And myth busters claims to have busted that one, too, according to your link.
I guess the mythbusters crew have never spent much time in buildings from the 19th century.
(At least, I would hope it was negligence. But reading what mythbusters has said about vibrating buildings, they've just lost a lot of what cred they had with me.)
Great. I'll go check at Google what odd-looking strings have been looked up in the last little bit.
No, I won't, either, but I think doing a web search for your password on someone else's search engine is a wise thing to do. Download one of the larger password dictionaries out their and search it off-line, if you must.
Of course, if that system is no longer running and neither you nor your cohorts ever re-use it, okay.
But what about the twenty passwords you have to remember now?
Give an answer like "Vp !N 7#3 @1R u{mt WY widdle waddle".
No need to actually answer the question, and usually no real need to remember the answer you gave, because you never want to have to answer those security questions.
Write it down. Don't write what it connects to, but write it down. That's why you don't really answer the question.
Write it somewhere the people who might see it won't recognize it.
If you really need it to be safe, put it in a portable digital vault.
I probably haven't ever seen the inside of your church. But I recognize many things from your description that are similar to mine, for people who let church become a mere social thing.
Yeah, I've had a member of my congregation ask me to quit using my iBook during meetings, even though I contribute to lessons as much as anyone.
Church and religion are full of paradoxes.
Church is there to give us a place to be closer to God, and that is very much a personal thing. But church is also there so that we do the works of God, and that is going to be, to varying degrees, social.
But when social things become regular, they tend to get systemized, and systemization tends to squelch the spiritual that underlies the positive aspects of both the personal and social.
The church I go to has a big conference twice a year that gets brought in over satellite. We could watch it in our homes because they also put it up on the web site. But we usually try to go to a central place to see it, because then we get a chance to interact socially. (And, if you accept certain axioms about spirit, we gain somethng from each other's spirits, and there is a greater connection with the Spirit when we are all there for the same purpose.) But the rest of the year we try to avoid too much media use in meetings.
(Not that I haven't seen Power Point slides used in meetings. I was able to overcome the instinctive reaction well enough to gain something anyway, but that instinctive reaction sure was there. I'd have had a similar reaction if it had been Keynote.)
We also spend a little time in Sunday School every now and then talking about how to make a good short sermon. And that can also go wrong, since we end up training each other how to interact with an audience, and then some of our members get the idea that we're teaching how to sell. And then the bishop calls our lay leaders in and reminds us we need to re-focus on service again. And some of the members get inspired, and then we get out and involved in the community again for a while.
I think there is no way to avoid church going through different phases of activity. Otherwise, we just get stuck into another system again.
Adding a little from the quote that got cut precariously close to out of context:
“Here's the bottom line: We rely on the Internet to do too much and be too much to let it decay into a lawless Wild West. We are confident that America's technology community, which leads the world in innovation and creativity, will be capable of developing a technical solution that helps address the serious challenge of rogue sites,” said Paul Brigner, chief technology officer at MPAA.
In other words, "our geeks are Gods, and they'd damned sure better do our bidding!"
I'm thinking this is the same kind of political behavior that caused that incident with a tower in Babel. (Whether you take the Bible literally about that or not, the metaphor is quite instructive.)
Isn't that kind of the point of the article, teachers are using Kahn's lectures (or following the example and making their own) to do one part of the educational process and finding more time to work on the other two thirds.
We aren't talking about replacing teachers with Kahn videos, we're talking about using the videos as tools that allow us to focus more on the stuff that the student has had to go looking elsewhere for in the past because the teacher hasn't had the time.
I'm another of those who complain about teaching the test.
On the other hand, I've been at odds with myself over the last several months because, in my job as a glorified (English language) teaching assistant in Japan, I've been enabling the teachers to do exactly that. And it has been bothering my conscience. Thanks for pointing out what I'd forgotten, that without my help they'd have trouble even teaching the tests.
And now I can remember that my being willing to break the rules and use Japanese (judiciously, so the students still complain a bit) with the students is one of my tools for helping the students who don't want to be ruled by the tests.
I like teaching at the elementary schools, too, but I've been really worn out this year. Passed the JLPT, that wasn't too bad, now I'm trying to pass the LPIC, to open up my options next year a bit, and that is really wearing me down. Maybe I should just abandon CS/IT and start my attack on the Nihongo Kentei.
(And my wife thinks all my time on slashdot is wasted.)
My kid's drowning in homework, and the best I can do is try to get him over to a (metaphorical) life-preserver or handy piece of driftwood every now and then because his mother won't let me take him out of the water.
(I love my wife, but her traditions are really deeply ingrained in her thinking.)
There is benefit in homework, as long as it doesn't get in the way of the kids studying for real. That's the real problem in education, getting the teachers to learn how to stand back and let the students learn at appropriate times.
Any teacher who can find enough time to pre-record a lecture can do this.
That allows the teacher to establish that his/her lectures implement the mandates. Shoot, you could run the (possibly scripted) lecture on the projector and then walk around and actually answer individual students' questions while it plays.
And, yeah, I'm sure some school districts would find some reason to try to get that stopped, too. But it's worth a try.
Another possibility is recording the lecture as given and putting it on-line immediately for students to review. That would not be as efficient in use of student time, but would be a lot harder for stupid, jealous, anti-education co-workers to try to block.
There is an axiom about systems (which Bill Gates seems to have used to justify MSWindows, especially in the early years) that seems to have been mislaid in current IT and CS training:
No system is perfect.
Restated, every system is vulnerable.
The only way to prove that axiom false would require proving NP == P.
Political systems, computer systems, education systems, washing machine control systems, telephone systems, e-mail or snail mail systems, health care systems, whatever, when we decide they can drive themselves, we put ourselves at risk.
Not saying that we shouldn't try caps on wealth or income. Something needs to be done. But if the caps are made permanent and protocols are set in determining how to apply, you can safely hold your breath until somone figures out a work-around. You won't even turn slightly blue.
Either that, or the protocols will be so unwieldly that everyone simply decides to go on welfare. And it may take a few months, but someone will figure out a way around them anyway.
The problems are within us. The solutions are, also.
I sometimes do. If a certain iBook weren't having problems with the video generator chip (_that_ famous problem), it would be running openBSD mostly now. (and sometimes Vine Linux and sometimes ancient Mac OS 10.3). But mostly openBSD, even with the funky need to startx after logging in.
Saying *BSD is irrelevant is kind of like saying your dad is irrelevant.
Do the hashes turn out to be so predictable as to make it computationally trivial to change an input text in non-obvious ways and produce a cryptographic hash visually near the real hash?
MarkDown -- okay, I see I need to use github more.
Might want to give a nod to the node-walk in the readme, and you may want to add sub-parameters, including, not just a set of good node frequencies or other parameters of the node walk, am I making sense?, but also, perhaps, a salt file to help work with short input sets like passwords and passphrases and account numbers and such.
(Started to add PINs to that list, but now I'm thinking that's a really bad idea. On the other hand, this sort of thing suggests the possiblitiy of a portable feedback salt for ATMs and the like. Such a salt would not affect the authentication process, but would affect the feedback, as a way to make it harder for people behind or around you to get a visual on a PIN. Heh. Shades of Mac OS 10.2 login, except the obfuscation up front instead of behind.)
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And myth busters claims to have busted that one, too, according to your link.
I guess the mythbusters crew have never spent much time in buildings from the 19th century.
(At least, I would hope it was negligence. But reading what mythbusters has said about vibrating buildings, they've just lost a lot of what cred they had with me.)
I can just see some poor schmuck holding paper tape up to the light, squinting, and reading into a mike attached to a computer:
one
oh
oh
one, no oh
oh, darn it, one
one
oh
oh
one, uh oh
(Calculating in my head, my memory is about 2 mm/byte, so a terabyte (base 10 tera) would be, erm, about 2 gigameters long.)
in the group is palpable tonight. Full moon?
I'm more inclined to think the author has just learned what RAM is and doesn't yet understand the difference between flash RAM and dRAM.
Why should the controller fail, especially, why should the controller fail before the flash?
What I meant to say.
Great. I'll go check at Google what odd-looking strings have been looked up in the last little bit.
No, I won't, either, but I think doing a web search for your password on someone else's search engine is a wise thing to do. Download one of the larger password dictionaries out their and search it off-line, if you must.
Of course, if that system is no longer running and neither you nor your cohorts ever re-use it, okay.
But what about the twenty passwords you have to remember now?
Give an answer like "Vp !N 7#3 @1R u{mt WY widdle waddle".
No need to actually answer the question, and usually no real need to remember the answer you gave, because you never want to have to answer those security questions.
Write it down. Don't write what it connects to, but write it down. That's why you don't really answer the question.
Write it somewhere the people who might see it won't recognize it.
If you really need it to be safe, put it in a portable digital vault.
But write it down.
I probably haven't ever seen the inside of your church. But I recognize many things from your description that are similar to mine, for people who let church become a mere social thing.
Yeah, I've had a member of my congregation ask me to quit using my iBook during meetings, even though I contribute to lessons as much as anyone.
Church and religion are full of paradoxes.
Church is there to give us a place to be closer to God, and that is very much a personal thing. But church is also there so that we do the works of God, and that is going to be, to varying degrees, social.
But when social things become regular, they tend to get systemized, and systemization tends to squelch the spiritual that underlies the positive aspects of both the personal and social.
The church I go to has a big conference twice a year that gets brought in over satellite. We could watch it in our homes because they also put it up on the web site. But we usually try to go to a central place to see it, because then we get a chance to interact socially. (And, if you accept certain axioms about spirit, we gain somethng from each other's spirits, and there is a greater connection with the Spirit when we are all there for the same purpose.) But the rest of the year we try to avoid too much media use in meetings.
(Not that I haven't seen Power Point slides used in meetings. I was able to overcome the instinctive reaction well enough to gain something anyway, but that instinctive reaction sure was there. I'd have had a similar reaction if it had been Keynote.)
We also spend a little time in Sunday School every now and then talking about how to make a good short sermon. And that can also go wrong, since we end up training each other how to interact with an audience, and then some of our members get the idea that we're teaching how to sell. And then the bishop calls our lay leaders in and reminds us we need to re-focus on service again. And some of the members get inspired, and then we get out and involved in the community again for a while.
I think there is no way to avoid church going through different phases of activity. Otherwise, we just get stuck into another system again.
aww yeah getting down with the lsd! i mean lds... whatever so similar can't tell them apart.
heh
Well, I guess if I'm going to go seeing metaphors in everything, I can't complain about you seeing a metaphorical connection between those two.
But maybe you'll then grant me the observation that similar things could be said about the education system vs. lsd.
And, of course, the skripped quiddees will be passing around "applications" to do that with "just the press of a button".
No, their use is not particularly harder to track.
Adding a little from the quote that got cut precariously close to out of context:
In other words, "our geeks are Gods, and they'd damned sure better do our bidding!"
I'm thinking this is the same kind of political behavior that caused that incident with a tower in Babel. (Whether you take the Bible literally about that or not, the metaphor is quite instructive.)
Isn't that kind of the point of the article, teachers are using Kahn's lectures (or following the example and making their own) to do one part of the educational process and finding more time to work on the other two thirds.
We aren't talking about replacing teachers with Kahn videos, we're talking about using the videos as tools that allow us to focus more on the stuff that the student has had to go looking elsewhere for in the past because the teacher hasn't had the time.
I'm pretty sure about everyone on this thread has been to the website, or is at least aware of it and knows how to get there.
It was an oversight, but not a surprising one.
ouch.
I'm another of those who complain about teaching the test.
On the other hand, I've been at odds with myself over the last several months because, in my job as a glorified (English language) teaching assistant in Japan, I've been enabling the teachers to do exactly that. And it has been bothering my conscience. Thanks for pointing out what I'd forgotten, that without my help they'd have trouble even teaching the tests.
And now I can remember that my being willing to break the rules and use Japanese (judiciously, so the students still complain a bit) with the students is one of my tools for helping the students who don't want to be ruled by the tests.
I like teaching at the elementary schools, too, but I've been really worn out this year. Passed the JLPT, that wasn't too bad, now I'm trying to pass the LPIC, to open up my options next year a bit, and that is really wearing me down. Maybe I should just abandon CS/IT and start my attack on the Nihongo Kentei.
(And my wife thinks all my time on slashdot is wasted.)
Well, if that's all you're getting out of church, ...
hmmm. No, I'm not going to offer some advice about that because chances are whatever advice I could give would be wrong.
Well, anyway, the point of church is supposed to be about what we sometimes used to call face time before facebook.
If we move the scriptures from a book to a movie, that may change some things, but we still need the human interaction.
I think that's also true of education.
That would not fly in Japan.
My kid's drowning in homework, and the best I can do is try to get him over to a (metaphorical) life-preserver or handy piece of driftwood every now and then because his mother won't let me take him out of the water.
(I love my wife, but her traditions are really deeply ingrained in her thinking.)
There is benefit in homework, as long as it doesn't get in the way of the kids studying for real. That's the real problem in education, getting the teachers to learn how to stand back and let the students learn at appropriate times.
Any teacher who can find enough time to pre-record a lecture can do this.
That allows the teacher to establish that his/her lectures implement the mandates. Shoot, you could run the (possibly scripted) lecture on the projector and then walk around and actually answer individual students' questions while it plays.
And, yeah, I'm sure some school districts would find some reason to try to get that stopped, too. But it's worth a try.
Another possibility is recording the lecture as given and putting it on-line immediately for students to review. That would not be as efficient in use of student time, but would be a lot harder for stupid, jealous, anti-education co-workers to try to block.
There is an axiom about systems (which Bill Gates seems to have used to justify MSWindows, especially in the early years) that seems to have been mislaid in current IT and CS training:
No system is perfect.
Restated, every system is vulnerable.
The only way to prove that axiom false would require proving NP == P.
Political systems, computer systems, education systems, washing machine control systems, telephone systems, e-mail or snail mail systems, health care systems, whatever, when we decide they can drive themselves, we put ourselves at risk.
Not saying that we shouldn't try caps on wealth or income. Something needs to be done. But if the caps are made permanent and protocols are set in determining how to apply, you can safely hold your breath until somone figures out a work-around. You won't even turn slightly blue.
Either that, or the protocols will be so unwieldly that everyone simply decides to go on welfare. And it may take a few months, but someone will figure out a way around them anyway.
The problems are within us. The solutions are, also.
I sometimes do. If a certain iBook weren't having problems with the video generator chip (_that_ famous problem), it would be running openBSD mostly now. (and sometimes Vine Linux and sometimes ancient Mac OS 10.3). But mostly openBSD, even with the funky need to startx after logging in.
Saying *BSD is irrelevant is kind of like saying your dad is irrelevant.
Do the hashes turn out to be so predictable as to make it computationally trivial to change an input text in non-obvious ways and produce a cryptographic hash visually near the real hash?
MarkDown -- okay, I see I need to use github more.
Might want to give a nod to the node-walk in the readme, and you may want to add sub-parameters, including, not just a set of good node frequencies or other parameters of the node walk, am I making sense?, but also, perhaps, a salt file to help work with short input sets like passwords and passphrases and account numbers and such.
(Started to add PINs to that list, but now I'm thinking that's a really bad idea. On the other hand, this sort of thing suggests the possiblitiy of a portable feedback salt for ATMs and the like. Such a salt would not affect the authentication process, but would affect the feedback, as a way to make it harder for people behind or around you to get a visual on a PIN. Heh. Shades of Mac OS 10.2 login, except the obfuscation up front instead of behind.)
What, you only get a total of ten different text messages?
(Or. I guess, maybe you're saying that the set of preview texts for the messages you get is weighted heavily to a small subset?)
Since universal login is all the rage, the salt is going to have to be standardized somehow.
For applications like universal login, at any rate. (I truly wish the Mozilla group hadn't decided to put that siren in their boat.)