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martinwww··on Pirate Party Leader to Be Prague mayor
Well it will be hard for him as reconstruction of Barrandov bridge should start within 2 years. It's major road for transit in/around Prague.
martinwww··on Pirate Party Leader to Be Prague mayor
Good luck Zdeněk !
martinwww··on YubiKey 5 Series with New NFC and FIDO2 Passwordless Features
I wish you successful personal transition, why you skipped USB B ?
martinwww··on YubiKey 5 Series with New NFC and FIDO2 Passwordless Features
well code which U2f token generate with the help of Google authenticator has ONLY 6 digits. 6 digits that's not extremely hard to brute force is that right ?

If you are using additional backup u2f token (2 tokens in total) hacker has chance 1:500 000 to find out correct PIN is my assumption right ?

martinwww··on The #1 Office Perk? Natural Light
or CO2 concentration under 1000 ... in our building they somehow trying to save money on air conditioning so we don't consider air in the office to be 'fresh' as there's usually ~1500ppm - 2000ppm CO2 concentration.
martinwww··on In India, Summer Heat May Soon Be Literally Unbearable
It's sad but cost of human life in India is quite low. I Don't think that their government will look after these 'casualties'.
martinwww··on Layoffs at Watson Health Reveal IBM’s Problem with AI
It's everywhere the same story. In Czech Republic IBM has implemented quite a lot IT projects for government. Just for example : There's software for tax management of whole country which is running on mainframes from 1992, it was written in Informix 4GL language there's only GUI is MS-DOS based terminal. all officials need to work with that system.

Of course it was fine 15 years ago but from that time we had quite a lot changes in tax system, many new conditions has been addad and in the result we have unstable deprecated software where maintainability is nowadays near to ZERO.

There are currently no people who knows how it works and who knows Informix 4GL language in 2018... After few years it will be probably replaced but cost of new project will astronomical (...of course).

I am not blaming purely IBM, quite often government officials are incompetent when it comes to software project planning.

martinwww··on American toddlers are eating more sugar than the amount recommended for adults
there's no reason to consume bottled mayonnaise at all. Don't be extremely strict, food with reasonable % of sugar will not harm you if you will be below daily limit with sugar...
martinwww··on Autonomous braking: 'The most significant development since the safety belt'
even warning few seconds before impact is useful, of course there are better systems but Toyota implemented Safety Sense to all cars which is great.
martinwww··on The Cold Case of the Max Headroom Signal Intrusion
That reminds me what happened in Czech TV in 2007 :

https://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/24/arts/design/24abroad.html

One Sunday early risers gazing at Czech Television’s CT2 channel saw picturesque panoramas of the Czech countryside, broadcast to the wordless accompaniment of elevator music. It was the usual narcoleptic morning weather show. Then came the nuclear blast. Across the Krkonose Mountains, or so it appeared, a white flash was followed by the spectacle of a rising mushroom cloud