If everyone uses the same "expander" tool(s), then hackers will generate candidate passwords using it, defeating its purpose. In short, that technique doesn't scale.
Really? The universe of quotes is pretty dang large. And I did recommend using an *obscure* quote. Plus, the way you use the quote as a mnemonic to create the password is up to you, and variable.
Sure, if you use the Gettysburg Address, thanks to my using it as my example, it's already in a crack dictionary somewhere, so use something else.
There's this thing that says "Cockup before Consipiracy" but with the sheer number of cockups coming out of Facebook, one does wonder if they've crossed into Conspiracy some years ago.
I say yes, yes they did. This is kinda the final last straw -- why take peoples' email passwords?
"Sufficiently advanced stupidity is indistinguishable from actual malice."
of working for an ad company that really wants to support Communist China?.
That got a bit of a ripple among the Googlerati. Not much more than that.
But providing any services at all to <gasp, horrors, fetch the smelling salts!!!> the United States Military... The *MILITARY*! of the *gasp* *UNITED STATES*...
That is a hideous outrage too awful to be borne.
Where do they find these peop... Oh. Yeah. The People's Democratic Socialist Republic of California.
J4Al4&/rO1.P9DeErxL ) Yes, that's the kind of passwords you should use
You're kidding, right? Otherwise, it sounds like a narcissistic case of "I'm capable of remembering long random gobbledygook, so you should be also."
Depends on how he generated that password. Maybe there's a system behind it that makes it easy to remember.
Like, say, 4S&7Ya,oFb4thutCanN,ciL,&dttPtaMac=.
I don't remember that string, but I know how it was generated, so when I want to use this example, I can re-create it trivially.
So: Pick a quote. An obscure one that's meaningful to you is best. Whatever you do, don't use the Gettysburg Address; that's what I use for my example, and that string above is all over the Internet. Decide on some rules: If it sounds like a number or symbol, use the non-alpha. All nouns are capitalized. If you want, use the last character of each word, or the second, but as long as it isn't the Gettysburg Address, that probably doesn't matter.
A pathogen that affects entire class of animals, wow, just wow. That's an equivalent of a disease that affected all mammals indiscriminately, I didn't think such a thing was possible.
When Cisco laid me off at age 56, they did cover their bases. The layoff came with a stack of paper an inch thick with statistics of the ages of those laid off, showing they were fully prepared to defend themselves against any claim of age discrimination.
They also included a very generous severance package.
And, if you signed an agreement to not sue them for age discrimination, that very generous severance package became very *VERY* generous.
See point 1 above, they were fully prepared to defend themselves against any claim of age discrimination.
Hey, when I got home from getting laid off, right there in my Gmail inbox was an email from a recruiter at the place I'm currently working. The layoff turned out to be a rather substantial windfall.
(No, I didn't vote for the SOB either, but I can see why, given the alternative, decent people would. If you can't, then you are part of the damn problem.)
The single biggest problem for hybrids is all the maintenance that's still required due to the ICE
Do you know anything about the engines Toyota puts in the Prius? They require minimal maintenance and are, for practical purposes, virtually indestructible.
I don't know about "virtually indestructible", but my 2008 Prius has been the most trouble-free car I've ever had. 11 years and counting... I'm very impressed with it, and when it ultimately shuffles off this mortal coil, I'll probably be replacing it with another Prius. (Likely one of the plug-in hybrid models.)
I was kind of interested in the Volt, but Chevy killed that one, and Toyota is making a plug-in hybrid anyway.
"You can see the same thing in the way nuclear isn't even a thought in the Green New Insanity." - Are you high? Nuclear is going under because the MARKET isn't viable anymore, mainly because renewables are cheaper and less involved.
Due mostly to outright unrestrained barratry by the self-proclaimed "Greens". This is the "Erik and Lyle Menendez demand the Court's mercy because they are orphans" argument.
It could only operate the display in hideously eye-hurting unreadable "not the right resolution for the LCD monitor" mode, because Microsoft did not support the on-motherboard graphics and there was no driver update. So I rolled it back to 7.
She's gone over to the iFruit side now, she is happily using her iPad while sitting in her easy chair, and has no interest in the PC any more, so it'll probably remain at 7 forever.
Snopes is supposed to call out misinformation. Deciding to rank certain and provable false claims as a 'we arent sure, its possible but we just dont know' for DNC related stuff was a stupid ass move..... I have never seen them call a truth a lie, but I have seen them abuse the in-between-ratings and thats poor journalism if you ask me.
Yeah... If the topic has no political slant, or if they say flat-out true or false with documentation, Snopes has seemed to be pretty reliable. But they have long shaded the "maybe" ratings in a certain direction.
The first one I came across was back during the GWB administration. There was some utterly brain-dead rumor going around that Ashcroft was terrified of calico cats because he thought they were of the Devil for some reason. It took Snopes several weeks to change that from "Unverified" to "False", even after they quoted a source saying that asked Ashcroft about this, and he laughed out loud. I'm sure if it were an accusation made about Hillary that it would have been stamped false instantly.
I still consider them a valuable resource, but I don't trust them unreservedly.
That's why you have a system with two keys -- one that returns something innocuous like complaints about the plot of the last Star Wars movie, one that returns the real goods.
I've noticed a great deal of antipathy from some parties to anything Elon Musk is involved in.
Now, granted, Musk's actions are often... somewhat erratic. He sometimes seems to bear a resemblance to a Roger Moore era Bond Villain. I think he does that on purpose for the lulz.
But that doesn't suffice to explain the antipathy.
It looks to me like the source of a lot of this is some very wealthy people who bet heavily that Musk's companies would crash, and it's getting harder to cover their short positions.
I'm atheist and I agree with GP - the majority of the worlds muslims are further to the right than the KKK. Why call out the less-extreme forms of religion, but not the extreme ones?
Because the less-extreme ones will do nothing but call you out on it and complain a bit, but the extreme ones will kill you. Dead. Blown to bits, head cut off, burned alive, whatever occurs to them at the moment they get their hands on you.
So they pat themselves on the back for being "free-thinkers" while in perfect safety attacking the mostly harmless not so extreme, while denouncing as "phobic" anyone who says anything bad about the really extreme ones.
Question: Will minds.com have some means of flexible content-filtering of posts I see?
(Background) I have people on my Facebook friends list with utterly obnoxious political opinions they WILL NOT SHUT UP about. I want their non-political stuff, but I want to **NEVER** see anything of theirs which mentions certain political figures. (Actually, I don't want to see any post of any kind that mentions certain political figures.) Likewise, endless "Lost puppy and kitten" alerts by people living 3000 miles away. And other friends with certain... obsessions I do not share.
With Facebook, all I can do is block the person, which I do not want to do.
Flu shot: Every year. HPV: Unnecessary. I'm entirely monogamous, and this is spectacularly unlikely to change. Pneumonia: Not yet, though I'm getting up towards the age it might be indicated. Shingles: See above. Shingles vaccine doesn't keep you from getting the virus. It keeps you from getting an outbreak of the virus you've already got if your immune system does a dip.
Actually, that's not true. People who have had cancer are prohibited from giving blood, because under the right circumstances, it *is* contagious.
Not necessarily. I had kidney cancer back in 2002, and I've been giving blood regularly for years. Yes, I do put the kidney cancer history on the form. They ask about any chemo (none) and then approve me.
(Currently blocked from giving blood until May because of a trip to Bangalore last May...)
Now, having had a blood transfusion in Great Britain, that's a permanent disqualification.
I thought the predecessor to plastic straws were paper ones?
While many feel this necessitates having straws that turn into cellulose pulp in your mouth, this is not true. Coating the paper with a biodegradable wax, like carnuba, would solve the problem nicely, as would the use of modified starch coatings.
That doesn't line up with my memory of paper straws, even wax-coated, back in the 60s. "Sometimes lasted the whole drink"... maybe. And they didn't give refills back then.
I've used some of the more recent paper straws, now that the plastic ones have been declared Politically Incorrect in some jurisdictions in California. They're much thicker than the ones I recall from the 1960s... and they fall apart more quickly. I'm not sure if they contain any wax. They didn't seem to. Probably because wax is petroleum based (IA! IA!!! EVIL EVIL EVIL!!!!) or beeswax (Exploitation of non-consenting lifeforms!! Evil!!!) or something. There's always something.
In 2009, Noam Chompsky said " “What’s so exciting about at last visiting Venezuela,” the linguist said, is that “I can see how a better world is being created and can speak to the person who’s inspired it.”
In 2017, he says "I never described Chavez's state capitalist government as 'socialist' or even hinted at such an absurdity. It was quite remote from socialism. Private capitalism remained... Capitalists were free to undermine the economy in all sorts of ways, like massive export of capital."
It's always "I have seen The Future, and It Works", until the megadeaths become impossible to ignore, then "Oh, no, that wasn't real socialism. We need to try real socialism. This time for sure."
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And of course, we all remember the first rule of the internet; the men are men, the women are men, and the children are FBI agents.
Genius.
Snarfing this one for my quotes file.
If everyone uses the same "expander" tool(s), then hackers will generate candidate passwords using it, defeating its purpose. In short, that technique doesn't scale.
Really? The universe of quotes is pretty dang large. And I did recommend using an *obscure* quote. Plus, the way you use the quote as a mnemonic to create the password is up to you, and variable.
Sure, if you use the Gettysburg Address, thanks to my using it as my example, it's already in a crack dictionary somewhere, so use something else.
There's this thing that says "Cockup before Consipiracy" but with the sheer number of cockups coming out of Facebook, one does wonder if they've crossed into Conspiracy some years ago.
I say yes, yes they did. This is kinda the final last straw -- why take peoples' email passwords?
"Sufficiently advanced stupidity is indistinguishable from actual malice."
of working for an ad company that really wants to support Communist China? .
That got a bit of a ripple among the Googlerati. Not much more than that.
But providing any services at all to <gasp, horrors, fetch the smelling salts!!!> the United States Military ... The *MILITARY*! of the *gasp* *UNITED STATES*...
That is a hideous outrage too awful to be borne.
Where do they find these peop... Oh. Yeah. The People's Democratic Socialist Republic of California.
You're kidding, right? Otherwise, it sounds like a narcissistic case of "I'm capable of remembering long random gobbledygook, so you should be also."
Depends on how he generated that password. Maybe there's a system behind it that makes it easy to remember.
Like, say, 4S&7Ya,oFb4thutCanN,ciL,&dttPtaMac=.
I don't remember that string, but I know how it was generated, so when I want to use this example, I can re-create it trivially.
So: Pick a quote. An obscure one that's meaningful to you is best. Whatever you do, don't use the Gettysburg Address; that's what I use for my example, and that string above is all over the Internet. Decide on some rules: If it sounds like a number or symbol, use the non-alpha. All nouns are capitalized. If you want, use the last character of each word, or the second, but as long as it isn't the Gettysburg Address, that probably doesn't matter.
Use that to open your password manager.
A pathogen that affects entire class of animals, wow, just wow. That's an equivalent of a disease that affected all mammals indiscriminately, I didn't think such a thing was possible.
Rabies...
When Cisco laid me off at age 56, they did cover their bases. The layoff came with a stack of paper an inch thick with statistics of the ages of those laid off, showing they were fully prepared to defend themselves against any claim of age discrimination.
They also included a very generous severance package.
And, if you signed an agreement to not sue them for age discrimination, that very generous severance package became very *VERY* generous.
See point 1 above, they were fully prepared to defend themselves against any claim of age discrimination.
Hey, when I got home from getting laid off, right there in my Gmail inbox was an email from a recruiter at the place I'm currently working. The layoff turned out to be a rather substantial windfall.
What's unknown is whether or not Google will work with ISPs to help alleviate this concern.
Cue the chorus:
"That violates Net Neutrality!!! EVIL!! EVIL!!! Burn the blasphemer! BURN BURN BURN!!!!"
So... How can Google "work with ISPs to help alleviate this (bandwidth) concern" without getting people all hot and bothered about "net neutrality"?
Why?
Perhaps this might help you understand.
http://lite.cnn.io/en/article/...
(No, I didn't vote for the SOB either, but I can see why, given the alternative, decent people would. If you can't, then you are part of the damn problem.)
... What mob-and-Chicago-City-Hall-connected enterprise wants to take over the composting business, and is using this to take out the competition?
Better than their traditional "break kneecaps" method, I suppose.
The single biggest problem for hybrids is all the maintenance that's still required due to the ICE
Do you know anything about the engines Toyota puts in the Prius? They require minimal maintenance and are, for practical purposes, virtually indestructible.
I don't know about "virtually indestructible", but my 2008 Prius has been the most trouble-free car I've ever had. 11 years and counting... I'm very impressed with it, and when it ultimately shuffles off this mortal coil, I'll probably be replacing it with another Prius. (Likely one of the plug-in hybrid models.)
I was kind of interested in the Volt, but Chevy killed that one, and Toyota is making a plug-in hybrid anyway.
"You can see the same thing in the way nuclear isn't even a thought in the Green New Insanity." - Are you high? Nuclear is going under because the MARKET isn't viable anymore, mainly because renewables are cheaper and less involved.
Due mostly to outright unrestrained barratry by the self-proclaimed "Greens". This is the "Erik and Lyle Menendez demand the Court's mercy because they are orphans" argument.
I tried upgrading my mother's PC to Windows 10.
It could only operate the display in hideously eye-hurting unreadable "not the right resolution for the LCD monitor" mode, because Microsoft did not support the on-motherboard graphics and there was no driver update. So I rolled it back to 7.
She's gone over to the iFruit side now, she is happily using her iPad while sitting in her easy chair, and has no interest in the PC any more, so it'll probably remain at 7 forever.
Snopes is supposed to call out misinformation. Deciding to rank certain and provable false claims as a 'we arent sure, its possible but we just dont know' for DNC related stuff was a stupid ass move. .... I have never seen them call a truth a lie, but I have seen them abuse the in-between-ratings and thats poor journalism if you ask me.
Yeah... If the topic has no political slant, or if they say flat-out true or false with documentation, Snopes has seemed to be pretty reliable. But they have long shaded the "maybe" ratings in a certain direction.
The first one I came across was back during the GWB administration. There was some utterly brain-dead rumor going around that Ashcroft was terrified of calico cats because he thought they were of the Devil for some reason. It took Snopes several weeks to change that from "Unverified" to "False", even after they quoted a source saying that asked Ashcroft about this, and he laughed out loud. I'm sure if it were an accusation made about Hillary that it would have been stamped false instantly.
I still consider them a valuable resource, but I don't trust them unreservedly.
That's why you have a system with two keys -- one that returns something innocuous like complaints about the plot of the last Star Wars movie, one that returns the real goods.
The price of natural gas dropped so low because fracking made it cheaper to extract a lot more of it.
Guess what the usual suspects think of fracking....
By the way, there's no long-term waste storage yet.
Still better that the long-term waste storage for fossil fuels, our atmosphere.
For those who think Yucca Mountain isn't safe enough, take a look at what's already there.
Go to Google Earth. Search for "Sedan Crater". Scan south.
That's what's already there, has been there for decades, with no containment whatsoever, just (mostly) in a hole underground.
I've noticed a great deal of antipathy from some parties to anything Elon Musk is involved in.
Now, granted, Musk's actions are often ... somewhat erratic. He sometimes seems to bear a resemblance to a Roger Moore era Bond Villain. I think he does that on purpose for the lulz.
But that doesn't suffice to explain the antipathy.
It looks to me like the source of a lot of this is some very wealthy people who bet heavily that Musk's companies would crash, and it's getting harder to cover their short positions.
What a shit attempt at trolling. 1/10.
I'm atheist and I agree with GP - the majority of the worlds muslims are further to the right than the KKK. Why call out the less-extreme forms of religion, but not the extreme ones?
Because the less-extreme ones will do nothing but call you out on it and complain a bit, but the extreme ones will kill you. Dead. Blown to bits, head cut off, burned alive, whatever occurs to them at the moment they get their hands on you.
So they pat themselves on the back for being "free-thinkers" while in perfect safety attacking the mostly harmless not so extreme, while denouncing as "phobic" anyone who says anything bad about the really extreme ones.
Question: Will minds.com have some means of flexible content-filtering of posts I see?
(Background) I have people on my Facebook friends list with utterly obnoxious political opinions they WILL NOT SHUT UP about. I want their non-political stuff, but I want to **NEVER** see anything of theirs which mentions certain political figures. (Actually, I don't want to see any post of any kind that mentions certain political figures.) Likewise, endless "Lost puppy and kitten" alerts by people living 3000 miles away. And other friends with certain ... obsessions I do not share.
With Facebook, all I can do is block the person, which I do not want to do.
Flu shot: Every year.
HPV: Unnecessary. I'm entirely monogamous, and this is spectacularly unlikely to change.
Pneumonia: Not yet, though I'm getting up towards the age it might be indicated.
Shingles: See above. Shingles vaccine doesn't keep you from getting the virus. It keeps you from getting an outbreak of the virus you've already got if your immune system does a dip.
Actually, that's not true. People who have had cancer are prohibited from giving blood, because under the right circumstances, it *is* contagious.
Not necessarily. I had kidney cancer back in 2002, and I've been giving blood regularly for years. Yes, I do put the kidney cancer history on the form. They ask about any chemo (none) and then approve me.
(Currently blocked from giving blood until May because of a trip to Bangalore last May...)
Now, having had a blood transfusion in Great Britain, that's a permanent disqualification.
I thought the predecessor to plastic straws were paper ones?
While many feel this necessitates having straws that turn into cellulose pulp in your mouth, this is not true. Coating the paper with a biodegradable wax, like carnuba, would solve the problem nicely, as would the use of modified starch coatings.
That doesn't line up with my memory of paper straws, even wax-coated, back in the 60s. "Sometimes lasted the whole drink"... maybe. And they didn't give refills back then.
I've used some of the more recent paper straws, now that the plastic ones have been declared Politically Incorrect in some jurisdictions in California. They're much thicker than the ones I recall from the 1960s ... and they fall apart more quickly. I'm not sure if they contain any wax. They didn't seem to. Probably because wax is petroleum based (IA! IA!!! EVIL EVIL EVIL!!!!) or beeswax (Exploitation of non-consenting lifeforms!! Evil!!!) or something. There's always something.
Yeah, like Steve Jobs. His billions didn't save him.
Listening to his doctor might have.
Organoholisticmacrobiotichomeopathicveganism didn't. By the time he realized it wasn't, it was too late for real medicine.
In 2009, Noam Chompsky said " “What’s so exciting about at last visiting Venezuela,” the linguist said, is that “I can see how a better world is being created and can speak to the person who’s inspired it.”
In 2017, he says "I never described Chavez's state capitalist government as 'socialist' or even hinted at such an absurdity. It was quite remote from socialism. Private capitalism remained ... Capitalists were free to undermine the economy in all sorts of ways, like massive export of capital."
It's always "I have seen The Future, and It Works", until the megadeaths become impossible to ignore, then "Oh, no, that wasn't real socialism. We need to try real socialism. This time for sure."
That trick never works. Never.