They should develop password algorithms that lead a user through the steps to making a strong password but using data that he alone is privy to. For instance, make the first two characters your birthday, add some multiple of 100, follow this with the starting letters of the words of a favorite quote, etc. A simple algorithm is easier to remember than a list of random letters and numbers, and if constructed correctly will be just as strong as such a list.
"WwJdJn316" comes from "What would Jesus do?" John 2:16 That is a common series of letters and probably wouldn't be a good one to use, but it illustrates the idea.
By evolving intelligence, we have made it possible to destroy ourselves and many other species, as well. Gives a new meaning to survival of the fittest. Maybe the fittest are the ones less gifted intellectually.
I wouldn't call it just semantics, but I have to wonder whether "evolution" here is a positive trait. With intelligence, we have developed writing, which was the beginning of what he calls our evolution, but we have also developed ways to destroy ourselves without much in the way of preventing our doing so, if many extinct "civilizations" are any indication. Could be a dead end if Iran develops and uses nukes.
Administration Productivity is inversely proportional to the degree of awareness by various users that the network requires human intervention from time to time. 100% productivity = nobody knows that there is an administrator because every thing works as it should transparently, always.
This is analogous to the fable of the farmhand who's claim was "I can sleep when the wind blows," meaning that a sudden windstorm would not find him having anything left without being tied down.
The problem is our educational establishment. It started when we began to require degrees in education to teach, rather than degrees in the subjects to be taught. It continued when parents started pressuring teachers to get their kids' grades raised, instead of pressuring the kids themselves.
I also think that a lot of it is the result of American affluence. Kids grow up without any concern about how they're going to make their way in the world. Related to that, is the spread of the idea that the government owes everybody a living, whether they contribute or not. What real incentive is there these days for students to really study? They don't even teach how to learn in schools these days. They've eliminated all the tools that helped educate generations of students for hundreds of years.
There's been a severe dumbing down of the curricula, as well. Nothing hard or challenging is being taught any more.
The scandal is that some newspapers have been overstating their readership in order to boost drooping ad revenues.
My astigmatism makes it harder to read computer screens than print on paper, but dead tree media is just yesterday's news. It can't compete. It's dead, but just doesn't know it yet.
Maybe. But why should people in offices have to worry about how their computers work? Companies are losing huge amounts of lost time to employees trying to get their computers to work right. Most of them don't realize that when software crashes, it's NOT their fault.
The nuts and bolds of computing should be out of sight from these users. MS came up from computer hobbyists, geeks who like to play with computers. IBM has always been about business.
In the beginning, users had to learn software, as in how to respond to dumb prompts to make it work correctly. We still follow that model, even if the choices are more varied and powerful. It's past time that the software should be able to adapt itself to the user, not the other way around. Just having to know how to type is more than computers should require.
It may not be possible, but it's certainly worth researching.
They seem to think they are bigger than the government. Don't be surprised if they sue anybody who promotes a boycott. We'll see if they really believe in the free market.
From the linked site, it appears that you'd have install different engines and different fuel tanks, probably a whole new plane. I don't think the tech is ready.
Also, we don't have sources for hydrogen capable of delivering the quantities it would take. I understand hydrogen is more difficult to ship than natural gas.
That said, however, hydrogen is not as dangerous as other fuels because it rises. I've read that the people who burned to death in the Hindenburg wreck were covered with diesel fuel. The real hazards were that and the aluminum paint used on the hull.
Do you really think they will care about anybody they don't already have reason to suspect? They have to get a warrant for tapping/decrypting and that won't happen unless they have probable cause.
BTW, there is no "right" to privacy, only a right against unreasonable searches and seizures.
Of course, if you're working for bin Laden, all bets are off.
Who said they were? I don't think anybody wants to kill Afghanistani civilians. More like liberate them from the oppression of the Taliban and get rid of terrorist. If they win, these guys won't be allowing anybody to own or use computers.
The "freedoms" we enjoy also facilitate terrorism and crime. I have nothing against national id cards so long as they are secure enough to prevent counterfeiting. The vast majority of US residents have nothing to fear from them. Only a few really need total encryption, and no law abiding person really needs anonymity, which is not, by the way, a constitutional right.
Privacy is not mentioned in the Constitution. It says "unreasonable searches and seizures." This means that we have the protection of judicial review of search warrants. No wiretapping or decryption can or should occur without a finding by a magistrate that there is probable cause for the intrusion.
This is not Big Brother. Not even close. Big Brother is a bogeyman used to argue for "rights" that don't really exist. Despite the lapses of law enforcement, they are still our defenders against the likes of bin Laden, and they should have our support as they try to smoke out the murderers among us.
Remember, life is the most important civil right. I has been taken from over 6,000 people in one fell swoop by people who were living in our midst.
If I have to choose between relinquishing some privacy and allowing these creeps to continue to lurk among us (and I do), I choose the former.
>This is tantamount to saying (using a American-biased analogy) that if you are going to drive a vehicle, it *must* be manufactured by General Motors. You have no other practical choice.<
It would be more accurate to say that it is as if GM owned all the roads and told people they couldn't drive on them unless they also bought GM's cars. If you drive any other brand, you pay extra.
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They should develop password algorithms that lead a user through the steps to making a strong password but using data that he alone is privy to. For instance, make the first two characters your birthday, add some multiple of 100, follow this with the starting letters of the words of a favorite quote, etc. A simple algorithm is easier to remember than a list of random letters and numbers, and if constructed correctly will be just as strong as such a list.
"WwJdJn316" comes from "What would Jesus do?" John 2:16 That is a common series of letters and probably wouldn't be a good one to use, but it illustrates the idea.
By evolving intelligence, we have made it possible to destroy ourselves and many other species, as well. Gives a new meaning to survival of the fittest. Maybe the fittest are the ones less gifted intellectually.
I wouldn't call it just semantics, but I have to wonder whether "evolution" here is a positive trait. With intelligence, we have developed writing, which was the beginning of what he calls our evolution, but we have also developed ways to destroy ourselves without much in the way of preventing our doing so, if many extinct "civilizations" are any indication. Could be a dead end if Iran develops and uses nukes.
Administration Productivity is inversely proportional to the degree of awareness by various users that the network requires human intervention from time to time. 100% productivity = nobody knows that there is an administrator because every thing works as it should transparently, always.
This is analogous to the fable of the farmhand who's claim was "I can sleep when the wind blows," meaning that a sudden windstorm would not find him having anything left without being tied down.
Seems Orwellian to me. Think of how Oceania's Ministry of Truth could have used this in its rewriting of history.
It seems to be a way to make distortions of the original information less noticable and therefore more esthetic. Is that really what we want?
The problem is our educational establishment. It started when we began to require degrees in education to teach, rather than degrees in the subjects to be taught. It continued when parents started pressuring teachers to get their kids' grades raised, instead of pressuring the kids themselves.
I also think that a lot of it is the result of American affluence. Kids grow up without any concern about how they're going to make their way in the world. Related to that, is the spread of the idea that the government owes everybody a living, whether they contribute or not. What real incentive is there these days for students to really study? They don't even teach how to learn in schools these days. They've eliminated all the tools that helped educate generations of students for hundreds of years.
There's been a severe dumbing down of the curricula, as well. Nothing hard or challenging is being taught any more.
The scandal is that some newspapers have been overstating their readership in order to boost drooping ad revenues.
My astigmatism makes it harder to read computer screens than print on paper, but dead tree media is just yesterday's news. It can't compete. It's dead, but just doesn't know it yet.
Maybe we need a war on MSG--or would that insure that people would keep supplying it.
Microsoft Labs never makes discoveries like this.
Where's the "innovation"?
Wouldn't this involve software that adapts itself? Perhaps even changing its own code? What would that do to the concept of sourcecode or copyrights?
Nope. Somewhere, someone will still have to deal with the nuts and bolts. It should just make programming more interesting.
Or at least a shorter work week.
Maybe. But why should people in offices have to worry about how their computers work? Companies are losing huge amounts of lost time to employees trying to get their computers to work right. Most of them don't realize that when software crashes, it's NOT their fault.
The nuts and bolds of computing should be out of sight from these users. MS came up from computer hobbyists, geeks who like to play with computers. IBM has always been about business.
In the beginning, users had to learn software, as in how to respond to dumb prompts to make it work correctly. We still follow that model, even if the choices are more varied and powerful. It's past time that the software should be able to adapt itself to the user, not the other way around. Just having to know how to type is more than computers should require.
It may not be possible, but it's certainly worth researching.
Yeah, like everything MS and Apple have been promising since they were startups.
IBM, however, is a different animal. They work on stuff like this, while MS develops the X-Box.
"OW, M$'s standard disclaimer should carry
less weight in a leasing situation. "
You think MS'll really accept that? MS will fight anything that makes it liable for its products.
They seem to think they are bigger than the government. Don't be surprised if they sue anybody who promotes a boycott. We'll see if they really believe in the free market.
I wondered about this, also.
From the linked site, it appears that you'd have install different engines and different fuel tanks, probably a whole new plane. I don't think the tech is ready.
Also, we don't have sources for hydrogen capable of delivering the quantities it would take. I understand hydrogen is more difficult to ship than natural gas.
That said, however, hydrogen is not as dangerous as other fuels because it rises. I've read that the people who burned to death in the Hindenburg wreck were covered with diesel fuel. The real hazards were that and the aluminum paint used on the hull.
I think the kind of warfare we're in is not going to be bullet sponge intensive. Mostly support for special ops missions.
It will take a lot of intelligence, which you don't get with the draft. Just the opposite.
Do you really think they will care about anybody they don't already have reason to suspect? They have to get a warrant for tapping/decrypting and that won't happen unless they have probable cause.
BTW, there is no "right" to privacy, only a right against unreasonable searches and seizures.
Of course, if you're working for bin Laden, all bets are off.
Who said they were? I don't think anybody wants to kill Afghanistani civilians. More like liberate them from the oppression of the Taliban and get rid of terrorist. If they win, these guys won't be allowing anybody to own or use computers.
Paranoia is our enemy. You can't avoid it. It's everywhere.
You don't have to love the government to want to save society, unless you aren't part of society.
The "freedoms" we enjoy also facilitate terrorism and crime. I have nothing against national id cards so long as they are secure enough to prevent counterfeiting. The vast majority of US residents have nothing to fear from them. Only a few really need total encryption, and no law abiding person really needs anonymity, which is not, by the way, a constitutional right.
Privacy is not mentioned in the Constitution. It says "unreasonable searches and seizures." This means that we have the protection of judicial review of search warrants. No wiretapping or decryption can or should occur without a finding by a magistrate that there is probable cause for the intrusion.
This is not Big Brother. Not even close. Big Brother is a bogeyman used to argue for "rights" that don't really exist. Despite the lapses of law enforcement, they are still our defenders against the likes of bin Laden, and they should have our support as they try to smoke out the murderers among us.
Remember, life is the most important civil right. I has been taken from over 6,000 people in one fell swoop by people who were living in our midst.
If I have to choose between relinquishing some privacy and allowing these creeps to continue to lurk among us (and I do), I choose the former.
>This is tantamount to saying (using a American-biased analogy) that if you are going to drive a vehicle, it *must* be manufactured by General Motors. You have no other practical choice.<
It would be more accurate to say that it is as if GM owned all the roads and told people they couldn't drive on them unless they also bought GM's cars. If you drive any other brand, you pay extra.
Will Microsoft have visitation rights?
can have bad consequences. Remember the Sorcerer's Apprentice?
I think the decree should order that all of MS' top management go back to school and earn MBA's, even if some of them already have them.
They apparently only know one way to do business and it's illegal.