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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
You pay a premium for Apple hardware
This model has you paying less of a premium. Now fine it's not 35% less of a premium but it's not like the entire cost of the device is the price of the storage.
I'm not overly bothered about defending Apple, I just don't see why slower hardware for less money is exactly news.
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
This model has you paying less of a premium.
SSD prices have come down since last year
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@TimeBandit All Hail Bezos and Prime Day!
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@boomzilla Once you’ve left the immense background noise of the city and constant traffic behind, you might actually be able to hear a cow.
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@Nagesh Welcome back!
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@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
@remi like the USA'ians who move next to an airport and then complain about the noise. Or, actually, I've heard exactly the same complaints from people who move to rural areas that border suburbs.
Or the idiots that move next to a shooting range and then complain of the noise.
But I'm more willing to blame idiotic zoning. Who zones a residential area border-to-border with a heavy industrial one? (Airports, shooting ranges, etc. count as heavy industry for all intents and purposes. At least in my books. Noisy, hazardous, smelly/polluting, occasional explosions, ...)
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
you might actually be able to hear a cow
I hear cows while sitting in the office just fine ...
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
Noisy, hazardous, smelly/polluting, occasional explosions,
maybe stop eating those copious amounts of beans then?
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@Luhmann said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
you might actually be able to hear a cow
I hear cows while sitting in the office just fine ...
We used to hear one of our neighbors' rental bull mooing from inside our house. From about 1km away (through forest; going by the road was longer), in an opposing wind. Got a feeling of Jurassic Park from it, so we started calling it that. Had to go take a look at it one day, just to see how big it really was. Approximately 1500kg. Modern seed-bulls are massive.
maybe stop eating those copious amounts of beans then?
It's not up to me what the airlines offer for lunch. And they don't allow enough in-cabin baggage space to carry a laptop and enough food for a long flight.
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@Luhmann said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
you might actually be able to hear a cow
I hear cows while sitting in the office just fine ...
Gossiping about your cow-orkers again after dealing with their bullshit?
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Technical information and pricing on the Suicide Boards:
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Yeah, I foresee no problems with this what so ever.
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@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
collaboration from everyone involved to enable a password-free payments experience.
"Hey everybody, please only use your own card, and do so responsibly."
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@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
Yeah, I foresee no problems with this what so ever.
Banks, unlike computer researchers, have a very realistic approach to this—they don't want perfect security, they want just good enough security that the damage caused by the occasional fraud is cheaper than the cost of the implementation and the inconvenience security causes. And they are quite good in evaluating how far they are with that, so…
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@Bulb said in In other news today...:
they want just good enough security that the damage caused by the occasional fraud is cheaper than the cost of the implementation and the inconvenience security causes
It's not quite as simple as that, as they also want to have the reputation for being good at dealing with this; it encourages customers to use their services and increases profits overall. Yes, that's totally about appearances. Did you think it would be otherwise? (Banks' primary defence against fraud is that, as a group, they control the ledgers on both sides of virtually every transaction.)
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@dkf Appearances certainly count, but don't forget that Basic Frank User does not consider a password an important part of security but rather a nuisance. As long as the banks can avoid making bad headlines too often, the appearance will be fine. And they can do that by resolving disputes quickly and to satisfaction of most customers as they need to do already anyway.
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@pie_flavor Thanks!
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@Dragoon Yes and no. Read the whole thing. Also Unlikely to get implemented.
According to Boye-Moller, when that combination is done right, security doesn't come at the cost of convenience.
Famous Last Words!
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He sees biometrics as the future but nothing in the article covers the many flaws with that approach. He talks about other layers, but those don't address the flaws within biometrics.
I agree I don't see it getting implemented either.
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@Bulb that’s why my bank makes me use a 5 character password, which even this forum software would complain about being too short.
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World Cup final ends in a tie. So they do the cricket equivalent of penalty kicks, which ends in a tie. So the winner is the team with the most home runs and ground rule doubles in the overtime (I think? Might have been the match as a whole?)
Still less ridiculous then starting extra innings with a runner on second, I suppose.
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new Flyboard pilots still train over water, presumably so that crashes don’t kill them
Of course, if you fall from high enough, the water will effectively be as hard as concrete when you hit it, so...
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
We're in one man's turd is another man's gold territory. I find their football coverage to be the best there is out there and I watch so much of it (>40 hours a month with friends and family) it's actually a good deal for me.
To me, 30p would be overpriced, because I'd watch <40 seconds a month. My family is even less interested in sports than I am, and what are friends?
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@Bulb that’s why my bank makes me use a 5 character password, which even this forum software would complain about being too short.
My online banking password is also 5 characters, and just digits at that, but there is proper second factor. Now the second factor is an authentication app tied to the device and taking another pin, but it had SMS right from when I started using it some 15 years ago (and one can still use SMS—the app is an option). Most banks here had two-factor authentication (usually SMS, sometimes token and some support using the debit card if you have a suitable reader) from the start of online banking or almost so.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
what are friends?
It's those newfangled things that drink your beer and pretend to laugh at your jokes. Unless you mean in the old-fashioned way, in which case it's more like a mutual assistance and/or non-aggression pact. But not in the Molotov-Ribbentrop way, usually; that's more like the exception that makes the rule.
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which points to (paywalled) original source
...And a tangential.
TL;DR:
It turns out to be possible to cause problems by managing your finances too well. European Central Bank has difficulties in stimulating economy by buying bonds, because Germany has too few of them, and those that exist have a negative interest. In other words, Germany is paying off its national debt, which trips up blanket economic policies in otherwise uniformly sinking Europe.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
We're in one man's turd is another man's gold territory. I find their football coverage to be the best there is out there and I watch so much of it (>40 hours a month with friends and family) it's actually a good deal for me.
To me, 30p would be overpriced, because I'd watch <40 seconds a month. My family is even less interested in sports than I am, and
That's a rippoff!
what are friends?
Overly overrated people in your life but are quite fun in small doses.
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@lolwhat said in In other news today...:
the water will effectively be as hard
hard water? so with a lot calcium in it?
also: if we add enough calcium to the water will it become so hard it changes into heavy water?
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@Luhmann said in In other news today...:
also: if we add enough calcium to the water will it become so hard it changes into heavy water?
No, at that point we just call it plaster.
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@Luhmann said in In other news today...:
if we add enough calcium to the water will it become so hard it changes into heavy water?
I'm too lazy to do the research, but if you put a bunch of radioactive calcium in the water, there might be a decay pathway that creates a bit of heavy water. (I think you'd have to find a really weird isotope of calcium for it to emit neutrons.)
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Yup, clear as mud.
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
It's those newfangled things that drink your beer and pretend to laugh at your jokes.
Oh, well the joke's on them; I don't have any beer.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
Oh, well the joke's on them; I don't have any beer.
You don't need beer when you don't have any friends
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How do you prevent students from selling their book at the end of the semester?
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
WIll it feature new starfighters? If yes, I feel cheated.
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@mott555 said in In other news today...:
@Luhmann said in In other news today...:
if we add enough calcium to the water will it become so hard it changes into heavy water?
I'm too lazy to do the research, but if you put a bunch of radioactive calcium in the water, there might be a decay pathway that creates a bit of heavy water. (I think you'd have to find a really weird isotope of calcium for it to emit neutrons.)
Well that wasn't too bad. Best choice is calcium-53 which emits a neutron during decay 40% of the time and has a half-life of only 461 milliseconds1. Dump a bunch of that in water, and the hydrogen-1 atoms in the water may absorb some of the neutrons and become hydrogen-2, changing the water to heavy water.
Also, TIL that the most common isotope of calcium (97% of all calcium), calcium-40, theoretically undergoes radioactive decay but it's never been observed. Sort of like bismuth, which calculations showed to be unstable but it wasn't until recently that they actually recorded a decay event.
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
Oh, well the joke's on them; I don't have any beer.
You don't need beer when you don't have any friends
Speak for yourself
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@Luhmann said in In other news today...:
also: if we add enough calcium to the water will it become so hard it changes into heavy water?
No, but if you add enough sugar it'll eventually become heavy water
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Android is not vulnerable
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@TimeBandit I'm sure it's a huge problem for the 7 Microsoft mobile device users
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
7 Microsoft mobile device users
Nobody sane is using a Windows Phone.
but...
This includes iPhones, iPads, Apple Watch models, MacBooks, and Microsoft tablets & laptops
There is a lot more (insane) people using those
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@TimeBandit Yes but
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Ha.
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
How do you prevent students from selling their book at the end of the semester?
By changing irrelevant shit every year and requiring the new books. Has been done that way for ages.
And not just the publishers are guilty of this, but also asshole professors who write their own books and require exactly those be used as lecture material.
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@topspin The physics book we used when I taught in grad school once changed editions. A careful look showed that the only thing that changed was the order of the problems in some of the chapters. So that referring by problem # would fail between editions. And with a new edition, you can't sell back the old one for crap anymore.
Plus, they'd put "online HW codes" in the books that you needed to do your homework (since it was auto-graded by computer). And those were 1 use only, and cost about as much as a new book to buy separately.
Textbook companies are one of the biggest scams out there, along with the rest of academic publishing.