the thumb scanner on the MS keyboard isn't marketed as a security product - actually it's for convenience only - rembering usernames and password which are retrieved on presentation of a thumb
I don't have mine written down, but it IS visible, in print, somewhere in my house (in a non-L33t-ised form). Find it if you come round for a beer one day.
it's 16-22 characters dependent on how I vary it and gets changed (strictly speaking varied by 1-5 characters) once every 60 days. So far no problem remembering it or typing it. I'd have trouble telling it to someone, but that's not what it's for anyway....
spose you've got a point. I just thought it might be nice to have it all covered in one place rather than shooting off to external sites. As long as it has the desired effect....
Though so far there's not a lot of content on the site (one article on CAPTCHAs, a bunch of links). It'd be nice to see them covering the most common problems, such as Cross-site scripting attacks, SQL Injection attacks and so on, which are prevalent on PHP/ASP/other CGI sites. I'm sure PHP-using Slashdot readers can help out?
Yeah, it's not that new - my local geek bookshop has had the Doom3 boardgame in for at least a few months now - considered treating myself before christmas but then thought to myself "well who exactly would I play this with?"
> The government doesn't generally have programmers familier with exactly how they really work.
This is true not just of governments, but of any large organisation bringing in an external resource to implement a project. I've been involved in projects more than once where the spec I've been given hasn't adequately covered the intent of the project.
In bringing in external resources there's so much scope for misunderstanding that problems will always surface. I've found the key (for me at least) is to get in a project manager (or perhaps several) who's actually familiar with the processes/organisations you're trying to work with, in order to bridge the gap better than using a generalist.
The fact that it's voluntary is not the issue. The issue is that you don't kow what they're doing with the information they gather, and it seems you have no control over it.
Well, actually it's not such junk science. If they can clearly link this behaviour to the human equivalent, then that in itself gives a massive insight into how we operate.
Then of course there's the fact that there are invasive tests which just couldn't be carried out on humans that could conceivably be carried out on monkeys (PETA notwithstanding)
... screw it. The Market will deal with it. If users want usenet access, they'll leave and find a better ISP.
But I'm rapidly coming to the conclusion that this is not the case, because most consumers just don't think that way. So by extension the whole self-regulating market thing is immediately dead in the water.
Phew. Good job I'm not from the right wing, or else my entire worldview may have been shattered right there
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Bombadil is the reason I didn't read the whole book until after the film came out.
I eventually manged the feat by starting from after bombadil, and got through the entire book at last, after many years of trying and failing.
Since then I've made it through that section but I concur. glad that section was cut from the movie.
"The Rouge Army"
Khmer Rouge?
Good guesses. I have a Kelvinator.
... or have I?
but that's not it.
it's a phrase. FisherAndPaykel would sort of qualify on that count, if I made it
F15huRa.nDp4yKiL
(letter substitution, deliberate mis-spell, mixed case, interposed punctuation)
of course by telling you I use these tweaks, I've weakened my password....
the thumb scanner on the MS keyboard isn't marketed as a security product - actually it's for convenience only - rembering usernames and password which are retrieved on presentation of a thumb
it's trivial to defeat - see here
I don't have mine written down, but it IS visible, in print, somewhere in my house (in a non-L33t-ised form). Find it if you come round for a beer one day.
it's 16-22 characters dependent on how I vary it and gets changed (strictly speaking varied by 1-5 characters) once every 60 days. So far no problem remembering it or typing it. I'd have trouble telling it to someone, but that's not what it's for anyway....
spose you've got a point. I just thought it might be nice to have it all covered in one place rather than shooting off to external sites. As long as it has the desired effect....
Sure, but it's not bite-sized, which is far more digestible - there should be stuff in the 'articles' section.
Though so far there's not a lot of content on the site (one article on CAPTCHAs, a bunch of links). It'd be nice to see them covering the most common problems, such as Cross-site scripting attacks, SQL Injection attacks and so on, which are prevalent on PHP/ASP/other CGI sites. I'm sure PHP-using Slashdot readers can help out?
Yeah, it's not that new - my local geek bookshop has had the Doom3 boardgame in for at least a few months now - considered treating myself before christmas but then thought to myself "well who exactly would I play this with?"
> The government doesn't generally have programmers familier with exactly how they really work.
This is true not just of governments, but of any large organisation bringing in an external resource to implement a project. I've been involved in projects more than once where the spec I've been given hasn't adequately covered the intent of the project.
In bringing in external resources there's so much scope for misunderstanding that problems will always surface. I've found the key (for me at least) is to get in a project manager (or perhaps several) who's actually familiar with the processes/organisations you're trying to work with, in order to bridge the gap better than using a generalist.
... however - how many people out there in "the real world" know that the inventor of the web is a limey, pommy brit?
> Need I say that the program is voluntary?
The fact that it's voluntary is not the issue. The issue is that you don't kow what they're doing with the information they gather, and it seems you have no control over it.
... about privacy issues
Oh, wait! There IS
Well, actually it's not such junk science. If they can clearly link this behaviour to the human equivalent, then that in itself gives a massive insight into how we operate.
Then of course there's the fact that there are invasive tests which just couldn't be carried out on humans that could conceivably be carried out on monkeys (PETA notwithstanding)
touché
the irony* is, guess who I work for?
*ok, coincidence
about two minutes ago I got sent this
OK, tell us where you're getting that one, and do they do an uncapped?
fair enough. you're right.
sometimes poor grammar just makes me too annoyed to see beyond the red mist.
... screw it. The Market will deal with it. If users want usenet access, they'll leave and find a better ISP.
But I'm rapidly coming to the conclusion that this is not the case, because most consumers just don't think that way. So by extension the whole self-regulating market thing is immediately dead in the water.
Phew. Good job I'm not from the right wing, or else my entire worldview may have been shattered right there
Modded redundant? That'd be about right. Grammar on slashdot is fucking redundant.
nice one.
Just picture the summary writer running across an open space and getting clotheslined.
good picture. I like that one.
HAS WRITTEN
not 'has wrote'
wtf is going on here? is everyone suddenly illiterate?
a CHORD!
... Captured By Robots?
no problem. refer here for instructions on how to move a game cabinet while retaining high score.