You know how every email program and every other email service in the world lets you quote the email you're replying to with '>' characters or similar, so you can interleave your replies with what you're replying to?
His password is 7 lower case characters. It's a wonder his GMail account wasn't hacked ages ago.
How? Or do both hotmail and gmail keep their/etc/shadow's out on the web?
50 unsuccessful password attempts without a successful login should raise suspicions on both sites, and start doing things like emailing the account's owner and asking for capchas etc. Unless your password is something like "p4ssw0rd" you should be safe.
If he logged in from a compromised machine, or used an unencrypted method like http to log in from his local starbuck, then it doesn't matter how secure his password is.
You can only brute force if you have access to the password hash. If you do, then 90%+ of passwords will be compromised easily.
NOTHING is free. Everything takes time and money to create. Now, for various reasons, people give software away...but this is a massive corporation producing software worth billions of dollars, and a key part of it depends on software that was developed at a cost of millions of dollars.
So a reasonable few million bucks to Oracle for their trouble seems fair.
ESTA is something that you have to apply for in advance, cannot travel without and it costs money.
HOW is it not a visa ?
Biggest thing is you don't get a sticker in your passport. It lasts for 2 years too, and is a multiple-entry visa. And compared with a real U.S. visa (which you can also have), it's trivial to get.
This is _exactly_ the same process people need to go through to visit the Schengen countries if they need a visa. Except that for most countries, one actually has to travel to a consulate rather than being able to send the application through mail.
I've received the following visas in the last 12 months * Afghanistan * Pakistan * Russia (twice) * China * India
Aside from being without one of my passports for a few days in each case, there was no impact. In the case of Egypt and Indonesia you buy one on arrival.
A colleague had to simply *renew* a U.S. visa, and had to physically spend most of day in the embassy in London.
Not true. I have very much enjoyed visiting the U.S. and would like to go to New York again for a show next year.
At the moment, however, I would feel safer visiting China or or Cuba (where their citizens are treated poorly), than the U.S., which kidnaps and tortures foreign citizens.
The U.S. has joined Iran, North Korea etc. on my list of "Places that are too dangerous to visit right now."
If yoyu travel legally to north Korea, you're perfectly safe.
I've een to a variety of "undesirable" countries around the world. Some cities can feel a bit threatening at night (Gaza, Delhi, Washington DC), and driving in rural areas in Pakistan or Afghanistan tend to be a bit nail-chewing, but on the whole I've only been worried about the actions of the government in 2 countries -- China and the U.S.
Goodbye Bamboozle... I used to love the special themes and as a kid, this was a great game to play with my siblings.
Bamboozle used hexadecimal page numbers, the first time that many kids will be aware of a base system other than 10. Ceefax was a system made by geeks, and does the job brilliantly. It's a joy to use, and the systems behind it are a lot easier for journalists to update. And with only 40x25 characters, it meant news stories were properly subbed, not just copies of press releases.
The greater London area, those that commute in or are centred around there, makes up somewhere closer to a quarter of the population, maybe more. Most of the money in the UK is made in the capital and surrounding areas.
The UK is London-centric. Not just the media.
I don't live there any more (ex-pat) nor will I when I move back to the UK later this year, but it's a bit of an unavoidable thing with Britain.
Those that commute from the north (Beds/Herts etc) lost ceefax last year. This week was only the turn off for 8 million people in London proper. The 52 million people in the rest of the UK have either already lost Ceefax, or still have it.
Yes, 75% of the country live outside of London and the vast 2 hour commuter belt. The BBC's finally acknowleged that the North West, while contributing 14% of the license fee, was only getting 3% of the fee put back in local coverage. They've opened a new base in Salford. They need to at the very least repeat that in the other English areas.
Far too many media-luvvies live in the south east, think that commuting via train is normal, and don't see the problem in setting a generic sitcom (Outumbered, My Hero, etc) in London rather than, say, a suburb of Exeter.
Says the guy, who probably slashed his fingers taking out ISA, PCI or AGP cards from his custom made tower PC.
AGP! You youngster.
I do note that PC's nowadays ar emuch nicer than in the past. Hardly any screws, certainly no sharp edges. My scars from 15 years ago seem to have healed.
Fortunately dried blood on the motherboard was never a very good conductor.
I found the search feature to be the best thing added to the start menu since it was added to Windows. It actually made the damn thing usable again. I don't even bother navigating the menus now, I just type in the name of whatever I want
So, uh, kinda like opening a bash prompt then?
On Linux, I have Alt-Escape mapped to a rxvt/bash window, which I launch everything apart from firefox from (there's a menu at the top)
On my XP VM I use Start-R for a run dialog
On my mac, I only have 5 programs I launch, all in the task bar
Windows 7 brings functionality up to a 10-year old linux desktop. It's getting there, one day I can see a headline like "2016 is the year of the windows desktop", but not quite yet.
Are there no cell phones there? Can't someone start an anonymous tip line? If this happened in the US we'd have detectives so far up everybody's ass that the ACLU would be foaming at the mouth.
You assume that the locals 1) Are against this 2) Trust the authorities
Obviously there's a fair few in group 1, otherwise they wouldn't permit their daughters to go to school, however I wouldn't be in group 2.
And yet it is religion which justifies these actions.
The interpretation is what gets twisted. You can find twisted interpretations in any religion or elitist mentality. Even atheism. If you're going to hate, don't be selective.
Trouble is, the majority of mainstream religions tend to keep nutjobs under control.
I sent an email yesterday complaining about the ITIL process which, once again, caused our primary business (broadcast) to lose money (sort of, we put out black on air, it's a bad thing as far as advertisers go)
I compared ITIL with the Koran and Bible. Well meaning, but misread by so many zealots that in reality it ends up being very dangerous.
At least the dullards opposing the teaching of evolution in Kansas tend not to poison the schools.
My disorientation is that I didn't "wake up" after my knee surgery so much as "get shaken until I threw up" followed by demands that I vacate the premises for the next person. The surgery ran over time due to a routine complication, and the conveyor-belt outpatient hospital didn't have enough recovery beds for me to wake naturally from the extended anesthesia. In the end, they wheeled me into the parking lot, vomiting the whole time.
But the republicans are always scoffing about how terrible the NHS is, and how your "pay $10k to give birth" methods are so much more civilised.
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Begs the question: Why would anyone who claims to be a "PC Pro" use Windows 8? Or even Windows 7. Or god forbid, Vista.
I used to subscribe to PC Pro (UK) about 10 years ago (about $25/year). Had some interesting articles etc.
Even then the pro-microsoft slant was painful, I eventually stopped.
You know how every email program and every other email service in the world lets you quote the email you're replying to with '>' characters or similar, so you can interleave your replies with what you're replying to?
Only Hotmail lacks that feature.
Really? Can outlook?
His password is 7 lower case characters. It's a wonder his GMail account wasn't hacked ages ago.
How? Or do both hotmail and gmail keep their /etc/shadow's out on the web?
50 unsuccessful password attempts without a successful login should raise suspicions on both sites, and start doing things like emailing the account's owner and asking for capchas etc. Unless your password is something like "p4ssw0rd" you should be safe.
If he logged in from a compromised machine, or used an unencrypted method like http to log in from his local starbuck, then it doesn't matter how secure his password is.
You can only brute force if you have access to the password hash. If you do, then 90%+ of passwords will be compromised easily.
Why is this in idle? After that blatant dupe earlier...
You are grounded!
To keep us from blocking idle completely.
NOTHING is free. Everything takes time and money to create. Now, for various reasons, people give software away...but this is a massive corporation producing software worth billions of dollars, and a key part of it depends on software that was developed at a cost of millions of dollars.
So a reasonable few million bucks to Oracle for their trouble seems fair.
Is the English Language free?
At least most of us can name more than half the EU states. Can't imagine Americans being able to name more than 10 of theirs.
Obig. XKCD
I also mention that eg Israel does not use these scanners
Not In TLV, but there is a MMW scanner at Israeli immigration at Erez.
ESTA is something that you have to apply for in advance, cannot travel without and it costs money.
HOW is it not a visa ?
Biggest thing is you don't get a sticker in your passport. It lasts for 2 years too, and is a multiple-entry visa. And compared with a real U.S. visa (which you can also have), it's trivial to get.
This is NOT a US-specific process!
This is _exactly_ the same process people need to go through to visit the Schengen countries if they need a visa. Except that for most countries, one actually has to travel to a consulate rather than being able to send the application through mail.
I've received the following visas in the last 12 months
* Afghanistan
* Pakistan
* Russia (twice)
* China
* India
Aside from being without one of my passports for a few days in each case, there was no impact. In the case of Egypt and Indonesia you buy one on arrival.
A colleague had to simply *renew* a U.S. visa, and had to physically spend most of day in the embassy in London.
Not true. I have very much enjoyed visiting the U.S. and would like to go to New York again for a show next year.
At the moment, however, I would feel safer visiting China or or Cuba (where their citizens are treated poorly), than the U.S., which kidnaps and tortures foreign citizens.
The U.S. has joined Iran, North Korea etc. on my list of "Places that are too dangerous to visit right now."
If yoyu travel legally to north Korea, you're perfectly safe.
I've een to a variety of "undesirable" countries around the world. Some cities can feel a bit threatening at night (Gaza, Delhi, Washington DC), and driving in rural areas in Pakistan or Afghanistan tend to be a bit nail-chewing, but on the whole I've only been worried about the actions of the government in 2 countries -- China and the U.S.
Could you explain what megawatts per day means?
It's a measurement of increasing power, as in "my house is drawing 5MW increasing at 2MW per day. By next year I'll have melted the planet!"
No, the big power draw is from CRT displays.
Both of them. They'll die someday and things will be nice and green again....
Back in my day the CRTs were green... or sometimes amber.
Or this one time, pepperoni! What a day!
is awful in my experience. It's so slow you might as well use your phone, tablet, netbook or whatever is to hand and access the internet properly.
Unless you have a TV from post 1998, which caches all the pages. MythTV does it too, if you use an analog capture card which presents VBI.
Goodbye Bamboozle... I used to love the special themes and as a kid, this was a great game to play with my siblings.
Bamboozle used hexadecimal page numbers, the first time that many kids will be aware of a base system other than 10. Ceefax was a system made by geeks, and does the job brilliantly. It's a joy to use, and the systems behind it are a lot easier for journalists to update. And with only 40x25 characters, it meant news stories were properly subbed, not just copies of press releases.
The greater London area, those that commute in or are centred around there, makes up somewhere closer to a quarter of the population, maybe more. Most of the money in the UK is made in the capital and surrounding areas.
The UK is London-centric. Not just the media.
I don't live there any more (ex-pat) nor will I when I move back to the UK later this year, but it's a bit of an unavoidable thing with Britain.
Those that commute from the north (Beds/Herts etc) lost ceefax last year. This week was only the turn off for 8 million people in London proper. The 52 million people in the rest of the UK have either already lost Ceefax, or still have it.
Yes, 75% of the country live outside of London and the vast 2 hour commuter belt. The BBC's finally acknowleged that the North West, while contributing 14% of the license fee, was only getting 3% of the fee put back in local coverage. They've opened a new base in Salford. They need to at the very least repeat that in the other English areas.
Far too many media-luvvies live in the south east, think that commuting via train is normal, and don't see the problem in setting a generic sitcom (Outumbered, My Hero, etc) in London rather than, say, a suburb of Exeter.
Says the guy, who probably slashed his fingers taking out ISA, PCI or AGP cards from his custom made tower PC.
AGP! You youngster.
I do note that PC's nowadays ar emuch nicer than in the past. Hardly any screws, certainly no sharp edges. My scars from 15 years ago seem to have healed.
Fortunately dried blood on the motherboard was never a very good conductor.
I thought we were done with this nonsense. If I want a fridge, I'll buy a fridge. If I want a TV set, I'll buy a TV set.
Well I do.
I found the search feature to be the best thing added to the start menu since it was added to Windows. It actually made the damn thing usable again. I don't even bother navigating the menus now, I just type in the name of whatever I want
So, uh, kinda like opening a bash prompt then?
On Linux, I have Alt-Escape mapped to a rxvt/bash window, which I launch everything apart from firefox from (there's a menu at the top)
On my XP VM I use Start-R for a run dialog
On my mac, I only have 5 programs I launch, all in the task bar
Windows 7 brings functionality up to a 10-year old linux desktop. It's getting there, one day I can see a headline like "2016 is the year of the windows desktop", but not quite yet.
Are there no cell phones there? Can't someone start an anonymous tip line? If this happened in the US we'd have detectives so far up everybody's ass that the ACLU would be foaming at the mouth.
You assume that the locals
1) Are against this
2) Trust the authorities
Obviously there's a fair few in group 1, otherwise they wouldn't permit their daughters to go to school, however I wouldn't be in group 2.
There's also the issue that the taliban, like Kim Jong Un, tend not to like cell phones.
http://atwar.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/24/taliban-cuts-cellphone-service-in-helmand/
Us westerners and our silly misunderstanding of the "religion of peace"tm.
Religion of pieces. As in "blown to".
And yet it is religion which justifies these actions.
The interpretation is what gets twisted. You can find twisted interpretations in any religion or elitist mentality. Even atheism. If you're going to hate, don't be selective.
Trouble is, the majority of mainstream religions tend to keep nutjobs under control.
Who said that Slashdot was only about technology news? "News for nerds. Stuff that matters." This matters.
Under islam there wouldn't be any female nerds. Therefore slashdot would be full of 72,000 male virgins with nothing better to do.
The comment is absolutely on the mark.
I sent an email yesterday complaining about the ITIL process which, once again, caused our primary business (broadcast) to lose money (sort of, we put out black on air, it's a bad thing as far as advertisers go)
I compared ITIL with the Koran and Bible. Well meaning, but misread by so many zealots that in reality it ends up being very dangerous.
At least the dullards opposing the teaching of evolution in Kansas tend not to poison the schools.
My disorientation is that I didn't "wake up" after my knee surgery so much as "get shaken until I threw up" followed by demands that I vacate the premises for the next person. The surgery ran over time due to a routine complication, and the conveyor-belt outpatient hospital didn't have enough recovery beds for me to wake naturally from the extended anesthesia. In the end, they wheeled me into the parking lot, vomiting the whole time.
But the republicans are always scoffing about how terrible the NHS is, and how your "pay $10k to give birth" methods are so much more civilised.
Great, now instead of just stealing your card they're going to hold you at gunpoint and take you to the ATM. Plus now they'll know your birthday!
They'd do that anyway -- how else can they check your pin number
Is being mugged at gunpoint really something you consider in your country?