it's usually the apex population that suffers the most
Yes well see its the fact the 'we' are the apex population that concerns me. I am not sold on the whole man made climate change argument. I think its a complex system we don't understand. Which really bothers me about 'the science is in crowd' we need to be researching and documenting every effect/side effect/feed back mechanism we can to try and understand this. There exists a good possibility there are drivers such as solar maximums and run away effect that may already have been triggered that are bigger than 'us' and simply cutting emissions might not do it.
We must master climate engineering if we want to do more than survive and instead continue to thrive. Taking the gas out of economic engine does not seem to me to be the best way to get there.
Because it does not logically end there. As soon as some terrorist disseminates a plan through an online game, the comments section on an Amazon product page, writing stuff in notepad over and RDP session, whatever; the list of things which can't be encrypted or must be backdoored will grow. Pretty soon it will be more or less impossible for regular people to have authentication, and integrity to say nothing of privacy in any kind of digital communication or transaction. I don't think its hyperbolic to say that if these morons get their way we will literally roll back every economic gain the Internet has afforded over a time.
Well sure but I think that was case where Putin wanted just enough deniability to avoid legal consequences without it being entirely clear he is above the law at home, but at the same time sending an unmistakable message to other wood be dissidents.
He wanted it know who did it.
Its not nearly so clear to me why he would want it know He/KGB/Russia Gov is behind the DNC hack. Its not like US Democrats are likely to change policy positions because they fear Russians are going to put a hit on them or something. Having their finger prints on it allows the DNC to try and conflate, confuse, and distract from any issues revealed in the leaks by talking about and tieing them to some kinda bizarre Russian conspiracy. Do so degrades the impact of the leaks themselves so why bother in the first place.
The real possibilities are:
1) The Russian finger prints are plants to lead people away from the actual responsible party 2) The KGB was just sloppy 3) It was a non-state but possible Russia based group, that was sloppy
To all recent history. As much as we want to draw parallels with the colonial era, nation building has not worked any of the recent times its been tried. There just are not may cased of it working in the modern era. Is there a single example of it working in the information age?
As in the international troops have been able to width-drawl after a period of development leaving behind a stable functioning nation with a government that is at least mostly on the up and up?
I commented already that I don't think this is of concern either. If we really want to tin foil hat up though it might be possible to inject into traffic you can't see. If its highly predictable traffic.
And using SSL/TLS or ipsec would basically close this hole entirely. What we see here is that it might be a little easier to inject into non-ciphered non-authenticated content and there may be a slightly larger scope of attackers positioned to do it.
NON STORY
There has always been a risk that plan text traffic could be tampered with, nothing has really changed here and I don't see that risk even being significantly increased.
Unacceptable, the conflicts have been started and escalated, it is the USA's responsibility to resolve them.
Why because you say it is? I say screw that. There was a mess we 'tried' to clean it up and it got to be a bigger mess. We don't suddenly become eternally responsible for what happens over there because we touched it.
What we are doing is horrible. We won't wipe out the enemy because doing so would require we recognize who the enemy is: Sunni Muslims, and we don't do things like exterminate religious groups. We also are not colonialists so we don't permanently occupy. Oops we just painted ourselves into a nasty corner there. So our choices are we 'stay' without real political control or 'leave' and let the chips fall. Here is the thing when we stay the fighting continues FOREVER, the dying never stops. If we leave probably someone we don't like wipes out peoples or groups we dislike a little less.
The only ethical thing to do is leave, keeping these conflicts simmering for ever might prevent a 'genocide' but the cost is perpetual human misery in these places. The Israel Palestine conflict is essentially the same. I say we solve the problem by NOT bloodying out hands for a change. Let the locals duke it out and resolve it however they can, while we decide its no longer our concern.
Not really we just need to stop playing "Team America World Police" if we say closed most of our international military bases withdrew from the current conflicts we are engaged in and focused only on defense both of the home land and merchant ships at see it would be a fraction of the cost. We could take those savings and fund much of domestic spending. That would allow not only tax cuts but less borrowing which would curb the hidden inflation tax.
We could probably go back to single income households for the most part. With that halving of the labor participation rate there would be plenty of jobs to go around automation or otherwise.
It makes little to no financial sense, and is wasteful, to own a dedicated towing vehicle
Nonsense I keep my 1995 Silverado around for exactly this. It cost me about $4000 to by and maybe $3000 to replace everything required to make it completely safe an reliable. If you can afford the boat or camper you can afford the sub $10K vehicle to haul it.
I don't have to care how well it does on gas or anything either because I drive it about once a week to haul our trash to the dump to keep it exercised and when I need to bring back something big from the home store, move a bunch dirt/mulch/stone and haul my racer somewhere. Trunk maybe gets driven 3000 miles a year. At this rate with basic (cheap) maintenance it will probably last ten years at least. So total cost of ownership probably ends up being in the $1600/year range after taxes and title.
It makes total sense to have dedicated towing vehicle, if you have an consistent need, even if its a few camping trips or auto races a year.
Native apps don't usually mix in code from untrusted sources at run time they way basically every web app that includes ads of any kind does.
Native apps don't usually have comments and data from other untrusted users that would by trying attacks like XSS against me. Native apps won't be vulnerable to CSRF and similar either.
The web browser is a little to open a platform for giving access to hardware like that.
The tax tables don't have to be a linear curve. If the rates were set on exponential curve we could easily avoid having poor people driving small cars pay much of anything while hitting bigger vehicles effectively.
As far as costing legit users thousands a year; well they hare are making a disproportionate use of a shared resource, arguably they should pay it. If its a commercial use they can pass the costs on; their competitors after all will be paying the same tax. If its hobby use well again maybe they should pay.
the idea rewards wasteful people who change their car every few years
From an environmental perspective though that probably isn't as bad as you thing. It means a lot of vehicles with good remain service life and overall condition become available in the used market. Arguably a huge benefit to less economical well off individuals, who can benefit for access to affordable quality cars. It in turn means the even old cars that probably do negatively impact the environment disproportionately can be taken out of service. Things like bad oil seals etc, causing leaks that don't get fixed.
Except those idiots are not really having much impact either. Its the rest of the people driving around much larger vehicles than they need all the time that matter. Lets just shit can CAFE standards entirely and start taxing people individually on their actual impact.
by-annual E-check - done on the dino at the tail pipe 1) measure fuel consumed over the test miles driven (to determine current fuel economy) 2) measure the PPM of interesting emissions in exhaust NOx, CO2, CO, others? 3) calculate the approximated amount of these gases emitted by using the current measured fuel economy, measured PPM of each type of gas and multiplying by the miles driven based on the odometer between this and the previous E-check. 4) apply tax rates for each gas emission type - bill the vehicle owner!
Do NOT fail anyone for a check engine light, high emissions etc, just notify them and let them pay the taxes. They will get it fixed before the next check or they will heavily again! This will incentivize individuals to actually maintain their vehicles, choose the most efficient vehicle that meets their needs because driving everywhere in their Suburban will cost more than driving a Sonic per mile in taxes. Yet by not actually limiting emissions people who actually *need* big stuff can still get it/operate it. The market will demand manufactures sell vehicles that don't result in high tax bills.
Do not make exceptions for classics etc, every vehicle gets tested every vehicle gets taxed.
Could individuals cheat by flashing their EFI control modules etc before they have their test and then putting it back after, well yes but they can do that kinda stuff in places that do checks now anyway. The smallish number of individuals that cheat won't amount to much.
Well yes and no. True you don't have the right to not be despised if you say vitriolic things that others find offensive.
On the other hand the proclivity of certain groups who seem to enjoy privileged positions as media darlings to simply shout down anyone who disagrees with them, while maybe perfectly legal certainly goes against the ethos that lead us to adopt the First Amendment.
I can only assume when such groups shot down people like Milo its because they consider their own positions to weak to withstand debate or recognize they do not themselves posses the either the knowledge or the mental faculties around synthesis to respond intelligently so they instead just scream.
I was going to express a related but dissimilar statement. I agree with the GP in that as a betting man I expect we will have the technology to solve the problem 200 years. I say that because a lot of the precursors exist today.
We have for example effective methods of generating lots of energy in one place with a low carbon foot print, be it a solar technologies or nuclear power. Any respectable chemist would tell you that if you provide him input energy that is cheap and plentiful he or she can make you any long chain liquid hydrocarbon you want from air and a few other available inputs.
So we can continue using the hydrocarbon distribution system and end use technologies of today in a completely carbon neutral way. Its just an industrial engineering and economics problem at this point; the science is done. We will get there unless we discover electric end use tech is better/easier/cheaper first.
The larger idea the GP proposed was that suddenly our rate of technical advancement is going to go linear. I think that is a little bit of wild claim. Consider would someone ( a well educated someone ) from 1616 find the technology of 1816 more unbelievable than someone from 1816 encountering 2016? I rather doubt it. They would find the steam engines and trains pretty amazing yes but not unimaginable. While it might not have been until the 1690's that anything we might call a practical steam engine emerged, various experiments and amusements had been built, many of the fundamental principles were known. Even in ancient Greece some experiments had been done. On the flip side what would someone from 1816 make of a digital computer based on semiconductor physics? - Pure Magic
The last 200 years in tech have been explosive in terms of grow especial the 1910's - 1960 period, there have been other great periods of advancement as well as long periods of relative stagnation, its not a constant rate.
If it just means one more place for TSA agents to stand around and pat me down, than no thanks.
I am sure that is all that it means coming from this administration as well. I mean its the DOJ under this admin that has been basically pushing to prevent any voter id laws from staying on the books, and suing an states that try to restrict vote by mail ( a security hole you can drive a truck thru ) at all. They then insist there is not voter fraud ignoring the fact that they have pretty much prevented the implementation of any effective audit mechanisms that might detect it.
Well I think we need to further differentiate between cases where alcoholism is the disease and where its a symptom of something else. Simple alcoholism is something I believe anyone who wants to get better and over come could do so. I am not saying its easy or there are not real physical problems like withdraw, but there are known solutions to the issues.
If someone got used to drinking with their school buddies everyday and found they just could not stop so easily, I think "Dammit Otto, you're an Alcoholic!" is fair. Otto can stop drinking if we wants to badly enough, if he has a physiological response to doing that like withdraw he can get help and receive known medical treatments that work.
On the other hand alcohol is a common avenue for self medicating a variety of mental and physical illness and chronic pain conditions. That type of complex alcoholism is not so easily addressed especially if there are not reliable cures for the underlying conditions.
Alcoholism and drug addiction are disease, now they are diseases where the victim is uniquely capable, positioned, and empowered to get well as compared with some like Parkinson but they are still a disease. In the sense they are a disease they make a person less than what they were mentally or physically in some way.
While drugs and alcohol can't excuse actions they way some other diseases like schizophrenia might because of the choice the 'victim' has they do explain them and they do make that person not their best self. I am not aware of Kildall having committed any serious crime or done anything out in society that we should hold against him. Mostly likely the people he hurt most thru his alcoholism were his children. If anyone is owed the 'truth' about their father its them, and if their decision is to have the rest of us rember Gary at his best, that is their choice and I think they have every right to make it.
What the GP is suggesting is that you hash your password than submit the hash as if it was your password where it will be hashed again by the system/site/etc.
Most password cracking efforts are not actually brute force, they use large word lists, and than apply whatever hash method and apply salts the leaked system used. Often these word lists are many gigabytes but still way smaller than the entire key space. So while summer16! is certain to be on someones word list 0a336b32a5ffad8dd06f7b245b63513e is most likely not. So they crack your password. Now if people start using this tacktic or some common password manager app does the attackers will simply apply the most popular hashing methods to the existing content of their word lists and append the output or they will modify their cracking software and rigs to also try common hashes on the wordlist content as additional inputs. So it won't work for long. It will increase the work factor slightly but only in a linear fashion so its not really a useful approach broadly speaking. As an individual it might work well for you in the short term, but since most systems require a special character or upper/lower etc its probably going to be a headache.
When I was working at an F500 on the internal security team we actually got an official policy that users *could* write down passwords iff they did so on a card kept in a wallet or purse which remains on their person outside the home.
Most people discover quickly they have lost their wallet or purse. So they are aware the password may be compromised and can notify IT Security to lock the account / reset the password promptly. Usually people have a pretty good idea when these items went missing as well, so its possible to do a little light forensics to determine if any unauthorized account access occurred.
Now if in walking around we found a password on a post-it stuck somewhere etc you still got written up. The policy was clear that document had to be on your person.
This is all true but password changes do reveal password compromises.
Yes exactly! Forced password rotations set ceiling on how long an account might remain unknowing "shared". Lets face it breaches often go undetected for a long time, and that is a problem. Forced password rotation is in fact a detective control and a valuable one! Probably to valuable to give up IMHO. Should it be a reasonably long horizon like 90 or 120 days - yes but it should not be never.
Which has always been my argument against open primaries. If you are not really a member of the club that plans to vote for the eventual nominee in the election you are just spoiling the process.
The problem isn't close primaries its that the two major parties have rigged state laws to protect them. They get to use a lot of public election resources to conduct said primaries which gain a lot of media attention for their candidates; that third parties simply don't get access to.
The correct fixes are: 1) Don't let the RNC and DNC use state/county/local election resources 2) Make the RNC and DNC pay the complete cost of using state/county/local election resources; and make those same resources available to anyone else who can pay. 3) Let any group who can show meaningful voter interest conduct a primary.
2007/8 was politically a long time ago. A great deal of the landscape has changed even since 2012. Hillary has changed her position on pretty much every major policy point under debate this cycle since that time.
Hillary herself has made lots of missteps and been embroiled in multiple scandals since then. She has been forced to take accountable policy position as Sec of State many people in both parties disagree with, unlike being able to duck votes in the Senate. She was not especially successful at state. I think most Americans feel our foreign policy at least where the middle east is concerned and that is what is most visible to most people has been lacking. Finally I don't think she is as sharp as she used to be. She handled Sanders in the debates pretty well but he was probably a soft opponent everywhere except on certain economic issues where he was very passionate and his ideas more thoroughly developed; all said she won but without a lot of really good lines. You see that because non of the footage made it to political ads.
Frankly I don't think the Hillary of today would stand a chance against the Obama of 2008. I would actually expect it to be a blow out.
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it's usually the apex population that suffers the most
Yes well see its the fact the 'we' are the apex population that concerns me. I am not sold on the whole man made climate change argument. I think its a complex system we don't understand. Which really bothers me about 'the science is in crowd' we need to be researching and documenting every effect/side effect/feed back mechanism we can to try and understand this. There exists a good possibility there are drivers such as solar maximums and run away effect that may already have been triggered that are bigger than 'us' and simply cutting emissions might not do it.
We must master climate engineering if we want to do more than survive and instead continue to thrive. Taking the gas out of economic engine does not seem to me to be the best way to get there.
Because it does not logically end there. As soon as some terrorist disseminates a plan through an online game, the comments section on an Amazon product page, writing stuff in notepad over and RDP session, whatever; the list of things which can't be encrypted or must be backdoored will grow. Pretty soon it will be more or less impossible for regular people to have authentication, and integrity to say nothing of privacy in any kind of digital communication or transaction. I don't think its hyperbolic to say that if these morons get their way we will literally roll back every economic gain the Internet has afforded over a time.
Well sure but I think that was case where Putin wanted just enough deniability to avoid legal consequences without it being entirely clear he is above the law at home, but at the same time sending an unmistakable message to other wood be dissidents.
He wanted it know who did it.
Its not nearly so clear to me why he would want it know He/KGB/Russia Gov is behind the DNC hack. Its not like US Democrats are likely to change policy positions because they fear Russians are going to put a hit on them or something. Having their finger prints on it allows the DNC to try and conflate, confuse, and distract from any issues revealed in the leaks by talking about and tieing them to some kinda bizarre Russian conspiracy. Do so degrades the impact of the leaks themselves so why bother in the first place.
The real possibilities are:
1) The Russian finger prints are plants to lead people away from the actual responsible party
2) The KGB was just sloppy
3) It was a non-state but possible Russia based group, that was sloppy
To all recent history. As much as we want to draw parallels with the colonial era, nation building has not worked any of the recent times its been tried. There just are not may cased of it working in the modern era. Is there a single example of it working in the information age?
As in the international troops have been able to width-drawl after a period of development leaving behind a stable functioning nation with a government that is at least mostly on the up and up?
I commented already that I don't think this is of concern either. If we really want to tin foil hat up though it might be possible to inject into traffic you can't see. If its highly predictable traffic.
And using SSL/TLS or ipsec would basically close this hole entirely. What we see here is that it might be a little easier to inject into non-ciphered non-authenticated content and there may be a slightly larger scope of attackers positioned to do it.
NON STORY
There has always been a risk that plan text traffic could be tampered with, nothing has really changed here and I don't see that risk even being significantly increased.
Unacceptable, the conflicts have been started and escalated, it is the USA's responsibility to resolve them.
Why because you say it is? I say screw that. There was a mess we 'tried' to clean it up and it got to be a bigger mess. We don't suddenly become eternally responsible for what happens over there because we touched it.
What we are doing is horrible. We won't wipe out the enemy because doing so would require we recognize who the enemy is: Sunni Muslims, and we don't do things like exterminate religious groups. We also are not colonialists so we don't permanently occupy. Oops we just painted ourselves into a nasty corner there. So our choices are we 'stay' without real political control or 'leave' and let the chips fall. Here is the thing when we stay the fighting continues FOREVER, the dying never stops. If we leave probably someone we don't like wipes out peoples or groups we dislike a little less.
The only ethical thing to do is leave, keeping these conflicts simmering for ever might prevent a 'genocide' but the cost is perpetual human misery in these places. The Israel Palestine conflict is essentially the same. I say we solve the problem by NOT bloodying out hands for a change. Let the locals duke it out and resolve it however they can, while we decide its no longer our concern.
Not really we just need to stop playing "Team America World Police" if we say closed most of our international military bases withdrew from the current conflicts we are engaged in and focused only on defense both of the home land and merchant ships at see it would be a fraction of the cost. We could take those savings and fund much of domestic spending. That would allow not only tax cuts but less borrowing which would curb the hidden inflation tax.
We could probably go back to single income households for the most part. With that halving of the labor participation rate there would be plenty of jobs to go around automation or otherwise.
It makes little to no financial sense, and is wasteful, to own a dedicated towing vehicle
Nonsense I keep my 1995 Silverado around for exactly this. It cost me about $4000 to by and maybe $3000 to replace everything required to make it completely safe an reliable. If you can afford the boat or camper you can afford the sub $10K vehicle to haul it.
I don't have to care how well it does on gas or anything either because I drive it about once a week to haul our trash to the dump to keep it exercised and when I need to bring back something big from the home store, move a bunch dirt/mulch/stone and haul my racer somewhere. Trunk maybe gets driven 3000 miles a year. At this rate with basic (cheap) maintenance it will probably last ten years at least. So total cost of ownership probably ends up being in the $1600/year range after taxes and title.
It makes total sense to have dedicated towing vehicle, if you have an consistent need, even if its a few camping trips or auto races a year.
Native apps don't usually mix in code from untrusted sources at run time they way basically every web app that includes ads of any kind does.
Native apps don't usually have comments and data from other untrusted users that would by trying attacks like XSS against me. Native apps won't be vulnerable to CSRF and similar either.
The web browser is a little to open a platform for giving access to hardware like that.
And that doesn't take into account federal and state tax deductions and credits that were fraudulently secured
Arguable there was not fraud there. As the person claiming the deduction would have been buy who to the best of their knowledge qualified.
The tax tables don't have to be a linear curve. If the rates were set on exponential curve we could easily avoid having poor people driving small cars pay much of anything while hitting bigger vehicles effectively.
As far as costing legit users thousands a year; well they hare are making a disproportionate use of a shared resource, arguably they should pay it. If its a commercial use they can pass the costs on; their competitors after all will be paying the same tax. If its hobby use well again maybe they should pay.
the idea rewards wasteful people who change their car every few years
From an environmental perspective though that probably isn't as bad as you thing. It means a lot of vehicles with good remain service life and overall condition become available in the used market. Arguably a huge benefit to less economical well off individuals, who can benefit for access to affordable quality cars. It in turn means the even old cars that probably do negatively impact the environment disproportionately can be taken out of service. Things like bad oil seals etc, causing leaks that don't get fixed.
If the odometer readings indicate it was only driven a few hundred miles the taxes will be essentially nothing
Except those idiots are not really having much impact either. Its the rest of the people driving around much larger vehicles than they need all the time that matter. Lets just shit can CAFE standards entirely and start taxing people individually on their actual impact.
by-annual E-check - done on the dino at the tail pipe
1) measure fuel consumed over the test miles driven (to determine current fuel economy)
2) measure the PPM of interesting emissions in exhaust NOx, CO2, CO, others?
3) calculate the approximated amount of these gases emitted by using the current measured fuel economy, measured PPM of each type of gas and multiplying by the miles driven based on the odometer between this and the previous E-check.
4) apply tax rates for each gas emission type - bill the vehicle owner!
Do NOT fail anyone for a check engine light, high emissions etc, just notify them and let them pay the taxes. They will get it fixed before the next check or they will heavily again! This will incentivize individuals to actually maintain their vehicles, choose the most efficient vehicle that meets their needs because driving everywhere in their Suburban will cost more than driving a Sonic per mile in taxes. Yet by not actually limiting emissions people who actually *need* big stuff can still get it/operate it. The market will demand manufactures sell vehicles that don't result in high tax bills.
Do not make exceptions for classics etc, every vehicle gets tested every vehicle gets taxed.
Could individuals cheat by flashing their EFI control modules etc before they have their test and then putting it back after, well yes but they can do that kinda stuff in places that do checks now anyway. The smallish number of individuals that cheat won't amount to much.
Well yes and no. True you don't have the right to not be despised if you say vitriolic things that others find offensive.
On the other hand the proclivity of certain groups who seem to enjoy privileged positions as media darlings to simply shout down anyone who disagrees with them, while maybe perfectly legal certainly goes against the ethos that lead us to adopt the First Amendment.
I can only assume when such groups shot down people like Milo its because they consider their own positions to weak to withstand debate or recognize they do not themselves posses the either the knowledge or the mental faculties around synthesis to respond intelligently so they instead just scream.
I was going to express a related but dissimilar statement. I agree with the GP in that as a betting man I expect we will have the technology to solve the problem 200 years. I say that because a lot of the precursors exist today.
We have for example effective methods of generating lots of energy in one place with a low carbon foot print, be it a solar technologies or nuclear power. Any respectable chemist would tell you that if you provide him input energy that is cheap and plentiful he or she can make you any long chain liquid hydrocarbon you want from air and a few other available inputs.
So we can continue using the hydrocarbon distribution system and end use technologies of today in a completely carbon neutral way. Its just an industrial engineering and economics problem at this point; the science is done. We will get there unless we discover electric end use tech is better/easier/cheaper first.
The larger idea the GP proposed was that suddenly our rate of technical advancement is going to go linear. I think that is a little bit of wild claim. Consider would someone ( a well educated someone ) from 1616 find the technology of 1816 more unbelievable than someone from 1816 encountering 2016? I rather doubt it. They would find the steam engines and trains pretty amazing yes but not unimaginable. While it might not have been until the 1690's that anything we might call a practical steam engine emerged, various experiments and amusements had been built, many of the fundamental principles were known. Even in ancient Greece some experiments had been done. On the flip side what would someone from 1816 make of a digital computer based on semiconductor physics? - Pure Magic
The last 200 years in tech have been explosive in terms of grow especial the 1910's - 1960 period, there have been other great periods of advancement as well as long periods of relative stagnation, its not a constant rate.
If it just means one more place for TSA agents to stand around and pat me down, than no thanks.
I am sure that is all that it means coming from this administration as well. I mean its the DOJ under this admin that has been basically pushing to prevent any voter id laws from staying on the books, and suing an states that try to restrict vote by mail ( a security hole you can drive a truck thru ) at all. They then insist there is not voter fraud ignoring the fact that they have pretty much prevented the implementation of any effective audit mechanisms that might detect it.
Well I think we need to further differentiate between cases where alcoholism is the disease and where its a symptom of something else. Simple alcoholism is something I believe anyone who wants to get better and over come could do so. I am not saying its easy or there are not real physical problems like withdraw, but there are known solutions to the issues.
If someone got used to drinking with their school buddies everyday and found they just could not stop so easily, I think "Dammit Otto, you're an Alcoholic!" is fair. Otto can stop drinking if we wants to badly enough, if he has a physiological response to doing that like withdraw he can get help and receive known medical treatments that work.
On the other hand alcohol is a common avenue for self medicating a variety of mental and physical illness and chronic pain conditions. That type of complex alcoholism is not so easily addressed especially if there are not reliable cures for the underlying conditions.
Alcoholism and drug addiction are disease, now they are diseases where the victim is uniquely capable, positioned, and empowered to get well as compared with some like Parkinson but they are still a disease. In the sense they are a disease they make a person less than what they were mentally or physically in some way.
While drugs and alcohol can't excuse actions they way some other diseases like schizophrenia might because of the choice the 'victim' has they do explain them and they do make that person not their best self. I am not aware of Kildall having committed any serious crime or done anything out in society that we should hold against him. Mostly likely the people he hurt most thru his alcoholism were his children. If anyone is owed the 'truth' about their father its them, and if their decision is to have the rest of us rember Gary at his best, that is their choice and I think they have every right to make it.
summer16! | md5
0a336b32a5ffad8dd06f7b245b63513e
What the GP is suggesting is that you hash your password than submit the hash as if it was your password where it will be hashed again by the system/site/etc.
Most password cracking efforts are not actually brute force, they use large word lists, and than apply whatever hash method and apply salts the leaked system used. Often these word lists are many gigabytes but still way smaller than the entire key space. So while summer16! is certain to be on someones word list 0a336b32a5ffad8dd06f7b245b63513e is most likely not. So they crack your password. Now if people start using this tacktic or some common password manager app does the attackers will simply apply the most popular hashing methods to the existing content of their word lists and append the output or they will modify their cracking software and rigs to also try common hashes on the wordlist content as additional inputs. So it won't work for long. It will increase the work factor slightly but only in a linear fashion so its not really a useful approach broadly speaking. As an individual it might work well for you in the short term, but since most systems require a special character or upper/lower etc its probably going to be a headache.
When I was working at an F500 on the internal security team we actually got an official policy that users *could* write down passwords iff they did so on a card kept in a wallet or purse which remains on their person outside the home.
Most people discover quickly they have lost their wallet or purse. So they are aware the password may be compromised and can notify IT Security to lock the account / reset the password promptly. Usually people have a pretty good idea when these items went missing as well, so its possible to do a little light forensics to determine if any unauthorized account access occurred.
Now if in walking around we found a password on a post-it stuck somewhere etc you still got written up. The policy was clear that document had to be on your person.
This is all true but password changes do reveal password compromises.
Yes exactly! Forced password rotations set ceiling on how long an account might remain unknowing "shared". Lets face it breaches often go undetected for a long time, and that is a problem. Forced password rotation is in fact a detective control and a valuable one! Probably to valuable to give up IMHO. Should it be a reasonably long horizon like 90 or 120 days - yes but it should not be never.
^THIS^
Which has always been my argument against open primaries. If you are not really a member of the club that plans to vote for the eventual nominee in the election you are just spoiling the process.
The problem isn't close primaries its that the two major parties have rigged state laws to protect them. They get to use a lot of public election resources to conduct said primaries which gain a lot of media attention for their candidates; that third parties simply don't get access to.
The correct fixes are:
1) Don't let the RNC and DNC use state/county/local election resources
2) Make the RNC and DNC pay the complete cost of using state/county/local election resources; and make those same resources available to anyone else who can pay.
3) Let any group who can show meaningful voter interest conduct a primary.
2007/8 was politically a long time ago. A great deal of the landscape has changed even since 2012. Hillary has changed her position on pretty much every major policy point under debate this cycle since that time.
Hillary herself has made lots of missteps and been embroiled in multiple scandals since then. She has been forced to take accountable policy position as Sec of State many people in both parties disagree with, unlike being able to duck votes in the Senate. She was not especially successful at state. I think most Americans feel our foreign policy at least where the middle east is concerned and that is what is most visible to most people has been lacking. Finally I don't think she is as sharp as she used to be. She handled Sanders in the debates pretty well but he was probably a soft opponent everywhere except on certain economic issues where he was very passionate and his ideas more thoroughly developed; all said she won but without a lot of really good lines. You see that because non of the footage made it to political ads.
Frankly I don't think the Hillary of today would stand a chance against the Obama of 2008. I would actually expect it to be a blow out.