I would hardly consider Trademarks good too, especially when its often used to Trademark very common things like colors, common words, etc
Microsoft is one of the guilty companies in this case (ie. Word, Windows, Works, etc.). However, when the "Windows" trademark was tested in court in Microsoft vs. Lindows (now Linspire), Microsoft almost lost it because of how general a word "windows" is. To avoid losing it, Microsoft ended up settling with Linspire, paying Linspire $24 million dollars. That's a pretty happy ending:-).
This little piece of advice circulated the Internet years ago:
Andy Rooney's tips for telemarketers
Three Little Words That Work !! The three little words are: "Hold On, Please..." Saying this, while putting down your phone and walking off (instead of hanging-up immediately) would make each telemarketing call so much more time-consuming that boiler room sales would grind to a halt.
Then when you eventually hear the phone company's "beep-beep-beep" tone, you know it's time to go back and hang up your handset, which has efficiently completed its task. These three little words will help eliminate telephone soliciting.
It's satisfying sabotage. If enough people did this, telemarketing might become unprofitable. Now just find a way to do the same thing to spammers...
All of my Gmail connections have been secured for a couple of years now, thanks to the CustomizeGoogle Firefox add-on. It has a "always use https" option, which was the main reason I have it. I'll still be using it due to other features like click-tracking removal, though.
I mean, take Irix for example. It's possibly the worst, most unstable operating system in history (through its lifetime) and I had to suffer with it for years
I am forced to agree. My old workplace used SGIs for simulations, so I got my share of suffering through Irix. It was the worst operating system I ever had to use. I actually felt less productive on it than I do in Windows.
Even though this method doesn't really create terribly secure passwords, I imagine this is a large step up for most users. If you have 100,000 files in your computer and one was chosen at random (at random meaning NOT by a human being), that makes your password worth about as much as a 16 bit key. This is less than a 3 character randomly generated password.
If you want a strong password jammed into a tiny space (6 to 8 characters), generating one randomly -- from/dev/random or some other reliable source of entropy -- using the 94 or so printable characters is the way to go, but they tend to be hard to remember and easy to forget. The security lies in that fact that any permutation of any 8 printable characters as equally likely as any other. You are making a large key space for an attacker. The hashed version described by the article doesn't do this.
Personally, I like to use something a little longer but easy to remember. Using something like diceware will do this. It's mainly used for generating passphrases (used as encryption keys), which must be much, much stronger than passwords to be effective. With it, you can generate passwords that look like: "applefloorpin" or "cloudbrickyoung". If you used Diceware to get these, they are each worth at least 38.8 bits (12.9 bits per word). This assumes an attacker knows you used Diceware and knows the exact list you used. That's equivalent to 6 randomly generated printable letters, but its probably easier to remember and type.
Another way that I like (and I wrote a Perl program to do this) is to read in your/usr/share/dict/words list of words on your system. These generally have over 65k words in them. If you use/dev/random to select words at random, each word is worth over 16 bits. A three word password generated this way is worth the about same as an 8 character random garbage password. Change the case and throw in a [!@#$%^&*()-=] and you get a few more bits of security, if you like.
Personally, I think "applefloorpin" is easier to remember and type than "FfK%L7aO". And if you do it right, they are worth the same.
Anyway, if I wanted to try this music/image-file-to-password thing described in the article myself, a simple command like this will do it:
Why then are people freaking out that it might get warmer there again in the future?
There weren't 7 billion people living on the planet at any time where conditions were like that. Such a planet might not support that many people. The Earth itself has never been in any significant danger, just some of its inhabitants.
Had Stallman not tried to redefine "free" in the first place, there wouldn't have been a problem.
He didn't try to redefine "free": the definition was always there (i.e. "land of the free"). It is just the unfortunate situation that English, the world's working technical language, has two very different definitions mapped to the same word. Other languages make the distinction with the different words "gratis" and "libre".
If you lose your card, and report it missing, the most that can be charged to you is $50.
And if you only lose the number but still possess the physical, real card (i.e. someone wrote down your credit card number or something), you are responsible for no more than $0.
Just like IRC and Usenet, when it comes to the DHS the first and second rules about PGP is that you don't talk about PGP. If this is your first time at the key signing party you have to sign.
"You can do whatever you want with your world. It's your world. You can put a happy little bush here. Or some happy little clouds. Let's do that. *relaxing paintbrush tapping sounds* You see that? That'll be our little secret."
IANAL, but I am pretty sure, in the context of copyright, you can download anything you want without infringement. It is the uploading part, where you are making copies (and why they are called copyrights) and distributing them, that is infringing. With P2P like BitTorrent, the uploading part is part of the deal. This is why all those RIAA lawsuits are targeted at people who are potentially uploading (i.e. distributing) music.
For example, let's say you visit a website that distributes material under copyright without permission of the copyright holders, and you download something they falsely claim to be permitted to distribute. Can you be held responsible for infringement? The website made the copies. How could you possibly know whether or not they have permission to do it? If the copyright notices are gone, who would you even ask?
Or how about this: can you get in trouble if someone throws copyright infringing UDP packets at you?
Here is where the distinction between copyright infringement and theft is important: when someone infringes on a copyright by making a copy (say, burning a CDR copy of an "All Right Reserved" CD), and then giving that copy to you, you cannot be charged with receiving stolen property (unless your buddy got his CDRs by hiding them in his hoodie at BestBuy and walking out).
Mark Dominus over at A Universe of Discourse came up with a program called runN which would accomplish a similiar task but without having to write out a specific Makefile for it.
You provide a command, number of jobs, and a bunch of files to run it on (after a "--" argument),
# Untar files in parallel, 4 at a time runN -n 4 tar -xzf -- *.tar.gz
# Encode 4 video at a time (from parent's example, but I don't know how tovid actually works) runN -n 4 tovid -ntsc -dvd -noask -ffmpeg -in -- *.avi
Of course, your Makefile option provides a bit more control as you can specify an output filename, and if you must specify an output filename, runN will not work. In any case, any solution which uses processes instead of threads is a good solution.
M. Crane wrote a follow-up sometime later describing how to make it more useful (and make the above examples actually work).
Some companies like having game play videos on the Internet. For example, Blizzard is very clear that not only are they are okay with videos from their games on sites like Vimeo and YouTube, but they encourage it: http://www.blizzard.com/us/legalfaq.html
And who are these game publishers that are so retarded they want gameplay videos taken down? It's free publicity! People who might have never heard of the game otherwise may end up making a purchase due to a cool gameplay video they saw.
I don't think it was actually used in that horrible excuse for a movie. As far as I know, it only appeared on the soundtrack. It's sister song, which is really just a fast version of this one, The End is the Beginning is the End, might have been in the movie, though. About 10 years ago when I first heard The Beginning is the End is the Beginning (I was in middle school) I thought that song would be perfect for cinema. Took awhile to see it happen, but here it is!
Any game that features PvE and PvP is never going to please everyone.
That's very much true. Shamus Young wrote an interesting article about that just that last week. In it, he has a neat little analogy involving Will Wright and Cliff Bleszinski, representing the two types of players, making sandcastles on the beach.
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I would hardly consider Trademarks good too, especially when its often used to Trademark very common things like colors, common words, etc
Microsoft is one of the guilty companies in this case (ie. Word, Windows, Works, etc.). However, when the "Windows" trademark was tested in court in Microsoft vs. Lindows (now Linspire), Microsoft almost lost it because of how general a word "windows" is. To avoid losing it, Microsoft ended up settling with Linspire, paying Linspire $24 million dollars. That's a pretty happy ending :-).
This little piece of advice circulated the Internet years ago:
Andy Rooney's tips for telemarketers
Three Little Words That Work !! The three little words are: "Hold On, Please..." Saying this, while putting down your phone and walking off (instead of hanging-up immediately) would make each telemarketing call so much more time-consuming that boiler room sales would grind to a halt.
Then when you eventually hear the phone company's "beep-beep-beep" tone, you know it's time to go back and hang up your handset, which has efficiently completed its task. These three little words will help eliminate telephone soliciting.
It's satisfying sabotage. If enough people did this, telemarketing might become unprofitable. Now just find a way to do the same thing to spammers ...
All of my Gmail connections have been secured for a couple of years now, thanks to the CustomizeGoogle Firefox add-on. It has a "always use https" option, which was the main reason I have it. I'll still be using it due to other features like click-tracking removal, though.
Second life is not a game. It's a virtual world.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I've heard this before. "It's not a doll, it's an action figure!" :-P
"Linus' law: files grow" ;-)
Source.
I mean, take Irix for example. It's possibly the worst, most unstable operating system in history (through its lifetime) and I had to suffer with it for years
I am forced to agree. My old workplace used SGIs for simulations, so I got my share of suffering through Irix. It was the worst operating system I ever had to use. I actually felt less productive on it than I do in Windows.
This explains Web 2.0 perfectly.
Even though this method doesn't really create terribly secure passwords, I imagine this is a large step up for most users. If you have 100,000 files in your computer and one was chosen at random (at random meaning NOT by a human being), that makes your password worth about as much as a 16 bit key. This is less than a 3 character randomly generated password.
If you want a strong password jammed into a tiny space (6 to 8 characters), generating one randomly -- from /dev/random or some other reliable source of entropy -- using the 94 or so printable characters is the way to go, but they tend to be hard to remember and easy to forget. The security lies in that fact that any permutation of any 8 printable characters as equally likely as any other. You are making a large key space for an attacker. The hashed version described by the article doesn't do this.
Personally, I like to use something a little longer but easy to remember. Using something like diceware will do this. It's mainly used for generating passphrases (used as encryption keys), which must be much, much stronger than passwords to be effective. With it, you can generate passwords that look like: "applefloorpin" or "cloudbrickyoung". If you used Diceware to get these, they are each worth at least 38.8 bits (12.9 bits per word). This assumes an attacker knows you used Diceware and knows the exact list you used. That's equivalent to 6 randomly generated printable letters, but its probably easier to remember and type.
Another way that I like (and I wrote a Perl program to do this) is to read in your /usr/share/dict/words list of words on your system. These generally have over 65k words in them. If you use /dev/random to select words at random, each word is worth over 16 bits. A three word password generated this way is worth the about same as an 8 character random garbage password. Change the case and throw in a [!@#$%^&*()-=] and you get a few more bits of security, if you like.
Personally, I think "applefloorpin" is easier to remember and type than "FfK%L7aO". And if you do it right, they are worth the same.
Anyway, if I wanted to try this music/image-file-to-password thing described in the article myself, a simple command like this will do it:
That's an 8 character password. Adjust the last command to make it longer/shorter.
The last traces of the neanderthal is about 30,000 years ago.
So, would you call the neanderthal's situation an Epoch Fail?
Why then are people freaking out that it might get warmer there again in the future?
There weren't 7 billion people living on the planet at any time where conditions were like that. Such a planet might not support that many people. The Earth itself has never been in any significant danger, just some of its inhabitants.
Had Stallman not tried to redefine "free" in the first place, there wouldn't have been a problem.
He didn't try to redefine "free": the definition was always there (i.e. "land of the free"). It is just the unfortunate situation that English, the world's working technical language, has two very different definitions mapped to the same word. Other languages make the distinction with the different words "gratis" and "libre".
If you lose your card, and report it missing, the most that can be charged to you is $50.
And if you only lose the number but still possess the physical, real card (i.e. someone wrote down your credit card number or something), you are responsible for no more than $0.
Sssshhhh!!! The DHS boneheads might hear you!
Just like IRC and Usenet, when it comes to the DHS the first and second rules about PGP is that you don't talk about PGP. If this is your first time at the key signing party you have to sign.
You sounded almost like Bob Ross,
"You can do whatever you want with your world. It's your world. You can put a happy little bush here. Or some happy little clouds. Let's do that. *relaxing paintbrush tapping sounds* You see that? That'll be our little secret."
Ever since Warcraft 3 [...]
I guess you never played the first two Warcrafts? Warcraft games have always been cartoony.
Unless you write it yourself using an algorithm so simple that, once tested for correctness, is hard to get wrong. :-)
What happens when the laws are contradicting, and you must either break either one or the other?
Do you think the person at the IT office would have made the list of passwords public if Childs left gracefully?
From Child's point of view I think it goes like this: if he left gracefully something worse might have happened.
You don't worship/believe in Greek gods (or maybe you do?), but you still call that red-colored fourth planet "Mars", don't you? :-P
Saying "god damn it" is simply a mythology reference.
IANAL, but I am pretty sure, in the context of copyright, you can download anything you want without infringement. It is the uploading part, where you are making copies (and why they are called copyrights) and distributing them, that is infringing. With P2P like BitTorrent, the uploading part is part of the deal. This is why all those RIAA lawsuits are targeted at people who are potentially uploading (i.e. distributing) music.
For example, let's say you visit a website that distributes material under copyright without permission of the copyright holders, and you download something they falsely claim to be permitted to distribute. Can you be held responsible for infringement? The website made the copies. How could you possibly know whether or not they have permission to do it? If the copyright notices are gone, who would you even ask?
Or how about this: can you get in trouble if someone throws copyright infringing UDP packets at you?
Here is where the distinction between copyright infringement and theft is important: when someone infringes on a copyright by making a copy (say, burning a CDR copy of an "All Right Reserved" CD), and then giving that copy to you, you cannot be charged with receiving stolen property (unless your buddy got his CDRs by hiding them in his hoodie at BestBuy and walking out).
What exactly is a maroon?
Some sort of communist, I guess.
Mark Dominus over at A Universe of Discourse came up with a program called runN which would accomplish a similiar task but without having to write out a specific Makefile for it.
You provide a command, number of jobs, and a bunch of files to run it on (after a "--" argument),
Of course, your Makefile option provides a bit more control as you can specify an output filename, and if you must specify an output filename, runN will not work. In any case, any solution which uses processes instead of threads is a good solution.
M. Crane wrote a follow-up sometime later describing how to make it more useful (and make the above examples actually work).
Some companies like having game play videos on the Internet. For example, Blizzard is very clear that not only are they are okay with videos from their games on sites like Vimeo and YouTube, but they encourage it: http://www.blizzard.com/us/legalfaq.html
And who are these game publishers that are so retarded they want gameplay videos taken down? It's free publicity! People who might have never heard of the game otherwise may end up making a purchase due to a cool gameplay video they saw.
I don't think it was actually used in that horrible excuse for a movie. As far as I know, it only appeared on the soundtrack. It's sister song, which is really just a fast version of this one, The End is the Beginning is the End, might have been in the movie, though. About 10 years ago when I first heard The Beginning is the End is the Beginning (I was in middle school) I thought that song would be perfect for cinema. Took awhile to see it happen, but here it is!
The trailer has caused the song to to top the charts on iTunes.
Any game that features PvE and PvP is never going to please everyone.
That's very much true. Shamus Young wrote an interesting article about that just that last week. In it, he has a neat little analogy involving Will Wright and Cliff Bleszinski, representing the two types of players, making sandcastles on the beach.