Managers are like placing all of your eggs in one basket which has been specifically designed for carrying eggs, with proper separation and cushioning against nearly all common shipping contingencies.
Having a couple of really secure passwords and a couple of throwaways is like putting a couple of small eggs in your back pocket and carrying the big ones in your hands. Much more convenient, and only as secure as you are diligent.
Not any more. Words are now characters. You have a 3 character password right there. Unless you're going to munge up the words with misspellings or nonalphanumerics,
Besides, having to type in your master pass[phrase] that's 30 characters long into something like LastPass from a phone keyboard with ******** as your visual feedback every time you need to re-authorize (which should be frequent if you're being diligent) is a royal pain in the ass. Do that for a couple of days and you'll be back to 12345 out of shear frustration.
"people would just memorize the two letter words."
And we'd be okay with that - you memorize the definitions and use them in a sentence then they are part of your vocabulary. But there's a lot more to that than just remembering which 2 letter combinations scrabble considers to be "words".
Ambient noise is (almost) always present. Even a "silent" room, as such for the experiment, was subject to pencil noises, breathing, HVAC air, mechanical vibrations, (and clocks, computer fans, fluor. ballast hum, etc. as appropriate).
Now ambient as in "people talking in a coffee house" is a whole different matter.
The vote was 4:1 in favor of the rule. He was not required to continue to play, and could have resigned in protest. Not that it actually mattered much - he was vying for last anyway - but we needed to set some ground rules for future games.
Sometimes rule changes are necessary for balance. Previously, this group may or may not have also altered the CAH rules to state that blank cards may not be played as "Two midgets shitting in a bucket."* I say may have because I'm pretty certain it was discussed, but it was too late and I was too drunk to really recall whether the proposal was made official.
*not because it was offensive, but because it was too like to get chosen as the winning combination. And it had been "played" four times that night already.
Defined on the spot. If you don't know what the word means, or how to use it properly, it doesn't count. It means you have to play what you know, not just a memorized list.
Yeah, we've got a programmer in our group that we played with one night. After his second questionable 2 letter word we added a rule (democratically voted on and adopted) that you must be able to define your word and use it properly in a sentence if anyone asks.
If you own an american muscle car, the only way you'll know your engine is powerful enough for your manly image is if they add engine sounds to the cabin. They *have* to have a link to the ECS of they won't know how much manliness to tell you you're creating with your throttle.
"But this buffer will cause semi-auto pistols to stove-pipe when the action doesn't cycle correctly."
(1) if you're recycle time is long enough, recovery from the force of recoil is not an issue - only rotational pitch and yaw compensation for the moment due to non-coicindent CGs during firing.
(2) If you're developing a 9 DOF reaction system to account for rapid firing, you can develop an alternative cycling mechanism. It's just another milestone in the project.
A dedicated, full time, paid set of software (and, presumably) hardware professionals with tens (or hundreds) of millions in revenue/funding with no fear of prosecution have managed to create effective software which uses exactly the same features that are available to the OS and app developers to collect data and phone home on the sly, while avoiding detection by people who are - mostly - entirely ignorant of the underlying system.
This is funded by the same people who can press a button and put a thousand pounds of high explosives, literally, through the front door of a building a thousand miles away in under 120 minutes, or 500lbs from 300 miles away in under 10 minutes.
It would be a story if they couldn't. (actually, it wouldn't - we'd call them typical incompetent government contractors).
That's not too hard, actually, from an engineering perspective. It adds expense and complexity, certainly, but it's just a design parameter. Alter the mount to react with uniform stiffness centered around and aligned with the barrel and bolt reaction mass center and you'll reduce your problem to a simple 2DOF force couple system.
I would guess that state of the art drone weapon systems are every bit as accurate as the most accomplished human snipers.
Just because the PR people say words does not make them the most accurate depiction of events occurring. More than likely they are determining if the act meets the tests required by law and if there is reasonable likelihood that a criminal case can be successfully prosecuted. Court cases are expensive - both in money and resources; having the prosecution review a case for potential applicability is SOP.
You know, they should implement some kind of a search engine on their HR database so that they can look up past interviewees to prevent multiple recruitment gaffs like this. Now, I know that not everyone can write a custom search engine in house, but I hear that both Microsoft and Yahoo have up-and-coming search engine technology they might be able to license and implement that would let them mine their existing data.
Again, it's not the phone that's the problem, it's the person. Now it does make espionage easier - no doubt - but there are many, many other less obtrusive (to use) devices for that purpose.
Now the sibling post about malware on the phone which surreptitiously records audio (and/or video...though if you're not supposed to have it, it's doubtful you'll take it out in a secure area) could have implications. But, again, you're looking for a needle in a haystack if you hoping that some distributed malware will happen to active for someone with clearance, and you'll be hard pressed to automatically sift through millions of hours of muffled conversation a day to find that one bit of monetizable information and put it into a context which can actually be sold.
Just because you don't like to cost doesn't mean it's not accurate.
It is almost always more expensive to restore an old [anything] than it would be to build a lookalike from scratch. Materials fail and have to be very carefully repaired. Have you ever tried to repair fabric in a historically accurate way?
I happen to deal in buildings, and most people don't realize how complex it is to restore an old building while keeping as much of the historic content as possible. It means you spend $10000 to internally repair and strengthen a damaged beam that might cost $200 in steel and $350 in fabrication to replace. That trim work that's very similar - but not exactly the same profile - as the $1.10/LF chair rail at Home Depot will cost you $400 for a custom knife, $3/ft for the lumber, and $75/hr to have it milled, plus shipping and markup - and you're probably only going to be 20-30LF to patch in places where the old lumber could not be saved or where it was cut out (say for a door) and you're putting back the wall.
As for ilcdover - how many workers currently employed by them worked on the Apollo era suits and still remember all the techniques used for assembly? I'm going to guess the number is right around zero. How many of the materials used in modern suits they do have experience with match the condition of the materials used in Armstrong's suit? How many workers have used that material after it's been laying around for 50 years? How much are you willing to save to risk damaging the suit forever?
This is pretty much the case for me now. I used to upgrade frequently, but decided that as a hobby, OS upgrades weren't really as exciting as everything else I wanted to do.
Now I upgrade when either (a) there's a compelling feature worth adding (b) the current OS breaks or (c) I get new hardware and installation of a new/current release OS is no more time consuming than the old OS.
I don't trust major revision upgrades to install over existing OS, even when they're supposed to work, so I normally do bare metal - which means 1-2 days including software installs and configuration. I'm a major rev behind on my unRaid server and probably won't get around to the current version before the next one comes out. I have 2 W7s that probably won't get upgraded to 10, and one XP that will likely never be upgraded (though it's replacement is in testing).
This happened, what - a week or two ago? It's been so long since I saw the story and first new strip I'd forgotten it was even a thing.
I'm glad they're back, but this whole "Slashdot is even faster than the Pony Express bringing California Headlines to New York" isn't going to win them any contests.
Once we've really gotten to the future, there will be speech to text - or at least editors that know how to type up an interview - so that we don't have to site through video interviews.
Wow, that's pretty dire. Most "expensive" processors here in the states are ~3%. Paypal Here, Square, and a couple others are basically wooing very small businesses with the ability to process credit, but it costs more than the typical 2.5-2.7% charged to large account holders who process directly with major banks.
Cash is still king though, as it's not the credit card fees that matter but rather the government who tacks on the 15-25% fee for use of their military, roads, banking system, and various and sundry other services. Cash can be recorded or not, as you see fit.
Bitcoin does me no good as I have to both pay to have it converted to hard currency and take the risk that it will devalue significantly in the time it takes to make the conversion. Today alone, interday fluctuation of the value of bitcoin was 3%, and 14% in the last week. There's no value in that kind of uncertainty in my income.
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But apps have to integrate it. That's the problem - some don't.
Managers are like placing all of your eggs in one basket which has been specifically designed for carrying eggs, with proper separation and cushioning against nearly all common shipping contingencies.
Having a couple of really secure passwords and a couple of throwaways is like putting a couple of small eggs in your back pocket and carrying the big ones in your hands. Much more convenient, and only as secure as you are diligent.
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Not any more. Words are now characters. You have a 3 character password right there. Unless you're going to munge up the words with misspellings or nonalphanumerics,
Besides, having to type in your master pass[phrase] that's 30 characters long into something like LastPass from a phone keyboard with ******** as your visual feedback every time you need to re-authorize (which should be frequent if you're being diligent) is a royal pain in the ass. Do that for a couple of days and you'll be back to 12345 out of shear frustration.
Better to use a single password and write it on a couple of post-its. That way you can tape one to every device you own.
"people would just memorize the two letter words."
And we'd be okay with that - you memorize the definitions and use them in a sentence then they are part of your vocabulary. But there's a lot more to that than just remembering which 2 letter combinations scrabble considers to be "words".
It's turtles all the way down.
On the Government is stupid enough to base your rates on "profit" which can be gamed to be zero or less.
No, this is revenue. The top line number. And it's a lot harder to game.
Ambient noise is (almost) always present. Even a "silent" room, as such for the experiment, was subject to pencil noises, breathing, HVAC air, mechanical vibrations, (and clocks, computer fans, fluor. ballast hum, etc. as appropriate).
Now ambient as in "people talking in a coffee house" is a whole different matter.
The vote was 4:1 in favor of the rule. He was not required to continue to play, and could have resigned in protest. Not that it actually mattered much - he was vying for last anyway - but we needed to set some ground rules for future games.
Sometimes rule changes are necessary for balance. Previously, this group may or may not have also altered the CAH rules to state that blank cards may not be played as "Two midgets shitting in a bucket."* I say may have because I'm pretty certain it was discussed, but it was too late and I was too drunk to really recall whether the proposal was made official.
*not because it was offensive, but because it was too like to get chosen as the winning combination. And it had been "played" four times that night already.
Defined on the spot. If you don't know what the word means, or how to use it properly, it doesn't count. It means you have to play what you know, not just a memorized list.
I'll just leave this here:
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Yeah, we've got a programmer in our group that we played with one night. After his second questionable 2 letter word we added a rule (democratically voted on and adopted) that you must be able to define your word and use it properly in a sentence if anyone asks.
If you own an american muscle car, the only way you'll know your engine is powerful enough for your manly image is if they add engine sounds to the cabin. They *have* to have a link to the ECS of they won't know how much manliness to tell you you're creating with your throttle.
"But this buffer will cause semi-auto pistols to stove-pipe when the action doesn't cycle correctly."
(1) if you're recycle time is long enough, recovery from the force of recoil is not an issue - only rotational pitch and yaw compensation for the moment due to non-coicindent CGs during firing.
(2) If you're developing a 9 DOF reaction system to account for rapid firing, you can develop an alternative cycling mechanism. It's just another milestone in the project.
A dedicated, full time, paid set of software (and, presumably) hardware professionals with tens (or hundreds) of millions in revenue/funding with no fear of prosecution have managed to create effective software which uses exactly the same features that are available to the OS and app developers to collect data and phone home on the sly, while avoiding detection by people who are - mostly - entirely ignorant of the underlying system.
This is funded by the same people who can press a button and put a thousand pounds of high explosives, literally, through the front door of a building a thousand miles away in under 120 minutes, or 500lbs from 300 miles away in under 10 minutes.
It would be a story if they couldn't. (actually, it wouldn't - we'd call them typical incompetent government contractors).
That's not too hard, actually, from an engineering perspective. It adds expense and complexity, certainly, but it's just a design parameter. Alter the mount to react with uniform stiffness centered around and aligned with the barrel and bolt reaction mass center and you'll reduce your problem to a simple 2DOF force couple system.
I would guess that state of the art drone weapon systems are every bit as accurate as the most accomplished human snipers.
Just because the PR people say words does not make them the most accurate depiction of events occurring. More than likely they are determining if the act meets the tests required by law and if there is reasonable likelihood that a criminal case can be successfully prosecuted. Court cases are expensive - both in money and resources; having the prosecution review a case for potential applicability is SOP.
You know, they should implement some kind of a search engine on their HR database so that they can look up past interviewees to prevent multiple recruitment gaffs like this. Now, I know that not everyone can write a custom search engine in house, but I hear that both Microsoft and Yahoo have up-and-coming search engine technology they might be able to license and implement that would let them mine their existing data.
Again, it's not the phone that's the problem, it's the person. Now it does make espionage easier - no doubt - but there are many, many other less obtrusive (to use) devices for that purpose.
Now the sibling post about malware on the phone which surreptitiously records audio (and/or video...though if you're not supposed to have it, it's doubtful you'll take it out in a secure area) could have implications. But, again, you're looking for a needle in a haystack if you hoping that some distributed malware will happen to active for someone with clearance, and you'll be hard pressed to automatically sift through millions of hours of muffled conversation a day to find that one bit of monetizable information and put it into a context which can actually be sold.
Just because you don't like to cost doesn't mean it's not accurate.
It is almost always more expensive to restore an old [anything] than it would be to build a lookalike from scratch. Materials fail and have to be very carefully repaired. Have you ever tried to repair fabric in a historically accurate way?
I happen to deal in buildings, and most people don't realize how complex it is to restore an old building while keeping as much of the historic content as possible. It means you spend $10000 to internally repair and strengthen a damaged beam that might cost $200 in steel and $350 in fabrication to replace. That trim work that's very similar - but not exactly the same profile - as the $1.10/LF chair rail at Home Depot will cost you $400 for a custom knife, $3/ft for the lumber, and $75/hr to have it milled, plus shipping and markup - and you're probably only going to be 20-30LF to patch in places where the old lumber could not be saved or where it was cut out (say for a door) and you're putting back the wall.
As for ilcdover - how many workers currently employed by them worked on the Apollo era suits and still remember all the techniques used for assembly? I'm going to guess the number is right around zero. How many of the materials used in modern suits they do have experience with match the condition of the materials used in Armstrong's suit? How many workers have used that material after it's been laying around for 50 years? How much are you willing to save to risk damaging the suit forever?
This is pretty much the case for me now. I used to upgrade frequently, but decided that as a hobby, OS upgrades weren't really as exciting as everything else I wanted to do.
Now I upgrade when either (a) there's a compelling feature worth adding (b) the current OS breaks or (c) I get new hardware and installation of a new/current release OS is no more time consuming than the old OS.
I don't trust major revision upgrades to install over existing OS, even when they're supposed to work, so I normally do bare metal - which means 1-2 days including software installs and configuration. I'm a major rev behind on my unRaid server and probably won't get around to the current version before the next one comes out. I have 2 W7s that probably won't get upgraded to 10, and one XP that will likely never be upgraded (though it's replacement is in testing).
This happened, what - a week or two ago? It's been so long since I saw the story and first new strip I'd forgotten it was even a thing.
I'm glad they're back, but this whole "Slashdot is even faster than the Pony Express bringing California Headlines to New York" isn't going to win them any contests.
Once we've really gotten to the future, there will be speech to text - or at least editors that know how to type up an interview - so that we don't have to site through video interviews.
Wow, that's pretty dire. Most "expensive" processors here in the states are ~3%. Paypal Here, Square, and a couple others are basically wooing very small businesses with the ability to process credit, but it costs more than the typical 2.5-2.7% charged to large account holders who process directly with major banks.
Cash is still king though, as it's not the credit card fees that matter but rather the government who tacks on the 15-25% fee for use of their military, roads, banking system, and various and sundry other services. Cash can be recorded or not, as you see fit.
Bitcoin does me no good as I have to both pay to have it converted to hard currency and take the risk that it will devalue significantly in the time it takes to make the conversion. Today alone, interday fluctuation of the value of bitcoin was 3%, and 14% in the last week. There's no value in that kind of uncertainty in my income.
You say ta-may-toh, I say ta-mah-toh (they say, "holy-fuck-this-die-shrink-is-a-bitch")