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Most people do not understand, or care to understand, what "security" means.

You highlight training as a control. Training is expensive - to reduce cost and enhanced effectiveness, how do you focus training on those that need it without any method to identify those that do things in insecure ways?

Additionally, I would say a major function of these systems is not surveillance at all - it is preventive controls to prevent compromise of your systems.

Overall, your comment strikes me a naive and not based on operational experience.

It has been proposed in the past - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sahara_Sea.

Seems like Wall-E may have been close to non-fiction than fiction.

> "Except there isn't really an alternative to Twitter"

I'm curious, what's the problem with that?

Almost everyone in my office has issues with Bluetooth headphones mysteriously disconnecting - the sound output drops even though Bluetooth is still connected.

Very annoying and can't find a resolution.

Considering the proximity to European markets (and maybe East Coast US as well) and the abundance of potential for geothermal energy in Iceland, I would have thought this would have been a fairly worthwhile thing for Iceland to invest in.

As an comparison, wouldn't this do better that what the Netherlands using glasshouses heated by imported natural gas?

I'm not sure about including e-Ink, I feel like if people are outside they should be doing something other than staring at their phone...

My understanding is that China is offshoring a lot of stuff to Africa. Wages are still lower there.

Has anyone made this stuff work in a country outside the US?

I've done a bit of research into this in NZ, where it seems to be a lot harder to grind points (e.g. FlyBuys / Airpoints).

Having just read through >300 resumes to fill several security consulting roles, my anecdata is that a well laid resume makes with good design does make a good first impression and increases the chance that I will read through it. To me, it exhibits that they have put a bit of effort into communicating their value and shows ability to understand how to communicate information.

That said, still not as much of an impression as a good cover letter written to demonstrate how their strengths match the vacancy.

I have to add the obligatory reference to Freakonomics and the impact your name has on "how a child performs in school and even her career opportunities".

Great write up in either the first or second Freakonomics book about how adversely impacting being called Jasmin is in the the US.

[0] http://freakonomics.com/podcast/how-much-does-your-name-matt...

To a certain extent, yes. But having experience in dealing with schools for IT (in NZ), you'll be hard pressed to get them to spend money on upgrades when the current solution "works".

A not insubstantial amount, I'd predict.

(Anecdata) I had to prove that the work I did on a car (replacing the bumper) didn't cause a fire which burned down the garage and house it was in a week later.

That said, I do agree with your point that a brand new vehicle should not have these sorts of issues. Be interesting to see where the cause lay.

The fakes can do this too, though...

And how do you validate what is displayed on TV? Who will validate most videos they see?

My (non-US) understanding of the outrage is that they feel that the person saying it is not actually going to actually keep the victims in their thoughts and prayers...

I think this is a better aphorism than "trust, but verify".

I work in the information security assurance field, I swear that 90% of the issues I see at companies with external service providers comes back to the fact that their contract does not have anywhere enough ability to hold the service provider to task...

Get everything you need in the contract / agreement, then hope you never have to use it.

I'm curious, when you say "Just find something else to drink, ideally which isn’t fizzy", do you include fizzy water?

I only ask as I bought a sodastream machine after realising what I liked most about soda was the fizz - I actively disliked the sweetness. Now I drink around 3 litres of fizzed water a day and haven't looked back.

"Contracts prohibit merchants to charge more than cash" - Interestingly, this is changing in New Zealand. More stores are passing on the fees (2.5%?) if you pay using a credit card.

It may well do, but then so do the best jokes / satire.

I didn't realise the word "cyber" had been around that long... As much as I (have to) use the word, I didn't know it's background.

The costs to refit would be enormous.

I think there are some issues on longer lines with things like inductance, cable size requirements, etc as well.

From what I read, not so much "without properly setting up", more sabotage: https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-army/2017/07/05/soldier-...

Try it again and rediscover them! Now having kids myself, I've gotten back into the habit just so I can introduce them to these fascinating little creatures.

I don't think it is a slight against Ghana. They may well be ahead of the curve on something we may all have to move back to, i.e. "Recycling animal and human dung is the key to sustainable farming"[1].

[1] http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2010/09/recycling-animal-and-...

Yes, but they also learned from that and created one dayers. Even that proved too slow for some, so now we have 20-20...

The cost of the alternative shape keyboards put me (and a lot of colleagues I've talked to) off for a long time. Glad I did finally save up to buy one! Pity I work on the road a lot and have to still use laptop keyboards a lot of the time.

What does it break the PET down into?

While not exactly the same, this write-up does give an example of the steps invovled: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XWzlOOuoTE7DUK60qTk1Wz1V...