'90% of 5-character random passwords using only letters can be generated in fewer than 20 attempts by an adversary; 80% of 10-character passwords can be generated in fewer than 75 attempts.
All the systems where I work will lock you out after 5 bad attempts. What kind of password system lets you try 75 (or even 20) times?
One used by marketing?
[badum-ching]
Seriously, good point. But for security, I'd also expect the lockout to remain until manually cleared... not cleared automatically after a certain time. Otherwise the method works, just takes longer ( i.e. must factor in the lockout time ).
Good honest people need solid 'rule of law' to support their moral character. Assassination breaks down the rule of law.
That only works so long as the rule of law is just. Once the criminals have corrupted the law, then the rule of law fails because it is seen as just another tool of the oppressor.
She has found a job... market research. One step up from telemarketing. Six years of college, tens of thousands in debt, now making just over minimum wage with no benefits.
I agree that money isn't everything, but if we weren't living together I doubt she could make the rent.
"Follow your heart and the money will follow." That was the most valuable piece of advice I got from my first CS professor at Berkeley more than 4 years ago.
I can't say that's true for my girlfriend[1]. Her masters is in Fine Arts ( poetry ).
For many people, college is an investment. Yes, it's good to do something you're passionate about, but it's also good to pay the bills.
[1] Insert joke about how no true/.er has a girlfriend here.
"Antisocial personality disorder (APD), or dissocial personality disorder, is a personality disorder which is often characterised by antisocial and impulsive behaviour. APD is generally (if controversially) considered to be the same as, or similar to, the disorder known as psychopathic or sociopathic personality disorder."
So there's at least some thought that sociopathy and psychopathy are the same thing.
When speaking of psychopaths/sociopaths in this context, they all seem to want power and control over others.
I'd think a communist government, where ultimate power is held by the sate, would suit a psychopath/sociopath much more than a democratic system.
While one could argue that Mao, Lenin, Stalin, et. al. ran totalitarian regimes rather than communist, the counter to that is communism inevitably becomes totalitarian.
If you find the fucking cure for AIDS you'd best not be trying to fucking profit from it.
Perhaps that's why there's so many advertisements for "erectile disfunction" drugs on tv?
If you can't make money curing disease, then many will focus on what does make money.
Not to say poor patients don't deserve treatment of course ( seems a good use of Government subsidy ) but to say people shouldn't profit from doing good things is to say people shouldn't be encouraged to do good things.
See, I was desperately unhappy at that job, for various reasons. The main one, though was that I was treated as the junior developer for the purposes of salary, and my opinion on things was taken as seriously as a junior developers would be, but when it came to responsibility or workload, I was treated as some kind of hero programmer who could fix everything.
Have to say we have the same problem, although with DBAs. We've got a lot of mainframe retreads who were given relational databases to manage. In many cases, the don't seem to have the skills. Junior personel then do the work to fix whatever problem occured, while the more senior people collect larger salaries for doing less work.
The only real solution seems to be to have high-profile failures; i.e. let the retreds fail if they can't figure it out.
For example, if you were watching an Episode of The Simpsons, and it wasn't as funny as usual, you could press a button to e-mail the creators "BELOW STANDARDS"...or if it was good "VERY FUNNY".
But where would the button be for WORST. EPISODE. EVER. ?
Imagine if the US had blown up a small ghost town or uninhabited island - maybe even right next to Japan and said "surrender now or this will happen to you."
Since the "example" we used was Hiroshima and they still didn't surrender I don't think the outcome would have been any different.
And as for: There's a peaeful means to every quetion. Flame me for that if you want, but it's a simple truth.
That only seems to be true if you're dealing with resonable people, perhaps not even then. I'm thinking of 'Hotel Rwanda'.. the hotel owner tells a hutu soldier he can't kill all the tutsti, the soldier responds with "why not?" . Point of fact, the hutu did a fair job of wiping out the tutsi. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwanda_genocide for more.
Sometimes conflict is the only logical way to maintain existance. Perhaps you consider letting yourself be killed 'peaceful', but that strikes me more as suicide.
The galactica uses old fashioned phones with wires quite on purpose as a low tech but highly effective answer to technological warfare. It's much much harder to jam/intercept/alter a signal that runs through a shielded wire than one that transmits via radio wave. I bet if you go look at a modern navy vessel it will also use hard wired communications onboard ship.
Very true; the hard wired communications on current US Navy ships don't even require broadcast power: http://www.dcfp.navy.mil/equip/dcc/spphone.htm Having used these, they work rather well. You can't jam them, you can't detect their use remotely, and as a bonus since they don't give off radio waves they won't set off any detonators ( wires connected to detonators can act as antenna... and if they get enough current... ).
Freakonomics has a good chapter on the Chicago City school system which covers this point, as well as the reprocussions of using standardized tests.
In short, standardized tests can force some teachers to cheat the system. With student performance linked to either bonuses ( up to $20k in the California system ) or simple job retention, an incentive can be created for teachers to game the system. Detection is difficult and time consuming, since it's based on future performance of the student compared to other students.
I agree. How the hell are you going to "Test it on humans"? Wouldn't you have to kill someone in order to bring them back to life? Last time I checked, that was not just unethical, but also quite illegal.
Finally, a good use for outsourcing! [badum-ching]
This comes from a sense of insecurity and fear because the natural human behavior is that of joining crowds.
Would you have a source for this? Personaly, I dislike crowds... esp. noisy crowds. The more ringing cell phones / crying babies / noisy teenybopers / whatevers only make that worse.
Now, that doesn't mean I isolate... I like going out to resteraunts, some clubs, coffee shops, etc... but I won't seek out a crowd just because it's a crowd.
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One used by marketing?
[badum-ching]
Seriously, good point. But for security, I'd also expect the lockout to remain until manually cleared... not cleared automatically after a certain time. Otherwise the method works, just takes longer ( i.e. must factor in the lockout time ).
That only works so long as the rule of law is just. Once the criminals have corrupted the law, then the rule of law fails because it is seen as just another tool of the oppressor.
She graduated last year.
She has found a job... market research. One step up from telemarketing. Six years of college, tens of thousands in debt, now making just over minimum wage with no benefits.
I agree that money isn't everything, but if we weren't living together I doubt she could make the rent.
I can't say that's true for my girlfriend[1]. Her masters is in Fine Arts ( poetry ).
For many people, college is an investment. Yes, it's good to do something you're passionate about, but it's also good to pay the bills.
[1] Insert joke about how no true
well, I'm hardly an expert in the field, but there is this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sociopath
"Antisocial personality disorder (APD), or dissocial personality disorder, is a personality disorder which is often characterised by antisocial and impulsive behaviour. APD is generally (if controversially) considered to be the same as, or similar to, the disorder known as psychopathic or sociopathic personality disorder."
So there's at least some thought that sociopathy and psychopathy are the same thing.
When speaking of psychopaths/sociopaths in this context, they all seem to want power and control over others.
I'd think a communist government, where ultimate power is held by the sate, would suit a psychopath/sociopath much more than a democratic system.
While one could argue that Mao, Lenin, Stalin, et. al. ran totalitarian regimes rather than communist, the counter to that is communism inevitably becomes totalitarian.
I'll second that recomendation. The Code Book is a good read, not only explaining the basics of cryptography but also cryptanalysis.
Very interesting, even to this layman.
So the DoS attack against this is a ceiling fan?
Perhaps that's why there's so many advertisements for "erectile disfunction" drugs on tv?
If you can't make money curing disease, then many will focus on what does make money.
Not to say poor patients don't deserve treatment of course ( seems a good use of Government subsidy ) but to say people shouldn't profit from doing good things is to say people shouldn't be encouraged to do good things.
I think you misspelled humanity.
I'm just glad I got mine..
...what?...
[wipes blood from screen]
[badum-ching]
And pirates are very easy to detect![badum-ching]
Nice!
Might also be fun to find a bluetooth user with a fish sticker and inject coments like:
"Satan wants you to go to church"
"Gospel rock demeans both the gospel and rock"
Have to say we have the same problem, although with DBAs. We've got a lot of mainframe retreads who were given relational databases to manage. In many cases, the don't seem to have the skills. Junior personel then do the work to fix whatever problem occured, while the more senior people collect larger salaries for doing less work.
The only real solution seems to be to have high-profile failures; i.e. let the retreds fail if they can't figure it out.
Ummm... no.
Rockstars customers asked for it. Like it or not, GTA sells. If people didn't want it, they wouldn't buy it.
For example, if you were watching an Episode of The Simpsons, and it wasn't as funny as usual, you could press a button to e-mail the creators "BELOW STANDARDS"...or if it was good "VERY FUNNY".
But where would the button be for WORST. EPISODE. EVER. ?
[badum-ching]
Imagine if the US had blown up a small ghost town or uninhabited island - maybe even right next to Japan and said "surrender now or this will happen to you."
Since the "example" we used was Hiroshima and they still didn't surrender I don't think the outcome would have been any different.
And as for:
There's a peaeful means to every quetion. Flame me for that if you want, but it's a simple truth.
That only seems to be true if you're dealing with resonable people, perhaps not even then. I'm thinking of 'Hotel Rwanda'.. the hotel owner tells a hutu soldier he can't kill all the tutsti, the soldier responds with "why not?" . Point of fact, the hutu did a fair job of wiping out the tutsi. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwanda_genocide for more.
Sometimes conflict is the only logical way to maintain existance. Perhaps you consider letting yourself be killed 'peaceful', but that strikes me more as suicide.
The galactica uses old fashioned phones with wires quite on purpose as a low tech but highly effective answer to technological warfare. It's much much harder to jam/intercept/alter a signal that runs through a shielded wire than one that transmits via radio wave. I bet if you go look at a modern navy vessel it will also use hard wired communications onboard ship.
Very true; the hard wired communications on current US Navy ships don't even require broadcast power:
http://www.dcfp.navy.mil/equip/dcc/spphone.htm
Having used these, they work rather well. You can't jam them, you can't detect their use remotely, and as a bonus since they don't give off radio waves they won't set off any detonators ( wires connected to detonators can act as antenna... and if they get enough current... ).
Funny, I'm looking at it now.. seems fine.. perhaps someone restored it to it's flamebait-free state?
Freakonomics has a good chapter on the Chicago City school system which covers this point, as well as the reprocussions of using standardized tests.
In short, standardized tests can force some teachers to cheat the system. With student performance linked to either bonuses ( up to $20k in the California system ) or simple job retention, an incentive can be created for teachers to game the system. Detection is difficult and time consuming, since it's based on future performance of the student compared to other students.
I agree. How the hell are you going to "Test it on humans"? Wouldn't you have to kill someone in order to bring them back to life? Last time I checked, that was not just unethical, but also quite illegal.
Finally, a good use for outsourcing!
[badum-ching]
This is one of those instances where it might be favorable to have a National identification.
I understand your point, but without privacy restrictions on the data collected wouldn't we have the same problem, just with a different identifier?
Get out of my nightmares and into my car!
and now I'm sure that someone here has used that as a pickup line.
'scuse me... I'm off to soak my brain in bleach..
This comes from a sense of insecurity and fear because the natural human behavior is that of joining crowds.
Would you have a source for this? Personaly, I dislike crowds... esp. noisy crowds. The more ringing cell phones / crying babies / noisy teenybopers / whatevers only make that worse.
Now, that doesn't mean I isolate... I like going out to resteraunts, some clubs, coffee shops, etc... but I won't seek out a crowd just because it's a crowd.
Nerds actually can get chicks, but the first thing they've got to do is stop treating chicks like they're ladies.
Note to readers: Use of the term "biotch", while not treating chicks like ladies, should only be used by an experienced professional.