It's even easier if the hashes aren't salted. Then it's just a matter of picking a rainbow table of manageable size and matching hash algorithm. The simple passwords covered by the table are a lookup away. No brute force necessary.
How do you upgrade an iPad? You can't put a new hard drive in it or add an interface card for something the existing hardware can't do. Its functionality is fixed and limited. You could still do those things with an Apple ][.
The dividing line should depend on whether a device is regarded as a general purpose computer.
A plethora of consumer devices have embedded microcontrollers. They are not considered PCs even though many of them have more processing power than even a 90's era desktop because they have functionality limited to a specific domain. While smartphones and tablets are closer to being general purpose, they are primarily domain limited in typical use cases (phone calls, GPS mapping, content consumption). Sure you can slap a keyboard and mouse on them and use a VNC client to run remote software to your heart's content but that isn't making the device any closer to a PC.
We should have legislation prohibiting cleartext and unsalted password storage. At least for any site that handles money. That will help quite a bit to inhibit the sort of casual database cracking that goes on today.
Valve is selling a service. You get a license to operate a non-transferable copy of a game under the terms of that service.
It is no different than Netflix offering a service wherein you download a movie (in pieces) that can't be resold to others. You can buy the same movie on a DVD and resell it but that doesn't obligate Netflix to replicate that capability with your electronic copy.
They did introduce it as a data format with the MD Data drive. It was SCSI only and couldn't compete against significantly cheaper Zip drives. It also had no support for inter-operation with MD audio discs beyond analog audio playback.
MS has been trying to create pen/touch systems for 20 years. There were pen computing versions of Win 3.1, 95, then CE, then XP tablet.
Their current issue is the problem of iOS and Android eating their lunch on casual consumptive computing activities. In the long run this spells death to the traditional Windows environment. They know very well that they can't succeed by creating a purpose built tablet system because the key to success (as it has been all along) is the application ecosystem needed for the OS to thrive.
By shoehorning Metro onto every PC they have grafted a touch capable interface onto their existing market segment. This kick-starts the user base, providing an incentive for developers to create applications that can be directly applied to portable devices with little to no modification. That means that Win 8 ends up as an odd duck but it is probably the best strategy for them to move forward.
It's not fair. The cost for them to process a transaction is fixed not a percentage of the purchase price. They should charge a fixed rate to cover their operational expenses plus whatever profit they can get away with while staying competitive.
Credit/Debit cards are dual function. Merchants are charged a CC fee when a credit transaction is performed (one you typically sign for) and the lower debit fee when a debit transaction is performed (one you use PIN entry for). This is why Wal-Mart started forcing credit/debit cards to use PIN entry a few years back to stick it to Visa and MC over their merchant fees.
Simple: Twitter has to pay for SMS gateway access to receive tweets from people's phones. They get special bulk rates which would have to be adjusted higher to compensate for the extra bandwidth if they accepted multi-part SMS traffic. To get the cheapest rate they keep the limit to the max length of a single SMS message.
Even in this era of widespread smartphones with high speed cellular data and WiFi connectivity, the SMS functionality is implemented as a kludge on top of the old voice protocol. That implementation can't be upgraded easily due to service requirements for emergency messaging and the like that can't be reliably performed with more modern data transmission.
Ep. 4 was derived from Hidden Fortress. 5 and 6 were original. There is an interview of Lucas on the H.F. DVD extras where he openly explains everything he lifted. It's not a big secret.
There's more than 18 pounds of variation between flights of the typical passenger and luggage payload. The hand wringing over long term fuel costs from a slightly heavier battery is nonsense. If micromanaged weight savings is so important then have the stewardesses remove their clothes before boarding.
MS did have some legitimate reasons for changing to the ribbon. The myriad toolbar buttons on classic Office toolbars is confusing to naive users. Likewise, for such users, the complex menus are intimidating to crawl through and they usually avoid them.
There is also the problem that 16x16 icons were meant for use in the days of 640x480 displays. For older people using modern, high resolution displays they become hard to distinguish and click accurately. Because the standard toolbars had so many icons by the time of Office 2003, just upsizing the icons would end up creating a space consuming monstrosity worse than the ribbon.
The concept behind the ribbon isn't so terrible: create adaptive toolbars that compensate for the space lost by the use of larger icons. The implementation isn't a perfect solution but consider how much you'd be put out of place if that was the interface Office apps. had all along and is what you were most familiar with.
That being said, I still use 2003 since I also don't care for the ribbon's limitations.
Office 2003 can be upgraded to support the OOXML formats that all newer versions of Office use by default. It's not a horrible burden to find a 10-year old copy of Office and get a few feature updates over 97 and still retain the classic interface.
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It's even easier if the hashes aren't salted. Then it's just a matter of picking a rainbow table of manageable size and matching hash algorithm. The simple passwords covered by the table are a lookup away. No brute force necessary.
And on top of that, you would be paying for an additional windows license.
We know from Dell that the preinstalled crapware subsidizes the cost of an OEM license so that's debatable.
How do you upgrade an iPad? You can't put a new hard drive in it or add an interface card for something the existing hardware can't do. Its functionality is fixed and limited. You could still do those things with an Apple ][.
The dividing line should depend on whether a device is regarded as a general purpose computer.
A plethora of consumer devices have embedded microcontrollers. They are not considered PCs even though many of them have more processing power than even a 90's era desktop because they have functionality limited to a specific domain. While smartphones and tablets are closer to being general purpose, they are primarily domain limited in typical use cases (phone calls, GPS mapping, content consumption). Sure you can slap a keyboard and mouse on them and use a VNC client to run remote software to your heart's content but that isn't making the device any closer to a PC.
We should have legislation prohibiting cleartext and unsalted password storage. At least for any site that handles money. That will help quite a bit to inhibit the sort of casual database cracking that goes on today.
Valve is selling a service. You get a license to operate a non-transferable copy of a game under the terms of that service.
It is no different than Netflix offering a service wherein you download a movie (in pieces) that can't be resold to others. You can buy the same movie on a DVD and resell it but that doesn't obligate Netflix to replicate that capability with your electronic copy.
Nobody understands time either.
They did introduce it as a data format with the MD Data drive. It was SCSI only and couldn't compete against significantly cheaper Zip drives. It also had no support for inter-operation with MD audio discs beyond analog audio playback.
That doesn't explain why broadband is also expensive and with little to no competition in urban areas.
It would work if it were reconfigured to be like the
orbit skates.
That's because it's a global phone with GSM support. The SIM isn't used when a CDMA network is available.
MS has been trying to create pen/touch systems for 20 years. There were pen computing versions of Win 3.1, 95, then CE, then XP tablet.
Their current issue is the problem of iOS and Android eating their lunch on casual consumptive computing activities. In the long run this spells death to the traditional Windows environment. They know very well that they can't succeed by creating a purpose built tablet system because the key to success (as it has been all along) is the application ecosystem needed for the OS to thrive.
By shoehorning Metro onto every PC they have grafted a touch capable interface onto their existing market segment. This kick-starts the user base, providing an incentive for developers to create applications that can be directly applied to portable devices with little to no modification. That means that Win 8 ends up as an odd duck but it is probably the best strategy for them to move forward.
That's because this is a list from Australia. It demonstrates how much control the regional record industries have over what people "want" to hear.
F. Yeah. Just like in Johnny Mnemonic.
It's not fair. The cost for them to process a transaction is fixed not a percentage of the purchase price. They should charge a fixed rate to cover their operational expenses plus whatever profit they can get away with while staying competitive.
Credit/Debit cards are dual function. Merchants are charged a CC fee when a credit transaction is performed (one you typically sign for) and the lower debit fee when a debit transaction is performed (one you use PIN entry for). This is why Wal-Mart started forcing credit/debit cards to use PIN entry a few years back to stick it to Visa and MC over their merchant fees.
Simple: Twitter has to pay for SMS gateway access to receive tweets from people's phones. They get special bulk rates which would have to be adjusted higher to compensate for the extra bandwidth if they accepted multi-part SMS traffic. To get the cheapest rate they keep the limit to the max length of a single SMS message.
Even in this era of widespread smartphones with high speed cellular data and WiFi connectivity, the SMS functionality is implemented as a kludge on top of the old voice protocol. That implementation can't be upgraded easily due to service requirements for emergency messaging and the like that can't be reliably performed with more modern data transmission.
Ep. 4 was derived from Hidden Fortress. 5 and 6 were original. There is an interview of Lucas on the H.F. DVD extras where he openly explains everything he lifted. It's not a big secret.
The laser shines inside onto the back of the sensor.
There's more than 18 pounds of variation between flights of the typical passenger and luggage payload. The hand wringing over long term fuel costs from a slightly heavier battery is nonsense. If micromanaged weight savings is so important then have the stewardesses remove their clothes before boarding.
The Slashdot editors just roll that way, home slice.
Isn't science wonderful!
MS did have some legitimate reasons for changing to the ribbon. The myriad toolbar buttons on classic Office toolbars is confusing to naive users. Likewise, for such users, the complex menus are intimidating to crawl through and they usually avoid them.
There is also the problem that 16x16 icons were meant for use in the days of 640x480 displays. For older people using modern, high resolution displays they become hard to distinguish and click accurately. Because the standard toolbars had so many icons by the time of Office 2003, just upsizing the icons would end up creating a space consuming monstrosity worse than the ribbon.
The concept behind the ribbon isn't so terrible: create adaptive toolbars that compensate for the space lost by the use of larger icons. The implementation isn't a perfect solution but consider how much you'd be put out of place if that was the interface Office apps. had all along and is what you were most familiar with.
That being said, I still use 2003 since I also don't care for the ribbon's limitations.
TOS for free online services are not binding contracts. Violating their terms don't pose any real risk for the violator.
Word is a word processor. It shouldn't be used for managing 2500+ page documents.
Office 2003 can be upgraded to support the OOXML formats that all newer versions of Office use by default. It's not a horrible burden to find a 10-year old copy of Office and get a few feature updates over 97 and still retain the classic interface.