1. Something you know (such as a passphrase), plus... 2. Something you own (such as the ID number from a FOB which rotates IDs every minute), plus... 3. Something you are (biometrics).
You don't use biometrics *instead* of the passphrase or FOB; you use it to augment the effectiveness of those techniques.
When you push all these things down a wire, they're all effectively "something you know". The only difference is that a remote attacker will have a harder time knowing what your WoW authenticator will say at any given time than you will, and that a local attacker will have a harder time knowing what the thumbprint reader will say about your thumbprint than you will. 2 and 3 are easily broken by hitting you in the head and taking your finger and authenticator.
You're modded -1, but your post is completely accurate. What did people think the software was doing? Generating a key based on your fingerprint that stays the same every time you scan it and then using that key to decrypt passwords that are properly encrypted? As if!
<em> doesn't work for me. oh hey they reenabled <i>!
<strong> doesn't work for me. oh hey they reenabled <b>!
So the lesson is that Slashdot randomly changes shit. A few months ago you had to use em for italics and strong for bold. Then strong worked but em didn't. Now it's back to b and i only.
We can stand if we want to We can leave your friends behind Cause your friends don't stand And if they don't stand Well they're no friends of mine Say, we can go where we want to A place where they will never find And we can act like we come from out of this world Because you're one far behind
We can stand
We can go where we want to The night is young and so am i And we can dress real neat From our hats to our feet Then surprise them with a big trick ride Say, we can act if we want to If we don't, nobody will And you can act real rude And totally removed And i can act like an imbecile
Say, we can stand We can stand Everything's outta control
We can stand We can stand We're doing it more and more We can stand We can stand Everybody look at your hands We can stand We can Everybody's taking a sta-nd It's safe to stand Oh well, it's safe to stand Yes, it's safe to stand
We can standif we want to We've got all your life and mine As long as we abuse it Never gonna lose it Everything will work out right I say, we can standif we want to We can leave your friends behind Because your friends don't stand And if they don't stand Well they're no friends of mine
I say, we can stand We can stand Everything's outta control We can stand We can stand We're doing it more and more We can stand We can stand Everybody look at your hands We can stand We can stand Everybody's taking the sta-nd Well, it's safe to stand Yes, it's safe to stand Well, it's safe to stand Oh well, it's safe to stand Ah yes, it's safe to stand Well, it's safe to stand It's safe to stand It's safe to stand
Your comment has too few characters per line (currently 18.9). Look at this goddamned bullshit this is why I hate Slashdot I can't even post a fucking joke because of this horseshit filter that doesn't allow cent signs, degree symbols, italics, or fun. Now I have to pad out this post with a bunch of horse shit because Slashdot is givin' me the bizness about shit it don't even know. IT DON'T EVEN KNOW. Look at this goddamned bullshit this is why I hate Slashdot I can't even post a fucking joke because of this horseshit filter that doesn't allow cent signs, degree symbols, italics, or fun. Now I have to pad out this post with a bunch of horse shit because Slashdot is givin' me the bizness about shit it don't even know. IT DON'T EVEN KNOW. Look at this goddamned bullshit this is why I hate Slashdot I can't even post a fucking joke because of this horseshit filter that doesn't allow cent signs, degree symbols, italics, or fun. Now I have to pad out this post with a bunch of horse shit because Slashdot is givin' me the bizness about shit it don't even know. IT DON'T EVEN KNOW.
But you can have communication that is faster then light very easily lets take a wheel for example. you can observer the wheel from to either side, if I rotate the wheel from one side the other side rotates at the same time FTL communication just occurred I told you I rotated a wheel. Now if said wheel was so big that it went from earth to mars you would have FTL communication meaningfully,
Nope. Objects don't respond to force instantaneously, they respond at different speeds depending on their shape and material. A Tempur-Pedic bed dampens and absorbs force and transmits it so slowly that you can jump on it and not spill a glass of wine on the other end of the bed. A perfectly solid material would transmit force at near the speed of light.
The answer depends on what you do hope to achieve by reporting.
If you hope the people to stop:
In case the origin is a company within you country, contacting them may you do some good. They will pull the plug on their malware infested machine. Attacker will use others.
In all other cases the only chance to have any kind of effect is to report dramatic damages to the law enforcement. Other than that, nobody cares enough;-). Even with dramatic damages, the chances for any effect are slim to none.
IMHO: In 90+% of all cases the answer is/dev/null the economical best answer.
Yup./dev/null is the correct answer.
Unless you've suffered BIG MONEY LOSSES, a data breach that could embarrass someone who has BIG MONEY, or something to do with CHILD PORN, no one gives a shit. And in the case of child porn you're probably better off plugging the security hole and wiping any trace than you are inviting the authorities to come investigate.
Until marketers can accurately and succinctly define "the cloud" they're going to wind up with people not understanding "the cloud". Of course, that's their fucking goal. They don't want anyone knowing that "the cloud" is just "a bunch of servers somewhere, idunno where, just give me money and I'll sell you things".
If I was a cloud provider I'd have 3 data centers and 5 or 6 fake data centers with nothing in them. I'd tell customers I had 8 or 9 locations and they'd never fucking know.
Fuck off. Read the studies; the disfiguring argument is bullshit when you consider that your "natural figure" might well be harboring virii that give your wife/mate cancer.
YOU should read the studies - they're laughable bullshit.
Overwhelmingly the reason given was that people didn't want to be old and infirm any longer than they had to be, even if a pill allowed them to delay the inevitable.
Well, it's a good thing that that's not what we're talking about, isn't it? The whole idea is to delay--or if possible, prevent entirely--the things that make us "old" and infirm to begin with. Nobody wants to spend eternity in a nursing home, duh. Spending an indefinite amount of time young and healthy, or even middle-aged and mostly healthy? Sign me up.
Then maybe the question, and possible answer choices, should have mentioned that.
How long do you want to live? A) 80 years B) 120 years C) 150 years D) None of the above
Might as well study relationships by passing a note to the girl on the other side of the class. Do you like me? A) Yes B) No C) Maybe
The lawsuit had nothing to do with Android. Your statement would make sense if you'd said "every smartphone manufacturer".
Let's see:
Apple could sue...:
Android OEMs: They're already doing it, and going after others will be easier after the first victory. They got big money, no whammies, and they won't stop.
Apple: Doubtful.
Google: Google doesn't make end products, they have OEMs do it, so they're insulated there. Apple could sue on all of the software stuff, but since Google isn't the one making the devices, and using Android is "free" for OEMs, they'd have a hard time getting large awards for damages. Apple's goal is to win cash and to maintain their dwindling market share. If Google lost a suit, damages would be low or non-existent, and stock Android would have some minor change that OEMs override. No big deal. Android is like a hydra at this point, with each OEM being a head.
Microsoft: Windows Phone phones are actually quite different in design and UI compared to the iPhone and Android phones, and MS has the resources (entire battalions of lawyers and its own patent portfolio) to defend itself properly. If Apple were to sue, MS would fire back, and it would be a tit-for-tat on technology (actual technology, not UI bullshit) patents each of them hold. There's no huge financial victory possible, and there's no smackdown to a major competitor.
That's everyone in the game today. Nokia is gone, Motorola Mobility is gone, and RIM is on their way to being bought out for their patents. Suing the biggest Android OEM is the best way to get a large cash award and disrupt a competitor's spot in the marketplace. If Samsung fails to score on the appeals, HTC will be next.
Typo and clarification: It would be fairly easy to look for those stem cells [in] humans and find out if they're turning into ovums. They're not [doing this] there.
It would be fairly easy to look for those stem cells and humans and find out if they're turning into ovums. They're not there. Mice aren't people. Humans breed at a rough maximum of 1 per year for 30 years. Mice pump out offspring like, well, mice. Menopause isn't an exhaustion of supply - there are enough eggs in one human ovary to last a hundred lifetimes. We already can delay and reverse menopause, just as we can with andropause. The side effects (basically CANCER OUT THE ASS) are not worth it. We can get better at this to a point, but it will take genetic therapy to really roll back the clock.
The "goal" behind finding a way for humans females to produce new eggs is to increase the viability of pregnancy later in life. There are plenty of old eggs left, but they're damaged. But fresh eggs won't solve anything since the ovum is just a small, small part of that equation. You'd need a fresh uterus as well. Fresh mammaries. Fresh digestive tract. Fresh cardiovascular system. Etc., etc. Some of these externalities are things we a pretty good at either keeping young and healthy or working around if they prove to be an issue for a pregnancy. Some of them we are not.
Regardless, even if we had a mechanism for producing new ovums, and could control all other aspects of the pregnancy, it wouldn't matter. The new eggs produced would be just as damaged as the old ones, and just as damaged as an old man's sperm. And again, there is no such mechanism in humans.
Except this isn't research, it's one researcher with a foregone conclusion simply wishing it to be true. There is no mechanism for gamete production in human females that have been born.
Except: A woman is born with all the eggs she will ever have (they are not produced over the woman's lifetime). On the other hand sperm are produced more on an as-needed basis. So, there is much more opportunity for problems to arise with eggs (presumably why the chance of having a Down's Syndrome child increases with the mother's age).
Correct. Older eggs suffer far more damage than older sperm. It was commonly thought for many, many years that sperm age had no consequence. It was proven 5 or 6 years ago that it absolutely does. Then, right on queue, Slashdot has a story about it.
Sexually speaking, guys peak at age 17, producing the most sperm. Women peak at 37.
A woman trying to have children at 32 years of age or older is monstrously more likely to have complications. Late teens to early twenties is when both men and women are at their sexual peak.
What you're talking about is the phenomena of middle-aged women getting desperate as they age and their clock ticks out, so they go on a 2 year stint of pounding the mound in every way imaginable as if they were fulfilling some sort of sexual bucket list.
Even if a "good" security system works, it still leaves a broken window, a trashed door, or other damage done by a burglar. I had a vehicle protected with a kill switch rather than a car alarm because I didn't care for the siren noise. It got broken into several times and the steering column opened up. My vehicle was still there when I came back, but it cost a pretty penny to get the broken window fixed, a new ignition switch, etc.
A real security system needs both. Real security that slows down or stops attacks combined with the "oh shit", brown-stain-in-pants, intimidation factor.
It also depends on the criminal. The two barking GSDs in the window may deter a professional thief who makes his money on doing his stuff quietly, but the meth-head will just fire off a few rounds with his 9mm, and score something to take to a fence for another bottle of shake-and-bake.
Personally, I'd take the laser system. Combined with a real alarm and in-depth security like sturdy, locking hall and bedroom doors, it will keep a good number of potential burglars at bay.
A "real security system" is impossible. A 99.999% effective security solution is to put a box in the passenger seat that says "LIVE BEES".
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The best authentication has three components:
1. Something you know (such as a passphrase), plus...
2. Something you own (such as the ID number from a FOB which rotates IDs every minute), plus...
3. Something you are (biometrics).
You don't use biometrics *instead* of the passphrase or FOB; you use it to augment the effectiveness of those techniques.
When you push all these things down a wire, they're all effectively "something you know".
The only difference is that a remote attacker will have a harder time knowing what your WoW authenticator will say at any given time than you will, and that a local attacker will have a harder time knowing what the thumbprint reader will say about your thumbprint than you will. 2 and 3 are easily broken by hitting you in the head and taking your finger and authenticator.
...I don't really know.
You're modded -1, but your post is completely accurate.
What did people think the software was doing? Generating a key based on your fingerprint that stays the same every time you scan it and then using that key to decrypt passwords that are properly encrypted? As if!
<em> doesn't work for me.
oh hey they reenabled <i>!
<strong> doesn't work for me.
oh hey they reenabled <b>!
So the lesson is that Slashdot randomly changes shit. A few months ago you had to use em for italics and strong for bold. Then strong worked but em didn't. Now it's back to b and i only.
You can stand when you want to
We can stand if we want to
We can leave your friends behind
Cause your friends don't stand
And if they don't stand
Well they're no friends of mine
Say, we can go where we want to
A place where they will never find
And we can act like we come from out of this world
Because you're one far behind
We can stand
We can go where we want to
The night is young and so am i
And we can dress real neat
From our hats to our feet
Then surprise them with a big trick ride
Say, we can act if we want to
If we don't, nobody will
And you can act real rude
And totally removed
And i can act like an imbecile
Say, we can stand
We can stand
Everything's outta control
We can stand
We can stand
We're doing it more and more
We can stand
We can stand
Everybody look at your hands
We can stand
We can
Everybody's taking a sta-nd
It's safe to stand
Oh well, it's safe to stand
Yes, it's safe to stand
We can standif we want to
We've got all your life and mine
As long as we abuse it
Never gonna lose it
Everything will work out right
I say, we can standif we want to
We can leave your friends behind
Because your friends don't stand
And if they don't stand
Well they're no friends of mine
I say, we can stand
We can stand
Everything's outta control
We can stand
We can stand
We're doing it more and more
We can stand
We can stand
Everybody look at your hands
We can stand
We can stand
Everybody's taking the sta-nd
Well, it's safe to stand
Yes, it's safe to stand
Well, it's safe to stand
Oh well, it's safe to stand
Ah yes, it's safe to stand
Well, it's safe to stand
It's safe to stand
It's safe to stand
Your comment has too few characters per line (currently 18.9).
Look at this goddamned bullshit this is why I hate Slashdot I can't even post a fucking joke because of this horseshit filter that doesn't allow cent signs, degree symbols, italics, or fun. Now I have to pad out this post with a bunch of horse shit because Slashdot is givin' me the bizness about shit it don't even know. IT DON'T EVEN KNOW.
Look at this goddamned bullshit this is why I hate Slashdot I can't even post a fucking joke because of this horseshit filter that doesn't allow cent signs, degree symbols, italics, or fun. Now I have to pad out this post with a bunch of horse shit because Slashdot is givin' me the bizness about shit it don't even know. IT DON'T EVEN KNOW.
Look at this goddamned bullshit this is why I hate Slashdot I can't even post a fucking joke because of this horseshit filter that doesn't allow cent signs, degree symbols, italics, or fun. Now I have to pad out this post with a bunch of horse shit because Slashdot is givin' me the bizness about shit it don't even know. IT DON'T EVEN KNOW.
But you can have communication that is faster then light very easily lets take a wheel for example. you can observer the wheel from to either side, if I rotate the wheel from one side the other side rotates at the same time FTL communication just occurred I told you I rotated a wheel. Now if said wheel was so big that it went from earth to mars you would have FTL communication meaningfully,
Nope.
Objects don't respond to force instantaneously, they respond at different speeds depending on their shape and material.
A Tempur-Pedic bed dampens and absorbs force and transmits it so slowly that you can jump on it and not spill a glass of wine on the other end of the bed.
A perfectly solid material would transmit force at near the speed of light.
How come a SIM card is blended perfectly with the case but a Micro SD card -which is smaller- "defiles" the design?
Because the "design" is to sell 8, 16, and 32 GB variations for $499, $599, and $699, respectively.
I *knew* I should have patented the paper armor I made for myself when I was a kid.
Mythbusters did it - they made effective (for some uses) paper armor that fit descriptions of such from ancient China.
Peerblock seems pretty thorough.
Of course everyone may as well just start using the free VPN provided by TPB.
The answer depends on what you do hope to achieve by reporting.
If you hope the people to stop:
In case the origin is a company within you country, contacting them may you do some good. They will pull the plug on their malware infested machine. Attacker will use others.
In all other cases the only chance to have any kind of effect is to report dramatic damages to the law enforcement. Other than that, nobody cares enough ;-). Even with dramatic damages, the chances for any effect are slim to none.
IMHO: In 90+% of all cases the answer is /dev/null the economical best answer.
Yup. /dev/null is the correct answer.
Unless you've suffered BIG MONEY LOSSES, a data breach that could embarrass someone who has BIG MONEY, or something to do with CHILD PORN, no one gives a shit. And in the case of child porn you're probably better off plugging the security hole and wiping any trace than you are inviting the authorities to come investigate.
Until marketers can accurately and succinctly define "the cloud" they're going to wind up with people not understanding "the cloud".
Of course, that's their fucking goal. They don't want anyone knowing that "the cloud" is just "a bunch of servers somewhere, idunno where, just give me money and I'll sell you things".
If I was a cloud provider I'd have 3 data centers and 5 or 6 fake data centers with nothing in them.
I'd tell customers I had 8 or 9 locations and they'd never fucking know.
Fuck off. Read the studies; the disfiguring argument is bullshit when you consider that your "natural figure" might well be harboring virii that give your wife/mate cancer.
YOU should read the studies - they're laughable bullshit.
I for one would like to think they make pockets out of the leftover skin.
Just cosmetics.
Lies and nonsense designed to prop up the > $240,000,000 per year industry that has been gradually waning.
a Heisenberg Compensator! Soon we'll have transporters too!
No they didn't. They invented a fancy vibrator.
Heisenberg states that you can't know both the precise position and precise momentum of a particle.
Overwhelmingly the reason given was that people didn't want to be old and infirm any longer than they had to be, even if a pill allowed them to delay the inevitable.
Well, it's a good thing that that's not what we're talking about, isn't it? The whole idea is to delay--or if possible, prevent entirely--the things that make us "old" and infirm to begin with. Nobody wants to spend eternity in a nursing home, duh. Spending an indefinite amount of time young and healthy, or even middle-aged and mostly healthy? Sign me up.
Then maybe the question, and possible answer choices, should have mentioned that.
How long do you want to live?
A) 80 years
B) 120 years
C) 150 years
D) None of the above
Might as well study relationships by passing a note to the girl on the other side of the class.
Do you like me?
A) Yes
B) No
C) Maybe
Google: Google doesn't make end products, they have OEMs do it, so they're insulated there.
They make the Nexus phone and tablet. Perhaps you've heard of them?
No they don't. Just as they didn't make the Nexus One.
The lawsuit had nothing to do with Android. Your statement would make sense if you'd said "every smartphone manufacturer".
Let's see:
Apple could sue...:
Android OEMs: They're already doing it, and going after others will be easier after the first victory. They got big money, no whammies, and they won't stop.
Apple: Doubtful.
Google: Google doesn't make end products, they have OEMs do it, so they're insulated there. Apple could sue on all of the software stuff, but since Google isn't the one making the devices, and using Android is "free" for OEMs, they'd have a hard time getting large awards for damages. Apple's goal is to win cash and to maintain their dwindling market share. If Google lost a suit, damages would be low or non-existent, and stock Android would have some minor change that OEMs override. No big deal. Android is like a hydra at this point, with each OEM being a head.
Microsoft: Windows Phone phones are actually quite different in design and UI compared to the iPhone and Android phones, and MS has the resources (entire battalions of lawyers and its own patent portfolio) to defend itself properly. If Apple were to sue, MS would fire back, and it would be a tit-for-tat on technology (actual technology, not UI bullshit) patents each of them hold. There's no huge financial victory possible, and there's no smackdown to a major competitor.
That's everyone in the game today. Nokia is gone, Motorola Mobility is gone, and RIM is on their way to being bought out for their patents. Suing the biggest Android OEM is the best way to get a large cash award and disrupt a competitor's spot in the marketplace. If Samsung fails to score on the appeals, HTC will be next.
Typo and clarification:
It would be fairly easy to look for those stem cells [in] humans and find out if they're turning into ovums. They're not [doing this] there.
It would be fairly easy to look for those stem cells and humans and find out if they're turning into ovums. They're not there.
Mice aren't people. Humans breed at a rough maximum of 1 per year for 30 years. Mice pump out offspring like, well, mice. Menopause isn't an exhaustion of supply - there are enough eggs in one human ovary to last a hundred lifetimes. We already can delay and reverse menopause, just as we can with andropause. The side effects (basically CANCER OUT THE ASS) are not worth it. We can get better at this to a point, but it will take genetic therapy to really roll back the clock.
The "goal" behind finding a way for humans females to produce new eggs is to increase the viability of pregnancy later in life. There are plenty of old eggs left, but they're damaged. But fresh eggs won't solve anything since the ovum is just a small, small part of that equation. You'd need a fresh uterus as well. Fresh mammaries. Fresh digestive tract. Fresh cardiovascular system. Etc., etc. Some of these externalities are things we a pretty good at either keeping young and healthy or working around if they prove to be an issue for a pregnancy. Some of them we are not.
Regardless, even if we had a mechanism for producing new ovums, and could control all other aspects of the pregnancy, it wouldn't matter. The new eggs produced would be just as damaged as the old ones, and just as damaged as an old man's sperm. And again, there is no such mechanism in humans.
40? Pah. I'm 55 and we've just had twins. Sure, its hard. Physically exhausting, nope.
Someone's got a Bowflex Body(TM)!
Except: A woman is born with all the eggs she will ever have (they are not produced over the woman's lifetime).
There is research suggesting this isn't true.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/02/120229-women-health-ovaries-eggs-reproduction-science/
Except this isn't research, it's one researcher with a foregone conclusion simply wishing it to be true.
There is no mechanism for gamete production in human females that have been born.
Except: A woman is born with all the eggs she will ever have (they are not produced over the woman's lifetime). On the other hand sperm are produced more on an as-needed basis. So, there is much more opportunity for problems to arise with eggs (presumably why the chance of having a Down's Syndrome child increases with the mother's age).
Correct. Older eggs suffer far more damage than older sperm. It was commonly thought for many, many years that sperm age had no consequence. It was proven 5 or 6 years ago that it absolutely does. Then, right on queue, Slashdot has a story about it.
Sexually speaking, guys peak at age 17, producing the most sperm. Women peak at 37.
A woman trying to have children at 32 years of age or older is monstrously more likely to have complications.
Late teens to early twenties is when both men and women are at their sexual peak.
What you're talking about is the phenomena of middle-aged women getting desperate as they age and their clock ticks out, so they go on a 2 year stint of pounding the mound in every way imaginable as if they were fulfilling some sort of sexual bucket list.
Even if a "good" security system works, it still leaves a broken window, a trashed door, or other damage done by a burglar. I had a vehicle protected with a kill switch rather than a car alarm because I didn't care for the siren noise. It got broken into several times and the steering column opened up. My vehicle was still there when I came back, but it cost a pretty penny to get the broken window fixed, a new ignition switch, etc.
A real security system needs both. Real security that slows down or stops attacks combined with the "oh shit", brown-stain-in-pants, intimidation factor.
It also depends on the criminal. The two barking GSDs in the window may deter a professional thief who makes his money on doing his stuff quietly, but the meth-head will just fire off a few rounds with his 9mm, and score something to take to a fence for another bottle of shake-and-bake.
Personally, I'd take the laser system. Combined with a real alarm and in-depth security like sturdy, locking hall and bedroom doors, it will keep a good number of potential burglars at bay.
A "real security system" is impossible.
A 99.999% effective security solution is to put a box in the passenger seat that says "LIVE BEES".
Resistant to bleach? Really? Did you even read the post you're replying to?
Bacteria, virii, molds, etc. can and do develop resistances to bleach, alcohol, fire, radiation etc.