Furthermore, you seem to be laboring under the misconception that REDUCING the number of words in a dictionary INCREASES the chance of a successful match.
Of the 804 words in the presented common-use list, only 140 match your suggested password scheme. Instead of having 804 chances to crack any particular password, you now only have 140.
Certainly, you can bulk out your password list with randomly generated entries, but that is not what dictionaries of commonly used passwords are used for! Now you are again faced with the vastly increased number of possible passwords.
Forgive me, but I have no idea what you are talking about. Nowhere do I claim any such thing. I do claim that 98814936052800 is greater than 321272406 (98814936052800 > 321272406).
98814936052800 is the number of all passwords with lengths from six to nine with at least one number.
321272406 is the number of all passwords with lengths from one to six, as would be picked by unregulated users.
Okay, let me give you some numbers. If you don't have any password scheme, all your users will have a password from one to six chars long. That is: 321272406 possible passwords.
If you limit them as you suggest, and they all pick between 6 and 9 chars, with one number, that makes: 98814936052800 possible passwords
Since 98814936052800 is clearly larger than 321272406, you are clearly an idiot.
You didn't even check, did you? Of the sites listed, only 5 have the word 'dictionary' in their titles. Of those, two are Bible dictionaries, one is that computer dictionary, one is a medical dictionary, and one is not any kind of paper publication. That leaves just Webster's.
Unless you think the On-line Medical Dictionary is a great book for common usage word-use.
Dictionary.com. DICTIONARY.COM! Wow, it must be correct, it has the word DICTIONARY right there in the URL! Everywhere else must be wrong, because it's not DICTIONARY.COM!
Now I am off to get me some sex from sex.com. I used to have a girlfriend, but we couldn't have been having sex, because we weren't logged on to SEX.COM!
No, this isn't flamebait, it's a straight flame. Except it doesn't come from flame.com.
Yes, but did you ever wonder why ATA-66 and over are only availible on an 80-connector cable? Could it be that by doubling the number of wires, you could double the number of devices able to transmit without collision? Like, for example, doubling the number of devices on a channel from one to two?
I beg to differ. Assuming a standard motherboard, with 2 PATA channels, and assuming a minimum of one HDD and one optical storage device as standard on a PC, any upgrades to the PC means that the channel will be shared.
Unless you can think of a reason to throw out an 80gig HDD just because you bought a new 120gig.
And that is ignoring the far-future technology known as '80-connector cables'.
Python IS the greatest. Python coders are not. The great thing about democracy is that everyone has a say. The worst thing about democracy is EVERYONE has a say.
I don't want to start a Steam-bashing war, but Steam is broken. I used to be able to play online over my 56k modem, but not with Steam. I can't even play it at LAN parties, because no home user in South Africa has enough bandwidth for more than 2 Steam clients.
Argh, why do I bother with this shit... Flamebait? More like 'harsh reality.'
Admittidly, my last post did miss out one or two skills CS could teach you. Like team-killing, for example.
Seriously, has whoever modded me down ever played CS online? What leadership skills could you possibly learn from CS? It is true that CS clans have leaders, but that has nothing to do with the game. Now, it is possible that the social interactions one experiences by being in a clan may improve your leadership skills, but that is just same as every other social activity, and has nothing to do with the game itself.
L33t mouse skillz do not translate to real life coordination. At least not gross motor control, which is what is normaly understood by the term. In theory, mouse use could help with fine motor control, but only in the specialised field of mouse-movement. Even then the limitations of an underdeveloped gross motor control system would limit the accuracy.
Get yourself a biological foundations / neuropsychology textbook before the next time you mod me down.
Absolutely not. When was the last time you played CS? The only social skills you could learn from it are sexism, racism, and smack talk.
As for the 'computer games develop hand eye coordination' myth, there is almost no correlation between computer use and real-world coordination skills. All the headshots in the world won't help you catch a ball.
Real hand/eye coordination is not just 'you see something, you move your hand.' It is about developing psycho perceptual models of the world through physical feedback and spatial awareness.
Ever heard of a legacy device? They are mostly not supported.
I do think the games distro is a good idea. More and more, people are starting to want the ease-of-use of a console, but it will not be easy to pull off, especially since there is yet to be a distro with the ease-of-use of Windows.
On the contrary, I have been using my Palm M125 as a kind of ebook/mobile webpage viewer ever since I got it. I find if far less tireing on the eyes than my CRT, and it is lighter and smaller than a book.
I was really looking forward to watching the Oscars this year without knowing who one anything beforehand. My friend taped the live showing that happened at 3am local time, and I was going over there this morning to watch it. Just before I left to see the show, I checked slashdot, carefully scanning the topic lines of all he posts to avoid anything Oscar-related, thinking that the editors would have been smart enough to use a neutral subject line like "Oscar Winners".
Obviously, I was mightily pissed when I saw the title for this news post. Next time, please consider the people who life in different time zone, and don't want the surprises spoiled.
the game they were imitating was Dune 2, not Hertzog Zwei.
True, but perhaps it would be more accurate to say that although Dune 2 wasn't the first RTS, it did create the genre.
I probably shouldn't get so worked up about things like that, but I can't stand it when people masquerade as experts.
"It is the responsibility of intellectuals to tell the truth and to expose lies" --Noam Chompsky
(And the first FPS I had was called The Colony, but there is a very good case for saying that Battlezone was the first FPS, AND that it created the genre:)
Apart from my differing opinion about Generals (which has very good multiplayer, especially with the Zero Hour expansion), I find it hard to trust any article about RTS games that claims that Dune 2 was the first game in the genre.
The author states "But that alone is not the only piece of misinformation regarding the RTS genre" when it is he that is spreading misinformation. Take for example, Hertzog Zwei, a Megadrive (Genesis) RTS that far predates Dune 2.
The entire article seems to be nothing but a badly-constructed collection of ruminations about RTS games. I don't claim this post to be any better constructed than his article, but I can claim that I am not trying to make you think I am important and cool by hinting at things I don't really understand.
Take for example the section marked "The Problem". All he does to establish what he thinks the problem is, is list a group of ancient RTS games, and then complain that they all had a lot in common. Of course they had something in common: they were all members of the same genre. An RTS game without most of the things he lists, "Settle down, collect, build up, expand, destroy" would not be an RTS.
So, there was no real point to that section of the article, unless all he meant to say was "I am bored of the RTS genre." The thing that make this article detestable is the way he then tries to make us think he is clever, and actually has a point. First, he make a parenthetical aside about the old games he lists, hinting that they didn't have all that much of a storyline. Oh, what wit! What intellect! What humour the author commands!
Secondly, he tries to make his idea bigger than they are. For example, the use of the rhetorical question "...need I go on?", when he does, in fact, need to go on, because he has yet to make any point. He instead writes "...need I go on?", hoping that the reader will assume he made an important point.
The rest of this article continues in the same vein. The author comes close to realising the stupidity of what he is writing when he adds, in the section marked 'But still a problem': "but seeing how there are dozens of titles clinging to the same genre".
How is it that the author cannot understand that the non-innovative games that he lists, including Generals and Age of Mythology, are as much members of the RTS genre as the innovative ones he lists, Starcraft and Homeworld?
And again, if one has a flaky and ill-established point, why say there are "dozens" of examples, rather that actually list them?
I, on the other hand, believe that I have made my point, and will forgo listing other examples of the poorness of this article. If you disagree, post a response and I will elaborate.
I really have to second this. That article was entirely biased towards the American ideas. My first two computers were the ZX81 and the BBC, as it was for many people. Both those and perhaps the Archimedes desterve a place on the list.
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Furthermore, you seem to be laboring under the misconception that REDUCING the number of words in a dictionary INCREASES the chance of a successful match.
Of the 804 words in the presented common-use list, only 140 match your suggested password scheme. Instead of having 804 chances to crack any particular password, you now only have 140.
Certainly, you can bulk out your password list with randomly generated entries, but that is not what dictionaries of commonly used passwords are used for! Now you are again faced with the vastly increased number of possible passwords.
Forgive me, but I have no idea what you are talking about. Nowhere do I claim any such thing. I do claim that 98814936052800 is greater than 321272406 (98814936052800 > 321272406).
98814936052800 is the number of all passwords with lengths from six to nine with at least one number.
321272406 is the number of all passwords with lengths from one to six, as would be picked by unregulated users.
Okay, let me give you some numbers. If you don't have any password scheme, all your users will have a password from one to six chars long. That is:
321272406 possible passwords.
If you limit them as you suggest, and they all pick between 6 and 9 chars, with one number, that makes:
98814936052800 possible passwords
Since 98814936052800 is clearly larger than 321272406, you are clearly an idiot.
You didn't even check, did you? Of the sites listed, only 5 have the word 'dictionary' in their titles. Of those, two are Bible dictionaries, one is that computer dictionary, one is a medical dictionary, and one is not any kind of paper publication. That leaves just Webster's.
Unless you think the On-line Medical Dictionary is a great book for common usage word-use.
Several dictionaries? The only worthwhile, partly-valid, dead-tree dictionary it searches is Webster's. Check it out:
http://dictionary.reference.com/help/about.html
It does have a couple of other worthwhile texts in it, like The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, but that isn't a real dictionary.
Dictionary.com. DICTIONARY.COM! Wow, it must be correct, it has the word DICTIONARY right there in the URL! Everywhere else must be wrong, because it's not DICTIONARY.COM!
Now I am off to get me some sex from sex.com. I used to have a girlfriend, but we couldn't have been having sex, because we weren't logged on to SEX.COM!
No, this isn't flamebait, it's a straight flame. Except it doesn't come from flame.com.
RTFA. http://support.microsoft.com/?id=253912 is what the specific fix is.
No. At the very least it is littering.
... So by doubling the wires in a Cat5 cable, it could run faster?
Yes, but did you ever wonder why ATA-66 and over are only availible on an 80-connector cable? Could it be that by doubling the number of wires, you could double the number of devices able to transmit without collision? Like, for example, doubling the number of devices on a channel from one to two?
I beg to differ. Assuming a standard motherboard, with 2 PATA channels, and assuming a minimum of one HDD and one optical storage device as standard on a PC, any upgrades to the PC means that the channel will be shared.
Unless you can think of a reason to throw out an 80gig HDD just because you bought a new 120gig.
And that is ignoring the far-future technology known as '80-connector cables'.
Yeah... and imagine a beowulf cluster of these...
Python IS the greatest. Python coders are not. The great thing about democracy is that everyone has a say. The worst thing about democracy is EVERYONE has a say.
I don't want to start a Steam-bashing war, but Steam is broken. I used to be able to play online over my 56k modem, but not with Steam. I can't even play it at LAN parties, because no home user in South Africa has enough bandwidth for more than 2 Steam clients.
I too use firefox. Problem is, it is broken, and no matter what I do with my settings or .js files, it uses my last-visited page.
Argh, why do I bother with this shit... Flamebait? More like 'harsh reality.'
Admittidly, my last post did miss out one or two skills CS could teach you. Like team-killing, for example.
Seriously, has whoever modded me down ever played CS online? What leadership skills could you possibly learn from CS? It is true that CS clans have leaders, but that has nothing to do with the game. Now, it is possible that the social interactions one experiences by being in a clan may improve your leadership skills, but that is just same as every other social activity, and has nothing to do with the game itself.
L33t mouse skillz do not translate to real life coordination. At least not gross motor control, which is what is normaly understood by the term. In theory, mouse use could help with fine motor control, but only in the specialised field of mouse-movement. Even then the limitations of an underdeveloped gross motor control system would limit the accuracy.
Get yourself a biological foundations / neuropsychology textbook before the next time you mod me down.
Absolutely not. When was the last time you played CS? The only social skills you could learn from it are sexism, racism, and smack talk.
As for the 'computer games develop hand eye coordination' myth, there is almost no correlation between computer use and real-world coordination skills. All the headshots in the world won't help you catch a ball.
Real hand/eye coordination is not just 'you see something, you move your hand.' It is about developing psycho perceptual models of the world through physical feedback and spatial awareness.
Ever heard of a legacy device? They are mostly not supported.
I do think the games distro is a good idea. More and more, people are starting to want the ease-of-use of a console, but it will not be easy to pull off, especially since there is yet to be a distro with the ease-of-use of Windows.
On the contrary, I have been using my Palm M125 as a kind of ebook/mobile webpage viewer ever since I got it. I find if far less tireing on the eyes than my CRT, and it is lighter and smaller than a book.
I hope this post doesn't come across too bitchy.
I was really looking forward to watching the Oscars this year without knowing who one anything beforehand. My friend taped the live showing that happened at 3am local time, and I was going over there this morning to watch it. Just before I left to see the show, I checked slashdot, carefully scanning the topic lines of all he posts to avoid anything Oscar-related, thinking that the editors would have been smart enough to use a neutral subject line like "Oscar Winners".
Obviously, I was mightily pissed when I saw the title for this news post. Next time, please consider the people who life in different time zone, and don't want the surprises spoiled.
And don't forget it was used in Microsoft-published Halo for PC.
the game they were imitating was Dune 2, not Hertzog Zwei.
:)
True, but perhaps it would be more accurate to say that although Dune 2 wasn't the first RTS, it did create the genre.
I probably shouldn't get so worked up about things like that, but I can't stand it when people masquerade as experts.
"It is the responsibility of intellectuals to tell the truth and to expose lies" --Noam Chompsky
(And the first FPS I had was called The Colony, but there is a very good case for saying that Battlezone was the first FPS, AND that it created the genre
Apart from my differing opinion about Generals (which has very good multiplayer, especially with the Zero Hour expansion), I find it hard to trust any article about RTS games that claims that Dune 2 was the first game in the genre.
The author states "But that alone is not the only piece of misinformation regarding the RTS genre" when it is he that is spreading misinformation. Take for example, Hertzog Zwei, a Megadrive (Genesis) RTS that far predates Dune 2.
The entire article seems to be nothing but a badly-constructed collection of ruminations about RTS games. I don't claim this post to be any better constructed than his article, but I can claim that I am not trying to make you think I am important and cool by hinting at things I don't really understand.
Take for example the section marked "The Problem". All he does to establish what he thinks the problem is, is list a group of ancient RTS games, and then complain that they all had a lot in common. Of course they had something in common: they were all members of the same genre. An RTS game without most of the things he lists, "Settle down, collect, build up, expand, destroy" would not be an RTS.
So, there was no real point to that section of the article, unless all he meant to say was "I am bored of the RTS genre." The thing that make this article detestable is the way he then tries to make us think he is clever, and actually has a point. First, he make a parenthetical aside about the old games he lists, hinting that they didn't have all that much of a storyline. Oh, what wit! What intellect! What humour the author commands!
Secondly, he tries to make his idea bigger than they are. For example, the use of the rhetorical question "...need I go on?", when he does, in fact, need to go on, because he has yet to make any point. He instead writes "...need I go on?", hoping that the reader will assume he made an important point.
The rest of this article continues in the same vein. The author comes close to realising the stupidity of what he is writing when he adds, in the section marked 'But still a problem': "but seeing how there are dozens of titles clinging to the same genre".
How is it that the author cannot understand that the non-innovative games that he lists, including Generals and Age of Mythology, are as much members of the RTS genre as the innovative ones he lists, Starcraft and Homeworld?
And again, if one has a flaky and ill-established point, why say there are "dozens" of examples, rather that actually list them?
I, on the other hand, believe that I have made my point, and will forgo listing other examples of the poorness of this article. If you disagree, post a response and I will elaborate.
Warning, parent is a goatse link.
I really have to second this. That article was entirely biased towards the American ideas. My first two computers were the ZX81 and the BBC, as it was for many people. Both those and perhaps the Archimedes desterve a place on the list.