You threw your vote away by not playing by the rules of our 2-party society.
Only if you live in a state where the election was close. I live in a state where the margin of victory was over 20%, so my vote doesn't count anyway. You can thank the Electoral College system for that.
Based on what other people have posted here, my understanding is that Google purchases a bunch of wind/solar electricity and then resells it at regular electricity rates (I assume at a small loss).
Considering how fucking stupid Trump and his staff are, I wouldn't at all be surprised if the Whitehouse is running a public-facing open SMTP relay. Not like that would be a big surprise anyway, it's not like all his tweets are SPAM to start with.
I'm probably being naively optimistic, but I would hope that the White House IT staff are not political appointees.
Facebook did little more than do the equivalent of providing a platform like classified ads.
The "little more" is exactly the problem. The complainants are arguing that by providing the explicit options to illegally discriminate in housing, Facebook is actively encouraging and contributing to illegal discrimination.
Furthermore I think FB should not be required to police their customers.
You just said Facebook is simply providing classified ads. Newspapers can and do police their customers.
Not unless you're including text from one of the books. It would also be a copyright issue if you used the art from the cover, but I doubt that Rowling owns the copyright for it.
If a client four time zones away calls and need help, I'm not going to jeopardize a big contract and not just my own job but others' too, including those on wages, by declining to take the call.
Then the company should be paying someone (possibly you) to take calls during those hours.
Video game players have significantly LOWER arrest rates for violent crimes than peers who spend little time playing. The most plausible explanation for this is that spending time gaming leaves less time out in the street getting in trouble, but gamers also have different social connections, and are less likely to join gangs and associate with criminals. Gamers are also less likely to use drugs or alcohol.
What is the definition of "peers"? I would think that the most plausible explanation is that teenagers and young adults that spend a large amount of time playing these video games are more likely to be part of at least middle-class families.
I think they were trying to compare "medical science" and "medicine" to science and engineering. "Medicine" (e.g. receiving treatment in a hospital) is an applied science, like engineering. "Medical science" would probably be more appropriately called biology.
Maine has been considering it for several years. Not so much because of anything related to DST, but because it's so far east compared to the rest of the time zone. During the winter, it's dark by 4:00 PM, and during the summer, it would be dark at about 8:00 PM without DST.
Well, given that the state does not even want something closest to natural time, where the sun is at the highest point closest to noon, but instead wants the artificial DST in effect permanently, is weird.
Without DST, how close to noon is the sun's highest point over Florida? And which point in Florida gets to be the one that defines noon? Are you suggesting that every state should define noon as the time when the sun is at its highest point over some part of the state, that way we get every state being offset somewhere between 5 and 20 minutes from each of its neighbors?
Abandoning "natural time" came with time zones, not with DST.
Code-by-SMS is definitely less effective as a second factor than TOTP. The biggest weakness is being able to social engineer someone at the carrier to redirect the phone number to a different phone. The fact that the code is valid for several minutes also makes it easy to perform the kind of attack you described, though the 30 seconds for TOTP codes is probably still long enough if someone is using it as you read it to them.
I still maintain that the OP is wrong, though. There's no such thing as perfect security, short of making the system literally completely unusable. Using TOTP still increases security beyond what you get with just a password.
Standard phishing. "We see someone's been trying to gain access to your account. Please use the link below to input your username, password and verification questions so we can confirm your identity."
And then what? The site issues a new TOTP seed? Even so, it's obviously no easier than getting the user's password anyway. It isn't any more vulnerable to phishing attacks, but it makes offline brute force attacks completely useless. That means your account is more secure with a second authentication factor than without one.
People have been arguing that issue for thousands of years.
Not really, no. The only people arguing the issue are people who want to be able to easily dismiss any events, statements, or facts that are in any way negative or damaging to them.
The Huffington Post is (generally) not "fake news", it's merely biased reporting combined with opinion. The Onion is "fake news".
You what 2Fa doesn't do? It doesn't make things secure. Why? Because the attack vector is no longer a brute force attack on passwords and answers, but a simple email to the person indicating their account has been compromised and they need to input all their information again. Add a link in the email and you now have complete access to the person's account(s), 2FA included.
Clearly I'm missing something here. How would a link in an email get the seed for their TOTP codes? That isn't something that users normally write down somewhere.
... it was "white flight" when middle-class people abandoned crime-infested, poor, dirty urban areas, and it was deemed bad. Now that people are moving back into these areas and the crime and dirt and poverty are leaving, it's "gentrification" and it's deemed bad.
It's almost as if the best situation is something between the two extremes.
Interestingly, one of my quotes-of-the-day earlier this week was, "If Pac-Man had affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in dark rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive electronic music."
2. Neither iOS nor Android let you give session-length permissions for location. Once you give it once, they app has it forever
On Android, that second sentence isn't strictly true. On recent versions of Android (I have 7.0), you can enable/disable specific permissions for an app whenever you want. It isn't obvious to a typical user, but the options are there in the Settings app.
Why is it that companies get to subtract their costs and pay tax on the result while individuals are taxed on revenue, not profit?
In theory, individuals also get deductions so that they're only paying taxes on "profit" instead of gross income. And in theory, there's no difference between theory and practice.
There are lots of people feeding and housing their family on jobs that don't guarantee they '(pay) at least minimum wage', and not all are 'gig' jobs - think commission -based jobs, waitress/waiter jobs, etc.
In at least some states (I can't remember offhand if it's at the federal level), if a server's wage plus tips doesn't add up to something over minimum wage, the restaurant has to pay them the difference.
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You threw your vote away by not playing by the rules of our 2-party society.
Only if you live in a state where the election was close. I live in a state where the margin of victory was over 20%, so my vote doesn't count anyway. You can thank the Electoral College system for that.
Based on what other people have posted here, my understanding is that Google purchases a bunch of wind/solar electricity and then resells it at regular electricity rates (I assume at a small loss).
You left out Rock and Roll.
Lots of these kids live in suburbs out in the middle of nowhere... There's nothing for miles... Often no bike path either.
You have a weird definition of suburb. What you're describing would almost certainly be classified as rural.
Considering how fucking stupid Trump and his staff are, I wouldn't at all be surprised if the Whitehouse is running a public-facing open SMTP relay. Not like that would be a big surprise anyway, it's not like all his tweets are SPAM to start with.
I'm probably being naively optimistic, but I would hope that the White House IT staff are not political appointees.
What we really need is a true military branch dedicated to cybersecurity, and actually put them in charge of some aspects of all government IT.
It isn't a military organization, but NIST does publish standards for computer security at federal agencies.
Facebook did little more than do the equivalent of providing a platform like classified ads.
The "little more" is exactly the problem. The complainants are arguing that by providing the explicit options to illegally discriminate in housing, Facebook is actively encouraging and contributing to illegal discrimination.
Furthermore I think FB should not be required to police their customers.
You just said Facebook is simply providing classified ads. Newspapers can and do police their customers.
It would be copyright
Not unless you're including text from one of the books. It would also be a copyright issue if you used the art from the cover, but I doubt that Rowling owns the copyright for it.
If a client four time zones away calls and need help, I'm not going to jeopardize a big contract and not just my own job but others' too, including those on wages, by declining to take the call.
Then the company should be paying someone (possibly you) to take calls during those hours.
Video game players have significantly LOWER arrest rates for violent crimes than peers who spend little time playing. The most plausible explanation for this is that spending time gaming leaves less time out in the street getting in trouble, but gamers also have different social connections, and are less likely to join gangs and associate with criminals. Gamers are also less likely to use drugs or alcohol.
What is the definition of "peers"? I would think that the most plausible explanation is that teenagers and young adults that spend a large amount of time playing these video games are more likely to be part of at least middle-class families.
I think they were trying to compare "medical science" and "medicine" to science and engineering. "Medicine" (e.g. receiving treatment in a hospital) is an applied science, like engineering. "Medical science" would probably be more appropriately called biology.
Solar noon/midnight should be as close to 12am/pm as possible.
Where?
Maine has been considering it for several years. Not so much because of anything related to DST, but because it's so far east compared to the rest of the time zone. During the winter, it's dark by 4:00 PM, and during the summer, it would be dark at about 8:00 PM without DST.
Well, given that the state does not even want something closest to natural time, where the sun is at the highest point closest to noon, but instead wants the artificial DST in effect permanently, is weird.
Without DST, how close to noon is the sun's highest point over Florida? And which point in Florida gets to be the one that defines noon? Are you suggesting that every state should define noon as the time when the sun is at its highest point over some part of the state, that way we get every state being offset somewhere between 5 and 20 minutes from each of its neighbors?
Abandoning "natural time" came with time zones, not with DST.
Code-by-SMS is definitely less effective as a second factor than TOTP. The biggest weakness is being able to social engineer someone at the carrier to redirect the phone number to a different phone. The fact that the code is valid for several minutes also makes it easy to perform the kind of attack you described, though the 30 seconds for TOTP codes is probably still long enough if someone is using it as you read it to them.
I still maintain that the OP is wrong, though. There's no such thing as perfect security, short of making the system literally completely unusable. Using TOTP still increases security beyond what you get with just a password.
Standard phishing. "We see someone's been trying to gain access to your account. Please use the link below to input your username, password and verification questions so we can confirm your identity."
And then what? The site issues a new TOTP seed? Even so, it's obviously no easier than getting the user's password anyway. It isn't any more vulnerable to phishing attacks, but it makes offline brute force attacks completely useless. That means your account is more secure with a second authentication factor than without one.
... which is truth and which is "fake news"?
People have been arguing that issue for thousands of years.
Not really, no. The only people arguing the issue are people who want to be able to easily dismiss any events, statements, or facts that are in any way negative or damaging to them.
The Huffington Post is (generally) not "fake news", it's merely biased reporting combined with opinion. The Onion is "fake news".
You what 2Fa doesn't do? It doesn't make things secure. Why? Because the attack vector is no longer a brute force attack on passwords and answers, but a simple email to the person indicating their account has been compromised and they need to input all their information again. Add a link in the email and you now have complete access to the person's account(s), 2FA included.
Clearly I'm missing something here. How would a link in an email get the seed for their TOTP codes? That isn't something that users normally write down somewhere.
"A lie can run round the world before the truth has got its boots on."
... it was "white flight" when middle-class people abandoned crime-infested, poor, dirty urban areas, and it was deemed bad. Now that people are moving back into these areas and the crime and dirt and poverty are leaving, it's "gentrification" and it's deemed bad.
It's almost as if the best situation is something between the two extremes.
Interestingly, one of my quotes-of-the-day earlier this week was, "If Pac-Man had affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in dark rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive electronic music."
2. Neither iOS nor Android let you give session-length permissions for location. Once you give it once, they app has it forever
On Android, that second sentence isn't strictly true. On recent versions of Android (I have 7.0), you can enable/disable specific permissions for an app whenever you want. It isn't obvious to a typical user, but the options are there in the Settings app.
Why is it that companies get to subtract their costs and pay tax on the result while individuals are taxed on revenue, not profit?
In theory, individuals also get deductions so that they're only paying taxes on "profit" instead of gross income. And in theory, there's no difference between theory and practice.
If the theory it wrong, it is incompetent.
Theories really hate it when you anthropomorphize them.
There are lots of people feeding and housing their family on jobs that don't guarantee they '(pay) at least minimum wage', and not all are 'gig' jobs - think commission -based jobs, waitress/waiter jobs, etc.
In at least some states (I can't remember offhand if it's at the federal level), if a server's wage plus tips doesn't add up to something over minimum wage, the restaurant has to pay them the difference.