Does Kolmogorov complexity adequately describe what users actually choose as passwords when "complex" password rules are imposed? Most people will do something easy to remember involving pet and kid names mixed with birth dates and a few obvious special character substitutions, or variations on that theme. This should be your expectation when attempting to estimate the entropy in your passwords.
There was an ice age from about 200,000 BCE to 135,000 BCE so the sea distances were probably not as great. Borneo was apparently connected to mainland Asia and Sulawesi is just east of Borneo, with mountains along the adjoining coast that would be visible at some distance.
I wonder about other sites that do the same thing. I know of at least one site that's been doing this longer than Routebuilder and AFAIK have not announced a shutdown.
You're making an assumption that all intelligent species will self destruct. Based on a sample size of one species that hasn't really come close to that yet. Who knows, maybe somewhere out there a perfectly unselfish, logical species exists and has launched colony ships in our direction.
And they'll arrive here much like the ships in Independence Day, except that they'll finish what they started in spite of Will Smith and Randy Quail.
For a brief period of time I thought Diceware style passphrases would be the answer but I found that a lot of places don't accept space characters in a password and as you observed, they all have random, undisclosed length limitations and the usual special characters requirement, Most of my low risk forum site passwords are based on one I was assigned about 15 years ago that had "good enough" length and was not guessable based on personal details like dog names and such.
Flights to resort locations are cheaper than major business destinations. Business travelers will pay more to fly since they're spending corporate money instead of their own while vacationers are stingy. Somehow this works even though that vacation resort requires a layover in a hub at a popular business destination.
I had a friend fly in to visit me once who found that fairs to Atlantic City were hundreds less than Newark.
I think the major manufacturers are afraid of the reduced parts count that pure electric cars have and the implied loss of profit margin because of it. So they keep trying to sell hybrid systems that bundle an internal combustion engine with an electric motor in order to keep the parts count high.
Writing the date on bulbs would be a great idea if the market was stable and all you ever saw in the store was the same brand of bulbs year after year. I probably have 20 or so LED lightbulbs in my house. My oldest one is probably 4 years old and is still going strong. I'd buy some more just like it if I could. But that model of bulb has been replaced by other designs from other manufacturers in my local stores and is probably out of production.
One of my best change overs was a set of track lights in my family room. These lights run from dinnertime until bedtime, 7 days a week. They've been flawless.
I'm sure they wouldn't just accuse people at random. They'd do market research and select targets that meet a profile. Something like middle class households with parents that aren't particularly tech savvy but with teenage kids that might be, all of which use decent amounts of data. All they'd have to do is convince the parents that the kids downloaded something that could illegal or hint to the fathers that it might be the porn their wife doesn't know about. And boom $20 faster than you can blink.
I had internet access at work starting in 1986 but since it was work related I stuck to fairly sensible net usage. My first home ISP was through a small startup in rural northern NJ, starting in 1992 or so The local phone service at that time under NJ Bell was pretty terrible. Local calls only serviced half the county, and not even the county seat where AOL and Compuserve's dial-up phone banks were established, so AOL use was a toll call. Recognizing this, two guys set up a dial-up phone bank in an area that serviced this little gap in dial-up access and ran with it for about 5 years. This was a full fledged ISP right from the start with IP addresses, ftp access, mail servers, Usenet, etc. And for the first year or two tech support meant talking to the sysadmin himself. Planet.net was the name of it and as far as I can tell the domain name is up for grabs.
I remember reading the Mac System 7 announcements on the Mac listserve (Appletalk?, something like that) about a year before it was released, and then downloading it from ftp.apple.com for free when it was released. In floppy disk image files. Reportedly ftp.apple.com was hosted by a Mac SE/30 running A/UX.
I do this and add the wrinkle that the password for really important financial sites in my password manager is not entered as is, I have another layer of obfuscation on what I store in there.
Don't think Diplomats, think Conquistadors. A space faring alien species that shows up here will be like gun toting soldiers in a stone age civilization. Killing, pillaging and burning for sport and decimating us without even trying.
I think it's safe to say that if interstellar travel is at all possible it is monumentally expensive and anyone that expends the resources to get here will be interested in exploiting the rock once they do. Space is teeming with rock but Earth is teeming with organic compounds, food and whatnot. If an alien species is trying to fulfill a biological imperative, like expand the species beyond one fragile ecosystem they would probably show up to take over ours.
It'd be sort of like Independence Day, except without the happy endingl
Red light controlled by traffic sensor that 180 lbs of bike and rider doesn't trigger: Stop, wait long enough to be sure it's not going to change then treat like a stop sign. Look for a pedestrian crossing button on a really busy intersection.
Would a chromebook make a good travel laptop for this sort of situation? Let's say you have two Google accounts, one with a bland public persona and one with any sensitive information you care to work with. Delete your sensitive account from the machine before you transit through customs and add it back when you get to a safe(ish) network. Keep all your data in the cloud.
I wonder what Chrome OS does with local files of deleted users?
I'm not sure I'd right off the USPS. Their parcel business seems to be growing rapidly, with very competitive prices for small fixed price boxes.
I think the big shopping mall anchor stores (Macy's, JC Penney, etc) are all likely to fail in the next 20 years. Sears is already a dead man walking, Penney's is close and the others are living on borrowed time.
The combined Reddit/4Chan photo collection was pretty crappy and lacking in metadata. The website from which the pictures of the two high school kids that got "fingered" by Reddit was very upfront about stating that the picture of the two of them from Page 1 of the NYP was taken 3 hours before the bombing. Photos from the same source closer to the time of the blast don't show them or the bomb in place yet. This could have been used to discard them as subjects if that info was more widely known.
The police/FBI had a huge advantage in that they had all relevant surveillance camera imagery plus everything 4chan had, plus more, including the eye witness reports of the surviving victims. They were probably able to correlate that imagery to cell tower call records and narrow down what phoes were in use right there and then, including the bombers.
It has the potential to be much cheaper once the startup costs are payed off. Just consider the parts count in an internal combustion engine vs. an electric motor driven by batteries. It's at least a 100:1 difference.
Also, think about all the service calls you won't have to make for oil changes, air filters, fuel filters, spark plugs, and so on. And 5 years down the road you might get to retrofit your car with a battery pack that doubles your range.
Facebook is where my relatives post updates. Google+ is great for information from Google related products like android and chrome os. I tried sharing some pictures on Google+ and while the picture sharing is/was better than facebook I don't think anyone saw them.
I think it's fair to say that Kodak adopted digital imaging about as well as Xerox adapted all of the ground-breaking technology out of Xerox PARC. That is, not well at all.
Many people say they should've gone into the camera business but I don't think that would've worked. Not many American companies can compete in the world of consumer electronics these days and the digital camera business is mostly a consumer electronics industry.
Maybe they should've tried to create the iTunes and iPod of photography. Take your pictures with whatever camera you want, but if you want to make your pictures look their best plug them into the eKodak kiosk or iKodak software for your home computer and we'll make them look better, and allow you to share them with Granny online or send her some pretty photo albums. Sort of iPhoto meets Flickr meets Facebook.
I haven't got that many awkward friend requests. Once I got a few HS friends I surfed through their friend lists for familiar names and made some selective friend requests. But I also just surfed through a lot of HS acquaintance info pages and photos to get a sense of what they're up to.
Sadly, the "girl that got away" has never shown up on FB or at the one reunion I attended. Forever a mystery I guess.
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Does Kolmogorov complexity adequately describe what users actually choose as passwords when "complex" password rules are imposed? Most people will do something easy to remember involving pet and kid names mixed with birth dates and a few obvious special character substitutions, or variations on that theme. This should be your expectation when attempting to estimate the entropy in your passwords.
There is also a Java based STIG Viewer. http://iasecontent.disa.mil/stigs/jar/STIGViewer_2.2.jar
There was an ice age from about 200,000 BCE to 135,000 BCE so the sea distances were probably not as great. Borneo was apparently connected to mainland Asia and Sulawesi is just east of Borneo, with mountains along the adjoining coast that would be visible at some distance.
I wonder about other sites that do the same thing. I know of at least one site that's been doing this longer than Routebuilder and AFAIK have not announced a shutdown.
You're making an assumption that all intelligent species will self destruct. Based on a sample size of one species that hasn't really come close to that yet. Who knows, maybe somewhere out there a perfectly unselfish, logical species exists and has launched colony ships in our direction.
And they'll arrive here much like the ships in Independence Day, except that they'll finish what they started in spite of Will Smith and Randy Quail.
For a brief period of time I thought Diceware style passphrases would be the answer but I found that a lot of places don't accept space characters in a password and as you observed, they all have random, undisclosed length limitations and the usual special characters requirement, Most of my low risk forum site passwords are based on one I was assigned about 15 years ago that had "good enough" length and was not guessable based on personal details like dog names and such.
Flights to resort locations are cheaper than major business destinations. Business travelers will pay more to fly since they're spending corporate money instead of their own while vacationers are stingy. Somehow this works even though that vacation resort requires a layover in a hub at a popular business destination.
I had a friend fly in to visit me once who found that fairs to Atlantic City were hundreds less than Newark.
I think the major manufacturers are afraid of the reduced parts count that pure electric cars have and the implied loss of profit margin because of it. So they keep trying to sell hybrid systems that bundle an internal combustion engine with an electric motor in order to keep the parts count high.
Writing the date on bulbs would be a great idea if the market was stable and all you ever saw in the store was the same brand of bulbs year after year. I probably have 20 or so LED lightbulbs in my house. My oldest one is probably 4 years old and is still going strong. I'd buy some more just like it if I could. But that model of bulb has been replaced by other designs from other manufacturers in my local stores and is probably out of production.
One of my best change overs was a set of track lights in my family room. These lights run from dinnertime until bedtime, 7 days a week. They've been flawless.
I'm sure they wouldn't just accuse people at random. They'd do market research and select targets that meet a profile. Something like middle class households with parents that aren't particularly tech savvy but with teenage kids that might be, all of which use decent amounts of data. All they'd have to do is convince the parents that the kids downloaded something that could illegal or hint to the fathers that it might be the porn their wife doesn't know about. And boom $20 faster than you can blink.
I had internet access at work starting in 1986 but since it was work related I stuck to fairly sensible net usage. My first home ISP was through a small startup in rural northern NJ, starting in 1992 or so The local phone service at that time under NJ Bell was pretty terrible. Local calls only serviced half the county, and not even the county seat where AOL and Compuserve's dial-up phone banks were established, so AOL use was a toll call. Recognizing this, two guys set up a dial-up phone bank in an area that serviced this little gap in dial-up access and ran with it for about 5 years. This was a full fledged ISP right from the start with IP addresses, ftp access, mail servers, Usenet, etc. And for the first year or two tech support meant talking to the sysadmin himself. Planet.net was the name of it and as far as I can tell the domain name is up for grabs.
I remember reading the Mac System 7 announcements on the Mac listserve (Appletalk?, something like that) about a year before it was released, and then downloading it from ftp.apple.com for free when it was released. In floppy disk image files. Reportedly ftp.apple.com was hosted by a Mac SE/30 running A/UX.
I do this and add the wrinkle that the password for really important financial sites in my password manager is not entered as is, I have another layer of obfuscation on what I store in there.
Don't think Diplomats, think Conquistadors. A space faring alien species that shows up here will be like gun toting soldiers in a stone age civilization. Killing, pillaging and burning for sport and decimating us without even trying.
I think it's safe to say that if interstellar travel is at all possible it is monumentally expensive and anyone that expends the resources to get here will be interested in exploiting the rock once they do. Space is teeming with rock but Earth is teeming with organic compounds, food and whatnot. If an alien species is trying to fulfill a biological imperative, like expand the species beyond one fragile ecosystem they would probably show up to take over ours.
It'd be sort of like Independence Day, except without the happy endingl
I'd add another outlier:
Red light controlled by traffic sensor that 180 lbs of bike and rider doesn't trigger: Stop, wait long enough to be sure it's not going to change then treat like a stop sign. Look for a pedestrian crossing button on a really busy intersection.
Would a chromebook make a good travel laptop for this sort of situation? Let's say you have two Google accounts, one with a bland public persona and one with any sensitive information you care to work with. Delete your sensitive account from the machine before you transit through customs and add it back when you get to a safe(ish) network. Keep all your data in the cloud.
I wonder what Chrome OS does with local files of deleted users?
I'm not sure I'd right off the USPS. Their parcel business seems to be growing rapidly, with very competitive prices for small fixed price boxes.
I think the big shopping mall anchor stores (Macy's, JC Penney, etc) are all likely to fail in the next 20 years. Sears is already a dead man walking, Penney's is close and the others are living on borrowed time.
The combined Reddit/4Chan photo collection was pretty crappy and lacking in metadata. The website from which the pictures of the two high school kids that got "fingered" by Reddit was very upfront about stating that the picture of the two of them from Page 1 of the NYP was taken 3 hours before the bombing. Photos from the same source closer to the time of the blast don't show them or the bomb in place yet. This could have been used to discard them as subjects if that info was more widely known.
The police/FBI had a huge advantage in that they had all relevant surveillance camera imagery plus everything 4chan had, plus more, including the eye witness reports of the surviving victims. They were probably able to correlate that imagery to cell tower call records and narrow down what phoes were in use right there and then, including the bombers.
You could tow a trailer with a big battery pack in it. Or call for the roadside delivery of one if you're dead.
Buy a $20K financed over 5 years and put anything left over into the kids' college fund is how it really works.
It has the potential to be much cheaper once the startup costs are payed off. Just consider the parts count in an internal combustion engine vs. an electric motor driven by batteries. It's at least a 100:1 difference.
Also, think about all the service calls you won't have to make for oil changes, air filters, fuel filters, spark plugs, and so on. And 5 years down the road you might get to retrofit your car with a battery pack that doubles your range.
Facebook is where my relatives post updates. Google+ is great for information from Google related products like android and chrome os. I tried sharing some pictures on Google+ and while the picture sharing is/was better than facebook I don't think anyone saw them.
I think it's fair to say that Kodak adopted digital imaging about as well as Xerox adapted all of the ground-breaking technology out of Xerox PARC. That is, not well at all.
Many people say they should've gone into the camera business but I don't think that would've worked. Not many American companies can compete in the world of consumer electronics these days and the digital camera business is mostly a consumer electronics industry.
Maybe they should've tried to create the iTunes and iPod of photography. Take your pictures with whatever camera you want, but if you want to make your pictures look their best plug them into the eKodak kiosk or iKodak software for your home computer and we'll make them look better, and allow you to share them with Granny online or send her some pretty photo albums. Sort of iPhoto meets Flickr meets Facebook.
I haven't got that many awkward friend requests. Once I got a few HS friends I surfed through their friend lists for familiar names and made some selective friend requests. But I also just surfed through a lot of HS acquaintance info pages and photos to get a sense of what they're up to.
Sadly, the "girl that got away" has never shown up on FB or at the one reunion I attended. Forever a mystery I guess.