Yes. Remembering your individual passwords will help how? If you're worried, just make the app display a random keyboard mapping for each character of the password. If you have keyboard logging, you're still screwed anyway of course.
Looking up a slashdot password (or any other one password) will not reveal every single password you have. To get every password you need to log into every site. Less chance you loose all your password at the same time. Not that it is much comfort, but at least there is more of a chance to discover you are being logged before it is too late.
I just cryptopad for my Handspring. It doesn't connect to the internet so even if keylogging is available for palm, I don't care much.
But when you sync to the PC(which is likely to be internet connected) does it not store backup of your data on the PC? That being said, even if it does, I am probably going to do the same thing as soon as I get that treo I've been eyeing.:-)
Yah, I might pay a dollar to see what happens when some over eager DHS agent sees it when you come back... "Oh, just rambling about 'Europe', huh? Meet any interesting people? What's all these numbers? What specific countries did you go to? Do you have proof of where you stayed in each of these countries?"
LOL. Luckely for me those were the pre-minipax days.
On a more practical note, back in a day when I backpacked through europe I wanted to have a backup of important data to take with me, in case I lose my passport/bank cards/etc. However being a paranoid freak I did not want to write the numbers down on paper in plain-text, as I would be doubly exposed - I could loose my wallet or I can loose my notebook.
So to resolve this issue I wrote the information using a simple rot-n algorithm with random keys. I wrote down all numbers (including rot-n keys, which looked just like the rest of the data) in my notebook and knew that if I had to use them, it would take me a little time but I could work it out, and if I were to loose the notebook, I could be pretty sure that noone would bother trying to make sense of a bunch of numbers written on the back cover - most likely it will be just tossed.
Obscurity combined with physical security makes things severely more difficult for a casual snooper. In the end it is a game of making the cost of figuring it out to be more that the desire to do so. Writing down key data, such as passwords, with a little obfuscation goes a long way.
Everyone I know at work with a lot of passwords uses (password protected) software (like pins) to store all of their passwords...
In the end, it is probably one of the better ways , although I always wondered that since now there is a potentially weak password protecting MANY possibly strong passwords, do the strong passwords matter? A simple keylogger will give access to ALL of your passwords in seconds.
For example, I'm only reading Slashdot from this particular computer, and I'm using a IBM E94 monitor, and there is this Sellotape dispenser on my desk with 1531 written on it. So my Slashdot password can be easily remembered as IBM!1531@E94#, or simply ibm1531e94 for those systems that cannot accept special characters.
I can just see the following request to helpdesk:
Please reset my password as someone borrowed my Sellotape dispenser and I can no longer log in.
Nothing, I suppose, if all the data remains in the said country. Go up North, eh, set up a server, and download the music to the proxy HDD to your heart's consent.
Try to transmit the data to the US, or bring the HDD from Canada into the US, though, and things would probably get illegal quickly.
I think this statement misses the point - it is not about downloading being legal or not. The point is right now when someone downloads from P2P, they can be be easily (and legaly) traced to their ISP via their IP. Apparently if said ISP is in Canada, they cannot force ISP to give out your info. Thus legal or illegal, you are shielded.
However if you are transfering between two of your own systems, one in canada and one anywhere else in the world, there is no easy way for them to id you since you are not connecting to any P2P network now are you sharing data. So unless they tap your connection (probably illegal for them), it remains a private communication.
Now, on to another silly question - arent canadians charged extra tax on recordable media to offset recording industy "losses"? So if they are getting paid, how can they still go after P2P sharers???
But then you'll just download it and ratings will be completely thrown off!
So SciFi will cancel yet another good show, becuase "ratings are too low"...
Well, since we have a practical case here (RTFA), we do not have to wonder "what if". Exact opposite of what you said happened. Ratings went up resulting in one of the highest rated shows of all time for sci-fi (I think it IS the highest, but I am not 100% sure)
What would have happened if people had downloaded the show, watched it, hated it, and told their friends not to tune in? Viewing figures would be down, and piracy could be held accountable. This sort of result works both ways, folks
What?! And encourage producers to make higher quality programming that people actually WANT to watch!?!? We just can't have that!
Good idea, but still something has to wake him up when the servers are down
Personally I use the "Red Alert" sounder from Star Trek TNG -- works rather nice for the purpose, and even if I am nowhere near the server room someone runs over to find me in panic. Something about that sound that makes people freak out, especially non-geeks.
Never mind that satelite pager is still not 100% reliable (nothing is)but what the heck are you going to do when you get that page???? Now you need satelite based data service for your laptop. And how much can you get done at 2400 baud(isn't it the bandwidth cap for irridium?) I am not even mentioning insane latency making ssh nearly impossible??? And what happends when its a hardware issue that you need to call someone? So now you need a satelite phone. You can go on forever like that, spend loads of money and still never have a reliable effective solution.
Hire someone to be your backup or be forever tied to the server room. Or find a job that understands how to run a business.
You clearly did not see the series on DVD. Yes it looked like crap when it aired on Fox, but this is (as mentioned about 100 times already) because it was aired out of order, putting the weakest eps first, and saving the pilot that explains everything until AFTER the show was cancelled, and not then not airing some of the best episodes at all. Watching it on DVD in right order makes a huge difference, which is why the DVDs sell so well.
I wonder why people who use P2P don't help each other out a little more. For example, you have someone with 200 files shared. They are downloading and sharing at the same time. Sometimes they download a bad file, and share it. It would make more sense to have a "unchecked" folder for downloads, then more it to the "checked" folder to share.
What would stop the people who are trying to corrupt the file from sharing corrupt copy as "checked"?
My main point is that I am not going to make my decision based on one review, let alone one review by an obsessed fan.
You make it sound like the reviewer's only complaint is that the movie changed the plot and dialogue of the original(s).
No I do not -- HE makes it sound like that. I mean here is a quote:
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy movie is an abomination. Whereas the radio show, TV show, books and computer game are all recognisably variations on a theme, this is something new and almost entirely unrelated. It's not even a good film if viewed as an original work: the characters are unsympathetic, the cast exhibit no chemistry, the direction is pedestrian, the pace plodding, the special effects overpowering (lots and lots of special effects, none of them funny mind you) and above all the script is amazingly, mindbogglingly awful. Oh, and they have taken most of the jokes out.
He TRIES to make it sound objective but cant even finish a paragraph without going back to his griping that its been changed. Can't blame the guy, he cannot be objective by very nature of choosing to spend 20 years on obsessing with Douglas Adams's life. Now he *may* be right, but this "review" is about as objective and credible as a Windows-Linux TCO comparison paper coming of Microsoft.
This article could be about Pixar looking for a new platform to use as a render farm and I bet someone would yell "Mac Mini!"....Well you know those high power servers have some high power fans, and you need something to keep the documentation from flying all over the room.....
I'd take overzealous MAPS investigator over being deluged with SPAM any day. You said it yourself:
Yeah, except instead you get overzealous MAPS investigator AND SPAM. MAPS been around a while and I do not see any reduction in SPAM. I do however see MANY people pissed off at MAPS for being not very smart in way they do blocking, much like the story's author.
So you admit, that you were relaying SPAM -- which hurts everyone on the internet. And yet you're upset because you were inconvienced by servers which check MAPS refusing to accept your mail for a couple of days
Actually NO, spam was (or MAY HAVE BEEN) relayed by someone completely unrelated to the guy who happends to have an IP address within the same class B.
I think MAPS should go further and recommend a 1 week penalty (after fix, of course) for all servers which relay SPAM -- just to make sure they're really fixed.
Better yet, instead of blocking just the upstream IP provider, they should block the entire Internet for a week just be ABSOLUTELY sure it gets fixed.
All they are doing are making people realize MAPS is obsolete and useless. Ignore them and they will go away, if you have someone complaining they are not getting email from you, ask them to complain to their ISP to use better blacklists. If the ISP does not comply, tell them to switch to a better ISP for email.
DirecTV spokeswoman Jade Ekstedt said in an e-mail that owners of older hardware will still be able to watch the service's current HD lineup, which includes high-def versions of ESPN, HBO, Showtime and other non-network channels, plus the standard-definition network fare it offers now.
personally, I still own a pair of Series 1 DTivos from about 5 years ago and they still work great - no plans to upgrade any time soon. You do not HAVE to buy a new device of any sort every 6-18 mos, you WANT to. Do not confuse the two.
Keep this in mind the next time anyone suggests any kind of plan by which a government may keep escrow keys for other people's cryptographic systems...
Well, not sure what it has to do with anything as my understanding of most escrow systems is that only the decrypt keys are stored in escrow, meaning while you can READ data with escrow key, you cannot write it, and thus you cannot tamper with data. This is directly oposite of what happened in this case and reeks of FUD.
Slashdot Mirror
Yes. Remembering your individual passwords will help how? If you're worried, just make the app display a random keyboard mapping for each character of the password. If you have keyboard logging, you're still screwed anyway of course.
Looking up a slashdot password (or any other one password) will not reveal every single password you have. To get every password you need to log into every site. Less chance you loose all your password at the same time. Not that it is much comfort, but at least there is more of a chance to discover you are being logged before it is too late.
-Em
I just cryptopad for my Handspring. It doesn't connect to the internet so even if keylogging is available for palm, I don't care much.
:-)
But when you sync to the PC(which is likely to be internet connected) does it not store backup of your data on the PC? That being said, even if it does, I am probably going to do the same thing as soon as I get that treo I've been eyeing.
Yah, I might pay a dollar to see what happens when some over eager DHS agent sees it when you come back... "Oh, just rambling about 'Europe', huh? Meet any interesting people? What's all these numbers? What specific countries did you go to? Do you have proof of where you stayed in each of these countries?"
LOL. Luckely for me those were the pre-minipax days.
if someone has that kind of access to your computer, you're screwed anyway.
True. This is where a 2-factor auth (if done correctly) can shine. All and all this is probably where we will end up soon.
On a more practical note, back in a day when I backpacked through europe I wanted to have a backup of important data to take with me, in case I lose my passport/bank cards/etc. However being a paranoid freak I did not want to write the numbers down on paper in plain-text, as I would be doubly exposed - I could loose my wallet or I can loose my notebook.
So to resolve this issue I wrote the information using a simple rot-n algorithm with random keys. I wrote down all numbers (including rot-n keys, which looked just like the rest of the data) in my notebook and knew that if I had to use them, it would take me a little time but I could work it out, and if I were to loose the notebook, I could be pretty sure that noone would bother trying to make sense of a bunch of numbers written on the back cover - most likely it will be just tossed.
Obscurity combined with physical security makes things severely more difficult for a casual snooper. In the end it is a game of making the cost of figuring it out to be more that the desire to do so. Writing down key data, such as passwords, with a little obfuscation goes a long way.
-Em
Everyone I know at work with a lot of passwords uses (password protected) software (like pins) to store all of their passwords...
In the end, it is probably one of the better ways , although I always wondered that since now there is a potentially weak password protecting MANY possibly strong passwords, do the strong passwords matter? A simple keylogger will give access to ALL of your passwords in seconds.
-Em
For example, I'm only reading Slashdot from this particular computer, and I'm using a IBM E94 monitor, and there is this Sellotape dispenser on my desk with 1531 written on it. So my Slashdot password can be easily remembered as IBM!1531@E94#, or simply ibm1531e94 for those systems that cannot accept special characters.
I can just see the following request to helpdesk:
Please reset my password as someone borrowed my Sellotape dispenser and I can no longer log in.
-Em
Nothing, I suppose, if all the data remains in the said country. Go up North, eh, set up a server, and download the music to the proxy HDD to your heart's consent.
Try to transmit the data to the US, or bring the HDD from Canada into the US, though, and things would probably get illegal quickly.
I think this statement misses the point - it is not about downloading being legal or not. The point is right now when someone downloads from P2P, they can be be easily (and legaly) traced to their ISP via their IP. Apparently if said ISP is in Canada, they cannot force ISP to give out your info. Thus legal or illegal, you are shielded.
However if you are transfering between two of your own systems, one in canada and one anywhere else in the world, there is no easy way for them to id you since you are not connecting to any P2P network now are you sharing data. So unless they tap your connection (probably illegal for them), it remains a private communication.
Now, on to another silly question - arent canadians charged extra tax on recordable media to offset recording industy "losses"? So if they are getting paid, how can they still go after P2P sharers???
-Em
But then you'll just download it and ratings will be completely thrown off!
So SciFi will cancel yet another good show, becuase "ratings are too low"...
Well, since we have a practical case here (RTFA), we do not have to wonder "what if". Exact opposite of what you said happened. Ratings went up resulting in one of the highest rated shows of all time for sci-fi (I think it IS the highest, but I am not 100% sure)
-Em
What would have happened if people had downloaded the show, watched it, hated it, and told their friends not to tune in? Viewing figures would be down, and piracy could be held accountable. This sort of result works both ways, folks
What?! And encourage producers to make higher quality programming that people actually WANT to watch!?!? We just can't have that!
Good idea, but still something has to wake him up when the servers are down
Personally I use the "Red Alert" sounder from Star Trek TNG -- works rather nice for the purpose, and even if I am nowhere near the server room someone runs over to find me in panic. Something about that sound that makes people freak out, especially non-geeks.
-Em
Simple cheapest solution: hire someone.
Never mind that satelite pager is still not 100% reliable (nothing is)but what the heck are you going to do when you get that page???? Now you need satelite based data service for your laptop. And how much can you get done at 2400 baud(isn't it the bandwidth cap for irridium?) I am not even mentioning insane latency making ssh nearly impossible??? And what happends when its a hardware issue that you need to call someone? So now you need a satelite phone. You can go on forever like that, spend loads of money and still never have a reliable effective solution.
Hire someone to be your backup or be forever tied to the server room. Or find a job that understands how to run a business.
-Em
A: Who Cares?
/. article? OH for Gos's sake...
I do
B: Who Cares?
My friends do
C: Who Cares?
My friend's friends do.
D: Who Cares?
Many other nerds reading slashdot do.
E: A comic issuing constitutes as
News for nerds. Stuff that matters.
Frankly, I just don't think you are nerd enough. Please return your nerd membership card and exit this site. (You can keep the toaster)
-Em
You clearly did not see the series on DVD. Yes it looked like crap when it aired on Fox, but this is (as mentioned about 100 times already) because it was aired out of order, putting the weakest eps first, and saving the pilot that explains everything until AFTER the show was cancelled, and not then not airing some of the best episodes at all. Watching it on DVD in right order makes a huge difference, which is why the DVDs sell so well.
-Em
The PSP uses those small little minicds, which you still can't burn to. Although I guess its a step forward.
Are you talking about standard 3" miniCD/miniDVDs? Those are fairly widely available, no? Or are the PSP disks different?
-Em
There is somethis so right about Microsoft and "RIP technology" used in same sentence....
R.I.P. technology indeed. And for that matter innovation and choice too.
-Em
I wonder why people who use P2P don't help each other out a little more. For example, you have someone with 200 files shared. They are downloading and sharing at the same time. Sometimes they download a bad file, and share it. It would make more sense to have a "unchecked" folder for downloads, then more it to the "checked" folder to share.
What would stop the people who are trying to corrupt the file from sharing corrupt copy as "checked"?
Just need a better hashing mechanism.
-Em
My main point is that I am not going to make my decision based on one review, let alone one review by an obsessed fan.
You make it sound like the reviewer's only complaint is that the movie changed the plot and dialogue of the original(s).
No I do not -- HE makes it sound like that. I mean here is a quote:
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy movie is an abomination. Whereas the radio show, TV show, books and computer game are all recognisably variations on a theme, this is something new and almost entirely unrelated. It's not even a good film if viewed as an original work: the characters are unsympathetic, the cast exhibit no chemistry, the direction is pedestrian, the pace plodding, the special effects overpowering (lots and lots of special effects, none of them funny mind you) and above all the script is amazingly, mindbogglingly awful. Oh, and they have taken most of the jokes out.
He TRIES to make it sound objective but cant even finish a paragraph without going back to his griping that its been changed. Can't blame the guy, he cannot be objective by very nature of choosing to spend 20 years on obsessing with Douglas Adams's life. Now he *may* be right, but this "review" is about as objective and credible as a Windows-Linux TCO comparison paper coming of Microsoft.
Just my opinion.
-Em
Really, was it realistic to expect them to include everything?
If you want something that follows the book exactly try the BBC series - or, *gasp*, reading the books.
The real question is - what they did include - did they do that well? Is it a good MOVIE. Personally, I am willing to pay $10 to find out.
-Em
This article could be about Pixar looking for a new platform to use as a render farm and I bet someone would yell "Mac Mini!" ....Well you know those high power servers have some high power fans, and you need something to keep the documentation from flying all over the room.....
I'd take overzealous MAPS investigator over being deluged with SPAM any day. You said it yourself:
Yeah, except instead you get overzealous MAPS investigator AND SPAM. MAPS been around a while and I do not see any reduction in SPAM. I do however see MANY people pissed off at MAPS for being not very smart in way they do blocking, much like the story's author.
So you admit, that you were relaying SPAM -- which hurts everyone on the internet. And yet you're upset because you were inconvienced by servers which check MAPS refusing to accept your mail for a couple of days
Actually NO, spam was (or MAY HAVE BEEN) relayed by someone completely unrelated to the guy who happends to have an IP address within the same class B.
I think MAPS should go further and recommend a 1 week penalty (after fix, of course) for all servers which relay SPAM -- just to make sure they're really fixed.
Better yet, instead of blocking just the upstream IP provider, they should block the entire Internet for a week just be ABSOLUTELY sure it gets fixed.
All they are doing are making people realize MAPS is obsolete and useless. Ignore them and they will go away, if you have someone complaining they are not getting email from you, ask them to complain to their ISP to use better blacklists. If the ISP does not comply, tell them to switch to a better ISP for email.
-Em
From the article:
DirecTV spokeswoman Jade Ekstedt said in an e-mail that owners of older hardware will still be able to watch the service's current HD lineup, which includes high-def versions of ESPN, HBO, Showtime and other non-network channels, plus the standard-definition network fare it offers now.
So what exactly are you talking about???
-Em
Erm, Dish PVRs are even MORE proprietary and still cost a lot of money.
-Em
personally, I still own a pair of Series 1 DTivos from about 5 years ago and they still work great - no plans to upgrade any time soon. You do not HAVE to buy a new device of any sort every 6-18 mos, you WANT to. Do not confuse the two.
-Em
Keep this in mind the next time anyone suggests any kind of plan by which a government may keep escrow keys for other people's cryptographic systems...
Well, not sure what it has to do with anything as my understanding of most escrow systems is that only the decrypt keys are stored in escrow, meaning while you can READ data with escrow key, you cannot write it, and thus you cannot tamper with data. This is directly oposite of what happened in this case and reeks of FUD.
-Em