Thing is, computers happen to be REALLY GOOD AT MATH! I can't imagine that it would take much effort at all for bots to start solving those.
Compared to image-based captchas, where one has to enter text from a horrible photograph or just select an image matching specific criteria ("pick the image below that has a cake in it"), I'm surprised that the math captchas have lasted for as long as they have...
perhaps I'm just spoiled using Safari on iOS on my mobile devices, and alternating between Safari, Chrome and Firefox on my MBPro... But seriously, slashdot was one of the first sites i tried to open on it, and it probably took a minute or two to load the page.
You got the little $50/$35 fire to? I'm sure I've missed the latest updates, haven't touched the thing in a month and a half or more, maybe i'll see if something new came down the pike to make it a usable web browser...
I voted for Cruz in the primaries, because i have more faith in the American people that they would actively not want Cruz win if Hillary was the other option, than if it was a Trump v Hillary contest...
Of course, I failed - i'm in Massachusetts, Trump got 49% of the vote.
Not everyone who knew him in school thought great things about him. His college roommate, in particular, has taken to twitter to let the world know what he had to live with during that time...
This app appears more targeted to the dozens of guys that stand out in front of Home Depot every morning, waiting for a contractor with a van or pickup truck to select a few to work on their project, not people going to an agency or something...
I bought a Fire on the first day of release as well, and set very low expectations for it based on how much I was paying. Ultimately, all I ever use it for is to watch movies I've downloaded on flights. It's Browser performance (just performing DNS lookups as far as I can tell from the UI, forget about getting pages to render) is anemic at best. I haven't even bother installing any applications that I could use to create or add data to it (like a text editor, dropbox, or even a non-throwaway email address), but I'm sure some people do that.
Oh on the plus side, it plays Minecraft like a champ, so it's useful for quieting the house.
Just amused that it can render rudimentary 3-D graphics, play full screen, full motion video, but I can't even use it to visit Slashdot...
Kindles aren't simple epaper devices any more. If that's what you think when you here kindle, erase that from your memory and think "low end android tablet with an Amazon App Store instead of Play".
Now ask yourself what valuable data people store on their tablets.
Some of us wonder why the republican controlled congress is making such a big stink about Hillary, but basically looked the other way when it was revealed most of the bush whitehouse did the same exact thing by relying on the gwb43.com email server hosted by the RNC.
Seems like the same exact thing except one is a big deal and the other isn't.
Why would they? They want you to store your data on their servers, they're not going to give you free tools that reduce the amount of data you send to them.
Probably because so many companies are moving to cloud based email, where its on the provider to filter spam rather than the Exchange administrator, that the market's just not there anymore. Besides, there's freebies like spam assassin that can help a lot for many organizations.
But should the government have to power to remove my voice from earshot, if i'm saying something in disagreement, and therefore not even afford you the opportunity to ignore me? That's effectively what they did.
I don't see how you can be "pro" rights for some and "anti" rights for others.
Of course we're dealing with extremes - Trump and ISIS.
So, you'd be ok with the Chinese government ordering twitter to shutdown accounts of democracy protestors? After all, they're not in our country. Or heck, Venezuela doing the same?
That's an extremely selfish position to take - that you have more rights just because you're here (which you played nearly no role in save for luck of the draw) while others shouldn't have rights because they happened to be born elsewhere.
AES is great now, because it's been focused on and studied by the best cryptographers on the planet, yes. But nothings to say a shortcoming won't or can't be found in the future. How likely is that? Who knows. But never say never.
DES was the Gov't's go-to for encryption for years and years. It ended up needing to be replaced not because of a key length that suddenly made it more vulnerable to brute force attacks (that could have been remedied), but because cryptanalysis had found methods of attack against it that were more efficient than brute force attacks.
For now. Algorithms that seemed great at one point eventually become broken or successfully analyzed.
DES stood up for a while, but computing resources overwhelmed it.
MD5 was great until people learned it was flawed.
same thing is happening now for SHA-1.
True, the later two are for hashing rather than encrypting, but something that seems utterly unbreakable today could be economically broken tomorrow, if an unthought of technique is discovered.
That's not defeatism, it's just being clear that everything *eventually* has shortcomings. No use trying to pretend otherwise!
What about the GOP's designated "Free Speech Zones" at rally's, which effectively put people who had an opposing opinion out of earshot of everyone else?
You really can't point fingers at one side only. Both sides have done more than their fair share of censoring. Is one OK and the other not?
The "establishment" (who make up the majority of both Houses) Republicans are not exactly in his corner. I doubt they'll play along with anything that they think would be detrimental to their party, and especially their own jobs when mid-term elections come around.
By that, I mean, what's the difference between asking for money in order to not send your actual browsing history to your friends, or asking for money in order to not send a made up (and far more incriminating) browsing history to friends?
Seems like the writers could have skipped that step and still done just fine.
Back when I was in grade school, we took computer classes, it was mandatory. We learned how disk drives worked (floppies!), how to do basic programming in, well, BASIC and LOGO. A year or two later we were introduced to Pascal.
Not everyone in my class turned into computer pros. Heck, I'm not even a programmer. But I'd like to think that having that basic grasp made me a lot more comfortable using computers all that time ago, and such things would be great to instill in kids today. Even if they're not all destined to be programmers, they'll have a basic concept of how things work.
Especially these days, computers are so much more advanced and appified, no one seems to have a basic clue how they work or what to expect. I'm constantly shocked at how inept many non-CS college grads are, and I have to think if we all learned just the basics at a young age, we'd all be better off for it.
Maybe more websites need to enforce strong password rules on their users. I know that plenty of sites either read the password entered or check the hash and reject it if it doesn't meet certain criteria. Ideally, end users would come up with secure passwords on their own, but since they can't, administrators need to do some prodding.
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Thing is, computers happen to be REALLY GOOD AT MATH! I can't imagine that it would take much effort at all for bots to start solving those.
Compared to image-based captchas, where one has to enter text from a horrible photograph or just select an image matching specific criteria ("pick the image below that has a cake in it"), I'm surprised that the math captchas have lasted for as long as they have...
perhaps I'm just spoiled using Safari on iOS on my mobile devices, and alternating between Safari, Chrome and Firefox on my MBPro... But seriously, slashdot was one of the first sites i tried to open on it, and it probably took a minute or two to load the page.
You got the little $50/$35 fire to? I'm sure I've missed the latest updates, haven't touched the thing in a month and a half or more, maybe i'll see if something new came down the pike to make it a usable web browser...
Thanks. Just dusted it off and plugged it in to get a charge, will try getting Chrome or access the Play store to see other options...
I voted for Cruz in the primaries, because i have more faith in the American people that they would actively not want Cruz win if Hillary was the other option, than if it was a Trump v Hillary contest...
Of course, I failed - i'm in Massachusetts, Trump got 49% of the vote.
Not everyone who knew him in school thought great things about him. His college roommate, in particular, has taken to twitter to let the world know what he had to live with during that time...
Check it here:
https://twitter.com/clmazin
"Day Labor Place"? What is that you speak of?
This app appears more targeted to the dozens of guys that stand out in front of Home Depot every morning, waiting for a contractor with a van or pickup truck to select a few to work on their project, not people going to an agency or something...
I bought a Fire on the first day of release as well, and set very low expectations for it based on how much I was paying. Ultimately, all I ever use it for is to watch movies I've downloaded on flights. It's Browser performance (just performing DNS lookups as far as I can tell from the UI, forget about getting pages to render) is anemic at best. I haven't even bother installing any applications that I could use to create or add data to it (like a text editor, dropbox, or even a non-throwaway email address), but I'm sure some people do that.
Oh on the plus side, it plays Minecraft like a champ, so it's useful for quieting the house.
Just amused that it can render rudimentary 3-D graphics, play full screen, full motion video, but I can't even use it to visit Slashdot...
I suspect he understands his supporters well and simply apres their ignorance and prejudices.
No, that's the reality show star.
Cruz actually believes what he says.
Kindles aren't simple epaper devices any more. If that's what you think when you here kindle, erase that from your memory and think "low end android tablet with an Amazon App Store instead of Play".
Now ask yourself what valuable data people store on their tablets.
Some of us wonder why the republican controlled congress is making such a big stink about Hillary, but basically looked the other way when it was revealed most of the bush whitehouse did the same exact thing by relying on the gwb43.com email server hosted by the RNC.
Seems like the same exact thing except one is a big deal and the other isn't.
Why would they? They want you to store your data on their servers, they're not going to give you free tools that reduce the amount of data you send to them.
Probably because so many companies are moving to cloud based email, where its on the provider to filter spam rather than the Exchange administrator, that the market's just not there anymore. Besides, there's freebies like spam assassin that can help a lot for many organizations.
But should the government have to power to remove my voice from earshot, if i'm saying something in disagreement, and therefore not even afford you the opportunity to ignore me? That's effectively what they did.
I don't see how you can be "pro" rights for some and "anti" rights for others.
Of course we're dealing with extremes - Trump and ISIS.
So, you'd be ok with the Chinese government ordering twitter to shutdown accounts of democracy protestors? After all, they're not in our country. Or heck, Venezuela doing the same?
That's an extremely selfish position to take - that you have more rights just because you're here (which you played nearly no role in save for luck of the draw) while others shouldn't have rights because they happened to be born elsewhere.
Weaknesses are found constantly.
AES is great now, because it's been focused on and studied by the best cryptographers on the planet, yes. But nothings to say a shortcoming won't or can't be found in the future. How likely is that? Who knows. But never say never.
DES was the Gov't's go-to for encryption for years and years. It ended up needing to be replaced not because of a key length that suddenly made it more vulnerable to brute force attacks (that could have been remedied), but because cryptanalysis had found methods of attack against it that were more efficient than brute force attacks.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
For now. Algorithms that seemed great at one point eventually become broken or successfully analyzed.
DES stood up for a while, but computing resources overwhelmed it.
MD5 was great until people learned it was flawed.
same thing is happening now for SHA-1.
True, the later two are for hashing rather than encrypting, but something that seems utterly unbreakable today could be economically broken tomorrow, if an unthought of technique is discovered.
That's not defeatism, it's just being clear that everything *eventually* has shortcomings. No use trying to pretend otherwise!
What about the GOP's designated "Free Speech Zones" at rally's, which effectively put people who had an opposing opinion out of earshot of everyone else?
You really can't point fingers at one side only. Both sides have done more than their fair share of censoring. Is one OK and the other not?
So, I assume you cried foul when Twitter took down ISIS accounts on Twitter as well?
The "establishment" (who make up the majority of both Houses) Republicans are not exactly in his corner. I doubt they'll play along with anything that they think would be detrimental to their party, and especially their own jobs when mid-term elections come around.
By that, I mean, what's the difference between asking for money in order to not send your actual browsing history to your friends, or asking for money in order to not send a made up (and far more incriminating) browsing history to friends?
Seems like the writers could have skipped that step and still done just fine.
Im old. Not too old, but older.
Back when I was in grade school, we took computer classes, it was mandatory. We learned how disk drives worked (floppies!), how to do basic programming in, well, BASIC and LOGO. A year or two later we were introduced to Pascal.
Not everyone in my class turned into computer pros. Heck, I'm not even a programmer. But I'd like to think that having that basic grasp made me a lot more comfortable using computers all that time ago, and such things would be great to instill in kids today. Even if they're not all destined to be programmers, they'll have a basic concept of how things work.
Especially these days, computers are so much more advanced and appified, no one seems to have a basic clue how they work or what to expect. I'm constantly shocked at how inept many non-CS college grads are, and I have to think if we all learned just the basics at a young age, we'd all be better off for it.
Well, maybe not help desk employees...
That's the exact attitude that Slashdotters took during the Napster era in trying to protect the products that musicians created.
I'm sorry, but George W Bush taught us that not even showing up matters, or did you forget his stint in the National Guard?
Maybe more websites need to enforce strong password rules on their users. I know that plenty of sites either read the password entered or check the hash and reject it if it doesn't meet certain criteria. Ideally, end users would come up with secure passwords on their own, but since they can't, administrators need to do some prodding.