Comment Re:How you drive: (Score 1) 247
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Yep. Those dang typos. (I assurre you I wasn't drunk posting ossifer... hic.)
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Yep. Those dang typos. (I assurre you I wasn't drunk posting ossifer... hic.)
"It's how you drive that gets you into trouble"
I've found that those who drive with blood alcohol levels above 1.0 lead to lots of trouble. Far more than any recent engineering defect I've heard of.
The biggest safety related maintenance problem is usually the loose nut behind the wheel.
No, I was simply noting that technical solutions are limited in solving what are human problems at the base.
The base problem is valuing "easy" over secure.
The real problem to be solved is a bit harder: Finding a technical or human way to block that problem, that's still workable (think about bricked devices from an unknown password that can't be reset) enough to be accepted by users and the companies fielding them.
And then some idiots would leave the sticker attached to it and if forced to change the password they'd change it back to the original. You know what they say about "foolproof".
It's VeriFone. Anyone who's been a credit card terminal tech could tell you that. Hypercom has a well known default password as well. Any competent fraudster trying to reprogram the pad would know it as well.
They have to put in something at the factory, so they put in a default. It's supposed to be changed when the system is programmed and set up.
I used to have the default password for VeriFone's 101 pin pads in muscle memory due to having set up so many of them. (Yes, part of the setup was changing the default to something else.)
No, we'll just do what everyone else does with pipelines. Tie it up in congress and the courts for several decades.
Just think. It can be the next Keystone. Politicians on both sides can ride the outrage to re-election.
"Does anyone doubt that the Tsarneavs were responsible for killing and maiming dozens? Timothy Mcveigh?"
It's a little hard to ask him what he thinks about the Tsarneavs these days.
This is more confirmation, but it has already been known in the microbiology community for some time.
Many of the genes that contribute to antibiotic resistance are far older than human use of antibiotics.
How can that be? A couple ways. Mom Nature has been playing the antibiotic game for a very long time. Most of our antibiotics come from antibiotic producing organisms in nature (penicillin for example). The countermeasures have long been out there, but only in a small percentage of the bacteria out there, since there is a small cost to maintaining any given gene. When there is a big exposure to a particular antibiotic, the resistance genes spread through the bacterial community and become common, as we often see nowadays.
The other source is that an enzyme that is used for some other purpose may well have some ability to protect against an antibiotic. An example would be a transporter molecule for some substance other than the antibiotic to be pumped out of the cell that is close enough to sometimes pump out the antibiotic. There would then be strong pressure for the bacteria to make more of that transporter protein when the antibiotic is around. Nature is good at using something it already has for a new purpose.
That's one of the reasons antibiotic resistance is such a problem. Mother Nature has been playing this game a very long time and frankly is better at it than we are.
"morons have stamina"
In that sense, at least, ignorance really is strength.
"Basement-dwelling Introverts"
That's completely untrue.
I don't spend much time in the basement any more. I've become allergic to the mold down there.
Oh, you can find someone with a "thing" for anyone.
Just Google chubby chaser sometime.
After Goliath's defeat, giants ceased to command respect. - Freeman Dyson