As with any trend, only a handful of people would dare walk around looking like that at first - privacy supporters, activists, etc. - and they would stand out in the crowd. But the idea of camouflage might catch on as more people opted-in (some because of privacy concerns, others because it just looks cool and futuristic). Kind of like torn jeans and facial piercings from punk - they used to look shocking to some a while back, but nowadays are completely mainstream and disconnected from the originating subculture.
Well since it became possible to switch carriers while keeping your old phone number I've stopped getting these kinds of messages from people, but for example: "Hi, I'm moving countries. My new number is +370 123 45678, and I won't be using the old one anymore".
3. The country name for my phone number (Lithuania, +370) isn't even on the list (neither was Latvia though both are in the "where are you?" country list). And apparently the phone number is a required field (alternative e-mail address isn't enough?) so I just put rubbish there.
Correction, it used to be. Sony bought out the Ericsson share of the venture back in January. Looking at Sony's attitude towards their users, like closing a fan-run blog for trademark reasons, or the case with the Homebrew community on PS3 I expect the attention to developers and the community will fade away in time. Which is a real shame. I was a loyal fan of Ericsson as the handsets were feature-rich and reliable - all the way from their monochrome models, right though the Sony merger up to the Android era, but now I feel it's time to switch.
Currently there's this new wave of citizen initiatives, including websites promoting government expenditure and transparency, blogs (one is actually called 50000.lt after the constitutional article), petition sites, a website which lets you look up your representative and fire him an email right away, and another, which provides an API to monitor parliament resolutions and voting statistics. But combining the petition sites with real electronic signatures to actually enforce the 68th article, now that's a novel idea. There are already bank logins with two factor authentication. And we've had these European ID cards with biometric data which work as a passport in the Schengen area, and each of these cards have a digital certificate on a chip inside, which can be used for electronic document signing (with a government-based certificate authority) so all that's left right now is to combine the two.
Thank you Slashdot for the idea! I'm off to gather some coders and start changing the world.
No - "tail wagging the dog" is used when a minor or secondary part of something controlling the whole. The idiom for distracting attention is "Red herring" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_herring
I'm curious. Where can i find this list? Or does it only exist in the SLASH source code?
It looks to me they just threw the baby out with the bathwater. If the problem was unicode's direction control characters, why not just blacklist those few control chars? Instead we now have a whitelist so ridiculously small, it's useless.
Probably. It's a stretch, but since most of cellphones nowadays come with some sort of a little camera built-in and Latvia's mobile penetration rate is around 99%, I wouldn't be surprised by some random guy putting up a video of such a sight on youtube a few hours later.
Though the timing is a little suspicious, and the quality of the video is better than something I'd expect from a cellphone.
I think this is the extension you are looking for: PasswordHasher. It creates a hash from your master password and the base domain, has options for excluding special symbols from the hash and integrates nicely with the password fields.
If the guy who wrote is your friend, give him my best. What I like the most about this hasher is that it's also available in a standalone html file, which helps when you need to login from a computer without the extension installed. You can host the file yourself, but since it's written in javascript, there's no need to (hashing is done locally).
http://www.linux.com/feature/42031
Old, but still funny. Though I'd guess the compatibility must have improved a lot since then. It'd be interesting to do a run with some modern ones.
Most of Europe, at least. I'm in Lithuania and it is not available. On the other hand, not even Apple bothers to open the iTunes store here, despite successfully selling localized iPhones. And they wonder why piracy is so rampant here..
Anyway, I was actually thinking about buying a subscription with Last.fm. Since they don't put a 30 second limit on tracks in playlists I create as a subscriber, I could probably go listening through their whole library. This seems to be close to an 'all you can eat' model - at least for the tracks that have the preview/play icon next to them. Their music library seems decent, and I think the streaming works over HTTP, so it may be even possible to wget some of the tracks.
Just curious, what is the reason for putting dashes in a hash? I have seen this 8-4-4-4-12 format more than a few times, is this only for better readability?
Neo: Is that... Cypher: The Matrix? Yeah. Neo: Do you always look at it encoded? Cypher: Well you have to. The image translators work for the construct program. But there's way too much information to decode the Matrix. You get used to it. I...I don't even see the code. All I see is blonde, brunette, red-head. Hey, you a... want a drink?
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Wearing a mask is rather blunt. I think surveillance evading camouflage make-up instead will turn out to be a fashion trend during the next decade.
As with any trend, only a handful of people would dare walk around looking like that at first - privacy supporters, activists, etc. - and they would stand out in the crowd. But the idea of camouflage might catch on as more people opted-in (some because of privacy concerns, others because it just looks cool and futuristic). Kind of like torn jeans and facial piercings from punk - they used to look shocking to some a while back, but nowadays are completely mainstream and disconnected from the originating subculture.
That would be Chocolat, a text editor for Mac.
Here's a screenshot of the warning
Sounds like this guy: http://www.bash.org/?500338
Well since it became possible to switch carriers while keeping your old phone number I've stopped getting these kinds of messages from people, but for example: "Hi, I'm moving countries. My new number is +370 123 45678, and I won't be using the old one anymore".
3. The country name for my phone number (Lithuania, +370) isn't even on the list (neither was Latvia though both are in the "where are you?" country list). And apparently the phone number is a required field (alternative e-mail address isn't enough?) so I just put rubbish there.
Undoing accidental moderation
By applying the character check BEFORE hashing the password and storing the hash in the database?
Correction, it used to be. Sony bought out the Ericsson share of the venture back in January. Looking at Sony's attitude towards their users, like closing a fan-run blog for trademark reasons, or the case with the Homebrew community on PS3 I expect the attention to developers and the community will fade away in time. Which is a real shame. I was a loyal fan of Ericsson as the handsets were feature-rich and reliable - all the way from their monochrome models, right though the Sony merger up to the Android era, but now I feel it's time to switch.
Heh, bootlegging, reminds me of this comic strip: Anime is the new crack
Lithuania has this clause written right in the constitution (Article 68): 50,000 citizens of the Republic of Lithuania who have the electoral right may submit a draft law to the Seimas and the Seimas must consider it. (Seimas being the parliament)
Currently there's this new wave of citizen initiatives, including websites promoting government expenditure and transparency, blogs (one is actually called 50000.lt after the constitutional article), petition sites, a website which lets you look up your representative and fire him an email right away, and another, which provides an API to monitor parliament resolutions and voting statistics. But combining the petition sites with real electronic signatures to actually enforce the 68th article, now that's a novel idea. There are already bank logins with two factor authentication. And we've had these European ID cards with biometric data which work as a passport in the Schengen area, and each of these cards have a digital certificate on a chip inside, which can be used for electronic document signing (with a government-based certificate authority) so all that's left right now is to combine the two.
Thank you Slashdot for the idea! I'm off to gather some coders and start changing the world.
I'll join the club.
No - "tail wagging the dog" is used when a minor or secondary part of something controlling the whole. The idiom for distracting attention is "Red herring" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_herring
I'm curious. Where can i find this list? Or does it only exist in the SLASH source code?
It looks to me they just threw the baby out with the bathwater. If the problem was unicode's direction control characters, why not just blacklist those few control chars? Instead we now have a whitelist so ridiculously small, it's useless.
Probably. It's a stretch, but since most of cellphones nowadays come with some sort of a little camera built-in and Latvia's mobile penetration rate is around 99%, I wouldn't be surprised by some random guy putting up a video of such a sight on youtube a few hours later.
Though the timing is a little suspicious, and the quality of the video is better than something I'd expect from a cellphone.
I think this is the extension you are looking for: PasswordHasher. It creates a hash from your master password and the base domain, has options for excluding special symbols from the hash and integrates nicely with the password fields.
If the guy who wrote is your friend, give him my best. What I like the most about this hasher is that it's also available in a standalone html file, which helps when you need to login from a computer without the extension installed. You can host the file yourself, but since it's written in javascript, there's no need to (hashing is done locally).
porn is overrated.
Seriously. The day Linux is just like Windows is the day I boot OpenBSD.
As the saying goes - Linux Is for People Who Hate Microsoft, BSD Is for People Who Love UNIX.
http://www.linux.com/feature/42031
Old, but still funny. Though I'd guess the compatibility must have improved a lot since then. It'd be interesting to do a run with some modern ones.
Most of Europe, at least. I'm in Lithuania and it is not available. On the other hand, not even Apple bothers to open the iTunes store here, despite successfully selling localized iPhones. And they wonder why piracy is so rampant here..
Anyway, I was actually thinking about buying a subscription with Last.fm. Since they don't put a 30 second limit on tracks in playlists I create as a subscriber, I could probably go listening through their whole library. This seems to be close to an 'all you can eat' model - at least for the tracks that have the preview/play icon next to them. Their music library seems decent, and I think the streaming works over HTTP, so it may be even possible to wget some of the tracks.
Tag: ateintohisbrain
The reference is pure genius. I'd mod up a tag if I could.
5) Create a branch in CPAN called Ponies::*. There are many libraries for ponies such as Ponies::Little or Ponies::Fast
and Ponies::OMG
Just curious, what is the reason for putting dashes in a hash? I have seen this 8-4-4-4-12 format more than a few times, is this only for better readability?
As opposed to simply photoshopping it..
You could get a .geek at OpenNIC...
Neo: Is that...
Cypher: The Matrix? Yeah.
Neo: Do you always look at it encoded?
Cypher: Well you have to. The image translators work for the construct program. But there's way too much information to decode the Matrix. You get used to it. I...I don't even see the code. All I see is blonde, brunette, red-head. Hey, you a... want a drink?