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>Security fatigue is defined in the study as a weariness or reluctance to deal with computer security.

Can that even be defined if it completely overlaps the umbrella of "people who use computers but are not IT professionals".

One of my friend's passwords for everything is expl0r3r and has been for years because his family drove a ford explorer when he was younger.

Another buddy's password for everything is "Duncan" ... because his dog is named duncan.

Pretty much everybody else I know has their password literally stickied to the side of their monitor or sitting on their desk somewhere.

Can "Security Fatigue" really be a thing if the entire world is subject to it?

That was a disappointingly small sample size given the nature of the magazine, I agree.

On the other hand, I doubt this technique has been tried with hundreds of bikes yet either. So everything about these statements could just be worthless information I suppose.

Popular Mechanics found different results when they did a similar study [0].

>"One disheartening result was that our package received more abuse when marked "Fragile" or "This Side Up." The carriers flipped the package more, and it registered above-average acceleration spikes during trips for which we requested careful treatment."

[0] http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/reviews/a6284/whi...

I reached down to grab a piece of wood to place into my campfire years ago and felt this unbelievably jarring pain go through my thumb (considering how gently I had placed my hand down to grab the piece of wood, the level of pain was immense).

There was a very tiny piece of something stuck in my thumb, which I was able to remove but not able to inspect very closely as it was pitch black outside and I was working with a flashlight.

I wrote it off as most likely being a splinter of glass from somebody's smashed beer bottle that had gone straight through my skin.

Reading this, however... it was much more likely a metal bristle from somebody's cheap camping brush that they used to clean their camping grill.

>Even if energy generation, storage and an auto powertrain are a seamless product, so-called vertical integration, in which one manufacturer makes all the components, was the old Henry Ford model and later, General Motors’. That approach has gone down in automotive history as a colossal failure.

What is Tesla meant to do if nobody else is able to deliver what they demand?

Ford Motor Company essentially created a new industry, which is why they had to make all their parts... Tesla is doing a similar thing here imho.

Can somebody explain why authoritarian governments are even allowed a vote or membership in the UN?

What does it matter what a few elites at the top want for "their" country, when millions of their citizens usually want the exact opposite?

I doubt that many citizens in the 15 countries that voted against would agree with their leadership on this matter, for example.

>Why does the "confirm password" field exist anyway? It exists to remove the risk of input error. They want to avoid you locking into a mistyped password and not being able to recover.

It seems silly to force everybody to doubly enter their password, when I'd guess at most ~10% of people might enter an incorrect password on their first try at which point those unfortunate ones are only a few minutes away from a password reset... where they would be sure to get the password right that second time.

>"We're gonna look for different factors in the way that you're acting,” Oklahoma Highway Patrol Lt. John Vincent said. “We're gonna look for if there's a difference in your story. If there's someway that we can prove that you're falsifying information to us about your business."

So basically... guilty until proven innocent?

>The only downside is having to manually add new custom blacklist rules due to the adaptive nature of the spammers.

I wouldn't really call that a downside until AI is here.

Impressive work!

Click the "web" link below the title.

I wonder if antibiotic resistance will be the reason that people move out of the cities back to rural areas.

You can't get sick if you're not near anyone else.

They do lose energy in the form of heat, though.

Ever seen the massive heatsinks required for a high wattage LED to work?

>Researchers at MIT have shown that by surrounding the filament with a special crystal structure in the glass they can bounce back the energy which is usually lost in heat, while still allowing the light through.

Why can't/don't they use those same crystals on LED lights?

"tue" means "kill" in french... I wonder if a french programmer somewhere had something to do with this?

Great story. It's not often I find myself reading through to the end.

>Hilbert arranged for the FBI to rent Popov an apartment near the beach and pay him a $1,000-a-month stipend to continue working on Ant City.

Talk about cheap! They offered him ~$3,000/mo compensation for work that was saving the US potentially hundreds of millions of dollars per year in fraudulent credit card charges?

>One victim was the Boston-based multinational EMC, where intruders had stolen the source code for the company’s ubiquitous virtualization software, VMware. If the code got out, hackers everywhere could plumb it for security holes. VMware’s purpose is to allow a single server to house multiple virtual computers, each walled off from the others. So in the worst-case scenario, a hacker might find a way to “escape” from a virtual machine and seize control of the underlying system.

And this just screams of the need for more open source projects.

And this particular sysadmin-for-my-family will no longer allow windows to be installed on any of our computers whenever they are in need of a reinstall.

Windows is becoming more and more like Facebook. Too many users changed a setting you don't agree with? Just block access to that setting or call it something else to confuse enough people to the point that the numbers are "good enough" for management.

Almost every time I visit my parents, my mother's Windows 10 laptop has reverted at least one of the changes I have made.

I used to keep a copy of Windows available via dualboot on all of my laptops, just in case I needed to print something in a remote location where whichever flavor of linux I was using didn't support. Not anymore. Linux Mint serves that requirement just fine.

I suppose because there are security guards and cameras in these buildings and that nobody is able to knock on every door for months on end to determine which apartment is vacant and which one is not. Especially difficult for someone who fits the profile of needing a permanent residence.

Define "succeeding at physical fitness".

It's different for everybody.

I walk about 2 hours per day and stretch whenever I can remember and I would consider my current state of physical fitness a success.

You don't have to hit the gym 3x a week to be fit.

>empty Chinese investment properties

It's like this all over North America. Not just the west coast.

I lived in a chinese-built condominium in Toronto a few years ago, and the rumor was that 50% or more of the building's units were owned by absentee landlords.

Which made sense, because almost the entire building was seemingly vacant.

Hardly any lights on at night. No furniture on most of the balconies. Never had to wait for an elevator (at 30+ floors, that is strange). Always ample visitor parking spots when there was only 15 of them shared between ~300 units. And I knew most of the neighbors on my floor, would see them come and go regularly, but there were always a few apartments that just never made any noise.

Truckers (professional drivers) do this all the time.

If ever there is a traffic jam on the highway, you will see the big rigs consistently leaving hundreds of feet of space in front of them.

They also seem to concentrate in the center lanes of the highway for reasons I haven't figured out yet.

I'm curious why they cut prices by 40% right off the bat?

Surely they must have had some idea what their competition would charge from historical bids, so why not come in at a 30% or even 20% discount?

Running a story with whatever the latest gossip on twitter happens to be is not news. Sure you'll get lucky occasionally, but let's be realistic here.

If you don't care at all about journalistic integrity, then why not just follow the trending twitter hashtags yourself from their search page?

You'll get your news even faster that way.

>When The Times introduced a paywall, the number of people looking at their digital service dropped by 98.7% (from 22m to around 300,000), yet the switch was a huge financial success.

But for how long? I'm fairly certain that once those 300,000 loyal readers kick the bucket that The Times' digital subscription service will too.

How is 22 million regular readers (who will keep coming back and telling their friends about your articles, because they're free) worth less than 300,000 paying subscribers (who for some reason absolutely have to read what's in The Times no matter the price, and would probably have a hard time encouraging others to be so vehement).

Not to mention the types of journalists you will attract with a readership of a very small city, vs the readership of the population of New York State.

This just seems crazy to me... and I thought only HNers might care about this sort of thing.

This is a massive company in Canada, with 180 stores and almost 30,000 employees... who just updated their website, and still cannot get simple "rank by price" database queries in check.

It boggles the mind, and makes their website experience extremely frustrating.

Just venting and curious if anyone out there has any experience as to how something like this could happen.

It's been like this for years, and I have even written them once informing them of the problem, yet it persists.

He's the poster child for a potential class action lawsuit. He witnessed their product explode with his own eyes.

And yes I would imagine that there could have been some cost associated with cleaning up the smoke smell left in the room and possibly any burned areas.

>for them to study

For them to study, or for them to destroy the evidence so that you absolutely could not take them to court.

This reminds me of a main street somewhere in France that rewards good drivers by giving them a non-stop flow of green lights if they drive at exactly the speed limit.

Speeding down that street is pointless, because you are guaranteed to hit a red light if you do.

Title should be changed to "...25% improvement over Gzip"

re: "Brotli should bring 25% reduction in data size compared to Gzip for the most common assets like Javascript and CSS files. For HTML, Brotli promises up to 40% difference (with median around 25%)."

How do they ensure that their submitters are being honest?