If breaking the encryption was easy, they could just decrypt everything they get off of the wire and not have to insert back doors into software and target into a suspect's OS.
But since encryption is (financially/time/computationally) expensive, it's cheaper to exploit flaws in software.
The problem isn't password rules. The problem is the idea of security levels.
For a site like/. or soylentnews.org, just about any password should be allowable. This is a password you will likely use on lots of different sites. Also, the password should never expire. Account should be locked if a thousand bad passwords in a row are tried. The password reset should go to your email, and you should not have the ability to change your email address (but you can add a secondary email address) for a month after a password change. That way if someone breaks into your account you can get back in afterwards.
For your home computer, it should also allow any password. Passwords should never expire. The account should never be locked but you have the option of added security (ie: encrypted home directory).
For work, a more complex password that changes every six months to a year.
For your banking, a complex password that changes every year or two. Account lockout if 10 tries in a row fail.
For your email account, two factor authentication all the time and a password that needs to be changed every 3-6 months (since your email is used as a lockout to all the other possible accounts).
The games can run on newer LCD screens, but they may not look as the developers intended.
I have an arcade cabinet with an LCD screen. I'm quite happy with how it looks, intentions be damned. I had the option to get one with a similar number of games (mine has ~140 classic games) but with a CRT display.
The LCD screen is much bigger, and while the game graphics are in the same resolution, the out-of-game graphics resolution is much nicer and the software makes use of it. Also, when looking at CRTs now, I don't get nostalgia any more. They just seem old.
tl;dr: Invest a little of each paycheck in a low expense ration total stock market index fund. Compounding interest over decades with get you back much more than you would expect.
But as a more practical matter anyway, 10 tries of different people's fingerprints, and the phone will be wiped regardless... so there's a limit to how useful the technique would've been to begin with.
It's worse than that: If I was to engage in illegal activities, I would make sure that the finger to open my phone is not my thumb. I would train a single other finger into all the trainable spots in the phone OS (I think it lets you train 4 or 5?). That way when the cop tries to open with my fingerprint and it doesn't work, the first thing he would do is try it again or try my other thumb. Not realizing that it takes my right ring finger to open the device.
The ISPs should shame the lawmakers and courts involved.
ie: The following list of civil servants thought this was a good idea and voted it into law. If you disagree, perhaps you should vote for others the next time and be vocal about why you did so.
If the legislative branch knows they'll get voted out of office over something like this, perhaps they'll think twice.
You want killer features for a conference calling app?
1 - Highlight on your screen all the people who are currently talking. 2 - Automatic transcription of calls with the individuals talking labeled. 3 - Ability to pass along a 'talking now' and 'request talking' tokens so that someone can "raise their hand" while someone else is talking. Also the ability to cede the talking now token to one of the other people talking (for when a lot of people are on a conference call)
Love how the article doesn't just mention Pirate Bay, but gave me the names of a couple other site I didn't know about as well as IP addresses for a couple of them.
Now I know more ways to get my torrents. Well done.
There's a serious price gap between the Model S and the Model 3.
I was kinda hoping that with cheaper battery production the Model S price would come down. Instead the price seems to be slowly creeping up. Admittedly that price includes a lot new features that weren't available three years ago.
I guess I'm just gripping that they don't have a 100kWh battery model that starts under $95k.
I liked the message boards a lot. They gave a bit of insight into the movies and characters you wouldn't get otherwise. Also, if you read a message board in a movie that came out a couple years ago you can see how the messages change from before the movie came out to afterwards.
Yes, there are griefers, but that's just the Internet. If you can't handle it, go elsewhere. Or, if you are IMDB, close up the communication forums.
Seriously, WP 5.1 was a fantastically good word processor. The problem was it took a little more time for people to learn how to use it than MSWord. And that was it's downfall.
3D is not a feature. It's an attempted implementation of a feature.
The feature that people want is 'lifelike' video or immersive video.
To get that at home, I do see two potential technologist that are making headway. 4K TVs (for the color gamut, not the screen resolution) and virtual reality glasses.
At the hospital I work at, I've noticed that a lot more people are watching pirated content. It's no where near the 32% mentioned in the summary, but certainly a much larger percentage than 5 years ago. I basically find out as we discuss various old movies and give each other suggestions on what to watch.
The interesting thing is how these people are getting the movies. It seems that they're getting 'hot boxes', which are apparently copies of Kodi with a set of streaming plugins to pirate sites. These guys (and girls) are not particularly tech-oriented. All they know is that the movies are streamed from pirate websites.
How these people don't get caught is beyond me. But none of them are concerned with the legality of it.
It's times like this that I'm happy my work's IT department is mildly incompetent. We just finished the Windows 7 rollout last year and they're still patting themselves on their backs.
Figure that by the time they are ready to go to the next version of Windows I'll be retired.
Magnetize both airpods and let them attract to each other through the skull. That'll keep them in place.
Bonus points if they use electromagnets that only activate once the devices are both in the ear canal (temperature-based?). Of course, this means that they may decouple once the user dies. I'm sure marketing can spin that in a good way.
The last time I let my Denon receiver update itself, the update stalled and I spent over an hour between manually downloading patches on a desktop and patching it over USB and several calls to their (admittedly fairly good) customer service phone center.
And, of course I had tried the original update just before the kids wanted to use the TV for a movie night.
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And that's the point of the argument.
If breaking the encryption was easy, they could just decrypt everything they get off of the wire and not have to insert back doors into software and target into a suspect's OS.
But since encryption is (financially/time/computationally) expensive, it's cheaper to exploit flaws in software.
The problem isn't password rules. The problem is the idea of security levels.
For a site like /. or soylentnews.org, just about any password should be allowable. This is a password you will likely use on lots of different sites. Also, the password should never expire. Account should be locked if a thousand bad passwords in a row are tried. The password reset should go to your email, and you should not have the ability to change your email address (but you can add a secondary email address) for a month after a password change. That way if someone breaks into your account you can get back in afterwards.
For your home computer, it should also allow any password. Passwords should never expire. The account should never be locked but you have the option of added security (ie: encrypted home directory).
For work, a more complex password that changes every six months to a year.
For your banking, a complex password that changes every year or two. Account lockout if 10 tries in a row fail.
For your email account, two factor authentication all the time and a password that needs to be changed every 3-6 months (since your email is used as a lockout to all the other possible accounts).
Or maybe the people that stay realize that they have a vesting period before getting additional IRA benefits.
Just wish they had better coverage around me.
The games can run on newer LCD screens, but they may not look as the developers intended.
I have an arcade cabinet with an LCD screen. I'm quite happy with how it looks, intentions be damned. I had the option to get one with a similar number of games (mine has ~140 classic games) but with a CRT display.
The LCD screen is much bigger, and while the game graphics are in the same resolution, the out-of-game graphics resolution is much nicer and the software makes use of it. Also, when looking at CRTs now, I don't get nostalgia any more. They just seem old.
If any application is taking 30 seconds to load up, you've got issues. Heck, LibreOffice loads up a complex spreadsheet for me in less than 5 seconds.
Maybe you're using an old hard drive that needs serious defragmenting? Or your configuration files for the app are totally borked?
I get messed up configuration files slowing down my Banshee startup. I just blow away the config directory and it's good again for a few months.
I have a good friend who's wife is proud to say they have no TV in the house.
That being said, they stream so many TV shows that it's not funny.
Not having a TV has gone from being a stigmata in the 60s to a sign of arrogance in the 90s to being a sign of penny pinching in the modern age.
You're assuming a lot about her knowledge on social issues there.
ie: Maybe she's a well-rounded idiot.
That's Low Expense Ratio, not Ration.
Someone who makes $26k a year starting out (with 3% cost of living raises) can retire with well over $1,000,000 if they do it properly.
Source: http://wisdomsreward.com/2014/...
tl;dr: Invest a little of each paycheck in a low expense ration total stock market index fund. Compounding interest over decades with get you back much more than you would expect.
But as a more practical matter anyway, 10 tries of different people's fingerprints, and the phone will be wiped regardless... so there's a limit to how useful the technique would've been to begin with.
It's worse than that: If I was to engage in illegal activities, I would make sure that the finger to open my phone is not my thumb. I would train a single other finger into all the trainable spots in the phone OS (I think it lets you train 4 or 5?). That way when the cop tries to open with my fingerprint and it doesn't work, the first thing he would do is try it again or try my other thumb. Not realizing that it takes my right ring finger to open the device.
The ISPs should shame the lawmakers and courts involved.
ie: The following list of civil servants thought this was a good idea and voted it into law. If you disagree, perhaps you should vote for others the next time and be vocal about why you did so.
If the legislative branch knows they'll get voted out of office over something like this, perhaps they'll think twice.
I forget, what are we going to Mars for?
For science.
There is no loftier goal in all the heavens.
You want killer features for a conference calling app?
1 - Highlight on your screen all the people who are currently talking.
2 - Automatic transcription of calls with the individuals talking labeled.
3 - Ability to pass along a 'talking now' and 'request talking' tokens so that someone can "raise their hand" while someone else is talking. Also the ability to cede the talking now token to one of the other people talking (for when a lot of people are on a conference call)
Or do current apps have all of this?
Love how the article doesn't just mention Pirate Bay, but gave me the names of a couple other site I didn't know about as well as IP addresses for a couple of them.
Now I know more ways to get my torrents. Well done.
That's barely a drop in the bucket.
$500,000 over 6000 people over 12 years is almost $7 a year.
Now, assuming the money is allocated to a mutual fund with compounding interest... you can potentially double the payout.
Are they expecting this to fail on purpose?
There's a serious price gap between the Model S and the Model 3.
I was kinda hoping that with cheaper battery production the Model S price would come down. Instead the price seems to be slowly creeping up. Admittedly that price includes a lot new features that weren't available three years ago.
I guess I'm just gripping that they don't have a 100kWh battery model that starts under $95k.
I liked the message boards a lot. They gave a bit of insight into the movies and characters you wouldn't get otherwise. Also, if you read a message board in a movie that came out a couple years ago you can see how the messages change from before the movie came out to afterwards.
Yes, there are griefers, but that's just the Internet. If you can't handle it, go elsewhere. Or, if you are IMDB, close up the communication forums.
Read the second sentence. ;-)
Seriously, WP 5.1 was a fantastically good word processor. The problem was it took a little more time for people to learn how to use it than MSWord. And that was it's downfall.
Paypal needs Amazon a hell of a lot more than Amazon needs Paypal.
I've never wished on the Amazon checkout that they had a Paypal option.
3D is not a feature. It's an attempted implementation of a feature.
The feature that people want is 'lifelike' video or immersive video.
To get that at home, I do see two potential technologist that are making headway. 4K TVs (for the color gamut, not the screen resolution) and virtual reality glasses.
At the hospital I work at, I've noticed that a lot more people are watching pirated content. It's no where near the 32% mentioned in the summary, but certainly a much larger percentage than 5 years ago. I basically find out as we discuss various old movies and give each other suggestions on what to watch.
The interesting thing is how these people are getting the movies. It seems that they're getting 'hot boxes', which are apparently copies of Kodi with a set of streaming plugins to pirate sites. These guys (and girls) are not particularly tech-oriented. All they know is that the movies are streamed from pirate websites.
How these people don't get caught is beyond me. But none of them are concerned with the legality of it.
It's times like this that I'm happy my work's IT department is mildly incompetent. We just finished the Windows 7 rollout last year and they're still patting themselves on their backs.
Figure that by the time they are ready to go to the next version of Windows I'll be retired.
If you're going to use magnets, do them right.
Magnetize both airpods and let them attract to each other through the skull. That'll keep them in place.
Bonus points if they use electromagnets that only activate once the devices are both in the ear canal (temperature-based?). Of course, this means that they may decouple once the user dies. I'm sure marketing can spin that in a good way.
The last time I let my Denon receiver update itself, the update stalled and I spent over an hour between manually downloading patches on a desktop and patching it over USB and several calls to their (admittedly fairly good) customer service phone center.
And, of course I had tried the original update just before the kids wanted to use the TV for a movie night.
Fool me once...