In most cases, a 9-char password is some 96 times (number of printable characters) harder than an 8-char password,
I'd believe 30 -40, but not 96. Most people are going to use letters and a small number of punctuation, and I'd wager that testing half of that will get you 90% of the possible choices. If it's just english words, I'll go with 16 as the multiplier, just given the info content of most english.
were you questioned by the cops? Everything I've seen requires you to actively conceal evidence of a crime. It's also possible that what you did wasn't illegal and they convicted you anyway.
Compared to the Taliban, the marines aren't vicious - that's the point. I've been using Paki as a diminutive for Pakistan, not Pakistani.
The Pakistani army wasn't fighting invaders because they were apparently concerned with their own welfare over that of their people. I don't buy that the Taliban are the tribal leaders from 2-3 years back - too organized. Also, yes, it's far better to supply our ally so they can keep hold of their nukes than invade them when they get overrun.
No, they refer to teflon coated bullets and you can buy them, just not make them. Also, if you really want to penetrate body armor, use.338 Lapua from 500m (for bragging rights) or get a.22 and learn how to aim properly. The AP ammo banned seems to only handgun bullets fully composed of hard alloys and ones with a really heavy jacket.
Not to my knowledge. If you know someone is planning a crime, then sure, you are obligated not to help them, but in the general case, you have no duty to report it. Here's some random internet discussion on the subject: linklink. Nothing I could find mentions mere knowledge of planned felonies - all refs required concealment or aiding in commission of the crime.
No, Marines aren't vicious, unless you'd like a couple incidents like My Lai. We're supposed to be the good guys, so it's sort of bad form to rule through terror. Meanwhile, the Taliban has an army and is trying to take Pakistan, so claiming they aren't the same as the pre 2001 clan is at best disingenuous, especially since they're invaders there. As far as I can tell, the only reason we'd send marines to Paki is if the Taliban were taking the country - gotta get the nukes in that case.
Out of touch, to me, is a result of seeing them push the same stupid pro-lobbyist things over and over in the face of popular opposition. Basically, the way things are set up, the politicos seem more accountable to bribery than the populace. Not that we're better or anything.
We're in a project to convert some of our website workflow (e commerce site you probably use) to a service based architecture, and oh my lord, the PM is slapping SOA on every goddamned thing he can find: the project got redubbed as some phrase 'on SOA', the main service we're using is constantly referred to as a SOA service, even though it's not named that and a SOA service doesn't mean a damned thing, there are signs up all around about SOA crap. Jesus christ, it's just a service architecture, and anyway it's a running battle to get people to do a service arch. instead of sucking all the functionality into a big central blob.
Here's hoping the euros start assassinating their leaders. When the guys at the top are this out of touch, mortal danger is the only thing that they really respond to. And if not, you eventually run out of leaders.
Notice how it didn't really say who the users were in the GP - the common case here is registration/contact forms where salesmen want a number to call. They get the treatment.
I have no trouble believing that there is a scenario that uses virtualization that is $1M cheaper than another scenario that doesn't use virtualization. But that doesn't mean that it is the virtualization that saves the $1M.
Then what? It sounds like you just want a reason to hate virt machines.
But the question is: why was the software spread out over that many physical machines in the first place?
The answer is usually isolation. Also, modern machines are usually far more powerful than we need for a lot of maintenance or low traffic, so you consolidate them. Since you can slice up a machine pretty finely, go get a 12G + dual quad core box that eats 150W or so and replace 8 machines - presto, consolidato, and you have a lot more rack space, less power consumption, and if you get 3-4 of these things, great redundancy - the failure rate on 4 machines vs. 30 of variable age makes this easier. You also have the obvious administrative advantages with fewer machines to maintain.
The more you Idiot-Proof a system, the smarter the Idiots become. Not smarter at actually entering the correct data, just smarter at bypassing the protections you put in place.
Just look how smart you've become - why the hell are you demanding a phone number? If I had your form to fill in, I'd either abandon it or put in your main switchboard, or a phone sex number.
I've been reading the Economist, so I got to see the Taliban bargain a cease fire in exchange for some nasty laws, violate the cease fire, and go on an offensive, meanwhile watching the Paki army do nothing out of self interest. They only recently started actually fighting, and it looks like it's out of shame for being a bunch of pussies. If the Paki army wasn't standing up to the Taliban, how in the hell is Achmed the Goatherder going to?
If the people of Afghanistan were so displeased with their government, it is their responsibility to do something about it, not ours. Stepping in and doing it for them only engenders hostility because we're perceived as invaders.
Bullshit. The Afghans want the taliban out, but the Taliban is vicious and organized, so they stay. It's only when we show up and offer protection that they lose support.
The really annoying thing is Alias: they have recaps at the start of every episode for relevant backstory, but you can't skip to the start of the ep. - chapter forward loses about 5 minutes of story.
What right does the government have telling others that person A is a bad person without evidence? That's what the watch list is, even if SCOTUS thinks otherwise. Thei reaoning here is pretty tortured.
It's not necessarily important for engineers to be in executive level positions. A lot of them would make a complete hash of it the same way that having a lot of people who are currently executives wouldn't work either.
A lot of sales and marketing guys make a complete hash of things - look at Fiorina, for instance. The fact that most people wouldn't be good CEOs is no reason to pick them from the ranks of the sales department.
I've seen a lot of people who think that IT should drive the direction of the business as opposed to the business driving the direction of IT.
IT is the part that keeps your desktop running and the lights on in the datacenter. Perhaps you mean software development? Where I work, we are dictated what to build and how, rather than being given goals and expected to achieve them. We have little to no ownership, are treated like cogs, and haven't any budget to spend on tools and support automation. As a result, we spend up to half our time fighting fires.
I'd like to know why these people aren't arrested, if they're so dangerous?
Because there's no evidence of criminal activity. I'm fine with the fed keeping lists, just not with them being published or used to deny people their rights through intermediaries.
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Yeah, it's only 95%...
In most cases, a 9-char password is some 96 times (number of printable characters) harder than an 8-char password,
I'd believe 30 -40, but not 96. Most people are going to use letters and a small number of punctuation, and I'd wager that testing half of that will get you 90% of the possible choices. If it's just english words, I'll go with 16 as the multiplier, just given the info content of most english.
were you questioned by the cops? Everything I've seen requires you to actively conceal evidence of a crime. It's also possible that what you did wasn't illegal and they convicted you anyway.
I dare you to walk up to a soldier and call him a baby killer. Jesus christ, you're dense.
Compared to the Taliban, the marines aren't vicious - that's the point. I've been using Paki as a diminutive for Pakistan, not Pakistani.
The Pakistani army wasn't fighting invaders because they were apparently concerned with their own welfare over that of their people. I don't buy that the Taliban are the tribal leaders from 2-3 years back - too organized. Also, yes, it's far better to supply our ally so they can keep hold of their nukes than invade them when they get overrun.
No, they refer to teflon coated bullets and you can buy them, just not make them. Also, if you really want to penetrate body armor, use .338 Lapua from 500m (for bragging rights) or get a .22 and learn how to aim properly. The AP ammo banned seems to only handgun bullets fully composed of hard alloys and ones with a really heavy jacket.
Not to my knowledge. If you know someone is planning a crime, then sure, you are obligated not to help them, but in the general case, you have no duty to report it. Here's some random internet discussion on the subject: link link. Nothing I could find mentions mere knowledge of planned felonies - all refs required concealment or aiding in commission of the crime.
No, Marines aren't vicious, unless you'd like a couple incidents like My Lai. We're supposed to be the good guys, so it's sort of bad form to rule through terror. Meanwhile, the Taliban has an army and is trying to take Pakistan, so claiming they aren't the same as the pre 2001 clan is at best disingenuous, especially since they're invaders there. As far as I can tell, the only reason we'd send marines to Paki is if the Taliban were taking the country - gotta get the nukes in that case.
Out of touch, to me, is a result of seeing them push the same stupid pro-lobbyist things over and over in the face of popular opposition. Basically, the way things are set up, the politicos seem more accountable to bribery than the populace. Not that we're better or anything.
We're in a project to convert some of our website workflow (e commerce site you probably use) to a service based architecture, and oh my lord, the PM is slapping SOA on every goddamned thing he can find: the project got redubbed as some phrase 'on SOA', the main service we're using is constantly referred to as a SOA service, even though it's not named that and a SOA service doesn't mean a damned thing, there are signs up all around about SOA crap. Jesus christ, it's just a service architecture, and anyway it's a running battle to get people to do a service arch. instead of sucking all the functionality into a big central blob.
I need a drink
It's bangalore, I'm sure you could buy two on the open market.
Here's hoping the euros start assassinating their leaders. When the guys at the top are this out of touch, mortal danger is the only thing that they really respond to. And if not, you eventually run out of leaders.
Notice how it didn't really say who the users were in the GP - the common case here is registration/contact forms where salesmen want a number to call. They get the treatment.
I have no trouble believing that there is a scenario that uses virtualization that is $1M cheaper than another scenario that doesn't use virtualization. But that doesn't mean that it is the virtualization that saves the $1M.
Then what? It sounds like you just want a reason to hate virt machines.
But the question is: why was the software spread out over that many physical machines in the first place?
The answer is usually isolation. Also, modern machines are usually far more powerful than we need for a lot of maintenance or low traffic, so you consolidate them. Since you can slice up a machine pretty finely, go get a 12G + dual quad core box that eats 150W or so and replace 8 machines - presto, consolidato, and you have a lot more rack space, less power consumption, and if you get 3-4 of these things, great redundancy - the failure rate on 4 machines vs. 30 of variable age makes this easier. You also have the obvious administrative advantages with fewer machines to maintain.
Strong AI remains a long way off.
Well of course - AI sort of requires animus, and I have yet to see an AI prof even breathe the word.
The more you Idiot-Proof a system, the smarter the Idiots become. Not smarter at actually entering the correct data, just smarter at bypassing the protections you put in place.
Just look how smart you've become - why the hell are you demanding a phone number? If I had your form to fill in, I'd either abandon it or put in your main switchboard, or a phone sex number.
I've been reading the Economist, so I got to see the Taliban bargain a cease fire in exchange for some nasty laws, violate the cease fire, and go on an offensive, meanwhile watching the Paki army do nothing out of self interest. They only recently started actually fighting, and it looks like it's out of shame for being a bunch of pussies. If the Paki army wasn't standing up to the Taliban, how in the hell is Achmed the Goatherder going to?
we didn't have TV back then. Nowadays, all you hear is Dem-Rep and Fox will never refer to the Libertarian party by name in an actual campaign.
If the people of Afghanistan were so displeased with their government, it is their responsibility to do something about it, not ours. Stepping in and doing it for them only engenders hostility because we're perceived as invaders.
Bullshit. The Afghans want the taliban out, but the Taliban is vicious and organized, so they stay. It's only when we show up and offer protection that they lose support.
the only commercials I watch are Jack in the Box (and I've never been inside of one).
The really annoying thing is Alias: they have recaps at the start of every episode for relevant backstory, but you can't skip to the start of the ep. - chapter forward loses about 5 minutes of story.
What right does the government have telling others that person A is a bad person without evidence? That's what the watch list is, even if SCOTUS thinks otherwise. Thei reaoning here is pretty tortured.
It's not necessarily important for engineers to be in executive level positions. A lot of them would make a complete hash of it the same way that having a lot of people who are currently executives wouldn't work either.
A lot of sales and marketing guys make a complete hash of things - look at Fiorina, for instance. The fact that most people wouldn't be good CEOs is no reason to pick them from the ranks of the sales department.
I've seen a lot of people who think that IT should drive the direction of the business as opposed to the business driving the direction of IT.
IT is the part that keeps your desktop running and the lights on in the datacenter. Perhaps you mean software development? Where I work, we are dictated what to build and how, rather than being given goals and expected to achieve them. We have little to no ownership, are treated like cogs, and haven't any budget to spend on tools and support automation. As a result, we spend up to half our time fighting fires.
I'd like to know why these people aren't arrested, if they're so dangerous?
Because there's no evidence of criminal activity. I'm fine with the fed keeping lists, just not with them being published or used to deny people their rights through intermediaries.