My post was in regard to saying that strong passwords were difficult to remember. Sentences are easy to remember. I'd argue that they're easier to remember than an eight-digit string of numbers and letters.
As for phishing or keyloggers, the quality of a password is irrelevant if you have that problem, isn't it?
A password could be a very long and completely random string of characters and symbols but if someone else knows it then it offers no security.
The best solution I can think of to prevent phishing and keyloggers is to teach users to identify phishing and to make keylogger installation difficult.
Implying that the additional security from strong passwords isn't worth the associated problems because guessing isn't the easiest way to compromise someone's account is like saying that it's okay to leave all of your home's windows unlocked and open as long as your front door's locked.
In the Mac OS you can put a "Delete" toolbar button in the Finder window, but you can't use the "Delete" key to delete a file.
Like I said, this is debatable.
In OS X, one can press apple delete to delete a file. This prevents people from accidentally deleting their files, and is consistent with the standard that in order to manipulate anything other than plain text in OS X, you hit apple and something else.
You press the "Enter" key to rename a file instead of opening (entering) it
Like I said, when you want to do something on OS X, it's usually apple and the first letter of what you want to do.
You'd really argue that apple o to open a file and enter to rename and indicate that you're done renaming makes less sense than enter to open, f2 to rename, and enter to indicate that you're done renaming?
and you press a non-control key combination (Cmd+tilde) to switch between windows within one application.
Makes sense right? Wrong.
On OS X, control is not used as the main modifier key. apple a.k.a. "command" is the main modifier key.
How can you argue that alt tab is more consistent with an operating system whose main modifier key is ctrl than apple ` is, with an operating system whose main modifier key is apple?
As a heavily keyboard-centric user, I find using OS X from the keyboard much easier than using Windows from the keyboard.
On OS X, keyboard shortcuts are generally apple plus the first letter of whatever you might want to do.
In OS X, if I want to search for anything on the system, I can hit apple f to bring up a search window, or apple space to bring up a quick search in the search menu at the top of the screen. Onn Windows I would have to mouse to the start menu and choose search, or navigate a lot.
If I want to rename a file in the Finder, I hit return/enter, rename the file, and hit return/enter again.
In Windows Explorer, if I want to rename a file from the keyboard, I'd hit F2, rename the file, and hit enter. F2 holds no significance for me.
If I want to delete a file on the Mac, I hit apple delete. We could argue about whether this is better than Windows' deleting files by just hitting delete, but to empty the trash on a Mac, I hit apple shift delete. I don't know of a keyboard shortcut on Windows to empty the Recycle Bin.
If I want to create a new window on OS X, I hit apple n. Because that combination is already taken, if I want to create a new folder in OS X, the shortcut is apple shift n. I know of no keyboard shortcut on Windows to create a new folder in Windows Explorer.
If I want to open the preferences for any(all but a few very early) Mac OS X application, I hit apple,.
I don't think most Windows programs have any keyboard shortcut available to quickly access preferences/options/whatevertheparticularWindowsprogramauthorwantstocallit.
If I want to quit a program in OS X, I hit apple q. If I want to close a window in OS X, I hit apple w. How is Windows' alt f4 more intuitive?
If I want to hide all documents from a particular application in OS X, I hit apple h. And since to do the opposite in OS X is typically the shortcut plus shift, if I want to show *only* documents from the front application, I hit apple shift h.
And OS X has individual keyboard shortcuts to bring up the equivalent to Windows' Process Viewer, Log out, et cetera. OS X's keyboard shortcuts can even be changed, for every application at once if you like, from the Keyboard Shortcuts tab in the Keyboard & Mouse panel in System Preferences.
TinEye.com is an image search engine that works like this:
It analyzes images it finds online, by looking at their pixels and dimensions.
To search, a user uploads an image, and TinEye returns a list of links to similar images, said images' dimensions, and links to the pages on which said images are posted.
It's useful for finding originals from photoshopped images and for finding images in a series if you have only one image and know it's part of a series.
And no, I don't work for them(but I do use the site almost daily).
So Democrats were more likely to self-report poor "mental health", while Republicans were more likely to self-report good "mental health".
That either indicates
Democrats have more mental health problems than Republicans or
Democrats are more likely to know about their own respective mental health problems, while Republicans are less likely to know about their own respective mental health problems. or
Someone is lying.
If I surveyed 100 Democrats and 100 Republicans as to which indication was most likely, I wonder which indications would be favored by each group.
If you think special interests are a problem now, just think through the ramifications of taking sovereign immunity away... I'll give you a hint, whoever has the most money will run the ENTIRE government, not just a good share of one branch like they do now.
When you say that only one branch is run by those with the most money, which branch are you referring to?
It's ironic that they want domain owners to provide valid contact information in the belief that this will stop spam.
Before I moved to a registrar who provided free anonymous registration, I provided fake contact information specifically to prevent spambots from looking up my information in whois.
Assuming peaceful first contact with a more-advanced civilization, I would be interested to see the Catholic Church's reaction when extraterrestrials' religion or religions are explained and are totally different than the religions on earth, or if the extraterrestrials reveal a complete lack of religion and see religion as absurd.
If such a civilization had a documented history of more than a few thousand years, it would likely have a devastating effect on earthly religions.
I never liked the taste of any other meat: pork, steak, hamburger, fish, et cetera. But I did(and do) like chicken. I stopped eating chicken one day after my cat dragged in a dying bird that kept twitching.
I only decided that the meat industry was unethical a few years later. It's fairly-easy to be a vegetarian when you don't crave meat and don't think the meat industry is ethical. I never lectured anyone with whom I was eating, because I knew it wouldn't do any good.
Although a few people have responded to ask, I'd rather not explain the health reasons which made me choose to start eating chicken again, but there were a few. And yes, although I eat chicken, I do still believe that the meat industry is unethical.
I was a vegetarian for nine years, and only started eating meat again last year, for health reasons(only chicken, since I hate the taste of all other meat)
If meat can be grown that doesn't have a central nervous system and so can't feel pain, I would feel much better about eating what little meat I do eat.
Only a madman can stand at a podium, look America in the eye, and tell us that we are strong, our economy is strong, and we are winning some imaginary war on "terra".
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My post was in regard to saying that strong passwords were difficult to remember. Sentences are easy to remember. I'd argue that they're easier to remember than an eight-digit string of numbers and letters.
As for phishing or keyloggers, the quality of a password is irrelevant if you have that problem, isn't it?
A password could be a very long and completely random string of characters and symbols but if someone else knows it then it offers no security.
The best solution I can think of to prevent phishing and keyloggers is to teach users to identify phishing and to make keylogger installation difficult.
Implying that the additional security from strong passwords isn't worth the associated problems because guessing isn't the easiest way to compromise someone's account is like saying that it's okay to leave all of your home's windows unlocked and open as long as your front door's locked.
I advise people to use unusual sentences as passwords.
For example, look at the previous sentence.
It contains uppercase letters, lowercase letters, spaces and punctuation.
It's easy to remember, and hard to guess, so users are unlikely to forget it/write it down.
And even if you did write down your sentence/password near your computer, people might not even guess that it was your password.
We don't need libraries anymore. Let's just burn them all down.
Like I said, this is debatable.
In OS X, one can press apple delete to delete a file. This prevents people from accidentally deleting their files, and is consistent with the standard that in order to manipulate anything other than plain text in OS X, you hit apple and something else.
Like I said, when you want to do something on OS X, it's usually apple and the first letter of what you want to do.
You'd really argue that apple o to open a file and enter to rename and indicate that you're done renaming makes less sense than enter to open, f2 to rename, and enter to indicate that you're done renaming?
On OS X, control is not used as the main modifier key. apple a.k.a. "command" is the main modifier key.
How can you argue that alt tab is more consistent with an operating system whose main modifier key is ctrl than apple ` is, with an operating system whose main modifier key is apple?
I couldn't disagree more strongly.
As a heavily keyboard-centric user, I find using OS X from the keyboard much easier than using Windows from the keyboard.
On OS X, keyboard shortcuts are generally apple plus the first letter of whatever you might want to do.
In OS X, if I want to search for anything on the system, I can hit apple f to bring up a search window, or apple space to bring up a quick search in the search menu at the top of the screen. Onn Windows I would have to mouse to the start menu and choose search, or navigate a lot.
If I want to rename a file in the Finder, I hit return/enter, rename the file, and hit return/enter again.
In Windows Explorer, if I want to rename a file from the keyboard, I'd hit F2, rename the file, and hit enter. F2 holds no significance for me.
If I want to delete a file on the Mac, I hit apple delete. We could argue about whether this is better than Windows' deleting files by just hitting delete, but to empty the trash on a Mac, I hit apple shift delete. I don't know of a keyboard shortcut on Windows to empty the Recycle Bin.
If I want to create a new window on OS X, I hit apple n. Because that combination is already taken, if I want to create a new folder in OS X, the shortcut is apple shift n. I know of no keyboard shortcut on Windows to create a new folder in Windows Explorer.
If I want to open the preferences for any(all but a few very early) Mac OS X application, I hit apple ,.
I don't think most Windows programs have any keyboard shortcut available to quickly access preferences/options/whatevertheparticularWindowsprogramauthorwantstocallit.
If I want to quit a program in OS X, I hit apple q. If I want to close a window in OS X, I hit apple w. How is Windows' alt f4 more intuitive?
If I want to hide all documents from a particular application in OS X, I hit apple h. And since to do the opposite in OS X is typically the shortcut plus shift, if I want to show *only* documents from the front application, I hit apple shift h.
Then there are the features for which Apple has keyboard shortcuts where Windows doesn't even have the feature. This would include Exposé, where f9, f10, and f11 can display "all open windows", "windows for the front application", or "hide everything and show the desktop", respectively. Or apple ` to switch between only windows of the front application.
And OS X has individual keyboard shortcuts to bring up the equivalent to Windows' Process Viewer, Log out, et cetera. OS X's keyboard shortcuts can even be changed, for every application at once if you like, from the Keyboard Shortcuts tab in the Keyboard & Mouse panel in System Preferences.
TinEye.com is an image search engine that works like this:
It analyzes images it finds online, by looking at their pixels and dimensions.
To search, a user uploads an image, and TinEye returns a list of links to similar images, said images' dimensions, and links to the pages on which said images are posted.
It's useful for finding originals from photoshopped images and for finding images in a series if you have only one image and know it's part of a series.
And no, I don't work for them(but I do use the site almost daily).
I see.
So Democrats were more likely to self-report poor "mental health", while Republicans were more likely to self-report good "mental health".
That either indicates
or
or
If I surveyed 100 Democrats and 100 Republicans as to which indication was most likely, I wonder which indications would be favored by each group.
If even one thousandth of one percent of stars form solar systems similar to this one, that would still be quite significant.
This time, everyone (except for Microsoft) is trying to support web standards.
Rather than worrying about pages not working the same on all browsers, this is likely to push people to code as close to the standards as possible.
It's a good thing.
When you say that only one branch is run by those with the most money, which branch are you referring to?
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People on cell phones already swerve into my lane too often.
I can't wait to see how much they swerve when they're watching porn.
It's ironic that they want domain owners to provide valid contact information in the belief that this will stop spam.
Before I moved to a registrar who provided free anonymous registration, I provided fake contact information specifically to prevent spambots from looking up my information in whois.
Because that's how the program works?
Start typing something unique.
If you want to bring up forums.tdiclub.com, start typing tdi
If you want to bring up newegg, start typing egg
Assuming peaceful first contact with a more-advanced civilization, I would be interested to see the Catholic Church's reaction when extraterrestrials' religion or religions are explained and are totally different than the religions on earth, or if the extraterrestrials reveal a complete lack of religion and see religion as absurd.
If such a civilization had a documented history of more than a few thousand years, it would likely have a devastating effect on earthly religions.
Actually, iTunes itself supports burning songs from the iTunes Music Store to CD.
And the CD produced is a perfectly normal, non-DRM'd CD.
I never liked the taste of any other meat: pork, steak, hamburger, fish, et cetera. But I did(and do) like chicken. I stopped eating chicken one day after my cat dragged in a dying bird that kept twitching.
I only decided that the meat industry was unethical a few years later. It's fairly-easy to be a vegetarian when you don't crave meat and don't think the meat industry is ethical. I never lectured anyone with whom I was eating, because I knew it wouldn't do any good.
Although a few people have responded to ask, I'd rather not explain the health reasons which made me choose to start eating chicken again, but there were a few. And yes, although I eat chicken, I do still believe that the meat industry is unethical.
I was a vegetarian for nine years, and only started eating meat again last year, for health reasons(only chicken, since I hate the taste of all other meat)
If meat can be grown that doesn't have a central nervous system and so can't feel pain, I would feel much better about eating what little meat I do eat.
There is no debate. There is no evidence whatsoever for creationism.
How many Soyuz shuttles have not survived re-entry? And what percentage of launches have not met with a successful landing?
Tapping with two fingers on the touchpad is right-click on Mac notebooks.
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10 Euros is not equal to 10 dollars. It's more than 15 dollars.