I think the primary difference between MS' Passport and AmEx' Wallet/Blue is that with the Blue card and reader you get a 1024 bit (or perhaps it's 2048bit) token to initiate the process that is sent from your PC. Passport still is dependent on the user supplying a password, which is much more crackable.
I just went through the Passport setup process to see what they require. You do have to supply a password which "
Must be at least 8 characters long, and can contain numbers and/or letters, but no spaces. Make sure it's difficult for others to guess!
"
But you also give them a question to ask in case you forget your password and there are no requirements for the complexity of the response, (in fact this process almost ensures that a dictionary word will be used by the typical user, though they do warn against this.)
Also, this whole process apears to be done unencrypted (at least it doesn't use SSL) except your password is masked out. (The answer to your question aparently isn't).
Since MS is trying to establish a standard for ecommerce, you would think that at a minimum it would require something more secure than an 8 character password (ie 36^8 possible solutions roughly equivalent to 40bit encryption). Also note that when you sign-in to passport, it isn't over an SSL connection either. Also, hotmail users are being encouraged to use their hotmail username/password for their passport account.
Strange, people don't look like canopeners
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· Score: 3
According to my cat, I look like a giant canopener, unless she has just been fed in which case I look like a doorman.
Of course once in a while I do look like a comfy chair, which is why the cat is still around.
By the way, first post. Also, the picture site seems to have already been hit by the slashdot effect.
According to the FAQ you can't officialy do more than 10 as a default. But you can do up to a hundred for any subsequent search (number 1-100 can be plugged into the URL if you don't want to search in units of 10,30, or 100. You can always create your own local search form page if you want to start with number other than 10 (but still less than 101)
RE: more than 20 pages of hits
if you need more than 2,000 (20x100) results, you may want to try MetaFind As far as I know they don't limit their results, though they may be limited by the search engines they themselves use.
RE:Alternate to Deja.com
I use AltaVista or DogPile, which does a metasearch of both the Altavista and Deja (old & current) Usenet databases.
The no banner ad policy is also a bit hypocritical in that:
They get a lot of their traffic from being a preferred search-engine on Netscape's search page which is banner supported;
Google places banner ads themselves to increase traffic. (I just saw one a minute ago while using a different search engine from Netscape's search page)
Is it anyone else out there worried by the proximity of this announcement with the one yesterday that MIT and MS were forming new educational joint venture?
> I get the impression that this net did not perform better "even" under noisy conditions, but "only" under noisy conditions.
If you look at the chart provided in the video you'll see the 'Dynamic Synapse' ALWAYS beat the human subject pool. In the zero background noise test, the net was accurate 100%, while the humans were right only 90% of the time. However, to be fair they should create the same number of 'Dynamic Synapse' listeners as humans in the pool and then compare the average results of the 'Dynamic Synapse' pool to the average results of the human pool.
The Times of London had a s tory Wednesday indicating an Isreali team has a hendheld quantum device that can crack 512-bit RSA keys in 12 MICROseconds.
I've been following this project since their first public beta test. I still think it needs some polishing, and a way to limit the duplicate hits that are mirrors of other sites. But overall, it is clearly the most powerful search engine, even if it isn't the most comprehensive or current. (for example, doesn't search usenet or newswires as Dogpile does. Fortunately, the caching feature helps to make up for the old links that have expired.
If you follow the reasoning of Genesis, God created Man in His own image. Therefor, Man is God's clone. Presumably, this gives Man all the power of God (though we have been forbidden the knowledge to take advantage of this power).
Given that we are willing to take the risk in disobeying God's instructions not to try and obtain the required knowledge (i.e. eat the fruit of the tree of knowledge), then we must conclude that Man will obtain the required knowledge to create life in Our own image. Though I would expect that we likely have the power to do this by fiat, as God did, it is easier for us to comprehend doing so through science, first starting with simpler life-forms and then progressing to Man (this coincindentally parallels God).
TheRegister has an article comparing the specs of the different boxes. The 400 Mhz machine will not support some of the key features of the 450 or 500. That is why it is available now and price competive with Pentiums and G3s. They are still getting the bugs out of the SawTooth Mobo, maybe when they have produces enough of them they will come out with a SawTooth based G4/400.
The concern would be that someone would come in and insert a message into one of the data sets that is still to be processed. If you remember the uproar in the novel CONTACT when the first message decoded was Hitler's televised broadcast at the Berlin Olympics. I imagine there are groups out there that would like to ensure that this fictional account becomes a reality.
Slashdot Mirror
If speed is distance travelled over time, and time doesn't exist, we get a Division by zero error.
Now we can assume distance/zero = inifinity, in which case
e = c^2 * infinity = infinity
Or we can assume distance/zero = zero so
e = c^2 * zero = zero
I think our best choice is distance/zero = 1 so
e = c^2 * 1 = c^2
I just went through the Passport setup process to see what they require. You do have to supply a password which "
"But you also give them a question to ask in case you forget your password and there are no requirements for the complexity of the response, (in fact this process almost ensures that a dictionary word will be used by the typical user, though they do warn against this.)
Also, this whole process apears to be done unencrypted (at least it doesn't use SSL) except your password is masked out. (The answer to your question aparently isn't).
Since MS is trying to establish a standard for ecommerce, you would think that at a minimum it would require something more secure than an 8 character password (ie 36^8 possible solutions roughly equivalent to 40bit encryption). Also note that when you sign-in to passport, it isn't over an SSL connection either. Also, hotmail users are being encouraged to use their hotmail username/password for their passport account.
Of course once in a while I do look like a comfy chair, which is why the cat is still around.
By the way, first post. Also, the picture site seems to have already been hit by the slashdot effect.
RE: more than 20 pages of hits
- if you need more than 2,000 (20x100) results, you may want to try MetaFind As far as I know they don't limit their results, though they may be limited by the search engines they themselves use.
RE:Alternate to Deja.comIs it anyone else out there worried by the proximity of this announcement with the one yesterday that MIT and MS were forming new educational joint venture?
If you look at the chart provided in the video you'll see the 'Dynamic Synapse' ALWAYS beat the human subject pool. In the zero background noise test, the net was accurate 100%, while the humans were right only 90% of the time. However, to be fair they should create the same number of 'Dynamic Synapse' listeners as humans in the pool and then compare the average results of the 'Dynamic Synapse' pool to the average results of the human pool.
The Times of London had a s tory Wednesday indicating an Isreali team has a hendheld quantum device that can crack 512-bit RSA keys in 12 MICROseconds.
How about now?
I've been following this project since their first public beta test. I still think it needs some polishing, and a way to limit the duplicate hits that are mirrors of other sites. But overall, it is clearly the most powerful search engine, even if it isn't the most comprehensive or current. (for example, doesn't search usenet or newswires as Dogpile does. Fortunately, the caching feature helps to make up for the old links that have expired.
If you follow the reasoning of Genesis, God created Man in His own image. Therefor, Man is God's clone. Presumably, this gives Man all the power of God (though we have been forbidden the knowledge to take advantage of this power).
Given that we are willing to take the risk in disobeying God's instructions not to try and obtain the required knowledge (i.e. eat the fruit of the tree of knowledge), then we must conclude that Man will obtain the required knowledge to create life in Our own image. Though I would expect that we likely have the power to do this by fiat, as God did, it is easier for us to comprehend doing so through science, first starting with simpler life-forms and then progressing to Man (this coincindentally parallels God).
TheRegister has an article comparing the specs of the different boxes. The 400 Mhz machine will not support some of the key features of the 450 or 500. That is why it is available now and price competive with Pentiums and G3s.
They are still getting the bugs out of the SawTooth Mobo, maybe when they have produces enough of them they will come out with a SawTooth based G4/400.
Feel the power! /.!
I am
Kneel all that would be linked to by me!
The concern would be that someone would come in and insert a message into one of the data sets that is still to be processed. If you remember the uproar in the novel CONTACT when the first message decoded was Hitler's televised broadcast at the Berlin Olympics. I imagine there are groups out there that would like to ensure that this fictional account becomes a reality.