What we need is less government regulation and more freedom. I actually like the 30% cap the FCC wants to put in place. Sometimes consolidation hurts consumers. If all cable providers consolidate to a monopoly, don't you think it'd move to do a bunch of crap like buy off Congress to preserve their monopoly, or even worse buy up any small business that tries to move into the market to compete?
Monopolies aren't always good for consumers and the FCC makes a move to prevent a monopoly, and IMO that's not the worse thing the FCC has done in recent years.
One, the requirement that passwords be exactly 8 characters long. An minimum length specification is fine, but it shouldn't be the same as the maximum.
To elabourate... 8 characters long reduces the number of permutations a password can have. Brute force attacks take less time because of this password policy. Minimum good, but forced length will take considerable less time.
Further, changing every month is too often.
No kidding, especially when the warning comes 15 days in advance. That means you have 15 days of nagging and 15 days of quiet time. I can't stand that 30 day password rule. I do what another poster said - cycle through passwords five times until I get my same password again.
And you don't think that perhaps Microsoft is taking out these patents so that others cannot take action against Microsoft, much like IBM does???
I haven't exactly seen Microsoft suing others who use the double-click, and there certainly exists prior art. Although prior art is becoming less of a defence it seems against patent suits.
It costs a lot more to make a site compatible with all flavours. There's a lot of stuff you can do in IE that can do in other browsers. This allows feature rich eye candy that you just can't do in a cross browser world. If the open source guys have an issue with it, then why not port Mozilla to support the "IE Only" stuff?
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Monopolies aren't always good for consumers and the FCC makes a move to prevent a monopoly, and IMO that's not the worse thing the FCC has done in recent years.
From the freebsd main page:
AFAIK, FreeBSD is still Posix compliant and is a real unix, not a unix-like OS.
One, the requirement that passwords be exactly 8 characters long. An minimum length specification is fine, but it shouldn't be the same as the maximum.
To elabourate... 8 characters long reduces the number of permutations a password can have. Brute force attacks take less time because of this password policy. Minimum good, but forced length will take considerable less time.
Further, changing every month is too often.
No kidding, especially when the warning comes 15 days in advance. That means you have 15 days of nagging and 15 days of quiet time. I can't stand that 30 day password rule. I do what another poster said - cycle through passwords five times until I get my same password again.
And you don't think that perhaps Microsoft is taking out these patents so that others cannot take action against Microsoft, much like IBM does???
I haven't exactly seen Microsoft suing others who use the double-click, and there certainly exists prior art. Although prior art is becoming less of a defence it seems against patent suits.
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Dude... When were those stats taken? Where's MSIE 6?
Looks like you're using some pretty old stats... My sites report in the low to mid 90's for MSIE.
It costs a lot more to make a site compatible with all flavours. There's a lot of stuff you can do in IE that can do in other browsers. This allows feature rich eye candy that you just can't do in a cross browser world. If the open source guys have an issue with it, then why not port Mozilla to support the "IE Only" stuff?