They spent 3 or 4 years working on this thing, and the best name they could come up with for the chip is gruvi. Someone needs slapping really, really hard.
I just wish more things would allow you to authenticate with an SSH key, then I could run ssh-agent locally, authenticate with my computer once per (login || screensaver_lock) and have it accepted by most services I have to deal with.
That would be nice, but I suspect that wouldn't work so well for me. I have to use ssh to get to a bunch of systems and when my login password expires I *still* have to update it. Never mind that I have authorized_keys, ssh-agent or anything else... Some of them have both ssh *and* telnet, and when the password expires ssh simply won't let you in. You have to telnet in and get the "password expired" prompt, change it, then go back to ssh. And don't even get me started on the SeOS "secured" systems...
I'm guessing it'll store the one-way encrypted passwords. If you try to reuse a password, it'll encrypt it via the usual method and find it matches. OK, so there may be extreme cases where several words hash to the same value, but they don't care...
Changing the password often takes care of the case where an attacker gets your password and accesses the system in a way that isn't easily visible. For example, if you're an accountant you might have access to company financial records, and it could be useful for a competitor to be able to view them occasionally. If your password is forcibly changed every month, the attacker has to get it all over again, and may leave a trail in the logs.
Yeah, "campaign funding" says it all. If judges don't have to campaign, there's little opportunity for corporations to apply financial leverage. Plus, there are thousands of judges spread all over the country and there's some risk they'd get one they hadn't bought. Easier to buy politicians and make sure all the legislation goes the way they want it to.
Let's take that scenario a little further - suppose the RIAA is awarded $1,000,000 damages and, as other people have suggested, that judgement simply sits around waiting for the girl to get her first paycheck, then the RIAA gets a slice forever after. How would this 13-year-old deal with that kind of doom hanging over her?? What percentage of her paycheck would the RIAA get?? If she earns $30,000 per year, pays out roughly 1/3 in taxes and medical insurance, and if the RIAA got the remaining $20,000, it would take 50 years to pay off. I don't imagine a court would be stupid enough to not leave her *some* money to live on, so it will take far longer to pay off. BTW, would that $1,000,000 debt accrue interest??
I'm sure we've all seen news stories about kids being bullied in school, or taunted, or simply being rejected by another boy/girl and that kid then goes off and commits suicide. I wonder if the RIAA is prepared to deal with the kind of publicity they'd get if they *did* successfully get a $1,000,000 judgement against a child, and that child chose to exercise that final option, to escape from an intolerable situation.
I sincerely hope there's at least one smart person in the RIAA with enough leverage to stop that from happening.
Depending on who's controlling the thing, I'd expect there to be a cylindrical no-fly zone of several miles radius, possibly enforced by fighter jets and/or ground-to-air missiles.
Dunno about anyone else, but I generally send a couple of test messages through any new mail system I set up. Are those likely to be historically interesting?? Probably not - it's the equivalent of "hello world" in email... Then there's the occasional invitation to help some African whacko "inherit 25 million dollar, bwana" - I suppose those might be useful to track literacy in Nigeria, or wherever those scum hang out...
Whether if was the summarizer or Mr Mossberg, the quote is stupid.
Google's engineers have decreed that familiar email practices are no longer useful, and have substituted approaches they prefer, arrogantly denying users any choice.
The fact of the matter is, that nobody is forcing anyone to use Google email, or Yahoo email, or MSN email, or Hotmail, etc... The choice is always up to the user - Google's engineers have done things their way, Yahoo's did it differently, Microsoft did it yet again differently, several times. Mr Mossberg just needs to pick an interface he likes, and move on. Of course, he's free to express his opinion, just as much as you and I are free to call him an id10t...
Ya know, depending on where the camera is relative to the IR emitter/receiver, a simple tube would do it. At last! A use for the cardboard tubes left over from toilet tissue... Profit!!
Windows XP was adopted in far larger numbers than any of the naysayers wanted to believe would happen
And that has absolutely nothing to do with not being able to buy an off-the-shelf PC with a different OS, right?? In recent years, PC ownership has risen dramatically, and a lot of the people buying them really don't care that they could download a different OS for free, they'll use what what comes preloaded. Only in the last year or so have the unwashed masses been able to see an OS other than XP actually running live in a store. Prior to that, one of the major decisions was, "What goes better with my furniture? Beige box or black box?" I still hear people claim to have 40Gb "memory", and just recently I overheard someone asking in a store if 1.2GHz was faster than 512Mb and the salesdriod had to go check...
Never underestimate the value of a rubber housebrick with a builtin "glass-breaking" soundtrack. Hours on tension relief and little damage to the surrounding fixtures...
Round here, pretty much the whole place is an IT department. We've got a separate Security Risk^H^H^H^HDept. Let me see - after editing/etc/passwd on a production server and wiping out almost all of it, the Data Security guy actually saves the file. Then he tries to recover by copying opasswd to passwd, but I guess he got the names switched, because opasswd got truncated too. On another occasion, probably the same guy thinks he can limit who logs into a production server by listing names in the/etc/nologin file. I got a panicked call from his manager, "Can you fix this? No one can login." She even gave me the root password over the phone and didn't even want to know how I fixed it. And the number of times those folks have changed a password, then logged out to test it by logging in again, instead of opening up a new window... Passwords for both root and their own generic security ID, that is...
Redundancy? Hah! "It's not broken now... what are the chances it's going to go down?"
Anyone tried that on me, I'd ask if they carry a spare tire in their car. If the answer's yes, the next question's obvious: "So, you don't trust your other tires not to go down?? Are they not properly installed, or something??"
One things "computerised" ought (yeah, I know...) to get you is trackability. In your RMA situation, if management wants to they should be able to create reports that show which supplier gets the most returns, which could lead to a change of suppliers. Or is there a seasonal-related variation is the numbers, or whatever.
OK, so that may not be a good example, but I'm sure there are others. If the data is "computerised", it should be easier to sort and sift and graph than if it's on paper.
And it sounds like your Peoplesoft app sucks - it ought to be able to handle multiple addresses and you shouldn't have to dig through 10 pages to get there.
I guess they've gotta be pissed about what Brazil is doing, then. According to a program I saw parts of on TV last night, Brazil is near enough self-sufficient fuel-wise, making alcohol from sugar cane (or was that beets?) to supplement oil-based gasoline. At the time the program was made, Brazil was turning out enough alcohol per year to be able to reduce their oil consumption by over 400 million barrels.
Or maybe the whole country got stinking drunk for a year and didn't drive at all, thereby saving gas...
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They spent 3 or 4 years working on this thing, and the best name they could come up with for the chip is gruvi. Someone needs slapping really, really hard.
That would be nice, but I suspect that wouldn't work so well for me. I have to use ssh to get to a bunch of systems and when my login password expires I *still* have to update it. Never mind that I have authorized_keys, ssh-agent or anything else... Some of them have both ssh *and* telnet, and when the password expires ssh simply won't let you in. You have to telnet in and get the "password expired" prompt, change it, then go back to ssh. And don't even get me started on the SeOS "secured" systems...
I'm guessing it'll store the one-way encrypted passwords. If you try to reuse a password, it'll encrypt it via the usual method and find it matches. OK, so there may be extreme cases where several words hash to the same value, but they don't care...
Changing the password often takes care of the case where an attacker gets your password and accesses the system in a way that isn't easily visible. For example, if you're an accountant you might have access to company financial records, and it could be useful for a competitor to be able to view them occasionally. If your password is forcibly changed every month, the attacker has to get it all over again, and may leave a trail in the logs.
It may only be listed on the extortion^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hlawsuit notices they send out. So, 'fess up anybody that got one!
That depends - are we in a handbasket??
Yeah, "campaign funding" says it all. If judges don't have to campaign, there's little opportunity for corporations to apply financial leverage. Plus, there are thousands of judges spread all over the country and there's some risk they'd get one they hadn't bought. Easier to buy politicians and make sure all the legislation goes the way they want it to.
I'm sure we've all seen news stories about kids being bullied in school, or taunted, or simply being rejected by another boy/girl and that kid then goes off and commits suicide. I wonder if the RIAA is prepared to deal with the kind of publicity they'd get if they *did* successfully get a $1,000,000 judgement against a child, and that child chose to exercise that final option, to escape from an intolerable situation.
I sincerely hope there's at least one smart person in the RIAA with enough leverage to stop that from happening.
Got a number for that hotline?? Not that I'd ever even *consider* making prank calls, but a few of our readers might like to...
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Any time your car is going to be standing for some time, just stick this panel on a window and plug it into the lighter socket.
Wait! You can get a jacket with a builtin mp3 player?? Schweet!! I want one!!
Depending on who's controlling the thing, I'd expect there to be a cylindrical no-fly zone of several miles radius, possibly enforced by fighter jets and/or ground-to-air missiles.
And if the constant fails, add beer...
It's probably important to NASA - look at what happened when they got confused over units of measurements...
Dunno about anyone else, but I generally send a couple of test messages through any new mail system I set up. Are those likely to be historically interesting?? Probably not - it's the equivalent of "hello world" in email... Then there's the occasional invitation to help some African whacko "inherit 25 million dollar, bwana" - I suppose those might be useful to track literacy in Nigeria, or wherever those scum hang out...
The fact of the matter is, that nobody is forcing anyone to use Google email, or Yahoo email, or MSN email, or Hotmail, etc... The choice is always up to the user - Google's engineers have done things their way, Yahoo's did it differently, Microsoft did it yet again differently, several times. Mr Mossberg just needs to pick an interface he likes, and move on. Of course, he's free to express his opinion, just as much as you and I are free to call him an id10t...
I'd imagine we'll find out if the Great Firewall of China works both ways.
Ya know, depending on where the camera is relative to the IR emitter/receiver, a simple tube would do it. At last! A use for the cardboard tubes left over from toilet tissue... Profit!!
And that has absolutely nothing to do with not being able to buy an off-the-shelf PC with a different OS, right?? In recent years, PC ownership has risen dramatically, and a lot of the people buying them really don't care that they could download a different OS for free, they'll use what what comes preloaded. Only in the last year or so have the unwashed masses been able to see an OS other than XP actually running live in a store. Prior to that, one of the major decisions was, "What goes better with my furniture? Beige box or black box?" I still hear people claim to have 40Gb "memory", and just recently I overheard someone asking in a store if 1.2GHz was faster than 512Mb and the salesdriod had to go check...
Never underestimate the value of a rubber housebrick with a builtin "glass-breaking" soundtrack. Hours on tension relief and little damage to the surrounding fixtures...
Round here, pretty much the whole place is an IT department. We've got a separate Security Risk^H^H^H^HDept. Let me see - after editing /etc/passwd on a production server and wiping out almost all of it, the Data Security guy actually saves the file. Then he tries to recover by copying opasswd to passwd, but I guess he got the names switched, because opasswd got truncated too. On another occasion, probably the same guy thinks he can limit who logs into a production server by listing names in the /etc/nologin file. I got a panicked call from his manager, "Can you fix this? No one can login." She even gave me the root password over the phone and didn't even want to know how I fixed it. And the number of times those folks have changed a password, then logged out to test it by logging in again, instead of opening up a new window... Passwords for both root and their own generic security ID, that is...
Anyone tried that on me, I'd ask if they carry a spare tire in their car. If the answer's yes, the next question's obvious: "So, you don't trust your other tires not to go down?? Are they not properly installed, or something??"
Just partially unplug their network connection while thy're at lunch...
OK, so that may not be a good example, but I'm sure there are others. If the data is "computerised", it should be easier to sort and sift and graph than if it's on paper.
And it sounds like your Peoplesoft app sucks - it ought to be able to handle multiple addresses and you shouldn't have to dig through 10 pages to get there.
Or maybe the whole country got stinking drunk for a year and didn't drive at all, thereby saving gas...