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@tharpa said in In other news today...:
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@tharpa said in In other news today...:
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@blakeyrat In Phoenix, you can get a ticket for driving a car without air conditioning.
Are you kidding, or is this a Big Brother law? (Wouldn't surprise me too much, unfortunately.)
I'm kidding, but in the sense of "if they wanted to, they could decide that not having AC means the car is "not in functioning order" and ticket you like they actually do for a busted headlight in the daytime or a non-working turn signal when you're driving straight.
That's different; there are actual laws that say your headlights and turn signals (and brakes, windshield wipers, horn, ... etc., depending on the laws in your state/city) must be in good working order, regardless of whether you need them at any given moment while you're driving.
And the reason there are laws for those things: They directly affect others, unlike AC.
Similarly to driving while intoxicated, driving in 40°C heat allows you to get overwhelmed by the heat, reducing your alertness.
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@Benjamin-Hall "orgone technician" is the shibboleth to look for there. You're welcome.
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@Luhmann I was with you right up until the plural confusion, but now I have no idea.
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@tharpa I constantly misspell things in face to face conversation and literally no-one notices.
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@Gribnit said in In other news today...:
@tharpa I constantly misspell things in face to face conversation and literally no-one notices.
*is apparently titled "no-one"*
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@Tsaukpaetra Spelling, not pronunciation. I could believe you hear punctuation but not spelling.
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@Gribnit said in In other news today...:
@Tsaukpaetra Spelling, not pronunciation. I could believe you hear punctuation but not spelling.
You may be surprised....
Exhibit A: GIF vs Jiff.
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@Tsaukpaetra Identical pronunciation.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
So when his attempted suicide by freezing to death got interrupted, he successfully frightened himself to death?
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@Tsaukpaetra Over an optional slight elongation of a terminal
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@Gribnit said in In other news today...:
@Tsaukpaetra Over an optional slight elongation of a terminal
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@Gribnit Every time I see an article like that, I want to respond to whoever is making the claim, "What was the name of that one ship?"
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@Magus if you'll note, the terms of their unhackability guarantee excluded icebergs.
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@tharpa said in In other news today...:
@djls45 said in In other news today...:
@tharpa said in In other news today...:
@anotherusername said in In other news today...:
@da-Doctah said in In other news today...:
@tharpa said in In other news today...:
@da-Doctah said in In other news today...:
@blakeyrat In Phoenix, you can get a ticket for driving a car without air conditioning.
Are you kidding, or is this a Big Brother law? (Wouldn't surprise me too much, unfortunately.)
I'm kidding, but in the sense of "if they wanted to, they could decide that not having AC means the car is "not in functioning order" and ticket you like they actually do for a busted headlight in the daytime or a non-working turn signal when you're driving straight.
That's different; there are actual laws that say your headlights and turn signals (and brakes, windshield wipers, horn, ... etc., depending on the laws in your state/city) must be in good working order, regardless of whether you need them at any given moment while you're driving.
And the reason there are laws for those things: They directly affect others, unlike AC.
A non-working A/C system could definitely affect others, namely those in your vehicle, and especially in >100°F weather.
Those who are in your vehicle are there by choice. If not, then it is covered by other laws, such as false imprisonment.
Your kids?
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Sexism aside, this sounds like an awful place to work.
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So stupid.
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@Rhywden I wonder whether they'll try to get Congress to force insurance companies to cover liability from companies that willingly take up that “opportunity”. My guess is that without that, every firm that tries to do that sort of thing will find itself carrying the entire related liability directly on their books as no insurer will want to be anywhere close to involved…
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@dkf Problem is that most asbestos problems only arise decades later. That will be fun for you...
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@blakeyrat said in In other news today...:
Sexism aside, this sounds like an awful place to work.
This sort of thing is written about a lot. Has anyone ever experienced it?
One day, Lacy conducted an experiment: After an idea she really believed in fell flat during a meeting, she asked a male colleague to present the same idea to the same group of people days later. He was skeptical, but she insisted that he give it a shot. “Lo and behold, the week after that, [he] went in, presented exactly as I did and the whole room was like, ‘Oh my gosh, this is amazing.’ [His] face turned beet red and he had tears in his eyes,” said Lacy. “They just didn’t respect women.”
I've certainly never worked anywhere that had a "bro culture," so maybe I've just been lucky. Speaking of being an awful place to work:
Working at Riot isn’t just about doing a job—it’s about enthusiastically participating in the company’s culture.
Ugh...that'd be a nightmare. I generally enjoy interacting with my colleagues at work and even on the occasional business trip or happy hour but I don't really want to socialize at work with cow-orkers. That's what you guys are for.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
Ugh...that'd be a nightmare. I generally enjoy interacting with my colleagues at work and even on the occasional business trip or happy hour but I don't really want to socialize at work with cow-orkers. That's what you guys are for.
When I finished university I had the choice of several schools to go to (the joy of teaching a rare subject). One of those schools was a boarding school where they told me that all teachers would hang out regularly after school and do stuff.
This was a school literally in the middle of nowhere (even cellular coverage was spotty) so there really wasn't a way around that and as a result a rather big ixnay from me.
Though, truth to be told, they probably also thought that I wasn't a good fit because I didn't completely suppress my initial reaction to this and other similar bits of information.
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If you've ever followed flash memory development, you probably know that 3D flash provided a big improvement in storage space per die compared to the previous 2D (planar) flash technology. Well now we have 4D flash!!!!
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@mott555 Finallly, a technology capable of bringing Busco Quadnary into reality!
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It's really dumber than it sounds. Since the Amish still abhor modern technology you can't call out to him other than waving or talking to him.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
This sort of thing is written about a lot. Has anyone ever experienced it?
And invariably in Silicon Valley. I don't work there, so I can't say.
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@JBert So, basically like a taxi in the 1940s?
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@boomzilla
I feel like that man is a recent emigre from Florida.
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@blakeyrat @boomzilla One of the "anonymous" sources for that article is this Twitter user:
(don't know why it's embedding that specific tweet; it's just a link to the twitter feed.)
There's a whole lot more that I could say, but I won't because this isn't the garage...
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
This sort of thing is written about a lot. Has anyone ever experienced it?
Nope.
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@Karla said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
This sort of thing is written about a lot. Has anyone ever experienced it?
Nope.
Even when working topless?
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@anotherusername You shouldn't have even said that. Anonymous means anonymous. Don't dox people, it's a dick thing to do.
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@blakeyrat said in In other news today...:
@anotherusername You shouldn't have even said that. Anonymous means anonymous. Don't dox people, it's a dick thing to do.
Does doxing include exposing additional online info? I guess I always thought it meant exposing an online persona's real life info (phone number, address, workplace, etc).
All that aside, I agree with your point.
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@mikehurley You're not going to convince me that anotherusername wasn't being a dick while posting that. Maybe doxxing isn't the correct term, but it's a lot closer to "wanting to incite people" than it is to "wanting to talk about fluffy puppy dogs".
And again outside of the troll category that's all I'll say.
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Sexism is everywhere
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Your wireless is not safe
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
Your wireless is not safe
When has it ever been??
I keep mine locked up in a Faraday cage. It's very secure there.
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@mott555 said in In other news today...:
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
Your wireless is not safe
When has it ever been??
I keep mine locked up in a Faraday cage. It's very secure there.
Just wait until they can reliably quantum-entangle in Mass production. Then you'll be secure!
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
Sexism is everywhere
The problem is that women's heart attacks, like the women themselves, don't just come out and tell you what's going on.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
Your wireless is not safe
When has it ever been??
I keep mine locked up in a Faraday cage. It's very secure there.
Just wait until they can reliably quantum-entangle in Mass production. Then you'll be secure!
All I have to do is measure my qubits across some conjugate variables, and that'll break the entanglement and keep the hackers away!
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
Since the Amish still abhor modern technology
Incorrect. They just abhor the effect that technology can have on society. Power tools, for instance, they have no problem with - they get buildings erected faster.
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
Sexism is everywhere
I'd be inclined to believe this is a thing.
Women's heart attacks present differently and the breast cancer lobby has all women more concerned about their breasts than their heart even though their heart is far more likely to kill them.
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@Karla said in In other news today...:
the breast cancer lobby has all women more concerned about their breasts than their heart
All men are also more concerned about women's breast cancer
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@pie_flavor said in In other news today...:
@JBert said in In other news today...:
Since the Amish still abhor modern technology
Incorrect. They just abhor the effect that technology can have on society. Power tools, for instance, they have no problem with - they get buildings erected faster.
They will actually use phones and computers (some of them, I know there are a variety of views) but they do not own them.
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
Your wireless is not safe
Clickbait title is clickbaity. What the researcher found was a simpler way to obtain a hash, which is still a difficult thing to reverse in order to crack the password.
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@masonwheeler said in In other news today...:
What the researcher found was a simpler way to obtain a hash
From the article:
This makes the attack much easier to pull off, as the attacker doesn’t depend on another user and on being in range of both the user and the access point at the exact moment when the user connects to the wireless network and the handshake takes place
The new attack is performed on the RSN IE (Robust Security Network Information Element) of a single EAPOL frame
That's WAY more simpler than before.
But yes, you still need to reverse the hash to obtain the password