"It never shut down on its own because of a fault it couldn't handle," said Hogan. "I can't even think of an instance where we had an unplanned shutdown," he said.
This isn't a server that has had an OS uptime of 24 years. This is a computer that they are still using after 24 years that "hasn't crashed". So what. The Amiga still being used from the 80s was a bigger deal. This article is really just an ad for Stratus.
No its not that. Voice apps require you to remember the keyword used to trigger them. On my Echo, I can't remember all the special keyword phrases and grammar I have to use to trigger an app.
I've found that the Echo is very useful for one unexpected thing: Kitchen timers. We cook a lot and being able to set and check timers hands free is invaluable. But the way you activate a timer is integrated into the system and very straight forward.
Slashdot, where a comment about someone not having enough mod points is marked up as "Informative". Now watch this one get modded up as insightful. Maybe later it will get meta moderated.
Maybe not explicitly, but I think there is an implicit requirement and also a tradition/convention of including your email address in open source software. After all, the author has to be contacted about changes.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't the Beagle 2 from 2003 the last attempt by ESA to land an orbiter on Mars? This one seems to have suffered a similar fate in landing. Hopefully not, but if it did then this probably doesn't bode well for public confidence in the ESA.
While their specific research may be new, the results are hardly new. Its been nearly 11 years since more original research was released with similar results. Looks like this may be the first time Slashdot has reported this though.
I started subscribing to Netflix in 1999. I became a customer because I wanted to be able to watch movies from a variety of studios, not just one. If I just wanted one studio, I'd subscribe to HBO. Notice how Netflix streaming doesn't have that good of content from other studios? Probably because studios realize that if they make agreements with Netflix, they will be working with and helping one of their competitors. Like Akbar said, its a trap.
Next year, the thieves will start up the car and drive it by remote and autonomous drive from their laptop. Good thing its a bit trickier to remotely refuel.
Yes it does matter because passwords aren't just used on websites. Let's say someone gets a hold of your encrypted password store file on your laptop. With this type of password generation scheme they only have to try a billion different combinations, which on a recent home computer could be done in a day.
Solution for now: Use a 4+ random word passphrase.
The first one is very bad, the second one is, well, kind of overkill.
Please switch %s on the first one (seconds from the epoch which is not very random) with %N, which is the nanosecond only part of the current time and is for all intents and purposes completely random if you run the command by hand.
Using %N is not much better as its only a billion possible values. The problem is that people try to be clever. I've seen countless "clever" ways of trying to generate seemingly random data, but the problem with most of them is that their set of possible values is not high enough. Set size is an important characteristic for the random input for password generation.
Don't do this shit, its dumb. By using 'date' as your "random" input you just reduced your potential keyspace from 62^32 or 2272657884496751345355241563627544170162852933518655225856 down to perhaps 94608000 for the past 3 years of potential inputs. Even less if someone knows approximately the last time you changed your password or can get you to force a password change. In terms of strength that's even worse than a 6 character password made up of only lowercase letters. You'd be better off just mashing your keyboard 32 times. Sure, they might not get you with an online attack, but password strength these days is mostly to thwart offline brute force attacks.
Suffice it to say, there are command line random password generators out there that are doing this far better than you are, use one of them.
You probably now have a good job and a good intuition for computers as a result of your experience now too, am I right? I went along a similar path. Atari 2600 to a long line of computers before buying my 2nd video game console, a Nintendo Wii. I've had a number of annoying encounters with video game console fanfolk over the years where they make fun of computers/computer gaming, but they don't seem to realize that the popularity of console gaming and computer gaming goes back and forth and between almost each generation of console gaming there is a surge in computer gaming and usually some iconic game that drives computer hardware adoption by a new generation of gamers who could afford to upgrade. Oregon Trail, Karateka, King's Quest, Shadow of the Beast, Doom, Quake, WoW, Minecraft, etc. All these games have one major thing in common, they were the number one reason why many kids asked their parents for a new computer.
Up until last year, the Diablo 1/2 battle chest was still selling in my local Target and other places for $20. 15 years after release. I asked a clerk once when the last one was sold and he looked it up and said a month before. Pretty amazing for a 15 year old game.
Its not prosecuted in every state yet and the enforcement is not nearly strong enough. I think it should be criminal just like DUI, not just a traffic violation.
Yeah obviously that's where they got the idea. To be clear, its from the 1985 version. There are five versions of it, although I've only seen two of them.
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"It never shut down on its own because of a fault it couldn't handle," said Hogan. "I can't even think of an instance where we had an unplanned shutdown," he said.
This isn't a server that has had an OS uptime of 24 years. This is a computer that they are still using after 24 years that "hasn't crashed". So what. The Amiga still being used from the 80s was a bigger deal. This article is really just an ad for Stratus.
No its not that. Voice apps require you to remember the keyword used to trigger them. On my Echo, I can't remember all the special keyword phrases and grammar I have to use to trigger an app.
I've found that the Echo is very useful for one unexpected thing: Kitchen timers. We cook a lot and being able to set and check timers hands free is invaluable. But the way you activate a timer is integrated into the system and very straight forward.
We're all made typos, right?
Don't you mean "we've"?
Clinton campaign aide Charles Delavan replied that it was "a legitimate email"............he had intended to type "illegitimate,"
If that's true, shouldn't they have used "an" instead of "a". These are college graduates after all, right?
Slashdot, where a comment about someone not having enough mod points is marked up as "Informative". Now watch this one get modded up as insightful. Maybe later it will get meta moderated.
Maybe not explicitly, but I think there is an implicit requirement and also a tradition/convention of including your email address in open source software. After all, the author has to be contacted about changes.
Sorry, I mean to land a lander. Obviously the orbiter should orbit. Maybe this was their mistake? ;-)
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't the Beagle 2 from 2003 the last attempt by ESA to land an orbiter on Mars? This one seems to have suffered a similar fate in landing. Hopefully not, but if it did then this probably doesn't bode well for public confidence in the ESA.
While their specific research may be new, the results are hardly new. Its been nearly 11 years since more original research was released with similar results. Looks like this may be the first time Slashdot has reported this though.
I started subscribing to Netflix in 1999. I became a customer because I wanted to be able to watch movies from a variety of studios, not just one. If I just wanted one studio, I'd subscribe to HBO. Notice how Netflix streaming doesn't have that good of content from other studios? Probably because studios realize that if they make agreements with Netflix, they will be working with and helping one of their competitors. Like Akbar said, its a trap.
You can tell if a show is old now by 4:3 aspect ratio. ;-)
Next year, the thieves will start up the car and drive it by remote and autonomous drive from their laptop. Good thing its a bit trickier to remotely refuel.
Just as dumb and out of ideas all over the globe.
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Yes it does matter because passwords aren't just used on websites. Let's say someone gets a hold of your encrypted password store file on your laptop. With this type of password generation scheme they only have to try a billion different combinations, which on a recent home computer could be done in a day.
Solution for now: Use a 4+ random word passphrase.
The first one is very bad, the second one is, well, kind of overkill.
Please switch %s on the first one (seconds from the epoch which is not very random) with %N, which is the nanosecond only part of the current time and is for all intents and purposes completely random if you run the command by hand.
Using %N is not much better as its only a billion possible values. The problem is that people try to be clever. I've seen countless "clever" ways of trying to generate seemingly random data, but the problem with most of them is that their set of possible values is not high enough. Set size is an important characteristic for the random input for password generation.
date +%s | sha256sum | base64 | head -c 32 ; echo
Don't do this shit, its dumb. By using 'date' as your "random" input you just reduced your potential keyspace from 62^32 or 2272657884496751345355241563627544170162852933518655225856 down to perhaps 94608000 for the past 3 years of potential inputs. Even less if someone knows approximately the last time you changed your password or can get you to force a password change. In terms of strength that's even worse than a 6 character password made up of only lowercase letters. You'd be better off just mashing your keyboard 32 times. Sure, they might not get you with an online attack, but password strength these days is mostly to thwart offline brute force attacks.
Suffice it to say, there are command line random password generators out there that are doing this far better than you are, use one of them.
How else did you think they were going to pay for all that bandwidth you consume watching 15 minute 4K videos of someone unboxing toys?
You probably now have a good job and a good intuition for computers as a result of your experience now too, am I right? I went along a similar path. Atari 2600 to a long line of computers before buying my 2nd video game console, a Nintendo Wii. I've had a number of annoying encounters with video game console fanfolk over the years where they make fun of computers/computer gaming, but they don't seem to realize that the popularity of console gaming and computer gaming goes back and forth and between almost each generation of console gaming there is a surge in computer gaming and usually some iconic game that drives computer hardware adoption by a new generation of gamers who could afford to upgrade. Oregon Trail, Karateka, King's Quest, Shadow of the Beast, Doom, Quake, WoW, Minecraft, etc. All these games have one major thing in common, they were the number one reason why many kids asked their parents for a new computer.
What we need now is for those Slashdot users who have binary numbers as their actual username to chime in.
Up until last year, the Diablo 1/2 battle chest was still selling in my local Target and other places for $20. 15 years after release. I asked a clerk once when the last one was sold and he looked it up and said a month before. Pretty amazing for a 15 year old game.
Its not prosecuted in every state yet and the enforcement is not nearly strong enough. I think it should be criminal just like DUI, not just a traffic violation.
And also start prosecuting texting while driving, because this is actually causing 9 deaths a day on average in 2014, some places say its as much as 16 a day and causes 1.6 million accidents a year.
Yeah obviously that's where they got the idea. To be clear, its from the 1985 version. There are five versions of it, although I've only seen two of them.
There is a US$3000 award for the finder.
And a $3000 power bill for those who don't find it.