Palindromic PINs obviously won't work. But then, they're not that secure.
For example, take the code used to unlock the infirmary door in WarGames where David Lightman was being held. The same code was used for entry and egress. A 16-button keypad and the code is audibly two digits pressed three times in succession. Now instead of 8008 possible combinations, it's down to 120. From the tones you can tell they're adjacent buttons, so that's down to 24 possible combinations. If you can actually see that they're adjacent horizontally, that's down to 12. No need to find a tape recorder, hook it up to the lock circuitry, get the guard to punch in the code, record the tones, play them back, and hope it works: you could brute-force that door code in seconds.
But then, if you know standard DTMF signaling—and seeing David was phreakishly dialing tens of thousands of long distance numbers without incurring an expensive phone bill—you'd know it was 222333 immediately. If 2 and 3 don't actually send 2 and 3, you're down to only 11 more attempts. And again, if you know DTMF, you'll be able to cut those odds further.
My point is, if someone only knows you repeat a digit in your PIN, that greatly reduces the security of your PIN. So never repeat a digit. Unless of course you make it clear to others that they should never repeat a digit, then they'll never think you would ("There's nothing more useless than a lock with a voice print").
Might as well have optimus prime turn into a horse and cart.
No, he'd just turn into a horse. When going back to robot mode, the cart would disappear into the background until he needed to go back into beast-- er... vehicle mode.
The holographic human he uses to whip himself into running is just disturbing.
I don't know if these client-side stylesheet rules prevent the images from being fetched, but I hope they do. Why should the browser fetch something it won't display?
/* Block web tracker images */ img[width="1"] { display: none ! important } img[height="1"] { display: none ! important }
It can break some layout tables, particularly ones with poorly cut up images, but such sites shouldn't exist anymore. It would also hide some pinstriping. You might prefer:
img[width="1"][height="1"] { display: none ! important }
No, it prevents users from hitting two keys at once, preventing the need for the software to decide which one the user hit (the one hit first in time or the one hit most by area).
And then maybe it will remove the predictive typing that prevents users from typing "kewl" by presuming the fourth letter should be a "p".
If it was made up of triangles in alternating directions (like a Pegasus Galaxy DHD) then you'd have no benefit for Fat Finger Syndrome.
Be sure you can read your backups. I have a 2.0 TB SATA drive that only wants to work plugged into an external USB stage rack. Installed inside the computer, it claims it can't read it. Another drive from the same manufacturer, same capacity, made less than a week later works just fine inside and out.
For me it isn't so much a backup as a migration to larger drives. The originals become my backups while the new drives get tested.
LCDs can get burn in too... I had one that had the 4:3 bars burned in it for 3 years.
Strangely, mine has a fuzzy burned-in line at the 4:3 mark on the right side (more intense closer to the top) and a lesser one down the middle, but not on the left. I've been assuming it was a manufacturing error though.
(**) - Why a technical commentary site like 'slashdot' makes it **SO** nearly impossible to do 'code' (which throws away indentation and spacing unless one uses filler chars like "_" (which are often specifically detected (if really used to quote much code) as "garbage, filler or repetitive characters"))), is beyond me. You'd think a technical site would at least allow *indenting*, -- especially within 'code' blocks,
See the <ecode> tag.
not to mention 'Super' and 'Sub' scripting. Even Wordpress allows LaTeX formulae to be inserted in comments -- and a technical site like "/." doesn't? That seems like a glaring deficiency (among others), (can't even _u_n_d_e_r_l_i_n_e_, either!
I wish 'Slashdot' would enter the modern age and allow formatting -- realizing that it can vastly improve readibility. Heck -- limit it to non-anon posters to _lower_ abuse potential, but come on, this is the era of CSS3 + and we are stuck in pre-CSS, *deprecated* tag usage only....UG...
If you look at the top of the source of every page you'll see:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
You can't do underlining, superscripts, or subscripts (or strike-throughs) in HTML here because they're deprecated under the Strict DTD. You're being confined to non-deprecated markup and an inability to use CSS references.
The second reason is that some of the things you can't do are because they can be abused. I know I don't want to have to read postings where entire paragraphs are underlined subscripted text.
Even the primitive markup is technically broken by XTML standards...(tags not closed where "/." thinks they should be are auto-closed, even though their closing tag is later. (Had to put <b> in front of each paragraph within this quote to maintain 'bold', even though bold was set around the entire quote
Read the DTD. Bold tags are inline markup and cannot contain block-level tags like paragraphs. Proper parsers would detect the error and close any open inline tags at the start of any block-level tags. Also, failure to close tags has caused problems in the accurate application of stylesheets.
Still, since it accepts tags like <quote> and <ecode> and converts them into styled DIVs, it would be nice if it could accept submissions of deprecated inline markup and convert them into style SPANs.
I recommend the HD-capable models of TiVos for this. They include decoding of closed captioning before sending to the display. I've only had problems with Supernatural, and that seems to have cleared up by the end of this season. They also don't interfere with the unit's own user interface graphics and can be displayed over all video outputs.
$200?! There's gotta be a cheaper solution than that, right? At that price, I'd want it to strip out HDCP as well so I don't have to deal with start-up delays for HDCP handshaking.
Suddenly if a monitor has a TV tuner, it's not a monitor?
That's correct. The presence or absence of a built-in TV tuner is what makes the difference between a television and a monitor, respectively. The terminology that encompasses them both is a "display", though it can encompass printers as well.
A monitor can be converted to a TV if it was designed to allow a tuner to be internally installable.
I haven't encountered a TV that lacked a speaker in its design, but many monitors include them.
Monitors can be used as TVs with the addition of a external tuning device or other video source with access to a tuning device. Most modern TVs can be used as monitors natively, though some require a signal modulator to move the signal to (usually) VHS channel 2, 3, or 4 as an NTSC signal. (I don't know of any ATSC signal modulators, but unlike the GP I don't presume they don't exist.)
I've viewed television signals passed through a VCR on a green-phosphor Apple Monitor II. It's still a monitor.
You are absolutely correct. I mean, I didn't even THINK to google up monitors with HDMI. I didn't. Why would it occur to me that any monitor manufacturer be making monitors that use a multimedia cable, designed for audio AND video, for just the Video component of the cable?
I have the Viewsonic monitor he linked to. It has stereo speakers and will play sound sent over the HDMI interface. I've used it with my XBOX 360 with audio carried over the HDMI port.
I also have a 47" Westinghouse HD Monitor on which I watch television using separate recorders with their own tuners. It has its own speakers, but I prefer using others.
A TV has an NTSC tuner in it. An HDTV has an ATSC tuner(*). A monitor has no internal tuner. A monitor that can have an internal tuner installed within it is converted to being a television by that installation.
TVs tend to always have speakers, and failing that they'd have a headphone jack. Monitors can have either or both as well and still be monitors.
If they aren't out yet, there soon will be displays that have integrated WiFi and receive their audio-visual content over that data channel. (USB WiFi video dongles exist now as aftermarket devices.) I lean toward these being classified as monitors and not televisions unless they accept signals from broadcasters.
A monitor could still make use of the audio return function of the HDMI 1.4 cables, though more likely it would use the Ethernet connection to send both the image and audio of an embedded camera back to the computer. Apple's LED Cinema Display (a monitor) does this, but over Mini-DisplayPort using USB, and it can also recharge a connected laptop over the same connection.
(*) There were some HD displays that only had NTSC tuners and were still called HDTVs. I have one from RCA. It's a 32" 4:3 CRT that only displays HD content over VGA or component video plus a separate audio connection (i.e. used as a monitor), but only in full-screen mode, not letterboxed—tall and skinny people. Current labeling practices I think would forbid marking it as an HDTV, but I haven't researched that.
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My PIN is 7117, what then?
Then you tell us your account number.
Palindromic PINs obviously won't work. But then, they're not that secure.
For example, take the code used to unlock the infirmary door in WarGames where David Lightman was being held. The same code was used for entry and egress. A 16-button keypad and the code is audibly two digits pressed three times in succession. Now instead of 8008 possible combinations, it's down to 120. From the tones you can tell they're adjacent buttons, so that's down to 24 possible combinations. If you can actually see that they're adjacent horizontally, that's down to 12. No need to find a tape recorder, hook it up to the lock circuitry, get the guard to punch in the code, record the tones, play them back, and hope it works: you could brute-force that door code in seconds.
But then, if you know standard DTMF signaling—and seeing David was phreakishly dialing tens of thousands of long distance numbers without incurring an expensive phone bill—you'd know it was 222333 immediately. If 2 and 3 don't actually send 2 and 3, you're down to only 11 more attempts. And again, if you know DTMF, you'll be able to cut those odds further.
My point is, if someone only knows you repeat a digit in your PIN, that greatly reduces the security of your PIN. So never repeat a digit. Unless of course you make it clear to others that they should never repeat a digit, then they'll never think you would ("There's nothing more useless than a lock with a voice print").
Do you know there are still people who say they couldn't fly? I tell you, the sky was once filled with them!
Might as well have optimus prime turn into a horse and cart.
No, he'd just turn into a horse. When going back to robot mode, the cart would disappear into the background until he needed to go back into beast-- er... vehicle mode.
The holographic human he uses to whip himself into running is just disturbing.
Why would you take viagra and then... drive?
You haven't seen Crash, the 1996 movie starring James Spader.
because those are the ones that will have you sucking dick in the toilets for a hit
I kinda understand the expression, but I hope you won't try to scare your kids with homosexual bashing.
What makes you think his kids aren't lesbians?
I keep crashing my car when playing Burnout 3 on marijuana... I still haven't found a place to get munchies either.
Because it's quiet complicated to get right and needs lots of automatic rekeying.
Quite quiet. Almost silently complicated.
I'm sure there is a better solution to this problem, that would not be too hard to implement.
The ESRB have this covered with a simple disclaimer: "Experience may change during online play."
I bought an iPhone today
Now I shop at Disneyland
I don't know if these client-side stylesheet rules prevent the images from being fetched, but I hope they do. Why should the browser fetch something it won't display?
It can break some layout tables, particularly ones with poorly cut up images, but such sites shouldn't exist anymore. It would also hide some pinstriping. You might prefer:
Spokespeople talk at carefully constructed cross purposes.
No, it prevents users from hitting two keys at once, preventing the need for the software to decide which one the user hit (the one hit first in time or the one hit most by area).
And then maybe it will remove the predictive typing that prevents users from typing "kewl" by presuming the fourth letter should be a "p".
If it was made up of triangles in alternating directions (like a Pegasus Galaxy DHD) then you'd have no benefit for Fat Finger Syndrome.
That's just a blog with a scaled down version of the image and linking back to The Register.
suddenoutbreak... seems insufficient now. How about epidemicofcommonsense?
I just wish you could feed four people on one litre of vegetable oil.
Is it any better than one liter of high fructose corn syrup?
Backups .. no need for recovery tools!
Be sure you can read your backups. I have a 2.0 TB SATA drive that only wants to work plugged into an external USB stage rack. Installed inside the computer, it claims it can't read it. Another drive from the same manufacturer, same capacity, made less than a week later works just fine inside and out.
For me it isn't so much a backup as a migration to larger drives. The originals become my backups while the new drives get tested.
Backups. Backups. Bees.
from the we-need-a-zombie-topic-icon dept.
I nominate Tarman from Return of the Living Dead as source image.
LCDs can get burn in too... I had one that had the 4:3 bars burned in it for 3 years.
Strangely, mine has a fuzzy burned-in line at the 4:3 mark on the right side (more intense closer to the top) and a lesser one down the middle, but not on the left. I've been assuming it was a manufacturing error though.
(**) - Why a technical commentary site like 'slashdot' makes it **SO** nearly impossible to do 'code' (which throws away indentation and spacing unless one uses filler chars like "_" (which are often specifically detected (if really used to quote much code) as "garbage, filler or repetitive characters"))), is beyond me. You'd think a technical site would at least allow *indenting*, -- especially within 'code' blocks,
See the <ecode> tag.
not to mention 'Super' and 'Sub' scripting. Even Wordpress allows LaTeX formulae to be inserted in comments -- and a technical site like "/." doesn't? That seems like a glaring deficiency (among others), (can't even _u_n_d_e_r_l_i_n_e_, either!
I wish 'Slashdot' would enter the modern age and allow formatting -- realizing that it can vastly improve readibility. Heck -- limit it to non-anon posters to _lower_ abuse potential, but come on, this is the era of CSS3 + and we are stuck in pre-CSS, *deprecated* tag usage only....UG...
If you look at the top of the source of every page you'll see:
You can't do underlining, superscripts, or subscripts (or strike-throughs) in HTML here because they're deprecated under the Strict DTD. You're being confined to non-deprecated markup and an inability to use CSS references.
The second reason is that some of the things you can't do are because they can be abused. I know I don't want to have to read postings where entire paragraphs are underlined subscripted text.
Even the primitive markup is technically broken by XTML standards...(tags not closed where "/." thinks they should be are auto-closed, even though their closing tag is later. (Had to put <b> in front of each paragraph within this quote to maintain 'bold', even though bold was set around the entire quote
Read the DTD. Bold tags are inline markup and cannot contain block-level tags like paragraphs. Proper parsers would detect the error and close any open inline tags at the start of any block-level tags. Also, failure to close tags has caused problems in the accurate application of stylesheets.
Still, since it accepts tags like <quote> and <ecode> and converts them into styled DIVs, it would be nice if it could accept submissions of deprecated inline markup and convert them into style SPANs.
I find your ideas intriguing and would like to be added to your Christmas list.
Someone fouled up when the "digital age" started rolling in. Just google "closed captioning hdmi" or "hdmi closed captioning" or take a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed_captioning#HDTV_interoperability_issues
I recommend the HD-capable models of TiVos for this. They include decoding of closed captioning before sending to the display. I've only had problems with Supernatural, and that seems to have cleared up by the end of this season. They also don't interfere with the unit's own user interface graphics and can be displayed over all video outputs.
DVI/HD Audio to HDMI with audio converter
$200?! There's gotta be a cheaper solution than that, right? At that price, I'd want it to strip out HDCP as well so I don't have to deal with start-up delays for HDCP handshaking.
Suddenly if a monitor has a TV tuner, it's not a monitor?
That's correct. The presence or absence of a built-in TV tuner is what makes the difference between a television and a monitor, respectively. The terminology that encompasses them both is a "display", though it can encompass printers as well.
A monitor can be converted to a TV if it was designed to allow a tuner to be internally installable.
I haven't encountered a TV that lacked a speaker in its design, but many monitors include them.
Monitors can be used as TVs with the addition of a external tuning device or other video source with access to a tuning device. Most modern TVs can be used as monitors natively, though some require a signal modulator to move the signal to (usually) VHS channel 2, 3, or 4 as an NTSC signal. (I don't know of any ATSC signal modulators, but unlike the GP I don't presume they don't exist.)
I've viewed television signals passed through a VCR on a green-phosphor Apple Monitor II. It's still a monitor.
You are absolutely correct. I mean, I didn't even THINK to google up monitors with HDMI. I didn't. Why would it occur to me that any monitor manufacturer be making monitors that use a multimedia cable, designed for audio AND video, for just the Video component of the cable?
I have the Viewsonic monitor he linked to. It has stereo speakers and will play sound sent over the HDMI interface. I've used it with my XBOX 360 with audio carried over the HDMI port.
I also have a 47" Westinghouse HD Monitor on which I watch television using separate recorders with their own tuners. It has its own speakers, but I prefer using others.
A TV has an NTSC tuner in it. An HDTV has an ATSC tuner(*). A monitor has no internal tuner. A monitor that can have an internal tuner installed within it is converted to being a television by that installation.
TVs tend to always have speakers, and failing that they'd have a headphone jack. Monitors can have either or both as well and still be monitors.
If they aren't out yet, there soon will be displays that have integrated WiFi and receive their audio-visual content over that data channel. (USB WiFi video dongles exist now as aftermarket devices.) I lean toward these being classified as monitors and not televisions unless they accept signals from broadcasters.
A monitor could still make use of the audio return function of the HDMI 1.4 cables, though more likely it would use the Ethernet connection to send both the image and audio of an embedded camera back to the computer. Apple's LED Cinema Display (a monitor) does this, but over Mini-DisplayPort using USB, and it can also recharge a connected laptop over the same connection.
(*) There were some HD displays that only had NTSC tuners and were still called HDTVs. I have one from RCA. It's a 32" 4:3 CRT that only displays HD content over VGA or component video plus a separate audio connection (i.e. used as a monitor), but only in full-screen mode, not letterboxed—tall and skinny people. Current labeling practices I think would forbid marking it as an HDTV, but I haven't researched that.
Just when I thought I was in with cable Internet they push me away again.