There is no "extra light", it's just moved around, and not even in a useful way. In the winter I have light from about 0900-1600 and in the summer from about 0500-2300 Meanwhile I work 0800-1600 It doesn't matter which way you adjust the clocks, in the winter It's dark both before and after work. and in the summer it's light both before and after work. Go further north and it's even more exaggerated until you get far enough north and it's dark 24/7 in the winter and light 24/7 in the summer. You think they care about "daylight savings time"?
There are many drawbacks to DST, there's not a single positive to it at all. It's long past time to scrap it.
If I worked only during daylight hours in the winter, I'd be working less than 8 hours per day. I don't think my boss would be pleased. Not to mention, I work indoors, why would I care if it's light outside while I'm at work? I want it to be light outside when I'm NOT at work!
Those are especially great for the systems I log in to once per quarter.
I don't even bother trying to remember the password for that system any more. Each time I need to log in I simply click the "forgot password" button and let it email me a new password.
Is a single letter password really insecure? or extremely secure? What password testing system would even bother testing for it? it's simply assumed it can't exist.
"more entropy" is only useful if the attacker is using the same assumptions you are.
Problem is, if I forget my password, I can call the place and get it changed. If I forget "my mother's maiden name", good luck getting them to believe it's actually you!
The problem is that instead of remembering one password for a site, you're now required to remember the password AND all the security question answers they made you chose. So now for one site, I may need to remember 4-6 different passwords. That's just not scaleable without decreasing your security SEVERELY by either writing your passwords down, or worse yet, using a "password manager"
on a side note, they had the gall to send out a newsletter to customers talking about online security (in general terms, not just for their website) with suggestions on picking a password, none of which you could use on their own website.
The symbols thing always bugs me. "You must use a symbol in your password", I *DID*! Please tell me which symbols you're going to accept so I can try again! (some of these only allow symbols that appear above the number keys on a standard US keyboard, which means,./?;':"[]\{}|~` all don't count, others allow some subset of those, but not others, it's impossible to guess)
It's very apparent that every one of these rules decreases password security, every one decreases the amount of space an attacker needs to search. (must have an uppercase character? great, I don't need to bother trying any combinations that are all lowercase. must be at least 8 digits? great, I don't need to check anything less. must have one of a limited set of symbols? great, don't check anything that doesn't include those.) I'll give you the simplest case as an example. Pick an integer number between 0-9, make sure it includes a 5, I bet I can guess what you chose! That's exactly what a password rule does.
I know a bank that requires an all numeric password of exactly 4 digits, actually they recently improved, you can now use 4-6 digits, but still all numeric.
Traffic engineers know this. but their political masters have given them an impossible task. They've been asked to ignore the public good, and cater only to those who make the most noise, special interest groups. Additionally they've been given a budget that allows for maybe a few street signs and maybe a couple of jersey barriers, but certainly not enough to maintain existing roads, let alone build new ones.
This isn't an engineering problem, it's a political problem.
Town planners used to work for the public good. They optimized traffic flows to try to get the most people to where they were going in the least time.
Then NIMBY types, green types, and other special interests got a hold of them. Now town planners have a completely different job. Their job now is to try to socially engineer everyone to the NIMBY/green/special interest vision of the perfect commuter. This is accomplished by making it as difficult and as slow as possible to drive anywhere.
Where I live we get very harsh winters, but our bike lanes are clear of snow (and any cyclists) well before the city streets are. They remove traffic lanes that were previously bumper to bumper cars, and put in bike lanes that are empty 99% of the time. Our local cycling special interest group is extremely vocal, and the city caters to their every whim, at the expense of everyone else. Meanwhile our main thoroughfare through the city was last widened in the 1970s (despite sitting on a large easement that would make it easy to do so), the official logic being that if they expanded it, people might use it, and they'd rather encourage "alternative" transportation (code for bicycles). Meanwhile we have some of the largest urban sprawl of any city, coupled with harsh winters. who cycles 30km each way to and from work at -35c?
This is a case of the "squeaky wheel gets the grease" NIMBYs, greens, and special interests are a tiny fraction of the overall population, but they know how to make a LOT of noise.
Why does one resident's urge to not have to see any cars other than their own trump hundreds or thousands of other people's rights to use publicly funded infrastructure to get from A-B?
Worse yet, that same person would probably happily cut through someone else's neighbourhood without a second thought.
So there are infinite cars available in your world?
By that logic, the roads should have been most full when first built (capacity expanded from nothing to where they are today) and should have emptied over time (no capacity expansion) Meanwhile the exact opposite has occurred. The roads were fine when first built because they were built to handle the expected amount of traffic, but over time as more people and businesses moved to the area and the roads weren't expanded, they became more full.
The solution is to build roads for the expected usage, not to try to socially engineer everyone in to your own personal vision of how the rest of the world "should" commute.
The REAL problem is NIMBY types who won't allow people to drive on public roads because they're special snowflakes and their own personal aversion to seeing cars on their street trumps hundreds or thousands of other people's well being who want to get from A-B, and politicians who think that "everyone can just walk/bike/bus" to work is actually a viable option.
Considering that their $35 Pi3 is well over $50 anywhere I can get one... I just assume that the prices quoted for any Pi product are pure fiction. I've never seen any of them anywhere near the quoted prices at any place I can actually purchase.
Not to mention the impossibility of actually holding the thing without accidentally registering touch events on the screen that is now on the sides of the phone where you are supposed to hold the thing!
The "edge" screen is one of a number of reasons why my current Note4 will likely be my last Samsung device.
And I still maintain that either they are lying, or they are an edge case, as the vast majority of sites on the internet do not support these technologies, and therefore the vast majority of people can not protect themselves by using them.
No, but the OP said that all the sites they visit use 2FA and sign in notifications. Yet they are on Slashdot which does neither. Then they said they have "luck".
I positt that they are being dishonest with themselves in believing that they only use sites with 2FA.
You're not "lucky" you're an extremely unusual person who doesn't visit any of the vast majority of sites on the internet that don't even have 2FA as an option, nor login notifications. Sure I use those when they're available... but they simply aren't in most places.
BTW... how's Slashdot's 2FA and login notifications working for you?
If it were truly a "dumb" tv there wouldn't be any software or drivers for you to get the source for.... Perhaps you need to define what level of smart you want?
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There is no "extra light", it's just moved around, and not even in a useful way.
In the winter I have light from about 0900-1600 and in the summer from about 0500-2300
Meanwhile I work 0800-1600
It doesn't matter which way you adjust the clocks, in the winter It's dark both before and after work. and in the summer it's light both before and after work.
Go further north and it's even more exaggerated until you get far enough north and it's dark 24/7 in the winter and light 24/7 in the summer. You think they care about "daylight savings time"?
There are many drawbacks to DST, there's not a single positive to it at all. It's long past time to scrap it.
If I worked only during daylight hours in the winter, I'd be working less than 8 hours per day. I don't think my boss would be pleased.
Not to mention, I work indoors, why would I care if it's light outside while I'm at work? I want it to be light outside when I'm NOT at work!
"change"? I've never heard of any company around here that wasn't already 8-4. "9-5" is something that only happens in movies.
The real interesting part is that it passed in Canada despite the prime minister and cabinet trying to kill it.
But I'm glad it passed, and hope that there isn't too much to the constitutional argument the prime minister was trying to invoke.
Those are especially great for the systems I log in to once per quarter.
I don't even bother trying to remember the password for that system any more. Each time I need to log in I simply click the "forgot password" button and let it email me a new password.
Maybe we need to re-think things.
Is a single letter password really insecure? or extremely secure?
What password testing system would even bother testing for it? it's simply assumed it can't exist.
"more entropy" is only useful if the attacker is using the same assumptions you are.
Problem is, if I forget my password, I can call the place and get it changed. If I forget "my mother's maiden name", good luck getting them to believe it's actually you!
The problem is that instead of remembering one password for a site, you're now required to remember the password AND all the security question answers they made you chose. So now for one site, I may need to remember 4-6 different passwords. That's just not scaleable without decreasing your security SEVERELY by either writing your passwords down, or worse yet, using a "password manager"
on a side note, they had the gall to send out a newsletter to customers talking about online security (in general terms, not just for their website) with suggestions on picking a password, none of which you could use on their own website.
The symbols thing always bugs me. "You must use a symbol in your password", I *DID*! Please tell me which symbols you're going to accept so I can try again! (some of these only allow symbols that appear above the number keys on a standard US keyboard, which means ,./?;':"[]\{}|~` all don't count, others allow some subset of those, but not others, it's impossible to guess)
It's very apparent that every one of these rules decreases password security, every one decreases the amount of space an attacker needs to search. (must have an uppercase character? great, I don't need to bother trying any combinations that are all lowercase. must be at least 8 digits? great, I don't need to check anything less. must have one of a limited set of symbols? great, don't check anything that doesn't include those.) I'll give you the simplest case as an example. Pick an integer number between 0-9, make sure it includes a 5, I bet I can guess what you chose! That's exactly what a password rule does.
I know a bank that requires an all numeric password of exactly 4 digits, actually they recently improved, you can now use 4-6 digits, but still all numeric.
Traffic engineers know this. but their political masters have given them an impossible task. They've been asked to ignore the public good, and cater only to those who make the most noise, special interest groups. Additionally they've been given a budget that allows for maybe a few street signs and maybe a couple of jersey barriers, but certainly not enough to maintain existing roads, let alone build new ones.
This isn't an engineering problem, it's a political problem.
Only if you have infinite cars....
In a universe with finite cars, you can build enough capacity. But it means that the capacity you built in the 1950s and 1960s has to be upgraded!
Why should those entitled locals get an exception to the rule?
If they want to block everyone, fine, but they should be included in "everyone". or are some people "more equal" than others now?
You mean how come every time someone comes up with a better way of doing something local governments do everything they can to obstruct it?
Town planners used to work for the public good. They optimized traffic flows to try to get the most people to where they were going in the least time.
Then NIMBY types, green types, and other special interests got a hold of them. Now town planners have a completely different job. Their job now is to try to socially engineer everyone to the NIMBY/green/special interest vision of the perfect commuter. This is accomplished by making it as difficult and as slow as possible to drive anywhere.
Where I live we get very harsh winters, but our bike lanes are clear of snow (and any cyclists) well before the city streets are. They remove traffic lanes that were previously bumper to bumper cars, and put in bike lanes that are empty 99% of the time. Our local cycling special interest group is extremely vocal, and the city caters to their every whim, at the expense of everyone else. Meanwhile our main thoroughfare through the city was last widened in the 1970s (despite sitting on a large easement that would make it easy to do so), the official logic being that if they expanded it, people might use it, and they'd rather encourage "alternative" transportation (code for bicycles). Meanwhile we have some of the largest urban sprawl of any city, coupled with harsh winters. who cycles 30km each way to and from work at -35c?
This is a case of the "squeaky wheel gets the grease" NIMBYs, greens, and special interests are a tiny fraction of the overall population, but they know how to make a LOT of noise.
exactly!
Why does one resident's urge to not have to see any cars other than their own trump hundreds or thousands of other people's rights to use publicly funded infrastructure to get from A-B?
Worse yet, that same person would probably happily cut through someone else's neighbourhood without a second thought.
NIMBY types get no sympathy from me.
So there are infinite cars available in your world?
By that logic, the roads should have been most full when first built (capacity expanded from nothing to where they are today) and should have emptied over time (no capacity expansion) Meanwhile the exact opposite has occurred. The roads were fine when first built because they were built to handle the expected amount of traffic, but over time as more people and businesses moved to the area and the roads weren't expanded, they became more full.
The solution is to build roads for the expected usage, not to try to socially engineer everyone in to your own personal vision of how the rest of the world "should" commute.
The REAL problem is NIMBY types who won't allow people to drive on public roads because they're special snowflakes and their own personal aversion to seeing cars on their street trumps hundreds or thousands of other people's well being who want to get from A-B, and politicians who think that "everyone can just walk/bike/bus" to work is actually a viable option.
Considering that their $35 Pi3 is well over $50 anywhere I can get one... I just assume that the prices quoted for any Pi product are pure fiction.
I've never seen any of them anywhere near the quoted prices at any place I can actually purchase.
Not to mention the impossibility of actually holding the thing without accidentally registering touch events on the screen that is now on the sides of the phone where you are supposed to hold the thing!
The "edge" screen is one of a number of reasons why my current Note4 will likely be my last Samsung device.
And I still maintain that either they are lying, or they are an edge case, as the vast majority of sites on the internet do not support these technologies, and therefore the vast majority of people can not protect themselves by using them.
No, but the OP said that all the sites they visit use 2FA and sign in notifications. Yet they are on Slashdot which does neither. Then they said they have "luck".
I positt that they are being dishonest with themselves in believing that they only use sites with 2FA.
And yet here you are logged in to Slashdot. Which has no 2FA, nor sign in notifications.
You're not "lucky" you're an extremely unusual person who doesn't visit any of the vast majority of sites on the internet that don't even have 2FA as an option, nor login notifications. Sure I use those when they're available... but they simply aren't in most places.
BTW... how's Slashdot's 2FA and login notifications working for you?
If it were truly a "dumb" tv there wouldn't be any software or drivers for you to get the source for.... Perhaps you need to define what level of smart you want?