Anyone who designs a system that stores passwords in plain text should be fired on the spot.
Off-topic: my bank asks for the Lth, Mth and Nth characters of my password, which is better than asking for the whole lot. Is it possible to have a system like that without storing the password encrypted (rather than hashed)?
Oh, and I know that this information is collected in squad cars and transmitted wirelessly every time the car docks at the station, both video and audio...
Did you even read the article you cited? I'll copy the important bit:
The second was the tendency for the statistic to mutate, [...] A New Statesman columnist had it as the “average Londoner going about his or her business... may be monitored by 300 cameras each day”, and a Daily Mail report that “it has been calculated that each person is caught on camera an average of 300 times daily”.
I managed to find a copy of the Norris book online. The footnoted page was towards the back of a chapter detailing a day in the life of a man called Thomas Reams, as he did various things in and around London. By the end “Thomas had been filmed by over three hundred cameras on over thirty separate CCTV systems”, the authors wrote, adding: “While this contrived account is, of course, a fictional construction, it is a fiction that increasingly mirrors the reality of routine surveillance.”
The hypothetical person:
is a City type who, rather unusually, lives on a drug-infested estate. He manages to visit two schools, the maternity wing of a hospital, goes to work, shops, is caught speeding in his car, crosses a level-crossing, parks in several car parks before switching to public transport. He goes to Heathrow airport, then a football match at Chelsea, after which he drives through London's most notorious red-light district (by mistake, I hasten to reassure the fictional Mrs Reams). His “could” is better paraphrased as “might conceivably”.
We used to have super-luxury trains (Orient Express, etc). No one uses them any more, except the occasional president or monarch. People were employed to run them. Before that horses were probably involved.
Now, those trains don't exist, neither do the horses, and those jobs don't exist either. What's the problem?
On top of that, the rail system here is also hub-and-spoke, so for a lot of journeys you end up connecting somewhere and changing trains as well. That part, I'm not sure there is a solution for, but I thought I'd point it out.
Most rail systems are hub and spoke, but with more hubs than in the US. (e.g. Britain [PDF] -- most trains will stop at all the 'big blob' places, but only some will stop at the small-blob ones.).
Running a new direct service that isn't more-or-less already existing can require new track, new junctions (if running across existing lines would slow down existing trains too much), bigger stations,... but it's a lot different here than in a big country, where you might reasonably spend over six hours on a train.
I've never tried to read or speak it, but your word-by-word translation makes it look sufficiently similar to English. "Að er allt = that is all" is a good start, and the word order looks friendly:). I know what the æ, ð and are, they were covered in an English lesson (in England) a long time ago.
Icelandic seems weird to English-only speakers (especially Americans) because of all those "funny letters". A friend-of-a-friend met an American girl on the web, who was desperate to visit Europe (i.e. London). She stayed over at my house on her last day here (I live near the airport) and left a note thanking us for the hospitality. It was signed "Çhløë Türnër" in an effort to look more European (see also: Häagen-Dazs).
If someone finds out about something someone is doing, why would it be made illegal to talk about if it is true? Isn't this a violation of free speech?
No, actually. Free speech protects political speech. There are non-political restrictions on speech in the US, too.
I don't care about the celebrities, and I can see it's not simply a black/white question balancing free speech and privacy.
However, there have been "super injunctions" applied to Trafigura, a oil/energy/metal company, which has no right to privacy (or any other rights, it's a company). The media's obsession with celebrities is hiding the real issue here.
I bought a Kindle but now I find myself exclusively buying used paper because it's waaayy cheaper (many books below $1, some $.01) and I can take the used book to the bookstore and get turn-in value which I can use to buy more books.
I've been going to the library less-often because of this. £0.01 + £1.80 (or whatever it is) postage is worth the convenience (my local library is in the same building as my local supermarket, but I'm not often in the mood for browsing books when I'm about to buy vegetables).
Also, I tend to take several months to read a book. I'm currently part-way through five books. I will donate them to charity when I'm done with them.
On the plus side, EC commissioner ms. Kroes is still kicking ass and taking names, and just launched a proposal to cap outrageous data roaming charges in Europe to €0.90/MB, lowering this further to €0.50/MB in 2014. Current charges are typically over €2/MB (in some cases it's €10). That price cap is such that one can now comfortably enable data roaming when travelling within Europe.
For anyone who wasn't aware of this:
So far, the EU has only set caps on wholesale prices for data roaming. There is a major problem — although wholesale prices have fallen below the regulated cap, retail prices remain way above wholesale prices, and the difference has even increased. In concrete terms, the wholesale price cap has been set by EU rules at €0.80 per megabyte since 1 July, 2010, and it will fall to €0.50 per megabyte as of 1 July, 2011. But although the average data-roaming wholesale rate (around €0.25 per megabyte) is substantially below the regulated maximum, retail prices remain around €2.60 per megabyte. That is a huge margin.
The existing cap with Orange UK (my network) is €50 when roaming, which is a massive 16MB. Since turning my phone on this morning I've already used 800kB, and I've not even done anything (presumably that's just from syncing my email, etc). I'm spending 12 days in Germany this/next month, and 5 in Czech. I shall need to get a local SIM (possibly two).
Atheism is not "lack of belief in a god", atheism is the belief that there is in fact no god. Agnosticism is "lack of belief in a god".
Common misconception, even among atheists, I've found.
Incorrect.
Strong atheism is the firm belief that there is no god or gods. Weak atheism is the lack of any belief in god/s, perhaps through age (e.g. a young child) or deciding that the responsibility is on theists to provide evidence for their beliefs, and this hasn't been provided.
Even if you don't have a loyalty card, if you pay with a card your purchases will be tied to that card. Note that the card includes your name as well as a number.
Conversation could be ephemeral (even though I kept logs)--posting anything to Facebook, even a "private message", feels like filing every word into the eternal register.
Have you seen how difficult it is to delete messages from Facebook? You have to click "Messages", "Show all", then "Archive" messages (you can archive one at a time with a single click). You then have to click "Show archived", and click five times to delete a single message (select message, actions, delete, delete all, confirm). Using my phone I can delete non-archived messages without having to first archive them, and it's less touches than using a PC, but it's still almost as ridiculous.
It's probably all pointless anyway, I doubt "deleted" really means "deleted".
He must have lived in a parallel universe. In the 90s it was IRC.
It probably depends what country and what age you were. In the 90s for teenagers in Britain, it was ICQ, then MSN Messenger (released 1999), with the latter being much more popular. "What's your email?" meant "What's your MSN messenger ID?". I visited some distant teenage relatives in the USA several times around this time, and remember being as surprised that they didn't know what MSN Messenger was as they were that I didn't have AIM.
Woah -- three squares, multiple times, then two squares, at least once, then one square, at least once, then a wet wipe? That guy should sort out his diet.
Most of the time I use two squares, consecutively, and the second is clean.
A few years ago when I worked for the summer at Philips they had a module to add to an office strip light. It included a light sensor and a dimmer, and dimmed the light depending on how bright the room was.
In my office, if some clouds drift over someone turns on the light. If the clouds drift off no one ever remembers to turn the lights off again. With this sensor, the lights would be dimmed automatically, maintaining a constant light level regardless of the sun.
Was this at night? In Britain it's sort-of traditional to eat curry after a night's excessive drinking. It varies regionally, kebabs and friend chicken seem more normal where I live (London).
In any case, the quality of the curry, kebab or fried chicken is often pretty dire; but most of the clientele are pissed and couldn't care less.
There are excellent Indian restaurants, but if possible it's best to ask for a recommendation. Avoid anywhere with plastic furniture, plastic menus, a tout, tourists, etc.
Hmm. Maybe its a made up dish for us locals or specific to the place I go.
Now you mention it, it sounds a bit like it's been made up to sound extra British.
Im not sure why you think Shepherds pie is boring, its a delicious hearty meal for me.
I'm probably being a bit harsh. This recipe looks OK, but when I think of a lot of traditional British recipes I remember my parents' cooking, which in this case would be that recipe but without any of the herbs and spices (through being "too busy" to include them, usually).
BBC Good Food "British" if you're interested (BBC Good Food Magazine is generally very good for recipes).
the "Like" button is really only useful for marketing purposes to be able to say "see, we have eleventy million people on Facebook who like us"
That's 100% of the intention and purpose of Subway having a Facebook page: marketing.
A friend has recently been employed by a medium-sized visitor attraction to be a social networking marketer. I think she has to have a Facebook, Twitter etc profile set up to churn out news and updates. Someone at my workplace (a larger visitor attraction) has a similar rôle, although only for a fraction of the time she's employed: "The weather is going to be fantastic this weekend, why not come to XXX? 2 for 1 voucher here: ___". Outside the marketing team everyone's very sceptical about this. However, both these attractions have been charities for over 50 years, people donate lots of money to them, so I can understand why an individual would "Like" them on Facebook, or send the link to their friends after they've visited. I'm quite happy to recommend friends and family visit them.
It's a bit odd to do the same for Subway, and even if I worked there I doubt I'd recommend it.
The people you hang out with are usually into different things (which is what makes them interesting), and the people who are into the same things as you, you probably don't feeling like hanging out with (ever been to a LUG?).
Hmm? That's the opposite of the way I, and pretty much everyone I know, chooses their friends. My friends are people who share a sufficiently similar taste (or distaste) in music, cinema, art, culture, travel, sport, etc that we go to places together.
I think a LUG is a bad example, it's too broad. I use Linux, and I cycle to work, but I wouldn't go to a LUG or any organised cycling event. Neither is an interest in itself. An interest might be programming Android apps, campaigning against copyrights, racing bicycles, or cycling round the countryside and visiting tea shops.
I'm aware that some of the people I know in the real world use Facebook, but I just can't make myself care enough to look. However, I'm also aware that I'm a crusty old geek who doesn't care about shiny things on the internet anymore.
I think that's fine. I don't think my dad would have much to gain with Facebook -- he has all his friends' phone numbers written in a little book (or in his head), or else he knows which day of the week they'll be at a certain pub, etc.
I have a few different (mental) groups of friends on Facebook: - Close friends who I see very frequently. If I'm having a party they'll usually know about it outside of Facebook first, but I'll probably send details using Facebook too -- it's useful to keep track of who's coming, remind everyone what the nearest station is, etc. - Other friends. I might not care so much if they can't attend the party, so I won't check the date with them first. They'll find out through Facebook. - Less-close people I've met at nightclubs, other people's houses/parties, my more interesting colleagues, etc. I don't know them well enough to invite them to my house, but I'll forward an invitation to a gig I'm going to, or 'tag' them in a note about an exhibition at an interesting museum I'm thinking of going to. - Long-distance friends. I'll tell them if I'll be travelling nearby, and add my comment to the debate on politics or the daft meme on their wall, etc. If I notice something like ".... will be in London next week!" as their status they're temporarily in the first group. - Organisers (sometimes companies) of gigs, exhibitions, etc. It's the 21st century equivalent of reading the cultural section of the newspaper and keeping all the fliers I'm handed in the street, plus the events automatically show up on my phone's calendar. These people can't see anything of my profile.
When I've met someone it's sometimes useful to reply to "what's your email/phone/whatever" with "[our common friend who just introduced us] has me on Facebook, I'm [Dave]", or "I'm [Dave Bloggs], I should be on the 'Attending' list for this gig on Facebook". Of course, people can figure this out even if we don't discuss it -- that's usually fine, although very occasionally I've received "friend requests" and seen the person's profile and decided not to accept it (usually on my housemate saying "you idiot, he obviously fancies you, how can you not have noticed?").
Like any social network tool you need a critical mass of 'friends' to make it worthwhile.
Any place that sticks engineers with 17" monitors is not a good place to work. If they're too cheap to get you a good $200 display, they're also probably cheap in many other ways too, like salary.
There is much more to life than money. I work for a scientific charity, and I like doing something useful for the world rather than shifting money around.
My monitors seem to be about 50cm though, so that's probably 19".
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Anyone who designs a system that stores passwords in plain text should be fired on the spot.
Off-topic: my bank asks for the Lth, Mth and Nth characters of my password, which is better than asking for the whole lot. Is it possible to have a system like that without storing the password encrypted (rather than hashed)?
There's no need. Most people voluntarily carry a phone anyway.
Welcome to the UK...well, for the cameras anyway: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/david_aaronovitch/article5834725.ece
300 times a day...
Oh, and I know that this information is collected in squad cars and transmitted wirelessly every time the car docks at the station, both video and audio...
Did you even read the article you cited? I'll copy the important bit:
The second was the tendency for the statistic to mutate, [...] A New Statesman columnist had it as the “average Londoner going about his or her business... may be monitored by 300 cameras each day”, and a Daily Mail report that “it has been calculated that each person is caught on camera an average of 300 times daily”.
I managed to find a copy of the Norris book online. The footnoted page was towards the back of a chapter detailing a day in the life of a man called Thomas Reams, as he did various things in and around London. By the end “Thomas had been filmed by over three hundred cameras on over thirty separate CCTV systems”, the authors wrote, adding: “While this contrived account is, of course, a fictional construction, it is a fiction that increasingly mirrors the reality of routine surveillance.”
The hypothetical person:
is a City type who, rather unusually, lives on a drug-infested estate. He manages to visit two schools, the maternity wing of a hospital, goes to work, shops, is caught speeding in his car, crosses a level-crossing, parks in several car parks before switching to public transport. He goes to Heathrow airport, then a football match at Chelsea, after which he drives through London's most notorious red-light district (by mistake, I hasten to reassure the fictional Mrs Reams). His “could” is better paraphrased as “might conceivably”.
We used to have super-luxury trains (Orient Express, etc). No one uses them any more, except the occasional president or monarch. People were employed to run them. Before that horses were probably involved.
Now, those trains don't exist, neither do the horses, and those jobs don't exist either. What's the problem?
On top of that, the rail system here is also hub-and-spoke, so for a lot of journeys you end up connecting somewhere and changing trains as well. That part, I'm not sure there is a solution for, but I thought I'd point it out.
Most rail systems are hub and spoke, but with more hubs than in the US. (e.g. Britain [PDF] -- most trains will stop at all the 'big blob' places, but only some will stop at the small-blob ones.).
Running a new direct service that isn't more-or-less already existing can require new track, new junctions (if running across existing lines would slow down existing trains too much), bigger stations, ... but it's a lot different here than in a big country, where you might reasonably spend over six hours on a train.
I've never tried to read or speak it, but your word-by-word translation makes it look sufficiently similar to English. "Að er allt = that is all" is a good start, and the word order looks friendly :). I know what the æ, ð and are, they were covered in an English lesson (in England) a long time ago.
Icelandic seems weird to English-only speakers (especially Americans) because of all those "funny letters". A friend-of-a-friend met an American girl on the web, who was desperate to visit Europe (i.e. London). She stayed over at my house on her last day here (I live near the airport) and left a note thanking us for the hospitality. It was signed "Çhløë Türnër" in an effort to look more European (see also: Häagen-Dazs).
If someone finds out about something someone is doing, why would it be made illegal to talk about if it is true? Isn't this a violation of free speech?
No, actually. Free speech protects political speech. There are non-political restrictions on speech in the US, too.
Another important right is the right to respect for private and family life .
I don't care about the celebrities, and I can see it's not simply a black/white question balancing free speech and privacy.
However, there have been "super injunctions" applied to Trafigura, a oil/energy/metal company, which has no right to privacy (or any other rights, it's a company). The media's obsession with celebrities is hiding the real issue here.
I bought a Kindle but now I find myself exclusively buying used paper because it's waaayy cheaper (many books below $1, some $.01) and I can take the used book to the bookstore and get turn-in value which I can use to buy more books.
I've been going to the library less-often because of this. £0.01 + £1.80 (or whatever it is) postage is worth the convenience (my local library is in the same building as my local supermarket, but I'm not often in the mood for browsing books when I'm about to buy vegetables).
Also, I tend to take several months to read a book. I'm currently part-way through five books. I will donate them to charity when I'm done with them.
On the plus side, EC commissioner ms. Kroes is still kicking ass and taking names, and just launched a proposal to cap outrageous data roaming charges in Europe to €0.90/MB, lowering this further to €0.50/MB in 2014. Current charges are typically over €2/MB (in some cases it's €10). That price cap is such that one can now comfortably enable data roaming when travelling within Europe.
For anyone who wasn't aware of this:
So far, the EU has only set caps on wholesale prices for data roaming. There is a major problem — although wholesale prices have fallen below the regulated cap, retail prices remain way above wholesale prices, and the difference has even increased. In concrete terms, the wholesale price cap has been set by EU rules at €0.80 per megabyte since 1 July, 2010, and it will fall to €0.50 per megabyte as of 1 July, 2011. But although the average data-roaming wholesale rate (around €0.25 per megabyte) is substantially below the regulated maximum, retail prices remain around €2.60 per megabyte. That is a huge margin.
From here.
The existing cap with Orange UK (my network) is €50 when roaming, which is a massive 16MB. Since turning my phone on this morning I've already used 800kB, and I've not even done anything (presumably that's just from syncing my email, etc). I'm spending 12 days in Germany this/next month, and 5 in Czech. I shall need to get a local SIM (possibly two).
Atheism is not "lack of belief in a god", atheism is the belief that there is in fact no god. Agnosticism is "lack of belief in a god".
Common misconception, even among atheists, I've found.
Incorrect.
Strong atheism is the firm belief that there is no god or gods.
Weak atheism is the lack of any belief in god/s, perhaps through age (e.g. a young child) or deciding that the responsibility is on theists to provide evidence for their beliefs, and this hasn't been provided.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weak_and_strong_atheism might help.
Even if you don't have a loyalty card, if you pay with a card your purchases will be tied to that card. Note that the card includes your name as well as a number.
In the UK, Waitrose have had this system since about 1995 (according to some kid's coursework, but it sounds about right).
Try this, to start. There are probably other map-things that do this too.
A Google search for site:en.wikipedia.org Coordinates "Florence, Italy" gives 370 results.
"An email has been sent to ********@yahoo.com with your confirmation code. Please check your email and enter this code to continue."
"Important: if you use the same password for the Playstation Network and your email address, change your email password immediately."
Problem solved? Making a new PSN account doesn't stop the crackers accessing email accounts -- they have those details.
Conversation could be ephemeral (even though I kept logs)--posting anything to Facebook, even a "private message", feels like filing every word into the eternal register.
Have you seen how difficult it is to delete messages from Facebook? You have to click "Messages", "Show all", then "Archive" messages (you can archive one at a time with a single click). You then have to click "Show archived", and click five times to delete a single message (select message, actions, delete, delete all, confirm). Using my phone I can delete non-archived messages without having to first archive them, and it's less touches than using a PC, but it's still almost as ridiculous.
It's probably all pointless anyway, I doubt "deleted" really means "deleted".
He must have lived in a parallel universe. In the 90s it was IRC.
It probably depends what country and what age you were. In the 90s for teenagers in Britain, it was ICQ, then MSN Messenger (released 1999), with the latter being much more popular. "What's your email?" meant "What's your MSN messenger ID?". I visited some distant teenage relatives in the USA several times around this time, and remember being as surprised that they didn't know what MSN Messenger was as they were that I didn't have AIM.
DefectiveByDesign.org is run by the FSF You can read the tiny little letters at the bottom of the page.
Or you can read the great big letters at the top of the page: "Defective by Design.org A campaign by the Free Software Foundation."
This is a widely used method.
Woah -- three squares, multiple times, then two squares, at least once, then one square, at least once, then a wet wipe? That guy should sort out his diet.
Most of the time I use two squares, consecutively, and the second is clean.
A few years ago when I worked for the summer at Philips they had a module to add to an office strip light. It included a light sensor and a dimmer, and dimmed the light depending on how bright the room was.
In my office, if some clouds drift over someone turns on the light. If the clouds drift off no one ever remembers to turn the lights off again. With this sensor, the lights would be dimmed automatically, maintaining a constant light level regardless of the sun.
Was this at night? In Britain it's sort-of traditional to eat curry after a night's excessive drinking. It varies regionally, kebabs and friend chicken seem more normal where I live (London).
In any case, the quality of the curry, kebab or fried chicken is often pretty dire; but most of the clientele are pissed and couldn't care less.
There are excellent Indian restaurants, but if possible it's best to ask for a recommendation. Avoid anywhere with plastic furniture, plastic menus, a tout, tourists, etc.
Hmm. Maybe its a made up dish for us locals or specific to the place I go.
Now you mention it, it sounds a bit like it's been made up to sound extra British.
Im not sure why you think Shepherds pie is boring, its a delicious hearty meal for me.
I'm probably being a bit harsh. This recipe looks OK, but when I think of a lot of traditional British recipes I remember my parents' cooking, which in this case would be that recipe but without any of the herbs and spices (through being "too busy" to include them, usually).
BBC Good Food "British" if you're interested (BBC Good Food Magazine is generally very good for recipes).
the "Like" button is really only useful for marketing purposes to be able to say "see, we have eleventy million people on Facebook who like us"
That's 100% of the intention and purpose of Subway having a Facebook page: marketing.
A friend has recently been employed by a medium-sized visitor attraction to be a social networking marketer. I think she has to have a Facebook, Twitter etc profile set up to churn out news and updates. Someone at my workplace (a larger visitor attraction) has a similar rôle, although only for a fraction of the time she's employed: "The weather is going to be fantastic this weekend, why not come to XXX? 2 for 1 voucher here: ___". Outside the marketing team everyone's very sceptical about this. However, both these attractions have been charities for over 50 years, people donate lots of money to them, so I can understand why an individual would "Like" them on Facebook, or send the link to their friends after they've visited. I'm quite happy to recommend friends and family visit them.
It's a bit odd to do the same for Subway, and even if I worked there I doubt I'd recommend it.
The people you hang out with are usually into different things (which is what makes them interesting), and the people who are into the same things as you, you probably don't feeling like hanging out with (ever been to a LUG?).
Hmm? That's the opposite of the way I, and pretty much everyone I know, chooses their friends. My friends are people who share a sufficiently similar taste (or distaste) in music, cinema, art, culture, travel, sport, etc that we go to places together.
I think a LUG is a bad example, it's too broad. I use Linux, and I cycle to work, but I wouldn't go to a LUG or any organised cycling event. Neither is an interest in itself. An interest might be programming Android apps, campaigning against copyrights, racing bicycles, or cycling round the countryside and visiting tea shops.
I'm aware that some of the people I know in the real world use Facebook, but I just can't make myself care enough to look. However, I'm also aware that I'm a crusty old geek who doesn't care about shiny things on the internet anymore.
I think that's fine. I don't think my dad would have much to gain with Facebook -- he has all his friends' phone numbers written in a little book (or in his head), or else he knows which day of the week they'll be at a certain pub, etc.
I have a few different (mental) groups of friends on Facebook:
- Close friends who I see very frequently. If I'm having a party they'll usually know about it outside of Facebook first, but I'll probably send details using Facebook too -- it's useful to keep track of who's coming, remind everyone what the nearest station is, etc.
- Other friends. I might not care so much if they can't attend the party, so I won't check the date with them first. They'll find out through Facebook.
- Less-close people I've met at nightclubs, other people's houses/parties, my more interesting colleagues, etc. I don't know them well enough to invite them to my house, but I'll forward an invitation to a gig I'm going to, or 'tag' them in a note about an exhibition at an interesting museum I'm thinking of going to.
- Long-distance friends. I'll tell them if I'll be travelling nearby, and add my comment to the debate on politics or the daft meme on their wall, etc. If I notice something like ".... will be in London next week!" as their status they're temporarily in the first group.
- Organisers (sometimes companies) of gigs, exhibitions, etc. It's the 21st century equivalent of reading the cultural section of the newspaper and keeping all the fliers I'm handed in the street, plus the events automatically show up on my phone's calendar. These people can't see anything of my profile.
When I've met someone it's sometimes useful to reply to "what's your email/phone/whatever" with "[our common friend who just introduced us] has me on Facebook, I'm [Dave]", or "I'm [Dave Bloggs], I should be on the 'Attending' list for this gig on Facebook". Of course, people can figure this out even if we don't discuss it -- that's usually fine, although very occasionally I've received "friend requests" and seen the person's profile and decided not to accept it (usually on my housemate saying "you idiot, he obviously fancies you, how can you not have noticed?").
Like any social network tool you need a critical mass of 'friends' to make it worthwhile.
Any place that sticks engineers with 17" monitors is not a good place to work. If they're too cheap to get you a good $200 display, they're also probably cheap in many other ways too, like salary.
There is much more to life than money. I work for a scientific charity, and I like doing something useful for the world rather than shifting money around.
My monitors seem to be about 50cm though, so that's probably 19".