I've got an idea for a new work that would require vast community input. I call it Rebuild the World project AKA In Case of Disaster. The idea is that you start with nothing (no tools, etc.) and bring the technology level back up to 1940's(or up to current levels). I'm talking everything from simple tools and shelters to finding ore and refining it to making automobiles and radios. The idea is way too big for one person to do.
Hey Paradise Pete, I got this idea for a site. It's called Hire a Thug. You put what your problem is and what area of the country you're in. The site then connects you with available thugs in your area that will solve your problem for money. Obnoxious neighbors, abusive husbands, creepy perverts are problems of the past. Thugs will love it since they'll be able to state pay requirements, show references, list what types of cases or levels of thuggery that they're willing to do, and they won't have to wait in dive bars all the time.
I'm telling you man it's gold.
Next time, set it up so you get tons of money before the company gets sued out of existence.
If this is just a password that is used only once per session why not use a passphrase instead? Song lyrics, easy to remember phrases, etc. make it easier to remember, but harder to bruteforce. Add into the haxor swapping numbers for letters(3 for E) or static replacement of letters(9 for N)for a little extra security and can be easy for non computer minded people. Passphrases lose their luster when it is a password that has to be entered very often though. A lot of "bad passwords" aren't bad, they just sound bad. The laptop would probably be stolen by a stranger. They're not going to know your dog's name or your kid's birthdate especially if you combine them. Someone who is going to try hack an encrypted system will just use a software to do it anyways so commonly used passwords, single words, and short passwords are more of a problem. Even if I tried to hack a coworkers computer, I'd either use a program or call the help desk in the middle of the night complaining I got locked out (depending on policies and how much people actually follow those policies) than try to guess which kid or dog name and birhtdate they used in and in what order. Or I'd throw a keylogger on, watch them, ask them, etc.
Exactly! While downloading may be illegal, they don't want ANY cases that bring up Fair Use. If I download a song and own that CD, it brings up Fair Use. If I own that CD and upload, I'm distributing and I'm screwed.
I hate BMI. It is worse than totally useless since it giving people a number they think actually reflects how healthy you are (and now how smart you are).
A 6ft 140lb person is ideal, but a 6ft 185lb person is overweight? Give me a break.
An invalid (or impossible) Social Security number (SSN) is one which has not yet been assigned.
The SSN is divided as follows: the area number (first three digits), group number (fourth and fifth digits), and serial number (last four digits). From SSA.gov To determine if an SSN is invalid consider the following: No SSNs with an area number in the 800 or 900 series, or "000" area number, have been assigned. No SSNs with an area number above 772 have been assigned in the 700 series.
No SSN's with a "00" group number or "0000" serial number have been assigned. No SSNs with an area number of "666" have been or will be assigned. Information about the SSN and SSNs that have been assigned is available on SSA's website at http://www.socialsecurity.gov/employer/highgroup.t xt
How the first 3 numbers are assigned http://www.socialsecurity.gov/employer/stateweb.ht m NOTE: The same area, when shown more than once, means that certain numbers have been transferred from one State to another, or that an area has been divided for use among certain geographic locations.
Immigration reform could also vastly change the number of SSNs used. Heritage.org estimated 100 million immigrants over 20 years based on the first draft of th CIRA and lowered that 66 million after an ammendment. The government had lower estimates for the same bill.
Still we should have decades anyway. Adding a number to SSN would screw up the existing databases anyways, so would the government take additional steps? Possibly, two numbers - government use only and public use. Public Encryption keys? (highly doubtful I know) This type of thing could go hand in hand with National IDs.
My company is definitely not that bad, but SSN is still used on certain internal documents that really don't need the SSN and should just have the employee ID number instead.
The wrong way to speed up the process - post SSN of your CEO and higher management on the web or even sell them.
Do some research. See if there are any lawsuits holding companies responsible. Check for hard info on identity theft. Express your concerns to management in a documented fashion. If you can involve lawyers, HR, and the right management, the process could be sped up. If it isn't then you have documented steps that you took to clear up the issue before problems happened.
Subsets of subsets of subsets Where do we stop and where do we start? If you're trusting the facts, India has a murder rate of 3.4 and China is around 2. I would think China excludes an government sanctioned deaths. That's ~1/3 of the total population instead of the US and Canada which is only ~1/18 of the population. I stated the repeat murderers subset of all murderers because someone asked about it compared to the whole population.
I do think that if you divide up the murderer subset into different types of homicides, that you would see a variety of rates for repeat offenders. Some of those rates could actually be lower than the population rates. Of course, with smaller subsets each person will have a greater weight.
There are so many factors and numbers that I don't have to make any firm decision in the real world.
killers in prison for life killers who had the death penalty/on death row Both groups never had parole. Their crimes might be more serious and might have a higher repeat rate if released error rate for false convictions breakdown of the multiple murderers and multiple victims I'm sure there's a lot more that I'm not thinking of right now
Right now, I don't have the formulas and rules for weighted statistics and comparing different size groups, so I'll just ask theoretical questions. My theoretical question is if the repeat offense rate in under 1%, but 100-1000X the rate of the whole population, do you still punish them? At what repeat offense rate would you think would require more punishment - 2%? 10%? 50%? ???%
I've done yoga before. The physical side of yoga was fine(and could be extremely hard), but the mental/spiritual side of yoga wasn't for me. I did not find any yoga stuff that downplayed the mental/spiritual side, so I quit doing it.
I don't numbers for murderers because some are multple murderers and some are multiple victims. USA.005% of the population is murdered each year. Canada.0014% of the population is murdered each year. USA.6% of murderers paroled commit another murder. 76 year study of 12 states Canada.39% of murderers paroled commit another murder. 24 year study
The rate of Repeat offences of murder are the lowest of all crimes. The number of repeat homicide offenders after parole is very low, but the percentage of paroled murderers committing another homicide is a lot higher than the percentage of population committing murder in the first place.
First off, did you look at the Phantom Lapboard? It is not optimized for gameplay anyways.
As for trackballs, there's a wide variety of trackballs. My friend used a thumb trackball for FPS. He calibrated it so turning 180 was super quick. I personally used a large trackball (Think Golden Tee or Centipede) for FPS for along time. On FPS games, where the up/down view range is generally +/- 60 degrees, the trackball was very fast and accurate for me. The only game that I had a problem with was Tribes due to jetpack battles.
As for accuracy, think how many people are playing FPS with gamepads now. Trackballs are a lot more accurate in my opinion.
Right now, I use a G5 mouse because I was annoyed with my MX1000 wireless mouse and wanted a corded mouse again.
I always hear this type of Windows bash yet I recently did a fresh install of XP Home for a family member and experienced no attacks, etc. The articles make it seem like an impossibility.
I weightlift for an hour before I sit at the computer for hours on end. It helps fight the sedentary lifestyle where I work over 12 hours a day at a computer then play on one for a couple hours more.
''I'd just like to say that most of us begin life suckling on a breast. If we're lucky we end life suckling on a breast. So anybody who's against breasts is against life itself. Denny Crane.''
Core 2 Duo > incremental change. Seriously, that's pretty much it. AMD got caught with a platform change that added little benefit to the consumer and Intel came out with a big whooping stick. Now, everyone's waiting for 4x4, etc.
I used to do the same thing with Sneakmail(ranomly generated disposable email addresses). These spam floods aren't necessarily from breaches, but from sharing with partner companies. Companies' information policies are subject to change, and once your info starts flowing to other companies, it's hard to control.
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I've got an idea for a new work that would require vast community input. I call it Rebuild the World project AKA In Case of Disaster. The idea is that you start with nothing (no tools, etc.) and bring the technology level back up to 1940's(or up to current levels). I'm talking everything from simple tools and shelters to finding ore and refining it to making automobiles and radios. The idea is way too big for one person to do.
Hey Paradise Pete, I got this idea for a site. It's called Hire a Thug. You put what your problem is and what area of the country you're in. The site then connects you with available thugs in your area that will solve your problem for money. Obnoxious neighbors, abusive husbands, creepy perverts are problems of the past. Thugs will love it since they'll be able to state pay requirements, show references, list what types of cases or levels of thuggery that they're willing to do, and they won't have to wait in dive bars all the time.
I'm telling you man it's gold.
Next time, set it up so you get tons of money before the company gets sued out of existence.
If this is just a password that is used only once per session why not use a passphrase instead? Song lyrics, easy to remember phrases, etc. make it easier to remember, but harder to bruteforce. Add into the haxor swapping numbers for letters(3 for E) or static replacement of letters(9 for N)for a little extra security and can be easy for non computer minded people. Passphrases lose their luster when it is a password that has to be entered very often though.
A lot of "bad passwords" aren't bad, they just sound bad. The laptop would probably be stolen by a stranger. They're not going to know your dog's name or your kid's birthdate especially if you combine them. Someone who is going to try hack an encrypted system will just use a software to do it anyways so commonly used passwords, single words, and short passwords are more of a problem. Even if I tried to hack a coworkers computer, I'd either use a program or call the help desk in the middle of the night complaining I got locked out (depending on policies and how much people actually follow those policies) than try to guess which kid or dog name and birhtdate they used in and in what order. Or I'd throw a keylogger on, watch them, ask them, etc.
Exactly! While downloading may be illegal, they don't want ANY cases that bring up Fair Use. If I download a song and own that CD, it brings up Fair Use. If I own that CD and upload, I'm distributing and I'm screwed.
http://www.webscription.net/ (BAEN) has 4 ebooks for $15.
I'd like to get the reader, but that's easily 25-50 books right there.
I hate BMI. It is worse than totally useless since it giving people a number they think actually reflects how healthy you are (and now how smart you are).
A 6ft 140lb person is ideal, but a 6ft 185lb person is overweight? Give me a break.
Sure then what about prawn.ie? Hey! That's not a shrimp!
Well, in that case, Maytag makes an Ipod killer. Too bad, it doesn't play mp3s.
http://www.tomsnetworking.com/lans_routers/charts/ index.html?chart=124
P2P can choke low end routers.
How many simultaneous connections can this handle? I suppose it might be really dependant on the NICs instead of the software.
I know routers like the WRT54GL v1.1 choke after 64 or so connections.
An invalid (or impossible) Social Security number (SSN) is one which has not yet been assigned.
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The SSN is divided as follows: the area number (first three digits), group number (fourth and fifth digits), and serial number (last four digits).
From SSA.gov
To determine if an SSN is invalid consider the following: No SSNs with an area number in the 800 or 900 series, or "000" area number, have been assigned. No SSNs with an area number above 772 have been assigned in the 700 series.
No SSN's with a "00" group number or "0000" serial number have been assigned. No SSNs with an area number of "666" have been or will be assigned. Information about the SSN and SSNs that have been assigned is available on SSA's website at http://www.socialsecurity.gov/employer/highgroup.
How the first 3 numbers are assigned
http://www.socialsecurity.gov/employer/stateweb.h
NOTE: The same area, when shown more than once, means that certain numbers have been transferred from one State to another, or that an area has been divided for use among certain geographic locations.
Immigration reform could also vastly change the number of SSNs used. Heritage.org estimated 100 million immigrants over 20 years based on the first draft of th CIRA and lowered that 66 million after an ammendment. The government had lower estimates for the same bill.
Still we should have decades anyway. Adding a number to SSN would screw up the existing databases anyways, so would the government take additional steps? Possibly, two numbers - government use only and public use. Public Encryption keys? (highly doubtful I know) This type of thing could go hand in hand with National IDs.
My company is definitely not that bad, but SSN is still used on certain internal documents that really don't need the SSN and should just have the employee ID number instead.
The wrong way to speed up the process - post SSN of your CEO and higher management on the web or even sell them.
Do some research. See if there are any lawsuits holding companies responsible. Check for hard info on identity theft. Express your concerns to management in a documented fashion. If you can involve lawyers, HR, and the right management, the process could be sped up. If it isn't then you have documented steps that you took to clear up the issue before problems happened.
Subsets of subsets of subsets
Where do we stop and where do we start?
If you're trusting the facts, India has a murder rate of 3.4 and China is around 2. I would think China excludes an government sanctioned deaths. That's ~1/3 of the total population instead of the US and Canada which is only ~1/18 of the population.
I stated the repeat murderers subset of all murderers because someone asked about it compared to the whole population.
I do think that if you divide up the murderer subset into different types of homicides, that you would see a variety of rates for repeat offenders. Some of those rates could actually be lower than the population rates. Of course, with smaller subsets each person will have a greater weight.
There are so many factors and numbers that I don't have to make any firm decision in the real world.
killers in prison for life
killers who had the death penalty/on death row
Both groups never had parole. Their crimes might be more serious and might have a higher repeat rate if released
error rate for false convictions
breakdown of the multiple murderers and multiple victims
I'm sure there's a lot more that I'm not thinking of right now
Right now, I don't have the formulas and rules for weighted statistics and comparing different size groups, so I'll just ask theoretical questions.
My theoretical question is if the repeat offense rate in under 1%, but 100-1000X the rate of the whole population, do you still punish them? At what repeat offense rate would you think would require more punishment - 2%? 10%? 50%? ???%
I've done yoga before. The physical side of yoga was fine(and could be extremely hard), but the mental/spiritual side of yoga wasn't for me. I did not find any yoga stuff that downplayed the mental/spiritual side, so I quit doing it.
I don't numbers for murderers because some are multple murderers and some are multiple victims. .005% of the population is murdered each year. .0014% of the population is murdered each year. .6% of murderers paroled commit another murder. 76 year study of 12 states .39% of murderers paroled commit another murder. 24 year study
USA
Canada
USA
Canada
The rate of Repeat offences of murder are the lowest of all crimes.
The number of repeat homicide offenders after parole is very low, but the percentage of paroled murderers committing another homicide is a lot higher than the percentage of population committing murder in the first place.
There's a bit of data to play with.
First off, did you look at the Phantom Lapboard? It is not optimized for gameplay anyways.
As for trackballs, there's a wide variety of trackballs. My friend used a thumb trackball for FPS. He calibrated it so turning 180 was super quick. I personally used a large trackball (Think Golden Tee or Centipede) for FPS for along time. On FPS games, where the up/down view range is generally +/- 60 degrees, the trackball was very fast and accurate for me. The only game that I had a problem with was Tribes due to jetpack battles.
As for accuracy, think how many people are playing FPS with gamepads now. Trackballs are a lot more accurate in my opinion.
Right now, I use a G5 mouse because I was annoyed with my MX1000 wireless mouse and wanted a corded mouse again.
I always hear this type of Windows bash yet I recently did a fresh install of XP Home for a family member and experienced no attacks, etc. The articles make it seem like an impossibility.
I weightlift for an hour before I sit at the computer for hours on end. It helps fight the sedentary lifestyle where I work over 12 hours a day at a computer then play on one for a couple hours more.
FireFox
FireFox Lite
plus optional extension pack that includes all extensions in FireFox
Personally, I'd take FireFox Lite and the extension pack. So I get minimal bloat and features that I actually use.
Start looking here http://forum.notebookreview.com/
''I'd just like to say that most of us begin life suckling on a breast. If we're lucky we end life suckling on a breast. So anybody who's against breasts is against life itself. Denny Crane.''
Shatner for the win.
Choice: Watching a 16 hour video of a guy reciting Pi or turning in my geek status.
Answer: Guess I'm no longer a geek
nuff said...too
Core 2 Duo > incremental change. Seriously, that's pretty much it. AMD got caught with a platform change that added little benefit to the consumer and Intel came out with a big whooping stick. Now, everyone's waiting for 4x4, etc.
I used to do the same thing with Sneakmail(ranomly generated disposable email addresses). These spam floods aren't necessarily from breaches, but from sharing with partner companies. Companies' information policies are subject to change, and once your info starts flowing to other companies, it's hard to control.