Easy solution: Make them follow a pattern that makes sense only to you! Sure you lose some security because of the potential predictability. But it's way better than tacking it on the cubical wall for everyone to see.
An example would be using visual patterns. Like drawing a bunny on the keys of the keyboard, because your intern of the month is a playboy bunny.;)
Every time you see her, you remember it. And not much later, you will have your password pop up in your head every time you jack off.:P
But this is just one example of an infinite set of possibilities.
I don't know about you, but at work they don't like me jacking off every time I have to log into a system.
Isn't it obvious? He uses the handgun to prove he's a natural-born US citizen.
He uses the credit cards to stop a charging Kodiak bear, since they only maul tourists.
Besides, with a cellular phone, a programmable calculator, a phillips screwdriver, and a short piece of string (or the lanyard), even Macgyver could encourage the most obstinate of bears to charge his wife, instead of him.
Because I maintain good intentions, and I assume most people do likewise, I'll also assume that the reporter made an error, and that Oregon researchers aren't actually trying to convert sunlight into hydrogen. Energy into matter? I seem to remember something about this... Nope, it's gone. Now, where did I put my glasses?
Besides that, there is also the problem of the greater weight of the camera causing it to fall faster than the lighter grains of sand.
Observe! You'd think this ball *produces cannonball* would fall faster than this feather *produces feather*.
*performs experiment*
And.. you'd be exactly right. -- Rosencrantz (or is it Guildenstern?)
You forgot one point:
Sources, data, and statistics are irrelevant. Honestly, this story sounds like a bunch of tripe without an ounce of credibility for support.
This isn't anecdotal. I went thru hell dealing with those jackals and I pity anyone having to do the same. I had to go thru 5,000 candidate 'engineers' just to find 100 that were anywhere near being hireable. So many of the individuals we interviewed had unverifiable work records...so many had the same answers to recruitment screening tests....it took months to wad thru the imposters and we still didn't have a solid 100 when we were done.
Strange.. seems anecdotal to me.
Seriously though, from the other side of things, it's just as difficult to find employment in a company who is truly looking for the qualities they describe as necessary. I keep reminding myself, when reading job descriptions, of the time I read of a company looking for five years of Windows 98 experience.. the year it was released. Employers are asking their candidates to lie, or at least to misrepresent themselves.
The parent is certainly right. It's even easier dancing with married women, because there isn't the awkward need to perform well. They always have girlfriends who just haven't found someone yet. If there's not single women there, there will be soon enough, and by then you'll be a lot more confident (or hopefully you'll have gotten the steps down by then).
I don't understand.
How many football fields is this?
How many Libraries of Congress fit in this lake?
Standards! We must follow standards, or how else can we communicate?!
As a freshly out of college engineer myself, I find that an interesting problem. My professors had a few schools of thought, from the rote memorization, to the kitchen sink approaches to tests. The best professors, in my opinion, used a kitchen sink approach. We came to expect anything, and those professors cared more about *how* we thought, and what approach we took, than whether our math was right, or our answer right (or even within a couple orders of magnitude, et cetera). The kitchen sink approach was extremely good at gearing our mind to approach problems with good methodology, because if you break down a problem right, it practically solves itself.
That said, my best kitchen sink professors also had the sense, in basic introductory classes (Matlab comes to mind, actually) which were aimed at teaching a particular skill, looked at the skills that were necessary, and essentially made us do homework that forced us to learn those skills repetitively. Those exams closed book. Sure it was difficult, but where we needed to learn a particular skill, it was obvious whether we grasped that. Then exams were simply about flexing those muscles again, which showed that we had obtained those skills.
My best rote memorization professor, who really couldn't teach at all, still did an excellent job of teaching us. Our department had enough sense to pack him into the skills classes. His previous exams and homework could all be found on-line, but that was truthfully used as a study tool in the sense that every one of us learned the procedure and the process necessary to perform those skills. If I had to go back and do it again, I could. I may have to dust out those notes again, but with absolute certainty I could perform those skills adequately.
The worst professors I had made two mistakes, usually. First, they didn't assign enough homework. Second, they failed to break problems down into basic elements to allow us to make sense of what they're trying to illustrate. That, and tenure professors who aren't good at teaching should *really* find something else to do.
What I learned from my degree was this: how to think, how to communicate, how to organize my time, how to research, and university campuses have some damn attractive women.
I know of a house in my area that has a house with induced current. He never once paid for electricity for his house until after he retired from the power company.
They should seriously have some damn tiered pricing for limited resources like electricity and water. I mean, if I use an extra 20 gallons one month, no big whoop - the guy down the street that waters his lawn every fucking day needs to be paying more for that crap though. Tiered pricing is the only economical way to make people conserve in a meaningful way.
Water isn't really a limited resource.
Especially if your just watering with it and not drinking it.
I think that depends on where you are. If there's more demand than supply, then it definitely *is* a limited resource. How you choose to use it once you get it is pretty irrelevent.
Besides, the complaint about water cost is usually talking about treated drinking water, which can be significantly limited in some places.
Forgive me if this has been asked previously:
Where does the distinction lie? Can I, as an Alaskan, drive through Canada, purchase said blank media for the purpose of holding copyrighted materials? Am I allowed to transport it outside of Canada, assuming I keep it and don't resell it, or am I obligated to leave it at the border?
I'll never forget the day I was someplace in California at a gas station, with a dead battery. I asked a guy for a jump, and he said "I don't have one."
I couldn't argue.
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Easy solution: Make them follow a pattern that makes sense only to you! Sure you lose some security because of the potential predictability. But it's way better than tacking it on the cubical wall for everyone to see.
An example would be using visual patterns. Like drawing a bunny on the keys of the keyboard, because your intern of the month is a playboy bunny. ;)
Every time you see her, you remember it. And not much later, you will have your password pop up in your head every time you jack off. :P
But this is just one example of an infinite set of possibilities.
I don't know about you, but at work they don't like me jacking off every time I have to log into a system.
So ... play it backward.
Oh c'mon. The cake is a lie.
Isn't it obvious? He uses the handgun to prove he's a natural-born US citizen.
He uses the credit cards to stop a charging Kodiak bear, since they only maul tourists.
Besides, with a cellular phone, a programmable calculator, a phillips screwdriver, and a short piece of string (or the lanyard), even Macgyver could encourage the most obstinate of bears to charge his wife, instead of him.
Because I maintain good intentions, and I assume most people do likewise, I'll also assume that the reporter made an error, and that Oregon researchers aren't actually trying to convert sunlight into hydrogen. Energy into matter? I seem to remember something about this ...
Nope, it's gone. Now, where did I put my glasses?
He made a car analogy. Big deal!
But he couldn't even tell us how many libraries of congress it is! What's up with that?!
Besides that, there is also the problem of the greater weight of the camera causing it to fall faster than the lighter grains of sand.
Observe! You'd think this ball *produces cannonball* would fall faster than this feather *produces feather*. .. you'd be exactly right. -- Rosencrantz (or is it Guildenstern?)
*performs experiment*
And
You forgot one point:
Sources, data, and statistics are irrelevant. Honestly, this story sounds like a bunch of tripe without an ounce of credibility for support.
This isn't anecdotal. I went thru hell dealing with those jackals and I pity anyone having to do the same. I had to go thru 5,000 candidate 'engineers' just to find 100 that were anywhere near being hireable. So many of the individuals we interviewed had unverifiable work records...so many had the same answers to recruitment screening tests....it took months to wad thru the imposters and we still didn't have a solid 100 when we were done.
Strange .. seems anecdotal to me.
.. the year it was released. Employers are asking their candidates to lie, or at least to misrepresent themselves.
Seriously though, from the other side of things, it's just as difficult to find employment in a company who is truly looking for the qualities they describe as necessary. I keep reminding myself, when reading job descriptions, of the time I read of a company looking for five years of Windows 98 experience
The parent is certainly right. It's even easier dancing with married women, because there isn't the awkward need to perform well. They always have girlfriends who just haven't found someone yet. If there's not single women there, there will be soon enough, and by then you'll be a lot more confident (or hopefully you'll have gotten the steps down by then).
I don't understand.
How many football fields is this?
How many Libraries of Congress fit in this lake?
Standards! We must follow standards, or how else can we communicate?!
As a freshly out of college engineer myself, I find that an interesting problem. My professors had a few schools of thought, from the rote memorization, to the kitchen sink approaches to tests. The best professors, in my opinion, used a kitchen sink approach. We came to expect anything, and those professors cared more about *how* we thought, and what approach we took, than whether our math was right, or our answer right (or even within a couple orders of magnitude, et cetera). The kitchen sink approach was extremely good at gearing our mind to approach problems with good methodology, because if you break down a problem right, it practically solves itself. That said, my best kitchen sink professors also had the sense, in basic introductory classes (Matlab comes to mind, actually) which were aimed at teaching a particular skill, looked at the skills that were necessary, and essentially made us do homework that forced us to learn those skills repetitively. Those exams closed book. Sure it was difficult, but where we needed to learn a particular skill, it was obvious whether we grasped that. Then exams were simply about flexing those muscles again, which showed that we had obtained those skills. My best rote memorization professor, who really couldn't teach at all, still did an excellent job of teaching us. Our department had enough sense to pack him into the skills classes. His previous exams and homework could all be found on-line, but that was truthfully used as a study tool in the sense that every one of us learned the procedure and the process necessary to perform those skills. If I had to go back and do it again, I could. I may have to dust out those notes again, but with absolute certainty I could perform those skills adequately. The worst professors I had made two mistakes, usually. First, they didn't assign enough homework. Second, they failed to break problems down into basic elements to allow us to make sense of what they're trying to illustrate. That, and tenure professors who aren't good at teaching should *really* find something else to do. What I learned from my degree was this: how to think, how to communicate, how to organize my time, how to research, and university campuses have some damn attractive women.
Maybe not stealing, but some scenarios would certainly call it treason.
I know of a house in my area that has a house with induced current. He never once paid for electricity for his house until after he retired from the power company.
They should seriously have some damn tiered pricing for limited resources like electricity and water. I mean, if I use an extra 20 gallons one month, no big whoop - the guy down the street that waters his lawn every fucking day needs to be paying more for that crap though. Tiered pricing is the only economical way to make people conserve in a meaningful way.
Water isn't really a limited resource. Especially if your just watering with it and not drinking it.
I think that depends on where you are. If there's more demand than supply, then it definitely *is* a limited resource. How you choose to use it once you get it is pretty irrelevent. Besides, the complaint about water cost is usually talking about treated drinking water, which can be significantly limited in some places.
BBQ, obviously!
So ...
Are you twins?
Forgive me if this has been asked previously: Where does the distinction lie? Can I, as an Alaskan, drive through Canada, purchase said blank media for the purpose of holding copyrighted materials? Am I allowed to transport it outside of Canada, assuming I keep it and don't resell it, or am I obligated to leave it at the border?
They use checklists for everything, and flying a plane is much less dangerous than operating on someone in an ICU.
Don't they already have some kinds of checklists for "make sure we don't leave any sponges or scalpels in the patient."
Nurse: "Hey, where'd the checklist go?" Doctor: "I dunno, but I can't find my scalpel, either!"
I'll never forget the day I was someplace in California at a gas station, with a dead battery. I asked a guy for a jump, and he said "I don't have one." I couldn't argue.
Would that happen to be 12345?
Oblig: That's the same password as my luggage!
Criminal, residency & credit checks came back clean.
Why the hell do they need to do a credit check?
To prevent guys with baseball bats from interrupting the experiment, obviously.
I imagine its going to fund the 419 emails they're going to send out to try to infiltrate the Nigerian cyber community.