The second problem is that people tend to invent the same schemes for creating unguessable passwords over and over again. The high repetition of passphrases is somewhat evidence of that.
People educated the same way will tend to come up with similar solutions to similar problems.
I have had a password that I made up fall in very short order, which I would assume was because someone else thought up the same clever password scheme I did. I run my current passwords through the latest dictionaries I can get my hands on periodically, and every once and a while I discard a password because it is in one of the dictionaries.
Basically, passwords suck, if you have people remembering them.
Are all passwords in myspace.txt, which is a very widely distributed dictionary. I would give more examples, but cut and paste doesn't seem to work with slashcode and a beta version of chromium.
About 80% of the passwords in my password dictionaries are mixed case and include at least one number, and generally qualify as secure passwords, other than the minor problem of being in a password dictionary. Further more a not insubstantial minority have a non-alpha numeric element in them.
Humans are predictable creatures of habit, with ingrained social norms. Password dictionaries are shockingly effective.(at least to me.)
Dictionary attacks on passwords tend to not use traditional dictionaries. Rather they use dictionaries of passwords that have been exposed via fishing attacks and then publicized.
All that has to happen is for someone using the same password as you to fall for a phishing attack and you will be vulnerable to dictionary attacks, even if your password looks something like: XHdHNP4S.
If that password has been exposed and is in the attackers password dictionary, you are vulnerable.
As long as you don't send the information out on the internet sure. Otherwise the unsecured wifi section is the LEAST hostile part of the journey. If you care about what is sent from your computer use ssl or equivalent.
If you use telnet. ftp, and/or authenticated http over the internet, WPA/WEP is moot, one of the hops that has glass in and out on the way to your final destination will take your username password combo and log it for future use.
Your WPA+PEAP is still going through third party networks, many of whom have a history of sniffing all traffic.
If you care about security block ports 80, 23, and 21. Port 25 should probably also be on the list as well, being as the headers are plain text even if you use pgp/gpg.
The problem with your statement that wireless networks can be secured against anything short of a police/military grade attack is that police/military grade attacks are available to anyone with time, motivation and five hundred dollars to spend. (unless they have the computer equipment of the average American in which case they already have the hardware, and can skip the expense.)
Which seem so to have had the primary effect of making it easier for computer trading programs.
1/2, 1/4, 1/8, 1/16, 1/32, 1/64, 1/128, and 1/256 are nice split the difference numbers that occur when negotiating. Decimalization eliminates most of the natural beak points, and gives a more fixed price.
Whether this is good or bad is subject to debate, but it isn't the clear cut case that supporters of decimalization make it out to be.
The $100 million is the estimated deductions in payroll tax that are going to be extorted by Zynga, Google, and the rest of the tech companies in SF.
This was the obvious thing to have happen and those companies among others have already asked for their tax breaks. None of them asked for a tax break before Twitter was offered one.
Twitter is not moving to the TL. Twitter is moving to the MART building that was a couple blocks west of the Tenderloin until the twitter tax break needed to be justified.
The reduction is $22M over six years. The total due will be somewhere around $18 million a year. and then go up to about $21 million a year after six years.
The whole point of the tax break is to make the rent the Shorenstein group is charging seem reasonable.
Twitter is moving out of a blight zone to a non-blight zone and getting a tax break.
They were threatening to move to Brisbane (about five miles away) , It would not have resulted in a significant amount of employees moving.
This is penny wise pound foolish move on the part of the Board of Supervisors. They are trying to save $18 million a year in tax revenue from twitter. When all is said and done this will cost the city about $100 million when all the fallout is factored into it.
The building twitter is moving into was just bought by the Shorenstein Group, a politically connected real estate company that has one of the lowest vacancy rates.
The Shorenstein Group is the biggest beneficiary of this, as otherwise they would have had to drop the rent to get twitter in.
What would be the point? The kernel for Windows is perfectly stable, barring shitty drivers.
That would be the point, IIRC over 95% of linux is device drivers. There was one computer that windows xp was crashing on every hour or so, Out of curiosity I installed linux on the machine. I had never seen linux spew so many warnings about out of spec hardware and features being disabled. Linux was stable, but really, windows could have been just as stable, if they would have been willing to say, these features disabled because the hardware is lying about having them. But, if Microsoft had done that, it would have been Microsoft vs Foxcom (or who ever made the crapware) and it would have turned into a pr war. With Linux the hardware was tested, and people reported that it did R when it said it would do A, ergo, mark it bad, until someone comes up with a workaround.
Microsoft has a lot of baggage that makes people willing to take the crapware manufacturer seriously, the Linux developers are viewed as impartial reporters about the state of hardware.
The only way to radically cut spending is to not have unfunded military adventures.
A war tax of about three dollars a gallon on gasoline would do wonders for the countries fiscal condition.
Let's see how many people want to spend a billion dollars bombing Libya if they pay for it at the pump.
The majority of the budget is military adventures that could be greatly reduced. Many of the more expensive military programs were recommended AGAINST by the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Pissing away billions of dollars of American technology on bombs instead of using the technology for something that would contribute to the GDP does not help the long term outlook of the country.
Hell, diverting the defense budget to giving away free pot would probably help the agricultural industry enough to make rural America prosperous, and might even draw enough tourist traffic to pay for it.
Conservatives aren't wrong per se. They just don't accept that the biggest funnel of corruption and waste is US military appropriations.
Milton Friedman was right about the economics, but I would rather pay taxes and have people on welfare than seeing people selling teenagers in front of my house. Friedman seemed to think that living on the 33rd floor so you didn't have to see the desperate doing whatever it takes to survive was a good enough solution.
The definition of a website changes over time at netcraft, And somethings are not so clear. Is a myspace page a website? some of them are done up with more design and customization than the average wordpress blog. Were geocities pages websites?
At present, between a quarter and half the IIS sites in the netcraft survey are parked domain names and myspace pages. Godaddy and myspace could probably drop IIS usage to about 10% by migrating from IIS.
I always though a good april 1 redesign for slashdot would be to use javascript to change all the article links to act the same as the post comment button.
Slashdot Mirror
Hate to break your bubble, but wayland is an X server.
Of course relying on yourself for everything will also bite you in the ass.
Best course of action, kevlar undies.
The second problem is that people tend to invent the same schemes for creating unguessable passwords over and over again. The high repetition of passphrases is somewhat evidence of that.
People educated the same way will tend to come up with similar solutions to similar problems.
I have had a password that I made up fall in very short order, which I would assume was because someone else thought up the same clever password scheme I did. I run my current passwords through the latest dictionaries I can get my hands on periodically, and every once and a while I discard a password because it is in one of the dictionaries.
Basically, passwords suck, if you have people remembering them.
A few of them:
Are all passwords in myspace.txt, which is a very widely distributed dictionary. I would give more examples, but cut and paste doesn't seem to work with slashcode and a beta version of chromium.
About 80% of the passwords in my password dictionaries are mixed case and include at least one number, and generally qualify as secure passwords, other than the minor problem of being in a password dictionary. Further more a not insubstantial minority have a non-alpha numeric element in them.
Humans are predictable creatures of habit, with ingrained social norms. Password dictionaries are shockingly effective.(at least to me.)
Dictionary attacks on passwords tend to not use traditional dictionaries. Rather they use dictionaries of passwords that have been exposed via fishing attacks and then publicized.
All that has to happen is for someone using the same password as you to fall for a phishing attack and you will be vulnerable to dictionary attacks, even if your password looks something like: XHdHNP4S.
If that password has been exposed and is in the attackers password dictionary, you are vulnerable.
eBay runs on Windows.
Not just Windows, Oracle on Windows. I don't know how they turn a profit after both of those companies sales teams have been trough the place.
The cheapest windows vm at rackspace is $58.40/mo. http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/cloud_hosting_products/servers/pricing/
Which is why Wall Street was not real happy with Intel's comments about mobile devices. (It came out as, "we don't have a plan")
But if the encryption is end to end, the air is moot.
The large sniffers are not next to you at starbucks, they are in the datacenter within 200ft of you POP to the internet.
Encrypted wifi for internet access is strictly for access control and has nothing to do with keeping data secure.
As long as you don't send the information out on the internet sure. Otherwise the unsecured wifi section is the LEAST hostile part of the journey. If you care about what is sent from your computer use ssl or equivalent.
If you use telnet. ftp, and/or authenticated http over the internet, WPA/WEP is moot, one of the hops that has glass in and out on the way to your final destination will take your username password combo and log it for future use.
Your WPA+PEAP is still going through third party networks, many of whom have a history of sniffing all traffic.
If you care about security block ports 80, 23, and 21. Port 25 should probably also be on the list as well, being as the headers are plain text even if you use pgp/gpg.
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23,000 people downloaded The Expendables? Really?
And 23,000 were saved from having to ask the theater for their money back.
But it has a version of IE that benchmarks fast. (as long as you are not using ssl)
The problem with your statement that wireless networks can be secured against anything short of a police/military grade attack is that police/military grade attacks are available to anyone with time, motivation and five hundred dollars to spend. (unless they have the computer equipment of the average American in which case they already have the hardware, and can skip the expense.)
Drupal has many more modules than rails or django, making it the most like to find an almost out of the box solution that is quick to get working.
Django is a lot more limited in what will host it, but seems to be the fastest for developing completely new applications.
Rails is somewhere in the middle of Drupal an Django.
Which seem so to have had the primary effect of making it easier for computer trading programs.
1/2, 1/4, 1/8, 1/16, 1/32, 1/64, 1/128, and 1/256 are nice split the difference numbers that occur when negotiating. Decimalization eliminates most of the natural beak points, and gives a more fixed price.
Whether this is good or bad is subject to debate, but it isn't the clear cut case that supporters of decimalization make it out to be.
The $100 million is the estimated deductions in payroll tax that are going to be extorted by Zynga, Google, and the rest of the tech companies in SF.
This was the obvious thing to have happen and those companies among others have already asked for their tax breaks. None of them asked for a tax break before Twitter was offered one.
Twitter is not moving to the TL. Twitter is moving to the MART building that was a couple blocks west of the Tenderloin until the twitter tax break needed to be justified.
The reduction is $22M over six years. The total due will be somewhere around $18 million a year. and then go up to about $21 million a year after six years.
The whole point of the tax break is to make the rent the Shorenstein group is charging seem reasonable.
Twitter is moving out of a blight zone to a non-blight zone and getting a tax break.
They were threatening to move to Brisbane (about five miles away) , It would not have resulted in a significant amount of employees moving.
This is penny wise pound foolish move on the part of the Board of Supervisors. They are trying to save $18 million a year in tax revenue from twitter. When all is said and done this will cost the city about $100 million when all the fallout is factored into it.
The building twitter is moving into was just bought by the Shorenstein Group, a politically connected real estate company that has one of the lowest vacancy rates.
The Shorenstein Group is the biggest beneficiary of this, as otherwise they would have had to drop the rent to get twitter in.
What would be the point? The kernel for Windows is perfectly stable, barring shitty drivers.
That would be the point, IIRC over 95% of linux is device drivers. There was one computer that windows xp was crashing on every hour or so, Out of curiosity I installed linux on the machine. I had never seen linux spew so many warnings about out of spec hardware and features being disabled. Linux was stable, but really, windows could have been just as stable, if they would have been willing to say, these features disabled because the hardware is lying about having them. But, if Microsoft had done that, it would have been Microsoft vs Foxcom (or who ever made the crapware) and it would have turned into a pr war. With Linux the hardware was tested, and people reported that it did R when it said it would do A, ergo, mark it bad, until someone comes up with a workaround.
Microsoft has a lot of baggage that makes people willing to take the crapware manufacturer seriously, the Linux developers are viewed as impartial reporters about the state of hardware.
Rants like the one here http://fxr.watson.org/fxr/source/pci/if_rl.c are unlike to make it into the windows kernel, no matter how true.
The only way to radically cut spending is to not have unfunded military adventures.
A war tax of about three dollars a gallon on gasoline would do wonders for the countries fiscal condition.
Let's see how many people want to spend a billion dollars bombing Libya if they pay for it at the pump.
The majority of the budget is military adventures that could be greatly reduced. Many of the more expensive military programs were recommended AGAINST by the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Pissing away billions of dollars of American technology on bombs instead of using the technology for something that would contribute to the GDP does not help the long term outlook of the country.
Hell, diverting the defense budget to giving away free pot would probably help the agricultural industry enough to make rural America prosperous, and might even draw enough tourist traffic to pay for it.
Conservatives aren't wrong per se. They just don't accept that the biggest funnel of corruption and waste is US military appropriations.
Milton Friedman was right about the economics, but I would rather pay taxes and have people on welfare than seeing people selling teenagers in front of my house. Friedman seemed to think that living on the 33rd floor so you didn't have to see the desperate doing whatever it takes to survive was a good enough solution.
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No, netcraft does not limit things by hostname.
The definition of a website changes over time at netcraft, And somethings are not so clear. Is a myspace page a website? some of them are done up with more design and customization than the average wordpress blog. Were geocities pages websites?
At present, between a quarter and half the IIS sites in the netcraft survey are parked domain names and myspace pages. Godaddy and myspace could probably drop IIS usage to about 10% by migrating from IIS.
I always though a good april 1 redesign for slashdot would be to use javascript to change all the article links to act the same as the post comment button.
vikisonline clicked on the link, and might have bought her book. In Ann's world, that's a win.
Coulter would probably do anything you have seen in the backwaters of the internet IF she thought there was a long term positive reward in it.
You know you can die from drinking too much water, right?
There is a fair amount of evidence that a radiation level of about 20-60mSv per hour seems to be about what we are designed to live in.
You can see how people that have no clue (Ann Coulter) can come up with... well BS.
Lack of radiation bad, too much radiation, worse.
This was looking like it was going to be a little worse than TMI. Now there is evidence that something unexpected is very wrong.
We probably will not know if this is ultimately going to be closer to TMI or Chernobyl until at least another month.
The fuel melts at about 2600C, the article talks about what happens at 4000C
I would assume that the temperature gradient puts an amazing amount of stress on the containment vessel.