Up until the mid-1990s, it was pretty rare for a movie to hit the magical $100-million mark. Then, Disney animated features started doing that pretty regularly, and after that, most big-budget films started hitting that mark pretty consistently as well.
In 2002, Spider-Man became the first movie to hit $100 million in its opening weekend. Ten years later (almost to the day) The Avengers became the first movie to hit TWO hundred million dollars on its opening weekend, and one short week later, Wikipedia tells me that its box office grosses are THREE QUARTERS OF A BILLION FUCKING DOLLARS.
Tell me, again, how piracy is hurting the industry?
Actually, it'll probably devolve into a thread about Obama.:-)
Back on topic, no-- the headline is HORRIBLE. There is a HUGE difference between "Twitter leaked..." and "... leaked on Twitter." When I first read it I thought it meant exactly what it says--that Twitter (the entity) somehow knew his location and accidentally published it--like, a tweet that was put in but set to be published later, or revealed by a geotag ("Posted by THE_REAL_BARACK via Mobile from Kabul") or something.)
There are a surprising number of comments here saying how great this or that BB product is, and I won't even argue, because everyone is entitled to their opinion. But Apple and Android have taken over the world and RIM is just fucking dead now. It's just a matter of time.
The thing is, a modern BB is better than a dumbphone, or old smartphone, by leaps and bounds. But so is any other smartphone. And no good current smartphone is leaps and bounds better than any other. So for a while, it's just inertia, who can get into the most markets and onto the most carriers, and who does the best job of keeping things cooking year after year.
RIM can't be "as good as" and win back any share. "A little better than, in some situations" won't cut it; even "quite a bit better in several key ways" won't do it. To take a substantial chunk out of the market, a new product would have to be night-and-day better than ANYTHING else, and stay that way for a couple years, and--barring some Hollywood-esque soul-switching thing, where the ghost of Steve Jobs takes over the body of whoever is running RIM these days--that just ain't gonna happen. Period.
RIM is dead, it's just a matter of time before the body becomes cold and everyone accepts it. Sorry, guys. You did some good work, and you had a great run there for a while, but you got blindsided, and you SUCK at playing catch-up. If you're LUCKY, you can get good at certain things and hang in there with 5% of the market for a while (don't laugh--that kept Apple alive for ten years!) but you won't ever be a force to be reckoned with again unless you're the first one to do something totally new. But more likely, you'll struggle for a couple years (until all your contracts expire) and then you'll be completely smothered.
You know how when you fly to a different country, they ask you all those questions about the purpose of your trip, ask if you have anything to declare, etc.? I think we need to put together a list of questions to ask them.
Can we just disband that worthless fucking agency already? Any terrorist organization that has the funds to get a dozen people into the country, with fake IDs, and pay them into flight school, probably has a couple grand left over to pay off the high-school dropouts charged with keeping 'Merca safe. It is Not Fucking Working.
1) I'm pretty sure the password is sent in its natural form. It's encrypted over https, but the only way to send a hash would be to use JavaScript on the client, and they can't depend on JS being active. They could require it, but that would just piss some people off.
2) Even if the hash were sent, if you're looking to defeat weak passwords, it is (by definition) very simple to hash every weak password (say, a-z, A-Z, 0-9, and 8 characters or less; or whatever your definition of 'weak' is) and compare the hashes on the server. If a hash gets sent that matches the hash for 'aaa', alert the user.
3) Or they might have run all those hashes and then walked the user database and flagged weak accounts. That way they don't have to do a big lookup when you log in, they just check for that flag.
I first saw the WWW in Summer 1995 and I started spending a lot of time online in Spring 1996. (I was away from home for intervening months and when I returned, dad had moved from CompuServe to a regular ISP.) I signed up for hotmail soon after they launched--Summer or Fall, 1996. My hotmail account was literally the first thing I ever had in my own name online that required a password and I didn't yet have a standard one so I used 'aaa', figuring it'd be easy to remember and I'd change it someday to something better once I figured out a good-but-memorable password.
I didn't like the service much* so I decided to stick with sharing my dad's POP account (ah, simpler times) and I never wound up using it much for anything serious. At the time, I wrote to their support asking if I should do anything to cancel my account and I heard back from a human a day or two later saying no, just leave it idle, it'll delete itself. I wound up using it for exactly one reason: as an account to use when signing up for other services so my dad's account wouldn't get spammed. As time went by and companies got more and more spammy, an email account you didn't care about was really handy. So, I wound up keeping that account alive all these years. These days, the one and only thing I use it for is my Microsoft ID when I want to download something from them. (I used it just today, in fact, to get SharePoint Server 2010 tools for work.) I might have used it to log into SkyDrive to see what that looks like, and I use it to post Photosynth pics,** but other than that, nothing--I don't have an xbox, zune, or anything else from them.
For over fifteen years, the password remained 'aaa'. It was only within the last few months that it forced me to change it while logging in. (On my home machine, OS X's keychain still shows 'aaa' as the password, last set on 10/5/2011, so I must have changed it at work the last time I downloaded something there--probably W2K8 server eval in January or February.)
I don't know if it was ever hacked into. If it was, they hackers never changed the password, and I never put any names into that address book. All there is in there are newsletters I don't care about and regular old spam. But, good for MS for forcing at least some level of password complexity.
* see kids, back in the old days, when dinosaurs roamed the Earth and my dad had a 486 with a 14.4 modem, a full page reload for every task was MUCH worse than a binary client, so web-based email wasn't really the way to go. Plus, people didn't expect instant replies to email, partly because web-connected computers weren't everywhere yet. I went online at home, and at the occasional cyber cafe. I didn't need to check my home email 50 times a day from work.
I am, right this second, looking at a page on my company's SP site with Safari on a Mac. It's a basic spreadsheet-like page. I click "Actions" -> "Export to Spreadsheet" and I'm told "To export a list, you must have a Windows SharePoint Services-compatible application." So, I save the page as HTML, open it in an editor, strip out everything but the main <table>, clean up the code just a bit (remove IMG tags, etc.) and drag it onto the Excel icon in my dock and guess what? IT OPENS.
Fun fact #1: You know how a basic HTML table looks pretty much like a spreadsheet? Excel can open HTML files that contain tables. It's actually quite good and supports a lot of formatting: bold, ital, centering, rowspan & colspan, fonts, text sizes, etc. Even background colors in TDs.
Fun fact #2: It is TRIVIAL to make a PHP/MySQL site "export" to Excel. Just make sure it's nothing but a table and add ONE LINE to the top of your page:
header("Content-Type: application/vnd.ms-excel");
And yet MS won't let me export this page unless I'm running Windows. See? There it is: basic, simple, core functionality that doesn't work on a Mac, for no good reason. FUCK SHAREPOINT.
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> So will Mozilla and Google complain that they
> can't write a browser for RIM?
No problem there--they can just write a browser in HTML5. :-)
Up until the mid-1990s, it was pretty rare for a movie to hit the magical $100-million mark. Then, Disney animated features started doing that pretty regularly, and after that, most big-budget films started hitting that mark pretty consistently as well.
In 2002, Spider-Man became the first movie to hit $100 million in its opening weekend. Ten years later (almost to the day) The Avengers became the first movie to hit TWO hundred million dollars on its opening weekend, and one short week later, Wikipedia tells me that its box office grosses are THREE QUARTERS OF A BILLION FUCKING DOLLARS.
Tell me, again, how piracy is hurting the industry?
A computer with metaphor-recognizing software is like a... wait, sorry, I was thinking of simile-recognizing software.
Q: How did the hipster burn his mouth?
A: He bit into his pizza before it was cool.
> Obviously that's the highly simplified explanation, the details are mind numbingly complex.
No, that's the radiation. :-)
Hmm...
Music orientated so when hip-hop was originated
Fitted like pieces of puzzles, complicated
Yup, sounds good to me!
http://www.angelfire.com/rock/lotsoflyrics/microphonefiend.html
This probably explains your video issue.
"Why Verizon Doesn't Want You To Buy an iPhone"
Why I Care What Telecoms Want:
... hmm, sorry, coming up dry on this one.
When did MS first accept that their OS had flaws? Because securing Windows was about a 12-year journey.
If anyone has a lot of viruses to examine, it's Microsoft!
Actually, it'll probably devolve into a thread about Obama. :-)
Back on topic, no-- the headline is HORRIBLE. There is a HUGE difference between "Twitter leaked..." and "... leaked on Twitter." When I first read it I thought it meant exactly what it says--that Twitter (the entity) somehow knew his location and accidentally published it--like, a tweet that was put in but set to be published later, or revealed by a geotag ("Posted by THE_REAL_BARACK via Mobile from Kabul") or something.)
There are a surprising number of comments here saying how great this or that BB product is, and I won't even argue, because everyone is entitled to their opinion. But Apple and Android have taken over the world and RIM is just fucking dead now. It's just a matter of time.
The thing is, a modern BB is better than a dumbphone, or old smartphone, by leaps and bounds. But so is any other smartphone. And no good current smartphone is leaps and bounds better than any other. So for a while, it's just inertia, who can get into the most markets and onto the most carriers, and who does the best job of keeping things cooking year after year.
RIM can't be "as good as" and win back any share. "A little better than, in some situations" won't cut it; even "quite a bit better in several key ways" won't do it. To take a substantial chunk out of the market, a new product would have to be night-and-day better than ANYTHING else, and stay that way for a couple years, and--barring some Hollywood-esque soul-switching thing, where the ghost of Steve Jobs takes over the body of whoever is running RIM these days--that just ain't gonna happen. Period.
RIM is dead, it's just a matter of time before the body becomes cold and everyone accepts it. Sorry, guys. You did some good work, and you had a great run there for a while, but you got blindsided, and you SUCK at playing catch-up. If you're LUCKY, you can get good at certain things and hang in there with 5% of the market for a while (don't laugh--that kept Apple alive for ten years!) but you won't ever be a force to be reckoned with again unless you're the first one to do something totally new. But more likely, you'll struggle for a couple years (until all your contracts expire) and then you'll be completely smothered.
We installed a skylight at home, and I told my wife "Sure, it saves energy during the day, but at night it's just gonna let more dark in!"
I just discovered Green Planet a few weeks ago--just in time to learn that it'll be gone in a month.
Way to keep it classy, guy.
... once I reach the "what the fuck are they gonna do, sue me?" age.
You know how when you fly to a different country, they ask you all those questions about the purpose of your trip, ask if you have anything to declare, etc.? I think we need to put together a list of questions to ask them.
Do you plan to... ... molest my frightened, preschool-aged child? ... humiliate my elderly relative with a medical condition? ... steal anything out of my luggage? ... profit from my inconvenience? ... be remiss in your duties? ... let someone smuggle illegal and/or unsafe materials onto the plane?
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Can we just disband that worthless fucking agency already? Any terrorist organization that has the funds to get a dozen people into the country, with fake IDs, and pay them into flight school, probably has a couple grand left over to pay off the high-school dropouts charged with keeping 'Merca safe. It is
Not
Fucking
Working.
... is Dan Brown furiously scribbling notes for his next book.
1) I'm pretty sure the password is sent in its natural form. It's encrypted over https, but the only way to send a hash would be to use JavaScript on the client, and they can't depend on JS being active. They could require it, but that would just piss some people off.
2) Even if the hash were sent, if you're looking to defeat weak passwords, it is (by definition) very simple to hash every weak password (say, a-z, A-Z, 0-9, and 8 characters or less; or whatever your definition of 'weak' is) and compare the hashes on the server. If a hash gets sent that matches the hash for 'aaa', alert the user.
3) Or they might have run all those hashes and then walked the user database and flagged weak accounts. That way they don't have to do a big lookup when you log in, they just check for that flag.
I first saw the WWW in Summer 1995 and I started spending a lot of time online in Spring 1996. (I was away from home for intervening months and when I returned, dad had moved from CompuServe to a regular ISP.) I signed up for hotmail soon after they launched--Summer or Fall, 1996. My hotmail account was literally the first thing I ever had in my own name online that required a password and I didn't yet have a standard one so I used 'aaa', figuring it'd be easy to remember and I'd change it someday to something better once I figured out a good-but-memorable password.
I didn't like the service much* so I decided to stick with sharing my dad's POP account (ah, simpler times) and I never wound up using it much for anything serious. At the time, I wrote to their support asking if I should do anything to cancel my account and I heard back from a human a day or two later saying no, just leave it idle, it'll delete itself. I wound up using it for exactly one reason: as an account to use when signing up for other services so my dad's account wouldn't get spammed. As time went by and companies got more and more spammy, an email account you didn't care about was really handy. So, I wound up keeping that account alive all these years. These days, the one and only thing I use it for is my Microsoft ID when I want to download something from them. (I used it just today, in fact, to get SharePoint Server 2010 tools for work.) I might have used it to log into SkyDrive to see what that looks like, and I use it to post Photosynth pics,** but other than that, nothing--I don't have an xbox, zune, or anything else from them.
For over fifteen years, the password remained 'aaa'. It was only within the last few months that it forced me to change it while logging in. (On my home machine, OS X's keychain still shows 'aaa' as the password, last set on 10/5/2011, so I must have changed it at work the last time I downloaded something there--probably W2K8 server eval in January or February.)
I don't know if it was ever hacked into. If it was, they hackers never changed the password, and I never put any names into that address book. All there is in there are newsletters I don't care about and regular old spam. But, good for MS for forcing at least some level of password complexity.
* see kids, back in the old days, when dinosaurs roamed the Earth and my dad had a 486 with a 14.4 modem, a full page reload for every task was MUCH worse than a binary client, so web-based email wasn't really the way to go. Plus, people didn't expect instant replies to email, partly because web-connected computers weren't everywhere yet. I went online at home, and at the occasional cyber cafe. I didn't need to check my home email 50 times a day from work.
** their iPhone app is pretty dang cool.
... I won't believe it until I see it.
I am, right this second, looking at a page on my company's SP site with Safari on a Mac. It's a basic spreadsheet-like page. I click "Actions" -> "Export to Spreadsheet" and I'm told "To export a list, you must have a Windows SharePoint Services-compatible application." So, I save the page as HTML, open it in an editor, strip out everything but the main <table>, clean up the code just a bit (remove IMG tags, etc.) and drag it onto the Excel icon in my dock and guess what? IT OPENS.
Fun fact #1: You know how a basic HTML table looks pretty much like a spreadsheet? Excel can open HTML files that contain tables. It's actually quite good and supports a lot of formatting: bold, ital, centering, rowspan & colspan, fonts, text sizes, etc. Even background colors in TDs.
Fun fact #2: It is TRIVIAL to make a PHP/MySQL site "export" to Excel. Just make sure it's nothing but a table and add ONE LINE to the top of your page:
And yet MS won't let me export this page unless I'm running Windows. See? There it is: basic, simple, core functionality that doesn't work on a Mac, for no good reason. FUCK SHAREPOINT.
Awesome, awesome post. Thanks for taking the time to write it.
Yeah, but that was just an operating system. Have you seen iTunes?