Every user gets his own picture, and coordinate within that picture. So my password could be Aunt Bertha's left eye and yours could be Megan Fox's umm... freaky thumb.
Enter username. Gets instant feedback that you aren't on a trojan site. Only the real site should know and have a copy of YOUR picture. Then select your secret point on the picture. Don't send the coordinates, but an encrypted or one-way hashed version of the coordinates so an eavesdropper doesn't get any useful information. Easier to remember than a password. You might still have "bad passwords" if the user selected a photo with very few obvious points of interest (back to my Megan Fox example).
I sit in my big swivel chair in the middle of the room looking at a giant projection screen at the front and have a pretty girl in a mini-skirt come up to me with an iPad to sign some workflow forms, all while I bark commands at my friends stationed around the perimeter of the room.
They are up and running for now. Expect a bird to drop toast in a critical spot, or an airplane to lose a chunk of blue ice at just the exactly wrong instant, or vibrations from a tunneling gopher to hit just the right frequency to cause sympathetic vibrations in a crucial component and shut it all down. It has happened before and it will happen again. The universe must protect itself from temporal paradox!
Take another look at those plastic doll commercials. The hook is "your mom and dad will stop ignoring you if you have this doll." Cut 1: Lonely child, Mom and Dad in background ignoring him/her. Cut 2: Child excitedly opening package. Cut 3: Mom and Dad laughing and playing with no-longer-lonely child.
I can just picture the child psychologist at the ad agency getting a woody imagining all the miserable children that will obsess over the latest ad.
> Getting it onto my linux box, now.. there's the rub
So don't put it on Linux. Set up a Solaris or Nexenta box. I just did it. I installed a Nexenta server with 1TB of mirrored, checksummed storage in 15 minutes. I wrote it up here http://petertheobald.blogspot.com/ - it was extremely easy. Now all of my computers back up to the Nexenta server. All of my media is on it. I have daily snapshots of everything at almost no cost in disk storage.
It's more likely he apologized to his wife for losing (or should I say 'loosing' - it is Slashdot after all) his cushy high paid job, getting paparazzi following him and his family, becoming infamous as the 'porn politico'... basically ruining their perfect country club lives because he couldn't wait until he got home to look at boobs.
You are stretching the meaning of my post to make a point in your agenda. I think most people understand what I was talking about.
Someone pays their premiums month after month, year after year. The day they get cancer the insurance company finds some technicality in their original application and cancels their insurance. That is wrong. That is immoral and daresay it evil.
If someone submits a claim for something they truly aren't covered for or stops paying their premiums, of course that is different. The insurance company made a deal with it's customers: you pay monthly premiums and we will pay for your medical costs, according to the rules in the policy. Changing the rules later, or hiding loopholes in the rules to renege on upholding their part of the bargain is immoral and unethical, even if it isn't always illegal.
This has nothing to do with "Obama". Corporations doing bad things is much older than the current infatuation with those darn "socialist liberal progressives".
Really smart people with no ethics or morals don't waste their time stealing thousands and risking punishment. They get elected to Congress and steal millions.
In addition, everyone should read Stanley Milgrim's research (the original and some of his newer work). All people are capable of doing good or evil in the right circumstances. If even a SINGLE person says 'no' it breaks the spell of obedience and many more people start saying 'no' as well. A single act has powerful repercussions even if it doesn't seem so at the time.
Every decision is made by a human being. I am tired of "corporations" getting a pass for immoral decisions because they are not people, but imaginary entities. Every corporation is run by people who sit behind a desk and decide what to do.
Every clerk who kills someone by denying them medical coverage is committing an immoral act. The Microsoft exec who decided he could make his quarterly numbers by assisting in mafia-style protection and harassment cons against Russian companies is committing an immoral act.
Never forget that. Don't let it slide. When evil is done, someone made the decision to do it.
My neighbor was a cop. We didn't get along. She had my car towed from in front of my own house more than once. There was nothing I could do. There was no proof she had anything to do with it, but no-one else ever got towed on my street. Other cops didn't want to hear about it, even warned me not to "start trouble" by accusing her.
No, normal folk will have no idea what AMD is and will think, rightly, that it must refer to some magical component inside the computer. They only vaguely know that Intel has something to do with people in clean-room bunny suits.
Obama and Congress will do what their bosses tell them to do. Their bosses are the ones who WROTE the current patent laws. Congress doesn't write laws. Corporate ghost writers write laws and Congress signs them.
The teacher should have de-politicized it and asked the students to make plans for surviving an upcoming zombie apocalypse. As a side benefit many geeks would already have their plans worked out.
A newer model will have actual stealth capabilities. Silent running, dodging from obstacle to obstacle to stay hidden from site, adaptive camouflage. Last minute burst of acceleration with spikes on the front grill. Look out pedestrians!
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F*cking Rulers, How Do They Work?
So we are all going to live along the ribbon of twilight running around the globe sitting in floating "Wall-E" couches to handle the 3x gravity.
Yes, but the loneliness, distance, and lack of exercise has caused space-madness. He calls himself V'Ger now and has gotten really big.
This!
Every user gets his own picture, and coordinate within that picture.
So my password could be Aunt Bertha's left eye and yours could be Megan Fox's umm... freaky thumb.
Enter username. Gets instant feedback that you aren't on a trojan site. Only the real site should know and have a copy of YOUR picture. Then select your secret point on the picture. Don't send the coordinates, but an encrypted or one-way hashed version of the coordinates so an eavesdropper doesn't get any useful information.
Easier to remember than a password.
You might still have "bad passwords" if the user selected a photo with very few obvious points of interest (back to my Megan Fox example).
I thought it was the Amish who couldn't ride the Metro.
Just an FYI: there is usually some gum stuck under the bubble gum machine. You can pull some off and taste it before buying. You're welcome.
I sit in my big swivel chair in the middle of the room looking at a giant projection screen at the front and have a pretty girl in a mini-skirt come up to me with an iPad to sign some workflow forms, all while I bark commands at my friends stationed around the perimeter of the room.
It doesn't get better than this.
They are up and running for now. Expect a bird to drop toast in a critical spot, or an airplane to lose a chunk of blue ice at just the exactly wrong instant, or vibrations from a tunneling gopher to hit just the right frequency to cause sympathetic vibrations in a crucial component and shut it all down. It has happened before and it will happen again. The universe must protect itself from temporal paradox!
Take another look at those plastic doll commercials. The hook is "your mom and dad will stop ignoring you if you have this doll."
Cut 1: Lonely child, Mom and Dad in background ignoring him/her.
Cut 2: Child excitedly opening package.
Cut 3: Mom and Dad laughing and playing with no-longer-lonely child.
I can just picture the child psychologist at the ad agency getting a woody imagining all the miserable children that will obsess over the latest ad.
> Getting it onto my linux box, now.. there's the rub
So don't put it on Linux. Set up a Solaris or Nexenta box. I just did it. I installed a Nexenta server with 1TB of mirrored, checksummed storage in 15 minutes. I wrote it up here http://petertheobald.blogspot.com/ - it was extremely easy. Now all of my computers back up to the Nexenta server. All of my media is on it. I have daily snapshots of everything at almost no cost in disk storage.
This is great. I can't wait to get one. I will carry it in my backpack while I fly around in my jet pack which will be powered by cold fusion.
It's more likely he apologized to his wife for losing (or should I say 'loosing' - it is Slashdot after all) his cushy high paid job, getting paparazzi following him and his family, becoming infamous as the 'porn politico'... basically ruining their perfect country club lives because he couldn't wait until he got home to look at boobs.
You are stretching the meaning of my post to make a point in your agenda.
I think most people understand what I was talking about.
Someone pays their premiums month after month, year after year. The day they get cancer the insurance company finds some technicality in their original application and cancels their insurance. That is wrong. That is immoral and daresay it evil.
If someone submits a claim for something they truly aren't covered for or stops paying their premiums, of course that is different. The insurance company made a deal with it's customers: you pay monthly premiums and we will pay for your medical costs, according to the rules in the policy. Changing the rules later, or hiding loopholes in the rules to renege on upholding their part of the bargain is immoral and unethical, even if it isn't always illegal.
This has nothing to do with "Obama". Corporations doing bad things is much older than the current infatuation with those darn "socialist liberal progressives".
Really smart people with no ethics or morals don't waste their time stealing thousands and risking punishment. They get elected to Congress and steal millions.
Do not mod this 'funny'.
In addition, everyone should read Stanley Milgrim's research (the original and some of his newer work). All people are capable of doing good or evil in the right circumstances. If even a SINGLE person says 'no' it breaks the spell of obedience and many more people start saying 'no' as well. A single act has powerful repercussions even if it doesn't seem so at the time.
Bullshit, bullshit, and more bullshit.
Every decision is made by a human being. I am tired of "corporations" getting a pass for immoral decisions because they are not people, but imaginary entities. Every corporation is run by people who sit behind a desk and decide what to do.
Every clerk who kills someone by denying them medical coverage is committing an immoral act.
The Microsoft exec who decided he could make his quarterly numbers by assisting in mafia-style protection and harassment cons against Russian companies is committing an immoral act.
Never forget that. Don't let it slide. When evil is done, someone made the decision to do it.
> ticking off a neighbor
My neighbor was a cop. We didn't get along. She had my car towed from in front of my own house more than once.
There was nothing I could do. There was no proof she had anything to do with it, but no-one else ever got towed on my street. Other cops didn't want to hear about it, even warned me not to "start trouble" by accusing her.
You must be a riot at parties.
If by "club" you mean Sarlac Pit, then I'm all for it!
No, normal folk will have no idea what AMD is and will think, rightly, that it must refer to some magical component inside the computer.
They only vaguely know that Intel has something to do with people in clean-room bunny suits.
Obama and Congress will do what their bosses tell them to do.
Their bosses are the ones who WROTE the current patent laws. Congress doesn't write laws. Corporate ghost writers write laws and Congress signs them.
The teacher should have de-politicized it and asked the students to make plans for surviving an upcoming zombie apocalypse. As a side benefit many geeks would already have their plans worked out.
A newer model will have actual stealth capabilities. Silent running, dodging from obstacle to obstacle to stay hidden from site, adaptive camouflage. Last minute burst of acceleration with spikes on the front grill. Look out pedestrians!
And they typically have nice big firm chowderbags (you see what I did there?)
> Indeed, these swedish girls deserve a spanking!
I'll be in my bunk.