And why do you think it needs to be a bigger part of your life ?
This is what you are asking for when you demand taxes be raised.
Increasing tax revenue so we can pay down debt does not imply a larger government. Don't make ridiculous implications; it embarrasses us other Americans.
Could be they're using a high-quality ROT13 password-mangler and just reversing the operation for the customer service staff. That way they get the benefit of both worlds, no cleartext passwords and the ability to help customers recover their passwords.
I think one easy way to address these problems is to stop talking about absolute levels of income, but rather percentiles of income. Everyone could get a mailing from the IRS describing where they are on the income scale, and knowledge of this may help create more productive conversations.
And this comes at the same time as The Fed and Chairsatan The Ben Bernank have pretty much destroyed all "safe" investments through manipulation of interest rates, forcing people to turn to the stock market if they want any hope of any kind of significant return on their money...
If safe investments are "destroyed", how come 10-year notes are at an all-time high? If you were in safe investments before Fed made any decision to lower rates, you would be doing great. Why would you decide to go into into safe investments *now*? Buying high, sell low?
Anyways, if your concern is inflation, that's what TIPS and I-Bonds are for.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but assuming we can achieve secure DNS, it becomes much more simple to associate a site's certificate with only the associated domain registrar, instead of the HTTPS equivalent of allowing any registrar to vouch for a certificate.
As other posts have noted, part of the problem is that ANY of the certificate authorities can vouch for a certificate. By keeping the trust path narrow (root->singular registrar->domain) instead of wide (root->all registrars->domain), breaches in trust will have less of an effect.
I don't see any way cameras can be both ineffective and a privacy problem simultaneously.
You're assuming a singular individual. They could be ineffective against one segment of the population, but a privacy problem for another. In particular, they would be ineffective against suspects who know enough to use caps to evade the recognition, but a privacy problem for ordinary citizens who do not use caps.
You might be using the same passphrase to unlock your device as your email account. Or even if it's not the exact same passphrase, it could provide knowledge on your passphrase methodology, which, combined with other data, would reduce the amount of entropy in your secret.
If the loss of your secret would not in any way assist an attack on another vector, sure, you might be fine. But people are human and can only manage so much.
Also, you wouldn't even need to be opening "top secret" documents. If your device has information on you that could grant access through a lost-passphrase "security question" on a website, you need to protect even that.
It's not good to making up your own definition for things. Deficit spending (which you state is always bad) is pretty the same, if not exactly the same, as borrowing (which you imply can be good), assuming the spending is covered by borrowing (as it is in the US).
Furthermore, for a government, running a surplus can be bad, as it could be inefficient allocation of investment.
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Thank you for writing this up. I see it now that a activity is a "desktop settings" configuration. It definitely has power, but I'm curious to see if it's harnessable. I wonder how many people using KDE are aware of this.
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To be honest, after reading your first first paragraph, I'm still having a hard time comprehending it, probably because the idea of an "activity" seems to be an abstraction that I am unfamiliar with. The last sentence "And in that context a virtual desktop becomes just a bit of extra space within an activity" definitely loses me. My gut is that the abstraction of an "activity" is not something that should be exposed to the user. You're going to lose 95% of your audience.
Most users of KDE I've encountered have no idea what those thingies at the top-right corner of their desktop is for. It's certainly not obvious to me, from the terminology chosen, that having different "widgets" for each desktop gives me the ability to have different wallpapers on each (I'm still not sure if widgets == activity).
I'll note I've been using KDE for over 12 years, enjoyed my different backgrounds for each desktop, and until yesterday thought they were gone forever with KDE 4 (and probably were gone for the first few versions of 4). I've seen plenty of other snippets on the web concerning this as well, and the fact that people are *still* complaining about this loss goes to show that the new paradigm is not being presented well.
The concept of Multiple Desktops is obvious, and has real-world parallels. This generic abstraction called an activity...not so much. I'm really curious what the driving force was for this. Abstractions have cost, and I'm not clear what has been gained by this one.
The one thing that's different about the US dollar is that it's what the government accepts for tax payments.
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Thank you for posting this. I'm not sure if you were trying to be sarcastic, but it's certainly non-obvious how to achieve different wallpapers for each desktop.
I've pretty much been coming to a similar conclusion. We should discourage concentration of power in any form, as, as you mention, it has a natural gravity. We have to continually shake things up. It doesn't matter if the power is being concentrated in public (government) or private (corporations) entities -- build-up of either eventually lead to erosion of things we value.
I haven't worked it through entirely, but it seems that our goal is to encourage competition, as this is what drives growth. Free markets are not a goal in themselves, but a means to accomplish competition.
btw, my Google Voice number didn't work at all for this.. had to use my actual mobile #)..
Google voice doesn't work because it doesn't have an SMS gateway. Since I have the same problem, I emailed Facebook and suggested that they consider supporting sending one-time-passwords via email instead of only by SMS. It's almost as secure as receiving an SMS, especially if your email account also has 2-factor security, and doesn't cost a dime.
Why is it so hard to understand that many of us simply do not carry our cell phones all of the time, nor do we want to? Are you guys so obsessed with your phone you never put it down and walk away and can't fathom that other people don't?
Those pesky keys you carry around to get into your house and car are so annoying too! In order to ease your burden, you should consider just leaving your house and care unlocked. It'll be easier on your mind that way.
I sure as hell don't want a cell-phone to be an integral part of logging into my webmail.
It's best to go overboard and require a minimum of 15 characters, a mix of upper and lowercase, at least two non-consecutive numbers and at least two punctuation marks.
You forgot that the password should also have a maximum length of 16 characters.
I'm not sure what site it is, but I'm pretty sure one of them that I need to access requires a 6-8 character password.
You directly asserted that one one shouldn't compare one handset against a thousand, and then went on to talk about one particular Android model. Certainly one can find an Android model ex-post-facto which has had good support (via survivor bias), but the question is how to know to choose which model will be getting that great support apriori.
But normally you can read online reviews and figure it out...
By the time support might be an issue for a particular model and you've been able to verify via reviews the provider is servicing it, it is often the case that the provider has stopped selling it.
This variety in service quality doesn't appear to be an issue for the iPhone line of products.
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Increasing tax revenue so we can pay down debt does not imply a larger government. Don't make ridiculous implications; it embarrasses us other Americans.
Could be they're using a high-quality ROT13 password-mangler and just reversing the operation for the customer service staff. That way they get the benefit of both worlds, no cleartext passwords and the ability to help customers recover their passwords.
I think one easy way to address these problems is to stop talking about absolute levels of income, but rather percentiles of income. Everyone could get a mailing from the IRS describing where they are on the income scale, and knowledge of this may help create more productive conversations.
If safe investments are "destroyed", how come 10-year notes are at an all-time high? If you were in safe investments before Fed made any decision to lower rates, you would be doing great. Why would you decide to go into into safe investments *now*? Buying high, sell low?
Anyways, if your concern is inflation, that's what TIPS and I-Bonds are for.
That's a fairly novel idea that would provide pretty good privacy.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but assuming we can achieve secure DNS, it becomes much more simple to associate a site's certificate with only the associated domain registrar, instead of the HTTPS equivalent of allowing any registrar to vouch for a certificate.
As other posts have noted, part of the problem is that ANY of the certificate authorities can vouch for a certificate. By keeping the trust path narrow (root->singular registrar->domain) instead of wide (root->all registrars->domain), breaches in trust will have less of an effect.
They recently removed the ability for apps to read Gmail in Android, which is very useful for notification/trigger systems.
Due to the Small minus Large premium, randomly choosing stocks has outperformed over the long term. See equal-weighted indexes as an example of this.
You're assuming a singular individual. They could be ineffective against one segment of the population, but a privacy problem for another. In particular, they would be ineffective against suspects who know enough to use caps to evade the recognition, but a privacy problem for ordinary citizens who do not use caps.
You might be using the same passphrase to unlock your device as your email account. Or even if it's not the exact same passphrase, it could provide knowledge on your passphrase methodology, which, combined with other data, would reduce the amount of entropy in your secret.
If the loss of your secret would not in any way assist an attack on another vector, sure, you might be fine. But people are human and can only manage so much.
Also, you wouldn't even need to be opening "top secret" documents. If your device has information on you that could grant access through a lost-passphrase "security question" on a website, you need to protect even that.
Consider attacks involving remove screen capturing and remote keystroke-capturing technology.
I wouldn't want to be viewing or enter any privileged data at such a conference. Simply typing a passphrase could expose you.
It's not good to making up your own definition for things. Deficit spending (which you state is always bad) is pretty the same, if not exactly the same, as borrowing (which you imply can be good), assuming the spending is covered by borrowing (as it is in the US).
Furthermore, for a government, running a surplus can be bad, as it could be inefficient allocation of investment.
Thank you for writing this up. I see it now that a activity is a "desktop settings" configuration. It definitely has power, but I'm curious to see if it's harnessable. I wonder how many people using KDE are aware of this.
To be honest, after reading your first first paragraph, I'm still having a hard time comprehending it, probably because the idea of an "activity" seems to be an abstraction that I am unfamiliar with. The last sentence "And in that context a virtual desktop becomes just a bit of extra space within an activity" definitely loses me. My gut is that the abstraction of an "activity" is not something that should be exposed to the user. You're going to lose 95% of your audience.
Most users of KDE I've encountered have no idea what those thingies at the top-right corner of their desktop is for. It's certainly not obvious to me, from the terminology chosen, that having different "widgets" for each desktop gives me the ability to have different wallpapers on each (I'm still not sure if widgets == activity).
I'll note I've been using KDE for over 12 years, enjoyed my different backgrounds for each desktop, and until yesterday thought they were gone forever with KDE 4 (and probably were gone for the first few versions of 4). I've seen plenty of other snippets on the web concerning this as well, and the fact that people are *still* complaining about this loss goes to show that the new paradigm is not being presented well.
The concept of Multiple Desktops is obvious, and has real-world parallels. This generic abstraction called an activity...not so much. I'm really curious what the driving force was for this. Abstractions have cost, and I'm not clear what has been gained by this one.
The one thing that's different about the US dollar is that it's what the government accepts for tax payments.
Thank you for posting this. I'm not sure if you were trying to be sarcastic, but it's certainly non-obvious how to achieve different wallpapers for each desktop.
I thought the US government spearheaded sharing classified files with the cloud. They just called it Tor over here.
I've pretty much been coming to a similar conclusion. We should discourage concentration of power in any form, as, as you mention, it has a natural gravity. We have to continually shake things up. It doesn't matter if the power is being concentrated in public (government) or private (corporations) entities -- build-up of either eventually lead to erosion of things we value.
I haven't worked it through entirely, but it seems that our goal is to encourage competition, as this is what drives growth. Free markets are not a goal in themselves, but a means to accomplish competition.
I'm pretty sure the rating cannot be legally enforced, that it's up to retailers to enforce.
Google voice doesn't work because it doesn't have an SMS gateway. Since I have the same problem, I emailed Facebook and suggested that they consider supporting sending one-time-passwords via email instead of only by SMS. It's almost as secure as receiving an SMS, especially if your email account also has 2-factor security, and doesn't cost a dime.
If brute-force attacks are inefficient, compromised password files are less dangerous.
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Those pesky keys you carry around to get into your house and car are so annoying too! In order to ease your burden, you should consider just leaving your house and care unlocked. It'll be easier on your mind that way.
It's all about ease of use.
You forgot that the password should also have a maximum length of 16 characters.
I'm not sure what site it is, but I'm pretty sure one of them that I need to access requires a 6-8 character password.
You directly asserted that one one shouldn't compare one handset against a thousand, and then went on to talk about one particular Android model. Certainly one can find an Android model ex-post-facto which has had good support (via survivor bias), but the question is how to know to choose which model will be getting that great support apriori.
By the time support might be an issue for a particular model and you've been able to verify via reviews the provider is servicing it, it is often the case that the provider has stopped selling it.
This variety in service quality doesn't appear to be an issue for the iPhone line of products.