What's interesting is that many who would decry the lack of personal privacy are also the same ones that lash out against DRM in any form. After all, isn't DRM all about protecting content (personal information) based on the wishes of the owner of that content?
Fat lot of good DRM does you when the person demanding your vital statistics is some faceless minion of a large corporation. DRM is basically useful when you're a big company protecting your content (that you sell at whatever price you choose). It works because it's backed up by the government in the form of felony prosecution. When a private citizen gives up his trackable info, it's never in a digital form, so it can't be protected. If it were digital, the company would demand that it not be secured, and they'd get it, because they're big and they have something we want, but we have nothing they want (individually). The solution to this whole mess is probably legislation supporting our right to control our own information, ala Europe. Good luck.
You're limiting the randomness of the characters. You'll have 10+26+26 possible characters for your password.
Not really, at least considering the commonly used schemes these days. You're frequently limited to alphanumeric passwords + a varying set of punctuation.
The passwords are difficult to remember, making it more likely that it will end up on a post-it.
Encrypted database. Probably on a PDA.
If you know the length of your password you can brute force the password in many instances. For example: If the pw length is 6 and I have access to the hashed password table, I can generate [(10+26+26)^(6)] entries.
And a password of length 10 takes quite a bit longer, especially after I add salt (random stuff added to the end when updating the password).
Except when the "best person" is a criminal. You don't hire pedophiles to run a daycare center no matter how good they are with kids.
Oh, right, compare Kevin with the kid-fuckers. The thing that separates them from other felons (aside from the nature of their victims) is that they usually have a compulsion to go after kids that is very hard to ignore. Most criminals aren't like this: a convicted bank robber can open a checking account without the urge to rob the bank again.
Yeah, Kevin did some things that he shouldn't have, and he got caught, but that's no reason to brand him for life. He has no malicious intent. Instead, he obsessively hoards information. The best thing to do is put him someplace where he can do the most good.
If Aspect oriented programming adopts a programming model that does not include inheritance, then the implied value judgement is that on the whole, inheritance causes more problems than it solves and is best not offered as an option.
This is true only for the class of problems that Aspect programming is targetted at. Another value judgement is that they prefer to achieve the same ends through different means, or that they made the design model too simple.
Its been nearly 20 years since I was at college and I remember using a lock system were you had to remember the 5 digit key sequence to get into your room. Thats a hell of a lot more secure than this card system, and its 20 years old.
What the hell? I guess drinking too much meant that you spent the night in the hall.
You're not being a good samaritan by publishing flaws to the world, you're being a dick who's trying to aid criminals. Frankly I've got no problem with locking up people who actively facilitate criminal activity.
Strangely enough, I feel the same way about these Blackboard people. However, instead of aiding petty theft, they're potentially defrauding their customers with false claims of security and threatening anybody who dares to speak of it with lawyers.
Thankfully these people were good enough to realize that shutting up was the good citizen thing to do. If only more people would realize that and if only they'd realize it without needing a lawyer to tell them to be a good citizen...
Shutting up was most certainly not the right thing to do here. If the flaws remain buried or appear so, then there's no incentive to fix them. This results in a less secure environment, where criminals with a bit of technical knowledge rip off Blackboard's customers. If only more people had the courage to speak up and face the hordes of attack lawyers.
I agree but you're completely missing the point, which is this[...]
My point is somewhat related to your attempt at statistical analysis on our historical eating habits. You seem to be claiming that the modern high-carb diet is healthy because we live longer, but you fail to account for all the other factors that have changed: our food doesn't kill us very often, medicine has improved drastically, and most people in the US don't do heavy labor for 30 years (which ages you rather quickly). My point is that refnied sugar is cheap and easy to get and its wide usage matches very closely with the increaased rate of obesity. This is backed up by analysis of the calorie content of food sold today, which tends to show that we eat way more food than we should.
3) our bodies may be fine-tuned to our earlier diet, but they are also fine-tuned to give out in about 30 years.
I'm not sure how you draw that conclusion. The simple truth is that, once you've have kids and raised them to maturity (about age 45 these days), there is no evolutionary pressure one way or the other.
4) you can't deny the evidence that a high-meat diet has negative health consequences.
Watch me: A high-meat diet can be quite healthy. All meat is bad, of course, but high meat is a good idea for a lot of people.
neither has diet. you have to go back at least 10,000 years
Not so. Up until recently, refined sugar hasn't been very cheap - it used to be fiendishly expensive. In the past century or so, it's found its way into all parts of the American diet. This is probably why there are so many fat Americans.
When you think about it, in the distant past we spent most of our day doing nothing but looking for food (hence exercise) and then ate what we could, cooking some of it over open fire or coals, or perhaps slow-cooked using hot rocks or smoked.
If you are older than 25 a lot of exercize MAY hurt a lot, especially if you didn't exercize before.
I tried to enter taekwon-do group and a hard way got that my heart can't tolerate it now.
So walk instead. A little bit of exercise will probably be fine, unless your doctor tells you not to. Another thing is to learn how to breathe - if you do tae kwon do and find your heart racing (and it's not a heart condition according to your doc), learn to breathe conciously. This will moderate your heart rate and limit the possibility of hyperventilating. Also, if you're new to aerobic exercise like TKD, then you really need to ease into it.
As opposed to John Walker Lindh's 'terrorist approach' to losing weight that is built around hanging out in a flooded prison for a week with no food at all.
Hey, whatever works for you, right? I prefer not being shot at, but that's just me.
You see fat Americans, Americans are the only ones eating sugar all the time, the asians eat rice, but they have been doing it for thousands of years and their genes have adapted, you try eating rice for a while and see what happens.
I know one fat asian guy - he eats lots of rice and sugary stuff, plus he doesn't exercise. Genes are mostly irrelevant - eat too much carbo or eat more than you burn and you will gain weight.
. we all know that any of these ships - including the Super Star Destroyer - would get its butt thoroughly kicked by a Culture GSV.
Or, more likely, a GCV. Mind you, a GCV is something like 2000km long and exerts its own gravity field. While we're talking about the Culture, we should mention that a couple assault ships (imagine a 200m dildo) would waste most of the ships on this list.
Well, you have to have a graphic board at least to boot and set up the system, and all current boards are AGP, thus the AGP slot.
Most server boards have onboard video, so as to facilitate 1U applications. Of course, they frequently also have AGP slots, but if they don't, you can get a PCI one.
Around here, it costs $35 and two court appearances to sue somebody in small claims court, so it's mostly recovering wages and debt collection. Really, for $50, it's only useful if you want to irritate the store manager.
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Yeah, but since it's the UK, I'll bet those are really crooked teeth.
Hey, as long as they're sharp, right?
What's interesting is that many who would decry the lack of personal privacy are also the same ones that lash out against DRM in any form. After all, isn't DRM all about protecting content (personal information) based on the wishes of the owner of that content?
Fat lot of good DRM does you when the person demanding your vital statistics is some faceless minion of a large corporation. DRM is basically useful when you're a big company protecting your content (that you sell at whatever price you choose). It works because it's backed up by the government in the form of felony prosecution. When a private citizen gives up his trackable info, it's never in a digital form, so it can't be protected. If it were digital, the company would demand that it not be secured, and they'd get it, because they're big and they have something we want, but we have nothing they want (individually). The solution to this whole mess is probably legislation supporting our right to control our own information, ala Europe. Good luck.
You're limiting the randomness of the characters. You'll have 10+26+26 possible characters for your password.
Not really, at least considering the commonly used schemes these days. You're frequently limited to alphanumeric passwords + a varying set of punctuation.
The passwords are difficult to remember, making it more likely that it will end up on a post-it.
Encrypted database. Probably on a PDA.
If you know the length of your password you can brute force the password in many instances. For example: If the pw length is 6 and I have access to the hashed password table, I can generate [(10+26+26)^(6)] entries.
And a password of length 10 takes quite a bit longer, especially after I add salt (random stuff added to the end when updating the password).
Even with crappy restrictions, you can usually come up with something that's not going to be easily crackable.
Even so, a keyspace of 2,176,782,336 doesn't really thrill me.
His area of expertise was in deceit and lying, which is sometimes euphemistically called 'human engineering.'
Perhaps he should go into politics, then.
Except when the "best person" is a criminal. You don't hire pedophiles to run a daycare center no matter how good they are with kids.
Oh, right, compare Kevin with the kid-fuckers. The thing that separates them from other felons (aside from the nature of their victims) is that they usually have a compulsion to go after kids that is very hard to ignore. Most criminals aren't like this: a convicted bank robber can open a checking account without the urge to rob the bank again.
Yeah, Kevin did some things that he shouldn't have, and he got caught, but that's no reason to brand him for life. He has no malicious intent. Instead, he obsessively hoards information. The best thing to do is put him someplace where he can do the most good.
Funny stuff.
First, you not responsible for unauthorized activity on your CCs (call company, dispute charge, end of story).
Royal PITA, especially when it's an ongoing thing.
if you want to give up your right to privacy for negating some petty inconveniences [...]
That's not what he's saying. His problems are more pressing to him than the feds tapping his potential internet phone, that's all.
If Aspect oriented programming adopts a programming model that does not include inheritance, then the implied value judgement is that on the whole, inheritance causes more problems than it solves and is best not offered as an option.
This is true only for the class of problems that Aspect programming is targetted at. Another value judgement is that they prefer to achieve the same ends through different means, or that they made the design model too simple.
Lawyers did not "write" the law, politicians did.
Okay, just for fun:
Its been nearly 20 years since I was at college and I remember using a lock system were you had to remember the 5 digit key sequence to get into your room. Thats a hell of a lot more secure than this card system, and its 20 years old.
What the hell? I guess drinking too much meant that you spent the night in the hall.
You're not being a good samaritan by publishing flaws to the world, you're being a dick who's trying to aid criminals. Frankly I've got no problem with locking up people who actively facilitate criminal activity.
Strangely enough, I feel the same way about these Blackboard people. However, instead of aiding petty theft, they're potentially defrauding their customers with false claims of security and threatening anybody who dares to speak of it with lawyers.
Thankfully these people were good enough to realize that shutting up was the good citizen thing to do. If only more people would realize that and if only they'd realize it without needing a lawyer to tell them to be a good citizen...
Shutting up was most certainly not the right thing to do here. If the flaws remain buried or appear so, then there's no incentive to fix them. This results in a less secure environment, where criminals with a bit of technical knowledge rip off Blackboard's customers. If only more people had the courage to speak up and face the hordes of attack lawyers.
I agree but you're completely missing the point, which is this[...]
My point is somewhat related to your attempt at statistical analysis on our historical eating habits. You seem to be claiming that the modern high-carb diet is healthy because we live longer, but you fail to account for all the other factors that have changed: our food doesn't kill us very often, medicine has improved drastically, and most people in the US don't do heavy labor for 30 years (which ages you rather quickly). My point is that refnied sugar is cheap and easy to get and its wide usage matches very closely with the increaased rate of obesity. This is backed up by analysis of the calorie content of food sold today, which tends to show that we eat way more food than we should.
3) our bodies may be fine-tuned to our earlier diet, but they are also fine-tuned to give out in about 30 years.
I'm not sure how you draw that conclusion. The simple truth is that, once you've have kids and raised them to maturity (about age 45 these days), there is no evolutionary pressure one way or the other.
4) you can't deny the evidence that a high-meat diet has negative health consequences.
Watch me: A high-meat diet can be quite healthy. All meat is bad, of course, but high meat is a good idea for a lot of people.
neither has diet. you have to go back at least 10,000 years
Not so. Up until recently, refined sugar hasn't been very cheap - it used to be fiendishly expensive. In the past century or so, it's found its way into all parts of the American diet. This is probably why there are so many fat Americans.
When you think about it, in the distant past we spent most of our day doing nothing but looking for food (hence exercise) and then ate what we could, cooking some of it over open fire or coals, or perhaps slow-cooked using hot rocks or smoked.
Actually, 4-6 hours per day
yes and they also point to a life expectancy of about 30 years, so if you can live with that, bring on the meat!!
Once you factor out childhood mortality (which has been seriously reduced), the average life expectancy hasn't changed all that much in 200 years.
I continue to detect an almost religious-style resistance to low-carb diets amongst medical researches.
Perhaps the medical community is dominated by a bunch of dogmatic old guys? It wouldn't be the first time.
If you are older than 25 a lot of exercize MAY hurt a lot, especially if you didn't exercize before. I tried to enter taekwon-do group and a hard way got that my heart can't tolerate it now.
So walk instead. A little bit of exercise will probably be fine, unless your doctor tells you not to. Another thing is to learn how to breathe - if you do tae kwon do and find your heart racing (and it's not a heart condition according to your doc), learn to breathe conciously. This will moderate your heart rate and limit the possibility of hyperventilating. Also, if you're new to aerobic exercise like TKD, then you really need to ease into it.
As opposed to John Walker Lindh's 'terrorist approach' to losing weight that is built around hanging out in a flooded prison for a week with no food at all.
Hey, whatever works for you, right? I prefer not being shot at, but that's just me.
You see fat Americans, Americans are the only ones eating sugar all the time, the asians eat rice, but they have been doing it for thousands of years and their genes have adapted, you try eating rice for a while and see what happens.
I know one fat asian guy - he eats lots of rice and sugary stuff, plus he doesn't exercise. Genes are mostly irrelevant - eat too much carbo or eat more than you burn and you will gain weight.
General Contact Vessel. I guess it might me a GCU, but I don't have a book handy.
. we all know that any of these ships - including the Super Star Destroyer - would get its butt thoroughly kicked by a Culture GSV.
Or, more likely, a GCV. Mind you, a GCV is something like 2000km long and exerts its own gravity field. While we're talking about the Culture, we should mention that a couple assault ships (imagine a 200m dildo) would waste most of the ships on this list.
Well, you have to have a graphic board at least to boot and set up the system, and all current boards are AGP, thus the AGP slot.
Most server boards have onboard video, so as to facilitate 1U applications. Of course, they frequently also have AGP slots, but if they don't, you can get a PCI one.
If you own a piece of hardware, sitting in your hand, then you own it, not some subset of its functionality deemed 'acceptable' by its manufacturer.
This is true. However, running a part out of manufacturer spec and then using the warranty is also fraudulent.
You can sue in small claims court.
Around here, it costs $35 and two court appearances to sue somebody in small claims court, so it's mostly recovering wages and debt collection. Really, for $50, it's only useful if you want to irritate the store manager.
Way to spoil a good joke...