I use 12-character passwords. http://howsecureismypassword.net/ [howsecurei...ssword.net] estimates that my root password would take 25 million years to hack.
Well, I also use a 12 character password, with at least one upper-case, at least one lower-case, at least one numeric, and at least one non-alphameric character. That web site estimates a mere 4 million years for a desktop PC to crack it. However, it does not indicate whether that's using the CPU or a GPU. Several orders of magnitude might vanish from that estimate if it is based on use of the CPU and a cracker uses a decent GPU. The remaining safety factor may become uncomfortably slim before long, given the performance improvements expected in GPUs and the parallelism inherent in password cracking.
The other posters are correct: passwords should be a necessary step in authentication, but by themselves should not be sufficient for authentication. After all, we can't expect to keep using longer and longer passwords (or pass-phrases). A few years ago, I was content with 8 character passwords for root (and sudo) accounts, and often containing only two character classes. Now it's 12 characters, containing four classes of character. Clearly, this trend is not good, as my memory for passwords is not improving at the same rate.
We haven't received any such requests since I've been working here, so no, nothing's been turned over to the Feds or anybody else.
OK just cause a few server errors -- that'll be the signal.
So, every one of those damned 503 errors was a subpoena or NSL-based request? Wait, you probably can't answer that and stay out of PMITA accommodations, so I'll rephrase it.
So, every one of those damned 503 errors caused your nose to grow longer?
Maybe they're not hiding anything, maybe they're just trying to protect their proprietary software. After all, they are a business just trying to make money.
They've been hiding their protocols. These are not protected by patent (which would involve publishing them, assuming they were patentable). Their implementation is probably protected by copyright, but a competing implementation is unlikely to infringe that copyright, unless it is a "slavish" copy. There does not seem to be a trademark issue in play. Conclusion: it looks like they are merely trying to protect a trade secret which has been uncovered by reverse engineering. Note that reverse engineering to uncover secret methods is entirely legitimate.
So yes, Skype is trying to preserve its revenue stream, which is secured only by secrecy of the protocols used by the proprietary Skype software. These protocols have now been made rather less secret, and apparently by legally acceptable means. So let's all say to Skype: "good luck with that".
The unusual part would be the exceedingly long imprisonment for what most would consider minor offense.
Actually, it would only be unusual if it was not the usual punishment for the same offense. It looks like the objective of this legislation is to make incarceration for some years the usual punishment. It would be merely an irrelevance that some people consider it a minor offense; what's important is that the punishment is applied consistently to all who are found guilty of the same offense.
Between two and six quarters from now. They'll let Nokia mostly bleed out before the "I don't want to go on the cart" scene happens.
They're already being carried to it, bleats to the contrary are irrelevant.
We used to get almost exclusively Nokia phones (a few Blackberries for upper level PHBs), but in the last month or so any Nokia phones due for a refresh have been replaced mostly with HTC Android models. The number of employees exceeds 10^5 worldwide, so we're not a small operation. About half of the personnel in Europe have smartphones, but mobile phones are less common in the Americas (probably due to rip-off service prices). Don't know about policy in Asia-Pacific.
You can still work, if you want, without greatly reducing your welfare entitlement (amazing what a certificate can do).
Since you seem to be talking about Canada, then you obviously don't know what you are talking about. First off, Canada does not have "entitlements", that is an American social construct. Second, if you work while on disability then your "welfare" will be seriously clawed back. I could go on, but you appear to be a Troll.
I am talking about Toronto, Ontario, Canada. You are clearly uninformed on this matter, and your ignorance is on display.
The term "entitlement" may be incorrect for Canada, but the meaning is the same. The rest of your assertion is wrong or inappropriate, at least for Ontario in the 1980s when I lived there. A certificate of incompetence is not equivalent to an assessment of disability, and puts its holder in a different legal never-never land. If sufficiently insane to require confinement in a rubber room, then the rest of society is safe. If incompetent but mostly functioning (as with the person I knew, who had intermittently recurring episodes of destructive behaviour), then they are free to live unsupervised and move around, just like a regular person. It is assumed, correctly, that they will be taken "inside" for a while when the destructive phase begins. Unfortunately, this does not happen until the victims start complaining or a family member brings the subject to a hospital, so a significant amount of harm is done each time. In such a case, the certificate of incompetence is permanently in effect, but committal to an institution is temporary, and only for the minimum necessary time.
You are doing it wrong, it's not GZDoom.
You just use the keyboard to pick stuff. Use the arrow keys to move, enter (control?) to accept, space to open doors, control to fire.
Thanks for the tip on keyboard use (wow, I'm not exactly a youngster and still only tried the mouse). I got 33-35fps in Opera 11.11 while running around shooting things. Of course, the game resolution sucks a little bit and looked small on my display, but it was actually sort-of playable on ancient hardware.
Laptop: 8 year-old 1.6GHz Pentium M, with 1GB RAM and 1920x1200 Radeon 9600, running Lubuntu 10.04 LTS.
On an 8-year-old laptop, with 1.6GHz Pentium M:
Opera: 8fps
Firefox: 4fps
Chrome: unresponsive
Mind you, these results were just for viewing the static slides of the introduction. The game refused to play, giving a perpetual message loop saying "Demo is from a different game version!". Clicking on the "NEW GAME" menu item had no discernible effect.
What "best" means for certification would depend on your objectives, I suppose.
Here's a nonobvious alternative: get yourself certified as "not mentally competent". This may not be as difficult as you think, although canceling the certification later could be quite a challenge...
If you're certified incompetent in a civilized country, a bureaucrat will be appointed to look after your finances (at no charge to you), ensure you get every bit of welfare you might be entitled to, and defend you at public expense against fraud or serious rip-off attempts. You can still work, if you want, without greatly reducing your welfare entitlement (amazing what a certificate can do). However, you now have a license to kill/maim/etc. without fear of punishment since you are not responsible for your actions. Some places don't even remove passports or driving licenses from such people.
Frighteningly, I knew one such person in Canada. A sociopathic, psychopathic, manic-depressive, evil genius, and unrestrained by the legal impediments which would limit a sane person's actions. Acts of violence repeatedly went unpunished by the criminal system, and attempts for redress were rejected by the civil courts. The legal system was trumped by the certificate of incompetence.
Clearly 3.0.0 is 0.4.60 more advanced than 2.6.40.
Hmm, are you forgetting to carry the overflow from minor digit to major digit? In this case, 3.0.0 would be 0.3.60 more advanced than 2.6.40, naturally.
Ahh... don't you just love smell of a fresh straw-man in the morning.
Are you deliberately denying reality or just giving us a personal demonstration of the Dunning-Kruger effect?
Did you even check the links in TFS? Here's the one from Information Week in 2007 which describes one such experiment. The unpatched XP PC stayed clean for all of 8 seconds connected without firewalls to the internet. Then Sasser and other bad stuff started installing itself on the PC. GP's assertion is valid - an unpatched XP PC can be compromised in less than 10 seconds without a firewall.
It used to be true, back before everyone used a home router that acted as a firewall. I remember a couple of times years back when I installed Windows XP, connected up the cable/ADSL modem to get a service pack in, and the system was infected before the service pack had finished downloading.
The one that did it for me was installing XP service pack 2, in late 2004. It would download, then fail on installation and wipe itself out. This meant each attempt required a new download which was a bit tedious; I had an uncapped 3Mbps cable link, but it was annoyingly time-consuming. After complaining via email and telephone to Microsoft, I actually got a human who called me a few days later and spoke fairly good English (by her accent, I suspect she was from India).
The mind-boggling thing she told me was that to install XP SP2, I would have to disable all firewalls in the PC and router, before starting the SP installation (this included the download). Since I was incredulous, we discussed the issue further and she recommended uninstalling the firewall package in the PC but merely disabling the router firewall. At the time, I was receiving several evil packets per second, with all sorts of routing redirect requests and weird port scans. I doubt if the machine would have survived the couple of hours needed for the service pack to install, including mandatory reboots. As it was, I merely disabled the firewall software in the PC, and left the firewall enabled in the router, and the SP2 was able to install itself.
That was the day I decided to start trying out Linux live CDs. It was not long before XP was replaced by Warty Warthog on that laptop. I still use the laptop, which now runs the LXDE flavor of Lucid Lynx.
The Heisenberg principle is just a consequence of a property of Fourier transforms that says that any signal localized in frequency space will not be localized in the original space.
It's a consequence of linear operators in general. Conceptualizing it in terms of the Fourier transform which localizes an invariant process very well in frequency and not at all in position may limit one's viewpoint. It's more informatively interpreted using time-frequency decompositions such as the Wigner distribution (or position-scale representations such as wavelet transforms), in which there is a direct trade-off between localization in frequency (or scale) and localization in time (or position).
Where the magic comes in is the relationship between momentum and position, and energy and time, operators in QM.
An even bigger magic comes from the applicability of mathematics to physics, which is an interesting philosophical issue in its own right. "How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought which is independent of experience, is so admirably appropriate to the objects of reality." - Albert Einstein.
Let me guess: you're talking about buying (or borrowing) and reading the book that the movie was based on instead of renting the movie.
Well, that would usually be:
+ more rewarding intellectually than watching a movie
+ more interesting than the movie with more nuance and detail
+ possible in smaller time increments and probably in more places
+ less obnoxious to neighbors and others nearby (e.g. on the bus).
However, it would result in less money going to the media company, so it's obviously just a weirdo commie terrorist activity which should be stamped out.
In the US, you can file a suit against almost anybody. But that's not the same as actually winning it. If you have no legal standing or the suit does not involve a breach of US civil law, then you can lose, even if the defendant does not bother to show up.
How does the electricity to bitcoin ration pay off? Anyone knows?
Depends. If your mom is paying for the electricity, while you're collecting the bitcoin, then the ratio for you is pretty good. For your mom, it's not so good, but she's presumably inured to suffering with a geek/nerd/dweeb cluttering up the basement.
For example, just because I think someone's an idiot doesn't mean I have to act like it or dismiss everything they say out of hand.
Exactly. The same courtesy is extended to those I consider idiots and those I consider geniuses. Their opinion of me should similarly be shrouded in good manners. If it is not, they may be exposing more of their character than they might realize.
And it was a fair question. In fairness to you, I did search a bit but did not find an attribution with a proper citation.
It's one of those quotes I've come across many times on the web and did not bother to try tracking down before. Most places attribute it to Oscar Wilde, and one or two attribute it to Mark Twain. Perhaps it has been attributed to others also. It's certainly a pithy and witty comment which one could imagine either of those gentlemen coming up with. However, it is not listed among the quotes attributed to either of them in any of the compilations I checked (wikiquotes, brainyquotes, bartleby, etc.), some of which do cite sources.
Then why should removing it be illegal if it's my car?
Simple.. because if you don't have one during an accident, you're guilt by default!
On a related topic, don't try to disconnect your car's odometer, either. Just because you own it and it's under your control does not mean you can do with it as you choose. It provides a measure of vehicle use which is legally required to be of reasonable accuracy.
In fact, it is almost always illegal to disconnect or tamper with a car's odometer. It does not matter whether the vehicle is for sale or not, or whether it is still under warranty or not. If used to support a deceitful sale or false warranty claim, odometer fraud is considered a serious crime in the UK and US. It's not just a civil matter, but a criminal one, which could get you into a PMITA shared residence on the taxpayers' nickel.
If God wanted man to fly, he'd have given him wings.
If God wanted man to travel outside the planet, he'd have given him the ability to breath in space.
If God wanted man to live through a heart attack, he'd have given him an internal defibrillator.
If God wanted man to travel the oceans, he'd have given him flippers.
Here's another one for the list, but with opposite implication:
"If God wanted us to go around naked, we'd be born that way" - Oscar Wilde.
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I use 12-character passwords. http://howsecureismypassword.net/ [howsecurei...ssword.net] estimates that my root password would take 25 million years to hack.
Well, I also use a 12 character password, with at least one upper-case, at least one lower-case, at least one numeric, and at least one non-alphameric character. That web site estimates a mere 4 million years for a desktop PC to crack it. However, it does not indicate whether that's using the CPU or a GPU. Several orders of magnitude might vanish from that estimate if it is based on use of the CPU and a cracker uses a decent GPU. The remaining safety factor may become uncomfortably slim before long, given the performance improvements expected in GPUs and the parallelism inherent in password cracking.
The other posters are correct: passwords should be a necessary step in authentication, but by themselves should not be sufficient for authentication. After all, we can't expect to keep using longer and longer passwords (or pass-phrases). A few years ago, I was content with 8 character passwords for root (and sudo) accounts, and often containing only two character classes. Now it's 12 characters, containing four classes of character. Clearly, this trend is not good, as my memory for passwords is not improving at the same rate.
We haven't received any such requests since I've been working here, so no, nothing's been turned over to the Feds or anybody else.
OK just cause a few server errors -- that'll be the signal.
So, every one of those damned 503 errors was a subpoena or NSL-based request? Wait, you probably can't answer that and stay out of PMITA accommodations, so I'll rephrase it.
So, every one of those damned 503 errors caused your nose to grow longer?
Maybe they're not hiding anything, maybe they're just trying to protect their proprietary software. After all, they are a business just trying to make money.
They've been hiding their protocols. These are not protected by patent (which would involve publishing them, assuming they were patentable). Their implementation is probably protected by copyright, but a competing implementation is unlikely to infringe that copyright, unless it is a "slavish" copy. There does not seem to be a trademark issue in play. Conclusion: it looks like they are merely trying to protect a trade secret which has been uncovered by reverse engineering. Note that reverse engineering to uncover secret methods is entirely legitimate.
So yes, Skype is trying to preserve its revenue stream, which is secured only by secrecy of the protocols used by the proprietary Skype software. These protocols have now been made rather less secret, and apparently by legally acceptable means. So let's all say to Skype: "good luck with that".
What they did was illegal. You can't post classified and / or stolen information.
Tell it to the New York Times, asshole posting as AC.
Or listen to the laughter if you tell it to any reputable news publication.
The unusual part would be the exceedingly long imprisonment for what most would consider minor offense.
Actually, it would only be unusual if it was not the usual punishment for the same offense. It looks like the objective of this legislation is to make incarceration for some years the usual punishment. It would be merely an irrelevance that some people consider it a minor offense; what's important is that the punishment is applied consistently to all who are found guilty of the same offense.
the term "kicking water up hill" comes to mind.
Verily, he that pisseth upwind in a Strong Gale Force 9 shall keep his mouth closed, lest he be an avid gustator of his own urine.
Enjoy the acrid flavour when you swallow, Lord Jopling...
Between two and six quarters from now. They'll let Nokia mostly bleed out before the "I don't want to go on the cart" scene happens.
They're already being carried to it, bleats to the contrary are irrelevant.
We used to get almost exclusively Nokia phones (a few Blackberries for upper level PHBs), but in the last month or so any Nokia phones due for a refresh have been replaced mostly with HTC Android models. The number of employees exceeds 10^5 worldwide, so we're not a small operation. About half of the personnel in Europe have smartphones, but mobile phones are less common in the Americas (probably due to rip-off service prices). Don't know about policy in Asia-Pacific.
You have an interestingly horrifying idea of "a civilized country".
It was Canada; 'nuff said.
You can still work, if you want, without greatly reducing your welfare entitlement (amazing what a certificate can do).
Since you seem to be talking about Canada, then you obviously don't know what you are talking about. First off, Canada does not have "entitlements", that is an American social construct. Second, if you work while on disability then your "welfare" will be seriously clawed back. I could go on, but you appear to be a Troll.
I am talking about Toronto, Ontario, Canada. You are clearly uninformed on this matter, and your ignorance is on display.
The term "entitlement" may be incorrect for Canada, but the meaning is the same. The rest of your assertion is wrong or inappropriate, at least for Ontario in the 1980s when I lived there. A certificate of incompetence is not equivalent to an assessment of disability, and puts its holder in a different legal never-never land. If sufficiently insane to require confinement in a rubber room, then the rest of society is safe. If incompetent but mostly functioning (as with the person I knew, who had intermittently recurring episodes of destructive behaviour), then they are free to live unsupervised and move around, just like a regular person. It is assumed, correctly, that they will be taken "inside" for a while when the destructive phase begins. Unfortunately, this does not happen until the victims start complaining or a family member brings the subject to a hospital, so a significant amount of harm is done each time. In such a case, the certificate of incompetence is permanently in effect, but committal to an institution is temporary, and only for the minimum necessary time.
You are doing it wrong, it's not GZDoom.
You just use the keyboard to pick stuff. Use the arrow keys to move, enter (control?) to accept, space to open doors, control to fire.
Thanks for the tip on keyboard use (wow, I'm not exactly a youngster and still only tried the mouse). I got 33-35fps in Opera 11.11 while running around shooting things. Of course, the game resolution sucks a little bit and looked small on my display, but it was actually sort-of playable on ancient hardware.
Laptop: 8 year-old 1.6GHz Pentium M, with 1GB RAM and 1920x1200 Radeon 9600, running Lubuntu 10.04 LTS.
On an 8-year-old laptop, with 1.6GHz Pentium M:
Opera: 8fps
Firefox: 4fps
Chrome: unresponsive
Mind you, these results were just for viewing the static slides of the introduction. The game refused to play, giving a perpetual message loop saying "Demo is from a different game version!". Clicking on the "NEW GAME" menu item had no discernible effect.
The problem with Microsoft is that it competes with every freaken tech company on the planet!
I read that as "every Frankentech company", which was confusing, because surely only Microsoft has achieved such a nefarious status.
What "best" means for certification would depend on your objectives, I suppose.
Here's a nonobvious alternative: get yourself certified as "not mentally competent". This may not be as difficult as you think, although canceling the certification later could be quite a challenge...
If you're certified incompetent in a civilized country, a bureaucrat will be appointed to look after your finances (at no charge to you), ensure you get every bit of welfare you might be entitled to, and defend you at public expense against fraud or serious rip-off attempts. You can still work, if you want, without greatly reducing your welfare entitlement (amazing what a certificate can do). However, you now have a license to kill/maim/etc. without fear of punishment since you are not responsible for your actions. Some places don't even remove passports or driving licenses from such people.
Frighteningly, I knew one such person in Canada. A sociopathic, psychopathic, manic-depressive, evil genius, and unrestrained by the legal impediments which would limit a sane person's actions. Acts of violence repeatedly went unpunished by the criminal system, and attempts for redress were rejected by the civil courts. The legal system was trumped by the certificate of incompetence.
Clearly 3.0.0 is 0.4.60 more advanced than 2.6.40.
Hmm, are you forgetting to carry the overflow from minor digit to major digit? In this case, 3.0.0 would be 0.3.60 more advanced than 2.6.40, naturally.
Ahh... don't you just love smell of a fresh straw-man in the morning.
Are you deliberately denying reality or just giving us a personal demonstration of the Dunning-Kruger effect?
Did you even check the links in TFS? Here's the one from Information Week in 2007 which describes one such experiment. The unpatched XP PC stayed clean for all of 8 seconds connected without firewalls to the internet. Then Sasser and other bad stuff started installing itself on the PC. GP's assertion is valid - an unpatched XP PC can be compromised in less than 10 seconds without a firewall.
It used to be true, back before everyone used a home router that acted as a firewall. I remember a couple of times years back when I installed Windows XP, connected up the cable/ADSL modem to get a service pack in, and the system was infected before the service pack had finished downloading.
The one that did it for me was installing XP service pack 2, in late 2004. It would download, then fail on installation and wipe itself out. This meant each attempt required a new download which was a bit tedious; I had an uncapped 3Mbps cable link, but it was annoyingly time-consuming. After complaining via email and telephone to Microsoft, I actually got a human who called me a few days later and spoke fairly good English (by her accent, I suspect she was from India).
The mind-boggling thing she told me was that to install XP SP2, I would have to disable all firewalls in the PC and router, before starting the SP installation (this included the download). Since I was incredulous, we discussed the issue further and she recommended uninstalling the firewall package in the PC but merely disabling the router firewall. At the time, I was receiving several evil packets per second, with all sorts of routing redirect requests and weird port scans. I doubt if the machine would have survived the couple of hours needed for the service pack to install, including mandatory reboots. As it was, I merely disabled the firewall software in the PC, and left the firewall enabled in the router, and the SP2 was able to install itself.
That was the day I decided to start trying out Linux live CDs. It was not long before XP was replaced by Warty Warthog on that laptop. I still use the laptop, which now runs the LXDE flavor of Lucid Lynx.
Not really, you can claim you're quoting a Parliamentarian.
Or quoting Wikipedia, which also has a mention of the risible procedures, and added it to its article on the super-injunction controversies.
The Heisenberg principle is just a consequence of a property of Fourier transforms that says that any signal localized in frequency space will not be localized in the original space.
It's a consequence of linear operators in general. Conceptualizing it in terms of the Fourier transform which localizes an invariant process very well in frequency and not at all in position may limit one's viewpoint. It's more informatively interpreted using time-frequency decompositions such as the Wigner distribution (or position-scale representations such as wavelet transforms), in which there is a direct trade-off between localization in frequency (or scale) and localization in time (or position).
Where the magic comes in is the relationship between momentum and position, and energy and time, operators in QM.
An even bigger magic comes from the applicability of mathematics to physics, which is an interesting philosophical issue in its own right. "How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought which is independent of experience, is so admirably appropriate to the objects of reality." - Albert Einstein.
Not if you use your imagination
Let me guess: you're talking about buying (or borrowing) and reading the book that the movie was based on instead of renting the movie.
Well, that would usually be:
However, it would result in less money going to the media company, so it's obviously just a weirdo commie terrorist activity which should be stamped out.
In the US, you can file a suit against almost anybody. But that's not the same as actually winning it. If you have no legal standing or the suit does not involve a breach of US civil law, then you can lose, even if the defendant does not bother to show up.
How does the electricity to bitcoin ration pay off? Anyone knows?
Depends. If your mom is paying for the electricity, while you're collecting the bitcoin, then the ratio for you is pretty good. For your mom, it's not so good, but she's presumably inured to suffering with a geek/nerd/dweeb cluttering up the basement.
For example, just because I think someone's an idiot doesn't mean I have to act like it or dismiss everything they say out of hand.
Exactly. The same courtesy is extended to those I consider idiots and those I consider geniuses. Their opinion of me should similarly be shrouded in good manners. If it is not, they may be exposing more of their character than they might realize.
I only asked for info
And it was a fair question. In fairness to you, I did search a bit but did not find an attribution with a proper citation.
It's one of those quotes I've come across many times on the web and did not bother to try tracking down before. Most places attribute it to Oscar Wilde, and one or two attribute it to Mark Twain. Perhaps it has been attributed to others also. It's certainly a pithy and witty comment which one could imagine either of those gentlemen coming up with. However, it is not listed among the quotes attributed to either of them in any of the compilations I checked (wikiquotes, brainyquotes, bartleby, etc.), some of which do cite sources.
Then why should removing it be illegal if it's my car?
Simple.. because if you don't have one during an accident, you're guilt by default!
On a related topic, don't try to disconnect your car's odometer, either. Just because you own it and it's under your control does not mean you can do with it as you choose. It provides a measure of vehicle use which is legally required to be of reasonable accuracy.
In fact, it is almost always illegal to disconnect or tamper with a car's odometer. It does not matter whether the vehicle is for sale or not, or whether it is still under warranty or not. If used to support a deceitful sale or false warranty claim, odometer fraud is considered a serious crime in the UK and US. It's not just a civil matter, but a criminal one, which could get you into a PMITA shared residence on the taxpayers' nickel.
If God wanted man to fly, he'd have given him wings. If God wanted man to travel outside the planet, he'd have given him the ability to breath in space. If God wanted man to live through a heart attack, he'd have given him an internal defibrillator. If God wanted man to travel the oceans, he'd have given him flippers.
Here's another one for the list, but with opposite implication:
"If God wanted us to go around naked, we'd be born that way" - Oscar Wilde.