Posts by Joe Werner 300 publicly visible posts • joined 3 Apr 2008
> Agree it's a problem, but forcing a new password doesn't help.
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> 1) Hacker forces reset
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> 2) Hacker chooses new password
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> 3) Hacker launches DDoS
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> 4) Owner stuffed.
If the hacker can enforce a reset of my WLAN router I have another problem as the person is now in my apartment. Same goes for other devices that have some hardware reset switch....
> Everybody must carry a form of identification with them ...
Actually not as I remember it. You need to have an ID card (Ausweispflicht) but unless you are working in certain fields (cannot remember which ones) you do not have to have it with you (Mitführpflicht) - as far as I recall. Might be different for foreigners, but I'm not sure about that. I carry it with me anyway... (and also have it with me abroad while the passport stays in the hotel safe - need that to go back home - wherever that is now...)
Yes, you are guessing ;)... but I looked at a map, and "red" is quite a bit longer (and wider) than the actual runway - judging from the shape of the border to France. So it does indeed cover the final approach and the departure and the whole airport as well.
Without information what altitude AGL amber would correspond to I can only guess that this covers the usual routes into and out of the control zone (class D), and maybe some of the lower level class C that surrounds a control zone usually (from the scale I would say that's roughly where class C is around 1000ft AGL, but that is just a very rough guess).
Yeah, right.
At least not where I live (or used to live/work).
Residents they are because they live there. I was counted as a resident in the country I was studying (outside Europe), because guess what I lived there (for a while). I am a citizen of one of the European countries, and a resident of another.
Plus you seem to confuse immigrant and refugee. I'm an immigrant in the country I'm living in. I took language classes there because it makes sense - not because I need them. Nobody else paid for them but me, nobody asked me to take them and I did it in my spare time (ok, had some support from my employer wrt.hours and costs - because I asked).
I know one person with an Apple watch. It was a present (recently) and she seems to like using it for now. At least she now sees notifications when one tries to contact her ;) and apparently it can interface with her blood sugar thingy which is really useful for her.
She used to be very reserved towards the fruity stuff until a few months ago. And she is not impulsive, fashion driven, easily influenced etc. Bright gal, on the way to her PhD as well.
I guess I'm not the only one to remember the Microsoft antitrust lawsuit, and bundling the browser with the OS (along with a ton of other stuff) is exactly what Google does as well. And what they have been doing for a long while. Why haven't others noticed this earlier?
I would totally like it if I could remove a lot of the Googly nonsense on the phone to free up space and make it more useful. (I don't like the iOS interface, and Windows phone is dead (unfortunately, really liked using it - and that's coming from a long term Linux user).)
> There are some tougher phones about. Bullitt make them and there's someone else whose name I can't remember too.
Interesting! I once (waaay back) had a Siemens phone (actually... I think three, over several years). They were the ruggedised version, and did survive a lot of abuse. One of my best mates also had phones form that series. His partner threw the phone through the living room at the wall once because she was upset (about the phone call, not my friend). I think the lid of the battery compartment came off, but everything continued to work. My phone fell onto the floor in our lab several times (stone floor).
Are these bullitt phones also relatively small? Then this would be a good option for the next one.
> I thought that was due to how you play it and fret the strings. (I've tried but I have two left hands.)
Yeah, in part. The amp, effects, and guitar (I'd say the pick-ups) and their respective settings also play a big role. Though no matter what equipment I had I wouldn't sound like (Richie / Jimmy / Angus / Yngwie / add or delete whoever)... (and I prefer playing other instruments, and I suck much less at those)
Well, Hadley Wickham implemented that only a few years back. Before it was always the non-American spelling (I find it strange to call it British when the Irish, Canadians, Aussies, Kiwis and likely many others use it - should be call it CE (Commonwealth English) ? ;) ).
In Germany, the safest way is to pay by bank draft (not many offer this, though). This can be reversed easily by contacting your bank - in contrast to credit card payments, money transferred by yourself, etc. Surprised me when I learned this - not that I had to use this so far.
You need a license to distribute windows with hardware.
But that software had been paid for already? So if I would sell you my old laptop that has a valid Windows license key you cannot use that key? Not with the new versions, because those you merely rent.... Still, the key is tied to the machine (and has never been activated, I use Linux). I'm really interested in that, because I think that this would be ok under German law, judging from the 2nd hand software cases we had.
Yeah, my feeling exactly - btw. I looked at the memory usage on my work machine (32GB). The actual work (some rather computationally expensive stats stuff) uses 6GB (using all but two threads). Firefox uses... a ton, WTF? I guess that this is sort of machine-dependent (and htop might be confused about the forked childs - three dozen or so - WTF?!), but this is by far the most memory hungry process on this machine. I also have a massive figure for a paper open in Inkscape - which seems written quite well, so the memory usage does not explode into my face.
Bottom line: I could likely get away with 8GB RAM, or even less, if my data analysis stuff would be running on a dedicated workstation (instead of my desktop). On a laptop I clearly do not need that much memory if it is not my main work machine (it is not - it is to do some stuff while on the road, but not the heavy lifting, and I want it to be small enough to be able to work on a plane or the train, and the data analysis stuff runs a few days, continously). I do need a ton of HDD (also on the laptop), the datasets I work with are a few GB each. And there are a number of those... (no, downloading them over a crappy conference, airport lounge or hotel wlan is not what I want).
Actually, my old Samsung netbook was close to a perfect match for my needs: method development worked ok, long battery life (10hrs), small (10"). An updated version (more threads / cores, bit more RAM, bit more HDD, say 1TB) would have been great - alas, they don't make stuff like that any more...
Don't forget Adolphe Sax!
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because 1) some of their stuff it is better than at home[1] and 2) the judges (and all of the Belgians) deserve a generous glass. I'll go and grab a few bottles from my favourite beverage store tomorrow! (yup, some Belgian breweries have litre bottles, not the small 33cl I'm drinking now - though that's a local Doppelbock, private - since 1744 - owned brewery...). I'll also buy my Flemish colleague a beer next time we meet.
[1] the mean quality in Germany is quite high, but the standard deviation is low - most beer is good - neither excellent nor really bad. In Belgium, the mean might be a bit lower[2], but the standard deviation is really high - some really good beer, and some Gods-awful stuff that should be considered an abomination unto Nuggan.
[2] I don't have a robust estimate here, due to both sample size and high variance....
I once asked a mate whether the new car was owned by the bank (teasing him), and he replied that no, it was owned by his company, however his company was owned by the bank...
But yes, I have been wondering about this as well. There are also lots of company cars on German roads. Most (all?) bigger, black, high-end and speeding cars with licence plates from certain regions are company cars. This makes the car market skewed a lot towards financed cars especially at the high end.
Seriously, why do you need html in email? Why do you need this carp? Why do the "modern" email programs have problems with the correct way of quoting the message you reply to? I usually do not top-quote, which leads to messages being shown as blank...
I want elm back ;p (on the cell phones of my colleagues)
Yeah, that'll get me downvotes... (no, I don't like Apple either, or the DMCA, or its use)
1) They have a point. The code was leaked unlawfully, in contrast to some other company who uploaded code & encryption keys themselves and made them public - oops!
2) The bird has flown. Like a bird, a word you say cannot be caught again once you let it fly. Same applies to stuff on the internet. Even if Github complies...
3) Yes, it's against the letter of the law - but this time not against the intent. Usually it's the other way round ;)
4) If I was an Apple lawyer, I'd write me a script to follow the branches on Github, send out an individual letter for each, with individual bills.
But that's only for IFR rules where information and separation are provided. VFR is not controlled by ATC. In Germany class E starts at 2500ft (if memory serves me right), except around class D airspace (like airports) where it can be as low as 1000ft. Class E is where gliders are flying, and those are hard to spot... (yes, they are now required to carry secondary radar equipment.... but still).
I think operating drones in A-D is unproblematic (relatively...) as they get flight paths and altitudes etc. from ATC. Stay away from class E.
"Another good demonstration of why ad blockers and script blockers are essential."
We...ell... there are people who have poor (or no) eyesight. My guess is that they would tend to trust that specific plugin - or at least grudgingly accept it (though I believe you would maybe best run a dedicated text to speech engine locally, but many websites are just sh*t when it comes to being accessible - just try to open them in lynx... my guess is if it does not work there you are out of luck). Maybe most of us who do run NOscript (or so) do have some exceptions that are more or less mandated by the sites we use? Or that make a website usable? Sure, I allow only a few exceptions, and only temporary, but that's all it would take.
So: yes, script blockers are needed and very sensible, but in some cases we poke the holes into that layer of security - out of necessity. And don't give me the "then don't use those websites if they are unusable without scripts"-thing. Some sites mentioned are university homepages. Imagine being a part of that university and you have to organise your work, teaching, learning, outreach, travel claims, .... through their system, which does pull in such a script. In the present case you were lucky if you are sighted and thus could just refuse to run that script - next time it is a script that is actually needed for the operation of the website.
Heh... yea, that stuff was sold as "coffee" after (likely also during) the war in Germany as well. The 80s saw strong marketing of rye-based alternatives as the healthy option. #'em, I need the caffeine!
Remark: the salad stuff is (closely) related to it but not the same plant. TBH after they crossbred out the bitterness I like it much less... The old stuff wrapped in ham and cooked in a white sauce (gratinated with cheese!) was just great!
Had that experience at the airport. One guy tried to cut the line at the security check lane, it was 1) the priority lane already and 2) not very busy. He was sent back by security, then complained that he was traveling on behalf of (bigger airline). Still: no, wait your turn. The guy in front of me (former moderately highly ranked politician, who had patiently waited) told the security guards that "he won't be getting much older, if you stress that much and have such an over-inflated ego you'll get a cardiac or something really early". Smiles all around.
When it was my turn, the guard asked whether I had recognized him. When I said no he told me who it was and that "he is flying really regularly, really nice guy, always friendly and smiling". Made my day - And that of the people at the security control...
I think one of the bike share companies in the German Rhein-Main region (I believe in Frankfurt) does something like this. They award points (to be used for renting a bike) for good behaviour (like reporting bikes that are left somewhere, or bringing those back to an official dock or bike rack if I recall correctly).
The "dockless" can indeed be a problem. There are several cities in Germany that are now trying to regulate the bike share market a bit more, and probably will not allow a dockless (well, _yet another_ dockless) bike share system to be established there. I can understand them, the bikes do turn up in inconvenient places. I find the dockless system really convenient. Just taking one to quickly bike to the train station saving me a 25min walk is really useful. That's already as long as I would use these BSOs (bike shaped objects)
Hope you returned the item as faulty and unfit for purpose (or whatever the term is in English). You have given them several chances to fix it, they didn't. So you can withdraw from that contract (buy of the equipment) and have to get back the money. At least that's how it is supposed to work where I have been living)...
Whenever I see these numbers I think of single, one-off events like the supposed rape of a russian girl in Germany(?) reported around the same time - except that rape never happened. Was all over the news, the clarification not so much.
So: does this study (stretching the term) include one-off effects like that? If not, the statistical model that should deal with outliers is wrong...
Acer: my first laptop was an Acer. The screen failed just outside the warranty and was replaced at no cost by them. It finally died after seven or eight years (at an inconvenient time) I think the mainboard had a crack (intermittent errors that could not be attributed to anything really). Oh, and I had problems with power management under Linux the first year, but that settled after a while.
My Samsung netbook developed intermittent screen failures after six years of continuous, daily (ab-)use on the train, plane, at conferences, bounced around in a full backpack etc. basically not how you should treat delicate electronics. I should open it and check the cables or connectors, they might be loose.
Re: this is not about space or science...
Hm. Well... yes, this is one of the things I immediately thought of: glorify past researches, cut funds for research at the same time. And tell universities what the research has to be about. There used to be independence in teaching and research, but that was long ago... (it seems).
Still: no, I don't like some of the heritage buildings. Actually I really dislike them. However, just 60-70 years or so ago city centres in mainland Europe were destroyed (well, what had survived the war) because the buildings were not modern and place for the car friendly cities was needed. Today we mourn these losses. So: heritage protection is probably a good thing.
Relevant ads... yeah, that would be a new thing.
How I understand the new feature is that this needs to be done for every single ad, and also for every single autoplaying website. Bloody useful. If you autoplay videos or ads or music or whatever I take my business elsewhere. Exception: the web radio. But adding a single allowed site is easier than muting a ton of idiots.
Hmpf... FNCs (fuel to noise converters) ;p
Went solo in an ASK13, first solo "distance" flight in a K8 (even after I was allowed on modern stuff, like LS4). Later I was one of the early production "test" pilots of the LS8-18, good times! Alas, it's a bloody time intensive hobby... still miss it at times though.
(still sad Rolladen Schneider went bankrupt, like... 15 years or so ago)
I would buy a laptop - it's just that they are too big and the battery is shite. The Samsung netbook I had was a perfect match, small enough to work on it while on the train or plane, full day battery life, enough storage, parts could be replaced (keyboard, battery, RAM upgrade). They just don't make them anymore...
But when traveling internationally (by plane) a lot I don't want the cell phone data connection and I want a decent hard disk (500 GB, at least) for work related data. No, lugging around an external HD is not my preferred solution. No, there are not enough power outlets at most airports.
I find it intriguing, and hope Linux runs better on this thing than on my ASUS transformer...
While we were studying, one of my friends had one of his PCs run on the desk (decomposed, no chassis, just the components...). The Linux kernel had hot-plugging for cards (started probably with networking, don't remember, too much alcohol at that time). He proceeded to demonstrate this by just pulling out one of the cards while it was running - and then dropped it. Onto the mainboard. Luckily only one of the NICs was fried, and it was "only a broadcom card", not one of the expensive 3com (yes, multiple NICs, had his own network, and this was the gateway / firewall to the internet).
We were sober at that time...
Well, we _know_ it is wrong (in the long run...), but so far it gives all the correct predictions, so it is bloody useful. More useful than all of the really crazy and exotic models. There might be hope for finding contradictions at really high energies, but we don't get too many events...
(but I sort of agree with you, breaking stuff is more interesting)
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