I'm getting sick of these companies getting away with fines or other slaps on the wrist. I want to see at least some of these thugs in the upper tiers behind bars!
Agreed. And the sad thing is that the vast majority of videos coming out on Blu-ray are (in my view anyway) utter crap. Stunning explosions with no plot.
The future is download only anyway. Files with nefarious instructions can be removed with relative ease unlike hacking proprietary hardware.
But seriously, this is a step in the right direction. The allure of Bitcoin to me isn't even the privacy (which is debatable) it's that, by not having "central" anything, it truly democratizes access to currency. Forget the hoarders, the conversions and the "banks"; this is a means to transfer money that everyone should have access to.
Those are not nearly as interactive, explorative or in any way as expansive as word of mouth + "screensaver". The advantage sites like YouTube have above all else is that it's content is by and large geared toward driving traffic to artists that they deem worthy. It's not an organic search when you see "you may also like" or something similar, whereas on YouTube, I'm sure, there are clicks taken into account as well as the keywords. Plus user feedback (although the majority of YT comments are seizure, tumor or other form of brain damage inducing) can take you places you wouldn't otherwise consider. It's a combination of word of mouth as well as organic search.
But that's exactly how I've discovered so many artists (many of whom have been playing for years) that I enjoy to this day. Yes, it's just a stupid screensaver, for all intents and purposes, but it exposed me to something I can enjoy. I went out and searched for it. Bought the thing. Play it at home and at work. All thanks to a screensaver.
This really boils down to what exactly "holding" means in the digital age of intangible property. Music (and text, by and large) is as intangible as the emotions they illicit. So what does "holding" mean? And how does this death-grip affect future triggers of emotion?
This is exactly the reason I was using it for such a long time. I've used it along with Linux and OpenBSD, while these days, I use the latter for my home server. FreeBSD was my first honest attempt at building a home server.
But seriously, it's no wonder places like The Stanley Hotel are still popular. After Stanley went to the area to recover from TB (with all that repertory jazz) it turned out to be such a good spot, he opened a hotel. It couldn't have been just the crisp air. Maybe we should have neighborhood tree planting campaigns alongside the neighborhood watch.
Ah, for anyone thinking I've lost my marbles talking about Jordan: Well, I briefly did, but found them again! I'm thinking more in the lines of this story, which is still applicable. I guess my brain decided to merge the two.
If there was more of ad-hoc mesh of peers connecting Jordan to neighbors? The "Internet" may be blocked, but that's still within. An "extranet" may be harder to block/filter etc... This still has to go through Jordan's tubes, which they, or any other country really, can cut at any point as well.
Is the only solution. This is a stopgap measure like carpooling and congestion charges that don't actually fix the original problem of a diminishing resource.
The salt is usually stored side by side with the salt + password hash. The salt is just a random bunch of data (of reasonable length; you can usually get away with 16 bits, but I've seen 48+ around) generated each time the user creates/changes the password. It need not be unique in the whole database, but the longer it is, the more computationally difficult it is to crack (also using an expensive hash scheme like bcrypt). I usually also encrypt the salt as well using an application specific password (this usually doesn't change between installations) and the username combined to create a "salt password" (this too is a hash). The important thing is that the password is never stored anywhere as-is.
Sure, you can throw whatever current best practices are toward keeping your data secure, but let's at least have a plan B for when things really do go horribly wrong. Because if it can, it eventually will.
I don't like sticking to just one method for passwords because malicious hackers usually try the methods that are easiest to implement (whether one type of algorithm or a set number of iterations etc...) the difficulty in cracking is usually second and, let's be honest, changes day by day as GPUs, FPGAs and so on get faster and faster and can run in parallel. This is why you should try some combination of HMAC, bcrypt etc... (nothing too "new", too fast or DIY please)
The emails are unfortunate, since now these people are prime targets for phishing (unless they've seen this report, but even then, they might think "Oh, I should change my password! Let me click on this link that totally looks like it's from Living Social). Also of note, they should have done more to protect the birthdays most of all. That's what some people use for passwords still and I've seen it being thrown around in those "password reminder" questions. Some financial institutions even accept those in lieu of the mother's maiden name.
I have a feeling the studio had more to do with this than Jackson though. Granted he had a lot of creative control, but I'm sure there's a lot to the movie making process we're not privy to. Plus the thing has to make money and that means cutting and slicing until Joe popcorn-vacuum is willing to sit down for more when each movie was already pretty long. It's also a very expensive production.
I think Tolkien's family wasn't too happy with the end result either. The complaints were along the same lines and I can't say I would have disagreed.
Well, at least after I replace them the first time.
Brain wandering time: If these are the kinds of lights we'll be putting in long duration spacecraft, it would make sense that they last at least a few decades, since it's cost prohibitive to bring supplies and, if we're talking about Mars, that's potentially a permanent installation (precluding "lunar module" style landers meant to take off later).
A bit like the LOTR series, maybe they're actually planning to continuously shoot one movie that then gets sliced to comfortable (relatively speaking) run times.
That would be a potential disaster with multiple collisions, radio jamming/frequency conflicts and stuff. These things aren't held up by magic after all.
But seriously, Google's case (or rather Eric Schmidt's case) that drones should be regulated is somewhat ironic considering monitoring is nothing new at Google. The drones in this case aren't armed (and I'm certainly not condoning arbitrary use), but the potential for "oops, we just veered off course and stumbled into your growlab" is all too easy. That's the real harm here, not that we're worried there would be any rockets taking out civilians; it's the gradual erosion of personal space.
Also drones going berserk and falling out of the sky. That's a worry too.
... except with an axe. This is why we should all switch to four legged power and methane scoops for the pooping area. I submit, this is the greatest idea ever conceived since the wheel.
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Then it's time to ruin the lives of those idiot managers. Say to the tune of 5-10 years of wearing an orange jumpsuit in lieu of an Armani jacket?
I'm getting sick of these companies getting away with fines or other slaps on the wrist. I want to see at least some of these thugs in the upper tiers behind bars!
...we'd be in so much trouble. It seems like there's a never ending list of surprises from these creatures.
Agreed. And the sad thing is that the vast majority of videos coming out on Blu-ray are (in my view anyway) utter crap. Stunning explosions with no plot.
The future is download only anyway. Files with nefarious instructions can be removed with relative ease unlike hacking proprietary hardware.
It's only a matter of time. HDCP 1.x is already broken and HDCP 2.x isn't as widespread yet.
Either that or there are now aware enough and truly computer literate people are emplyed in the IT department (at least in regard to media tech)
Cue the Bit419 emails.
But seriously, this is a step in the right direction. The allure of Bitcoin to me isn't even the privacy (which is debatable) it's that, by not having "central" anything, it truly democratizes access to currency. Forget the hoarders, the conversions and the "banks"; this is a means to transfer money that everyone should have access to.
Those are not nearly as interactive, explorative or in any way as expansive as word of mouth + "screensaver". The advantage sites like YouTube have above all else is that it's content is by and large geared toward driving traffic to artists that they deem worthy. It's not an organic search when you see "you may also like" or something similar, whereas on YouTube, I'm sure, there are clicks taken into account as well as the keywords. Plus user feedback (although the majority of YT comments are seizure, tumor or other form of brain damage inducing) can take you places you wouldn't otherwise consider. It's a combination of word of mouth as well as organic search.
It's not as random as you think.
My mistake
But that's exactly how I've discovered so many artists (many of whom have been playing for years) that I enjoy to this day. Yes, it's just a stupid screensaver, for all intents and purposes, but it exposed me to something I can enjoy. I went out and searched for it. Bought the thing. Play it at home and at work. All thanks to a screensaver.
This really boils down to what exactly "holding" means in the digital age of intangible property. Music (and text, by and large) is as intangible as the emotions they illicit. So what does "holding" mean? And how does this death-grip affect future triggers of emotion?
This is exactly the reason I was using it for such a long time. I've used it along with Linux and OpenBSD, while these days, I use the latter for my home server. FreeBSD was my first honest attempt at building a home server.
M. Knight Shyamalan was on to something.
But seriously, it's no wonder places like The Stanley Hotel are still popular. After Stanley went to the area to recover from TB (with all that repertory jazz) it turned out to be such a good spot, he opened a hotel. It couldn't have been just the crisp air. Maybe we should have neighborhood tree planting campaigns alongside the neighborhood watch.
Ah, for anyone thinking I've lost my marbles talking about Jordan: Well, I briefly did, but found them again! I'm thinking more in the lines of this story, which is still applicable. I guess my brain decided to merge the two.
If there was more of ad-hoc mesh of peers connecting Jordan to neighbors? The "Internet" may be blocked, but that's still within. An "extranet" may be harder to block/filter etc... This still has to go through Jordan's tubes, which they, or any other country really, can cut at any point as well.
Is the only solution. This is a stopgap measure like carpooling and congestion charges that don't actually fix the original problem of a diminishing resource.
The salt is usually stored side by side with the salt + password hash. The salt is just a random bunch of data (of reasonable length; you can usually get away with 16 bits, but I've seen 48+ around) generated each time the user creates/changes the password. It need not be unique in the whole database, but the longer it is, the more computationally difficult it is to crack (also using an expensive hash scheme like bcrypt). I usually also encrypt the salt as well using an application specific password (this usually doesn't change between installations) and the username combined to create a "salt password" (this too is a hash). The important thing is that the password is never stored anywhere as-is.
Sure, you can throw whatever current best practices are toward keeping your data secure, but let's at least have a plan B for when things really do go horribly wrong. Because if it can, it eventually will.
I don't like sticking to just one method for passwords because malicious hackers usually try the methods that are easiest to implement (whether one type of algorithm or a set number of iterations etc...) the difficulty in cracking is usually second and, let's be honest, changes day by day as GPUs, FPGAs and so on get faster and faster and can run in parallel. This is why you should try some combination of HMAC, bcrypt etc... (nothing too "new", too fast or DIY please)
The emails are unfortunate, since now these people are prime targets for phishing (unless they've seen this report, but even then, they might think "Oh, I should change my password! Let me click on this link that totally looks like it's from Living Social). Also of note, they should have done more to protect the birthdays most of all. That's what some people use for passwords still and I've seen it being thrown around in those "password reminder" questions. Some financial institutions even accept those in lieu of the mother's maiden name.
I have a feeling the studio had more to do with this than Jackson though. Granted he had a lot of creative control, but I'm sure there's a lot to the movie making process we're not privy to. Plus the thing has to make money and that means cutting and slicing until Joe popcorn-vacuum is willing to sit down for more when each movie was already pretty long. It's also a very expensive production.
I think Tolkien's family wasn't too happy with the end result either. The complaints were along the same lines and I can't say I would have disagreed.
Well, at least after I replace them the first time.
Brain wandering time: If these are the kinds of lights we'll be putting in long duration spacecraft, it would make sense that they last at least a few decades, since it's cost prohibitive to bring supplies and, if we're talking about Mars, that's potentially a permanent installation (precluding "lunar module" style landers meant to take off later).
A bit like the LOTR series, maybe they're actually planning to continuously shoot one movie that then gets sliced to comfortable (relatively speaking) run times.
Should be leading here
That would be a potential disaster with multiple collisions, radio jamming/frequency conflicts and stuff. These things aren't held up by magic after all.
But seriously, Google's case (or rather Eric Schmidt's case) that drones should be regulated is somewhat ironic considering monitoring is nothing new at Google. The drones in this case aren't armed (and I'm certainly not condoning arbitrary use), but the potential for "oops, we just veered off course and stumbled into your growlab" is all too easy. That's the real harm here, not that we're worried there would be any rockets taking out civilians; it's the gradual erosion of personal space.
Also drones going berserk and falling out of the sky. That's a worry too.
... except with an axe. This is why we should all switch to four legged power and methane scoops for the pooping area. I submit, this is the greatest idea ever conceived since the wheel.