Since 'the incident' the police is knocking on doors of young couples living in the Fukushima area and in the fall out zones north east of it, telling the couples: " you know, you should consider to have no children" (Or move away to the far south or Hokkaido)
Last I heard, it wasn't a big problem to get the Japanese to have no children. They have one of the lowest birth rates on Earth.
Nuclear is dying? Is that why dozens of new reactors are under construction worldwide and many existing power plants have been upgraded to produce more power?
http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/current-and-future-generation/plans-for-new-reactors-worldwide/
It may not be the glamorous renewable energy source, or even the go to source of base power generation, but it still has a solid role in worldwide energy production.
Oh I absolutely agree on the importance of several passwords. I really don't like these centralized authentication systems or password keepers. It may be the height of paranoia, but if I'm going to the trouble of making up all these multiple strong passwords, why would I then put them all in one location? That's one system to compromise to get the keys to all my accounts.
Really the issue is the inability to remember multiple passwords for the average person (or the inability to want to remember them). I like the idea of using a custom, human operable hash function to generate passwords. Take this site as an example, the input would be slashdot (the domain), you take that as the seed and apply some sort of algorithm/hashing function in your head to create the password. It needs to be complex enough to not just be "add '123' to the end", but simple enough to do while sitting at a keyboard. If you can still recognize the domain in the output it's a failure. The beauty of it is that you never need to remember your passwords, just the algorithm. If you want to log in to a site, you look at the domain and apply your hashing algo to 'remember' your password. If you want to change the passwords, change your algorithm. This is of course far beyond the level of the average user, but it avoids putting all your keys in one box.
My guess is that thousands of crappy WordPress sites or something on that level was compromised. Nothing of any extreme value.
You don't need something like Google Authenticator to be secure. A strong 8 character password changed every 60 days would suffice. A hacker can know your account, but statistically speaking they would not be able to crack your password by the time you had a new password.
Statistically speaking this would work, but it is possible that of all the brute force attempts the cracker tries in that 60 day window, one of them is your password. One correct guess and they have the account. Plus this is a pain in the ass to change passwords every 2 months. Use at least 10 characters.
Buffet is a well known value investor. He doesn't buy things for future growth, but because the current prices are too good to pass up. Most of those banks were screaming deals over the past 5 years. As their share prices come back up from the banking crisis and valuations aren't as good, I expect he will unwind some of those positions.
The fact that some people in some places could go off the grid doesn't make this horse crap Morgan Stanley is spewing any more true. If Morgan Stanley is saying it publicly it is to manipulate share prices and that's about it. Even if this does come to be true, there will surely be another couple up and down business cycles beforehand so there's no need to even act immediately on this information.
I live at ~61N latitude. Solar power here would be of little use. I'd get loads of it all summer long. Tons of summer power to work the lights that I don't need on or the heating that I don't need to use. Then in the winter I would get about nothing in terms of solar power. Not only because of the short days of low angle sun, but because snow and frost buildup on the panels would need to be cleaned off regularly. Winter, by the way, is when I have lights on in my house a lot more and when I need to keep the heat running quite often (the peak power usage season here). And as far as air conditioning using that summer light - no one here has it. You don't need AC when the hottest days of the year are when you crack 80F.
Unless you have some sort of battery tech that allows me to store up a summers worth of solar energy to be used throughout the winter, I'd rather look into wind power.
My house has wires from '52, not quite as old, but close enough. The sheathing around the wires is extremely brittle and will crack and fall apart if moved. If left in place in the wall it is fine. What absolutely does not crack and crumble is the copper wire itself. The plastics and polymers used as sheathing around wires has improved dramatically over the years and would most likely last a lot longer now. The conductors themselves are about the same and last a very very long time.
And even if the electricity is produced by renewable means, it is consuming up that renewable source of electricity and forcing other users to get power from coal sources.
I shouldn't be, but I'm always surprised how religious people get when their favorite electronics company is shown to be extremely misleading. I know a guy that I'd known for years who threatened to "unfriend" simply because I refuted his claim that the iPhone was the #1 phone.
So this iPad/Chromebook issue is just another chapter of misleading sales tactics. But if you look at what Apple actually says officially, they're very specific in the literature. Unfortunately, people will be blind to anything that might change their worldview... and any company would be nuts not to take advantage of that.
It's strange. It like tribalism in a globally connected world. Product brands and companies are one of the few things that touch most places on Earth so they have been able to build this strange support from people. If people got so passionate about things that really mattered, instead of consumer electronics, just imagine what they could do.
The last quarter was the second quarter. This doesn't show any sort of change in sales. It shows that out of 1.8 million units sold in the 2nd quarter, 1 million, or well over half of them, were to schools.
This is a scenario that rivals the old cold war for scary.
Except the cold war had a real possibility of MAD. Some sort of zombie rage Ebola strain is a figment of your imagination.
A lack of education about health care and a lack of access to healthcare for poor people is not a bad habit. Evolution will do nothing to fix that issue. About the most you'll get is a population that might eventually have a higher resistance to Ebola.
What exactly do you think still needs to be investigated? If you think the crash site needs to looked at, that's of little evidence now as the seperatists have been all over that site and control it. Any evidence against them could have been removed by now. In addition any evidence there that implicates the Ukrainian Authorities could have been fabricated.
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