Password length is not enough. The reason they ask you to add numbers and punctuation signs is that common words for passwords are susceptible to dictionary attacks
Didn't DARPA offer an exact same reward for solving the exact same problem? If I didn't know any better, I'd say Professor Scammy S. Scamson from the UC San Diego crowdsources the effort, sends it to DARPA, keeps half for himself, half for "contributors", at absolutely no effort.
"Three weeks after undergoing a crash test, a Chevy Volt caught fire"
I think if you could not get out of the car within three weeks after you've been in a crash, you have bigger problems than the battery catching on fire....
From the article: "According to scientists at the National Institutes of Health- the world's largest source of drug abuse research - marijuana use is associated with addiction, respiratory disease, and cognitive impairment "
Well, if that's your standard for keeping marijuana illegal, may I suggest adding:
Tobacco: Also associated with nicotine addiction, respiratory disease and cancer
Alcohol: Also associated with addiction, liver disease and cognitive impairment
Oh wait, those have huge lobbists behind them. Nevermind.
I don't see what's wrong with using the word tweet. I mean, I googled it and it does appear in wikipedia. Besides, it's not such a big news story anyway, I mean, it's not even slashdotted!
I have been where you've been, and let me tell you, what you are considering is a waste of money.
Moore's law applies particularly well to harddrives. Every two years you can buy a new hard drive that is twice as big, for the same price. Or pay half as much for the same storage capacity. If you stock up now, you'll spend a lot of money for something you can buy a lot cheaper in two years' time.
My advice: Buy new hard drives and replace them as you run short on space. If you run out of space inside your rack, move the contents from your oldest disc into the next, and you can sell, discard or get an external enclosure for your oldest disc.
Allocating massive storage without immediate need for it, is going to cost you a lot of money.
True, however none have been this tiny. The keyword here is 'portability'. I work with laser projectors and come in these huge metal boxes that weight at least a 5 to 10 kilograms.
This type of portable displaying opens a lot of interest possibilities. Particularly, I'm thinking of Augmented Reality applications.
The article does not say how much power is in that microwave, but I'm guessing it has to be enough to fry a bird on the fly.
I'm all for cheap power, but someone will have to clean those antennae every time a bird drops dead from flying into the beam
And let's just hope no planes fly by during the "testing" period
If I was a newspaper CEO, I would consider doing some serious investment in e-paper technology.
If you manage to create a portable newspaper that, coupled with wireless broadcasting, updates every minute of every hour for a subscription of a couple of dollars a month, you have nothing to worry about.
I know it's bothersome. But what's so difficult about storing your "delicate" data into an encrypted file, save it to any online-file-upload service, wipe the data off your computer, have your computer searched all they want, and then download once you're on the other side.
And as a bonus, you can set your computer to immediately open to a locally stored shock-site, just to give the agents something to gag about.
Using sunlight to turn CO2 into fuel? Haven't plants been doing that for thousands of years now?
I am not a chemist, but I always thought it would be more convenient to mimic the way that plants chemically harvest solar power and turn it into usable energy, instead of the mechanical / electrical ways they're doing it now.
...looking at this, I think it wasn't so bad that there was a strong opposition to embryonic stem cell research in the first place. If you think about it, this forced scientists to find a new source for stem cells. Now they hit the jackpot, since skin cells are much more available, and can be easily grown in a lab.
The Sundancer module will provide 180 cubic meters of habitable space and will come fully equipped with life-support systems, attitude control and on-orbit maneuverability, as well as reboost and deorbit capability
Wait.. what? Attitude control? so if you're a bad astronaut... it'll spank you?
I'm not really sure about this. The article also mentions that the water tends to dampen seismic waves (and some sort of tectonic plate lubricant). If you were to remove it, earthquakes could become disastrous.
This is hardly news. In Japan, since there's a lack of terrain (making waste of space a pricey luxury) these "robotic" parkings are almost more common that open wide parking lots.
Now, I haven't red TFA, but I'm hoping it has some sort of security/encryption support. What's the chance of someone in a 30ft radius peeking at the 10Gbs of data I'm carrying in my pocket, just using another cellphone?...
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Password length is not enough. The reason they ask you to add numbers and punctuation signs is that common words for passwords are susceptible to dictionary attacks
Didn't DARPA offer an exact same reward for solving the exact same problem? If I didn't know any better, I'd say Professor Scammy S. Scamson from the UC San Diego crowdsources the effort, sends it to DARPA, keeps half for himself, half for "contributors", at absolutely no effort.
"Three weeks after undergoing a crash test, a Chevy Volt caught fire"
I think if you could not get out of the car within three weeks after you've been in a crash, you have bigger problems than the battery catching on fire....
From the article:
"According to scientists at the National Institutes of Health- the world's largest source of drug abuse research - marijuana use is associated with addiction, respiratory disease, and cognitive impairment "
Well, if that's your standard for keeping marijuana illegal, may I suggest adding:
Tobacco: Also associated with nicotine addiction, respiratory disease and cancer
Alcohol: Also associated with addiction, liver disease and cognitive impairment
Oh wait, those have huge lobbists behind them. Nevermind.
I don't see what's wrong with using the word tweet. I mean, I googled it and it does appear in wikipedia. Besides, it's not such a big news story anyway, I mean, it's not even slashdotted!
I have been where you've been, and let me tell you, what you are considering is a waste of money.
Moore's law applies particularly well to harddrives. Every two years you can buy a new hard drive that is twice as big, for the same price. Or pay half as much for the same storage capacity. If you stock up now, you'll spend a lot of money for something you can buy a lot cheaper in two years' time.
My advice: Buy new hard drives and replace them as you run short on space. If you run out of space inside your rack, move the contents from your oldest disc into the next, and you can sell, discard or get an external enclosure for your oldest disc.
Allocating massive storage without immediate need for it, is going to cost you a lot of money.
This is interesting. However you're stating than the appeal of open source software is not its quality but it's price tag.
True, however none have been this tiny. The keyword here is 'portability'. I work with laser projectors and come in these huge metal boxes that weight at least a 5 to 10 kilograms.
This type of portable displaying opens a lot of interest possibilities. Particularly, I'm thinking of Augmented Reality applications.
The article does not say how much power is in that microwave, but I'm guessing it has to be enough to fry a bird on the fly.
I'm all for cheap power, but someone will have to clean those antennae every time a bird drops dead from flying into the beam
And let's just hope no planes fly by during the "testing" period
If I was a newspaper CEO, I would consider doing some serious investment in e-paper technology.
If you manage to create a portable newspaper that, coupled with wireless broadcasting, updates every minute of every hour for a subscription of a couple of dollars a month, you have nothing to worry about.
Let's not get hasty. Let us not discredit the role of a cellphone near your testicles. That should give you the sperm of a 50 year old!
I know it's bothersome. But what's so difficult about storing your "delicate" data into an encrypted file, save it to any online-file-upload service, wipe the data off your computer, have your computer searched all they want, and then download once you're on the other side.
And as a bonus, you can set your computer to immediately open to a locally stored shock-site, just to give the agents something to gag about.
Using sunlight to turn CO2 into fuel? Haven't plants been doing that for thousands of years now? I am not a chemist, but I always thought it would be more convenient to mimic the way that plants chemically harvest solar power and turn it into usable energy, instead of the mechanical / electrical ways they're doing it now.
...looking at this, I think it wasn't so bad that there was a strong opposition to embryonic stem cell research in the first place. If you think about it, this forced scientists to find a new source for stem cells. Now they hit the jackpot, since skin cells are much more available, and can be easily grown in a lab.
Now the NASA is going to disclose that all the chimps that they sent to space came back with super-human intelligence
There goes down the Matrix now...
I'm not really sure about this. The article also mentions that the water tends to dampen seismic waves (and some sort of tectonic plate lubricant). If you were to remove it, earthquakes could become disastrous.
True. But men have to return the favor a month later on White Day, March 14th ;)
All of the sudden I imagined a satellite, polluted with advertising, very much like a NASCAR race car.
Now if only there was someone up there to read those advertisements, we would have reached Mars a long time ago.
Well, at least I'm not the only one pervert that read Hardon at first...
This is hardly news. In Japan, since there's a lack of terrain (making waste of space a pricey luxury) these "robotic" parkings are almost more common that open wide parking lots.
Now, I haven't red TFA, but I'm hoping it has some sort of security/encryption support. What's the chance of someone in a 30ft radius peeking at the 10Gbs of data I'm carrying in my pocket, just using another cellphone?...
You mean this?