Sure, simple "finger-movement" passwords can be easily checked for, but very complex passwords can be created and remembered very easily as well.
For example p q j f l s 8 3 i e Try to type it. Easy to type, therefore easy to remember. Even if you can not "picture" it.
Simple methods can surely be easily checked for, but when the walks get more advanced the possibility of an algorithm catching it are about the same as a completely random (and completely unrememberable) password. -- Fairfax Underground ticket and arrest search for Fairfax County
Any password based on a word is inherently flawed.
A much better way to create passwords is based on finger movements. For example, the index finger horizontal rows on the keyboard give a password such as: r f v u j m (type that password in notepad or something and you'll see what I mean)
This is a very simple example of finger movement passwords. Much more complex passwords can be created by alternating fingers (r u f j v m), or using more fingers in the pattern.
I personally use a password that is 12 characters long that I have no problem typing but I couldn't recite if my life depended on it.
For an Indie artist P2P is essential for helping to distribute their art to the public. They usually do not have the means to host a web server for themselves for listeners to download MP3's. Several websites exist for independent artists to share their music such as SoundClick and (the late) mp3.com which is nice when a potential fan already knows the artists' name and music. However in order to get introduced to the indie artist a listener must find his music somewhere. These days it definitely won't be on the radio or MTV, so that only leaves word of mouth or a BitTorrent amongst illegal ones on a P2P website somewhere. Speaking about Indie artists, check out DZK, a talented artist I never would have found if not for P2P. - Cary -- Anyone from Fairfax County or Northern Virginia?
Honestly, am I missing something? I don't mean to troll, but what is the huge advantage of being able to write on a pc screen with crappy recognition software? I don't understand where the market for this kind of device is. I would much rather have a skinny VAIO laptop or a new powerbook. Do that many people need to use a computer standing up? Perhaps it's for taking notes? I still can type much faster than my fastest shorthand scrawl... I understand the need for PDA devices where a full sized keyboard isn't practical, but if the device is going to be laptop sized anyway...
Just wondering. -- Fairfax Underground: Where Fairfax County comes out to play
Stupid NY Times. The LA Times has an article on it too available here.
So plants create restore points they can roll back to? I predict Microsoft filing suit against the plant kingdom. They've been fighting the proliferation of tree based products for years! -- Fairfax Underground: Where Fairfax County comes out to play
I'm glad SonyEricsson is continuting to unveil new uses for bluetooth. Bluetooth is one of the most under-utilized standards on the market. Every digital camera should have bluetooth to allow you to easily send pictures instantly from any Camera/Bluetooth cellphone combo. If anyone has a SonyEricsson T610 - T617 you can use it to control Winamp, Powerpoint, and all sorts of other things remotely by using the wonderful floAt's Mobile Agent. Bluetooth has great potential and tons of new cell phones are now bluetooth enabled. Someone other than SonyEricsson please start innovating! - Cary -- Fairfax County Ticket and Arrest Search
While Linux is well known for being exteremly cross-platform, 99.9% of installs will be on one of those four architectures. It would make sense to concentrate solely on those four rather than adding support for every Amiga and 68XXX setup out there. Especially now with Debian becoming a very strong player in the linux server community (now that RedHat is concentrating mainly on paid contracts and has allowed Fedora Core to become bulky and buggy.)
Besides, if you really want to run *nix on your Atari go download NetBSD. - Cary --Fairfax Underground: Where Fairfax County comes out to play
The FTC should have put up an 0WN3D message explaining why the site was taken down, and what to do if you were defrauded by the company in the past. Much more informative than a blank page, and it's what the MPAA does for sites it takes down (ie. lokitorrent.com)
Then again spywareassassin.com still resides at the same IP address (66.172.78.113) that it did before, so the order was probably to remove all content. Perhaps an A record change or domain transfer to an FTC controlled server (with informational message) is iminent. - Cary --Fairfax Underground: Where Fairfax County comes out to play
ugh hate to respond to my own thread but the sendo-x link is broken. something about reffered links from slashdot. anyway, this should work for the sendo x forum and a review can be found here
Thank god. The crappy html browser in the windows smartphone platform (bastardized internet explorer) was the only thing holding me back from getting one of the smartphones out there today. Symbian is still a hot contender but most symbian phones are way too bulky for my use. For some reason the windows smartphones seem to be much slimmer. Sendo has a nice proprietary smartphone setup with their Sendo X but they still haven't worked all the bugs out. The ability to use a "real" browser with a smartphone just tipped the scales, goodbye Ericsson P910! Link to minimo project --Fairfax Underground: Where Fairfax County comes out to play
Redhat alienated much of their loyal userbase with the introduction of Fedora Core. This is a step in the right direction for Redhat to get back to their roots and stop concentrating so hard on their commercial offerings that they leave their grassroots projects underdevloped and insufficient. Short bio.Interview from a few years ago - Cary --Fairfax Underground: Where Fairfax County comes out to play
Wow 200 lines? I bet it has tons of includes though. If image recognition is this good in 200 lines of python how have those anit-spam boxes that make you copy an obscure string to prove you're human not been broken yet. Or maybe they just have? - Cary --Fairfax Underground: Where Fairfax County comes out to play
A great deal of people are buying iPod's these days. If more of them would buy mac's too Apple's market share for personal computers would greatly increase. I'm sure they originally put the dock idea in the low-cost model to attract these windows iPod buyers but the purists at Apple fought to keep the box cheap, simple, and clean. Also, since I have karma to spare, with I googled for mac mini ipod dock I got a picture of this crazy contraption. Just thought I'd share. - Cary --Fairfax Underground: Where Fairfax County comes out to play
I wish it was that easy. It's pretty hard to find a moving target with a little pocket device that gives signal strength. A better solution would be to buy a nice receiver that can process signal direction (like a newer ICOM or Uniden). Of course you'd still have to fire up the laptop to figure out what channel the SSID you're chasing is on. Ham's have these (find the transmitting guy) things all the time. They call them foxhunts. The best anecdote I remember is one year the guy transmitting was an elderly man fishing off a bridge. He was using the fishing poll as the antenna. Nobody wanted to disturb him. - Cary --Fairfax Underground: Where Fairfax County comes out to play
void translateHemos (*std::string hemosspeak) { if (hemosspeak == "shows") { hemossspeak = "conference"; } } -- Fairfax Underground: Where Fairfax County comes out to play
Basically the article says that some site-installed search engines that simply index all the files in/var/www or whatever are insecure because they will index things that httpd would return a 401 or 403 for. Makes sense. A smarter way to do such a thing would be to "crawl" the whole site on localhost:80 instead of just indexing files, that way.htaccess and the such would be preserved throughout. Does anyone know if the Google search applicance is affected by this? - Cary --Fairfax Underground: Where Fairax County comes out to play
Hilarious that a couple of years ago a judge ruled that they have to open up their network before offering advanced features such as Video IM. They stubbornly stayed their ground and the FCC finally lifted the ruling once they lost some market share to Yahoo/MSN IM clients. And now they're opening it up anyway, shows how times have changed. I remember there being a slashdot article about this ages ago but I couldn't find it. Easy karma for anyone who does. - Cary --Fairfax Underground: Where Fairfax County comes out to play
The link at the bottom of the page to the german "computerbase.de" provides much more information. Just make sure you run it through the fish. Even after fishing it provides more detail than the original article. - Cary --Fairfax Underground: Where Fairfax County comes out to play
For the serious gamer how about something like a cell GPU? Why not? It should be entirely possible. Or maybe even a dual-core GPU. Anything that is possible with the CPU is also with the GPU. It's just a microprocessor with a different instruction set. That being said, why can't we plug "CPU cards" into eachother for automatic performance increases? How much of this is limitation on technology and how much are the big players stifling innovation in the market? - Cary --Fairfax Underground: Where Fairfax County comes out to play
Wait a minute here, you want me to click the link in your sig to help you get a limited slip differential for your BMW!? Because you want to redline the engine and drop the clutch? I think you should save up by kicking your hooker and blow habits, not begging slashdot. But shit, you got that BMW somehow, sign me up! - Cary --Fairfax Underground: Where Fairfax County comes out to play
Much more information suitable to the slashdot crowd is available at: http://www.virginatlanticglobalflyer.com/ We don't like press releases or watered down news articles. Also, I bet the US government has some recon plane that has/can do something like this. I know it's possible with mid-air refueling but I bet they can do it without. Just my $0.02 - Cary --Fairfax Underground: Where Fairfax County comes out to play
Expecting a patient that wants to "return to normal life" is never going to leave the house is unrealistic. Why create a home network layer for this kind of application when you can use something like Bluetooth and a GSM/GPRS cell phone to relay the information instead. This way the patient can go anywhere as long as they keep their cell phone with them and the hospital can still receive updates on the patients health. They may have to shield some of the sensetive equipment from the cell transmitter however, but that's something that they should already have looked into. The Bluetooth/GPRS combo is incredibly underrated. I bought a $30 usb bluetooth dongle for my laptop and now I have wireless internet access everywhere. Albeit not that fast but sufficient for an ssh session, or in this case, sending vital signs every couple minutes. - Cary --Fairfax Underground: Where Fairfax County comes out to play
It is in nature itself to create patterns which is why humans look for them everywhere. But anyway iTunes has the ability to rate the songs you listen to on a 0-5 basis so some songs will be favored over others and so you can easily create a "favorites" list. I have not heard of the iPod Shuffle importing these ratings from iTunes but it is very possible that it is. Just a possible explanation. - Cary --Fairfax Underground: Where Fairfax County comes out to play
Slashdot Mirror
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/station/assembly/
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Fairfax Underground: Where Fairfax County comes out to play
Sure, simple "finger-movement" passwords can be easily checked for, but very complex passwords can be created and remembered very easily as well.
For example p q j f l s 8 3 i e
Try to type it.
Easy to type, therefore easy to remember. Even if you can not "picture" it.
Simple methods can surely be easily checked for, but when the walks get more advanced the possibility of an algorithm catching it are about the same as a completely random (and completely unrememberable) password.
--
Fairfax Underground ticket and arrest search for Fairfax County
Any password based on a word is inherently flawed.
A much better way to create passwords is based on finger movements. For example, the index finger horizontal rows on the keyboard give a password such as: r f v u j m (type that password in notepad or something and you'll see what I mean)
This is a very simple example of finger movement passwords. Much more complex passwords can be created by alternating fingers (r u f j v m), or using more fingers in the pattern.
I personally use a password that is 12 characters long that I have no problem typing but I couldn't recite if my life depended on it.
Just make sure you don't inadvertently encounter a dvorak keyboard layout!
- Cary
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Fairfax Underground: Where Fairfax County comes out to play
For an Indie artist P2P is essential for helping to distribute their art to the public. They usually do not have the means to host a web server for themselves for listeners to download MP3's. Several websites exist for independent artists to share their music such as SoundClick and (the late) mp3.com which is nice when a potential fan already knows the artists' name and music. However in order to get introduced to the indie artist a listener must find his music somewhere. These days it definitely won't be on the radio or MTV, so that only leaves word of mouth or a BitTorrent amongst illegal ones on a P2P website somewhere. Speaking about Indie artists, check out DZK, a talented artist I never would have found if not for P2P.
- Cary
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Anyone from Fairfax County or Northern Virginia?
Honestly, am I missing something? I don't mean to troll, but what is the huge advantage of being able to write on a pc screen with crappy recognition software? I don't understand where the market for this kind of device is. I would much rather have a skinny VAIO laptop or a new powerbook. Do that many people need to use a computer standing up? Perhaps it's for taking notes? I still can type much faster than my fastest shorthand scrawl...
I understand the need for PDA devices where a full sized keyboard isn't practical, but if the device is going to be laptop sized anyway...
Just wondering.
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Fairfax Underground: Where Fairfax County comes out to play
Stupid NY Times. The LA Times has an article on it too available here.
So plants create restore points they can roll back to? I predict Microsoft filing suit against the plant kingdom. They've been fighting the proliferation of tree based products for years!
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Fairfax Underground: Where Fairfax County comes out to play
At least they called him by his name, not just "The iTunes back door guy."
I'm pretty sure his nickname is "dvd jon".
Remember that whole DeCSS thing?
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Fairfax Underground: Where Fairfax County comes out to play
I'm glad SonyEricsson is continuting to unveil new uses for bluetooth. Bluetooth is one of the most under-utilized standards on the market. Every digital camera should have bluetooth to allow you to easily send pictures instantly from any Camera/Bluetooth cellphone combo.
If anyone has a SonyEricsson T610 - T617 you can use it to control Winamp, Powerpoint, and all sorts of other things remotely by using the wonderful floAt's Mobile Agent.
Bluetooth has great potential and tons of new cell phones are now bluetooth enabled. Someone other than SonyEricsson please start innovating!
- Cary
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Fairfax County Ticket and Arrest Search
While Linux is well known for being exteremly cross-platform, 99.9% of installs will be on one of those four architectures. It would make sense to concentrate solely on those four rather than adding support for every Amiga and 68XXX setup out there. Especially now with Debian becoming a very strong player in the linux server community (now that RedHat is concentrating mainly on paid contracts and has allowed Fedora Core to become bulky and buggy.)
Besides, if you really want to run *nix on your Atari go download NetBSD.
- Cary
--Fairfax Underground: Where Fairfax County comes out to play
The FTC should have put up an 0WN3D message explaining why the site was taken down, and what to do if you were defrauded by the company in the past.
Much more informative than a blank page, and it's what the MPAA does for sites it takes down (ie. lokitorrent.com)
Then again spywareassassin.com still resides at the same IP address (66.172.78.113) that it did before, so the order was probably to remove all content. Perhaps an A record change or domain transfer to an FTC controlled server (with informational message) is iminent.
- Cary
--Fairfax Underground: Where Fairfax County comes out to play
ugh hate to respond to my own thread but the sendo-x link is broken. something about reffered links from slashdot.
anyway, this should work for the sendo x forum and a review can be found here
Thank god. The crappy html browser in the windows smartphone platform (bastardized internet explorer) was the only thing holding me back from getting one of the smartphones out there today. Symbian is still a hot contender but most symbian phones are way too bulky for my use. For some reason the windows smartphones seem to be much slimmer. Sendo has a nice proprietary smartphone setup with their Sendo X but they still haven't worked all the bugs out. The ability to use a "real" browser with a smartphone just tipped the scales, goodbye Ericsson P910!
Link to minimo project
--Fairfax Underground: Where Fairfax County comes out to play
Redhat alienated much of their loyal userbase with the introduction of Fedora Core. This is a step in the right direction for Redhat to get back to their roots and stop concentrating so hard on their commercial offerings that they leave their grassroots projects underdevloped and insufficient. Short bio. Interview from a few years ago
- Cary
--Fairfax Underground: Where Fairfax County comes out to play
Wow 200 lines? I bet it has tons of includes though. If image recognition is this good in 200 lines of python how have those anit-spam boxes that make you copy an obscure string to prove you're human not been broken yet. Or maybe they just have?
- Cary
--Fairfax Underground: Where Fairfax County comes out to play
A great deal of people are buying iPod's these days. If more of them would buy mac's too Apple's market share for personal computers would greatly increase. I'm sure they originally put the dock idea in the low-cost model to attract these windows iPod buyers but the purists at Apple fought to keep the box cheap, simple, and clean.
Also, since I have karma to spare, with I googled for mac mini ipod dock I got a picture of this crazy contraption. Just thought I'd share.
- Cary
--Fairfax Underground: Where Fairfax County comes out to play
I wish it was that easy. It's pretty hard to find a moving target with a little pocket device that gives signal strength. A better solution would be to buy a nice receiver that can process signal direction (like a newer ICOM or Uniden). Of course you'd still have to fire up the laptop to figure out what channel the SSID you're chasing is on.
Ham's have these (find the transmitting guy) things all the time. They call them foxhunts. The best anecdote I remember is one year the guy transmitting was an elderly man fishing off a bridge. He was using the fishing poll as the antenna. Nobody wanted to disturb him.
- Cary
--Fairfax Underground: Where Fairfax County comes out to play
void translateHemos (*std::string hemosspeak) {
if (hemosspeak == "shows") {
hemossspeak = "conference"; }
}
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Fairfax Underground: Where Fairfax County comes out to play
Basically the article says that some site-installed search engines that simply index all the files in /var/www or whatever are insecure because they will index things that httpd would return a 401 or 403 for. Makes sense. A smarter way to do such a thing would be to "crawl" the whole site on localhost:80 instead of just indexing files, that way .htaccess and the such would be preserved throughout.
Does anyone know if the Google search applicance is affected by this?
- Cary
--Fairfax Underground: Where Fairax County comes out to play
Hilarious that a couple of years ago a judge ruled that they have to open up their network before offering advanced features such as Video IM. They stubbornly stayed their ground and the FCC finally lifted the ruling once they lost some market share to Yahoo/MSN IM clients. And now they're opening it up anyway, shows how times have changed. I remember there being a slashdot article about this ages ago but I couldn't find it. Easy karma for anyone who does.
- Cary
--Fairfax Underground: Where Fairfax County comes out to play
The link at the bottom of the page to the german "computerbase.de" provides much more information. Just make sure you run it through the fish.
Even after fishing it provides more detail than the original article.
- Cary
--Fairfax Underground: Where Fairfax County comes out to play
For the serious gamer how about something like a cell GPU? Why not? It should be entirely possible. Or maybe even a dual-core GPU. Anything that is possible with the CPU is also with the GPU. It's just a microprocessor with a different instruction set. That being said, why can't we plug "CPU cards" into eachother for automatic performance increases? How much of this is limitation on technology and how much are the big players stifling innovation in the market?
- Cary
--Fairfax Underground: Where Fairfax County comes out to play
Wait a minute here, you want me to click the link in your sig to help you get a limited slip differential for your BMW!? Because you want to redline the engine and drop the clutch? I think you should save up by kicking your hooker and blow habits, not begging slashdot. But shit, you got that BMW somehow, sign me up!
- Cary
--Fairfax Underground: Where Fairfax County comes out to play
Much more information suitable to the slashdot crowd is available at:
http://www.virginatlanticglobalflyer.com/
We don't like press releases or watered down news articles.
Also, I bet the US government has some recon plane that has/can do something like this. I know it's possible with mid-air refueling but I bet they can do it without. Just my $0.02
- Cary
--Fairfax Underground: Where Fairfax County comes out to play
Expecting a patient that wants to "return to normal life" is never going to leave the house is unrealistic. Why create a home network layer for this kind of application when you can use something like Bluetooth and a GSM/GPRS cell phone to relay the information instead. This way the patient can go anywhere as long as they keep their cell phone with them and the hospital can still receive updates on the patients health. They may have to shield some of the sensetive equipment from the cell transmitter however, but that's something that they should already have looked into. The Bluetooth/GPRS combo is incredibly underrated. I bought a $30 usb bluetooth dongle for my laptop and now I have wireless internet access everywhere. Albeit not that fast but sufficient for an ssh session, or in this case, sending vital signs every couple minutes.
- Cary
--Fairfax Underground: Where Fairfax County comes out to play
It is in nature itself to create patterns which is why humans look for them everywhere. But anyway iTunes has the ability to rate the songs you listen to on a 0-5 basis so some songs will be favored over others and so you can easily create a "favorites" list. I have not heard of the iPod Shuffle importing these ratings from iTunes but it is very possible that it is. Just a possible explanation.
- Cary
--Fairfax Underground: Where Fairfax County comes out to play