Also, use Lastpass or KeePass to maintain different passwords on every site you visit. Then you don't even have to think about it.
None of the sites you use are guaranteed to store your password securely. And some (more likely many) don't even bother to encrypt or hash them, as you've found.
You can try to name them and shame them. Or just make sure you're reasonably better protected than all of their other sheep.
That is all.
Sounds pretty cool... if Amazon didn't have such a reputation for being a nerd sweatshop in the Seattle area, I'd be finishing up my private pilots' license and applying
Well, he's well on his way to getting to dirty-tree and a turd, then he just has to multiply by another tree and he'll have something divisible by 5 n twentee.
Eh, we've been using GoDaddy to sign our top level public wildcard SSL certs for a couple of years now. They had competitive prices for those things (~$200/yr for 2 years, which we couldn't beat anywhere else while shopping last year), and the process was fairly automated and relatively painless.
We still learned how to sign wildcard certs as our own certificate authority for lots of internal backend subdomains, though.
I've been using dyndns.org since 1999, and upgraded to the paid service about 10 years ago. $30/year gets you, like, 30 custom subdomains, and some other features that I don't use much but seem useful.
Yeah, you have a bit less flexibility with the domains you can choose, but they have a great selection that you can get creative with. And the flexibility of being able to turn on a dime and switch hosts and IPs immediately is great... you don't have to wait hours or even days for DNS changes to propagate. Lots of clients for windows, linux, and even random wifi routers make it easy to update records to point to where ever in the world you boot up, ao you can serve stuff from home or anywhere in public clouds or even from your smartphone.
Certainly worth fussing around with in addition or even instead of a "real" DNS registrar. I think they still have a free tier, and are always useful for doing quick demos for hack days and such.
Eh, I foresee Nintendo staying with their "exclusive" titles on their consoles/handhelds, and just getting into smartphones for silly tie-ins. "Install the COMPANION APP to click on the mini-game to give you VALUABLE ITEMS! Receive CONSTANT NOTIFICATIONS to your phone when your PokeDragon is LONELY and wants to be lot out to PEE". That kind of thing.
Some observations on my kids:
* I never subjected them to any consoles at home (OK, well, a PS2 for GT4, but they never took interest in anything beyond a little Burnout).
* They have plentiful mobile phones and tablet at home. They play some free games on them, but mostly use them for YouTube.
* I built them a nice multiseat Minecraft rig, and have access to my Windows gaming machine with a half-decent Steam library.
They still went off and got their grandparents to buy them various DSi / 3DS handhelds. I don't really see them playing on them much, and when the do they always have the 3D dial turned to "flat". And I don't really notice them... until they break a power cable or the entire handheld, and then suddenly it's at the top of their wishlist again for a few months until they can gravel for and save up enough birthday money to buy a new one.
Marketing, how does it work?
Most egregiously, many media outlets continue to report that Mars One received applications from 200,000 people who would be happy to die on another planet?—?when the number it actually received was 2,761.
As [finalist Joseph] Roche observed the process from an insider’s perspective, his concerns increased. Chief among them: that some leading contenders for the mission had bought their way into that position, and are being encouraged to “donate” any appearance fees back to Mars One?—?which seemed to him very strange for an outfit that needs billions of dollars to complete its objective. “When you join the ‘Mars One Community,’ which happens automatically if you applied as a candidate, they start giving you points,” Roche explained to me in an email. “You get points for getting through each round of the selection process (but just an arbitrary number of points, not anything to do with ranking), and then the only way to get more points is to buy merchandise from Mars One or to donate money to them.”
There’s more at the link. Essentially, the whole operation has apparently devolved into a petty scam to milk money from the finalists themselves.
So far my favorite keyboard has been the ~$20 Dell SK-8135 . Quiet keys, modern minimalist design around a full 104 keyboard layout, but has fairly ergonomic multimedia keys that are easy to find in the dark, and a USB hub which I find convenient for minimizing wire clutter.
My aunt bought me a nice Logitech G510 keyboard, but... I don't really care for it all that much. Uh... you can change the backlight color, and there's a little mono LCD panel that you can download apps to display extra things on. There are a bunch of programmable macro buttons on the side, but I don't find them convenient to use in any of my games compared to keeping my fingers near the WASD home row with the default keyboard layouts, and maybe using an autohotkey macro where necessary. It also has a built-in USB audio headset/mic jacks, which I guess is nice for eliminating system noise from your mic if you don't already have something better. The G510 looks damn impressive, but if I really needed its features, I'd have optioned for the G13 and a normal keyboard.
Yep, this. NOAA is supposed to operate all of the earth-observing weather satellites.
My FIL works for climate.gsfc.nasa.gov , and was the PM for the NASA instruments for the recent DSCOVR satellite. My understanding is that it was full of irony... of the major instruments, NASA was responsible for the earth-facing ones - NISTAR (measuring radiation reflected from the Earth) and EPIC (Al Gore's original Earth webcam-in-space concept from back when it was called Triana), and NOAA provided the PlasMag instrument that measures --- the solar wind from the Sun. But the rest of the project makes sense... NASA integrated the payload, the Air Force paid for the launch, NASA is guiding the satellite to the L1 point, and then handing it over to NOAA for operations once it's in place. I don't see that kind of arrangement going away, since a lot of the satellite and sensor expertise lies with NASA, and NOAA is mostly a big data warehouse.
I'm actually kinda laughing on the inside, since NOAA is a MUCH larger proponent of environmentalism than NASA. Stewardship of the oceans and atmosphere is actually written into NOAA's mission, and they're also responsible for most of climate weather data collection and analysis that has been supporting the AGW narrative. NASA is much more objective... my FIL is a Russian mathematician who doesn't really give a rat's ass about the environment or smoking or littering, but if you make a mistake interpreting LIDAR radiative dissipation measurement he'll rip you a new one. A lot of his work for climate.gsfc.nasa.gov has actually been measuring all of the ways AGW has not been occurring, by gathering data to improve models of cloud and aerosol reflectivity, things that help explain how Earth maintains its energy balance and could really raise the ceiling on the projected budget for CO2 emissions.
But if the conservatives want to take responsibility for objectively looking at the Earth away from NASA and giving more responsibility to NOAA, we can all look forwards to a lot more intensive environmental studies supporting NOAA's charter to be good stewards of the oceans and skies.
So far my favorite keyboard has been the Dell SK-8135 . Quiet keys, modern minimalist design, but it has fairly ergonomic multimedia keys and a USB hub which I find convenient for minimizing clutter.
My aunt bought me a nice Logitech G510 keyboard, but... I don't really care for it all that much. Uh... you can change the backlight color, and there's a little mono LCD panel that you can download apps to display extra things on. There are a bunch of programmable macro buttons on the side, but I don't find them convenient to use in any of my games compared to keeping my fingers near the WASD home row with the default keyboard layouts, and maybe using an autohotkey macro where necessary. It also has a built-in USB audio headset/mic jacks, which I guess is nice for eliminating system noise from your mic if you don't already have something better. The G510 looks damn impressive, but if I really needed its features, I'd have optioned for the G13 and a normal keyboard.
Eh, some fairly big companies use ITIL to run their service desks too, and it's sorta a necessity once you go past a certain scale. Could just be that some high-level manager finally got around to reading "The Phoenix Project".
But all the same, make sure you don't have some kind of severance package coming before you willingly jump ship.
Heh, back in the first dotcom boom I was working for some company that was making supercomputing clusters that were recursively scaleable. Back then you could get all the dumb, fast 8-port switches you wanted for cheap, but if you tried scaling it up with a big flat Cisco backplane for more than a few dozen nodes, you'd easily start paying more for switches than for computers. Plus if any of that infrastructure broke, you'd be out of a huge part of your cluster.
Anyone can make an omelet with eggs. The trick is to make one with none.
