Tougher laws are needed to prevent members of the political class from classifying secrets that, were they exposed, would embarrass members of the political class.
This got greenlit? Really?
Maybe I should post an article about a wunnerful shortcut that almost always lets you restart your computer without power cycling. Hold these 3 keys down at the same time: control - alt - delete. I call it the 3 finger salute. Maybe I should patent the idea and trademark the name and retire?
My PS3 does the same. I farked up my laptop a couple months ago and tried to use my PS3 to get info on how to fix it. Pretty much everything past google crashed the PS3 web browser.
One is "I wanna watch the damn movie", use a cellphone or talk too much and you get tossed out. The other is "I wanna be with my friends", anything goes.
Run the experiment a couple months, see which gets the bigger audience.
/ Last movie I saw in a theater was Return of the King, due to talkative asshats// Second to last movie was The Two Towers
I just finished this book (http://www.amazon.com/Disappearing-Spoon-Madness-Periodic-Elements/dp/0316051632/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1371593805&sr=1-1&keywords=disappearing+spoon), it's pretty entertaining for chemistry and sciency types.
But what in fact happens is most people who make a password on your site will not be using a reusable password from another site which is one of the biggest flaws in security right now.
I'll just use the crappy password I use for sites like/. and fark and stick a 9 after it. I hit this at work a lot, every x weeks they want a new password. So I end up with foo1, foo2, foo3, etc. Sometimes they notice what I'm doing (I'm a consultant, I change jobs a lot), in that case I have foo1, bar1, foo2, bar2, etc.
That said, my work passwords tend to be strong, I just add the stupid numbers when IT forces me to.
I use KeePass. I have 1 strong password stored in my brain. I have 1 crappy password for places like fark,/., and ars. My passwords for my 2 investment firms, my bank, ebay, paypal, email accounts, etc, are all different and I have no idea what they are as I let KeePass generate them. I just open up KeePass, copy the password to the clipboard, then paste.
To make it portable whenever I add a password to KeePass on my laptop I copy the database to my phone. As I never access my sensitive accounts from anywhere but my phone I'm good.
In short, it's simple, free, and as long as my 1 strong password is good I'm in good shape.
I can't wrap my brain around the no-fly list. You can't find out if your on it until you're denied boarding. You can't find out how you got on it. You can't get off it once your on it. That's constitutional how? Oh, I forgot. Bush tossed the constitution out on it's ear 9/12/01.
Why doesn't some hacker group like anonymous start putting politicians and staffers on the damn thing so we can all watch the fun?
I still get Analog, Cooking Light, and Scientific American. Analog cuz I like the stories, Cooking Light because it's more convenient and SA because it's a 30 year habit. 3 years ago I had about 10 subscriptions.
I'm coming very close to dropping my newspaper subscription as well. Not because I prefer getting my news off the 'net, but because the local paper (U-T San Diego) is a ghost of a shell of it's former self. I spend more time reading the comics than the rest of the paper combined.
Same here. The only 2 planks of the republican party I agree with are smaller government and gun control is (usually) wrong. Yet those are my 2 strongest beliefs, hence I tend to vote republican even when the candidate is a total douchebag. To my mind, keeping taxes down and protecting the 2nd amendment override my feelings on gay marriage, abortion, evolution in schools, immigration, racism,... oh jeez everytime I do this I wonder why I still support republicans.
Who fricken cares? I write Linux device drivers, live with it all day. No fricken way would I recommend any Linux distro to anyone I'd end up supporting. When Linux just fricken works out of the box I'll change my mind, but I'm not holding my breath.
Face it. I'm a Linux expert, started with Yggdrasil in '94, and not only do I still have a Windows gaming box but I'm not looking to get rid of said Windows box. Linux has been The Next Big Desktop for 20 years now, and it will be 20 years from now.
I've got an HTC One V. My power button started going out about 3 weeks after I got the phone. As in I had to fiddle with it to turn the phone on/off. HTC said to back everything up and send it to them, they'd get it back to me in 4-6 weeks. Overnight shipping both ways wasn't an option. I don't have a landline so I lived with it hoping for the best. After 3 months it pretty much didn't register, it's a bitch to turn the phone on.
Google shows others have this issue and suggested using a silicon spray on it. I did, now I can turn it on. But I can't turn it off. I did discover that holding the power button down takes a screenshot. WTF? It registers the button is held down long enough to take a screenshot, but not to power off?
I've got other software issues with the phone, like sometimes I don't get the flashing notify LED. Or the LED will flash a few minutes, then quit. The camera seems to have a "fuzz" filter. I get ready to take a picture, it's in focus. I snap it, I get about 1/2 second of an in-focus picture and then it goes blurry. Always. I have yet to find a setting to unblur my camera. Note this isn't a dirty lens or anything, the picture is clear until the moment the phone saves the picture.
On the whole, the hardware sucks, the software sucks, and the customer support sucks.
This was on the news a week or two back. Mine go through the wash maybe once a month. Is it really all that hard to realize the things get all sorts of tasty but nasty without refrigeration stuff in them?
I've been involved in enough large scale projects to know why you bring up parts, or underpower the system, and run them to see what breaks. And stuff does break, it's the name of the game.
Still, it's pretty frustrating to watch this shut down for 2 years. We'll be getting results from the Pluto probe about the time this thing comes back up.
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Tougher laws are needed to prevent members of the political class from classifying secrets that, were they exposed, would embarrass members of the political class.
This got greenlit? Really? Maybe I should post an article about a wunnerful shortcut that almost always lets you restart your computer without power cycling. Hold these 3 keys down at the same time: control - alt - delete. I call it the 3 finger salute. Maybe I should patent the idea and trademark the name and retire?
My PS3 does the same. I farked up my laptop a couple months ago and tried to use my PS3 to get info on how to fix it. Pretty much everything past google crashed the PS3 web browser.
Grocery store receipts. No kidding, buy a can of tomato sauce and get an 18 inch long receipt, plus an "at the register" coupon for tampons.
A very accurate stopwatch controlled by the thumb of a guy with way too much meth in his system.
One is "I wanna watch the damn movie", use a cellphone or talk too much and you get tossed out. The other is "I wanna be with my friends", anything goes. Run the experiment a couple months, see which gets the bigger audience. / Last movie I saw in a theater was Return of the King, due to talkative asshats // Second to last movie was The Two Towers
I just finished this book (http://www.amazon.com/Disappearing-Spoon-Madness-Periodic-Elements/dp/0316051632/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1371593805&sr=1-1&keywords=disappearing+spoon), it's pretty entertaining for chemistry and sciency types.
But what in fact happens is most people who make a password on your site will not be using a reusable password from another site which is one of the biggest flaws in security right now.
I'll just use the crappy password I use for sites like /. and fark and stick a 9 after it. I hit this at work a lot, every x weeks they want a new password. So I end up with foo1, foo2, foo3, etc. Sometimes they notice what I'm doing (I'm a consultant, I change jobs a lot), in that case I have foo1, bar1, foo2, bar2, etc.
That said, my work passwords tend to be strong, I just add the stupid numbers when IT forces me to.
I use KeePass. I have 1 strong password stored in my brain. I have 1 crappy password for places like fark, /., and ars. My passwords for my 2 investment firms, my bank, ebay, paypal, email accounts, etc, are all different and I have no idea what they are as I let KeePass generate them. I just open up KeePass, copy the password to the clipboard, then paste.
To make it portable whenever I add a password to KeePass on my laptop I copy the database to my phone. As I never access my sensitive accounts from anywhere but my phone I'm good.
In short, it's simple, free, and as long as my 1 strong password is good I'm in good shape.
My date asks "what are you thinking", and a few seconds later my phone starts playing porn who's star kinda looks like her.
I can't wrap my brain around the no-fly list. You can't find out if your on it until you're denied boarding. You can't find out how you got on it. You can't get off it once your on it. That's constitutional how? Oh, I forgot. Bush tossed the constitution out on it's ear 9/12/01.
Why doesn't some hacker group like anonymous start putting politicians and staffers on the damn thing so we can all watch the fun?
I still get Analog, Cooking Light, and Scientific American. Analog cuz I like the stories, Cooking Light because it's more convenient and SA because it's a 30 year habit. 3 years ago I had about 10 subscriptions.
I'm coming very close to dropping my newspaper subscription as well. Not because I prefer getting my news off the 'net, but because the local paper (U-T San Diego) is a ghost of a shell of it's former self. I spend more time reading the comics than the rest of the paper combined.
Same here. The only 2 planks of the republican party I agree with are smaller government and gun control is (usually) wrong. Yet those are my 2 strongest beliefs, hence I tend to vote republican even when the candidate is a total douchebag. To my mind, keeping taxes down and protecting the 2nd amendment override my feelings on gay marriage, abortion, evolution in schools, immigration, racism, ... oh jeez everytime I do this I wonder why I still support republicans.
Company A screws people out of their homes with shady business practices. Company B prevents people from playing a video game after paying $50.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'd rather be out $60 than out my house.
ATT Uverse does this. The default password is a string of numbers, printed on a sticker on the side of the box.
OH wait amazon already charges me taxes.. So who cares?
Haven't bought anything from Amazon since they started taxing me. Made 2 online purchases so far, paid taxes on neither.
As the summary says, I'm voting with my wallet. I don't want to give the asshats in Sacramento any more money.
Who fricken cares? I write Linux device drivers, live with it all day. No fricken way would I recommend any Linux distro to anyone I'd end up supporting. When Linux just fricken works out of the box I'll change my mind, but I'm not holding my breath.
Face it. I'm a Linux expert, started with Yggdrasil in '94, and not only do I still have a Windows gaming box but I'm not looking to get rid of said Windows box. Linux has been The Next Big Desktop for 20 years now, and it will be 20 years from now.
2 words. Suh weet. Saints Row is more fun than GTA nowdays, and that's saying a lot.
I never got notification email. I also can't log in with any password, now that it's hit /. I know to hit their site for a heads up.
Evernote has my weakest throwaway passwords, and the only thing I use it for is grocery lists. Not too worried about this one.
I've got an HTC One V. My power button started going out about 3 weeks after I got the phone. As in I had to fiddle with it to turn the phone on/off. HTC said to back everything up and send it to them, they'd get it back to me in 4-6 weeks. Overnight shipping both ways wasn't an option. I don't have a landline so I lived with it hoping for the best. After 3 months it pretty much didn't register, it's a bitch to turn the phone on.
Google shows others have this issue and suggested using a silicon spray on it. I did, now I can turn it on. But I can't turn it off. I did discover that holding the power button down takes a screenshot. WTF? It registers the button is held down long enough to take a screenshot, but not to power off?
I've got other software issues with the phone, like sometimes I don't get the flashing notify LED. Or the LED will flash a few minutes, then quit. The camera seems to have a "fuzz" filter. I get ready to take a picture, it's in focus. I snap it, I get about 1/2 second of an in-focus picture and then it goes blurry. Always. I have yet to find a setting to unblur my camera. Note this isn't a dirty lens or anything, the picture is clear until the moment the phone saves the picture.
On the whole, the hardware sucks, the software sucks, and the customer support sucks.
Not seeing my phone in the Cyanogen builds tho :(
This was on the news a week or two back. Mine go through the wash maybe once a month. Is it really all that hard to realize the things get all sorts of tasty but nasty without refrigeration stuff in them?
I've been involved in enough large scale projects to know why you bring up parts, or underpower the system, and run them to see what breaks. And stuff does break, it's the name of the game.
Still, it's pretty frustrating to watch this shut down for 2 years. We'll be getting results from the Pluto probe about the time this thing comes back up.
I can't speak to an iPhone, but I know my cell phone takes its time from the actual carrier.
If you have CDMA your phone needs to be within something like 10 milliseconds of the carrier's time. I imagine GSM has similar requirements.
All the passwords on ISS computers are 123456? :-)
That's clearly insecure. They're 12345678.
No fb account, no twitter account, no google+ account (except for that default one they evidently made for me and keep telling me I should check).
When do they decide I'm an antisocial psychopath who gets bumped to the top of the watch lists?