Assume an attacker will always start by running a dictionary attack, so you basically have a 4 character password with each character having a possibility of a few hundred thousand values. So it's only about as secure as a 5 or 6 character random string.
If you are only talking about English words, there are about 300000 of them. A standard English language keyboard has about 94 characters available. So your four "word character" password is actually about as good as a password of an 11 character random string. But only if the attacker assumes you are using a password of 4 dictionary words separated by spaces. That is a very specific and unrealistic assumption to make.
No, but he did change them all to "honest equine capacitor fastener"
I know XKCD made a good point, but that's still nowere near as good as passwords could be. It is extremely easy to memorise a fairly long gibberish sentence and use it as a password, eg. "The moon that afternoon was violently passive." Thats a 47 character password and I didn't even bother mangling any words, it could be made much better. I don't understand why accounts on some computer systems that have disk quotas measured in gigabytes have such arbitrarily small limits on the password. Is 1KB too much to ask for? It is bad enough that so many people use Password1, qwerty123 or letmein, but it is worse that many systems don't actually allow you to have a good password. I've seen systems in the last few months where I was puzzled about why I was having problems until I realised my password was too long. And not archaic systems, these were supposedly modern.
Socialism provides all with equal misery, paid for by anyone foolish enough to still be producing rather than "pretending to work so they pretend to pay", something that Socialists say that Socialism does not do, but obviously does.
FTFY
Socialism is great, until you run out of other people's money. Once Socialism has drained the "bourgeois/rich" and any others still productive, the shared misery begins in earnest. Socialism ensures that, rather than lifting all boats, it sinks any boats rising faster/higher (being more successful) than others. Equal misery for all...except the Socialist political elite, that is.
Strat
How nice of you to try to put words in my mouth. Go fuck yourself, you little shit. I work for a living. I work hard, harder than most people I know. I pay for everything I get. I am entitled to have the view that the taxes that I pay are making a better country than one that produces sociopaths like you, and if I am willing to pay them it is none of your concern.
Did you mean k-12 education? Primary usually means k-6 and is actually one of our strong suits. It's the 7-12 where we royally suck. This is known as secondary education.
What does k-x mean? Here, primary is generally up to 11-12 years old, secondary for another 5-6 years after that. After that, a variety of 3rd level options.
in France.
They come, study, get a diploma...
And go away:)
For all that time, free university, free medical expenses...
F*ck socialism, it killed my country.
Make that Europe, not just France. We educate them for free, then they go to America because the pay is higher there to compensate for the huge student loans. I don't agree with the "Fuck socialism" sentiment though. Socialism provides all with equal opportunity, something that capitalism purports to but obviously does not. The fix is not to screw over people who get an education but cannot find work and pay off their loans.. the fix is to not saddle people with a massive debt as their introduction to the workforce.
They did thank him UNTIL HE ATTEMPTED TO HACK THEIR SYSTEM WITH A HACKING SUITE Just because he reported a bug does not mean their system if free and open for him to play with. He crossed the line into hacking.
It isn't a "hacking suite", it is a security vulnerability scanning suite designed to help peopl protect websites. The young man in question had an interest in making sure that the security hole had been fixed, as personal details of his like his address, social security number, etc. were being made publicly available by this company's sloppy work. He had a right to to make sure that these details were not still publicly available. The company made a big mistake going after him like this, because they could be open to litigation for not protecting data properly, and have just called massive public attention to themselves.
Indeed. Don't go there. I'm a longtime gamer, and I wish I wasn't. Not because there is anything wrong with my passtime... except it passes too much time. Instead of getting your wife to participate in your gaming, pick up a new passtime. Or maybe 10 new passtimes. You could brew all your own beer and an exciting and exotic range of wines, join a book club, take up a unisex sport like tag rugby, spend a little bit of time on having gourmet food every day... and still be out ahead timewise compared to playing WoW. Time is all we have in this world. Make the most of yours, don't get sucked into stupid repetitive motions that aren't getting you anywhere.
OK, thats my advice giving for the day done. Back to my second monk.
Gun control is, unfortunately (or not, depending on your point of view) the only way to keep guns out of the hands of crazy people. There is much hand-wringing going on about why this guy shot a load of people, why people keep on doing things like this. The simple answer is that he was not right in the head. There will always be people like that around. Doesn't matter how good your mental health program is, welfare subsidised or not (and I'm a socialist, I'm all in favour of paying to keep crazy people slightly less crazy). Crazy people will still do things that no sane person of any religious or political affiliation would find remotely acceptable. I'm not saying you need to ban guns or anything in the US. I don't really care whether some lad who likes to hunt or just shoot at targets has a gun, it isn't something I'm into purely because I live in a country that is completely domesticated. The most dangerous wild animals here are badgers, and there is no big game. Hunters here shoot foxes & pheasants. People in the US have uses for guns that I don't, and I wouldn't take that away from them. That said... there really should be some way you can make sure that someone who is completely batshit crazy can't just pick up a gun and kill people with impunity until the cavalry arrives.
I don't want to ban guns. I'm male, and I think guns are cool. But seriously, sort yourselves out over there.
That points out another problem with switching to Mac: if you switch your parents, you really have to buy another Mac for yourself and set up Apple-related accounts and infrastructure everywhere. You can't maintain a Mac if you don't use one yourself, it is just too different.
Just switch your parents for ones using Linux then. Duh.
No, because they're not doing anything, they're just owning stuff. Technology can only replace labour, it cannot help someone getting the fruits of someone else's work without doing anything.
And this is why socialism requires a legal framework. When we automate production, and eliminate human labour, we need a legal entitlement to the output of industrial production. Else you end up with vast quantities of cheap products, a vast number of people who want them but cannot afford them, and a few kingpins at the top who own everything. Capitalism is never going to go away (nor should it), but it will hopefully be subsumed into a socialist structure.
Unfortunately, the uninformed like you have not seen the CRU report that there has been zero warming for the past 16 years. If you consider 16 years to be too short of an interval on which to base the cessation of warming, then it is also too short on which to base that there is warming.
But the sheriff's feet may be of a different length from the observer's. Who is right, then?
Measuring in dicks may work. The sheriff would mark any arbitrary distance and the observer would be too ashamed of claiming it to be less than the sheriff said it was.
You got that backwards. Sheriff says "that's 150 dicks length." Observer says "it's only 75 according to mine."
A few months ago a girl at a drive-through gave me the change from a 50 when i gave her 20 euro. She even insisted I couldn't have given her a 20, because she didn't have any in the till. She'd handed it back to me as part of the change. I handed her back 30, told her I was absolutely sure, and left her looking very confused.
Just stick the windows machine on a DMZ, and firewall the hell out of it. If you're worried about security, I'm going to have to assume you're talking about the security of the rest of your network. Anyone with a load of linux boxes lying about the house should be able to run a DMZ.
What point are you trying to support with these numbers anyhow?
Just the point that your claim about experts being consistently wrong is incorrect. BTW, I looked back at the link I provided, and noticed that there were some figures under the event column that were not shown under the death toll one, pushing the estimate up to 131-185 million. Again that is with no statistics for the majority of the listed famines.
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Assume an attacker will always start by running a dictionary attack, so you basically have a 4 character password with each character having a possibility of a few hundred thousand values. So it's only about as secure as a 5 or 6 character random string.
If you are only talking about English words, there are about 300000 of them. A standard English language keyboard has about 94 characters available. So your four "word character" password is actually about as good as a password of an 11 character random string. But only if the attacker assumes you are using a password of 4 dictionary words separated by spaces. That is a very specific and unrealistic assumption to make.
No, but he did change them all to "honest equine capacitor fastener"
I know XKCD made a good point, but that's still nowere near as good as passwords could be. It is extremely easy to memorise a fairly long gibberish sentence and use it as a password, eg. "The moon that afternoon was violently passive." Thats a 47 character password and I didn't even bother mangling any words, it could be made much better. I don't understand why accounts on some computer systems that have disk quotas measured in gigabytes have such arbitrarily small limits on the password. Is 1KB too much to ask for? It is bad enough that so many people use Password1, qwerty123 or letmein, but it is worse that many systems don't actually allow you to have a good password. I've seen systems in the last few months where I was puzzled about why I was having problems until I realised my password was too long. And not archaic systems, these were supposedly modern.
Socialism provides all with equal misery, paid for by anyone foolish enough to still be producing rather than "pretending to work so they pretend to pay", something that Socialists say that Socialism does not do, but obviously does.
FTFY
Socialism is great, until you run out of other people's money. Once Socialism has drained the "bourgeois/rich" and any others still productive, the shared misery begins in earnest. Socialism ensures that, rather than lifting all boats, it sinks any boats rising faster/higher (being more successful) than others. Equal misery for all...except the Socialist political elite, that is.
Strat
How nice of you to try to put words in my mouth. Go fuck yourself, you little shit. I work for a living. I work hard, harder than most people I know. I pay for everything I get. I am entitled to have the view that the taxes that I pay are making a better country than one that produces sociopaths like you, and if I am willing to pay them it is none of your concern.
BS. If you're from India or China, *everything* is attractive in the U.S., especially if you're a girl.
Even Arseface
Did you mean k-12 education? Primary usually means k-6 and is actually one of our strong suits. It's the 7-12 where we royally suck. This is known as secondary education.
What does k-x mean? Here, primary is generally up to 11-12 years old, secondary for another 5-6 years after that. After that, a variety of 3rd level options.
in France. They come, study, get a diploma... And go away :)
For all that time, free university, free medical expenses...
F*ck socialism, it killed my country.
Make that Europe, not just France. We educate them for free, then they go to America because the pay is higher there to compensate for the huge student loans. I don't agree with the "Fuck socialism" sentiment though. Socialism provides all with equal opportunity, something that capitalism purports to but obviously does not. The fix is not to screw over people who get an education but cannot find work and pay off their loans.. the fix is to not saddle people with a massive debt as their introduction to the workforce.
the US military believes that the poor villagers they blow up are evil doers intent on destroying their way of life.
I can tell you aren't biased in the slightest.
Picking only one of the examples to object to is indicative of your biases, not GP's.
Accidentally moderated redundant, mouse playing up. Post to undo.
when it gets the Frankie Boyle seal of approval.
They did thank him UNTIL HE ATTEMPTED TO HACK THEIR SYSTEM WITH A HACKING SUITE Just because he reported a bug does not mean their system if free and open for him to play with. He crossed the line into hacking.
It isn't a "hacking suite", it is a security vulnerability scanning suite designed to help peopl protect websites. The young man in question had an interest in making sure that the security hole had been fixed, as personal details of his like his address, social security number, etc. were being made publicly available by this company's sloppy work. He had a right to to make sure that these details were not still publicly available. The company made a big mistake going after him like this, because they could be open to litigation for not protecting data properly, and have just called massive public attention to themselves.
the university used this as an excuse to terminate him.
The company was Skytech, not Skynet.
Indeed. Don't go there. I'm a longtime gamer, and I wish I wasn't. Not because there is anything wrong with my passtime... except it passes too much time. Instead of getting your wife to participate in your gaming, pick up a new passtime. Or maybe 10 new passtimes. You could brew all your own beer and an exciting and exotic range of wines, join a book club, take up a unisex sport like tag rugby, spend a little bit of time on having gourmet food every day... and still be out ahead timewise compared to playing WoW. Time is all we have in this world. Make the most of yours, don't get sucked into stupid repetitive motions that aren't getting you anywhere.
OK, thats my advice giving for the day done. Back to my second monk.
Who said anything about the UK?
Gun control is, unfortunately (or not, depending on your point of view) the only way to keep guns out of the hands of crazy people. There is much hand-wringing going on about why this guy shot a load of people, why people keep on doing things like this. The simple answer is that he was not right in the head. There will always be people like that around. Doesn't matter how good your mental health program is, welfare subsidised or not (and I'm a socialist, I'm all in favour of paying to keep crazy people slightly less crazy). Crazy people will still do things that no sane person of any religious or political affiliation would find remotely acceptable. I'm not saying you need to ban guns or anything in the US. I don't really care whether some lad who likes to hunt or just shoot at targets has a gun, it isn't something I'm into purely because I live in a country that is completely domesticated. The most dangerous wild animals here are badgers, and there is no big game. Hunters here shoot foxes & pheasants. People in the US have uses for guns that I don't, and I wouldn't take that away from them. That said... there really should be some way you can make sure that someone who is completely batshit crazy can't just pick up a gun and kill people with impunity until the cavalry arrives.
I don't want to ban guns. I'm male, and I think guns are cool. But seriously, sort yourselves out over there.
That points out another problem with switching to Mac: if you switch your parents, you really have to buy another Mac for yourself and set up Apple-related accounts and infrastructure everywhere. You can't maintain a Mac if you don't use one yourself, it is just too different.
Just switch your parents for ones using Linux then. Duh.
No, because they're not doing anything, they're just owning stuff. Technology can only replace labour, it cannot help someone getting the fruits of someone else's work without doing anything.
And this is why socialism requires a legal framework. When we automate production, and eliminate human labour, we need a legal entitlement to the output of industrial production. Else you end up with vast quantities of cheap products, a vast number of people who want them but cannot afford them, and a few kingpins at the top who own everything. Capitalism is never going to go away (nor should it), but it will hopefully be subsumed into a socialist structure.
Unfortunately, the uninformed like you have not seen the CRU report that there has been zero warming for the past 16 years. If you consider 16 years to be too short of an interval on which to base the cessation of warming, then it is also too short on which to base that there is warming.
Thanks for the link. Now we are all informed.
Free trade (here, trade with low regulation and zero tariffs and trade barriers) is the obvious way
Your plan to fix an obvious lack of regulation is deregulation?
But the sheriff's feet may be of a different length from the observer's. Who is right, then?
Measuring in dicks may work. The sheriff would mark any arbitrary distance and the observer would be too ashamed of claiming it to be less than the sheriff said it was.
You got that backwards. Sheriff says "that's 150 dicks length." Observer says "it's only 75 according to mine."
A few months ago a girl at a drive-through gave me the change from a 50 when i gave her 20 euro. She even insisted I couldn't have given her a 20, because she didn't have any in the till. She'd handed it back to me as part of the change. I handed her back 30, told her I was absolutely sure, and left her looking very confused.
Just stick the windows machine on a DMZ, and firewall the hell out of it. If you're worried about security, I'm going to have to assume you're talking about the security of the rest of your network. Anyone with a load of linux boxes lying about the house should be able to run a DMZ.
Why refute evidence when you can just arrest anyone who contradicts you with facts?
I would guess that he works for SanRio, the company that makes Hello Kitty products.
Maho is a female name isn't it? Never met a woman who liked kittens....
http://news.slashdot.org/story/12/07/10/1657203/hackers-steal-keyless-bmw-in-under-3-minutes
What point are you trying to support with these numbers anyhow?
Just the point that your claim about experts being consistently wrong is incorrect. BTW, I looked back at the link I provided, and noticed that there were some figures under the event column that were not shown under the death toll one, pushing the estimate up to 131-185 million. Again that is with no statistics for the majority of the listed famines.