If you ask a computer to solve an equation that's needed to help guide the design of a part, what is that but computer aided design? So sorry it was all on punch cards. Still a computer.
It is a huge stretch to call that computer aided design. You are talking about a big calculator.
any password under 50 characters made of only lowercase letters will be broken by the most basic brute force.
The fact that the password is only lowercase letters is immaterial for a brute force attack. Unless the attacker already knows that the password is only lowercase letters, they will try guesses with numerals and symbols. It is very hard to imagine a brute force attack that would try every combination of lowercase letters up to 50 characters without trying anything with uppercase, numerals, or symbols, but even if they do it isn't a reason to worry.
If they did try to brute force just lowercase, there are 5.6e70 combinations of EXACTLY 50 lowercase letters (this is not counting shorter passwords which adds to the total).Even if the botnet could send a trillion guesses per second, It would take over 1.7e51 years to exhaustively search the space of 50 character lowercase passwords. If they can send a trillion trillion guesses per second, it would still take 1.7e40 YEARS to exhaustively search. This is all assuming they are trying only lowercase letters to start
I find it hard to believe they have a botnet capable of a trillion trillion guesses per second, and even harder to believe that the average WordPress site could handle that many requests without cratering or causing the hosting company to shut it down.
They may get some sites with very weak admin passwords (think 'password' and '123456'), but you are spreading FUD about how vulnerable long passwords are.
In that case, what's there to worry about? 90,000 guesses (1 per ip) is nowhere near enough to brute force a halfway decent password.
In order to brute force a password, you would need to hit the site multiple times from each ip. Every ipv4 address in existance (count ips that are not valid like 127.0.0.0) with one guess a piece gives 2^32 guesses. a 6 character alphanumeric password has over 13 times as many possibilities.
I picked up one of the CREE bulbs at HD the other day. It was one of the day light (5000K) bulbs. It's a very nice and well functioning bulb at a great price, but I don't like the color spectrum it emits. It seems to be a very cool color to me. I'll have to try one of the warm white bulbs before I pass judgement on them.
My favorite LED bulb in use is still the GE bulb with cooling fins around the bulb. Unfortunately GE charges far too much for them ($50 at Target is what I saw the other day for a 60W equivalent). I don't have any lamp shades that clip on the bulb so they work fine for me.
The Philips bulbs are good, but I've only tried the older ones that are yellow when off. Those bulbs have a very warm color and have about a second delay before coming on.
If we are willing to adjust for inflation, John D. Rockefeller had the equivalent of more money than Apple has currently. He had between $300 and $400 billion in today's dollars. Apple has a lot of cash, but it's not unprecedented.
funny thing about a hostile takeover, buying all those shares of Intel would cause the price to rise to the point that the takeover is way too expensive to do, even for Apple. Intel is just not a likely acquisition for Apple.
They can't do this overnight. Enough money can get things done, but there are physical limits to what can be done in a set amount of time. Apple would also need to analyze the risks and returns of doing this. How long do you think it would take management to even decide to spend the money?
There are conflicting reports on the Apple sales, so let's not worry about them. Lenovo sales are up in this report, so win8 doesn't seem to be hurting their sales. Although they also offer Win7 on their machines with the win8 media if wanted, or so I've heard.
Technical, this has no effect on bitcoins used for transactions. It is only a problem in converting bitcoins to other currencies. Of course no one will adopt a currency that has these sorts of problems with exchanging it.
Your English is just fine. The phrase "call someone" means exactly what you think. He was definitely joking, implying that no one makes voice calls anymore.
But when you have stories like how XKCD's Randall Monroe having to spend 12+ hours debugging his machine because he accidentally installed a nested ubuntu update on a fedora machine (or something like that, I don't remember the specifics), it scares away general users.
Lots of people do stupid stuff. Why is he any different?
Unicorns would stampede the astronaut as he enters the event horizon. There's one problem with the unicorn theory. If I'm right, then either general relativity or quantum mechanics is wrong.
This is just trying to paint the world in black and white. There is nothing wrong with IndustrialComplex saying he is not a smoker, but on occasion he smokes a pipe of tobacco when he's hikes out into the wilderness. There is clearly a difference between a regular smoker that smokes everyday, multiple times, and someone that smokes on rare occasions. Maybe if the world wasn't filled with zealots trying their best to make smokers into pariahs, people wouldn't preface their comments by trying to assure you that they aren't a smoker.
Just to clarify, TFS is correct, but Instawallet is not an exchange. MtGOX is an exchange that is undergoing a DDoS attack. Instawallet had their DB attacked. As far as I can tell Instawallet is just a company that will hold your bitcoins for you, like a safety deposit box, only without the safety in this case.
For the same reason I wouldn't take Euros, Pounds or any other currency and then immediately convert it to USD (my local currency), it's extra work and trouble for me to do. Why can't the customer "immediately" convert their bitcoins to dollars and then use those to pay me?
People just don't commonly price things in two different currencies and want to deal with exchange rates all day long.
I'd second this position. The best you can do is notice that it is indeed a bubble and avoid the asset entirely.
You could go long in the asset and try to ride out the last legs of the bubble to sell at the peak, but you risk the massive, fast drop after it pops if your timing is off. You could also go short to profit as it deflates, but like pitchpipe says, you may go short too soon and the bubble makes your position so bad you can't keep it up until it actually pops (plus you will be doubting if it will pop yourself once things get really bad for you)
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If you ask a computer to solve an equation that's needed to help guide the design of a part, what is that but computer aided design? So sorry it was all on punch cards. Still a computer.
It is a huge stretch to call that computer aided design. You are talking about a big calculator.
any password under 50 characters made of only lowercase letters will be broken by the most basic brute force.
The fact that the password is only lowercase letters is immaterial for a brute force attack. Unless the attacker already knows that the password is only lowercase letters, they will try guesses with numerals and symbols. It is very hard to imagine a brute force attack that would try every combination of lowercase letters up to 50 characters without trying anything with uppercase, numerals, or symbols, but even if they do it isn't a reason to worry.
If they did try to brute force just lowercase, there are 5.6e70 combinations of EXACTLY 50 lowercase letters (this is not counting shorter passwords which adds to the total).Even if the botnet could send a trillion guesses per second, It would take over 1.7e51 years to exhaustively search the space of 50 character lowercase passwords. If they can send a trillion trillion guesses per second, it would still take 1.7e40 YEARS to exhaustively search. This is all assuming they are trying only lowercase letters to start
I find it hard to believe they have a botnet capable of a trillion trillion guesses per second, and even harder to believe that the average WordPress site could handle that many requests without cratering or causing the hosting company to shut it down.
They may get some sites with very weak admin passwords (think 'password' and '123456'), but you are spreading FUD about how vulnerable long passwords are.
God forbid someone gets access to a hosting company that is so bad a clients blog can gain access to their server.
In that case, what's there to worry about? 90,000 guesses (1 per ip) is nowhere near enough to brute force a halfway decent password.
In order to brute force a password, you would need to hit the site multiple times from each ip. Every ipv4 address in existance (count ips that are not valid like 127.0.0.0) with one guess a piece gives 2^32 guesses. a 6 character alphanumeric password has over 13 times as many possibilities.
It can be done, of course, but it's not an easily configurable option in the web interface.
I picked up one of the CREE bulbs at HD the other day. It was one of the day light (5000K) bulbs. It's a very nice and well functioning bulb at a great price, but I don't like the color spectrum it emits. It seems to be a very cool color to me. I'll have to try one of the warm white bulbs before I pass judgement on them.
My favorite LED bulb in use is still the GE bulb with cooling fins around the bulb. Unfortunately GE charges far too much for them ($50 at Target is what I saw the other day for a 60W equivalent). I don't have any lamp shades that clip on the bulb so they work fine for me.
The Philips bulbs are good, but I've only tried the older ones that are yellow when off. Those bulbs have a very warm color and have about a second delay before coming on.
And before someone mentions some sort of secret Intel conspiracy they could buy all of Intel for less than their cash on hand
Maybe I don't want to sell my part? They can't buy it if it's not for sale.
If we are willing to adjust for inflation, John D. Rockefeller had the equivalent of more money than Apple has currently. He had between $300 and $400 billion in today's dollars. Apple has a lot of cash, but it's not unprecedented.
funny thing about a hostile takeover, buying all those shares of Intel would cause the price to rise to the point that the takeover is way too expensive to do, even for Apple. Intel is just not a likely acquisition for Apple.
They can't do this overnight. Enough money can get things done, but there are physical limits to what can be done in a set amount of time. Apple would also need to analyze the risks and returns of doing this. How long do you think it would take management to even decide to spend the money?
In fact, the start menu itself takes almost no space at all unless it's accessed.
And the start screen / metro takes up no space at all unless it's accessed.
There are conflicting reports on the Apple sales, so let's not worry about them. Lenovo sales are up in this report, so win8 doesn't seem to be hurting their sales. Although they also offer Win7 on their machines with the win8 media if wanted, or so I've heard.
Technical, this has no effect on bitcoins used for transactions. It is only a problem in converting bitcoins to other currencies. Of course no one will adopt a currency that has these sorts of problems with exchanging it.
Your English is just fine. The phrase "call someone" means exactly what you think. He was definitely joking, implying that no one makes voice calls anymore.
But when you have stories like how XKCD's Randall Monroe having to spend 12+ hours debugging his machine because he accidentally installed a nested ubuntu update on a fedora machine (or something like that, I don't remember the specifics), it scares away general users.
Lots of people do stupid stuff. Why is he any different?
I don't understand what you are talking about, and therefore, I don't like it.
Sadly they got embroiled in royalty disputes that broke up the band. I hear they have reformed without Biafra, but that's not exactly the DKs is it?
Unicorns would stampede the astronaut as he enters the event horizon. There's one problem with the unicorn theory. If I'm right, then either general relativity or quantum mechanics is wrong.
Regardless of what she said, she still wound up missing her head.
This is just trying to paint the world in black and white. There is nothing wrong with IndustrialComplex saying he is not a smoker, but on occasion he smokes a pipe of tobacco when he's hikes out into the wilderness. There is clearly a difference between a regular smoker that smokes everyday, multiple times, and someone that smokes on rare occasions. Maybe if the world wasn't filled with zealots trying their best to make smokers into pariahs, people wouldn't preface their comments by trying to assure you that they aren't a smoker.
Just to clarify, TFS is correct, but Instawallet is not an exchange. MtGOX is an exchange that is undergoing a DDoS attack. Instawallet had their DB attacked. As far as I can tell Instawallet is just a company that will hold your bitcoins for you, like a safety deposit box, only without the safety in this case.
Where the bitcoin stories are published right on time and everything else is at least a week old.
For the same reason I wouldn't take Euros, Pounds or any other currency and then immediately convert it to USD (my local currency), it's extra work and trouble for me to do. Why can't the customer "immediately" convert their bitcoins to dollars and then use those to pay me?
People just don't commonly price things in two different currencies and want to deal with exchange rates all day long.
I'd second this position. The best you can do is notice that it is indeed a bubble and avoid the asset entirely.
You could go long in the asset and try to ride out the last legs of the bubble to sell at the peak, but you risk the massive, fast drop after it pops if your timing is off. You could also go short to profit as it deflates, but like pitchpipe says, you may go short too soon and the bubble makes your position so bad you can't keep it up until it actually pops (plus you will be doubting if it will pop yourself once things get really bad for you)
If you're trying to buy groceries, fuel or pay rent to me, I will never accept bitcoins.