I think NTLM only keeps a 128bit hash, so if it were possible to brute force the entire key space, the attacker would likely find a hash collision that works as your password before finding your actual password.
...Which is an interesting tangent to think about, as this hardware could be used to do some interesting research in the name of improving security. It would be really interesting to search an entire hash space to see how many collisions occur, and where.
The bar for legal US immigration is low and it is intentionally made easy to immigrate.....They essentially bypassed taking a couple days to learn the Constitution and a basic English test and an oath of loyalty to the US.
If the bar is that low, then why are people coming here illegally? Perhaps you are buying into some sort of illusion of how easy it is to get in, because based on the number of people sneaking in, I don't buy it. You do realize that sneaking in isn't easy or safe, right? Why would anyone sneak in if getting in legitimately is really that simple? I call bullshit....
People who have a problem with those requirements aren't our kind of people.
You know, I actually would welcome those people. Because to sneak in, you have to deal with possibly dangerous characters, risk injury, imprisonment, or even death sneaking across miles of desert. Anyone who wants freedom that badly is OK in my book. These are the people who will appreciate its value, because they had to earn it. The people I don't think we need are the lazy, self-centered assholes already here who expect that freedom is safe, easy, and free.
I don't get it. If gravity is less then earths, you would think that stuff would fly higher and farther since it doesn't have as much gravity to hold it down.
The tactic of slamming something into a comet worked because the comet had basically no real gravity to keep debris from flying, where mercury has quite a bit more gravity. While it is only about 1/3 of that of earth, the implication isn't that we can pull this trick off on Earth. Debris from a comet will fly in a fairly straight path out of the point of impact, but debris on Mercury will fly in a more parabolic path.
Agreed. Also, other posters are comparing GL to classical artists, and that misses the point: You can't really compare GL with say Michelangelo because the discussion is about this generations art, not all time great artists.
I think most people here would agree that GL doesn't even rate a one of humanities's great artists. The guy told a few good stories and sold a lot of merchandise, but that is about it. But what has had more impact in the last 40 years culturally than Star Wars that can be attributed to a single person? I think that calling him the greatest artist of our times is probably accurate. And pointing out how really crappy his recent work has been should be a wake up call to us about our standards in art and entertainment.
Agreed. But the real problem is that most mail server software doesn't allow or isn't configured to allow arbitrary users to create and share their own mail lists. Reply all is a horrible feature if you have the entire Microsoft Redmond campus being e-mailed. (Saw it happen around 2000, the 'please remove me' from this thread reply email would bring all the mail servers on campus to their knees for a day or so.) It is a great feature if you have ten people you are carrying on a conversation with who don't have access to a shared mailing list. Also, like most tools, this feature is really only dangerous in the hands of idiots. Until every mail server/client allows sharable delivery lists, we are going to be stuck with this feature.
Australia has objected to names such as '.baby,' '.app,' and '.beauty' among other. It has also objected to names such as '.sucks' and '.wtf,' stating that these names have 'an overtly negative or critical connotation.'"
I call dibs on Australia.Sucks!
I mean, way to go Australia, that's thinking out of the box! If you prohibit negative and critical TLDs, then negative and critical speech will go away and everyone will be happy. I wish I had thought of that...
Yes, you may mock me for the indescribable truths that exist that I don't believe in. Please enumerate them explicitly that I may learn from your wisdom as you taunt me.
Proving the existence of god is not a matter of untangling the limitations of some arbitrary linguistic system, and suggesting as such is nothing more than verbal masturbation.
You are trying to prove Scottbombs post about how it is ok to make fun of Christians, right? But you and trum4u (plus whoever down-modded Scott) are doing a great job!
It is OK to mock Christians, and anyone else who believes in things they cannot prove. You want to tell me that invisible, intangible things exist? Be prepared for me to call bullshit. The emperor is naked, and I am going to say so.
Win 7 is a resource-sucking pile of goat clusters.
Everytime I am forced back to a Win desktop - XP or 7 - I'm astounded people put up with it!
I have been on Linux of various flavors and OSX for so long, I forgot about the Stockholm syndrome of Microsoft's captive audience.
Oooh! Oohh! I want to play the platform flame war, too!
*straps on the asbestos underwear*
You know, some of us can afford a computer faster than a 486/66, so we don't have to use a crappy OS that supports 20 year old hardware. Now, shave off that neck beard and learn how to use a goddam mouse, you communist hippy!!!!!!!!
*Wheeeeee!*
Thanks for that trip back to 1994, I forgot how much fun usenet was!
She felt bad about being a lesbian, so she was automatically forgiven.
Except, being a lesbian isn't a sin. So why would she be forgiven for something that isn't a sin and is simply a product of other Christians' sexual hang-ups....?
Well, they better start paying pilots a lot more money then. I don't see what the problem is. If they have to start charging more for tickets to cover the overhead, then they have to charge more for tickets. It is not like it is a cost that will affect one airline but not another.
I once asked an IP & technology patent lawyer who was speaking at seminar what he though of software 'click through' agreements in light of all the problems that they have as a legitimate contract, and I go a half assed response about how they were legally sound because, 'everybody was using them'.
Just because someone is an expert in a field doesn't mean that they have any useful opinions or ideas about the field.
Why don't we try to strengthen laws for individuals....and make things easier for people to self employ, self incorporate and contract themselves.
Let each person be responsible for negotiating their own pay rates, etc..
This is a nice idea but remember that the purpose of a union has been traditionally to offer the labor more power to deal with capitol. Because there is generally less capitol than labor in the economy, capitol has the power. Your suggestions sound noble in theory, but they all fail to address the problem that a single worker is working from weak position in an economy where capitol is scarce and labor is common.
Skilled senior developers are a relatively rare resource in the economy, so getting capitol to treat us well isn't really a problem. We are more scarce than capitol, so we have the power in the relationship. Why do we need a union?
I agree with you about the validity of such a survey, especially if it is being administered by a government stooge packing an AK-74 over his shoulder as he give it. BUT.....
Strangely enough, there might be some truth to such a result. I have spoken with Chinese nationals who say things like, 'Democracy and freedom is great, but it would never work over here.' I wonder if this is something in the character of Chinese people, or just a selfish, 'Of course censorship is good...for other people.' because they haven't been on the receiving end of censorship.
Of course, the few people I have encountered don't come close to being a large enough group to be statistically representative of anything.
Ditto Parent, Rapidograph pens rock. They are pens that are used for drafting and drawing, and they come in a whole range of sizes.
The disposable technical ink pens are cheaper, but I love the refillable ones. They pretty much are never going to wear out under normal use. If you get a refillable pen, be sure to buy the special ink intended to go in them. Regular india ink will make a huge mess if you try to use it in them.
Great idea, except that back in the 'good old days', there was more crime per capita so I think that tells you how effective those techniques were. Also, while you are dismembering people left and right, you might get a false conviction. How many innocent people you intending to drop in your medieval version of a wood chipper to 'stop' crime? Because, remember how hacking people up for criminal activities ended all the crime in the ancient world...
You know, if you just stopped subscribing to illegal Malaysian wombat pr0n sites, you wouldn't have to go to such ridiculous lengths to sanitize your email...
Folk tales are great, but I like some rigor in my economics.
I find it funny that you ask for rigor in modeling a complex non-linear system that has potentially billions of independent non-quantifiable variables. Just remember that any model is a simplification of reality and therefore by definition, wrong. Good luck with that though.
All of your conclusions are faulty, as you need to have a house to live in in any event. The whole 'exiting the market' concept is silly, because this isn't like the stock market where you can simply choose not to play if you dislike the rules. You going to live on the streets and put your rent into hedges like commodities?
Printing money is immensely beneficial to the government, as they can essentially tax people without them knowing it. Far easier to increase the money supply by 10% - where prices might take months or years to adjust - instead of levying a 10% tax on everybody. It also benefits the people who are closest to the government the most, as they receive those printed funds first and get everything at a discount. Yet they have brainwashed people into thinking inflation is good, deflation is horrible, so yes, please continue to steal our money at an acceptable rate.
You have some insight in what you said, but I think there is a slight problem with your logic. When the government 'prints' money, it isn't directly getting more spending power, because budgeting isn't done by printing new money and handing it out directly to government departments to spend. (Although, the revenue generated by distributing the 'money' will eventually get folded back into the budget) In fact, due to the sometimes glacial fashion that money is allocated, it might even hurt government spending power because of the delay between increasing the money supply and buying more widgets for federal usage. I think you are quite correct in your statement that it directly benefits the banks that are at the head of the line when the pallets of new hard currency is shipped out/ the prime rate is changed/ bonds are sold/etc.. It seems to me that this is less of a hidden tax by the government and more of a money distribution cost. (Or graft, should the money be distributed in a way to benefit the friends of whoever is in charge of fed policy, this in my mind would be a much more likely form of abuse)
And as for the moral argument about hidden taxes, we have a representative government where we choose leaders to act on our behalf, so doing things like selecting how much money would be printed is exactly what they should be doing. They (the fed, the mint, etc) have been charged with managing the countries money supply, and your question seems to presuppose that any step that they take to increase the money supply is a deliberate immoral attempt to steal from the citizens. You seem to be asking a loaded question that assumes that there isn't any other reason to increase the money supply.
Well, if you are in Seattle, you only have to worry about the police if you are a minority armed with a sword or knife. In that event, expect to get murdered by cops with guns. I expect the UAVs are probably to locate minorities armed with knives more efficiently.
But on the plus side, if you shoot at a police helicopter spying on you sans warrant with a.22 rifle, you will probably get charged with attempted murder. If you shoot at a UAV, you will get charged with destruction of private property. Yay?
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I think NTLM only keeps a 128bit hash, so if it were possible to brute force the entire key space, the attacker would likely find a hash collision that works as your password before finding your actual password.
...Which is an interesting tangent to think about, as this hardware could be used to do some interesting research in the name of improving security. It would be really interesting to search an entire hash space to see how many collisions occur, and where.
The bar for legal US immigration is low and it is intentionally made easy to immigrate.....They essentially bypassed taking a couple days to learn the Constitution and a basic English test and an oath of loyalty to the US.
If the bar is that low, then why are people coming here illegally? Perhaps you are buying into some sort of illusion of how easy it is to get in, because based on the number of people sneaking in, I don't buy it. You do realize that sneaking in isn't easy or safe, right? Why would anyone sneak in if getting in legitimately is really that simple? I call bullshit....
People who have a problem with those requirements aren't our kind of people.
You know, I actually would welcome those people. Because to sneak in, you have to deal with possibly dangerous characters, risk injury, imprisonment, or even death sneaking across miles of desert. Anyone who wants freedom that badly is OK in my book. These are the people who will appreciate its value, because they had to earn it. The people I don't think we need are the lazy, self-centered assholes already here who expect that freedom is safe, easy, and free.
I don't get it. If gravity is less then earths, you would think that stuff would fly higher and farther since it doesn't have as much gravity to hold it down.
The tactic of slamming something into a comet worked because the comet had basically no real gravity to keep debris from flying, where mercury has quite a bit more gravity. While it is only about 1/3 of that of earth, the implication isn't that we can pull this trick off on Earth. Debris from a comet will fly in a fairly straight path out of the point of impact, but debris on Mercury will fly in a more parabolic path.
Agreed. Also, other posters are comparing GL to classical artists, and that misses the point: You can't really compare GL with say Michelangelo because the discussion is about this generations art, not all time great artists.
I think most people here would agree that GL doesn't even rate a one of humanities's great artists. The guy told a few good stories and sold a lot of merchandise, but that is about it. But what has had more impact in the last 40 years culturally than Star Wars that can be attributed to a single person? I think that calling him the greatest artist of our times is probably accurate. And pointing out how really crappy his recent work has been should be a wake up call to us about our standards in art and entertainment.
Agreed. But the real problem is that most mail server software doesn't allow or isn't configured to allow arbitrary users to create and share their own mail lists. Reply all is a horrible feature if you have the entire Microsoft Redmond campus being e-mailed. (Saw it happen around 2000, the 'please remove me' from this thread reply email would bring all the mail servers on campus to their knees for a day or so.) It is a great feature if you have ten people you are carrying on a conversation with who don't have access to a shared mailing list. Also, like most tools, this feature is really only dangerous in the hands of idiots. Until every mail server/client allows sharable delivery lists, we are going to be stuck with this feature.
Australia has objected to names such as '.baby,' '.app,' and '.beauty' among other. It has also objected to names such as '.sucks' and '.wtf,' stating that these names have 'an overtly negative or critical connotation.'"
I call dibs on Australia.Sucks!
I mean, way to go Australia, that's thinking out of the box! If you prohibit negative and critical TLDs, then negative and critical speech will go away and everyone will be happy. I wish I had thought of that...
(Fuck you Australia. No really, fuck you.)
Yes, you may mock me for the indescribable truths that exist that I don't believe in. Please enumerate them explicitly that I may learn from your wisdom as you taunt me. Proving the existence of god is not a matter of untangling the limitations of some arbitrary linguistic system, and suggesting as such is nothing more than verbal masturbation.
You are trying to prove Scottbombs post about how it is ok to make fun of Christians, right? But you and trum4u (plus whoever down-modded Scott) are doing a great job!
It is OK to mock Christians, and anyone else who believes in things they cannot prove. You want to tell me that invisible, intangible things exist? Be prepared for me to call bullshit. The emperor is naked, and I am going to say so.
Win 7 is a resource-sucking pile of goat clusters.
Everytime I am forced back to a Win desktop - XP or 7 - I'm astounded people put up with it!
I have been on Linux of various flavors and OSX for so long, I forgot about the Stockholm syndrome of Microsoft's captive audience.
Oooh! Oohh! I want to play the platform flame war, too!
*straps on the asbestos underwear*
You know, some of us can afford a computer faster than a 486/66, so we don't have to use a crappy OS that supports 20 year old hardware. Now, shave off that neck beard and learn how to use a goddam mouse, you communist hippy!!!!!!!!
*Wheeeeee!*
Thanks for that trip back to 1994, I forgot how much fun usenet was!
She felt bad about being a lesbian, so she was automatically forgiven.
Except, being a lesbian isn't a sin. So why would she be forgiven for something that isn't a sin and is simply a product of other Christians' sexual hang-ups....?
As an atheist, I for give your silly belief in invisible Jewish zombies and talking snakes. Its what we do.
Yeah, it's ridiculous to arrest the man because he had a watch in his boots. But why in the hell did he have a watch in his boots? .
Who cares? That's his business, and nobody else's.
Well, they better start paying pilots a lot more money then. I don't see what the problem is. If they have to start charging more for tickets to cover the overhead, then they have to charge more for tickets. It is not like it is a cost that will affect one airline but not another.
I once asked an IP & technology patent lawyer who was speaking at seminar what he though of software 'click through' agreements in light of all the problems that they have as a legitimate contract, and I go a half assed response about how they were legally sound because, 'everybody was using them'.
Just because someone is an expert in a field doesn't mean that they have any useful opinions or ideas about the field.
Not every player plays for the end game loots. There as a very large demographic of people who use the game a s social media.
As a friend once observed: "WoW is the world's largest IRC client...."
Apparently you can run the state of Maine from your parents basement.
Yeah, didn't you know about the command for that? Open up the console and type, '/RunForMaineSenate'.
Why don't we try to strengthen laws for individuals....and make things easier for people to self employ, self incorporate and contract themselves.
Let each person be responsible for negotiating their own pay rates, etc. .
This is a nice idea but remember that the purpose of a union has been traditionally to offer the labor more power to deal with capitol. Because there is generally less capitol than labor in the economy, capitol has the power. Your suggestions sound noble in theory, but they all fail to address the problem that a single worker is working from weak position in an economy where capitol is scarce and labor is common.
Skilled senior developers are a relatively rare resource in the economy, so getting capitol to treat us well isn't really a problem. We are more scarce than capitol, so we have the power in the relationship. Why do we need a union?
I agree with you about the validity of such a survey, especially if it is being administered by a government stooge packing an AK-74 over his shoulder as he give it. BUT.....
Strangely enough, there might be some truth to such a result. I have spoken with Chinese nationals who say things like, 'Democracy and freedom is great, but it would never work over here.' I wonder if this is something in the character of Chinese people, or just a selfish, 'Of course censorship is good...for other people.' because they haven't been on the receiving end of censorship.
Of course, the few people I have encountered don't come close to being a large enough group to be statistically representative of anything.
Ditto Parent, Rapidograph pens rock. They are pens that are used for drafting and drawing, and they come in a whole range of sizes. The disposable technical ink pens are cheaper, but I love the refillable ones. They pretty much are never going to wear out under normal use. If you get a refillable pen, be sure to buy the special ink intended to go in them. Regular india ink will make a huge mess if you try to use it in them.
Great idea, except that back in the 'good old days', there was more crime per capita so I think that tells you how effective those techniques were. Also, while you are dismembering people left and right, you might get a false conviction. How many innocent people you intending to drop in your medieval version of a wood chipper to 'stop' crime? Because, remember how hacking people up for criminal activities ended all the crime in the ancient world...
You sir, are a thug and an idiot.
You know, if you just stopped subscribing to illegal Malaysian wombat pr0n sites, you wouldn't have to go to such ridiculous lengths to sanitize your email...
Folk tales are great, but I like some rigor in my economics.
I find it funny that you ask for rigor in modeling a complex non-linear system that has potentially billions of independent non-quantifiable variables. Just remember that any model is a simplification of reality and therefore by definition, wrong. Good luck with that though.
All of your conclusions are faulty, as you need to have a house to live in in any event. The whole 'exiting the market' concept is silly, because this isn't like the stock market where you can simply choose not to play if you dislike the rules. You going to live on the streets and put your rent into hedges like commodities?
Printing money is immensely beneficial to the government, as they can essentially tax people without them knowing it. Far easier to increase the money supply by 10% - where prices might take months or years to adjust - instead of levying a 10% tax on everybody. It also benefits the people who are closest to the government the most, as they receive those printed funds first and get everything at a discount. Yet they have brainwashed people into thinking inflation is good, deflation is horrible, so yes, please continue to steal our money at an acceptable rate.
You have some insight in what you said, but I think there is a slight problem with your logic. When the government 'prints' money, it isn't directly getting more spending power, because budgeting isn't done by printing new money and handing it out directly to government departments to spend. (Although, the revenue generated by distributing the 'money' will eventually get folded back into the budget) In fact, due to the sometimes glacial fashion that money is allocated, it might even hurt government spending power because of the delay between increasing the money supply and buying more widgets for federal usage. I think you are quite correct in your statement that it directly benefits the banks that are at the head of the line when the pallets of new hard currency is shipped out/ the prime rate is changed/ bonds are sold/etc.. It seems to me that this is less of a hidden tax by the government and more of a money distribution cost. (Or graft, should the money be distributed in a way to benefit the friends of whoever is in charge of fed policy, this in my mind would be a much more likely form of abuse)
And as for the moral argument about hidden taxes, we have a representative government where we choose leaders to act on our behalf, so doing things like selecting how much money would be printed is exactly what they should be doing. They (the fed, the mint, etc) have been charged with managing the countries money supply, and your question seems to presuppose that any step that they take to increase the money supply is a deliberate immoral attempt to steal from the citizens. You seem to be asking a loaded question that assumes that there isn't any other reason to increase the money supply.
Well, if you are in Seattle, you only have to worry about the police if you are a minority armed with a sword or knife. In that event, expect to get murdered by cops with guns. I expect the UAVs are probably to locate minorities armed with knives more efficiently.
.22 rifle, you will probably get charged with attempted murder. If you shoot at a UAV, you will get charged with destruction of private property. Yay?
But on the plus side, if you shoot at a police helicopter spying on you sans warrant with a