Mothers and fathers, hear my plea: start injecting a strong sense of right and wrong into your children, based on the current laws, not necessarily your own morals. I don?t want you to pull back on the fun, I don't want anything more than a stronger sense of ethics and perhaps a small dose of moral fiber. Take into account the fact that kids are playing all sorts of games, no matter that they shouldn't be.
>>the GPL is not an EULA. >>GPLed programs never demand the End User to Agree to a License before using the software.
>Yes they do. It is called the "GNU Public License", after all...
You also forget that the EU in EULA is for 'end-user'. An end-user does not distribute the code further, and end-user uses the code and that's not what GPL addresses.
You have 26 letters in the alphabet to use as your character -and you can use numbers or make a happy face if you want-, any key can be a starting position, and the letters can be written multiple ways, including upside down. This is a template and the user can customize it to their needs, but there are quite a few different combinations.
The thing is that these issues are not used to the fullest extent. If a company put out a full-blown ad campaign stating their commitment to be above and beyond normal privacy laws and detailed what they'd do, they would get a surge of new customers.
I used to work at a bank and I have news for you: the 40-year old woman may not remember their SSN. Of course, additional problems are caused by the fact that she doesn't have to change/relearn her SSN every month.
The 'pattern' password sequence is indeed very good. My users can -and generally like to- create long secure passwords. Here're the instructions I give them:
Pick a letter (or more if the system allows), for example the first letter of your name.
Pick a starting spot on the keyboard.
Form your chosen letter of the individual keys on the keyboard, using SHIFT on every other key.
This way the user only needs to remember two things: one letter and the starting position. To further clarify what I mean, consider the letter A. If I start from the key 'c' on a standard QWERTY and kind of draw the letter in mosaic using the keys on the keyboard, the password becomes 'cFt^yHnG' (follow along on your kb) Here's a diagram:
1 2 3 4 5 <b>6</b> 7 8 9 0
q w e r <b>t</b> <b>y</b> u i o p
a s d <b>f</b> <b>g</b> <b>h</b> j k l;
z x <b>c</b> v b <b>n</b> m ,.
If the system allows long passwords, one can use their name -say, Aki. Again starting from the 'c', the password becomes 'cFt^yHncDe#r^gBcDe#', which is pretty secure.
This works extremely well with the 'non-sophisticated' users once you teach it to them -and it's easy to change the password. Just skip the starting position and possibly the shift sequence -moving to 'v', the password for 'A' becomes 'VgY7UjMh'.
I'm posting this from my emergency Linux box. I attempted this on Outlook on my Windows partition. At first everything seemed to go fine, but then THE COMPUTER EXPLODED! So I have to use my emergency Linux box now. BECAUSE OUTLOOK EXPLODED!
If you don't vote, you're not allowed to bitch, you whiny little pest. Who you vote for is secondary. You could try the always-ready-to-surprise communist party (any of the three currently in existence).
Um, just so you know, "I didn't even check the facts before displaying them!" is most empathically not a good defense in a libel/slander case, since that's the definition of the crime..
The metalanguage was 'input' into the brain by means of displaying the hacker binary data. I don't find it plausible that anyone could understand binary at this level -it's not how the brain works.
The metaverse was unnecessarily complicated and embellished view of the internet. Realistically, it wouldn't go in such a direction. So it pissed me off because the book was otherwise good:)
I know people can read binary directly -I can- but they can't take it in directly. It's such a fundamental change from a natural language that the translation process can never be fully mitigated. It played on the idea that the true-false mode of operation was somehow inherent to the human brain, but it unfortunately isn't.
As much as I love Stephenson, the 'Metaverse' is one of the most ridiculous internet utopias I've encountered. It almost ruined the book for me, but not quite. And, you know, I don't know any people (and I know some geeky people) who can take binary input directly (especially since it'd be in NBO, presumably).
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Hm. Strange.. I actually used brackets this time :) Sorry, anyway. I'm sure the idea's clear enough.
Mothers and fathers, hear my plea: start injecting a strong sense of right and wrong into your children, based on the current laws, not necessarily your own morals. I don?t want you to pull back on the fun, I don't want anything more than a stronger sense of ethics and perhaps a small dose of moral fiber. Take into account the fact that kids are playing all sorts of games, no matter that they shouldn't be.
Here is the Google news partner link: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/25/technology/25lin ux.html?ex=1086062400&en=2ff98cb3d0e6ed96&ei=5062& partner=GOOGLE
I'm afraid I have some bad news for you..
>>the GPL is not an EULA.
>>GPLed programs never demand the End User to Agree to a License before using the software.
>Yes they do. It is called the "GNU Public License", after all...
You also forget that the EU in EULA is for 'end-user'. An end-user does not distribute the code further, and end-user uses the code and that's not what GPL addresses.
You have 26 letters in the alphabet to use as your character -and you can use numbers or make a happy face if you want-, any key can be a starting position, and the letters can be written multiple ways, including upside down. This is a template and the user can customize it to their needs, but there are quite a few different combinations.
We all know Linux hasn't been in any sort of a version control system since version 2.2 after which the issues started alledgedly creeping up.
The thing is that these issues are not used to the fullest extent. If a company put out a full-blown ad campaign stating their commitment to be above and beyond normal privacy laws and detailed what they'd do, they would get a surge of new customers.
Good question. On the other hand, try and beat up one of your customers when you go to work today. See if anyone takes notice.
Unfortunately this would be breaking news on the local TV channels in the US. I swear, if I win the lottery I'm going to start my own news program.
Umm, mods? Parent was my *own* reply to rewrite the diagram so you folks can read it.. offtopic?
I used to work at a bank and I have news for you: the 40-year old woman may not remember their SSN. Of course, additional problems are caused by the fact that she doesn't have to change/relearn her SSN every month.
This way the user only needs to remember two things: one letter and the starting position. To further clarify what I mean, consider the letter A. If I start from the key 'c' on a standard QWERTY and kind of draw the letter in mosaic using the keys on the keyboard, the password becomes 'cFt^yHnG' (follow along on your kb) Here's a diagram:If the system allows long passwords, one can use their name -say, Aki. Again starting from the 'c', the password becomes 'cFt^yHncDe#r^gBcDe#', which is pretty secure.
This works extremely well with the 'non-sophisticated' users once you teach it to them -and it's easy to change the password. Just skip the starting position and possibly the shift sequence -moving to 'v', the password for 'A' becomes 'VgY7UjMh'.
I'm posting this from my emergency Linux box. I attempted this on Outlook on my Windows partition. At first everything seemed to go fine, but then THE COMPUTER EXPLODED! So I have to use my emergency Linux box now. BECAUSE OUTLOOK EXPLODED!
There's a way to go off line? What does one do in this 'off-line' state?
You haven't been alive long, have you? It will make them richer, which seems to be rather anyone's goal these days.
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Well you obviously have time to spare. Taking Sunday off to 'avoid going insane'.. damn pussies.
If you don't vote, you're not allowed to bitch, you whiny little pest. Who you vote for is secondary. You could try the always-ready-to-surprise communist party (any of the three currently in existence).
This is good how?
Um, just so you know, "I didn't even check the facts before displaying them!" is most empathically not a good defense in a libel/slander case, since that's the definition of the crime..
The metalanguage was 'input' into the brain by means of displaying the hacker binary data. I don't find it plausible that anyone could understand binary at this level -it's not how the brain works.
The metaverse was unnecessarily complicated and embellished view of the internet. Realistically, it wouldn't go in such a direction. So it pissed me off because the book was otherwise good :)
I know people can read binary directly -I can- but they can't take it in directly. It's such a fundamental change from a natural language that the translation process can never be fully mitigated. It played on the idea that the true-false mode of operation was somehow inherent to the human brain, but it unfortunately isn't.
As much as I love Stephenson, the 'Metaverse' is one of the most ridiculous internet utopias I've encountered. It almost ruined the book for me, but not quite. And, you know, I don't know any people (and I know some geeky people) who can take binary input directly (especially since it'd be in NBO, presumably).