Giving the same default password to all your customers and then not forcing them to change it, not even showing them how to change it, is ignorant and careless. A company that has been in the tech business as long as Sprint should have known this.
"There're also about 100 times more difficult and confusing."
The phrase "difficult and confusing" goes hand-in-hand with any flexible or powerful computer utilities.
Full utilization of XML (and myriad programming languages) takes time.
They call them "languages" for a reason. You can't write a sonnet in French if you have only studied it for a year; and you can't write a full-featured browser suite if you started coding a month ago.:)
"...each time you build one, you need to go in and adjust it for a new password..."
Those are salient points. I guess a better point is, what was stopping Sprint from *forcing* users to change their passwords before their first login? If hooking up DSL is like I think it is, wouldn't a tech have to walk them through the initial setup? Could they not choose an alternate password then?
HA! I bet you thought I was going to make another Spaceballs reference.
You couldn't be more wrong.
Anyway, making a password system like this is stupid and careless. It's a safe bet that if you EVER set up a system (especially if popular and Internet-related) involving default passwords, it'll be compromised pretty quickly.
How much harder would RANDOM passwords have been? Sprint is ignorant and careless and their mobile phone service sucks too.
Basic digital cable provides different premium services... there are 6 HBO channels, 4 Cinemax channels, 4 Showtime channels, and a couple of 24-hour pr0n channels.
Obviously, the poster's intent was to record more porn. This drive for increased pornography consumption has inspired such innovations as the light bulb (for reading porn), the telephone (for listening to porn), and of course the cotton gin (for making more tube socks).
"It's impossible for me to fire a pistol. If you'll check me medical records, you'll see I have a cripplin' arthritis in me index fingerrrs. Look at 'em! I got it from "Space Invaders" in 1977."
"Aw, yeah. That was a pretty addictive video game."
Video games are apparently the scapegoat of the new century. I don't see how this proposal is going to help matters -- most retail stores voluntarily enforce the ratings that are already on games. The ones that don't, well, that's where GOOD PARENTING comes in... if you aren't paying attention to what your kids are doing, then the consequences of their actions are on your head.
I haven't learn marksmanship from GTA3, and I've played CounterStrike for years, and I don't think I could effectively defuse a C4 bomb. Violent video games have never conclusively been tied to violent behavior.
Violent movies, on the other hand, have. A more significant problem is the RIAA's granting of the PG-13 rating to movies that are way too violent and gratuitous to be seen by children. Theaters now hardly even enforce the 'R' rating! I have seen a ridiculous amount of news articles about children hurting themselves by imitating popular movies. The RIAA's policies are backwards and inane.
Examples of borderline PG-13 movies:
Eight Crazy Nights
Bad Company
The Fast and the Furious
All the above movies have more violence and obscenity in them than almost any video game in recent memory, but the RIAA apparently thinks constand mindless violence and sexual innuendo is OK!
I strongly disagree with this policy regarding gaming, but since it involves "protecting the children" I don't know a politician who would stand up to it. Seriously, do any of them have the balls to support violent video games?
...An opening in the wall of a building for the admission of light and air...
IT LETS LIGHT IN. IT IS A WINDOW.
The video-screen-window thingy doesn't let light in. It is only opaque. The only way you will see a picturesque view outside your bay window is if you've got a picture of a picturesque view loaded.
So it might be a plus, if you lived in New Jersey...
Courtesy Dictionary.com:
Window
1. An opening in the wall of a building for the admission of light and air, usually closed by casements or sashes containing some transparent material, as glass, and capable of being opened and shut at pleasure.
These things are hardly windows... you can't see through them and you can't open them.
Does the RIAA have the power to hamstring this guy now? Turn him into an example? The Reuters article was a little short on information. I'd like to see a followup on this.
It's nice to see a company stand up against these dicks, even if it is one of my employer's competitors.;)
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"It's not the size of the CRT that matters...it's the resolution of the image!"
:)
At least that's what my wife tells me.
That's what your wife tells me too.
Why did parent get modded as "Troll"?
Giving the same default password to all your customers and then not forcing them to change it, not even showing them how to change it, is ignorant and careless. A company that has been in the tech business as long as Sprint should have known this.
"...can overcome the effects of pollution, increase fidelity, and provide you..."
What about my infidelities? Call me when you get a spray that can increase that.
"There're also about 100 times more difficult and confusing."
:)
The phrase "difficult and confusing" goes hand-in-hand with any flexible or powerful computer utilities.
Full utilization of XML (and myriad programming languages) takes time.
They call them "languages" for a reason. You can't write a sonnet in French if you have only studied it for a year; and you can't write a full-featured browser suite if you started coding a month ago.
"...each time you build one, you need to go in and adjust it for a new password..." Those are salient points. I guess a better point is, what was stopping Sprint from *forcing* users to change their passwords before their first login? If hooking up DSL is like I think it is, wouldn't a tech have to walk them through the initial setup? Could they not choose an alternate password then?
"...but people will always be stupid. You can't change that." Hitler tried. :(
HA! I bet you thought I was going to make another Spaceballs reference.
You couldn't be more wrong.
Anyway, making a password system like this is stupid and careless. It's a safe bet that if you EVER set up a system (especially if popular and Internet-related) involving default passwords, it'll be compromised pretty quickly.
How much harder would RANDOM passwords have been? Sprint is ignorant and careless and their mobile phone service sucks too.
Modded down within 10 seconds of posting.
:(
Slashdot is a harsh mistress.
Is this how CmdrTaco finds errors in news articles?
I thought the phrase 'first post' automatically gave you a -4!
Rosen resigns and a 'first post' post gets modded up... what is the world coming to!
An explanation:
Basic digital cable provides different premium services... there are 6 HBO channels, 4 Cinemax channels, 4 Showtime channels, and a couple of 24-hour pr0n channels.
Obviously, the poster's intent was to record more porn. This drive for increased pornography consumption has inspired such innovations as the light bulb (for reading porn), the telephone (for listening to porn), and of course the cotton gin (for making more tube socks).
Haha, god, I need to wake up before I post rants on /. I did mean MPAA.
It's not hard to get confused; they're both monopolistic regimes trying to push their 'standards' onto hard-working artists.
Dude, do you run Capalert?
If not, perhaps you and the webmaster can engage in some mutual religious masturbation. You sound like you desperately need a partner.
"It's impossible for me to fire a pistol. If you'll check me medical records, you'll see I have a cripplin' arthritis in me index fingerrrs. Look at 'em! I got it from "Space Invaders" in 1977."
"Aw, yeah. That was a pretty addictive video game."
"Video game?"
Video games are apparently the scapegoat of the new century. I don't see how this proposal is going to help matters -- most retail stores voluntarily enforce the ratings that are already on games. The ones that don't, well, that's where GOOD PARENTING comes in... if you aren't paying attention to what your kids are doing, then the consequences of their actions are on your head.
I haven't learn marksmanship from GTA3, and I've played CounterStrike for years, and I don't think I could effectively defuse a C4 bomb. Violent video games have never conclusively been tied to violent behavior.
Violent movies, on the other hand, have. A more significant problem is the RIAA's granting of the PG-13 rating to movies that are way too violent and gratuitous to be seen by children. Theaters now hardly even enforce the 'R' rating! I have seen a ridiculous amount of news articles about children hurting themselves by imitating popular movies. The RIAA's policies are backwards and inane.
Examples of borderline PG-13 movies:
Eight Crazy Nights
Bad Company
The Fast and the Furious
All the above movies have more violence and obscenity in them than almost any video game in recent memory, but the RIAA apparently thinks constand mindless violence and sexual innuendo is OK!
I strongly disagree with this policy regarding gaming, but since it involves "protecting the children" I don't know a politician who would stand up to it. Seriously, do any of them have the balls to support violent video games?
Funny, because I refer to something I use a lot as God's Tool.
Maybe not so funny.
Read:
...An opening in the wall of a building for the admission of light and air...
IT LETS LIGHT IN. IT IS A WINDOW.
The video-screen-window thingy doesn't let light in. It is only opaque. The only way you will see a picturesque view outside your bay window is if you've got a picture of a picturesque view loaded.
So it might be a plus, if you lived in New Jersey...
Courtesy Dictionary.com: Window
1. An opening in the wall of a building for the admission of light and air, usually closed by casements or sashes containing some transparent material, as glass, and capable of being opened and shut at pleasure.
These things are hardly windows... you can't see through them and you can't open them.
BILL?!!
"Start out with something like "Microsoft wants to install a Service Pack Upgrade"."
If you're going for increasing levels of danger, shouldn't that be the last one?
"What if this guy stuck his finger in your ass all day long?!!"
Why use a finger? He's got a cell phone!
So a few other replies that have nothing to do with this article get "funny"s, and mine doesn't?
I know my observation wasn't that funny but it was hardly OT.
Does the RIAA have the power to hamstring this guy now? Turn him into an example? The Reuters article was a little short on information. I'd like to see a followup on this.
;)
It's nice to see a company stand up against these dicks, even if it is one of my employer's competitors.
The sad thing is none of those slaughtered pigs work for the RIAA.
"Dont hire girls JUST because they have a nice voice." Of course not. Hire them because they have big breasts. :)