> It goes into the password expiration paradigm as well, pointing out that if > someone steals your house key, they're not going to give you time to change > the locks; they're breaking in immediately.
Not likely. Perhaps if they pick it out of my pocket as I am getting in the car to go to work they will walk straight up to the house and let themselves in (BTW it isn't breaking if they have a key). Far more likely, though, it will take days or weeks to figure out what the key fits, get it into the hands of someone able (and willing) to try using it, and for me to be away from the house at night so that they have a safe opportunity.
If your password is written down in a little black book in your wallet, your wallet is stolen, and you go to IT the next day, report it, and get a new password, it is very unlikely that it will have been used in the interim. In fact, it is very unlikely that the thief will ever attempt to use it or even figure out what it is.
Please cite some incidents traceable to the writing down of passwords.
IMHO users should be instructed to write their passwords down in a little black book and to keep that book in their wallets with their money and credit cards. The company should issue the book and teach the employees how to record passwords in it, how to keep it secure, and what to do if it is stolen or lost.
> This is what the greedy slimy pathetic leechy bloodsucking parasitic vomit- > inducing bastards that these corporations are......semi-private ventures in which your governments are by far the largest (more than 25%) shareholders.
> Mac applications (and iPhone ones) when they are properly made, are single > files (actually a folder, but not to the user) that handles everything you > need.
Why should the user have to deal with a "folder"? With a package manager you just select the package and click install.
> You dont have to worry about dependencies.
Package managers take care of all dependencies.
> When you want to get rid of it you just throw it out.
With a package manager you just select the package and click uninstall. No need to figure out which "folder" to delete.
> I'm wondering about all the disabled people with only one eye. If all movies > move to this format they will not be able to even watch a decent movie > anymore.
Why? They should see just what you would with one eye closed.
> Something like "Opt-in cellphone data shows that pesticide levels are higher > than we initial thought in homes" or "people who were around this brand of > housepaint were more likely to develop cancer."
These are simple sensors for specific chemicals, not high-sensitivity combination gas chromatograph/mass spctrometers. There will be a short list of specific chemicals that they will detect at high levels. They are not going to measure pesticide levels or identify paint brands.
Ten or twenty years from now, however, they will be complete labs-on-a-chip and will detect and report cannabis, cocaine, tobacco, explosives, etc. These capabilities will, of course, be added gradually after the basic "poison gas alarm" system has been accepted and the technology improves.
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> ...an 8 character random string with alpha and numerical characters, no
> runs, no common words, and no repeats.
That is not a random string.
> It goes into the password expiration paradigm as well, pointing out that if
> someone steals your house key, they're not going to give you time to change
> the locks; they're breaking in immediately.
Not likely. Perhaps if they pick it out of my pocket as I am getting in the car to go to work they will walk straight up to the house and let themselves in (BTW it isn't breaking if they have a key). Far more likely, though, it will take days or weeks to figure out what the key fits, get it into the hands of someone able (and willing) to try using it, and for me to be away from the house at night so that they have a safe opportunity.
If your password is written down in a little black book in your wallet, your wallet is stolen, and you go to IT the next day, report it, and get a new password, it is very unlikely that it will have been used in the interim. In fact, it is very unlikely that the thief will ever attempt to use it or even figure out what it is.
Please cite some incidents traceable to the writing down of passwords.
IMHO users should be instructed to write their passwords down in a little black book and to keep that book in their wallets with their money and credit cards. The company should issue the book and teach the employees how to record passwords in it, how to keep it secure, and what to do if it is stolen or lost.
Which is it? One place the article says one, another it says the other. They are not the same thing.
> Such firmware can be written for any codec.
But not distributed without paying royalties to the patent owners.
> Codec design... ...is patented.
> From the telecom's point of view, it's a neat trick if they can pull it off.
Well, given that the "regulators" are also their largest shareholders...
> This is what the greedy slimy pathetic leechy bloodsucking parasitic vomit- ...semi-private ventures in which your governments are by far the largest (more than 25%) shareholders.
> inducing bastards that these corporations are...
The Federal courts didn't "kill net neutrality". They told the FCC that it must follow the law and not make rules in secret.
> If those 800lb gorillas decided to depeer Google...
Google will depeer them. Google owns a lot of fiber.
> ...a country's leaders thinking they can regulate the internet...
The Chinese government has demonstrated that they can.
> Why would google have this for free...
They don't. They pay in kind. Look up "peering".
Um, yes. That's what they are.
> Law enforcement shouldn't be a for-profit thing.
Traffic tickets have always been a for-profit thing. Hiring a contractor to handle part of the work is not a fundamental change.
The photos don't show who was driving the car.
> Mac applications (and iPhone ones) when they are properly made, are single
> files (actually a folder, but not to the user) that handles everything you
> need.
Why should the user have to deal with a "folder"? With a package manager you just select the package and click install.
> You dont have to worry about dependencies.
Package managers take care of all dependencies.
> When you want to get rid of it you just throw it out.
With a package manager you just select the package and click uninstall. No need to figure out which "folder" to delete.
Perhaps you should read the article.
Where the hell did you get the "second-degree burns" from?
> ...changed our core values...
Nothing has changed.
> Would the shredded money from from the federal reserve have the same effect?
Buy it, stuff matresses with it, and sell them via Sharper Image.
> When I used to run marathons, I would've maybe wanted to be reminded of
> money first.
But that would've reduced the pain! What runner would want that? Isn't pain what it's all about?
> I'm wondering about all the disabled people with only one eye. If all movies
> move to this format they will not be able to even watch a decent movie
> anymore.
Why? They should see just what you would with one eye closed.
> 3D movies take great conscious effort...
Watching them might be useful exercise for you.
> What's next?
Well, you are certainly safe from plot, characterization, dialog, creativity, and originality.
> Something like "Opt-in cellphone data shows that pesticide levels are higher
> than we initial thought in homes" or "people who were around this brand of
> housepaint were more likely to develop cancer."
These are simple sensors for specific chemicals, not high-sensitivity combination gas chromatograph/mass spctrometers. There will be a short list of specific chemicals that they will detect at high levels. They are not going to measure pesticide levels or identify paint brands.
Ten or twenty years from now, however, they will be complete labs-on-a-chip and will detect and report cannabis, cocaine, tobacco, explosives, etc. These capabilities will, of course, be added gradually after the basic "poison gas alarm" system has been accepted and the technology improves.