DUPE! Not even a day goes by and they post a second reference to the same unsubstantiated article. Why, when I think of how many times... What's that you say? A retraction? What's that?... in any case, as I was saying...
What have your lowered expectations won you? Would your reaction be so scornful if you didn't resent your own situation? Don't become a corporate apologist by automatically treating the status quo as the way things ought to be. Nothing will change unless we demand more of ourselves and our employers.
(you can't get to the battery on an iPod because they wanted it to look "perfect" with no nasty access doors...)
A user-servicable battery would have made the iPod thicker. Size isn't some superficial aesthetic factor; it's the overriding design concern. Form followed function in this case.
All the systems where I work will lock you out after 5 bad attempts. What kind of password system lets you try 75 (or even 20) times?
True enough, but even with login attempts limited, would you be comfortable with a 1.3-character password? That's in effect what this attack does to your high-entropy key.
You jest, but I seem to recall "pepper" being used to describe a related scheme under which the salt is secret and has a relatively small domain (but large enough to make dictionary attacks much harder). The idea was that if you provide the right password, the computer can exhaust the possible pepper values until it gets a match, but the correct value never needs to be stored.
Sound familiar to anyone else? Anyone know if it's used in practice?
forgive me, some will think this is "sexist" but deep down you all know its true:
You make it sound as if you're about to say something controversial when you're really just repeating conventional wisdom and pop psychologists. I do happen to find your attitude sexist, but it's an attitude that pervades our culture. Please don't portray hegemonic views as persecuted beliefs.
Men hunt, women gather.
I don't buy it. Your analogy doesn't even make sense. When hunting you have some target. You have to have a particular target in order to set the PVR. When browsing particular channels, on the other hand, you trust that certain memorized areas will bear fruit. Sounds like a gatherer's approach to me. [Of course this is an equally fatuous comparison. I make it only to demonstrate how easily expectations can be fulfilled, no matter their validity.]
mod me down if you disagree, but before you do, give it some thought. its not as wrong as society would like you to believe.
Since when has it ever been wrong to express such views in American society? I find it to be factually wrong and harmful to the extent that it's prescriptive, but I strongly doubt that I am in the majority here.
Namely, the other half of the numbers. 48% of women asserted x. 55% of women responded y. Okay, interesting, but what does this have to do with sex differences? The study included men and women in roughly equal proportions, but no comparison is made to the men.
If someone could dig up the whole story, your efforts would be appreciated.
And of course, if you don't want telephone service - maybe you have a cell phone - you have no way of saying "Don't bill me for this, because I'm not using it." You're paying for it whether you use it or not.
Yup. Public goods rarely directly benefit every single individual. You can't opt-out of highway taxes just because you don't drive.
I'm sure you recognize that sometimes this is exactly the right approach to important pieces of infrastructure.
. '...He said his real education started when he "dropped in" on whatever classes interested him -- including calligraphy.' The irony: that most students were graduating. I wouldn't invite him for a high school graduation.
I was there with the parents, and the summary mischaracterizes his commencement address. Steve's point was that the passion you pursue matters more than the feasibility of the pursuit. The message was essentially "don't be afraid to take risks."
The speech was very personal and consequently a little offbeat. The guy talked earnestly about life-changing moments: dropping out, getting fired, and being diagnosed with cancer. He may have stressed mortality to an uncommon degree and hinted that diplomas were not invaluable, but the overall message was very positive and remarkably sincere.
Thanks for the reply. I'm skeptical of John Gray. The popular press latches onto figures and researches who promote "interplanetary" gender differences while lending little attention to those whose findings demonstrate less contrasting differences. I'd recommend Michael Kimmel's The Gendered Society for a good survey of an alternate perspective.
Even those researches who find significant differences between the mean communication styles of men and women are recording distributions with tremendous variance. If this interplanetary attitude towards gender communication should only hold true for approximately 55% of the population, why is it relied upon as such an informative predictor?
I think the stereotype does more harm than good and that the expectations it implies are often self-fulfilling.
I've found for most women they aren't looking for a solution, they are looking for empathy.
I've found that what a person is looking for varies with context. My male friends, just as my female friends, typically prefer venting and receiving affirmation but at times discuss problems for which they genuinely desire constructive input.
+5 Informative? I'm all for discussion of security, and I generally abhor the substitution of harsh moderation for dissenting replies, but the parent post purports to be "everything you ever wanted to know about passwords."
Security is as hard as it is important to get right, and respectfully, John, you're not qualified to compile such a list. (Nor am I, admittedly.) You can't identify something as prevalent as SecurID, you're misstating security fundamentals, and you're conflating related concepts.
Passwords are relevant only for authentication, and better schemes involve additional proofs of identity (e.g. SecurID tokens). A good security policy correctly uses crypto primitives to create layered defenses that supply mutual authentication, secure communication, and data integrity. A good password is generated randomly from a large domain, is stored securely, and is not reused for multiple purposes.
I disagree; back when I was a teenager, I was a font of wisdom. Now I'm puzzled by quite a lot. We should definitely discount the opinions of middle aged and older people.
Clever retort, but would you seriously argue that meritorious ideas are found solely among the aged? At some point you have to evaluate a position for its content and not its advocate. Why should the young be excluded from this process?
From my experience, Women have a different style of thinking than men -- they seem to work far better in a multi-tasking world where you have to keep track of 10 or 20 things at once with lots of details. Men are far better at pointing their head at one thing and working on it for hours on end..
Funny, that doesn't fit with my experiences in the least. I know a fair number of people excellent at focusing, a smaller number of people great at multitasking, and a whole bunch that are mediocre in both respects. Gender is equally distributed within each of these groups. Would you mind naming your specific field?
My father and mother are both school teachers. I discovered a love for computer science through cultural influences and economic incentives. I'm disgusted by the implications of your argument, but I'm also deeply skeptical of your reasoning.
How would you justify your premise that the females now in highly demanding careers are needed for the production of new engineers? I ask in earnest, what do you think of eugenic programs?
This is the big problem. The most intelligent women disproportionatly go into careers, limiting their family size or skipping children altogether, while the least intelligent women are the most immune from feminist propaganda.
By feminist propaganda, you're referring to the idea that neither men nor women should be denied opportunities on the basis of gender, yes? I share your disgust and agree with your analysis. What's the right course of action, though? I'm a eugenics man, myself. Keeping women out of the workforce is a start, but it's only a stopgap.
Take common expectations and generalities (such as this) with a grain of salt. There are millions of young adults entering college this year and the common threads of experience of which we speak contain all the acuity of sitcom stereotypes.
Decide what you want out of college and then strive to live your life accordingly. There's no right way to do it, and success and failure remain yours to define.
Even if you agree with Congress that libraries should be filtered, do you really prefer a heavyhanded national mandate to the judgment of local librarians? But then federalism is so 19th century.
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As a 34 year old coder, I was horrified to hear a quote from a *hiring manager*: 'In the IT sector (and coding in particular) younger minds generally work faster -- I would rather employ a keen teenager who code programs computers quickly than an older person.'
This is an outrage! I demand to know this man's contact information so that I can give him a resu^H^H^H^Hpiece of my mind!
All the people with laptops stop bringing them to lectures damn fast, ditto palms. Just get some good (paper) notebooks and use a PC. You'll get less funny stares, and it doens't really help anymore to have it on disk.
Not so!
As other posters have mentioned, you'll have a hard time taking notes on a laptop in math classes, but I and many others that I've noticed bring laptops to class on a daily basis. It's nice being able to clearly format (and reformat) your notes as you type them, and you have the advantage of being able to produce stuff that's both legible and archivable on the order of 100 WPM. Also, I highly recommend an 802.11 card (even if your campus isn't wireless now, it will be soon). Chatting and surfing during lulls in instruction is nice, but wireless access can even make a difference in your education: Being able to lookup references online greatly enhances my daily lecture experience. Don't discount the advantages of a laptop in considering your college computer purchase.
"Um, Professor Johnson- google begs to differ."
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DUPE! Not even a day goes by and they post a second reference to the same unsubstantiated article. Why, when I think of how many times ... What's that you say? A retraction? What's that? ... in any case, as I was saying...
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What have your lowered expectations won you? Would your reaction be so scornful if you didn't resent your own situation? Don't become a corporate apologist by automatically treating the status quo as the way things ought to be. Nothing will change unless we demand more of ourselves and our employers.
(you can't get to the battery on an iPod because they wanted it to look "perfect" with no nasty access doors...)
A user-servicable battery would have made the iPod thicker. Size isn't some superficial aesthetic factor; it's the overriding design concern. Form followed function in this case.
True enough, but even with login attempts limited, would you be comfortable with a 1.3-character password? That's in effect what this attack does to your high-entropy key.
Love the Nano, of course, but I won't be getting one. For me, there's one big change that matters:
I can finally group playlists (hierarchically, even)!
You jest, but I seem to recall "pepper" being used to describe a related scheme under which the salt is secret and has a relatively small domain (but large enough to make dictionary attacks much harder). The idea was that if you provide the right password, the computer can exhaust the possible pepper values until it gets a match, but the correct value never needs to be stored.
Sound familiar to anyone else? Anyone know if it's used in practice?
forgive me, some will think this is "sexist" but deep down you all know its true:
You make it sound as if you're about to say something controversial when you're really just repeating conventional wisdom and pop psychologists. I do happen to find your attitude sexist, but it's an attitude that pervades our culture. Please don't portray hegemonic views as persecuted beliefs.
Men hunt, women gather.
I don't buy it. Your analogy doesn't even make sense. When hunting you have some target. You have to have a particular target in order to set the PVR. When browsing particular channels, on the other hand, you trust that certain memorized areas will bear fruit. Sounds like a gatherer's approach to me. [Of course this is an equally fatuous comparison. I make it only to demonstrate how easily expectations can be fulfilled, no matter their validity.]
mod me down if you disagree, but before you do, give it some thought. its not as wrong as society would like you to believe.
Since when has it ever been wrong to express such views in American society? I find it to be factually wrong and harmful to the extent that it's prescriptive, but I strongly doubt that I am in the majority here.
Namely, the other half of the numbers. 48% of women asserted x. 55% of women responded y. Okay, interesting, but what does this have to do with sex differences? The study included men and women in roughly equal proportions, but no comparison is made to the men.
If someone could dig up the whole story, your efforts would be appreciated.
Yup. Public goods rarely directly benefit every single individual. You can't opt-out of highway taxes just because you don't drive.
I'm sure you recognize that sometimes this is exactly the right approach to important pieces of infrastructure.
I was there with the parents, and the summary mischaracterizes his commencement address. Steve's point was that the passion you pursue matters more than the feasibility of the pursuit. The message was essentially "don't be afraid to take risks."
The speech was very personal and consequently a little offbeat. The guy talked earnestly about life-changing moments: dropping out, getting fired, and being diagnosed with cancer. He may have stressed mortality to an uncommon degree and hinted that diplomas were not invaluable, but the overall message was very positive and remarkably sincere.
Even those researches who find significant differences between the mean communication styles of men and women are recording distributions with tremendous variance. If this interplanetary attitude towards gender communication should only hold true for approximately 55% of the population, why is it relied upon as such an informative predictor?
I think the stereotype does more harm than good and that the expectations it implies are often self-fulfilling.
I've found that what a person is looking for varies with context. My male friends, just as my female friends, typically prefer venting and receiving affirmation but at times discuss problems for which they genuinely desire constructive input.
Which scientists? What studies? I'm not convinced of the trend from my interaction with women and men.
[... there are indeed psycological studies to back this up]. I'd be grateful for citations. Sincerely.
Security is as hard as it is important to get right, and respectfully, John, you're not qualified to compile such a list. (Nor am I, admittedly.) You can't identify something as prevalent as SecurID, you're misstating security fundamentals, and you're conflating related concepts.
Passwords are relevant only for authentication, and better schemes involve additional proofs of identity (e.g. SecurID tokens). A good security policy correctly uses crypto primitives to create layered defenses that supply mutual authentication, secure communication, and data integrity. A good password is generated randomly from a large domain, is stored securely, and is not reused for multiple purposes.
I disagree; back when I was a teenager, I was a font of wisdom. Now I'm puzzled by quite a lot. We should definitely discount the opinions of middle aged and older people.
Clever retort, but would you seriously argue that meritorious ideas are found solely among the aged? At some point you have to evaluate a position for its content and not its advocate. Why should the young be excluded from this process?
From my experience, Women have a different style of thinking than men -- they seem to work far better in a multi-tasking world where you have to keep track of 10 or 20 things at once with lots of details. Men are far better at pointing their head at one thing and working on it for hours on end..
Funny, that doesn't fit with my experiences in the least. I know a fair number of people excellent at focusing, a smaller number of people great at multitasking, and a whole bunch that are mediocre in both respects. Gender is equally distributed within each of these groups. Would you mind naming your specific field?
My father and mother are both school teachers. I discovered a love for computer science through cultural influences and economic incentives. I'm disgusted by the implications of your argument, but I'm also deeply skeptical of your reasoning.
How would you justify your premise that the females now in highly demanding careers are needed for the production of new engineers? I ask in earnest, what do you think of eugenic programs?
By feminist propaganda, you're referring to the idea that neither men nor women should be denied opportunities on the basis of gender, yes? I share your disgust and agree with your analysis. What's the right course of action, though? I'm a eugenics man, myself. Keeping women out of the workforce is a start, but it's only a stopgap.
Take common expectations and generalities (such as this) with a grain of salt. There are millions of young adults entering college this year and the common threads of experience of which we speak contain all the acuity of sitcom stereotypes. Decide what you want out of college and then strive to live your life accordingly. There's no right way to do it, and success and failure remain yours to define.
Even if you agree with Congress that libraries should be filtered, do you really prefer a heavyhanded national mandate to the judgment of local librarians? But then federalism is so 19th century.