This will be a problem with a mainframe, probably but not necessarily software.
It's hard to say until after the dust has settled. It could also be a network configuration issue. I observed a similar problem on Icelandair some weeks ago at Seattle.
The check-in terminals just would not work, or worked, but hideously slowly. Since I was first to check in (at the desk before it opened), they got me checked in on all four flights, and even got my bag tagged properly to my destination, but it took 15-ish minutes. They managed a few more passengers before they gave up or the system failed completely. Opening 2 more check-in desks had not helped, and they did not have time to spend 15 minutes per check-in for a full 757. Most of the almost 200 people subsequently in the departure lounge thus had no boarding pass, and were not checked to any connecting flights. I have no idea what their luggage status was.
The story volunteered by one of the technical support persons, two of whom were already there during my lengthy check-in, was that it was a network configuration issue with the terminals (i.e. Windows or their LAN), but he was busy enough that nobody bothered him for further details. No other airlines were affected, as far as I know. I can imagine a network configuration issue completely borking processes for a larger airline, especially if it was a globally propagated routing screw-up or similar.
Different username+password per site is good, but as you noticed, it's a drag to remember them all and some algorithmic method and shared knowledge are useful. My method for most sites is to use a handful of usernames, based on class of web site (different on slashdot to banking sites, for instance). Each of these sites then gets a password as a hash of a phrase known to me together with part of the site name. For example:
echo -n "Shivelights and shadowtackle in long lashes lace lance and pair + slasHdoT" | sha256
The resulting checksum contains the password I'll use for that site. I'll skip the first M characters of the checksum and use the following N characters. An exception is for noncritical sites which I might want to access from machines I don't control, for which I have a handful of memorized passwords of nontrivial complexity.
I wonder if thatd be legal to have. Like in your own home.
Yes, because obviously that would just be using reasonable force to protect yourself. You fucking moron.
Should it also be large enough to handle the entire SWAT team that might attempt to break into his home on a warrantless raid? Reasonable force for protecting yourself, it would seem, but perhaps not a reason a court might accept.
Except for specific instances, I bet if Facebook went through and tried to identify any profiles with invalid information... they'd likely end up clearing out a vast amount of stuff. What fraction of Facebook information is real?
For persons with the same name as me, there's not much real on Facebook. I made several accounts with my (somewhat unusual) name, all with throwaway email addresses and not much other information. This was to protect me against potential character smearing by someone creating a defamatory profile with my name. Now I can point out that there are dozens of "Ibrahim Chong O'Dwyer-Nguru" [not exactly my real name] profiles on FB, so if one of them is scurrilous, its content is unlikely to damage me.
I expect a significant fraction of FB accounts are bogus, or just have bogus content.
Doesn't "Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory" mean that they have to offer the same terms to Apple that they would offer to Motorola, HTC, et al?
The requirement for RAND terms applies only to members of the GSMA. Apple is not a member, initially because it saw no need to become one twenty years ago, and more recently perhaps because membership would require it to grant RAND terms on some of its own patents to the other members of GSMA. Hint: GSMA membership includes Ericsson, HTC, Intel, Microsoft, Nokia, RIM, Samsung, and many others, but not Apple or Motorola.
I use Bluefish on Ubuntu. It's very functional and has enough longevity as far as I know.
Actually, Bluefish is pretty good; my kids both use it to maintain their pages.
I occasionally use Bluefish, but prefer to use whetever text editor is in front of me - typically mousepad or leafpad, depending which PC I'm on. Indeed, I often have to clean up their page layout a little, but this is more a result of inconsistency in page design (if any) or haphazard formatting (they're kids) than a criticism of Bluefish.
This is the case with Lubuntu (version of Ubuntu using LXDE instead of Gnome/KDE/others). It uses Chromium as its default browser, although others can be installed.
Lubuntu is not yet an "official" version of Ubuntu, but is expected to become one with the release of 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot.
Make that at least 2 browsers. I use Chromium (Google search/maps/etc.), Firefox (general browsing), and Opera (shopping and banking). All have privacy and security set to not-quite-paranoid levels, with history, cookies, and flash objects completely wiped per session and occasionally wiped within a session. I don't use Chrome, and I only use IE on the windows PC at work where it's almost mandatory for intranet stuff.
Upload the WSJ SafeHouse terms and conditions which demonstrate its lack of confidentiality, lack of anonymity, and related legal problems as a leak to AJTU.
Upload the AJTU terms and conditions which demonstrate its lack of confidentiality, lack of anonymity, and related legal problems as a leak to WSJ SafeHouse.
Sit back and watch the ensuing bitchfight. Karma profit!
Do we live in the Dark Ages and masturbation is a sin?
Depends whether you have a religion, and on which religion if you do.
For many branches of the Judeo-Christian-Islamic cluster, masturbation is definitely considered sinful, and you should resist attempts to leave the Dark Ages. Not sure about the Jain-Buddhist cluster or Shinto, but it was not generally impugned in the Indo-European cluster, of which Hinduism is the major survivor.
Atheists don't have sin, but do classify actions on an ethical scale, and mostly consider masturbation to be harmless or healthy.
In my opinion, Joseph Rakofsky is the kind of goat-fucking son of a bitch who ought to be disbarred immediately for abuse of the legal system.
Every other goat-fucking son of a bitche worldwide (including homo-pedo goat-fucking moronic sons of poxed bitches) are gravely offended by this implicit association with Rakofsky.
Until recently I've pretty much refused to buy one because I send paperbacks back and forth with my father after one of us gets done with the book and the idea of DRM offends me on pretty much every level.
So just both of you link your kindles to the same account. Problem solved.
How does that solve the problem if his father also shares some paperbacks with someone else, and he also shares some books with a friend. Should everyone share a single Kindle account? Right now, the choices are non-DRM ebooks or real books from dead trees.
In my case, I share SciFi books with one daughter, she shares horse books and murderous math books with my other daughter, and my wife and I share professional books. Both daughters share books with friends at school. Us parents share some books with their teachers. Obviously I'm talking about real books here, not the DRM-crippled "very limited right to read" ebooks. I wasted money on a couple of ebooks several years ago; it won't happen again until ebooks are very different (exception: Baen and similar non-DRM ebooks).
It's like the old cartoon of someone giving up trying to download porn over a modem and just giving up and going to the corner store and buying a Playboy.
Pardon me, but in what way would a Playboy magazine satisfy a need for porn?
I am Russian, and let me assure you that these talks are just that - talks to BS electorate for president elections this fall.
D.A. Medvedev is like Russian's Obama - he talks a lot but nothing is ever gets done -)
At least he's talking in a better direction than his Western counterparts, thus bringing an alternative viewpoint into the public eye. Then again, as you mentioned, the talk doesn't always translate into action after the election (example: Obama).
Well, they do something similar on the pedo circuit, where it's probably 75% cops trying to harvest the few real pedos. Both the "dirty old man" and the "innocent pubescent girl" of urban lore are likely to be law enforcement officers, and possibly even colleagues at neighboring desks.
I think Sony's chief failure in this whole incident is that they believe their customers like to take it in the back-door as frequently and as messily as they do.
Sony's other failure is in not making any products for cleaning up the santorum which would result from thus violating their customers. Perhaps they only want santorum lovers as customers.
Why not just stick 20 'F's in front of all of your passwords?
The password system for the company-wide intranet where I work doesn't allow more than 2 repeating characters.
The list of rules is absurd and basically guarantees Post It notes.
A similarly insane system is inflicted on me at work also. There are several empires controlling passwords: 2 mutually untrusting LDAP systems, Notes and Oracle and SAP (pity me), and several department-specific tools. Most of them force password changes every 90 days. Since they have different definitions of which "special" characters are allowed (one does not allow any), and don't all require the same length (one has a maximum length of 8, one has a length-must-be-exactly-six condition, and one has a minimum length of 9), it's not possible to use the same password for all. If you want my work passwords, they're on a fucking post-it note.
We claim to use 128-bit AES all over the place, and have password systems which rarely reach 40 bits of entropy. I've pointed out the idiocy to our IT support, while waving my critical post-it. While they are in agreement with me, they don't actually control the password systems either.
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Absolutely no chance this is a "Windoze" problem.
This will be a problem with a mainframe, probably but not necessarily software.
It's hard to say until after the dust has settled. It could also be a network configuration issue. I observed a similar problem on Icelandair some weeks ago at Seattle.
The check-in terminals just would not work, or worked, but hideously slowly. Since I was first to check in (at the desk before it opened), they got me checked in on all four flights, and even got my bag tagged properly to my destination, but it took 15-ish minutes. They managed a few more passengers before they gave up or the system failed completely. Opening 2 more check-in desks had not helped, and they did not have time to spend 15 minutes per check-in for a full 757. Most of the almost 200 people subsequently in the departure lounge thus had no boarding pass, and were not checked to any connecting flights. I have no idea what their luggage status was.
The story volunteered by one of the technical support persons, two of whom were already there during my lengthy check-in, was that it was a network configuration issue with the terminals (i.e. Windows or their LAN), but he was busy enough that nobody bothered him for further details. No other airlines were affected, as far as I know. I can imagine a network configuration issue completely borking processes for a larger airline, especially if it was a globally propagated routing screw-up or similar.
We've come a long way from the "creme rising to the top" and such in government.
Are you familiar with the septic tank paradigm for government (and politics in general)?
The biggest shits always rise to the top...
Different username+password per site is good, but as you noticed, it's a drag to remember them all and some algorithmic method and shared knowledge are useful. My method for most sites is to use a handful of usernames, based on class of web site (different on slashdot to banking sites, for instance). Each of these sites then gets a password as a hash of a phrase known to me together with part of the site name. For example:
echo -n "Shivelights and shadowtackle in long lashes lace lance and pair + slasHdoT" | sha256
The resulting checksum contains the password I'll use for that site. I'll skip the first M characters of the checksum and use the following N characters. An exception is for noncritical sites which I might want to access from machines I don't control, for which I have a handful of memorized passwords of nontrivial complexity.
I wonder if thatd be legal to have. Like in your own home.
Yes, because obviously that would just be using reasonable force to protect yourself. You fucking moron.
Should it also be large enough to handle the entire SWAT team that might attempt to break into his home on a warrantless raid? Reasonable force for protecting yourself, it would seem, but perhaps not a reason a court might accept.
Except for specific instances, I bet if Facebook went through and tried to identify any profiles with invalid information ... they'd likely end up clearing out a vast amount of stuff. What fraction of Facebook information is real?
For persons with the same name as me, there's not much real on Facebook. I made several accounts with my (somewhat unusual) name, all with throwaway email addresses and not much other information. This was to protect me against potential character smearing by someone creating a defamatory profile with my name. Now I can point out that there are dozens of "Ibrahim Chong O'Dwyer-Nguru" [not exactly my real name] profiles on FB, so if one of them is scurrilous, its content is unlikely to damage me.
I expect a significant fraction of FB accounts are bogus, or just have bogus content.
Doesn't "Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory" mean that they have to offer the same terms to Apple that they would offer to Motorola, HTC, et al?
The requirement for RAND terms applies only to members of the GSMA. Apple is not a member, initially because it saw no need to become one twenty years ago, and more recently perhaps because membership would require it to grant RAND terms on some of its own patents to the other members of GSMA. Hint: GSMA membership includes Ericsson, HTC, Intel, Microsoft, Nokia, RIM, Samsung, and many others, but not Apple or Motorola.
I use Bluefish on Ubuntu. It's very functional and has enough longevity as far as I know.
Actually, Bluefish is pretty good; my kids both use it to maintain their pages.
I occasionally use Bluefish, but prefer to use whetever text editor is in front of me - typically mousepad or leafpad, depending which PC I'm on. Indeed, I often have to clean up their page layout a little, but this is more a result of inconsistency in page design (if any) or haphazard formatting (they're kids) than a criticism of Bluefish.
Wouldn't they have to switch to Chromium?
This is the case with Lubuntu (version of Ubuntu using LXDE instead of Gnome/KDE/others). It uses Chromium as its default browser, although others can be installed.
Lubuntu is not yet an "official" version of Ubuntu, but is expected to become one with the release of 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot.
But you should use 2 browsers anyway
Make that at least 2 browsers. I use Chromium (Google search/maps/etc.), Firefox (general browsing), and Opera (shopping and banking). All have privacy and security set to not-quite-paranoid levels, with history, cookies, and flash objects completely wiped per session and occasionally wiped within a session. I don't use Chrome, and I only use IE on the windows PC at work where it's almost mandatory for intranet stuff.
It's Flash. You know, the Devils Platform according to Apple. So no, they had nothing to do with it.
But largely out of jealousy by Apple. Flash is even more of a "give us your money, then bend over and spread 'em"[*] tool than any of Apple's.
[*] Is this the metaphor being sought?
Do we live in the Dark Ages and masturbation is a sin?
Depends whether you have a religion, and on which religion if you do.
For many branches of the Judeo-Christian-Islamic cluster, masturbation is definitely considered sinful, and you should resist attempts to leave the Dark Ages. Not sure about the Jain-Buddhist cluster or Shinto, but it was not generally impugned in the Indo-European cluster, of which Hinduism is the major survivor.
Atheists don't have sin, but do classify actions on an ethical scale, and mostly consider masturbation to be harmless or healthy.
(* Set aside for a moment the fact that any Android phone without "Nexus" in its name is more locked-down than an iPhone.)
In the US, maybe. In most other parts of the world, Android phones tend not to be locked down.
http://www.tib.gov.tr/
Or maybe you just slashdotted it...
In my opinion, Joseph Rakofsky is the kind of goat-fucking son of a bitch who ought to be disbarred immediately for abuse of the legal system.
Every other goat-fucking son of a bitche worldwide (including homo-pedo goat-fucking moronic sons of poxed bitches) are gravely offended by this implicit association with Rakofsky.
Until recently I've pretty much refused to buy one because I send paperbacks back and forth with my father after one of us gets done with the book and the idea of DRM offends me on pretty much every level.
So just both of you link your kindles to the same account. Problem solved.
How does that solve the problem if his father also shares some paperbacks with someone else, and he also shares some books with a friend. Should everyone share a single Kindle account? Right now, the choices are non-DRM ebooks or real books from dead trees.
In my case, I share SciFi books with one daughter, she shares horse books and murderous math books with my other daughter, and my wife and I share professional books. Both daughters share books with friends at school. Us parents share some books with their teachers. Obviously I'm talking about real books here, not the DRM-crippled "very limited right to read" ebooks. I wasted money on a couple of ebooks several years ago; it won't happen again until ebooks are very different (exception: Baen and similar non-DRM ebooks).
I'll continue to think that even if we're stealing ideas - at least we steal some of the good ones.
Good ideas should be stolen with pride!
That was one of the things we learned during a week-long "team-building group brainstorm" (I jest not).
Sounds like someone's setting up a very inappropriate film venture to me...
I invoke Rule 34!
It's appropriate for somebody, somewhere...
It's like the old cartoon of someone giving up trying to download porn over a modem and just giving up and going to the corner store and buying a Playboy.
Pardon me, but in what way would a Playboy magazine satisfy a need for porn?
still does not compute...
Actually, it does.
I am Russian, and let me assure you that these talks are just that - talks to BS electorate for president elections this fall. D.A. Medvedev is like Russian's Obama - he talks a lot but nothing is ever gets done -)
At least he's talking in a better direction than his Western counterparts, thus bringing an alternative viewpoint into the public eye. Then again, as you mentioned, the talk doesn't always translate into action after the election (example: Obama).
Well, they do something similar on the pedo circuit, where it's probably 75% cops trying to harvest the few real pedos. Both the "dirty old man" and the "innocent pubescent girl" of urban lore are likely to be law enforcement officers, and possibly even colleagues at neighboring desks.
I think Sony's chief failure in this whole incident is that they believe their customers like to take it in the back-door as frequently and as messily as they do.
Sony's other failure is in not making any products for cleaning up the santorum which would result from thus violating their customers. Perhaps they only want santorum lovers as customers.
So we've come full circle back to IE again?
Sounds more like a death spiral than a circle...
Why not just stick 20 'F's in front of all of your passwords?
The password system for the company-wide intranet where I work doesn't allow more than 2 repeating characters.
The list of rules is absurd and basically guarantees Post It notes.
A similarly insane system is inflicted on me at work also. There are several empires controlling passwords: 2 mutually untrusting LDAP systems, Notes and Oracle and SAP (pity me), and several department-specific tools. Most of them force password changes every 90 days. Since they have different definitions of which "special" characters are allowed (one does not allow any), and don't all require the same length (one has a maximum length of 8, one has a length-must-be-exactly-six condition, and one has a minimum length of 9), it's not possible to use the same password for all. If you want my work passwords, they're on a fucking post-it note.
We claim to use 128-bit AES all over the place, and have password systems which rarely reach 40 bits of entropy. I've pointed out the idiocy to our IT support, while waving my critical post-it. While they are in agreement with me, they don't actually control the password systems either.