'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.'
Looks like you're screwed because my luggage password is 5 digits long, but all digits are numbers in a sequential order starting with one. Ha ha!
Quite honestly, I am still slowly upgrading my hardware ever since I put XP on my comp over a year ago, and it still isn't running a smooth as XP should. And I built this rig not more than two years ago!
I have no desire to get Vista. Why would I? What will it have that XP can not do already for me? Espcially if I'm gonna have to build a new comp altogether. No, I just can't justify that kinda money cause it's new.
In the interview offer letter to ESR, M$ was kind enough to include a link to their HR schedule. Feel free to log in and schedule yourself and interview with M$, or just chat with a recruiter!
I hate crap like that. Scientific America had a great article a while back that explains this just as well as I ever could. Here, I found a copy of the article (Scientific America wants you to reg to read the original on their site):
"1. Evolution is only a theory. It is not a fact or a scientific law.
Many people learned in elementary school that a theory falls in the middle of a hierarchy of certainty--above a mere hypothesis but below a law. Scientists do not use the terms that way, however. According to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), a scientific theory is "a well-substantiated explanation of some aspect of the natural world that can incorporate facts, laws, inferences, and tested hypotheses." No amount of validation changes a theory into a law, which is a descriptive generalization about nature. So when scientists talk about the theory of evolution--or the atomic theory or the theory of relativity, for that matter--they are not expressing reservations about its truth."
To be a teacher should require as much education as it does to become a Doctor - possibly more, and they should be paid more, too. The day we see that is the day we see some real advances in society.
Maybe for HS and college, but I doubt I needed a Ph.D. instructor when I was 8y/o and in 3rd grade to teach me cursive writing.
Well, I know mine has bluetooth, but it's 'off' by default. I guess I'm just not sure how a virus would get on my phone to begin with. Like a PC, do you have to actively install it (i.e. detach a view a 'photo') or is it passive and self-propagating?
I'm not sure what OS my phone runs. Is there a list of phone make/models that are effected by these worms? Or is it just any phone that has bluetooth on it? How could one even tell if there was a virus on the phone?
Oh come on, it's nearly impossible to find the URL history! Ctrl-H is a very, very complex cracking method.
Good job. Now you've flagged yourself and the FBI is undoubtedly on its way. Giving away what is most likely a National Secrect! Please don't let them look here.
Or the lifeguards can just pay attention? Isnt that what they are paid for?
I spent the first few years of college as a lifeguard for the city and county. Sure, a lifeguard pays attention, but when the city is short staffed due to the budget and there is 1 lifeguard for, say, every 45 kids at the pool, it's hard to watch them all at the same time.
Combine that with the fact that this is a job where you are paying just a couple bucks more an hour than min. wage to ensure you child does not die. And, like so many other services, parents just treat the city pool like a babysitter.
Honestly, I left because (despite what Baywatch will tell you) it's a reasonably high stress job, for such low pay.
I might look at one kid down in the pool among the 100+ other kids in my section to guard. Is that kid practicing floating? Is he playing dead with his friends? Should I blow my whistle and make a save? Maybe he's just trying new goggles underwater. Do I risk that? What if I'm wrong? Combine that with the fact that IF a child were to die, the parent would sue you and everyone above you all the way to the mayor.
These are the millions of things that go through your mind every few minutes when you are watching a pool. In the 2 years I was there, I only had to save 1 kid. And it was due to parent neglect: a mother let her infant walk into the shallow end of the pool. As soon as the kid tripped in the water, he was no longer able to regain his footing and was floating face down in the pool!) After the end of that season, I traded in my buoy for a keyboard.
So it's not always as clear as to "just look at the water."
"I find it very ironic to be flamed by anyone who thinks I'm an idiot for not believing in a theory that's never been proven by scientific process."
I hate crap like that. Scientific America had a great article a while back that explains this just as well as I ever could. Here, I found a copy of the article (Scientific America wants you to reg to read the original on their site):
"1. Evolution is only a theory. It is not a fact or a scientific law.
Many people learned in elementary school that a theory falls in the middle of a hierarchy of certainty--above a mere hypothesis but below a law. Scientists do not use the terms that way, however. According to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), a scientific theory is "a well-substantiated explanation of some aspect of the natural world that can incorporate facts, laws, inferences, and tested hypotheses." No amount of validation changes a theory into a law, which is a descriptive generalization about nature. So when scientists talk about the theory of evolution--or the atomic theory or the theory of relativity, for that matter--they are not expressing reservations about its truth."
I was working at CompUSA when Windows 95 came out. One of the Mac guys gave me a button, that I still have. I still find it to be accurate.
That's surprising from a company that nowadays seems to have the least knowledgeable employees on the planet (well Fry's is close too). Last time I went to a CompUSA, I was out of town fixing a friends comp who needed a processor fan.
When I entered the store, a clerk approached me and asked if he could help. I said, "Sure. I need a processor fan." To which he replied, "No problem. Is that hardware or software?"
"How dare google make better offers for top quality programmers! Who am I gonna hire at 10$ an hour with no overtime for 80 hours a week?!? Google is Evil!"
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But old awps. You know, the ones that did the 'one shot, one kill' deal. Not this half damage stuff. No sir!
I'm not sure what huge features Vista is supposed to offer people,
What, draining your system resources isn't a feature anymore? After all, XP is too kind to my RAM.
That's like critiquing next year's pop bands today.
Yeah, and just like the new software, we know they'll suck.
Seems to be the classic 'sleep with the devil' scenario. The problem occurs when the hackers, over time, want more than you want give/barter with.
Someone get this guy a Netfilx subscription.
'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.'
Looks like you're screwed because my luggage password is 5 digits long, but all digits are numbers in a sequential order starting with one. Ha ha!
TV Tome is to t.v. what IMDB is to movies.
Quite honestly, I am still slowly upgrading my hardware ever since I put XP on my comp over a year ago, and it still isn't running a smooth as XP should. And I built this rig not more than two years ago!
I have no desire to get Vista. Why would I? What will it have that XP can not do already for me? Espcially if I'm gonna have to build a new comp altogether. No, I just can't justify that kinda money cause it's new.
In the interview offer letter to ESR, M$ was kind enough to include a link to their HR schedule. Feel free to log in and schedule yourself and interview with M$, or just chat with a recruiter!
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http://www.appointmentquest.com/provider/20102249
Evolution is nothing but a theory.
k disclaimers/wackononsense.pdf
E C-7D5B-1D07-8E49809EC588EEDF&sc=I100322
And again....
I hate crap like that. Scientific America had a great article a while back that explains this just as well as I ever could. Here, I found a copy of the article (Scientific America wants you to reg to read the original on their site):
"1. Evolution is only a theory. It is not a fact or a scientific law.
Many people learned in elementary school that a theory falls in the middle of a hierarchy of certainty--above a mere hypothesis but below a law. Scientists do not use the terms that way, however. According to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), a scientific theory is "a well-substantiated explanation of some aspect of the natural world that can incorporate facts, laws, inferences, and tested hypotheses." No amount of validation changes a theory into a law, which is a descriptive generalization about nature. So when scientists talk about the theory of evolution--or the atomic theory or the theory of relativity, for that matter--they are not expressing reservations about its truth."
PDF version: http://www.swarthmore.edu/NatSci/cpurrin1/textboo
Original: http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=000D4F
To be a teacher should require as much education as it does to become a Doctor - possibly more, and they should be paid more, too. The day we see that is the day we see some real advances in society.
Maybe for HS and college, but I doubt I needed a Ph.D. instructor when I was 8y/o and in 3rd grade to teach me cursive writing.
I wasn't aware that using an alternative operating system and/or browser was considered a disability.
If that is true, can I get a handicap parking sticker?
Well, I know mine has bluetooth, but it's 'off' by default. I guess I'm just not sure how a virus would get on my phone to begin with. Like a PC, do you have to actively install it (i.e. detach a view a 'photo') or is it passive and self-propagating?
I'm not sure what OS my phone runs. Is there a list of phone make/models that are effected by these worms? Or is it just any phone that has bluetooth on it? How could one even tell if there was a virus on the phone?
Gatta love the understatement of the week on his blog:
/ 08/27/
http://www.livejournal.com/users/interdictor/2005
If only they knew then...
Oh come on, it's nearly impossible to find the URL history! Ctrl-H is a very, very complex cracking method.
Good job. Now you've flagged yourself and the FBI is undoubtedly on its way. Giving away what is most likely a National Secrect! Please don't let them look here.
Or the lifeguards can just pay attention? Isnt that what they are paid for?
I spent the first few years of college as a lifeguard for the city and county. Sure, a lifeguard pays attention, but when the city is short staffed due to the budget and there is 1 lifeguard for, say, every 45 kids at the pool, it's hard to watch them all at the same time.
Combine that with the fact that this is a job where you are paying just a couple bucks more an hour than min. wage to ensure you child does not die. And, like so many other services, parents just treat the city pool like a babysitter.
Honestly, I left because (despite what Baywatch will tell you) it's a reasonably high stress job, for such low pay.
I might look at one kid down in the pool among the 100+ other kids in my section to guard. Is that kid practicing floating? Is he playing dead with his friends? Should I blow my whistle and make a save? Maybe he's just trying new goggles underwater. Do I risk that? What if I'm wrong? Combine that with the fact that IF a child were to die, the parent would sue you and everyone above you all the way to the mayor.
These are the millions of things that go through your mind every few minutes when you are watching a pool. In the 2 years I was there, I only had to save 1 kid. And it was due to parent neglect: a mother let her infant walk into the shallow end of the pool. As soon as the kid tripped in the water, he was no longer able to regain his footing and was floating face down in the pool!) After the end of that season, I traded in my buoy for a keyboard.
So it's not always as clear as to "just look at the water."
"I find it very ironic to be flamed by anyone who thinks I'm an idiot for not believing in a theory that's never been proven by scientific process."
k disclaimers/wackononsense.pdf
E C-7D5B-1D07-8E49809EC588EEDF
I hate crap like that. Scientific America had a great article a while back that explains this just as well as I ever could. Here, I found a copy of the article (Scientific America wants you to reg to read the original on their site):
"1. Evolution is only a theory. It is not a fact or a scientific law.
Many people learned in elementary school that a theory falls in the middle of a hierarchy of certainty--above a mere hypothesis but below a law. Scientists do not use the terms that way, however. According to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), a scientific theory is "a well-substantiated explanation of some aspect of the natural world that can incorporate facts, laws, inferences, and tested hypotheses." No amount of validation changes a theory into a law, which is a descriptive generalization about nature. So when scientists talk about the theory of evolution--or the atomic theory or the theory of relativity, for that matter--they are not expressing reservations about its truth."
PDF version: http://www.swarthmore.edu/NatSci/cpurrin1/textboo
Original: http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=000D4F
Enjoy! (flame on)
He had taken two one-night classes on programming.
There goes my Plan B.
I was working at CompUSA when Windows 95 came out. One of the Mac guys gave me a button, that I still have. I still find it to be accurate.
That's surprising from a company that nowadays seems to have the least knowledgeable employees on the planet (well Fry's is close too). Last time I went to a CompUSA, I was out of town fixing a friends comp who needed a processor fan.
When I entered the store, a clerk approached me and asked if he could help. I said, "Sure. I need a processor fan." To which he replied, "No problem. Is that hardware or software?"
I shoulda asked to see the software fan.
"How dare google make better offers for top quality programmers! Who am I gonna hire at 10$ an hour with no overtime for 80 hours a week?!? Google is Evil!"
I didn't know my manager read slashdot!!
Here in South Dakota, every school - yes, every school - is tied into a state-run network
Really? Both schools?
"Quick! To the Applejet!"
Everyone knows it's an iJet. And I bet it even has a spiffy iPod cradle built in!
...if we had a Beowulf Cluster of states doing this!
Man I wish I had mod points! Thanks for making me laugh.