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by raesene6 9y ago
In the UK at least, new Offshore wind is now price comparable with other sources, and is getting cheaper. Combining renewables (which can be intermittant) with EVs (which can recharge batteries) could actually work quite well.
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by raesene6 9y ago
This is a very real threat for all software, open source and commercial, and hard to completely fix. That said there are a number of possible mitigations and the fact that they're not more widespread is, to me, an indication that peopl
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by raesene6 9y ago
I think the variability of a lot of renewables is why grid-scale energy storage projects are taking off (e.g. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/tesla-south-... ). With a decent quantity of storag
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by raesene6 9y ago
I'd suggest that the reality for most people is that they're not "free to move to any society that you agree with most". Many countries have strict immigration and citizenship requirements, many of which revolved around
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by raesene6 9y ago
This looks like another in a series of ICOs which are not being handled with appropriate security controls. When people are planning on taking in millions of dollars of investment in an easily traded, easily stolen, digital currency, they&#
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by raesene6 9y ago
It wouldn't be a great surprise to see this happening, the concepts are far from new. I attended a talk on GPS spoofing and how it could be used for this kind of attack 6 years ago, there were articles from Wired 9 years ago ( https:&#
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by raesene6 9y ago
I'd say that there clearly is an externality being addressed by age discrimination legislation. It's not in the interests of the state to have corporations pushing down wages by favouring only younger staff. Low wages == low tax r
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by raesene6 9y ago
Laws are, when related to restricting companies, generally intended to address the difference between the interests of citizens/the state and the interests of corporates. Many corporations would love to pay staff less money, provide fe
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by raesene6 9y ago
oh man, making that list and leaving out the bear....
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by raesene6 9y ago
ah more security cluelessness from the UK Government. The frustrating piece is that they're ignoring their own internal experts on this. The people running the National Cyber Security Centre are very bright and have stated that they t
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by raesene6 9y ago
You can implement a basic level of this just by storing some information about users and then comparing it on login. Some relatively simple examples - Inform users of unsuccessful login attempts since their last sign-in. This can let them
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by raesene6 9y ago
Sure, my point was companies do do that checking and Debian doesn't do that checking, so from the perspective of this risk, it would be harder for an attacker to do this to a large corporate like Microsoft than it would to do it to
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by raesene6 9y ago
It's not quite the same thing as, AFAIK, the debian project doesn't have the same power as an employer does to do background checks before hiring. There's a significant level of risk around open source projects changing hands
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by raesene6 9y ago
indeed, one of the many grey areas that will be "interesting" for the new regulator to look at when they're created...
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by raesene6 9y ago
yeah I think that article's a little old and doesn't reflect the actuality of what was placed in . From the lords debate on the topic https://hansard.parliament.uk/lords/2017-02-02/debates/D2C24...
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by raesene6 9y ago
I don't think they are. From http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-40630582 "This, she explained, was because the Act does not tackle the fact that services including Twitter and Tumblr contain hardcore porno
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by raesene6 9y ago
I think the tube sites would be considered commercial 'cause they're run by the commercial porn companies. What won't be covered as far as I'm aware is things like reddit, tumblr etc
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by raesene6 9y ago
I'd say there is no perfect solution however there are much better approaches. 1) Parents should discuss sexuality issues with their children, so they understand them. 2) Schools should provide good sex education that isn't "
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by raesene6 9y ago
AFAIK it's commercial sites only, so you're dead right this legislation has failed before they even try and implement it.
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by raesene6 9y ago
This is an awful piece of legislation and will pretty inevitably produce dangerous side effects whilst not in any way meeting its goals. It's a shame to see this kind of uninformed law get introduced in a supposedly advanced country.
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by raesene6 9y ago
or just going to non-commercial sites for their porn...
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by raesene6 9y ago
No matter how they do verification, the scheme won't have the intended effect as there are massive numbers of non-commercial sites which make porn available, including pretty much any site that allows user generated content. And on the
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by raesene6 9y ago
Until recently I'd have agreed with you about much faster, I always found QR codes a bit clunky and slow. However I think the image recognition processes must be improving as the last couple of times I've used them (for TOTP setup
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by raesene6 9y ago
I used Password Safe ( https://pwsafe.org/ ) the spec. is open source and there are a variety of clients (iOS, Android, Windows, Mac, Linux).
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by raesene6 9y ago
yeah passwords is the one I'm most worried about, that's the keys to the kingdom. If my threat model includes backdoored hardware, I'm in a bad place as (I'd expect) would most people be.
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by raesene6 9y ago
no worries :) I'm kind of interested, because lack of trust in microphones/cameras specifically on laptops is a theme I've seen commonly expressed by people in general IT and IT security. My thinking on the subject was roughl
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by raesene6 9y ago
Does that mean you assume that all the firmware/devices on your laptop are compromised, or just the microphone?
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by raesene6 9y ago
The failure modes of 2FA and what happens when a token is lost or breaks are definitely one of the pain points. I'm not a fan of the "back up recovery token" approach, as if you only need the backups once every couple of year
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by raesene6 9y ago
Whilst this is more about AWS accounts, the ability of Amazon (and other cloud providers) to lock you out of an account with very limited recourse does present some other problems. I've got quite a few ebooks I've bought via Amazo
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by raesene6 9y ago
Well it's not quite the same with AWS if you start making use of any of their facilities past straight EC2 instances. AWS provides a number of SAAS offerings which, if you make use of them, tie you to Amazon specifically, as opposed to

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