Nevermind the fact that the script for this movie was probably written many months, if not years, before 9-11
The script was finished a few weeks after filming began. Although I agree with you in this case, being Sci Fi does not preclude real world content. In fact it is very common for people to use Sci Fi as a way to deal with issues that are too delicate to bring up in a "close to home" manner. I'm very glad Jengo did not become a terrorist... although perhaps Jar Jar... nah.
It's the other way around for me. I hated my keyboard tray when I first started using it... but eventually I started wishing I had one at home. At my new job, I've got a large L shaped desk which I have configured roughly as you describe and I find I still miss my old keyboard tray. My issue with the desk is that I rest my forearms on it and after a while I start to get sharp pains in my wrists.
Part of the problem with keyboard trays is, they have to be set up at an appropriate height. This is going to vary greatly from person to person and you'll be lucky if you can find a desk/keyboard combination that works well for you (adjustable trays are best - others are crap). Even with an adjustable tray, there still needs to be room for things like legs.
Why would a terrorist group go to all the trouble of pressing DVDs or CDs to provide something that is available in alt.1337.warez?
I'm not agreeing with the whacked out notion that significant terrorist funds are flooding in through the sale of pirated media... however, I imagine some of this stuff sells exceptionally well in areas of the world sans easily available broadband. I mean that last Satistic I saw said something like 500 million people were on the internet. Consider that many of those are dial up and many more are on the net through work, and you have a fairly vast market for pirated media regardless of its availability on the net.
That's classic. Our Admins sent out an automatic email and then waited several days before disabling the account. Sounds like your guys just got the order of operations all mixed up. Did they send the email out to the account they'd just disabled or were they smarter than that?
Good point. At one time they were doing something like what you just described. I'm not sure if they switched to it, from it, or do both now... (I graduated) It would seem redundant to run a cracker in the background in addition to checking for weak passwords when they change them. Your idea sounds considerably more efficient and overall is probably much more secure. I think one difference between the methods is that catching them when they change the password makes it look like a password policy police kind of thing whereas a scheduled cracker gives the impression of a more detached process.
Memorizing multiple truly secure passwords on a rotating basis are a pain in the ass.
Additionally, having more passwords than you can effectively keep track of often results in you entering the wrong password for a service. So when you accidently log in to your friends machine at school with your home root password, you may end up with your root password sitting in some failed login log file. The same kind of problem can emerge if you always have to enter the same password over and over again at work all day. When you log in to Hotmail, how often are you going to accidentally enter the work password?
My university had a some sort of automated cracking script running weekly. If it cracked your password you were sent an email telling you your password had been cracked by their script. You were then instructed to change your password within 3 days (or something) or else your account would automagically be disabled.
This system seemed to work well because users could see an actual threat. Also, since everything was handled via script, there was no one tangible to blame other than the user with the bad password.
From the article: In February, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said he considered the "Linux phenomenon" the top threat to Microsoft's plans for world domination.
Yes, peace of mind. I regard comments like this as a sort of promise between me and the guy who comes later. My way of saying, whatever it is, it will have the standard function header. ("used by" is silly though)
Besides, who knows if some yahoo is gonna go modify the x squared function to do something more complicated? If there is a full function header there, the coder is much more likely to comment his change. Where I work, nobody uses function headers and comments are far and few between. I started putting headers in everything I wrote with a changelog section at the bottom. A few months later I noticed people (who almost never wrote comments) were actually putting entries in the function changelogs when they made a modification.
But when sifting through lines of code, you often find beautiful works like iHateMyJob++; or fuckMyBoss--; to name a few. And needless to say, they're uncommented in the code.
Not necessarily true, I have seen examples of the above where the coder actually went on to make comments regarding his choice of variable names. He ended up going on about a rant involving low self esteem.
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All good advice. For me the key to dealing with any customer service department is a cordless phone and a headset. As long as I can walk around with my hands free, they can keep me on hold for an hour for all I care (although the music is a bit annoying). Before, I call up for service, I just start working on a program, cooking some food, or surfing the net. The problem is usually solved in an hour and a cordless/headset allows me to spend that hour programming/cooking/surfing instead of waiting idle on hold. Yell and scream all you want, things take more or less the same amount of time, don't let these people waste your time.
Telocity (Now DirectTV DSL) sends me an email telling me our carrier Ricochet is going out of business and they will no longer be able to provide service. In the email they gave a list of exactly what would happen (no more billing, broadband would stop early sept, free dialup access for 1 month, a package would arrive for the DSL modem in October, our account would be closed automagically). There was a phone number to call for questions. I called and confirmed the information in the email. This was mid August last year.
Two weeks later a bill a telocity charge appears on my credit card. I call em up, they credit the card and "fix" the problem. A month later, another charge appears. I call them up again, they tell me, oh a judge ordered Ricochet to stay open during bankrupcy proceedings so we didn't close your account. Aren't you happy? I explain that I switched ISPs two months ago after receiving their notice. They say, oh sorry, and fix the problem. I check my telocity email and verify they never sent me any notice contradicting the original cancellation notice.
They stop billing my credit card. But I'm curious to see how whacked out these people are so I keep checking my telocity email account to see when they actually terminate the account. It happens sometime in December. In January, they send the prepaid package for the dsl modem (they were supposed to do this in October). A week later a notice arrives saying if you don't send back the modem immediately we will charge your credit card $400. The total Account Closing process took about 6 months.
I wonder if this technology will ever be accurate enough to work properly. I suppose the biggest problem is the size of the database that would be necessary to hold the high quality pictures necessary for accurate identification.
It kind of makes you wonder... how do humans do facial recognition? After all, in this department we tend to be pretty damn good compared to machines. The truth is we rely on lots of other information like body movement, facial expressions (movement), sounds, etc. Not that I like this sort of invasion of privacy, but maybe a simple mugshot compared against crappy security camera video at poor angles just isn't enough information to make a positive id out of thousands of candidates. Now if we can just get the terrorists to pose for the camera. Okay, Mr Bin Laden, let's see what your smile looks like. Thanks, ok now frown. I'll give you a cookie if we can see your angry face. Say cheese.
It seems to be that the population density is too high in our cities, and a great way to thin that out would be to put some businesses on the Moon (or Mars).
Radius of Moon 1,738 km
Radius of Earth 6,371 km
Surface Area Earth : Surface Area of Moon = 50:1
Somehow I don't think moving people to the moon is going to significantly ease overcrowding on earth. Besides, honestly, who would want to live somewhere like the Moon or Mars? Don't get me wrong, it would be a sweet place to visit, but the pros of being on Earth greatly outweigh the pros of being anywhere else in the known universe.
This is sort of like going out to buy some firewood and finding out later that the firewood you bought was hollowed out and stuffed with magnesium strips and thermite. Damn shoulda read the label.
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If you have a problem, if no one else can help you, and if you can get them to accept your submission, maybe you can hire ASK SLASHDOT!
Screw that, just hire BA to throw the bad guys helluva far. Besides, between all the phone commercials and other promos, it seems like the guy might be a little desperate for money.
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Nevermind the fact that the script for this movie was probably written many months, if not years, before 9-11
The script was finished a few weeks after filming began. Although I agree with you in this case, being Sci Fi does not preclude real world content. In fact it is very common for people to use Sci Fi as a way to deal with issues that are too delicate to bring up in a "close to home" manner. I'm very glad Jengo did not become a terrorist... although perhaps Jar Jar... nah.
It's the other way around for me. I hated my keyboard tray when I first started using it... but eventually I started wishing I had one at home. At my new job, I've got a large L shaped desk which I have configured roughly as you describe and I find I still miss my old keyboard tray. My issue with the desk is that I rest my forearms on it and after a while I start to get sharp pains in my wrists.
Part of the problem with keyboard trays is, they have to be set up at an appropriate height. This is going to vary greatly from person to person and you'll be lucky if you can find a desk/keyboard combination that works well for you (adjustable trays are best - others are crap). Even with an adjustable tray, there still needs to be room for things like legs.
I love my MS Natty keyboard.
Why would a terrorist group go to all the trouble of pressing DVDs or CDs to provide something that is available in alt.1337.warez?
I'm not agreeing with the whacked out notion that significant terrorist funds are flooding in through the sale of pirated media... however, I imagine some of this stuff sells exceptionally well in areas of the world sans easily available broadband. I mean that last Satistic I saw said something like 500 million people were on the internet. Consider that many of those are dial up and many more are on the net through work, and you have a fairly vast market for pirated media regardless of its availability on the net.
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Dyslexia, Cure Found For. - Headline from a newspaper in the movie Airplane
Ohio State: They may have switched to checking your password whenever you change it instead of running a background cracker, I'm not sure.
That's classic. Our Admins sent out an automatic email and then waited several days before disabling the account. Sounds like your guys just got the order of operations all mixed up. Did they send the email out to the account they'd just disabled or were they smarter than that?
Good point. At one time they were doing something like what you just described. I'm not sure if they switched to it, from it, or do both now... (I graduated) It would seem redundant to run a cracker in the background in addition to checking for weak passwords when they change them. Your idea sounds considerably more efficient and overall is probably much more secure. I think one difference between the methods is that catching them when they change the password makes it look like a password policy police kind of thing whereas a scheduled cracker gives the impression of a more detached process.
Memorizing multiple truly secure passwords on a rotating basis are a pain in the ass.
Additionally, having more passwords than you can effectively keep track of often results in you entering the wrong password for a service. So when you accidently log in to your friends machine at school with your home root password, you may end up with your root password sitting in some failed login log file. The same kind of problem can emerge if you always have to enter the same password over and over again at work all day. When you log in to Hotmail, how often are you going to accidentally enter the work password?
My university had a some sort of automated cracking script running weekly. If it cracked your password you were sent an email telling you your password had been cracked by their script. You were then instructed to change your password within 3 days (or something) or else your account would automagically be disabled.
This system seemed to work well because users could see an actual threat. Also, since everything was handled via script, there was no one tangible to blame other than the user with the bad password.
From the article: In February, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said he considered the "Linux phenomenon" the top threat to Microsoft's plans for world domination.
I really hope that was radically paraphrased.
Did the "Inputs" or "Outputs" add any value?
Yes, peace of mind. I regard comments like this as a sort of promise between me and the guy who comes later. My way of saying, whatever it is, it will have the standard function header. ("used by" is silly though)
Besides, who knows if some yahoo is gonna go modify the x squared function to do something more complicated? If there is a full function header there, the coder is much more likely to comment his change. Where I work, nobody uses function headers and comments are far and few between. I started putting headers in everything I wrote with a changelog section at the bottom. A few months later I noticed people (who almost never wrote comments) were actually putting entries in the function changelogs when they made a modification.
But when sifting through lines of code, you often find beautiful works like iHateMyJob++; or fuckMyBoss--; to name a few. And needless to say, they're uncommented in the code.
Not necessarily true, I have seen examples of the above where the coder actually went on to make comments regarding his choice of variable names. He ended up going on about a rant involving low self esteem.
Aaaaarrghhhh 4/3 * pi * r^3 ... I give up
Oops. Thanks. I was doing volume: 4*pi*r^3
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Is this something I missed?
All good advice. For me the key to dealing with any customer service department is a cordless phone and a headset. As long as I can walk around with my hands free, they can keep me on hold for an hour for all I care (although the music is a bit annoying). Before, I call up for service, I just start working on a program, cooking some food, or surfing the net. The problem is usually solved in an hour and a cordless/headset allows me to spend that hour programming/cooking/surfing instead of waiting idle on hold. Yell and scream all you want, things take more or less the same amount of time, don't let these people waste your time.
Telocity (Now DirectTV DSL) sends me an email telling me our carrier Ricochet is going out of business and they will no longer be able to provide service. In the email they gave a list of exactly what would happen (no more billing, broadband would stop early sept, free dialup access for 1 month, a package would arrive for the DSL modem in October, our account would be closed automagically). There was a phone number to call for questions. I called and confirmed the information in the email. This was mid August last year.
Two weeks later a bill a telocity charge appears on my credit card. I call em up, they credit the card and "fix" the problem. A month later, another charge appears. I call them up again, they tell me, oh a judge ordered Ricochet to stay open during bankrupcy proceedings so we didn't close your account. Aren't you happy? I explain that I switched ISPs two months ago after receiving their notice. They say, oh sorry, and fix the problem. I check my telocity email and verify they never sent me any notice contradicting the original cancellation notice.
They stop billing my credit card. But I'm curious to see how whacked out these people are so I keep checking my telocity email account to see when they actually terminate the account. It happens sometime in December. In January, they send the prepaid package for the dsl modem (they were supposed to do this in October). A week later a notice arrives saying if you don't send back the modem immediately we will charge your credit card $400. The total Account Closing process took about 6 months.
I gave no address for my free domain via (www.dhs.org). Of course one could argue, I'm still at the mercy of a service provider.
I wonder if this technology will ever be accurate enough to work properly. I suppose the biggest problem is the size of the database that would be necessary to hold the high quality pictures necessary for accurate identification.
It kind of makes you wonder... how do humans do facial recognition? After all, in this department we tend to be pretty damn good compared to machines. The truth is we rely on lots of other information like body movement, facial expressions (movement), sounds, etc. Not that I like this sort of invasion of privacy, but maybe a simple mugshot compared against crappy security camera video at poor angles just isn't enough information to make a positive id out of thousands of candidates. Now if we can just get the terrorists to pose for the camera. Okay, Mr Bin Laden, let's see what your smile looks like. Thanks, ok now frown. I'll give you a cookie if we can see your angry face. Say cheese.
It seems to be that the population density is too high in our cities, and a great way to thin that out would be to put some businesses on the Moon (or Mars).
Radius of Moon 1,738 km
Radius of Earth 6,371 km
Surface Area Earth : Surface Area of Moon = 50:1
Somehow I don't think moving people to the moon is going to significantly ease overcrowding on earth. Besides, honestly, who would want to live somewhere like the Moon or Mars? Don't get me wrong, it would be a sweet place to visit, but the pros of being on Earth greatly outweigh the pros of being anywhere else in the known universe.
This is sort of like going out to buy some firewood and finding out later that the firewood you bought was hollowed out and stuffed with magnesium strips and thermite. Damn shoulda read the label.
I thought this was hilarious.
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If you have a problem, if no one else can help you, and if you can get them to accept your submission, maybe you can hire ASK SLASHDOT!
Screw that, just hire BA to throw the bad guys helluva far. Besides, between all the phone commercials and other promos, it seems like the guy might be a little desperate for money.
Does this mean I have to take back my rubber disinfectant body suit and matching tin foil hat?
don't forget about calling for a new registration code when you changed your oil.