Things change over time. Back then, it was perfectly normal for people not to move around that much (though that said, the Native Americans were nomads, and for the time, tended to cover a lot of ground compared to the average European who probably never moved out of his village his whole life). Modern life is different, especially if you're a first-worlder. I'm sorry, but if I never left my state, and only read about far-away places or saw photos of them, I would feel rather confined
I did read that the majority of Americans don't even own a passport.
I wouldn't be surprised if the majority of Europeans have never travelled outside of Europe, which is the equivalent of a Yank confining themselves to the US/Canada/Mexico
Most of the people either don't travel by air, or travel very infrequently. Those of us who are road warriors are vastly more likely to hate the TSA with vehemence.
I don't travel much, I fly about 80 times a year, however the most annoying security I find isn't the U.S (although BWI won't be seeing me again, IAD are much more professional IME). It isn't Israel either. It's South Asia -- DEL, and to a lesser extent ISB to be specific.
I'm well aware of seek times. And honestly, they don't matter all that much. For a very small file they take you from 1-2 seconds to effectively instant yes, but for a significant file you're throughput limiting yourself anyway.
The problem comes when you try to read a small file while reading the large file. If you want to preview 1,000 files (say thumbnails for a directory full of pictures), that's 1000 reads. At 10ms each (hdd), that's 10 seconds. At 10ns each (ssd), that's 10ms.
Sure, keep your read-only media on a large hard drive, as you'll tend to be pulling it off as a single stream, with only one open file, but keep the majority of your files on an SSD.
Better, but still not very good. At best, a cracker needs to corellate your passwords from two leaks, to see which part is the variable part. Or perhaps he can figure it out looking at just a single instance, if the variable bit is obvious enough.
It's better to use a password manager, and two factor authentication where it is offered, such as gmail.
For that matter, I store many passwords in gmail. If someone has gained control of that account, they can use password resets to gain access to those sites anyway, so there's no additional risk in storing them there.
If a cracker is really after me specifically, I'm probably screwed regardless. Devil take the hindmost.
Seriously that's quite a claim and needs a bit of backing up. UK folk aren't all dribbling TV-addicts whose idea of literature is The Sun "newspaper".
Given the circulation figures of The Sun, I think you're not doing a great job of disproving the grandparent's assertion.
The majority of people don't read the sun. In fact, in the UK, the combined circulation for papers thick people read (Sun, Mail, Star) is under 10% of the country. Mail readers are thick, but they'll probably disagree, and probably read books in any case.
However, the UK does have a large TV viewership. Probably due to the fact we have relatively decent TV compared with the U.S. 75%-80% of us watch TV at some point during the week, and spend about 25-30 hours a week watching (it's higher at the moment due to the olympics, and seasonable)
Metro : US and French name for an underground railway system, aka Underground, Tube, Subway, etc.etc.etc...
Do people in the US say "Metro"? I've always thought that was a European thing. In Chicago it's called the L, in Boston the T and in NYC they call it the subway. Do people in LA actually call their subway "the Metro"?
They call it the freeway -- LA is the home of the car
But then one would be forced to be a complete idiot who implicitly stated that passwords were a good measure and that people have good enough memories and enough time on their hands to manage one unique strong password for every website they visit.
Luckily one wouldn't say that. (maybe you would though.)
Take one good password (say 12-15 characters) Then prepend with a unique 4 or 5 character which you keep written down in a file on your computer
Each password then ends up being 16-20 characters long, however even if someone broke the hash (or some stupid site stored it in plain text -- like the one of the UK 2012 party conference accreditations), it would still be very hard to cross-contaminate the passwords.
Hotmail is gold compared to exchange's webmail frontend
Eh? Outlook Web Access (the Exchange webmail front end) was pretty pioneering. It basically kicked off the whole AJAX craze. And most people actually seem to like it.
Informally, however, Microsoft reps have told me that the next version of OWA will probably look very much like Outlook.com.
Perhaps it's cause we're still on exchange 2003, but it's a lot worse than squirrelmail from the late 90s. No search functionality either.
It's not necessarily a problem with Microsoft, more the culture that Microsoft, and their corporate agents (MSCEs etc) push out. Microsoft-fueled corporate IT is one of the worst things about any workplace.
On the login page it lets us know this is a "Preview of modern email from Microsoft". So are they admitting Hotmail/Livemail is a pile of shit and we are all suckers for using it?
Hotmail is gold compared to exchange's webmail frontend
Could it be unpaid fanbois? Is Microsoft the new Apple?
I think this is more likely. There are a lot of people that have built their livelihoods around microsoft, and are understandably agitated about the downwards direction Balmer's taken them over the last 10 years.
In the normal way of things, these things get swiftly down-modded to oblivion.
If geeknet starts deleting slashdot posts, thousands of people (including myself) would post that link all over the site in protest against censorship.
It used to be when a post was deleted we'd have massive discussions about why legally it was necessary, and mitigate the problem. I'm believe a few posts are deleted without such discussion nowadays, but only for legal issues.
After the disappointing, and frankly insulting performance put on by Matt Lauer and Meredith Viera (who I watched while growing up as local TV personalities) and the execrable Ryan Seacrest interviewing Michael Phelps instead of showing the 7/7 memorial, and the NOT EVEN 5 MINUTES BETWEEN COMMERCIALS, I'm done with the Olympics for this go-round.
The Olympics didn't have any commercials. If your local broadcaster did, then that's a sad indictment of your broadcasting industry to edit what was a wonderful show, starring Isambard Kingdom Brunel with Britains industrial heritage, and Tim Berners-Lee with the modern digital age.
(Aside from Brunel and Berners-Lee, Boyle included Bean, Bond, Beckham in a brilliant, breathtaking, British, Beijing-busting Bonanza. Beat that Brazil.)
that is the average American 12 Year Old has worse teeth than the average English 12 Year Old.
But that's not fair.
The average American doesn't care about the average American. Those that earn a decent wage, as long as they don't piss off their employer, can afford private healthcare (unless something goes seriously wrong).
If you took the average 12 year old from a rich family, you'll find the figures are different. The poor don't count in America, they don't want to count. They'll happily vote for thing to cut any aid they already get, in the naive hope that working hard will eventually mean they can afford healthcare and a house in the suburbs.
America is a piss-poor country unless you're rich. The USA spends 17.4% of it's GDP on health care thanks to the "free" market approach. The UK spends 9.8% of it's GDP.
America could easily afford it's own version of the NHS, it would help the poor and unfortunate. It would mean people would spend more time looking after their kids rather than working 2 low-paid jobs to afford their dentist bills. It would also help the middle classes -- it would allow labour mobility. If you lose your job, you don't have to hope to hell that Lisa won't need braces.
American's don't believe in community though, and would rather spend more money on getting less, as long as they think their neighbour isn't getting something for nothing.
I consider my self a pioneer in the use of computers but also modern. My experience covers the range from plug boards and punched cards to client-server networks and remote operation of PCs.
It's not 1860 and the only state that COULD secede from the union is Texas and then it would have to revert to Mexico.
Why? Because of a scrap of paper that no longer has meaning?
If California decided enough was enough, and ignored federal laws, removed federal agents, sealed its border, issued its own currency + passports etc. What would happen?
If your children are capable of getting into one of these safes, they are capable of being taught not to mess with daddy's guns.
There are ~ 50 million households with guns in them. Accidental gun deaths by children (most of whom were not educated on guns by their parents, and found access to completely unlocked guns) are in the range of 200-300 a year.
That's a lot higher than the number of children killed by terrorists in the U.S.
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Things change over time. Back then, it was perfectly normal for people not to move around that much (though that said, the Native Americans were nomads, and for the time, tended to cover a lot of ground compared to the average European who probably never moved out of his village his whole life). Modern life is different, especially if you're a first-worlder. I'm sorry, but if I never left my state, and only read about far-away places or saw photos of them, I would feel rather confined
I did read that the majority of Americans don't even own a passport.
I wouldn't be surprised if the majority of Europeans have never travelled outside of Europe, which is the equivalent of a Yank confining themselves to the US/Canada/Mexico
Most of the people either don't travel by air, or travel very infrequently. Those of us who are road warriors are vastly more likely to hate the TSA with vehemence.
I don't travel much, I fly about 80 times a year, however the most annoying security I find isn't the U.S (although BWI won't be seeing me again, IAD are much more professional IME). It isn't Israel either. It's South Asia -- DEL, and to a lesser extent ISB to be specific.
When asked to evaluate a true/false statement, a person has 3 options, not 2. True, False, and "I Don't Know".
Have you stopped beating your wife?
Pollsters always seem to be sampling or over sampling the wrong people.
They evidently polled AMTrak passengers for this one.
They evidently polled Amtracks owners
It's like Alabama there !!
Why? These people can't afford mobile phones, do you really think they can afford a car, or the petrol to get somehwere, or even have a need?
India has an extensive train network, and cheap domestic flights.
I'm well aware of seek times. And honestly, they don't matter all that much. For a very small file they take you from 1-2 seconds to effectively instant yes, but for a significant file you're throughput limiting yourself anyway.
The problem comes when you try to read a small file while reading the large file. If you want to preview 1,000 files (say thumbnails for a directory full of pictures), that's 1000 reads. At 10ms each (hdd), that's 10 seconds. At 10ns each (ssd), that's 10ms.
Sure, keep your read-only media on a large hard drive, as you'll tend to be pulling it off as a single stream, with only one open file, but keep the majority of your files on an SSD.
Better, but still not very good. At best, a cracker needs to corellate your passwords from two leaks, to see which part is the variable part. Or perhaps he can figure it out looking at just a single instance, if the variable bit is obvious enough.
It's better to use a password manager, and two factor authentication where it is offered, such as gmail.
For that matter, I store many passwords in gmail. If someone has gained control of that account, they can use password resets to gain access to those sites anyway, so there's no additional risk in storing them there.
If a cracker is really after me specifically, I'm probably screwed regardless. Devil take the hindmost.
Seriously that's quite a claim and needs a bit of backing up. UK folk aren't all dribbling TV-addicts whose idea of literature is The Sun "newspaper".
Given the circulation figures of The Sun, I think you're not doing a great job of disproving the grandparent's assertion.
The majority of people don't read the sun. In fact, in the UK, the combined circulation for papers thick people read (Sun, Mail, Star) is under 10% of the country. Mail readers are thick, but they'll probably disagree, and probably read books in any case.
However, the UK does have a large TV viewership. Probably due to the fact we have relatively decent TV compared with the U.S. 75%-80% of us watch TV at some point during the week, and spend about 25-30 hours a week watching (it's higher at the moment due to the olympics, and seasonable)
First no Google Maps, now this. iOS is really heading south.
Oh good, the compass app is still there then?
Metro : US and French name for an underground railway system, aka Underground, Tube, Subway, etc .etc .etc ...
Do people in the US say "Metro"? I've always thought that was a European thing.
In Chicago it's called the L, in Boston the T and in NYC they call it the subway.
Do people in LA actually call their subway "the Metro"?
They call it the freeway -- LA is the home of the car
But then one would be forced to be a complete idiot who implicitly stated that passwords were a good measure and that people have good enough memories and enough time on their hands to manage one unique strong password for every website they visit.
Luckily one wouldn't say that. (maybe you would though.)
Take one good password (say 12-15 characters)
Then prepend with a unique 4 or 5 character which you keep written down in a file on your computer
Each password then ends up being 16-20 characters long, however even if someone broke the hash (or some stupid site stored it in plain text -- like the one of the UK 2012 party conference accreditations), it would still be very hard to cross-contaminate the passwords.
Hotmail is gold compared to exchange's webmail frontend
Eh? Outlook Web Access (the Exchange webmail front end) was pretty pioneering. It basically kicked off the whole AJAX craze. And most people actually seem to like it.
Informally, however, Microsoft reps have told me that the next version of OWA will probably look very much like Outlook.com.
Perhaps it's cause we're still on exchange 2003, but it's a lot worse than squirrelmail from the late 90s. No search functionality either.
It's not necessarily a problem with Microsoft, more the culture that Microsoft, and their corporate agents (MSCEs etc) push out. Microsoft-fueled corporate IT is one of the worst things about any workplace.
Does Wil Wheaton have a Clever Nick Name?
On the login page it lets us know this is a "Preview of modern email from Microsoft". So are they admitting Hotmail/Livemail is a pile of shit and we are all suckers for using it?
Hotmail is gold compared to exchange's webmail frontend
Could it be unpaid fanbois? Is Microsoft the new Apple?
I think this is more likely. There are a lot of people that have built their livelihoods around microsoft, and are understandably agitated about the downwards direction Balmer's taken them over the last 10 years.
Crimethink anyone? How dare you say something mean in public! Arrest him!
Given the tweets back at the original poster, I imagine Britain's jails are full tonight
Can a mod delete that link please? This is most surely against TOS and may get people fired from work if using /. at work.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect
In the normal way of things, these things get swiftly down-modded to oblivion.
If geeknet starts deleting slashdot posts, thousands of people (including myself) would post that link all over the site in protest against censorship.
It used to be when a post was deleted we'd have massive discussions about why legally it was necessary, and mitigate the problem. I'm believe a few posts are deleted without such discussion nowadays, but only for legal issues.
LOL. I wasn't going to click until I read your comment.. i saw porno and clicked. you should have been more specific.. its gay porno... not my thing.
He's boning the invisible woman
A lot of things are "scary". Does that mean they warrant a slashdot article?
Tom Clancy wrote about a plane crashing into a major building in Washington. Later 9/11 happend
(Sadly, In Clancy's versions, it was the politicians died, rather than the innocent).
The next book, he wrote about Ebola becoming weaponized. Something to keep an eye on. Next Russia will be joining NATO.
After the disappointing, and frankly insulting performance put on by Matt Lauer and Meredith Viera (who I watched while growing up as local TV personalities) and the execrable Ryan Seacrest interviewing Michael Phelps instead of showing the 7/7 memorial, and the NOT EVEN 5 MINUTES BETWEEN COMMERCIALS, I'm done with the Olympics for this go-round.
The Olympics didn't have any commercials. If your local broadcaster did, then that's a sad indictment of your broadcasting industry to edit what was a wonderful show, starring Isambard Kingdom Brunel with Britains industrial heritage, and Tim Berners-Lee with the modern digital age.
(Aside from Brunel and Berners-Lee, Boyle included Bean, Bond, Beckham in a brilliant, breathtaking, British, Beijing-busting Bonanza. Beat that Brazil.)
that is the average American 12 Year Old has worse teeth than the average English 12 Year Old.
But that's not fair.
The average American doesn't care about the average American. Those that earn a decent wage, as long as they don't piss off their employer, can afford private healthcare (unless something goes seriously wrong).
If you took the average 12 year old from a rich family, you'll find the figures are different. The poor don't count in America, they don't want to count. They'll happily vote for thing to cut any aid they already get, in the naive hope that working hard will eventually mean they can afford healthcare and a house in the suburbs.
America is a piss-poor country unless you're rich. The USA spends 17.4% of it's GDP on health care thanks to the "free" market approach. The UK spends 9.8% of it's GDP.
America could easily afford it's own version of the NHS, it would help the poor and unfortunate. It would mean people would spend more time looking after their kids rather than working 2 low-paid jobs to afford their dentist bills. It would also help the middle classes -- it would allow labour mobility. If you lose your job, you don't have to hope to hell that Lisa won't need braces.
American's don't believe in community though, and would rather spend more money on getting less, as long as they think their neighbour isn't getting something for nothing.
I consider my self a pioneer in the use of computers but also modern. My experience covers the range from plug boards and punched cards to client-server networks and remote operation of PCs.
I do not participate in any social network
Even slashdot? Or usenet?
most of America is not like us complaining on Slashdot.
Thank god for that! Imgaine, 300 million people whining on some internet blog before returning to their basements to play war of worldcraft.
It's not 1860 and the only state that COULD secede from the union is Texas and then it would have to revert to Mexico.
Why? Because of a scrap of paper that no longer has meaning?
If California decided enough was enough, and ignored federal laws, removed federal agents, sealed its border, issued its own currency + passports etc. What would happen?
If your children are capable of getting into one of these safes, they are capable of being taught not to mess with daddy's guns.
There are ~ 50 million households with guns in them. Accidental gun deaths by children (most of whom were not educated on guns by their parents, and found access to completely unlocked guns) are in the range of 200-300 a year.
That's a lot higher than the number of children killed by terrorists in the U.S.