific consensis is that the globe is heatihng and we are responsible.
Apparently the average American can't spell either. Perhaps education should start at spelling and build from there? How are you supposed to educate someone who can't even understand the words they're reading?
So the problem is really what sort of bias you're giving the user. If you tell them to use an mp3 there will be a lot of similar passwords out there, but if you tell them to use a video they recorded with their cellphone... that's practically uncrackable.
And I wouldn't use this for websites or whatnot, only to be used with OS logins imho where the attacker doesn't have access to your files if they don't have your USB key... which they shouldn't have in the first place... but most users aren't stupid enough to tell everyone their passwords either, so why would they be giving their USB stick out to anyone?
The problem is people DON'T use secure passwords at all. Not even geeks have the discipline to use good passwords for anything but servers.
The idea with mp3s is, I think, that instead of typing in a password you point to an mp3 on your USB key. Now since practically no two mp3s are exactly the same it'd be very difficult for an attacker to first know what song you used and second to have the exact same (bitwise) version of the song. This is probably as safe as you can get without SSL certificates.
Don't sound like cultists? When have you ever seen a Ferrarri owner with just one? Very rare for them to believe there's anything better in the world of consumer speed than an Enzo even though there is.
They're very fanatic, in fact Ferrarri itself supports this fanaticism by giving special offers to fanatics afaik (ie. you can buy an Enzo only if you have enough other Ferrarris).
What's wrong with paying a little extra to have something sexy instead of something that just works? You wouldn't flame a Ferrarri owner because they could get from A to B with a Golf would you? So why is it different with gadgets?
Actually nowadays developers develop the site, designers design what it looks like and the client takes care of the content once the developers and designers are done dealing with it.
Who out of this group is the proverbial "webmaster"?
Also, someone needs to smack the webmaster over there for putting a background texture behind the text. It's pretty unreadable along the left hand side of the screen.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't webmasters die along with the 90's?
At the same time, you don't want your security to be so over the top that it is either prohibitive such that people are encouraged to find a work around, or it's just plain ineffectual.
Oh you mean like DRM? Prohibitive and ineffectual never stopped corporations before, why would it the government?
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And yet Priuses aren't all that awesome because of how they're manufactured all over the world and assembled someplace where everything comes by wasting huge amounts of carbofuels.
The problem, I think, isn't that people aren't taking these green vehicles seriously, it's that they're doing it just because they're frugal and that's the wrong reason if you ask me. Buying an expensive car just because it's frugal doesn't equate to buying an expensive car because it helps the environment.
Why did this get moded Troll? Concerns over just how much energy is being spent in actually PRODUCING these types of green cars are very real and shouldn't be censored just because they go against the current mob mentality.
My sources may be wrong, but I've read that producing green cars is more wasteful than they end up saving. For now at least, but if we ignore this issue improvement will never be made.
People aren't going to take green technology seriously until it wins in rally or 24 hour le mans or somethign similarly awesome to win. Having to make a special competition just for green cars seems like, well, these cars are cool and all, but just not actually competitive with already existant technology. This isn't good for the public image.
Plant a horribly looking but not serious bug. Then when somebody complains just say that if you had a proper development cycle none of this would've happened.
Dude it scared ME away and I was using alternative browsers since before FF even existed. The problem isn't so much that the message is there, the problem is that it's way way too scary and once you get over the knee-jerk reaction of shitting your pants you're left with a cumbersome process of adding the website to a trusted list and whatever all that stuff is, I've never paid attention through the whole process.
The problem with javascript isn't that it's a bad language, the problem is that everyone continues on thinking about it as a tool for quick and dirty hacks. But guess what, that's how PHP started out and look where it came.
All javascript really needs is to be well supported in all browser and that people would stop thinking about it as just a script kiddie tool. Javascript is perfect for what it was intended to do and it's very good even for what it wasn't exactly intended to do and THAT's why there hasn't been a "better" language yet, because this one is good enough for the job. Frankly, outside of becoming standardised all over, I don't see what more you might want in javascript that you absolutely cannot live without.
It's the same here in Slovenia and I guess most Europe. Further to this, I don't think many people even buy the original books, we just buy the photocopied versions photocopying shops sell for a fraction of the price. I have no idea about how legal or illegal this is, but then, I don't much care either.
In other words the Linux kernel is opensource merely on paper. In practice it's developed by a close group of developers who don't let anybody in and write code practically nobody but them understands.
I'm certain it's easier to become a major Microsoft developer because they'll at least give your resume a read, the linux guys blow you off a priori.
How the hell can someone not differ between a salad and a spice? I'm a sworn meat eater and even I can tell the difference!
In Slovenia we have those guys in all the large supermarkest, especially during "rushhour" when there's up to five and each has their own scale. Really makes the whole process easier on everyone, but I bet none of those weighers love their job ... who cares though, they're our robots until we can figure out a way to properly replace them with actual robots.
Err ... isn't the base principle of string theory that there is an infinite number of spacetimes ie. universes out there?
That's because they're all renders! None of it is real.
Pics or it didn't happen. Or in this case, apps or it happened only in photoshop/whatever.
Dude, USERNAME? Don't you use a certificate to identify yourself ... and I thought my e-bank had poor security.
I have a 20/20 fiber connection available to me for cheaper than what I'm currently paying for 1/0.25 ... how lame is that?
Actually I was going for Funny, but whatever.
The average American (at least the ones I talk to) don't think that scientific consensis is that the globe is heatihng and we are responsible.
Apparently the average American can't spell either. Perhaps education should start at spelling and build from there? How are you supposed to educate someone who can't even understand the words they're reading?
I just hope someday I'm not driving down the street and see a "lost connection to server" message flashing instead of The Reality!
That would totally freak me out.
So the problem is really what sort of bias you're giving the user. If you tell them to use an mp3 there will be a lot of similar passwords out there, but if you tell them to use a video they recorded with their cellphone ... that's practically uncrackable.
... which they shouldn't have in the first place ... but most users aren't stupid enough to tell everyone their passwords either, so why would they be giving their USB stick out to anyone?
And I wouldn't use this for websites or whatnot, only to be used with OS logins imho where the attacker doesn't have access to your files if they don't have your USB key
The problem is people DON'T use secure passwords at all. Not even geeks have the discipline to use good passwords for anything but servers.
The idea with mp3s is, I think, that instead of typing in a password you point to an mp3 on your USB key. Now since practically no two mp3s are exactly the same it'd be very difficult for an attacker to first know what song you used and second to have the exact same (bitwise) version of the song. This is probably as safe as you can get without SSL certificates.
Depending on what wavelengths of light it works on you could still see out with IR goggles or some other fancy gizmo like perhaps radar.
Don't sound like cultists? When have you ever seen a Ferrarri owner with just one? Very rare for them to believe there's anything better in the world of consumer speed than an Enzo even though there is.
They're very fanatic, in fact Ferrarri itself supports this fanaticism by giving special offers to fanatics afaik (ie. you can buy an Enzo only if you have enough other Ferrarris).
What's wrong with paying a little extra to have something sexy instead of something that just works? You wouldn't flame a Ferrarri owner because they could get from A to B with a Golf would you? So why is it different with gadgets?
Actually nowadays developers develop the site, designers design what it looks like and the client takes care of the content once the developers and designers are done dealing with it.
Who out of this group is the proverbial "webmaster"?
Also, someone needs to smack the webmaster over there for putting a background texture behind the text. It's pretty unreadable along the left hand side of the screen.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't webmasters die along with the 90's?
At the same time, you don't want your security to be so over the top that it is either prohibitive such that people are encouraged to find a work around, or it's just plain ineffectual.
Oh you mean like DRM? Prohibitive and ineffectual never stopped corporations before, why would it the government?