You can easily trust Facebook with your creditcard details. Creditcard payments represent the money of the creditcard company, not yours. In case of a Facebook leak, the system is compromised, not your wallet.
Ah, but you see many employees can't have a bank account. If your history with bounced checks is bad enough, no bank will ever open an account for you. Sad but true.
Excuse me if I sound like a troll, but checks are what my parents used in the early 1980s. How the hell are these still even present in the US today, let alone a dominant form of exchanging money?
This is not a problem with git --mirror: rsync or any other mirroring tool would end up in the same situation.
It's up to the master to deliver the goods and upgrading a master should include performing a test run as well as making a backup prior to the real upgrade. This was a procedural failure, not a software failure. But good to hear disaster was averted.
From 5% on, they exercise an inordinate influence in proportion to their percentage of the population. For example, they will push for the introduction of halal (clean by Islamic standards) food, thereby securing food preparation jobs for Muslims. They will increase pressure on supermarket chains to feature halal on their shelves -- along with threats for failure to comply. This is occurring in:
False for The Netherlands. Yes, muslims like halal food and yes, they want it available. The food industry complies not because of threats, but mostly because 5% of the population is significant enough to cater to. It is no different from biologic food, vegetarian meals, etc. Now if one wouldn't be able to get bacon or pork anymore, that would be a problem, but the fact that aside dozens of non-halal choices there are also halal choices for sale is not an inorfinate influence.
The major difference is that when a Christian nutbag kills some people, in no part of the world is there a celebration in the streets. Whereas successful Islamic terrorism is in many places openly celebrated by whole communities passing out candy and cheering about how the murderers are heroes. It is intertwined with a culture of hatred and violence that is supported by communities.
Most of these celebrations are staged by interest groups. Also, many communities there are fed hatred through their governments and government-run media while having little to no alternative sources of information and no job or entertainment to keep them otherwise occupied. That is a problem, but I doubt religion is a major factor.
Christianity grew up. It's not perfect, it still has plenty of crazies in various kinds, but by and large Christianity grew out of the crusades mentality. Islam by and large has not.
Islam in the western (read: prosperous) world mostly has. Almost all extremism has direct origins in countries with oppressive regimes or areas with so much poverty, corruption and inequalities that any person would find it hard to create a decent life under moderation. The average muslim in a decent environment does not resort to terrorism or hatred any more than the average non-muslim in such an environment.
I'll sell licenses for $1kUSD a pop, which by 2038 will only be enough to cover the cost of a McDonalds Synthetic Cheeseburger Paste from the Value Menu.
Neh. Overestimating that cheesburger at $4 currently, that would require a yearly inflation of over 24%.
We evolved over billions of years to be exactly fit to live in a particular zone of the Earth's surface, and the odds of finding another suitable planet are as likely as Captain Kirk finding beautiful alien women who speak English.
If you aren't currently in college, you have to buy a mobile phone that can receive texts in order to verify your account.
If you have a computer or regular access to one and an interest in Facebook, chances are you also already have a cell phone or could easily get a lousy prepaid for a tenner. There are plenty of concerns one can have with Facebook, but this really is not one of them.
It's been over twenty years since the inception of Linux. With 20/20 hindsight, what you have done differently if you had had today's knowledge and experience back in the early days?
First, you don't know how much google's passwords accept. You know that they don't tell you it's only 16, and it may be 17, but it probably isn't 10'000. So where's your line? Is 17 enough? What about 32? How about six megs?
Six megs should be enough to break to most web server configurations for the maximum HTTP POST size.:-)
Whenever I see any website that rejects passwords longer than X characters, I turn away and go somewhere else.
Allow me to nitpick: all websites do for sufficient values of X. Most browsers have a built-in maximum for the length of input fields (32-bit unsigned int for Webkit, 65535 characters) and most webservers have a maximum size configured for HTTP POST requests.;-)
The question that should be asked is, "What's a 'Special Character' and why shouldn't it be allowed in a password?"
I had this argument with a developer the other day.
Any character that cannot be hashes or escaped before sending it to the storage backend. (Which, agreed, on a modern platform are none.)
When I started web programming in 1995 some sites had little more than CSV files for storing data. Input filtering then suddenly makes a lot of sense, especially because handy utility methods for hashing and escaping weren't as widely available in all languages as they are now. Any developer still opting for such requirements is obviously an old-timer who hasn't updated his or her skills, or was trained by one.
Does this mean they were storing the passwords in cleartext? In a real system they would simply be storing the hashes, shortening the password would cause it to create a different hash and not match.
Not necessarily. The UNIX crypt(3) algorithm uses only the first 8 characters of any password. Given Hotmail's age I'm sure something similar is going on here. Not every website was developed in an era of HMAC-SHA-512 with proper salt and pepper flavouring.
It would however be possible for them to upgrade passwords upon login (in which case the unhashed match would be available from input), but for a system the size of Hotmail it would take forever before the legacy support could be deprecated.
Apple is definitely not the cheapest option, but neither are the high-end and competing Android devices. The point is not that the top of the line items don't sell, it is that the budget options have become insanely cheap in the Big Mac index.
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We're talking two subway stops. Or they can rent a bike
We're not talking about the Netherlands, we're talking about the United States of FUCK NO I WON'T BE SEEN ON A BIKE OR IN PUBLIC TRANSIT.
Watch out for those blanket generalizations, they bite back.
Nothing is said about the ability of coal miners to learn how to code. You just can't teach them.
You can easily trust Facebook with your creditcard details. Creditcard payments represent the money of the creditcard company, not yours. In case of a Facebook leak, the system is compromised, not your wallet.
Ah, but you see many employees can't have a bank account. If your history with bounced checks is bad enough, no bank will ever open an account for you. Sad but true.
Excuse me if I sound like a troll, but checks are what my parents used in the early 1980s. How the hell are these still even present in the US today, let alone a dominant form of exchanging money?
All. A world where everyone is a criminal except for one person is still better when that one person is free and not convicted.
See, Alanis, *this* is ironic.
So is calling a song that does not include irony "Ironic".
This is not a problem with git --mirror: rsync or any other mirroring tool would end up in the same situation.
It's up to the master to deliver the goods and upgrading a master should include performing a test run as well as making a backup prior to the real upgrade. This was a procedural failure, not a software failure. But good to hear disaster was averted.
What invasion?
Presumably the one of Old Worlders.
From 5% on, they exercise an inordinate influence in proportion to their percentage of the population. For example, they will push for the introduction of halal (clean by Islamic standards) food, thereby securing food preparation jobs for Muslims. They will increase pressure on supermarket chains to feature halal on their shelves -- along with threats for failure to comply. This is occurring in:
False for The Netherlands. Yes, muslims like halal food and yes, they want it available. The food industry complies not because of threats, but mostly because 5% of the population is significant enough to cater to. It is no different from biologic food, vegetarian meals, etc. Now if one wouldn't be able to get bacon or pork anymore, that would be a problem, but the fact that aside dozens of non-halal choices there are also halal choices for sale is not an inorfinate influence.
The major difference is that when a Christian nutbag kills some people, in no part of the world is there a celebration in the streets. Whereas successful Islamic terrorism is in many places openly celebrated by whole communities passing out candy and cheering about how the murderers are heroes. It is intertwined with a culture of hatred and violence that is supported by communities.
Most of these celebrations are staged by interest groups. Also, many communities there are fed hatred through their governments and government-run media while having little to no alternative sources of information and no job or entertainment to keep them otherwise occupied. That is a problem, but I doubt religion is a major factor.
But ya
Christianity grew up. It's not perfect, it still has plenty of crazies in various kinds, but by and large Christianity grew out of the crusades mentality. Islam by and large has not.
Islam in the western (read: prosperous) world mostly has. Almost all extremism has direct origins in countries with oppressive regimes or areas with so much poverty, corruption and inequalities that any person would find it hard to create a decent life under moderation. The average muslim in a decent environment does not resort to terrorism or hatred any more than the average non-muslim in such an environment.
I'll sell licenses for $1kUSD a pop, which by 2038 will only be enough to cover the cost of a McDonalds Synthetic Cheeseburger Paste from the Value Menu.
Neh. Overestimating that cheesburger at $4 currently, that would require a yearly inflation of over 24%.
We evolved over billions of years to be exactly fit to live in a particular zone of the Earth's surface, and the odds of finding another suitable planet are as likely as Captain Kirk finding beautiful alien women who speak English.
Once a week? Not bad.
There has to be proof that such devices CAN'T harm a plane's avionics. Once that is done, we'll be able to play with our toys.
You are allowed to bring them on board. That's all the proof you need.
Anybody who put those on their application forms these days is just asking to be sued.
It's stupid also: age can be deduced from the resume. Someone who finished high school in 1995 like me is not going to be 18 nor 60.
The real question is: if Mars once had Earth-like conditions, is there a risk Earth will end up with Mars-like conditions in the foreseeable future?
If you aren't currently in college, you have to buy a mobile phone that can receive texts in order to verify your account.
If you have a computer or regular access to one and an interest in Facebook, chances are you also already have a cell phone or could easily get a lousy prepaid for a tenner. There are plenty of concerns one can have with Facebook, but this really is not one of them.
It's been over twenty years since the inception of Linux. With 20/20 hindsight, what you have done differently if you had had today's knowledge and experience back in the early days?
Around 12 years of Slackware. Then moved to Ubuntu LTS for VPSes and Mint for the laptop about 3 years ago.
First, you don't know how much google's passwords accept. You know that they don't tell you it's only 16, and it may be 17, but it probably isn't 10'000. So where's your line? Is 17 enough? What about 32? How about six megs?
Six megs should be enough to break to most web server configurations for the maximum HTTP POST size. :-)
Whenever I see any website that rejects passwords longer than X characters, I turn away and go somewhere else.
Allow me to nitpick: all websites do for sufficient values of X. Most browsers have a built-in maximum for the length of input fields (32-bit unsigned int for Webkit, 65535 characters) and most webservers have a maximum size configured for HTTP POST requests. ;-)
The question that should be asked is, "What's a 'Special Character' and why shouldn't it be allowed in a password?"
I had this argument with a developer the other day.
Any character that cannot be hashes or escaped before sending it to the storage backend. (Which, agreed, on a modern platform are none.)
When I started web programming in 1995 some sites had little more than CSV files for storing data. Input filtering then suddenly makes a lot of sense, especially because handy utility methods for hashing and escaping weren't as widely available in all languages as they are now. Any developer still opting for such requirements is obviously an old-timer who hasn't updated his or her skills, or was trained by one.
Does this mean they were storing the passwords in cleartext? In a real system they would simply be storing the hashes, shortening the password would cause it to create a different hash and not match.
Not necessarily. The UNIX crypt(3) algorithm uses only the first 8 characters of any password. Given Hotmail's age I'm sure something similar is going on here. Not every website was developed in an era of HMAC-SHA-512 with proper salt and pepper flavouring.
It would however be possible for them to upgrade passwords upon login (in which case the unhashed match would be available from input), but for a system the size of Hotmail it would take forever before the legacy support could be deprecated.
You didn't get yours in 1997. That is 15 years ago.
Apple is definitely not the cheapest option, but neither are the high-end and competing Android devices. The point is not that the top of the line items don't sell, it is that the budget options have become insanely cheap in the Big Mac index.