If you have nothing to hide, why should it matter either way?
"If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him." - Cardinal Richelieu (supposedly)
More to the point, if you're taking your machine to be fixed because it was compromised, doesn't that make it just ever so slightly more likely that the child porn on it wasn't your doing?
So... let me show you the password rules implemented a month ago by a certain Australian state government department. This has been making the rounds as an example of a sensible modern policy.
The change is intended to make passwords easier to remember and stronger while also reducing password frustration. Password policy will become: 1. At least fourteen (14) characters (but can be more); 2. Only one-character set required (i.e. lower case letters which is easy on phones and tablets); 3. Twice yearly password renewal meaning a mandatory change every 180 days instead of the current 90 days; 4. 5 password attempts before lockout; 5. 30-minute lockout period after 5 failed attempts (with immediate unlocking available by contacting the ICT Service Desk).
1. Increased Password Length - At least fourteen (14) characters While 14 characters would be long for a single word, the current best practice is to use “pass phrases”. The longer the phrase the better. Examples of pass-phrases are: (all characters are valid, including spaces): my dog is a kelpie iloveworkingatthisplace my favourite football team is the broncos John Paul George Ringo why why why delilah
2. Only one-character set required In order to reduce potential frustration, the new password policy need only include a single character set (i.e. lower case letters). This removes the need for users to remember a potentially complex string of characters - although these characters (symbols, numbers, capitals, etc.) can still be used to further strengthen a password.
I will, but I'm sure you're going to have a problem with it. I'm not American, so I consider health care a basic right. I also consider a right-on-paper which is inadequately enforced or respected to be a right which is lacking, which means you can probably think of a bunch of basic rights that you lack in your country.
With that in mind: Albania. The 6th most literate country in the world has the worst forced prostitution problem in Europe, largely due to government corruption.
Pop music has been that way from the beginning - only autotune is new.
Exactly. The early-to-mid-1960s was the era of British Invasion, the height of the golden age of Broadway, and they heyday of Bob Dylan and John Coltraine. It was also the era of Surfin' Bird and Al Hirt's Java.
I scan up and down the dial on the radio and 98% of what I hear is autotuned SHIT.
I remember scanning up and down the dial on the radio in the 80s, and most of it was interchangeable big-hair bands and bubblegum synth-euro-pop. I can't remember the names of most of them because I've forgotten. I only remember the good stuff and the not-so-good-but-iconic stuff.
Ah, see, that's where the misunderstanding comes in. You're talking about the legal duties in the United States (which is unusual in the English-speaking world), which is slightly different from "their job".
I don't know about your job, but my job involves a bit more than the bare minimum required not to get sued.
No! Their job is to "prevent crime and disorder, as an alternative to their repression by military force and severity of legal punishment", as Sir Robert Peel rightly put it.
Every British, Australian, Canadian, and New Zealand police officer is aware of this. The best time to stop a criminal is before the crime takes place, and the absolute best time is before someone becomes a criminal in the first place. This is such an obvious point that you'd think US police officers would know it too.
If you want to know if the police are doing a good job, don't count the bad guys the cops caught, count the crimes which never happened.
Ms Fowler's description of her experience at Uber sounds terrible, but I don't think Uber is typical of tech companies or representative of "nerd culture".
If you read her article, it's clear that things got worse during her time there. Reading between the lines, it sounds an awful lot like the story of the missing stair.
In one sense, it's not Uber, it's just that one guy. But when people discuss what is "typical" or "representative", many miss the problem that it only takes that one guy. That guy may not be typical or representative, but if the organisation decides (whether deliberately or not) to ignore or enable that one guy, that one guy becomes the typical or representative experience for anyone that one guy targets.
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So that would be twitters fault for not coding in gif stoppers and user set filters.
Not content with blaming platforms for failing to prevent piracy, we're now going to blame them for failing to prevent stalking?
Don't worry, Elon Musk will save us.
You seem to be implying that Windows needs outside help to mess itself up.
Windows can do many things by itself, but not download child pornography.
Yet.
If you have nothing to hide, why should it matter either way?
"If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him." - Cardinal Richelieu (supposedly)
More to the point, if you're taking your machine to be fixed because it was compromised, doesn't that make it just ever so slightly more likely that the child porn on it wasn't your doing?
So... let me show you the password rules implemented a month ago by a certain Australian state government department. This has been making the rounds as an example of a sensible modern policy.
Why do you characterize it as a gendered issue?
That was all preamble for my actual answer.
Name one.
I will, but I'm sure you're going to have a problem with it. I'm not American, so I consider health care a basic right. I also consider a right-on-paper which is inadequately enforced or respected to be a right which is lacking, which means you can probably think of a bunch of basic rights that you lack in your country.
With that in mind: Albania. The 6th most literate country in the world has the worst forced prostitution problem in Europe, largely due to government corruption.
Fair enough. I don't live in the US and wasn't thinking about there specifically.
If you are your own boss, you can work as much or as little as you want.
The only kind of music I listen to nowadays is classical. Hard to fake that.
I wonder about Stockhausen sometimes.
Pop music has been that way from the beginning - only autotune is new.
Exactly. The early-to-mid-1960s was the era of British Invasion, the height of the golden age of Broadway, and they heyday of Bob Dylan and John Coltraine. It was also the era of Surfin' Bird and Al Hirt's Java.
I scan up and down the dial on the radio and 98% of what I hear is autotuned SHIT.
I remember scanning up and down the dial on the radio in the 80s, and most of it was interchangeable big-hair bands and bubblegum synth-euro-pop. I can't remember the names of most of them because I've forgotten. I only remember the good stuff and the not-so-good-but-iconic stuff.
I'm sure that Sturgeon's Revelation applies.
And there are more people living in places where women are lacking basic rights than first-world whiners.
That's only because many women lack basic rights in the first world too.
The number of women living in the sorts of places you're thinking about is lower than you think and on the decline. RIP Hans Rosling.
if the main reason is women not working full time 40 hours but that's what employers want, the discussion is over and nothing need be done.
In the United States, the 40 hour work week did not come into legal effect until 1940. Before the 1930s, six-day work weeks were the norm.
"What employers want" is irrelevant. If we went by "what employers want" we'd still have child labor and being paid in scrip.
encourage men to abandon high paying STEM fields and opt for lower paying fields like primary education and service jobs, [...]
You jest, but this is a serious problem. Men who work in early childhood education face a lot of discrimination.
It's getting better for stay-at-home dads, though.
Tor has been the cause of more incidents, but I'd be willing to bet that more peoples' personal data was leaked by bank data breaches than by Tor.
Having said that, you do have a point. Banks do typically go to a lot of trouble to keep their information secure, especially from regulators.
Bank infrastructure is typically less secure than Tor.
Ah, see, that's where the misunderstanding comes in. You're talking about the legal duties in the United States (which is unusual in the English-speaking world), which is slightly different from "their job".
I don't know about your job, but my job involves a bit more than the bare minimum required not to get sued.
Their job is to catch criminals.
No! Their job is to "prevent crime and disorder, as an alternative to their repression by military force and severity of legal punishment", as Sir Robert Peel rightly put it.
Every British, Australian, Canadian, and New Zealand police officer is aware of this. The best time to stop a criminal is before the crime takes place, and the absolute best time is before someone becomes a criminal in the first place. This is such an obvious point that you'd think US police officers would know it too.
If you want to know if the police are doing a good job, don't count the bad guys the cops caught, count the crimes which never happened.
We shouldn't let anyone into the country who [...] doesn't know what an abstract class is.
You do that, America. In the mean time, we'll take all the C and Haskell programmers for ourselves.
I think you mean Cinerama.
It doesn't say "Americans" anywhere.
I think it's clear they didn't intend to include slaves.
Ms Fowler's description of her experience at Uber sounds terrible, but I don't think Uber is typical of tech companies or representative of "nerd culture".
If you read her article, it's clear that things got worse during her time there. Reading between the lines, it sounds an awful lot like the story of the missing stair.
In one sense, it's not Uber, it's just that one guy. But when people discuss what is "typical" or "representative", many miss the problem that it only takes that one guy. That guy may not be typical or representative, but if the organisation decides (whether deliberately or not) to ignore or enable that one guy, that one guy becomes the typical or representative experience for anyone that one guy targets.
His "little web video" channel makes more money than many cable networks.
Most of us here don't watch them either.