If the hackers decide to use a dictionary attack, then an xckd-style password is about as good as one 4 characters long.
Four characters, yes, but four from a bloody huge alphabet (2048 characters). An XKCD-style password is almost as strong as four random Chinese characters.
2048 characters! You have a very small vocabulary.
You're just hiding the weakness: in this scenario, your "password hash" is becomes your real password. Anyone who steals the hash can now impersonate you, which means that your real password is also being saved in cleartext on the server.
We couldn't call from the car as there were no cellphones and even if we did land line phones were often not picked up at a loud party.
So why didn't you just find all the houses that didn't answer and go there? Either there'd be a party or nobody was home and you could burgle the joint.
THIS. THIS! I fucking HATE those false work zones. If there is no work, there should be no work zone. Take the goddamned barrels and cones out of the road and get out of our way.
Easy to fix - charge the contractors rent for the road they cone off.
That being said, the inflation adjusted income of the middle class has been going down for decades. That's more likely to be your culprit.
Well, no.
It was slowly ratcheting up since 1983, (hits a high in '89, falls back till '93, bit still higher that '83) 'till 1999. Around '2004 it started climing again, slowly, then bang 2007, it starts dropping. hitting a low in 2011, from which it has recovered, but still not reached even the level of 2007, never mind the high point of 1999.
$40,000 gross income - $5,950 standard deduction -$3,800 personal exemption = $30,250 taxable income
$8,925 * 10% = $892.50 (taxation of the first income bracket)
$30,250 - $8,925 = $21,325.00 (amount in the second income bracket)
$21,325.00 * 15% = $3,198.75 (taxation of the amount in the second income bracket)
Total income tax is $892.50 + $3,198.75 = $4,091.25 (~10.22% effective tax)
Cleaners at the John Lewis Partnership are to ballot for strike action at the flagship Oxford Street store. This is the first step in the revived campaign to win the Living Wage for all cleaners employed by John Lewis.
How is this possible if "John Lewis is employee owned"? Simple. Not everyone who works for John Lewis is an employee - there are also subcontracted workers, how are treated like shit, just like everywhere else.
Fagor is a large domestic and commercial appliance manufacturer based in the Basque Country, Spain. It is run by the Mondragon Corporation. Fagor is Europe's fifth-largest domestic appliances manufacturer.
The co-operative group was formed in 1956 in a small workshop in Mondragon.
On the 16th of October 2013, Fagor filed for bankruptcy under Spanish law in order to renegotiate EUR 1,1 billion of debt, after suffering heavy losses during the eurocrisis.
On the 6 of November 2013, Fagor-Brandt in France (1.800 people) announces its bankruptcy. The same day, the bankruptcy of the whole Fagor group is officially announced.
What is your problem? You're acting like I insulted your mother.
You're still alive? I guess I don't think you insulted my mother.
Dude, this is why people frequently don't want to talk about politics. I'd rather have a conversation about where I'm wrong, than exchange insults. It's not healthy. This is the Internet. You're going to be smarter than somebody here. Don't take it as a personal insult when we're not.
What insults? You're too dumb to use google and wikipedia. You're immune to insults.
You should also recognize that many people have been arrested and convicted of terrorism related offenses in the US, Canada, and Europe since 9/11. There have been hundreds in the US alone.
Collecting metadata isn't spying if it's your business. The USPS a legitimate need to know where the item is going, and where to return it if it's undeliverable. Calling it "spying" is like saying your phone carrier is "spying" on you by giving you a phone number and connecting you to other phone numbers when you dial them.
No. You missed the point - they archive the metadata - that is the spying part.
You tell the phone company to connect you to 555-1212, they do it, ok.
If they keep the record that you did that on the 9/11 for ever and ever, that is spying.
Since mccarthy the USA has adopted a great many Communist ideas like massive government bailouts of key industries, government subsidies of profitable industries, special rules for their friends, free speech zones, warrant-less spying, abducting people and holding them without trial- and much more.
You are a certifiable fruitcake.
Please report to your local de-raisinificating center before you hurt yourself.
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Intelligent people enjoy Pink Floyd and the Backstreet Boys,
WTF? No one enjoys those things.
Well. I don't even know who the Backstreet Boys are but I confirm that intelligent people like Pink Floyd (although The Wall leaves me cold).
Modded you down for linking the Daily Fail.
Four characters, yes, but four from a bloody huge alphabet (2048 characters). An XKCD-style password is almost as strong as four random Chinese characters.
2048 characters! You have a very small vocabulary.
$ wc -l /usr/share/dict/words /usr/share/dict/words
390945
My simple process for this is that if the site does not have my credit card info or even my name then I don't care what the password is.
And I don't care if your site is cracked any my 12345 password is revealed. All they're going to get is the cat's name and a birthdate of 1900-01-01.
Let me FTFY 01-01-1900
But is that the 1st of January, or January 1st?
You're just hiding the weakness: in this scenario, your "password hash" is becomes your real password. Anyone who steals the hash can now impersonate you, which means that your real password is also being saved in cleartext on the server.
Salt.
Pfff, is that it? My password for everything is "correct horse battery stable". Apparently, some smart guy has proven it's veeery secure!
You've made a typo, that makes the password vastly less secure.
We couldn't call from the car as there were no cellphones and even if we did land line phones were often not picked up at a loud party.
So why didn't you just find all the houses that didn't answer and go there? Either there'd be a party or nobody was home and you could burgle the joint.
THIS. THIS! I fucking HATE those false work zones. If there is no work, there should be no work zone. Take the goddamned barrels and cones out of the road and get out of our way.
Easy to fix - charge the contractors rent for the road they cone off.
That being said, the inflation adjusted income of the middle class has been going down for decades. That's more likely to be your culprit.
Well, no.
It was slowly ratcheting up since 1983, (hits a high in '89, falls back till '93, bit still higher that '83) 'till 1999. Around '2004 it started climing again, slowly, then bang 2007, it starts dropping. hitting a low in 2011, from which it has recovered, but still not reached even the level of 2007, never mind the high point of 1999.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Median_US_household_income.png
Basically 2013 is the new 1997.
When I travel 400 miles in Europe, I'm in a different country with a different language.
Hey, they have a funny accent in Marseilles, but they still speak French.
(Paris -> Marseilles, 410 miles as the crow flies).
Your backpack makes more sense than all those people carrying things, but seriously, Americans, have you never heard of the wheel?
It doesn't have to be connected to an internal combustion engine!
https://www.google.com/search?q=wheeled+shopping+bag
Even then, the tax rates are much lower [than] the EU, but you are getting significant less than them. Less health care and social safety net.etc.
Are they? Assuming you're talking about income tax, take the worked example from Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_tax_in_the_United_States#Example_of_a_tax_computation
$40,000 gross income - $5,950 standard deduction -$3,800 personal exemption = $30,250 taxable income
$8,925 * 10% = $892.50 (taxation of the first income bracket)
$30,250 - $8,925 = $21,325.00 (amount in the second income bracket)
$21,325.00 * 15% = $3,198.75 (taxation of the amount in the second income bracket)
Total income tax is $892.50 + $3,198.75 = $4,091.25 (~10.22% effective tax)
Plug the same numbers into the French tax calculator:
http://www3.finances.gouv.fr/calcul_impot/2013/
40000 USD = 29507 EUR "brut"
26556 EUR "imposable" (after deductions).
Impot sur le revenu net 2400 EUR
TAUX MOYEN D'IMPOSITION 9.04%
So you pay 2400 EUR = 3252 USD, i.e. less than the American example.
Anything over 35 hours is overtime, so it's paid extra and is voluntary.
(If your boss tries to sack you for not working overtime he'll end up paying you loadsamoney).
So the worlds oldest profession will also be the last one as well!!
Why did I waste my years studying...
Because, dear AC, nobody would ever pay to fuck you.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2135284/How-cheating-checkouts-turning-nation-self-service-shoplifters.html
You're linking the Daily Fail?
Experiments in Europe with 35 and 38 work hours failed and were rolled back to nearly 40 yours or even more.
Simply untrue.
France still has a 35 hour work week. Even Sarkozy, despite much bitching, never tried to get rid of it.
All is not rosy at John Lewis.
Cleaners at the John Lewis Partnership are to ballot for strike action at the flagship Oxford Street store. This is the first step in the revived campaign to win the Living Wage for all cleaners employed by John Lewis.
http://liberalconspiracy.org/2013/03/04/john-lewis-cleaners-ballot-for-strike-over-living-wage/
How is this possible if "John Lewis is employee owned"? Simple. Not everyone who works for John Lewis is an employee - there are also subcontracted workers, how are treated like shit, just like everywhere else.
All is not rosy in Mondragon
Fagor is a large domestic and commercial appliance manufacturer based in the Basque Country, Spain. It is run by the Mondragon Corporation. Fagor is Europe's fifth-largest domestic appliances manufacturer.
The co-operative group was formed in 1956 in a small workshop in Mondragon.
On the 16th of October 2013, Fagor filed for bankruptcy under Spanish law in order to renegotiate EUR 1,1 billion of debt, after suffering heavy losses during the eurocrisis.
On the 6 of November 2013, Fagor-Brandt in France (1.800 people) announces its bankruptcy. The same day, the bankruptcy of the whole Fagor group is officially announced.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fagor
Sort of like plane crashes then? Should airlines stop taking measures against those?
The way we deal with plane crashes is by finding out what went wrong and taking measures to avoid the same problem in the future.
The way we deal with "terrorists" is by having FBI agents giving people marzipan and then arresting them for bomb plots.
If you can't see the difference you're an idiot.
(Ah, I'm replying to cold fjord - who's the idiot),
What is your problem? You're acting like I insulted your mother.
You're still alive? I guess I don't think you insulted my mother.
Dude, this is why people frequently don't want to talk about politics. I'd rather have a conversation about where I'm wrong, than exchange insults. It's not healthy. This is the Internet. You're going to be smarter than somebody here. Don't take it as a personal insult when we're not.
What insults? You're too dumb to use google and wikipedia. You're immune to insults.
To a first approximation there are no terrorists.
You should also recognize that many people have been arrested and convicted of terrorism related offenses in the US, Canada, and Europe since 9/11. There have been hundreds in the US alone.
My point exactly.
Collecting metadata isn't spying if it's your business. The USPS a legitimate need to know where the item is going, and where to return it if it's undeliverable. Calling it "spying" is like saying your phone carrier is "spying" on you by giving you a phone number and connecting you to other phone numbers when you dial them.
No. You missed the point - they archive the metadata - that is the spying part.
You tell the phone company to connect you to 555-1212, they do it, ok.
If they keep the record that you did that on the 9/11 for ever and ever, that is spying.
Since mccarthy the USA has adopted a great many Communist ideas like massive government bailouts of key industries, government subsidies of profitable industries, special rules for their friends, free speech zones, warrant-less spying, abducting people and holding them without trial- and much more.
You are a certifiable fruitcake.
Please report to your local de-raisinificating center before you hurt yourself.
Well that's a joke.
Who defines themselves as "socialist" in the US?
What do I "mean"?
I mean get an clue about what the origins of these ideas before pontificating.
[Russel Tice] also claims they were targeting people with space weapons and satellites, which is the NSA's speciality anyway..
Details can be siphoned through here: http://www.oregonstatehospital.net/d/russelltice-nsarnmebl.html
Space Weapons?
Follow the link - this is grade-A madness.
(Or a NSA disinformation campaign to make all whistleblowers look like kooks).