Assuming that you could process a billion (10e+9) passwords per second...
Isn't this the founding assumption that really needs fixing? I mean if we wrote systems in which it took 5 seconds (or even 1 second) to "calculate" or "process" a password, then they'd be a lot tougher to crack even if they were shorter... A little more salt with the cipher anyone? Maybe even some new spices?
A 30 byte (or even 500 byte) encryption key isn't too big a deal, but expecting users to keep track of that as a password? That's the sound of technology falling over.
Um... ya, I'm guessing when the parent poster said "outragiously priced" they had products just like yours in mind. I mean, if the price *isn't even listed* on their website then you probably can't, or don't want to, afford it.
Each individual court is a separate room within that building. Stick with me here, I know it's complex.;-P
I'll admit I'm not real familiar with the layout of a typical court-house. However, it seems immediately clear they were not in a court*room* and immediately unclear where they were.
To me, the fact they were being held back by security seemed to indicate they were either outside the court*house* waiting to get in, or just inside the court*house* waiting to get past one checkpoint for the whole building. In my mind it seemed kind of odd that there would be independant security checkpoints for each court*room*, at least ones slow enough to cause a line, but there I go getting my exercise again.
But, you know, if you have a map I'm happy to look it over. (And no, I shouldn't need both hands and a flashlight)
You can't put metal detectors and X-ray machines outside on the front stoop.
Wait! Wait! I think I have it figured out! So there's metal detectors and X-ray machines just inside the door of every courtroom? I can at least imagine that in my own physical realm, though it doesn't seem very economical...
But does it butter the toast for you??!!
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Education: (~373 billion annual budget) http://www.policyalmanac.org/education/ar chive/doe _education_spending.shtml By far, the greatest part of education revenues came from nonfederal sources (state, intermediate, and local governments),
FDA annual budget ~ 8 billion. FAA annual budget ~ only 28 million??!! DoD annual budget ~ 115 billion.
Considering most of the education money doesn't come from the Fed anyways, and the huge size difference between things that would absolutely be cut, like DoD spending, and things like FDA and FAA, I think a reasonable, minimal rather than maximal, compromise can be met.
Of course... I'm crazy, what am I thinking. If we cut ONE SINGLE PENNY from any one of those programs, and don't increase them every year (with someone else's money) then we're wavering in our commitment to the ideal these organizations are supposed to uphold. (You know, the ideals they uphold for us, so we don't have to...)
But, you know, forget Libertarians for a second, they're crazy, they want to reduce the size of the Fed by 90% ASAP. Get any of the Democrats or Republicans to reduce the size of the Fed by 10%, or try for all they're worth, and I'll vote for *them* in every term thereafter until they start increasing it again (beyond a realistic inflation).
I dont see how anyone enjoyed the sword fighting in the original game, like i said earlier all you end up doing is using counter attack alot, meaning you block until they almost hit you and then hit e to retrieve them immediately.
Funny, I played Sands of Time all the way through and hardly used counter attack at all. I basically used the jump slash, on the enemies that didn't pound you for it, and the wall-jump/attack, on those who did.
I'll have chesseburger and large fries to go and make it snappy damnit!
Hey, if that's the job your skills deserve, you better train harder or learn to be happy with it. Neither the government, nor copyright law, was created to gaurantee you a cushy living.
But there is a tipping point when the overall attitude becomes one of wanting to learn and the teacher is able to teach much more freely, engaging even those less keen.
This tipping point goes both ways, and having a workload that is not challenging enough is at least as much danger as too much challenge.
If that point is reached in a class...
So if the whole class "swings positive" there might be a slightly rewarding learning experience for the top 10-20% of the class if they're lucky? Think we could at least warn the poor bright kids that they're going to have to bring around every one of their peers if they want to learn something new?
It is the parent's choice whether to take an active role in their children's education or to abandon them to someone paid by the state to perform that service.
Ya, you're right if I had kids they'd be home-schooled or go to private school, no doubt about it. Of course, I also don't trust the state with my future, my home security, or to do anything else useful really. So why do they get to keep 40% of my wages again?
As to "abondonment", I don't change the oil in my own car, nor do I groom my own cats, rather letting professionals do that. Why shouldn't I also be able to rely on an expert to teach my kids what I'm not really equipped or qualified for myself.
Kids spent six hours a day in class, with twenty or thirty other students.
Gee. I had 20-30 students in my classes in grade-school (private) and also had 20-30 students in college (also private), lucky me. Isn't it funny that I never felt like I was receiving an education until the first few days of college life? I mean, I got through my first couple weeks of college and was like, what have I been wasting 6 hours a day on all my life?
What has a significant impact on learning is what kids are exposed to, what materials are available to them, and what is expected from them. Lecturing is the least of teaching. I was always near the top of every math class I attended, and yet I never learned a single thing from a lecture (except for one community college calculus course where the teacher was excellent and the book was a work in progress). But what did the teachers do right? They answered questions when I had them, and provided me with study material. Without that guidance I'd have been pretty hard-pressed to advance on my own.
Parents are an integral part of learning and a child's development, and yes they should do all the things you mention. However, expecting them to fix all the ills of a broken school system is expecting too much. A kid who spends 6 hours a day "working" to little purpose or effect is going to become cynical and disinterested pretty quickly.
It has been said that the fastest way to break a man is to have him dig a ditch. Then fill it back in. Then rinse and repeat ad naseum.
Blame decreasing accountability on parents for decreasing academic excellence, don't blame the teachers.
And I suppose we should never blame the school system which soaks up 80% of the kids time and energy but offers little of interest to anyone but the least common denominator...
Ya, kids are really going to spend 6-7 hours a day sitting in class "learning" nothing, then come home and spend 2-3 hours actually studying something new and interesting. Some might, but that's the minority.
What's in they're mind as though their speaking, like a good righter should, and then don't bother to proofread the friggin slashdot post because it really isn't worth teh effrot when you come to think of it.
Back when I was in high-school our teachers were always trying to get us to write more like we spoke. Not less.
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Why does one person need 5 static IP's to their house? I mean... Isn't NAT good enough? How many servers does one household need?!
I wish I could just get *one* static IP at a decent cost... (well, free with my connectivity really)
Assuming that you could process a billion (10e+9) passwords per second...
Isn't this the founding assumption that really needs fixing? I mean if we wrote systems in which it took 5 seconds (or even 1 second) to "calculate" or "process" a password, then they'd be a lot tougher to crack even if they were shorter... A little more salt with the cipher anyone? Maybe even some new spices?
A 30 byte (or even 500 byte) encryption key isn't too big a deal, but expecting users to keep track of that as a password? That's the sound of technology falling over.
...federally-funded...AirMagnet...
Um... ya, I'm guessing when the parent poster said "outragiously priced" they had products just like yours in mind. I mean, if the price *isn't even listed* on their website then you probably can't, or don't want to, afford it.
I'll admit I'm not real familiar with the layout of a typical court-house. However, it seems immediately clear they were not in a court*room* and immediately unclear where they were.
To me, the fact they were being held back by security seemed to indicate they were either outside the court*house* waiting to get in, or just inside the court*house* waiting to get past one checkpoint for the whole building. In my mind it seemed kind of odd that there would be independant security checkpoints for each court*room*, at least ones slow enough to cause a line, but there I go getting my exercise again.
But, you know, if you have a map I'm happy to look it over. (And no, I shouldn't need both hands and a flashlight)
Hmm... somehow it switched to courthouse
Am I wrong in thinking court != courthouse?
Naa, just in assuming one or the other without thinking.
You can't put metal detectors and X-ray machines outside on the front stoop.
Wait! Wait! I think I have it figured out! So there's metal detectors and X-ray machines just inside the door of every courtroom? I can at least imagine that in my own physical realm, though it doesn't seem very economical...
Don't read me, I'm an empty message.
Hmm...
r chive/doe _education_spending.shtml
Education: (~373 billion annual budget)
http://www.policyalmanac.org/education/a
By far, the greatest part of education revenues came from nonfederal sources (state, intermediate, and local governments),
FDA annual budget ~ 8 billion.
FAA annual budget ~ only 28 million??!!
DoD annual budget ~ 115 billion.
Considering most of the education money doesn't come from the Fed anyways, and the huge size difference between things that would absolutely be cut, like DoD spending, and things like FDA and FAA, I think a reasonable, minimal rather than maximal, compromise can be met.
Of course... I'm crazy, what am I thinking. If we cut ONE SINGLE PENNY from any one of those programs, and don't increase them every year (with someone else's money) then we're wavering in our commitment to the ideal these organizations are supposed to uphold. (You know, the ideals they uphold for us, so we don't have to...)
But, you know, forget Libertarians for a second, they're crazy, they want to reduce the size of the Fed by 90% ASAP. Get any of the Democrats or Republicans to reduce the size of the Fed by 10%, or try for all they're worth, and I'll vote for *them* in every term thereafter until they start increasing it again (beyond a realistic inflation).
The key word here is "outside"...
From the article:
The line leading into First District Court in Hempstead Monday morning was long and frustrating...
Hmm... so the line to get into the court was inside the court? You must come from a truly interesting physical realm.
Notice how no uninvolved people were interviewed
Amen brother. I sincerely hope we're not the only two people who were thinking that as we read...
Hey, but now it's not just some sort of pattern, it's some sort of WAVE pattern!
Given Fourier's theorems, is there any other kind of time-varying pattern?
I mean... if they just now figured out that this is a dynamic system, then we have a looooong road till we understand this stuff much at all.
If you don't like it, don't buy it. But I don't believe that gives you the right to "steal" it.
Ya, cause we all know stealing and copyright infringement are the same thing. Especially in a world where copies are cheaper than the air we breathe.
If you want free as in speech software shutup and write it.
Why? So you can send me to jail?
I dont see how anyone enjoyed the sword fighting in the original game, like i said earlier all you end up doing is using counter attack alot, meaning you block until they almost hit you and then hit e to retrieve them immediately.
Funny, I played Sands of Time all the way through and hardly used counter attack at all. I basically used the jump slash, on the enemies that didn't pound you for it, and the wall-jump/attack, on those who did.
Of course, that was still pretty repetitive...
Try knowing what you're talking about before you criticize.
I went to the library and read all the books there. I read all of my text books before the teachers assigned them.
You had text-books worth reading, and someone taught you to use the library. The school couldn't have been all *that* bad.
I'll have chesseburger and large fries to go and make it snappy damnit!
Hey, if that's the job your skills deserve, you better train harder or learn to be happy with it. Neither the government, nor copyright law, was created to gaurantee you a cushy living.
But there is a tipping point when the overall attitude becomes one of wanting to learn and the teacher is able to teach much more freely, engaging even those less keen.
...
This tipping point goes both ways, and having a workload that is not challenging enough is at least as much danger as too much challenge.
If that point is reached in a class
So if the whole class "swings positive" there might be a slightly rewarding learning experience for the top 10-20% of the class if they're lucky? Think we could at least warn the poor bright kids that they're going to have to bring around every one of their peers if they want to learn something new?
It is the parent's choice whether to take an active role in their children's education or to abandon them to someone paid by the state to perform that service.
Ya, you're right if I had kids they'd be home-schooled or go to private school, no doubt about it. Of course, I also don't trust the state with my future, my home security, or to do anything else useful really. So why do they get to keep 40% of my wages again?
As to "abondonment", I don't change the oil in my own car, nor do I groom my own cats, rather letting professionals do that. Why shouldn't I also be able to rely on an expert to teach my kids what I'm not really equipped or qualified for myself.
Kids spent six hours a day in class, with twenty or thirty other students.
Gee. I had 20-30 students in my classes in grade-school (private) and also had 20-30 students in college (also private), lucky me. Isn't it funny that I never felt like I was receiving an education until the first few days of college life? I mean, I got through my first couple weeks of college and was like, what have I been wasting 6 hours a day on all my life?
What has a significant impact on learning is what kids are exposed to, what materials are available to them, and what is expected from them. Lecturing is the least of teaching. I was always near the top of every math class I attended, and yet I never learned a single thing from a lecture (except for one community college calculus course where the teacher was excellent and the book was a work in progress). But what did the teachers do right? They answered questions when I had them, and provided me with study material. Without that guidance I'd have been pretty hard-pressed to advance on my own.
Parents are an integral part of learning and a child's development, and yes they should do all the things you mention. However, expecting them to fix all the ills of a broken school system is expecting too much. A kid who spends 6 hours a day "working" to little purpose or effect is going to become cynical and disinterested pretty quickly.
It has been said that the fastest way to break a man is to have him dig a ditch. Then fill it back in. Then rinse and repeat ad naseum.
Replace "sitting in class learning" with "sitting at work doing", and it sounds depressingly like adult life.
Amen brother. I think that was in the back of my mind when I first posted that comment...
Blame decreasing accountability on parents for decreasing academic excellence, don't blame the teachers.
And I suppose we should never blame the school system which soaks up 80% of the kids time and energy but offers little of interest to anyone but the least common denominator...
Ya, kids are really going to spend 6-7 hours a day sitting in class "learning" nothing, then come home and spend 2-3 hours actually studying something new and interesting. Some might, but that's the minority.
What's in they're mind as though their speaking, like a good righter should, and then don't bother to proofread the friggin slashdot post because it really isn't worth teh effrot when you come to think of it.
Back when I was in high-school our teachers were always trying to get us to write more like we spoke. Not less.
while I was wiping the tears off my face
Were those tears of pain, relief, joy or just plain old exhaustion?
by some giant evil Twilight-Zone-ish computer that lives in a cave someplace on the back lot of Warner Brothers?