The longer and more complex it is, the more likely it is to be written down on a post it stuck to the side of the monitor. Especially if you have multiple passwords on different change cycles. "Must have a capital letter, special character, number, be at least 8 characters long, and change every 3 months" is probably, in the long run, no more secure than "must be at least 8 characters long, contain one or more non-alphabetic characters, and change twice a year".
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Same reason it's hard make a good game, period. Game creation is difficult. It has to have a good plot, a fair amount of flexibility in the plot, good graphics, good AI, and be fun to play. This all requires a large amount of creativity.
It also has to be delivered on-time and on-budget.
Most of my end-users are as well. We're unhappy with 'doesn't work' and especially with 'fails randomly, in interesting and unrepeatable ways'. Sure, most software sucks on some level. The users want it fast, cheap, and working (choose any two), the programmers (including me) want it to work excellently. The stuff that ships is a compromise between 'works' and 'insanely great', the level of compromise defined by budgeting and timelines.
"I think the fastest way to end the format^w Iraq war is through decisiveness and strength," said Bob Chapek ^w^w George W. Bush, the president of Buena Vista Worldwide Entertainment ^w^w^w^w The US,
Which is what Skype does. Have you considered leveraging p2p algorithms such as bittorrent for this application?
Of course, you still need a 'supernode',which can be blocked, that the censored can connect to in order to get the list of proxies. Hmmm.
Need multiple paths to get to the supernodes. Maybe sending IP addresses via e-mail, IM, and other means? Which require some savvy on the part of the censored to use.
A "public" e-mail account, given to businesses, people who like to cross-post via CC (instead of BCC), places like/., etc. I use Gmail, which does a good bit of spam filtering.
A "private" e-mail account, given only to family and close friends, whit a set of filtering rules to build the whitelist, and everything else run through bayesian filtering.
Between the two, I have to deal with very little spam.
"Windows Vista also introduces..., kernel patch protection, mandatory driver signing..."
So they make it more difficult for new hardware to be developed, and more difficult for hardware hacking in general. Unless you just click "allow this driver to run". That's going to make lots of people who develop non-mass marketed hardware very unhappy.
The kernel patch protection sounds like a good security feature. Unless the server they serve patches from gets compromised, or unless someone finds a way to disable/subvert the client end. Then it's going to be utter hell.
In the US the color broadcasts were (still are, for analog) backwards compatible with b&w TVs. You could watch the color broadcasts, in b&w, on a b&w TV.
One of the big failings of flash memory is the limited number of rewrite cycles. HDs can be rewritten many times without going bad. How many rewrite cycles will this have?
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The one where they open the book to Chapter 7.
The longer and more complex it is, the more likely it is to be written down on a post it stuck to the side of the monitor. Especially if you have multiple passwords on different change cycles. "Must have a capital letter, special character, number, be at least 8 characters long, and change every 3 months" is probably, in the long run, no more secure than "must be at least 8 characters long, contain one or more non-alphabetic characters, and change twice a year".
It also has to be delivered on-time and on-budget.
Most of my end-users are as well. We're unhappy with 'doesn't work' and especially with 'fails randomly, in interesting and unrepeatable ways'. Sure, most software sucks on some level. The users want it fast, cheap, and working (choose any two), the programmers (including me) want it to work excellently. The stuff that ships is a compromise between 'works' and 'insanely great', the level of compromise defined by budgeting and timelines.
That book is actually a pretty good intro to C++. It's how I got my start when I migrated from C about 10 years or so ago.
I've been trying to forget that movie for decades. Sigh. The stupid things we whilst stoned...
And throughout human history.
"I think the fastest way to end the format^w Iraq war is through decisiveness and strength," said Bob Chapek ^w^w George W. Bush, the president of Buena Vista Worldwide Entertainment ^w^w^w^w The US,
IIRC, Dec Alpha, The Sparc, PPC, and x86 were all supported by WinNT. No one bought WinNT for anything other than x86, however.
I seem to recall the name from high school in the early 80's, but I can't recall what he was famous for.
The Whole Internet: User's Guide and Catalog, 1st ed.
Believe me, we tried...
Not an extremely close correlation, true, but it's there.
Pity. One of the more insightful comments on this story.
Then I can do with it what I want. Including give it to someone else.
Of course, you still need a 'supernode',which can be blocked, that the censored can connect to in order to get the list of proxies. Hmmm.
Need multiple paths to get to the supernodes. Maybe sending IP addresses via e-mail, IM, and other means? Which require some savvy on the part of the censored to use.
Tough problem.
It's been going on (with occasional Slashdot posts about it) since the late 90's.
A "private" e-mail account, given only to family and close friends, whit a set of filtering rules to build the whitelist, and everything else run through bayesian filtering.
Between the two, I have to deal with very little spam.
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So they make it more difficult for new hardware to be developed, and more difficult for hardware hacking in general. Unless you just click "allow this driver to run". That's going to make lots of people who develop non-mass marketed hardware very unhappy.
The kernel patch protection sounds like a good security feature. Unless the server they serve patches from gets compromised, or unless someone finds a way to disable/subvert the client end. Then it's going to be utter hell.
and thanks for all the fish!
Digital won't fit in the same bandwidth, so it can't be broadcast on the same frequency.
In the US the color broadcasts were (still are, for analog) backwards compatible with b&w TVs. You could watch the color broadcasts, in b&w, on a b&w TV.
One of the big failings of flash memory is the limited number of rewrite cycles. HDs can be rewritten many times without going bad. How many rewrite cycles will this have?
over lead/acid batteries? Because that's what you've just described. A battery charger.