Fit what crime? There is no crime here. There was no CP here either. The only reason why CP should be banned is simply because it results in the abuse of a child. Here there is no abuse so it should be perfectly legal.
About the only thing that requires a complex password for most people is work. At work, most everyone is too scared of being fired to really mess with people's accounts. Really the only point of passwords there is to keep out network attacks or so people can work at home. If someone can't remember 6-8 characters with a number thrown in there for good measure, perhaps they should not be on the internet.
Of course, a truly skilled criminal can simply look at the keyboard and note which keys are being pressed. So, password masking doesn't even protect fully against snoopers.
Anyone with a password they type often can usually type it fast enough that unless the criminal was really, really, really observant (or smart enough to use a keylogger) the password would still be safe. And really, the criminal isn't your biggest enemy. Lets say you log in to Facebook on your friends computer, if he can see the password he can use it for all sorts of harm that really isn't that criminal, that could really ruin business/personal lives. The idea that we are always totally isolated is false, how often do you go about your work only to notice someone behind you? Some of us don't have the luxury of our own offices but either share one with one or two other people or have a cubicle.
typically, masking passwords doesn't even increase security, but it does cost you business due to login failures
Lets see here.... In a school setting (college or otherwise) lets say a computer in the lab breaks. You are a simi-competent CS student and the admin goes over to fix it. He types in the root password, if it was visible you just got root into any computer at the university and could do whatever you wanted. However if it was masked, it wouldn't be that easy.
As for business, what person can't type in 6-10 characters (average length of a password) and can't get it right in 1-5 tries? Really, the only excuse for that is if you aren't using a keyboard and even then things like the iPhone assist you in showing the plain text for a time then blanking it. I see no reason not to mask passwords and thousands of arguments for it.
Exactly, this is like when the filter at work started blocking legitimate (if not time wasting) sites (Facebook, YouTube, etc) so what did people do? They got proxies, however unlike Facebook and YouTube one of these proxies that someone used wasn't exactly virus-free so their system got a virus because of the blocking.
....And the $120 price is if you already have Windows, considering that Snow Leopard is x86 only and most machines with x86 CPUs shipped with Leopard (a few shipped with Tiger though) its really the most average situation for a Mac owner to only pay $30.
Lets see, businesses do, gamers very often do (hey, if they have the money to buy a $1,000 Core i7 extreme CPU, 6 gigs of DDR3 RAM, a top of the line graphics card, etc, $300 for an OS is a drop in that computer's budget), as do people who are still stuck in the '80s upgrade mentality or people who have Macs and want to run Windows under Boot Camp.
Not to mention that most of the people who purchase Windows boxed either A) build their own PCs, B) are a business C) are a computer enthusiast or D) are a MS developer. Charging this much for people who are high up on the technology chain is just insane, especially because these people know of alternatives and they see Apple with a cheap but better OS and Linux with a free OS. Plus, what is the point of ultimate? As far as I can tell its nothing but a rip-off, there were none of the promised features, and you would think that MS would give them a free upgrade to 7 but I guess not.
How does MS think this pricing is competitive in the least? Snow Leopard is going to be sold for $30 for upgrades while 7 costs $120?!!?! Really, MS needs to learn that those who actually buy their products in-box (not from OEMs) are going to be people who are their valuable customers who are going to have a lot of influence.
Well... hold on here. when you say "the entire Internet has been complaining", you mean a couple-few hundred thousand people have been bitching about these things on blogs, twitter, email, useless "e-petitions", and in some cases mass form emails sent to congresscritters -- form letters indistinguishable from spam for all intents.
How many of "the entire Internet" have actually written a letter to their representative, or even know who their representatives are?
Yes, and those few hundred thousand usually happen to be the ones most affected by it. Its similar to putting a bunch of restrictions on dairy farmers and watch how the public doesn't seem to care much about it yet dairy farmers do, but using that reasoning to keep the legislation in effect because most of the population doesn't know how it works. Same with the DMCA, the people who complain about the DMCA are usually those affected by it, plus, I consider it part of congress's duties to check out what their legislation has done not just to the lobby groups but on those who it also affects who don't have the millions to be represented. Despite making a huge change in copyright law, the DMCA hasn't done anything positive save for the safe harbor provisions, the rest has lead to nothing but destruction. If a person were to Google DMCA they would find the first batch of results to be not only "this is what the DMCA is" but active anti-DMCA groups. They should take that as a sign that they might need to review that bill and repeal it if need be.
As for writing letters, I have written a few letters to my representatives and the only time I got a letter back was when I specifically urged them to vote against a certain bill, I revived a nicely written reply assuring me that they were heavy promoters of the bill and they would vote for it. Considering there was no way that anyone beyond a third-grade reading level could mistake that what I wrote was in support of the bill the only logical explanation is they didn't read it.
As for voting, in America if it isn't a republican or democrat you are out of luck. For example, I am a libertarian, however I don't think that there will be a libertarian in high office for quite some time. I share some beliefs with both republicans and democrats but both have things I am overwhelmingly against, for example, even though republicans are pro economic freedom, they seem to think we need laws prohibiting anything that might be morally questionable which I disagree with strongly. And even though I am for a lot of the pro-freedom of speech that democrats propose, I strongly oppose their crusade to tax everything, their crusade for stronger government and their crusade on weakening second amendment rights.
So really, my beliefs are not represented at all in congress and those who are supposed to be listening to me don't, nor do they even take the time to check what their actions did to the world.
Yes, Google's given these guys $6.5 million. But the United States federal government has given them $200 million--especially the Department of Energy. If you're a United States citizen, you should be aware that you are also funding "the next big one."
And what am I going to do with this knowledge? I can't exactly refuse to pay taxes, nor in our convoluted sense of "freedom" elect any officials with real (positive) tax reforms. Sure, I could complain to congress, but honestly the entire internet has been complaining about many, many, many laws with little to no response about them (the DMCA, prohibition of certain drugs, copyright reform, etc).
I don't know about Basel but I'm certain these guys know they would face serious legal/criminal action if they didn't know for sure it was safe.
All releasing pressure does is make the next earthquake less powerful. Really, if you cause an earthquake in this way, you are simply accelerating a natural process, however this is A) predictable and B) will create less damage, compared to the natural quake.
I actually tried that for a while, however it seemed like a non-working version of Ubuntu. To put it quite simply, the repositories didn't work no matter what I did. Plus I don't really like the UI (I like default GNOME myself). Granted, this was when they were first starting (I think it was version 3 or 4, based off of Ubuntu 7.04 or 7.10, can't remember) so they probably have gotten better.
This sounds an awful like binary.... Could this potentially be used to make bio-computers? Or at the very least Bio-Memory? Perhaps it has too many flaws to be useful, but the idea of using cells to store data is interesting to say the least.
Well, it depends but after installing Linux there are a few things you need to do to make it usable, even with Ubuntu I usually have to install codecs, DVD support, Flash, etc. Those are determined by your network connection so on a DSL connection it could take an hour or two of installation + configuration.
In any case it will be interesting if they start shipping Windows with this pre-installed. Then maybe the manufacturers won't be so quick to bundle Norton/McAffee with their products, and THAT will be fun to watch.
Hopefully OEMs will eventually not bundle any (pre-installed) AV with their systems, with any new system bought from any OEM you spend hours either wiping off Vista and replacing it with Linux/OS X/XP/7 or spend even more hours, countless UAC prompts, and many reboots just to get the system to run decently.
I don't see how hat was a troll. Really, the main threat if you keep up with security patches is simply malware, and malware that has a legitimate use but comes bundled with all sorts of crap like adware and spyware (think of Kazaa).
Yes, exactly, so a tiny detail such as swastikas in the background really shouldn't matter one way or another. What else do you propose that they put in the background? Whats wrong with a bit of aesthetic detail?
Hahahahah, you really think so? It would never stick in the US, other than for soda, no one uses metric. Even if the kids started learning metric-only they would still have to know imperial units because thats what everyone else uses (as in, people who are out of school). Plus, the USA is large, scientists can usually convert, so whats the big deal if we use a different measurement system? We aren't a tiny country.
Sure, but the problem is there is no real way in a 50 minute class period to teach a kid how to use a computer without the focus being on how to use Windows, Word, PowerPoint and Excel and without a doubt no way with the sub-par teachers that make up 75% of all public educators. Very little of what I know about computers came from formal classes, and about all formal classes really taught me was how to program. Learning computers takes time, money and motivation. Most public schools have none of them.
If you aren't mature enough to look at a swastika in a relevant place (we're talking about Nazi Germany here) you shouldn't be on the internet. Let me guess, you are also for the elimination of the flag of the Confederate States too? Please, show some maturity, if you can't handle seeing a swastika, perhaps you shouldn't be looking up information on Nazi Germany.
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Fit what crime? There is no crime here. There was no CP here either. The only reason why CP should be banned is simply because it results in the abuse of a child. Here there is no abuse so it should be perfectly legal.
About the only thing that requires a complex password for most people is work. At work, most everyone is too scared of being fired to really mess with people's accounts. Really the only point of passwords there is to keep out network attacks or so people can work at home. If someone can't remember 6-8 characters with a number thrown in there for good measure, perhaps they should not be on the internet.
Of course, a truly skilled criminal can simply look at the keyboard and note which keys are being pressed. So, password masking doesn't even protect fully against snoopers.
Anyone with a password they type often can usually type it fast enough that unless the criminal was really, really, really observant (or smart enough to use a keylogger) the password would still be safe. And really, the criminal isn't your biggest enemy. Lets say you log in to Facebook on your friends computer, if he can see the password he can use it for all sorts of harm that really isn't that criminal, that could really ruin business/personal lives. The idea that we are always totally isolated is false, how often do you go about your work only to notice someone behind you? Some of us don't have the luxury of our own offices but either share one with one or two other people or have a cubicle.
typically, masking passwords doesn't even increase security, but it does cost you business due to login failures
Lets see here.... In a school setting (college or otherwise) lets say a computer in the lab breaks. You are a simi-competent CS student and the admin goes over to fix it. He types in the root password, if it was visible you just got root into any computer at the university and could do whatever you wanted. However if it was masked, it wouldn't be that easy.
As for business, what person can't type in 6-10 characters (average length of a password) and can't get it right in 1-5 tries? Really, the only excuse for that is if you aren't using a keyboard and even then things like the iPhone assist you in showing the plain text for a time then blanking it. I see no reason not to mask passwords and thousands of arguments for it.
Exactly, this is like when the filter at work started blocking legitimate (if not time wasting) sites (Facebook, YouTube, etc) so what did people do? They got proxies, however unlike Facebook and YouTube one of these proxies that someone used wasn't exactly virus-free so their system got a virus because of the blocking.
....And the $120 price is if you already have Windows, considering that Snow Leopard is x86 only and most machines with x86 CPUs shipped with Leopard (a few shipped with Tiger though) its really the most average situation for a Mac owner to only pay $30.
I actually was referring to $1000 for the CPU alone. (see http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115200 )
Lets see, businesses do, gamers very often do (hey, if they have the money to buy a $1,000 Core i7 extreme CPU, 6 gigs of DDR3 RAM, a top of the line graphics card, etc, $300 for an OS is a drop in that computer's budget), as do people who are still stuck in the '80s upgrade mentality or people who have Macs and want to run Windows under Boot Camp.
Not to mention that most of the people who purchase Windows boxed either A) build their own PCs, B) are a business C) are a computer enthusiast or D) are a MS developer. Charging this much for people who are high up on the technology chain is just insane, especially because these people know of alternatives and they see Apple with a cheap but better OS and Linux with a free OS. Plus, what is the point of ultimate? As far as I can tell its nothing but a rip-off, there were none of the promised features, and you would think that MS would give them a free upgrade to 7 but I guess not.
How does MS think this pricing is competitive in the least? Snow Leopard is going to be sold for $30 for upgrades while 7 costs $120?!!?! Really, MS needs to learn that those who actually buy their products in-box (not from OEMs) are going to be people who are their valuable customers who are going to have a lot of influence.
Well... hold on here. when you say "the entire Internet has been complaining", you mean a couple-few hundred thousand people have been bitching about these things on blogs, twitter, email, useless "e-petitions", and in some cases mass form emails sent to congresscritters -- form letters indistinguishable from spam for all intents. How many of "the entire Internet" have actually written a letter to their representative, or even know who their representatives are?
Yes, and those few hundred thousand usually happen to be the ones most affected by it. Its similar to putting a bunch of restrictions on dairy farmers and watch how the public doesn't seem to care much about it yet dairy farmers do, but using that reasoning to keep the legislation in effect because most of the population doesn't know how it works. Same with the DMCA, the people who complain about the DMCA are usually those affected by it, plus, I consider it part of congress's duties to check out what their legislation has done not just to the lobby groups but on those who it also affects who don't have the millions to be represented. Despite making a huge change in copyright law, the DMCA hasn't done anything positive save for the safe harbor provisions, the rest has lead to nothing but destruction. If a person were to Google DMCA they would find the first batch of results to be not only "this is what the DMCA is" but active anti-DMCA groups. They should take that as a sign that they might need to review that bill and repeal it if need be.
As for writing letters, I have written a few letters to my representatives and the only time I got a letter back was when I specifically urged them to vote against a certain bill, I revived a nicely written reply assuring me that they were heavy promoters of the bill and they would vote for it. Considering there was no way that anyone beyond a third-grade reading level could mistake that what I wrote was in support of the bill the only logical explanation is they didn't read it.
As for voting, in America if it isn't a republican or democrat you are out of luck. For example, I am a libertarian, however I don't think that there will be a libertarian in high office for quite some time. I share some beliefs with both republicans and democrats but both have things I am overwhelmingly against, for example, even though republicans are pro economic freedom, they seem to think we need laws prohibiting anything that might be morally questionable which I disagree with strongly. And even though I am for a lot of the pro-freedom of speech that democrats propose, I strongly oppose their crusade to tax everything, their crusade for stronger government and their crusade on weakening second amendment rights.
So really, my beliefs are not represented at all in congress and those who are supposed to be listening to me don't, nor do they even take the time to check what their actions did to the world.
Yes, Google's given these guys $6.5 million. But the United States federal government has given them $200 million--especially the Department of Energy. If you're a United States citizen, you should be aware that you are also funding "the next big one."
And what am I going to do with this knowledge? I can't exactly refuse to pay taxes, nor in our convoluted sense of "freedom" elect any officials with real (positive) tax reforms. Sure, I could complain to congress, but honestly the entire internet has been complaining about many, many, many laws with little to no response about them (the DMCA, prohibition of certain drugs, copyright reform, etc).
I don't know about Basel but I'm certain these guys know they would face serious legal/criminal action if they didn't know for sure it was safe.
All releasing pressure does is make the next earthquake less powerful. Really, if you cause an earthquake in this way, you are simply accelerating a natural process, however this is A) predictable and B) will create less damage, compared to the natural quake.
I actually tried that for a while, however it seemed like a non-working version of Ubuntu. To put it quite simply, the repositories didn't work no matter what I did. Plus I don't really like the UI (I like default GNOME myself). Granted, this was when they were first starting (I think it was version 3 or 4, based off of Ubuntu 7.04 or 7.10, can't remember) so they probably have gotten better.
This sounds an awful like binary.... Could this potentially be used to make bio-computers? Or at the very least Bio-Memory? Perhaps it has too many flaws to be useful, but the idea of using cells to store data is interesting to say the least.
Well, it depends but after installing Linux there are a few things you need to do to make it usable, even with Ubuntu I usually have to install codecs, DVD support, Flash, etc. Those are determined by your network connection so on a DSL connection it could take an hour or two of installation + configuration.
In any case it will be interesting if they start shipping Windows with this pre-installed. Then maybe the manufacturers won't be so quick to bundle Norton/McAffee with their products, and THAT will be fun to watch.
Hopefully OEMs will eventually not bundle any (pre-installed) AV with their systems, with any new system bought from any OEM you spend hours either wiping off Vista and replacing it with Linux/OS X/XP/7 or spend even more hours, countless UAC prompts, and many reboots just to get the system to run decently.
I don't see how hat was a troll. Really, the main threat if you keep up with security patches is simply malware, and malware that has a legitimate use but comes bundled with all sorts of crap like adware and spyware (think of Kazaa).
Yes, and we all know that because of all the privacy issues in Europe mostly because of their more socialist policies we really need to adopt that!
Um, as far as I know, Ford hasn't taken any of the bailout money, nor is Ford bankrupt, unlike Chrysler and GM.
Fallout (and somewhat of Oblivion) seems to be more of a FPS/RPG combo and I can really see them using FPS technologies in first-person action-RPGs.
Could this mean that ID is now going to become less OSS/Linux friendly?
Yes, exactly, so a tiny detail such as swastikas in the background really shouldn't matter one way or another. What else do you propose that they put in the background? Whats wrong with a bit of aesthetic detail?
Hahahahah, you really think so? It would never stick in the US, other than for soda, no one uses metric. Even if the kids started learning metric-only they would still have to know imperial units because thats what everyone else uses (as in, people who are out of school). Plus, the USA is large, scientists can usually convert, so whats the big deal if we use a different measurement system? We aren't a tiny country.
Sure, but the problem is there is no real way in a 50 minute class period to teach a kid how to use a computer without the focus being on how to use Windows, Word, PowerPoint and Excel and without a doubt no way with the sub-par teachers that make up 75% of all public educators. Very little of what I know about computers came from formal classes, and about all formal classes really taught me was how to program. Learning computers takes time, money and motivation. Most public schools have none of them.
If you aren't mature enough to look at a swastika in a relevant place (we're talking about Nazi Germany here) you shouldn't be on the internet. Let me guess, you are also for the elimination of the flag of the Confederate States too? Please, show some maturity, if you can't handle seeing a swastika, perhaps you shouldn't be looking up information on Nazi Germany.