A method, system, and/or series of algorithms allowing for the approximation of username/password combinations, PIN numbers, or numeric codes used for the protection and security of electronic devices, computer and network systems, alarm systems, and various other hardware and software devices including non-electronic devices. The system in question will allow for greater convenience by reducing problems associated with a partially forgotten or poorly-entered password, PIN, or username/password combination by attempting to determine what the user meant to enter through partial matches with legitimate system passcodes, adjustment for common transpositions of characters or numbers, sound-alike/look-alike strings or combinations, or wrong sequencing of characters or numbers. For additional convenience, the system may present the user with the password or username or a set of usernames/passwords which are felt to be the most likely match for their input, and ask the user to select among them. An alternative configuration would be for the system to allow access to any password or username/password combination which is reasonably close to a valid password or username/password combination.
If you liked this one, stay tuned for "Method For Storing and Concealing Negotiable Currency Instruments Within a Platform or Cushion Normally Used for Sleeping".
Ever read your shampoo bottle: "Lather, Rinse Repeat. Rumor has it that, as we argue here, Prell is hiring lawyers to stop people from circumventing their instructions.
Actually it is well known that the "Lather, Rinse, Repeat" instruction is included to keep androids from conquering the earth. As soon as they read it their heads tilt to the side and smoke starts coming out.
That would unfortunately prevent access by any users who are behind firewalls that are configured to allow only port 80 and port 443. Depending upon your audience, lots of people who do their shopping from work would get blocked.
Re:Distributed online voting perhaps?
on
BSD And Politics
·
· Score: 1
Sure you could still keep *some* people away, but it would not be a predictable result.
Not as unpredicatable as you might think. The easiest case to plan for is the last one I mentioned, where an overall-lower voter turnout influences the result of the election. This is also quite common, at least where I live. Making voting, and registration for voting, more inconvenient will tend to make it more likely for certain groups not to vote. In the extreme case, suppressing voter turnout will ensure that an election is fought mainly between the hard-core supporters of different candidates/parties (they are the most interested in the outcome, and porbably have the time and resources available to them to overcome obstacles to voting). This means that winning an election is easier to plan, because a smaller group needs to be mobilized to vote. Depending upon polling, demographics of your supporters, etc., you may find that cutting down the total number of voters by presenting obstacles to voting is a worthwhile strategy.
Re:Distributed online voting perhaps?
on
BSD And Politics
·
· Score: 1
d) Stop ballots. If you can (somehow) get at the boxes between the polling stgation and the counters, you can disrupt it that way
You can stop the ballots before they even get to the box. Election results in many countries have been influenced because of intimidation by both government and para-governmental militias. BLow up a polling station as a warning, shoot up some neighbourhoods where your enemies live.
With enough planning, it might be possible for a selective DoS to keep your enemies from voting online. If you can identify where they are coming from, or the time of day they are likely to vote, or simply find that a lower turnout in general will influence the result in your favour, just make it hard for voters to get through.
Try radar detectors then. I mean what can you say about a product with the brand name "Fuzzbuster"? It would be as if Napster had decided to name themselves "MusicThief" instead.
You have to be the song writer (not just a member of the band) to collect publishing money. The money is paid out half to the writers and half to the publishing company. Anyone can be their own publishing company.
This is where the concept of "neighbouring rights" becomes really interesting. At the moment, a composition is protected, but a performance can not be. Performers, as interpreters of creative works, have been floation the neighbouring rights concept for a least a decade now, trying to get their work recognized as copyrightable.
This didn't seem like much of a concern in the days when the performer's income was assumed to be either from per-performance fees or a share of the unit sales of copies of reproductions of that performance. The economics have changed however: the first change was that mechanical reproductions of performances became commonplace (films, audio recordings), and the cost of mounting public performances began to make many forms of public performance unprofitable. The second change is that electronic reproductions of the mechanical reproductions are becoming commonplace, and the old royalty structures that were put in place for deriving income from audio recordings or films of a performance are not adequate to produce income from electronic media for performers.
If you extended copyright to make a performance (a distinctive interpretation of a created work) copyrightable, would there be a possibility of a new revenue model for the electronic reproductions of a performance?
I think that's more due to the shitty way in which Netscape "renders" a page.
Yes, but sites that are dependent on ad revenue take advantage of the way that browsers render a page. Load order is very important to keeping some advertisers and media buyers satisfied. If you can find a way to load two things immediately, marketers and ad sales people will cheer (well not really, but they will not say as many nasty things about you). Those two page elements are: the "branding" (your logo, and major partners' logos); and the revenue-generating ads.
So, if you go to a news site and spend a second or two staring at a banner because it's the only thing on the screen while the rest of the page loads, it is probably by design. Someone tweaked and played with the page design in order to get the browser to load things in the order they wanted to. Of caourse, this can happen by accident too, but all of the times I've been involved with designs that render this way, it was a matter of choice, not accident.
For greater clarity, I think your second sentence should have a comma after the word "shipping". Your use of the ellipsis in your last unparenthesized sentence is non-standard and really should be avoided.
It appears as if the "Grammar Police" monicker is a bit inaccurate. Perhaps you should have chosen "Spelling Police".
Actually the use of ANI/ALI devices is restricted in many countries outside of the USA. That means that when you calling 911 (or the local variant) the operator can have the use of automatic lookup devices that provide a screen pop of your (the caller's) directory listing, home address, etc., but when you are calling to order 100 Timeless Country Classics, it would be technically illegal for them to have the same devices. But in the USA, anyone with the bucks can set up a phone room will lookup devices. I think this is guaranteed in the constitution somewhere, after all it's not ANI devices that invade privacy, it's people who invade privacy. If you outlaw them, only outlaws will have them. A well-maintained telemarketing industry is necessary for the survival of the republic.
OT: Banks, Quicken and Quicken alternatives
on
Mattel Spyware
·
· Score: 1
I'll be very happy when there is an open-source online banking solution I can run from linux. Yeah, right - get the banks to cooperate with the Penguin!
Not really that far fetched. Would only require that there be: 1. a stable, documented Open Financial Exchange (OFX, an XML-like format) implementation in the financial management software you are using. Although Quicken does a lot of screwy proprietary things in connecting you to your bank, the actual core of it is an exchange of OFX files (usually a download to the client). 2. a big enough, vocal enough user base to convince the bank or its software vendor to add a new OFX format for the new financial management package to its online banking software. Especially effective to show some sort of rapid growth and scare them into thinking that financial management package X is "the future" - something that often frightens marketroids (who will mostly be responsible for the decision about what software "markets" need to be supported) into action, they have a deep-seated fear (and legitimate I guess) of missing the boat and becoming has-beens.
Telus finally launched their web-phone service in BC and Alberta, probably Ontario later this year. Includes a "go to" on the phone's menu. Problem: their phones are using HDML, the transitional technology leading up to the transitional technology which is WAP, so the feature is not incredibly useful.
Part of the beauty of wireless for the service vendor is that they can guarantee captive eyeballs, since it is relatively difficult for users to change the "default home page" in their phone, and even if free-form URLs can be entered into the handset, it is relatively difficult to do that as well. So, they now have valuable advertising properties in the form of top slots on the phone's menu for your company.
Wireless internet through phones is definitely not the internet as we know it.
His sin was wasting his seed, this is what happens when you masturbate. Hence masturbation is a sin. Get it?
The Onan story is really very instructive. It teaches that failing to get your dead brother's wife pregnant because of premature ejaculation in a sin against family, society and God, but on the other hand beating some guy to death because he failed to get his dead brother's wife pregnant as ordered is OK, God has no problem with that.
Ooo, we are cranky, aren't we? Three things for you to read, then maybe you can follow your own advice and "think before you post":
1. IBM already has PPCs running at faster clock speeds than the MOT chips that are being used in Macs. It's a contractual/political problem that keeps these from being used by Apple.
2. The 20-30% improvement is an improvement in performance, not lock speed as you assume. So the math is irrelevant.
3. The advantages of "competition" within the AIM alliance are often cancelled out by the alliance itself. In PPC development, no partner wants to release a technology to the others when it could use it for a non-PPC-related benefit to itself. Also, if MOT can keep faster IBM PPCs from being used by Apple, how can competition be functioning correctly?
The NeXTies on the MacOSX-Admin mailing list were talking about this very thing a few days ago. As it turns out, NeXT had a very early precurs of ILOVEYOU. NeXT MailViever would interpret PostScript and you could send messages to your colleagues containing PS code which, when interpreted by Mailviewer, would cause the Display PostScript engine to wig out in various ways. When this was discovered, Adobe incorporated changes into the next release of DPS to make these sorts of pranks impossible.
Slashdot Mirror
They should know that he doesn't need their help! And that goes double for Bush.
If you liked this one, stay tuned for "Method For Storing and Concealing Negotiable Currency Instruments Within a Platform or Cushion Normally Used for Sleeping".
Actually it is well known that the "Lather, Rinse, Repeat" instruction is included to keep androids from conquering the earth. As soon as they read it their heads tilt to the side and smoke starts coming out.
That would unfortunately prevent access by any users who are behind firewalls that are configured to allow only port 80 and port 443. Depending upon your audience, lots of people who do their shopping from work would get blocked.
Not as unpredicatable as you might think. The easiest case to plan for is the last one I mentioned, where an overall-lower voter turnout influences the result of the election. This is also quite common, at least where I live. Making voting, and registration for voting, more inconvenient will tend to make it more likely for certain groups not to vote. In the extreme case, suppressing voter turnout will ensure that an election is fought mainly between the hard-core supporters of different candidates/parties (they are the most interested in the outcome, and porbably have the time and resources available to them to overcome obstacles to voting). This means that winning an election is easier to plan, because a smaller group needs to be mobilized to vote. Depending upon polling, demographics of your supporters, etc., you may find that cutting down the total number of voters by presenting obstacles to voting is a worthwhile strategy.
You can stop the ballots before they even get to the box. Election results in many countries have been influenced because of intimidation by both government and para-governmental militias. BLow up a polling station as a warning, shoot up some neighbourhoods where your enemies live.
With enough planning, it might be possible for a selective DoS to keep your enemies from voting online. If you can identify where they are coming from, or the time of day they are likely to vote, or simply find that a lower turnout in general will influence the result in your favour, just make it hard for voters to get through.
Try radar detectors then. I mean what can you say about a product with the brand name "Fuzzbuster"? It would be as if Napster had decided to name themselves "MusicThief" instead.
Error 406.3 Page unavailable, operator is changing tape
That depends on what you mean by "this".
Maybe he meant "bismol failure", like when you feel sick and Pepto-Bismol doesn't seem to work.
You're going to do the landing at night, right?
This is where the concept of "neighbouring rights" becomes really interesting. At the moment, a composition is protected, but a performance can not be. Performers, as interpreters of creative works, have been floation the neighbouring rights concept for a least a decade now, trying to get their work recognized as copyrightable.
This didn't seem like much of a concern in the days when the performer's income was assumed to be either from per-performance fees or a share of the unit sales of copies of reproductions of that performance. The economics have changed however: the first change was that mechanical reproductions of performances became commonplace (films, audio recordings), and the cost of mounting public performances began to make many forms of public performance unprofitable. The second change is that electronic reproductions of the mechanical reproductions are becoming commonplace, and the old royalty structures that were put in place for deriving income from audio recordings or films of a performance are not adequate to produce income from electronic media for performers.
If you extended copyright to make a performance (a distinctive interpretation of a created work) copyrightable, would there be a possibility of a new revenue model for the electronic reproductions of a performance?
?
Just thought I should clear that up.
Uh, the "English" were already there. You know, like, the colonists? And the government of the day?
History wasn't your best subject, was it?
Heh.
Yes, but sites that are dependent on ad revenue take advantage of the way that browsers render a page. Load order is very important to keeping some advertisers and media buyers satisfied. If you can find a way to load two things immediately, marketers and ad sales people will cheer (well not really, but they will not say as many nasty things about you). Those two page elements are: the "branding" (your logo, and major partners' logos); and the revenue-generating ads.
So, if you go to a news site and spend a second or two staring at a banner because it's the only thing on the screen while the rest of the page loads, it is probably by design. Someone tweaked and played with the page design in order to get the browser to load things in the order they wanted to. Of caourse, this can happen by accident too, but all of the times I've been involved with designs that render this way, it was a matter of choice, not accident.
For greater clarity, I think your second sentence should have a comma after the word "shipping". Your use of the ellipsis in your last unparenthesized sentence is non-standard and really should be avoided.
It appears as if the "Grammar Police" monicker is a bit inaccurate. Perhaps you should have chosen "Spelling Police".
> make reading some post's
Yes, I can see you need more Grammar "Nazi's".
Actually the use of ANI/ALI devices is restricted in many countries outside of the USA. That means that when you calling 911 (or the local variant) the operator can have the use of automatic lookup devices that provide a screen pop of your (the caller's) directory listing, home address, etc., but when you are calling to order 100 Timeless Country Classics, it would be technically illegal for them to have the same devices. But in the USA, anyone with the bucks can set up a phone room will lookup devices. I think this is guaranteed in the constitution somewhere, after all it's not ANI devices that invade privacy, it's people who invade privacy. If you outlaw them, only outlaws will have them. A well-maintained telemarketing industry is necessary for the survival of the republic.
Not really that far fetched. Would only require that there be:
1. a stable, documented Open Financial Exchange (OFX, an XML-like format) implementation in the financial management software you are using. Although Quicken does a lot of screwy proprietary things in connecting you to your bank, the actual core of it is an exchange of OFX files (usually a download to the client).
2. a big enough, vocal enough user base to convince the bank or its software vendor to add a new OFX format for the new financial management package to its online banking software. Especially effective to show some sort of rapid growth and scare them into thinking that financial management package X is "the future" - something that often frightens marketroids (who will mostly be responsible for the decision about what software "markets" need to be supported) into action, they have a deep-seated fear (and legitimate I guess) of missing the boat and becoming has-beens.
Part of the beauty of wireless for the service vendor is that they can guarantee captive eyeballs, since it is relatively difficult for users to change the "default home page" in their phone, and even if free-form URLs can be entered into the handset, it is relatively difficult to do that as well. So, they now have valuable advertising properties in the form of top slots on the phone's menu for your company.
Wireless internet through phones is definitely not the internet as we know it.
The Onan story is really very instructive. It teaches that failing to get your dead brother's wife pregnant because of premature ejaculation in a sin against family, society and God, but on the other hand beating some guy to death because he failed to get his dead brother's wife pregnant as ordered is OK, God has no problem with that.
Non serviam.
Maybe the same way they could force you to eat peanuts by leaving a bowl of them on your desk?
The 20-30% improvement is an improvement in performance, not necessarily clock speed as you assume.
1. IBM already has PPCs running at faster clock speeds than the MOT chips that are being used in Macs. It's a contractual/political problem that keeps these from being used by Apple.
2. The 20-30% improvement is an improvement in performance, not lock speed as you assume. So the math is irrelevant.
3. The advantages of "competition" within the AIM alliance are often cancelled out by the alliance itself. In PPC development, no partner wants to release a technology to the others when it could use it for a non-PPC-related benefit to itself. Also, if MOT can keep faster IBM PPCs from being used by Apple, how can competition be functioning correctly?
The NeXTies on the MacOSX-Admin mailing list were talking about this very thing a few days ago. As it turns out, NeXT had a very early precurs of ILOVEYOU. NeXT MailViever would interpret PostScript and you could send messages to your colleagues containing PS code which, when interpreted by Mailviewer, would cause the Display PostScript engine to wig out in various ways. When this was discovered, Adobe incorporated changes into the next release of DPS to make these sorts of pranks impossible.