At least, not under US law. The TM on Coke cans and bottles covers the word Coke when shown in a particular artistic representation, and, arguably, when the word coke is specifically applied, one might say mis-applied, to soft drinks. Mis-applied in as much as soft drinks are not made of coke, or probably ought not to be, coke being a form of mineral coal which has been treated to remove the volatile compounds. A supplier to the blacksmith's trade can print coke on bags of coke without fearing a lawsuit. Were coke not an actual word the Coca-Cola company would have every right to claim it as a unique reference to their product. This is not the case. But they do have skillful lawyers, and lots of money. Stinks, don't it?
I find that there have been enough people and things in my life associable with certain dates that i can cobble together mathematically random passwords that are memorable. F'rinstnce: A married couple who became close friends. I use their nicknames, init caps, separated by a special character or two and prefixed, or postfixed, with the month/year I first met them. The nicknames tend to avoid dictionary cracking, the non-alphanum characters throw something into the mix and the date adds the numeric difficulty. Yet it is easy for me to remember because it is meaningful to me. So, take a pet's name, add to it the year you got it and/or your age at the time, also it's favorite treat linked with some special character. BlackMax72-12&Snausages Effectively random. And you can keep an unencrypted file, or just a notebook, that says Server#1 - BlackMax. Yet it will be unlikely that anyone viewing it will be able to crack your password in any short order. Codes are always more secure than ciphers.
It's not only that Exchange is less secure than other email environments, but the recent Melissa/Explore.zip worms show that MS products draw crackers like shit draws flys (apologies to any crackers out there). You can use the Melissa/Explore.zip fiascos to explain to your PHB why Exchange should not be used in a corporate environment, at least until MS makes the whole Win/Office/Exchange connection less succeptable to what are really pretty straightforwad script hacks.
If you rip out an article and give it to somone to read. After all, you're subverting their carefully laid out frontmatter, which consists of any number of really expensive ads which their advertisers have every right to expect you to read. Extrapolating, will periodicals in e-book form force you to scroll through pages of ad-crap before you get to read the articles? Perhaps there is something to be said for paper, after all.
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At least, not under US law. The TM on Coke cans and bottles covers the word Coke when shown in a particular artistic representation, and, arguably, when the word coke is specifically applied, one might say mis-applied, to soft drinks. Mis-applied in as much as soft drinks are not made of coke, or probably ought not to be, coke being a form of mineral coal which has been treated to remove the volatile compounds. A supplier to the blacksmith's trade can print coke on bags of coke without fearing a lawsuit.
Were coke not an actual word the Coca-Cola company would have every right to claim it as a unique reference to their product. This is not the case.
But they do have skillful lawyers, and lots of money.
Stinks, don't it?
I find that there have been enough people and things in my life associable with certain dates that i can cobble together mathematically random passwords that are memorable.
F'rinstnce:
A married couple who became close friends. I use their nicknames, init caps, separated by a special character or two and prefixed, or postfixed, with the month/year I first met them. The nicknames tend to avoid dictionary cracking, the non-alphanum characters throw something into the mix and the date adds the numeric difficulty. Yet it is easy for me to remember because it is meaningful to me.
So, take a pet's name, add to it the year you got it and/or your age at the time, also it's favorite treat linked with some special character.
BlackMax72-12&Snausages
Effectively random.
And you can keep an unencrypted file, or just a notebook, that says Server#1 - BlackMax. Yet it will be unlikely that anyone viewing it will be able to crack your password in any short order.
Codes are always more secure than ciphers.
It's not only that Exchange is less secure than other email environments, but the recent Melissa/Explore.zip worms show that MS products draw crackers like shit draws flys (apologies to any crackers out there). You can use the Melissa/Explore.zip fiascos to explain to your PHB why Exchange should not be used in a corporate environment, at least until MS makes the whole Win/Office/Exchange connection less succeptable to what are really pretty straightforwad script hacks.
If you rip out an article and give it to somone to read. After all, you're subverting their carefully laid out frontmatter, which consists of any number of really expensive ads which their advertisers have every right to expect you to read.
Extrapolating, will periodicals in e-book form force you to scroll through pages of ad-crap before you get to read the articles?
Perhaps there is something to be said for paper, after all.
By the look of that big, cushy grip on the side the handheld is designed after the universal comm units from "Earth: Final Conflict."