Judging by your spelling and grammar I would assume that either you are a Korean who studied engineering at MIT or something, or a piece of trailer trash that considers community college to be "nerd college".
Until someone post something very incriminating using your account on one of these sites and has the police knocking at your door. For the lulz, of course. Prove your innocence.
I doubt those 30 people using the password "writerspace" for writerspace.com use the same password for facebook or their email.
No you're right, they probably use "facebook" for facebook, and "hotmail" for hotmail. The whole point is that once you identify a user name that uses this type of weak password, you go from astronomical odds of being able to crack to a few dozen possibilities.
And just because you don't use a custom password based on the type of site doesn't mean that others don't. I've heard of people who have a base key that they use for their passwords - say "Camaro" for simplicity's sake. Then, for slashdot their password may be "Camslasharo" and for facebook "Camfacebookaro" "Camgmailaro" etc.
Doesn't matter. A "key generation algorithm" simple enough for a person to remember or work out logically is simple enough to guess at - at least far simpler than the number of combinations possible with a truly random password. The point is that if you have identified that person as an algorithm user it will only take a few attempts at brute-forcing the algorithm. What's more, once you've proven that they are consistent and follow a pattern across online services, you suddenly have access to all their online data.
Time to bring out draconian legislation that hits spammers where it hurts - go after the idiots who respond to spam, just like they go after the "johns" that try to pick up prostitutes... a few ads in the local paper saying that John Q Neighbor was trying to buy v14gr4 or an online degree should really help.
If you think that taking vitamins ensures you never get an infection, please return your medical degree to the online university that sold it to you. While nutritional deficiencies can be one of MANY contributing factors leading to a depressed immune system, they are by no means the only nor the most important factor. And as an aside, if Vitamin C actually did anything to help the common cold surely there would be no more colds given the global abundance of Vitamin C containing cold symptom products.
Factually wrong? The pax romana was all about making friends, was it? And there is no pax americana happening right now, which China being told what to do with their yuan (by the way - they don't have to listen anymore), etc. The G8/G20 meetings, which are always held behind closed doors, are where the US goes to be told what to do by the rest of the world, is it? Have you even asked yourself why NATO is bombing the crap out of Libya but not Yemen or Syria? It has nothing to do with Kaddafi being very vocal about dropping the US dollar and asking for his oil to be paid for in gold, right?
Gold is a horrible system that create a lot of economic instability; which is why we don't use it. Well, we do, but it's really complex.
Too complex for you to understand, apparently. Economic instability is the hallmark of every economy - based on gold or otherwise. It's something that comes with humans, corruption and greed, not something inherent in the means of exchange. However it's a lot harder to create gold out of thin air than paper currency where all you need to do is add more zeroes.
You seem to fail to understand what is happening in the world around you. I hope you have useful skills, because the "Arab spring" (which has nothing to do with Arabs and everything to do with unequal distribution of wealth and corrupt government) will be coming to a civilized country near you soon. As soon as Bernanke is done destroying the dollar, in fact. This stuff happens. Albania. Argentina. Greece. Wait. The "Osama effect" is holding back crude for now, but when the world realizes that the US is still hell-bent on a foreign policy of "war without end while recklessly spending at home" financed by the rest of the world, the dollar will resume its plunge.
Oh I doubt it too - I was merely addressing the decomposition aspect of the argument. But I guess technology marches on, and like another poster said, I'm sure some sort of weights were attached to his body (apart from the lead/brass it already contained) to prevent him washing up on a beach somewhere.
You know I think that you actually believe that. Er for a currency to have any value, people have to accept it as a medium of exchange. This can be done by sticking a gun or some other weapon to people's heads, like the Romans used to do and like the Americans are doing now, or through time honored tradition like gold. Because bitcoin is only accepted by nerds who see value in running 10 GPU's for hours on end mining for bitcoin, it may be acceptable nerd currency. Its value in the real world, however, is exactly zero.
Yeah because traditional referendums don't rely on corporations to print their ballots, corporations to make the voting booths, corporations to make the buildings the process happens in, the chairs people sit on, the transport people use to get to the polls, etc.
The more you tax, the less you get. Apparently all the US government gets to have is 18%. No matter what the official tax rates are. I wonder what the figure is for the UK, but there has to be some equilibrium point where people who are already finding ways to evade tax will simply get even more creative. What does happen, however, is that law becomes more oppressive.
I'm sorry I don't see the connection between "criminal" CEOs, bankers and government officials, and EVE Online, magnets.com and Minecraft. Please elaborate.
Oh I gave up on the internet for intellectual stimulation a long time ago. Now I just do it for myself - I guess it could be considered a kind of journalling so that I can keep a grip on my own sanity. There are many other smart people out there, but they are usually drowned out by the rest of the bell curve. I figure I've made my contribution to science and humanity in my published work, the rest is trolling for my own personal fun.
I'd say that's pretty interesting (and telling) itself.
Yes, if anything it proves my point. Powerful arguments have absolutely no basis in "reason". If we say that history was written by people who make powerful arguments, and reason has nothing to do with powerful arguments, then there is no evolutionary selection for "reason" at all, which flies into the face if this research.
As for my intelligence, well I took a supervised Mensa test and scored 160, I have a doctorate and a few other degrees, and am highly skilled in several fields. Not quite the Sheldon Cooper but getting there. Of course none of this can be proven over the internet, but it's not like I give a shit anyway. I could just be trolling for fun.
Researchers are blinded by their above average intelligence into thinking that other people respond to "reason".
Arguments are won by the person(s) with the loudest voices, and failing that - the biggest sticks. This is called "politics", but it also travels under other guises like "religion", "nationalism", "sports fanaticism", etc. If you want evidence you merely have to look at human history, or even current events in Libya, Syria, Afghanistan, etc. A lot of "reasoning" is going on there.
If you want a good insight into how the human brain works and responds to arguments, I suggest reading the first few chapters of Mein Kampf. No, not all the stupid babble about the superior German race and the Jew Hate, but the first few chapters take a powerful, honest and insightful exploration as to what we humans really are and how we "reason".
Besides, EVE has been hosted from the UK for a few years now. Still the UK has some pretty tough anti-hacking laws. These guys had better be behind 7 proxies.
Yes, the FCC has jurisdiction outside the US. Guess where I live, dipshit. Global company. Global internet. Not everyone you talk to here is from your neighborhood, Billy-Bob. Blah blah blah blah typical Americentric rant blah blah.
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That was back when copyright infringement was a civil issue not a criminal one. AFAIK you don't get extradited for civil disputes.
Judging by your spelling and grammar I would assume that either you are a Korean who studied engineering at MIT or something, or a piece of trailer trash that considers community college to be "nerd college".
Until someone post something very incriminating using your account on one of these sites and has the police knocking at your door. For the lulz, of course. Prove your innocence.
I'm guessing one participant was a librarian?
If that was the case, then the password would be "Ook.". Sorry if you're not a Terry Pratchett fan, you just won't get this.
I doubt those 30 people using the password "writerspace" for writerspace.com use the same password for facebook or their email.
No you're right, they probably use "facebook" for facebook, and "hotmail" for hotmail. The whole point is that once you identify a user name that uses this type of weak password, you go from astronomical odds of being able to crack to a few dozen possibilities.
And just because you don't use a custom password based on the type of site doesn't mean that others don't. I've heard of people who have a base key that they use for their passwords - say "Camaro" for simplicity's sake. Then, for slashdot their password may be "Camslasharo" and for facebook "Camfacebookaro" "Camgmailaro" etc.
Doesn't matter. A "key generation algorithm" simple enough for a person to remember or work out logically is simple enough to guess at - at least far simpler than the number of combinations possible with a truly random password. The point is that if you have identified that person as an algorithm user it will only take a few attempts at brute-forcing the algorithm. What's more, once you've proven that they are consistent and follow a pattern across online services, you suddenly have access to all their online data.
a significant dent in spam traffic for a month.
A month.
Time to bring out draconian legislation that hits spammers where it hurts - go after the idiots who respond to spam, just like they go after the "johns" that try to pick up prostitutes... a few ads in the local paper saying that John Q Neighbor was trying to buy v14gr4 or an online degree should really help.
I hope you don't think I was being serious.
Fuck, sometimes I can't even solve it after 3 or 4 tries.
If you think that taking vitamins ensures you never get an infection, please return your medical degree to the online university that sold it to you. While nutritional deficiencies can be one of MANY contributing factors leading to a depressed immune system, they are by no means the only nor the most important factor. And as an aside, if Vitamin C actually did anything to help the common cold surely there would be no more colds given the global abundance of Vitamin C containing cold symptom products.
Factually wrong? The pax romana was all about making friends, was it? And there is no pax americana happening right now, which China being told what to do with their yuan (by the way - they don't have to listen anymore), etc. The G8/G20 meetings, which are always held behind closed doors, are where the US goes to be told what to do by the rest of the world, is it? Have you even asked yourself why NATO is bombing the crap out of Libya but not Yemen or Syria? It has nothing to do with Kaddafi being very vocal about dropping the US dollar and asking for his oil to be paid for in gold, right?
Gold is a horrible system that create a lot of economic instability; which is why we don't use it. Well, we do, but it's really complex.
Too complex for you to understand, apparently. Economic instability is the hallmark of every economy - based on gold or otherwise. It's something that comes with humans, corruption and greed, not something inherent in the means of exchange. However it's a lot harder to create gold out of thin air than paper currency where all you need to do is add more zeroes.
You seem to fail to understand what is happening in the world around you. I hope you have useful skills, because the "Arab spring" (which has nothing to do with Arabs and everything to do with unequal distribution of wealth and corrupt government) will be coming to a civilized country near you soon. As soon as Bernanke is done destroying the dollar, in fact. This stuff happens. Albania. Argentina. Greece. Wait. The "Osama effect" is holding back crude for now, but when the world realizes that the US is still hell-bent on a foreign policy of "war without end while recklessly spending at home" financed by the rest of the world, the dollar will resume its plunge.
Actually considering what I just wrote, his washing up on a beach would be his last act of terrorism, no? :)
Oh I doubt it too - I was merely addressing the decomposition aspect of the argument. But I guess technology marches on, and like another poster said, I'm sure some sort of weights were attached to his body (apart from the lead/brass it already contained) to prevent him washing up on a beach somewhere.
Not if they are deep enough. The water is pretty cold down there. Look up the state of the bodies for Air France 447 after 2 years in the water...
(their coins were made of silver/gold) and almost no government uses the gold standard...Large scale fiat currency has only been used for ~50 years.
Sometimes I wonder why I even bother. What was that quote? "The gods themselves struggle in vain against fools"? Something like that.
You can drop the anti-American rhetoric.
No, I won't. America has earned it, and continues to earn it.
You know I think that you actually believe that. Er for a currency to have any value, people have to accept it as a medium of exchange. This can be done by sticking a gun or some other weapon to people's heads, like the Romans used to do and like the Americans are doing now, or through time honored tradition like gold. Because bitcoin is only accepted by nerds who see value in running 10 GPU's for hours on end mining for bitcoin, it may be acceptable nerd currency. Its value in the real world, however, is exactly zero.
Report to the soldiers in the tank that is just down the road from your house.
Yeah because traditional referendums don't rely on corporations to print their ballots, corporations to make the voting booths, corporations to make the buildings the process happens in, the chairs people sit on, the transport people use to get to the polls, etc.
Tax avoidance =/= tax evasion. Yeah it's just a word, but words are important because they convey meaning.
The more you tax, the less you get. Apparently all the US government gets to have is 18%. No matter what the official tax rates are. I wonder what the figure is for the UK, but there has to be some equilibrium point where people who are already finding ways to evade tax will simply get even more creative. What does happen, however, is that law becomes more oppressive.
I'm sorry I don't see the connection between "criminal" CEOs, bankers and government officials, and EVE Online, magnets.com and Minecraft. Please elaborate.
Oh I gave up on the internet for intellectual stimulation a long time ago. Now I just do it for myself - I guess it could be considered a kind of journalling so that I can keep a grip on my own sanity. There are many other smart people out there, but they are usually drowned out by the rest of the bell curve. I figure I've made my contribution to science and humanity in my published work, the rest is trolling for my own personal fun.
I'd say that's pretty interesting (and telling) itself.
Yes, if anything it proves my point. Powerful arguments have absolutely no basis in "reason". If we say that history was written by people who make powerful arguments, and reason has nothing to do with powerful arguments, then there is no evolutionary selection for "reason" at all, which flies into the face if this research.
As for my intelligence, well I took a supervised Mensa test and scored 160, I have a doctorate and a few other degrees, and am highly skilled in several fields. Not quite the Sheldon Cooper but getting there. Of course none of this can be proven over the internet, but it's not like I give a shit anyway. I could just be trolling for fun.
Researchers are blinded by their above average intelligence into thinking that other people respond to "reason".
Arguments are won by the person(s) with the loudest voices, and failing that - the biggest sticks. This is called "politics", but it also travels under other guises like "religion", "nationalism", "sports fanaticism", etc. If you want evidence you merely have to look at human history, or even current events in Libya, Syria, Afghanistan, etc. A lot of "reasoning" is going on there.
If you want a good insight into how the human brain works and responds to arguments, I suggest reading the first few chapters of Mein Kampf. No, not all the stupid babble about the superior German race and the Jew Hate, but the first few chapters take a powerful, honest and insightful exploration as to what we humans really are and how we "reason".
Besides, EVE has been hosted from the UK for a few years now. Still the UK has some pretty tough anti-hacking laws. These guys had better be behind 7 proxies.
fill out a complaint form with the FCC,
Yes, the FCC has jurisdiction outside the US. Guess where I live, dipshit. Global company. Global internet. Not everyone you talk to here is from your neighborhood, Billy-Bob. Blah blah blah blah typical Americentric rant blah blah.
For the lulz.