Those idiotic hoops frankly make my passwords worse. Given these (and potentially many other permutations) of password rules for hypothetical different sites, you can't formulate a decent method for acceptably strong passwords that can be kept to memory:
10+ chars; no char restriction
8-14 chars; must have 2+ ASCII symbols outside of [a-zA-Z0-9]
6-12 chars; must have 1+ number, 1+ uppercase, 1+ lowercase; must have 1+ symbol from the following set: [&$#@!^+=~]
8+ chars; must have 1+ number, 1+ uppercase, 1+ lowercase; must have 1+ symbol from the following set: [&$#@!^+=~,.?/{}]
Exactly 10 characters; must have 1+ number, 2+ uppercase, 2+ lowercase; NO special characters
I was somewhat sympathetic to the "We pirate because there's no legal way to get it online" until I read an article yesterday that highlighted NetFlix piracy.
If NetFlix doesn't serve your country, fine. I am not talking to you. If, however, you're getting House of Cards on isohunt or whatever the kids do these days, you can't claim it as "no legal way" anymore. Admit that you just don't want to pay $8 a month to be entertained.
I was sorely disappointed when I went to tfa. I really wanted to see how someone thought Egyptians were packing rectangular stones of incredible mass into platonic solids** with pentagonal faces made of wood and then proposed to roll them.
**(I know. "Dodecahedron" doesn't imply "regular dodecahedron," but that's how I imagined it.)
Agreed on the reaction time trade-off for region size. What do you think about the National Guard for the rare cases? Each state has one, and the Governor can call "emergency" to bring them in.
(Full disclosure: I don't know much about what Guard duty and training these days beyond supplementing troops abroad, laying sandbags, and what I just read on Wikipedia.)
What do you think they will do to you after you've messed with their computer system? I am fairly certain that they can get you under CFAA, minimum, let alone find a way to put you under the anti-terror laws.
You may be harder skinned than I am, but malware-bombing "the man" just to make a point while they are as likely as not to have you in custody at the time is way too far on the cost:outcome ratio than I would be comfortable trying. Maybe if you can convince strangers on the internet to try it, you come out ahead... wait.
I am completely with you on the "every police department" question. I am solidly against police militarization in general (and in any sort of local setting), but I think that there occasional situations that require a regional team to have some kind of SWAT capability. (How large a region is up for debate.)
With respect to BitZ, I am not saying this is typical, but his/her hypothetical has happened with a tank.
I think painting broad strokes over all DMV offices is overgeneralizing. (The thing we all have in common is that no one is excited about going to the DMV.)
I lived in one state where I "didn't bring the right paperwork" despite calling specifically about the paperwork to ask whether the documentation I had was sufficient. I was told over the phone that it would be, but when I got there and waited in the giant line, they told me that it wasn't.
Fast forward to a different state: I showed up, got squared away, and left in under 30 minutes.
I know absolutely nothing about the science behind this claim, but I can remember being in late elementary and telling my parents that I'd give up summer break if I could have every Wednesday off. As I recall, it's roughly the same number of days in class.
Having a law against "lying**" when "truth" means "statements the government makes" is markedly different from when "truth" means objectively factual statements.
** I presume you are riffing here on the "slander" part of the RT snippet.
This is going to be a chase-camera dodge-and-kill-orcs level.
After I went to see the first Hobbit movie with a friend who played LotR video games and who told me that the run-through-the-goblin-tunnels level was going to be hard, I realized how this works.
Some robocaller apparently used my work phone for their outbound caller id for a while. This is inference considering that (1) I use my phone for outbound calls twice a year. (2) I got a call from a furious woman who was apparently dialed from my number during a "very important meeting" and who refused to be talked down. I hung up, and she called me back to swear some more and to say that her office had ten calls from my number.
Anyway, this is to illustrate that scammers who have enormous lists of numbers (and probably know which ones have people at the other end) will just use legitimate numbers for their caller id. Frankly, I'm surprised that the scammers haven't started using the numbers of you/. scam trollers as their originating numbers. Hopefully none of the scammers read this.
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No no no no.
Those idiotic hoops frankly make my passwords worse. Given these (and potentially many other permutations) of password rules for hypothetical different sites, you can't formulate a decent method for acceptably strong passwords that can be kept to memory:
10+ chars; no char restriction
8-14 chars; must have 2+ ASCII symbols outside of [a-zA-Z0-9]
6-12 chars; must have 1+ number, 1+ uppercase, 1+ lowercase; must have 1+ symbol from the following set: [&$#@!^+=~]
8+ chars; must have 1+ number, 1+ uppercase, 1+ lowercase; must have 1+ symbol from the following set: [&$#@!^+=~,.?/{}]
Exactly 10 characters; must have 1+ number, 2+ uppercase, 2+ lowercase; NO special characters
Misread title as ...is an Anti-Aircraft for the Water
While this is funny, it is going to fall to the twelve-year-olds of the internet who will make sure that every officer is tazed without ceasing.
I was somewhat sympathetic to the "We pirate because there's no legal way to get it online" until I read an article yesterday that highlighted NetFlix piracy.
If NetFlix doesn't serve your country, fine. I am not talking to you. If, however, you're getting House of Cards on isohunt or whatever the kids do these days, you can't claim it as "no legal way" anymore. Admit that you just don't want to pay $8 a month to be entertained.
I was sorely disappointed when I went to tfa. I really wanted to see how someone thought Egyptians were packing rectangular stones of incredible mass into platonic solids** with pentagonal faces made of wood and then proposed to roll them.
**(I know. "Dodecahedron" doesn't imply "regular dodecahedron," but that's how I imagined it.)
I'm going to fature the furture on my bolg. We can half a debate in the convents.
This. (Thank you, Bill Watterson.)
Agreed on the reaction time trade-off for region size. What do you think about the National Guard for the rare cases? Each state has one, and the Governor can call "emergency" to bring them in.
(Full disclosure: I don't know much about what Guard duty and training these days beyond supplementing troops abroad, laying sandbags, and what I just read on Wikipedia.)
What do you think they will do to you after you've messed with their computer system? I am fairly certain that they can get you under CFAA, minimum, let alone find a way to put you under the anti-terror laws.
You may be harder skinned than I am, but malware-bombing "the man" just to make a point while they are as likely as not to have you in custody at the time is way too far on the cost:outcome ratio than I would be comfortable trying. Maybe if you can convince strangers on the internet to try it, you come out ahead... wait.
I am completely with you on the "every police department" question. I am solidly against police militarization in general (and in any sort of local setting), but I think that there occasional situations that require a regional team to have some kind of SWAT capability. (How large a region is up for debate.)
With respect to BitZ, I am not saying this is typical, but his/her hypothetical has happened with a tank.
This was rather interesting and well-articulated. Can you tell me what year that was? Your "a processor generation or two ago"
I think painting broad strokes over all DMV offices is overgeneralizing. (The thing we all have in common is that no one is excited about going to the DMV.)
I lived in one state where I "didn't bring the right paperwork" despite calling specifically about the paperwork to ask whether the documentation I had was sufficient. I was told over the phone that it would be, but when I got there and waited in the giant line, they told me that it wasn't.
Fast forward to a different state: I showed up, got squared away, and left in under 30 minutes.
I know absolutely nothing about the science behind this claim, but I can remember being in late elementary and telling my parents that I'd give up summer break if I could have every Wednesday off. As I recall, it's roughly the same number of days in class.
Mod parent up.
Perhaps the same way as he expects all ten of you to be as well-versed in hyperbole as he is!
Having a law against "lying**" when "truth" means "statements the government makes" is markedly different from when "truth" means objectively factual statements.
** I presume you are riffing here on the "slander" part of the RT snippet.
Or buy one
Disclaimer: I have no idea how good that aluminum case (is|will be).
Not ride, necessarily. Video game.
This is going to be a chase-camera dodge-and-kill-orcs level.
After I went to see the first Hobbit movie with a friend who played LotR video games and who told me that the run-through-the-goblin-tunnels level was going to be hard, I realized how this works.
Just want to point out that their address is a mile down the street from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
And the government reaction to the protests? a series of laws condemning individual or group involvement in any activities that could be construed as remotely negative by the ruling party and eventually leading to the sniping of protesters by a special police team called "Berkut."
... or does it strike anyone else as unlikely that Tom Wheeler would do that?
Depends on if you're up against other 70s cars or something more recent that could wipe your muscle car off the road.
What's the requirement?
What's the cost of meeting the requirement?
I think the more relevant question is "What's the cost of not meeting the requirement?" and perhaps weigh that against the cost of meeting it.
You don't want to be spending the treasury on hardware you don't need, but neither do you want to be caught riding horses to meet the Blitz.
Clearly, you didn't read the security email and will be fired. ;^)
Some robocaller apparently used my work phone for their outbound caller id for a while. This is inference considering that (1) I use my phone for outbound calls twice a year. (2) I got a call from a furious woman who was apparently dialed from my number during a "very important meeting" and who refused to be talked down. I hung up, and she called me back to swear some more and to say that her office had ten calls from my number.
/. scam trollers as their originating numbers. Hopefully none of the scammers read this.
Anyway, this is to illustrate that scammers who have enormous lists of numbers (and probably know which ones have people at the other end) will just use legitimate numbers for their caller id. Frankly, I'm surprised that the scammers haven't started using the numbers of you
IIRC, if they can get you to admit that you owe them money, there is some legal nebulism that says that you do then actually owe them money.