> Force password changes? Users change from Password1 to Password2. You'll be able to guess their password 5 years from now.
That is why I append a 4 digit to the passphrase, of the format MMYY, of when the password expires as a mnemonic for when it expires.
Your crappy "password1" becomes "password0817"
Good luck guessing the first part -- the pass phrase, along with the second part -- when it expires.
> The problem isn't password policies;
Incorrect. I've seen sites where they had a maximum password length, usually like 8 characters. Seriously, WTF. You are _intentionally_ making your passwords insecure???
Lastly, I don't hear anyone complaining about the low number of male nurses because everyone else is too busy just trying to get their job done instead of making drama over reverse discrimination issues of bullshit "diversity" issues.
> Who cares if photoshop takes 7 seconds to start?
Because it shows you don't respect the user's time..
It is precisely because of morons like you that even though computers are now 1,000 times faster (from 1 MHz to over 1,000 MHz) that they are STILL slow.
> You are going to keep it open for hours.
False. That is an _assumption_ that _your_ workflow is how everyone uses it.
That RAM is being wasted instead of being used more efficiently for _other_ things, such as a disk cache, etc.
> Some people even argue that antivirus programs cause more vulnerabilities that they solve and advise not to install any.
In the early 2000's there used to be NUMEROUS problems with Norton and McAffe bringing a working machine to a C-R-A-W-L.
Also back in the early 2000's I actually ran without an anti-virus for about 6 years. Never got any viruses. When MS Security Essentials came out I decided to give it a go. It detected the one virus I had _already_ manually quarantined and renamed: foo_MAYBE_VIRUS.com
The BIGGER problem with all the anti-virus programs was summed up like this:
The vast majority of them, however, are not really new, but are simply re-branded clones...
If you practice safe hex such as: Sandboxie, Spybot Search and Destroy, Ad-aware, Privacy Badger, NoScript, etc., technically you _don't_ need to run anti-virus -- but most people are not that disciplined.
Hell, you should be running ANYTHING _first_ in a Virtual Machine (or Sandboxie)
At the bottom of the page under Trustworthy Anti-Spyware Products it lists these programs:
* Ad-aware * AVG Anti-Spyware * Pest Patrol * Spy Sweeper * Spyware Doctor * SUPERAntiSpyware * Windows Defender * Spybot Search & Destroy
For the cops on the front lines of the War on Drugs, the federal government's fixation with marijuana was deeply perplexing. As they saw it, the problem wasn't pot but the drug-related violence that accompanied cocaine and other hard drugs. After the crack epidemic in the late 1980s, police commissioners around the country, like Lee Brown in Houston, began adding more officers and developing computer mapping to target neighborhoods where crime was on the rise. The crime rate dropped. But by the mid-1990s, police in some cities were beginning to realize there was a certain level that they couldn't get crime below. Mass jailings weren't doing the trick: Only fifteen percent of those convicted of federal drug crimes were actual traffickers; the rest were nothing but street-level dealers and mules, who could always be replaced.
Police in Boston, concerned about violence between youth drug gangs, turned for assistance to a group of academics. Among them was a Harvard criminologist named David Kennedy. Working together, the academics and members of the department's anti-gang unit came up with what Kennedy calls a "quirky" strategy and convinced senior police commanders to give it a try. The result, which began in 1995, was the Boston Gun Project, a collaborative effort among ministers and community leaders and the police to try to break the link between the drug trade and violent crime. First, the project tracked a particular drug-dealing gang, mapping out its membership and operations in detail. Then, in an effort called Operation Ceasefire, the dealers were called into a meeting with preachers and parents and social-service providers, and offered a deal: Stop the violence, or the police will crack down with a vengeance. "We know the seventeen guys you run with," the gangbangers were told. "If anyone in your group shoots somebody, we'll arrest every last one of you." The project also extended drug treatment and other assistance to anyone who wanted it.
The effort worked: The rates of homicide and violence among young men in Boston dropped by two-thirds. Drug dealing didn't stop -- "people continued what they were doing," Kennedy concedes, "but they put their guns down." As Kennedy reflected on the success of the Boston project, which ran for five years, he wondered if he had discovered a deeper truth about drug-related violence. If the murders weren't a necessary component of the drug trade -- if it was possible to separate the two -- perhaps cities could find a way to reduce the violence, even if they could do nothing about the drugs.
In 2001, Kennedy got a call from the mayor of San Francisco that gave him a chance to examine his theories in a new setting. The city had experienced a recent spike in its murder rate, much of it caused by an ongoing feud between two drug-dealing gangs -- Big Block and West Mob -- that had resulted in dozens of murders over the years. Could Kennedy, the mayor asked, help police figure out how to stop the killings?
Kennedy flew out to San Francisco and met with police. But as he researched the history of the violence, it seemed to confirm his findings in Boston. Though both Big Block and West Mob were involved in dealing drugs, the shootings were not really drug-related -- the two groups occupied different territories and were not battli
> who else in this space needs 4GB of 25GB/sec DDR4 RAM on a quad-core CPU that bursts over 2GHz!?
Me for one. I'm still waiting for a cheap board < $75 that has 4GB RAM + Quad Core. Ideally ~ $45. I also want an option for a 3D GPU that isn't lame. In case you are wondering the use case -- this would be used for teaching kids game development.
The 2 biggest problems with the Raspberry Pi are:
a) it has no RTC (Real Time Clock). (WTF is this shit? 1980 all over again??) This makes it practically useless for anything of precise timing measurements. b) it is gimped to 1 GB. Sure it has 4 cores but if you divide the RAM up per core that is only 256 KB each. It is a 32-bit ARM CPU -- let me USE the FULL address space.
I'll guess I'll keep waiting another 5+ years as the "low-end" of cheap hardware slowly creeps up to be performant.
What is obvious to you and I, sadly, is NOT obvious to others.
The majority of people ARE stupid -- as every election proves. WhyThey have no frame of reference to understand and apply the concept(s). They have never had to deal with a stack of transparent slides such as used in those old-skool overhead projectors.
Worse, they don't _care_ to learn.
You can fix ignorant, you can't fix stupid.
MS Paint "works" because it has been made idiot proof.
> Sorry to hear that. Sounds like Denver is seriously behind the curve.
Well, the seats ARE getting better. I've noticed more theaters are becoming "short" depth but with extra wide, cushion, and leg rests even! So I'd given B for effort. The problem is all the other issues are still unresolved -- and never will be.
> Out of interest, am I the the only one who doesn't care that much about the trailers?
Probably. =P
When there was only 1 or trailers I didn't mind it -- you knew the movie was starting SOON. It was a smart business move -- at the time: "Hmm, customers are here to watch a movie, maybe they will want to come back?"
The two current problems are:
* The trailers started getting longer, and longer./sarcastic By the time the trailers are done, I'm done with my popcorn./Oblg DVD vs Pirate * There is an inconsistent number of trailers. Sometimes 10 mins., sometimes 20 minutes. Stop fucking wasting my time. I'm here to see THIS movie -- not the next one.
Since outright banning advertisements is not feasible at this time I believe a good compromise / solution would be:
* STANDARDIZE the trailer time to _exactly_ 5 minutes.
This builds hype, and doesn't bore the fuck out of potential customers.
> but they're seriously doing a lot to address your concerns, with large, comfortable, reclining seats, cup holders, and digital projection if they can't support 70mm or IMAX.
I've been in some of the newer theaters around Denver. Doing one thing to address the movie experience is NOT a lot -- it is ONE thing.
The movie theater experience SUCKS compared to home theater. I literally had a kid snoring next to me when I saw The Jungle Book. WTF.
Lastly, there are no fucking 20 minutes of ads at home -- we can skip them on BluRay, or don't even see them in the first place with NetFlix.
I like to watch movies on my home theatre setup because I can
* Pause the movie * Go to the bathroom * Raid the fridge for snacks instead of over-paying for snacks * Turn on/off CC * Adjust the volume to MY liking * Don't have to listen to any idiots beside me constantly talking / snoring throughout the entire movie.
Hollywood is completely out of touch with reality these days.
i.e. How many fucking re-cashgrabs of Robin Hood do we need? Eleven?!?!?!
You DO realize there is a difference between Ownership, and Paying for a Service, right? I guess you are an idiot. Thanks for sharing.
I paid for my copy of Office 95. I can use it indefinitely.
Likewise, OpenOffice / LibreOffice doesn't charge me an usage fee. It doesn't nickel and dime me every year.
In contradistinction Office changes a fee over dumb shit such as removing the menu bar and replacing it with a ribbon. It WILL nickel and dime you every year even though 99.99% of the functionality most people need was available over 10 years ago.
But I guess you are too stupid to figure out how to stop paying for basic functionality over and over again every year.
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> Force password changes? Users change from Password1 to Password2. You'll be able to guess their password 5 years from now.
That is why I append a 4 digit to the passphrase, of the format MMYY, of when the password expires as a mnemonic for when it expires.
Your crappy "password1" becomes "password0817"
Good luck guessing the first part -- the pass phrase, along with the second part -- when it expires.
> The problem isn't password policies;
Incorrect. I've seen sites where they had a maximum password length, usually like 8 characters. Seriously, WTF. You are _intentionally_ making your passwords insecure???
Another perfect example!
False equivalence much?
> women are less suited to have tech jobs
[[Citation]]
> because of inherent differences between men and women.
You DO realize there are biological and social differences, right?
Hell, even the brain is wired differently.
Lastly, I don't hear anyone complaining about the low number of male nurses because everyone else is too busy just trying to get their job done instead of making drama over reverse discrimination issues of bullshit "diversity" issues.
--
SJW, noun, Stupid Juvenile Whiner.
Except you forgot the part:
Just because we _can_ doesn't mean we _should._
There are HUGE implications.
I'm sorry Dave, I can't hire you. Your DNA shows that you a heart defect that predicts you will die by 30.
For every problem technology "solves", it creates 10 new ones.
Anyone with half a brain knows this job is complete bullshit.
So aliens have the technology to travel half-way across the galaxy via FTL and our primitive technology will stop them???
/sarcasm Riiight.
Can I have some of what you are smoking please!? Because someone has been watching too much Independence Day.
LOL !
> Who cares if photoshop takes 7 seconds to start?
Because it shows you don't respect the user's time..
It is precisely because of morons like you that even though computers are now 1,000 times faster (from 1 MHz to over 1,000 MHz) that they are STILL slow.
> You are going to keep it open for hours.
False. That is an _assumption_ that _your_ workflow is how everyone uses it.
That RAM is being wasted instead of being used more efficiently for _other_ things, such as a disk cache, etc.
I really shouldn't feed the troll, but this was too good to pass up.
> Look at the rantings of the vegan/vegetarian ...
Oh look! Another meat eater ranting about others who don't agree with their myopic view! How ironic!
You DO realize that people have been vegan/vegetarian for THOUSANDS of years, right?
> /. is evidence of what exposure to pesticides does.
1. [[citation]]
2. FTFY. Ironically this is evidence YOU don't know to capitalize only the _first_ word in a sentence. Why are you capitalizing "Is" ???
> Have you noticed herbivores aren't at the top of the food chain?
1. Your ignorance is assuming that Diet implies Intelligence. [[Citation]]
2. No one gives a fuck.
Quit trolling, because you suck.
> Some people even argue that antivirus programs cause more vulnerabilities that they solve and advise not to install any.
In the early 2000's there used to be NUMEROUS problems with Norton and McAffe bringing a working machine to a C-R-A-W-L.
Also back in the early 2000's I actually ran without an anti-virus for about 6 years. Never got any viruses. When MS Security Essentials came out I decided to give it a go. It detected the one virus I had _already_ manually quarantined and renamed: foo_MAYBE_VIRUS.com
The BIGGER problem with all the anti-virus programs was summed up like this:
This site is a good list of Rogue/Suspect Anti-Spyware Products:
http://www.spywarewarrior.com/...
If you practice safe hex such as: Sandboxie, Spybot Search and Destroy, Ad-aware, Privacy Badger, NoScript, etc., technically you _don't_ need to run anti-virus -- but most people are not that disciplined.
Hell, you should be running ANYTHING _first_ in a Virtual Machine (or Sandboxie)
At the bottom of the page under Trustworthy Anti-Spyware Products it lists these programs:
* Ad-aware
* AVG Anti-Spyware
* Pest Patrol
* Spy Sweeper
* Spyware Doctor
* SUPERAntiSpyware
* Windows Defender
* Spybot Search & Destroy
Agreed that "Apps" in this case clarifies it perfectly. I guess people will probably start calling it Anti-WINE.
It this really was a windows subsystem running on Linux, ala WINE, it would have been called:
Windows Subsystem for GNU/Linux.
> Apple could let people downgrade iOS if a newer version doesn't work?
That would make too much sense -- thus Apple will NEVER do it.
Forced Upgrades keeps the market less fragmented is their excuse.
You DO realize that drug sellers and users are ALL races, right?
> If you really wanted to end gun violence, you'd address the root causes: gangs, drugs-such as the opioid epidemic, criminal culture, etc.
We already tried that. The government wasn't making enough money.
A serious WTF!
"Name & Shame" also another successful way:
How America Lost the War on Drugs
7. THE HARVARD MAN
http://www.rollingstone.com/po...
https://web.archive.org/web/20...
Jon Blow talks about this -- Why does it take Photoshop about 7 seconds to display your image on a modern computer???
Jonathan Blow "Making Game Programming Less Terrible" Talk at Reboot Develop 2017
> How the fuck did we get here 2017?
Lazy programmers who don't giving a fuck about the user experience. i.e. Bloated C++ and OOP as opposed to DOD (Data Orientated Design.)
Haha, sad but true.
> who else in this space needs 4GB of 25GB/sec DDR4 RAM on a quad-core CPU that bursts over 2GHz!?
Me for one. I'm still waiting for a cheap board < $75 that has 4GB RAM + Quad Core. Ideally ~ $45. I also want an option for a 3D GPU that isn't lame. In case you are wondering the use case -- this would be used for teaching kids game development.
The 2 biggest problems with the Raspberry Pi are:
a) it has no RTC (Real Time Clock). (WTF is this shit? 1980 all over again??) This makes it practically useless for anything of precise timing measurements.
b) it is gimped to 1 GB. Sure it has 4 cores but if you divide the RAM up per core that is only 256 KB each. It is a 32-bit ARM CPU -- let me USE the FULL address space.
I'll guess I'll keep waiting another 5+ years as the "low-end" of cheap hardware slowly creeps up to be performant.
What is obvious to you and I, sadly, is NOT obvious to others.
The majority of people ARE stupid -- as every election proves. Why They have no frame of reference to understand and apply the concept(s). They have never had to deal with a stack of transparent slides such as used in those old-skool overhead projectors.
Worse, they don't _care_ to learn.
You can fix ignorant, you can't fix stupid.
MS Paint "works" because it has been made idiot proof.
Exactly this.
Microsoft has NEVER understood the user experience. i.e. It took the 15 years, 1980 until 1995, to offer support for "Long File Names."
Microsoft, -1 Over-rated User Experience
1. History,
2. Herstory
3. And the truth somewhere in the middle.
> Sorry to hear that. Sounds like Denver is seriously behind the curve.
Well, the seats ARE getting better. I've noticed more theaters are becoming "short" depth but with extra wide, cushion, and leg rests even! So I'd given B for effort. The problem is all the other issues are still unresolved -- and never will be.
> Out of interest, am I the the only one who doesn't care that much about the trailers?
Probably. =P
When there was only 1 or trailers I didn't mind it -- you knew the movie was starting SOON. It was a smart business move -- at the time: "Hmm, customers are here to watch a movie, maybe they will want to come back?"
The two current problems are:
* The trailers started getting longer, and longer. /sarcastic By the time the trailers are done, I'm done with my popcorn. /Oblg DVD vs Pirate
* There is an inconsistent number of trailers. Sometimes 10 mins., sometimes 20 minutes. Stop fucking wasting my time. I'm here to see THIS movie -- not the next one.
Since outright banning advertisements is not feasible at this time I believe a good compromise / solution would be:
* STANDARDIZE the trailer time to _exactly_ 5 minutes.
This builds hype, and doesn't bore the fuck out of potential customers.
> Standard model doesn't cover gravity ... it couldn't even explain why neutrinos have mass.
It also doesn't cover consciousness.
It is a woefully incomplete model.
I Agree. Stop disrespecting people's time.
Ban Advertisements -- you eyes, ears, brain, and environment will thank you getting rid of the visual and audio vomit.
--
Ads are immoral -- yes that was cynical sarcasm.
> but they're seriously doing a lot to address your concerns, with large, comfortable, reclining seats, cup holders, and digital projection if they can't support 70mm or IMAX.
I've been in some of the newer theaters around Denver. Doing one thing to address the movie experience is NOT a lot -- it is ONE thing.
The movie theater experience SUCKS compared to home theater. I literally had a kid snoring next to me when I saw The Jungle Book. WTF.
Lastly, there are no fucking 20 minutes of ads at home -- we can skip them on BluRay, or don't even see them in the first place with NetFlix.
Hollywood = CLUELESS about the user experience.
I like to watch movies on my home theatre setup because I can
* Pause the movie
* Go to the bathroom
* Raid the fridge for snacks instead of over-paying for snacks
* Turn on/off CC
* Adjust the volume to MY liking
* Don't have to listen to any idiots beside me constantly talking / snoring throughout the entire movie.
Hollywood is completely out of touch with reality these days.
i.e. How many fucking re-cashgrabs of Robin Hood do we need? Eleven?!?!?!
You DO realize there is a difference between Ownership, and Paying for a Service, right? I guess you are an idiot. Thanks for sharing.
I paid for my copy of Office 95. I can use it indefinitely.
Likewise, OpenOffice / LibreOffice doesn't charge me an usage fee. It doesn't nickel and dime me every year.
In contradistinction Office changes a fee over dumb shit such as removing the menu bar and replacing it with a ribbon. It WILL nickel and dime you every year even though 99.99% of the functionality most people need was available over 10 years ago.
But I guess you are too stupid to figure out how to stop paying for basic functionality over and over again every year.