While I strongly doubt that a computer program can understand the message, there might be several triggers for "intelligent" parsers in here. For example:
"White House" -> increase the importance level of the message, set applicability to "Global" "Explosion" -> set the value to "bad" "Obama" -> increase the importance level of the message.
And I thought a good definition of "mutually exclusive" was "having no points in common with one another."
"Mutually exclusive" means at most one of them can be true at the same time. For example "the temperature is 30 degrees Celsius" and "it snows" are mutually exclusive, as there's no way that it snows at 30 degrees Celsius. OTOH "the sun is shining" and "the train is delayed" have no points in common, but they are not mutually exclusive because the train may well be delayed while the sun is shining.
I guess another reason is just laziness: To say "yes", you must first go through the documents and check whether it is OK to release them. Just saying "no" is much easier, and normally the party asking for it cannot check whether that "no" was justified or not because to do so it would have to have access to the very documents to which it just got denied that access.
And yet another reason may be the person having to decide it fearing an error: If you happen by mistake to disclose something which you shouldn't have disclosed, you'll probably face severe punishment. However you'll not face severe punishment for wrongly denying access.
Well, I assume that OpenStack is a trademark owned by the OpenStack Foundation. Therefore the OpenStack Foundation has the right to grant or deny others to use that trademark.
I guess they have clear guidelines for the conditions on when you may use the trademark (if not, it's about time). Those conditions certainly should include an exact specification of the APIs which have to be supported.
Ideally they'd release a test suite, and anything that passes the test suite may be called OpenStack, while anything that fails may not. That would be a simple, objective criterion.
The practice of labelling the infringement of exclusive rights in creative works as "piracy" predates statutory copyright law. Prior to the Statute of Anne in 1710, the Stationers' Company of London in 1557 received a Royal Charter giving the company a monopoly on publication and tasking it with enforcing the charter. Those who violated the charter were labelled pirates as early as 1603.[2]
and to repartition the disk to run Ubuntu as well (the new Unit stuff, unfortunately similar to Windows 8)
Why? After all you bought the laptop to exactly avoid this interface. Given that there are enough alternatives which are close enough without coming with Unity (like Kubuntu, or Mint), today there's no reason to use Ubuntu if you don't like the interface.
What are the troubles with installing applications? Usually it's just
1. Locate and select the application in Synaptic (or Yast, or whatever system your distribution uses). 2. Click install. 3. Wait until installation is finished.
If it is free, but not in the repository, it's usually
1. Download.deb or.rpm (depending on your distribution) 2. Install it with your package manager (usually just clicking or doubleclicking the repository from your file manager works, if you don't want to use the command line).
If it's proprietary; then it's usually "Start the installer and follow the directions given (usually just click "accept license" once and "continue" several times). Basically the same as in Windows.
It's a long time since I last installed any program which was not available in one of those three forms.
No, the point is that the whole thread was about "mathematically speaking". You are making a choice of character sets which is in no way mathematically founded. For mathematics, there's no significant difference between, e.g., the sets {'0','1','2','3','4','5','6','7','8','9'} and {'1','8','t','q'.'&','%',':','X'}
The minimum set which contains all characters of the password "1234" is {'1', '2', '3', '4'}, and the minimal set which contains all the characters of the password "t4q&" is {'4', 't', 'q', '&'}. Both have the same number of characters, namely 4, in in their respective set therefore each of the passwords has the probability 1/4^4 = 1/256.
The minimum set which contains the letters of both passwords is {'1', '2', '3', '4', 't', 'q', '&'}. In that set, both passwords have the same probability 1/7^4=1/2401.
Of course when evaluating the security of passwords in the real world, we don't just use mathematics, but also the non-mathematical knowledge that we, as humans, denote special significance to certain sets of characters, like the digits, the lowercase characters, and the uppercase characters, and that the hackers know that and therefore tailor their search for those sets. Therefore we define the special sets Digits, LowercaseLetters, UppercaseLetters and SpecialCharacters (i.e. all others). Then we take as base set to approximate(!) the security of a password the union of all the sets that intersects with the set of characters in the password.
For "1234" all characters lie in Digits, therefore we get a security of 1/10^4. For "4t&q", the letters are in the sets Digits, LowercaseLetters and SpecialCharacters, therefore (assuming ASCII printable characters as base) we get a security of 1/69^4. (Note that your calculation is still wrong in that case because you assumed a strict rule of which positions contain letters, digits and special characters, which is unrealistic in practice, and also you didn't split between lowercase and uppercase characters.)
Note that even this is just an approximation of the real security, as it assigns "1234" the same security as "3945", and "password" the same security as "hyjtmxsk". In reality, of course "1234" is less secure than "3945", and "password" is vastly less secure than "hyjtmxsk". But the point is, that you need non-mathematical knowledge for those considerations. Mathematically speaking, there's really no difference between "1234" and "4t&q".
You are assuming that the very first thing someone tries to do is to open a http connection. What if someone doesn't even connect his router to the internet, but only uses it to connect his desktop and laptop to his network capable printer? He'll then only find "it doesn't work" without ever seeing the password page. And even if the first thing he does is surf the web, it might be an https site.
Wrong. The character set of the first contains four characters, namely "1", "2", "3" and "4". The character set of the second also contains four characters, namely "4", "t", "q" and "&". In both cases, each character from the set occurs exactly once.
Now that you say it... I've passed through two metal detectors the last week, and as I notice now, I forgot to remove my watch (with metal watch strap). In both cases the metal detector didn't go off.
Hate to break it to you, but for gamma rays that's irrelevant. The energy of a gamma photon definitely is higher than the energy gap in any insulator. All that matters is the density and cross section of scattering centers (electrons and nuclei).
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While I strongly doubt that a computer program can understand the message, there might be several triggers for "intelligent" parsers in here. For example:
"White House" -> increase the importance level of the message, set applicability to "Global"
"Explosion" -> set the value to "bad"
"Obama" -> increase the importance level of the message.
"The last time the Dow rose for 15 straight Tuesdays was in 1927."
And two years later it crashed.
Except on Soviet Russia exit nodes where APK impersonates YOU.
"Mutually exclusive" means at most one of them can be true at the same time. For example "the temperature is 30 degrees Celsius" and "it snows" are mutually exclusive, as there's no way that it snows at 30 degrees Celsius. OTOH "the sun is shining" and "the train is delayed" have no points in common, but they are not mutually exclusive because the train may well be delayed while the sun is shining.
He wasn't. He asked the mice about it.
You seem to mix up the concepts with whatever they describe.
I guess some people simply still can't accept that Google is not the white knight, but a company like any other.
You think the two options are mutually exclusive?
and how so many in the pacified populace fail to put two and two together.
Why? Everyone knows that gives twenty-two. :-)
I guess another reason is just laziness: To say "yes", you must first go through the documents and check whether it is OK to release them. Just saying "no" is much easier, and normally the party asking for it cannot check whether that "no" was justified or not because to do so it would have to have access to the very documents to which it just got denied that access.
And yet another reason may be the person having to decide it fearing an error: If you happen by mistake to disclose something which you shouldn't have disclosed, you'll probably face severe punishment. However you'll not face severe punishment for wrongly denying access.
Have fun connecting that printer to your laptop while battery powered ...
Well, I assume that OpenStack is a trademark owned by the OpenStack Foundation. Therefore the OpenStack Foundation has the right to grant or deny others to use that trademark.
I guess they have clear guidelines for the conditions on when you may use the trademark (if not, it's about time). Those conditions certainly should include an exact specification of the APIs which have to be supported.
Ideally they'd release a test suite, and anything that passes the test suite may be called OpenStack, while anything that fails may not. That would be a simple, objective criterion.
And if you are accused of copyright infringement, and they find a "piratebay" entry in your hosts file, they'll use that as evidence against you.
You're forgetting that the term "piracy" has been used to describe copyright violation for over 400 years. [citation required]
Yes?
From Wikipedia:
The practice of labelling the infringement of exclusive rights in creative works as "piracy" predates statutory copyright law. Prior to the Statute of Anne in 1710, the Stationers' Company of London in 1557 received a Royal Charter giving the company a monopoly on publication and tasking it with enforcing the charter. Those who violated the charter were labelled pirates as early as 1603.[2]
1603 is 410 years ago, thus it's over 400 years.
Why? After all you bought the laptop to exactly avoid this interface. Given that there are enough alternatives which are close enough without coming with Unity (like Kubuntu, or Mint), today there's no reason to use Ubuntu if you don't like the interface.
So 4/5 of "think" are gone. :-)
What are the troubles with installing applications? Usually it's just
1. Locate and select the application in Synaptic (or Yast, or whatever system your distribution uses).
2. Click install.
3. Wait until installation is finished.
If it is free, but not in the repository, it's usually
1. Download .deb or .rpm (depending on your distribution)
2. Install it with your package manager (usually just clicking or doubleclicking the repository from your file manager works, if you don't want to use the command line).
If it's proprietary; then it's usually "Start the installer and follow the directions given (usually just click "accept license" once and "continue" several times). Basically the same as in Windows.
It's a long time since I last installed any program which was not available in one of those three forms.
will they use gimp or photoshop?
No, they would never use such un-Islamic tools. Of course the maps will be hand-drawn.
No, the point is that the whole thread was about "mathematically speaking". You are making a choice of character sets which is in no way mathematically founded. For mathematics, there's no significant difference between, e.g., the sets {'0','1','2','3','4','5','6','7','8','9'} and {'1','8','t','q'.'&','%',':','X'}
The minimum set which contains all characters of the password "1234" is {'1', '2', '3', '4'}, and the minimal set which contains all the characters of the password "t4q&" is {'4', 't', 'q', '&'}. Both have the same number of characters, namely 4, in in their respective set therefore each of the passwords has the probability 1/4^4 = 1/256.
The minimum set which contains the letters of both passwords is {'1', '2', '3', '4', 't', 'q', '&'}. In that set, both passwords have the same probability 1/7^4=1/2401.
Of course when evaluating the security of passwords in the real world, we don't just use mathematics, but also the non-mathematical knowledge that we, as humans, denote special significance to certain sets of characters, like the digits, the lowercase characters, and the uppercase characters, and that the hackers know that and therefore tailor their search for those sets. Therefore we define the special sets
Digits, LowercaseLetters, UppercaseLetters and SpecialCharacters (i.e. all others). Then we take as base set to approximate(!) the security of a password the union of all the sets that intersects with the set of characters in the password.
For "1234" all characters lie in Digits, therefore we get a security of 1/10^4. For "4t&q", the letters are in the sets Digits, LowercaseLetters and SpecialCharacters, therefore (assuming ASCII printable characters as base) we get a security of 1/69^4. (Note that your calculation is still wrong in that case because you assumed a strict rule of which positions contain letters, digits and special characters, which is unrealistic in practice, and also you didn't split between lowercase and uppercase characters.)
Note that even this is just an approximation of the real security, as it assigns "1234" the same security as "3945", and "password" the same security as "hyjtmxsk". In reality, of course "1234" is less secure than "3945", and "password" is vastly less secure than "hyjtmxsk". But the point is, that you need non-mathematical knowledge for those considerations. Mathematically speaking, there's really no difference between "1234" and "4t&q".
You are assuming that the very first thing someone tries to do is to open a http connection. What if someone doesn't even connect his router to the internet, but only uses it to connect his desktop and laptop to his network capable printer? He'll then only find "it doesn't work" without ever seeing the password page. And even if the first thing he does is surf the web, it might be an https site.
Wrong. The character set of the first contains four characters, namely "1", "2", "3" and "4". The character set of the second also contains four characters, namely "4", "t", "q" and "&". In both cases, each character from the set occurs exactly once.
Dosimeters? Shouldn't they use Macimeters instead?
ITYM Macosimeters.
But I still prefer the Linuximeter.
Now that you say it ... I've passed through two metal detectors the last week, and as I notice now, I forgot to remove my watch (with metal watch strap). In both cases the metal detector didn't go off.
Hate to break it to you, but for gamma rays that's irrelevant. The energy of a gamma photon definitely is higher than the energy gap in any insulator. All that matters is the density and cross section of scattering centers (electrons and nuclei).
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