oh come on - a white polar bear. but then it's much more likely that if you went to the trouble to setup and build such a silly room in the first place, you could import any kind of bear you wanted with the building materials.
Oh come on, Westlake probably meant that by describing the accused as a teenager you label him in a way to inspire thoughts of childhood vs adults.
Yes technically 19 is a "teen" age, but anyone accused of crimes that is older than 18 should be described as an adult. I would maybe extend the reasonability of extending the Teenager label to somebody still in high school even if 18 by calendar timing.
I was going to strongly disagree, but I didn't want to hear the Whoooosh of the Parent Post's Sarcasm passing over my head...
At least I hope it is sarcasm, I wouldn't put anything past Comcast <forced meta-insert by Comcast net> but they are the most customer focused and patriotic company who only deserves further deregulation </meta-insert>
Hmm interesting. I was a subscriber many years ago before ad and script blocking technology. Maybe my browser (Chrome) and its plug-ins is the cause or perhaps it's something about the legacy status of my account.
Not really. Even if your derivative work idea was valid and could be used to stop Verizon, they would just update their Terms of Service (TOS) to explicitly have you grant them this right and waive any claims.
Frankly, while i haven't checked, is very likely that their existing TOS grants them the right to make any change to your traffic they see fit, so it's likely that any derivative work would fail on it's face based on your existing contract.
I'm afraid that your information is out of date, with the progression of Moore's Law, even ROT-39 now fails to today's botnet based distributed key cracking apps, i recommend using 128-bit ROT keys (or even-256 bit ROT keys for super secure data) despite the performance impact requirements.
Using just ROT-128bit (aka ROT-3.40282367e38 or ROT-340,282,367,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000) should keep your data secure for years.
I might add the Swartz was charged with 13 felonies, with a maximum sentence of 65 years in felony lockup, effectively life in prison. Murder, even multiple murders, has no more harsh a punishment (except in death penalty states).
You're point is valid, but it's, at best,a Type D "crime" being punished as a type A "the most harsh society can inflict" and might not even be a good civil suit for mild contract violation.
Well, it was mainly meant as a tongue-in-cheek dig at the folks in Redmund.
However, while it's not like I've gone to trouble of checking it, it's my understanding that modern password guessing dictionaries are incredibly extensive and have lengthy sections of common key combinations such as single letter repetitions of all acceptable lengths, numeric sequences, and keyboard patterns like qwerty, extended qwerty (qwertyuiop[]\asdfghjkl;'z), as well as many more folks have been dreaming up for decades now.
Of course the webpage is just a local javascript for simple complexity checking, but it's important to remember that it's not really a good simulation of a password's unguessability.
Some "best" password tested results from the Microsoft site:
- aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
- 123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345
- qwertyuiop[]\asdfghjkl;'z
- `1234567890-=qwertyuiop[
I'm thinking they don't do dictionary attacks here...
As a former broadband network architect (Telocity/Directv DSL) my understanding of modern Cable and DSL provider use of the term "modem" is that Modem implies a tunneled link between the CPE (Customer Premise Equipment) and a box at the ISP.
So here at my home using Comcast, we have a CPE Cable Ethernet/Cable COAX proxy that gets a outward facing DHCP IP from a server at the local Comcast ISP. This IP is part of a private non-Internet network. The CPE/Proxy then connects to a server at Comcast's data center using a PPTP tunnel, authenticating (customer-side) using keys stored in the CPE and (server-side) with a database of current active paid customers.
If authentication completes successfully, then the CPE Device links the PPTP tunnel to my local network and to the real internet on the far side of the multi-interface ISP Server.
so it's more like: _______________{------- PPTP tunnel ------} PC-- local net -- CPE -- ISP Private net -- ISP Server -- Internet
This is much more like a real telephony modem than a router or network type converting Gateway.
The reason they use this is of course now all they need to do to cut you off is change the ISP Database if you don't pay your bill.
If the real Internet was run out to your house, you could just run your own CPE and get free service until they sent a Tech to unwire your link (or have smarter more expensive hubs that can remotely cut-off links). That's too expensive to be cost effective, so they use the "modem" model to control costs. They usually make you pay for the CPE too so it's really a net gain.
Interestingly, this is why rebooting your CPE "modem" often fixes broken Cable Internet connectivity. It forces it to connect out to a new PPTP server and if the ISP PPTP server being broken/overloaded is the issue, then you have a whole new one and it tends to work better.
Now, if I could just find out why toddlers don't do what they're told, I think we'd solve the final frontier. But let's be real, this is slashdot, not ivillage.
Who needs iVillage. Speaking from recent experience: Toddlers don't do what they're told because either they weren't listening or you weren't telling them something they wanted to do.
The solution is simple and goes something like: "Billy... Hey Billy...Billy! BILLY! Now eat all the cookies and spill the milk everywhere. Good Boy! That's it!".
Follow that model and you'll have no trouble.
My only problem is figuring out how to reply to this kind of post by hitting the "Parent" button.
I'm sure the design targets memory intensive applications like VMware ESX virtualization hosting servers. (You could also use Solaris Zones or Xen Server)
With 8-16GB of ram statically assigned to each Guest VM (Virtual Machine), 128GB only covers 7 to 15 hosted Servers (less ESX memory overhead)
If you're doing VDI (Virtualized Desktops with Vista), that's only up to 31 VM PCs per blade.
Storage is commonly not an issue/botteneck since a SAN is often used (It works even with VMotion).
Religion, when done well, addresses only what happens in your head, before history and after your own death. It also provides lessons for how to lead a happy life and help others and society.
You can enjoy the benefits of science and religion simply by excepting both. You can say "God made the universe and has a greater plan than I am capable of seeing during my brief lifetime". The more Science discovers only shows how more wonderful God's creation is than you previously thought.
This is very comforting if your life is going to be brief and otherwise unpleasant anyways.
Many folks lack the education, intelligence and desire to comprehend even the basics of current scientific thought. Many take Science on faith anyways, trusting to their teachers to have it right.
If a scientific rationalism approach to life works for you and you're happy, that's just fine with me. If a religious faith based approach works for others I'd hope you'd let them be happy in what you consider their ignorance.
Nobody should try to stuff their beliefs and philosophies down anyone else's throats.
That said, there are many religions that are controlled by individuals for their own earthly reasons. These same ones often proselytize and try to force others to follow their beliefs. There even some smaller number of scientific themed zealots that try to do the same thing and have the same self-serving goals. I'm not for this in any way.
I believe that regardless what anyone says in a particular religion, a wide variety of life-styles and belief systems are needed for the wide variety of people across the earth.
Where they make claims they can't live up to, I'd hope they get discarded, where they can live up to them (such as advocating basic good behavior and caring for the poor, the infirm and the elderly) I'd hope you support them.
If there is no greater good and a common morality society can agree to, why behave civilized at all? Murder, rape, delighting in the suffering of others are all things most good religions advocate against. Hopefully these greater than oneself goals are things we can all agree to.
In any case, Science does not state that most religions are false, merely that they remain unproven by the evidence we have yet. I don't expect that evidence anytime soon either.
If you take into account that most religious writings are massive nth person retellings of eye witness accounts by semi-educated farmers and such from thousands of years ago, you'll have to excuse things like the Bible for guessing wrong at the cause of events they witnessed and telling it from their own limited perspective, especially if a life lesson was to be learned by the telling.
If there is an afterlife I fully expect it to be populated by those that do good in life (whatever that is), including Christians, Jews, Agnostics, Thor worshipers, Buddhists and even Atheists. The Atheists get to look chagrined about being wrong, but are applauded for living a good life despite having to work out morality all on their own.
The question you have to ask yourself is not whether Science or religion offers the most accurate philosophy but which would make you live a happier more enjoyable life.
Would you rather know how everything works and be miserable about the pointlessness and brief nature of life or would you rather have a happier and somewhat more ignorant life lived with hope and happiness, even to looking forward to your inevitable demise.
Even if religion is completely wrong and a complete fiction, adopting and truly believing it is the right philosophical life choice choice for a very great many of folks and has been for thousands of years.
...the bricklayer was on a train that left Kansas City at 12:25pm and while traveling he wrote a song at 3 notes per minute. Also the memorabilia (2 boxes) had been shipped to his home from 2 different cities. One was twice as far away than the other and one of these rains was an express that traveled at 60MPH (the other train left at 1:45pm.)
Now assuming that he paid for shipping at $.45/mile and all three trains unexpectedly met at some central spot where he picked up the packages, paid for the shipping used and "cashed in" on the percentage of the $1000, 3000 note song he had written on his planned 3 hour train ride.
How much money did he make or gain at the end of the day? The answers are simple, they don't let you pickup packages mid-shipment. You don't get paid for partial incomplete songs.
As a bricklayer, you should know that no payments come till ALL the work is done.
Also, If you're wasting your money on old barbershop memorabilia then shipping fees are the least of your financial worries.
I'm just waiting for somebody to point out that my 3rd Age timeline figures for c. 1493 are off by five hundred years or so (got the others right though).
Further research show that it the Perinath (in southern Gondor) migrations westward i should have been referring to and not the founding of the Shire.
If you'd translated 1993 A.D to c. 1993 (Shire reconning) you might have been very close and I probably would have made sense of your 9/11/1993 joke.
OK I get that Halimath is the 9th month of the Shire calendar, and that an eternal one would be one that lasts a long time, but what you mean by 1493 is beyond me.
In 3rd Age c. 1493* (Shire reconning) the proto-hobbits had just ended (-50 years) a battle against the Men of Harad and some were starting to move west into what would later be the Shire. So why they would suffer an Internet outage then seems to be a bit of a stretch...
Of course, if you had said c. 1636 (when the Great Plague devastates Gondor) or c. 2002 (Fall of Minas Ithil) that would have made a lot more sense.
* - Note: Everyone can always find someone who knows more about LOTR than themselves, sometimes a scary amount more.
Note: the above so-so photo link can't be reached directly from Slashdot (they checking that referring page is from their own site to block Google image search), so....
2) Click the URL of their main webpage http://www.beautifulbritain.co.uk/ then paste the clipboard into the URL filed of your browser (Note: if your current browser is IE, dock yourself 150 geek points).
Voila! The referring page is now their own site and the link is allowed.
Extra credit can be achieved by manually controlling your browser's refer page field to achieve the same effect, 2x extra credit if you can hand emulate (from telnet to port 80) a browser actually making this request. 3x extra credit if you do this from shell scripts. 4x if written in C++, 5x if done in assembly code, 8x if done in machine code without using a compiler.
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oh come on - a white polar bear. but then it's much more likely that if you went to the trouble to setup and build such a silly room in the first place, you could import any kind of bear you wanted with the building materials.
If you're standing on the south pole, it is impossible to walk a mile south. So its gotta be starting on the frozen ice at the north pole.
Oh come on, Westlake probably meant that by describing the accused as a teenager you label him in a way to inspire thoughts of childhood vs adults.
Yes technically 19 is a "teen" age, but anyone accused of crimes that is older than 18 should be described as an adult. I would maybe extend the reasonability of extending the Teenager label to somebody still in high school even if 18 by calendar timing.
I was going to strongly disagree, but I didn't want to hear the Whoooosh of the Parent Post's Sarcasm passing over my head...
At least I hope it is sarcasm, I wouldn't put anything past Comcast
<forced meta-insert by Comcast net> but they are the most customer focused and patriotic company who only deserves further deregulation </meta-insert>
Yeah Like you'd ever get a bill THAT passed...
Hmm interesting. I was a subscriber many years ago before ad and script blocking technology. Maybe my browser (Chrome) and its plug-ins is the cause or perhaps it's something about the legacy status of my account.
Not really. Even if your derivative work idea was valid and could be used to stop Verizon, they would just update their Terms of Service (TOS) to explicitly have you grant them this right and waive any claims.
Frankly, while i haven't checked, is very likely that their existing TOS grants them the right to make any change to your traffic they see fit, so it's likely that any derivative work would fail on it's face based on your existing contract.
Well I have a free (albeit older) Slashdot account and it doesn't redirect me to http when i follow the https link above.
I think they're just limiting non-logged in access to http, not subscriber (paid) only access.
-Harodotus
Uhm, Make that the last TWO times.
(I don't see how anyone could forget WW1)
I'd always wondered if someone's decryption passphrase was a short description of how he committed a crime like:
"I buried the murder weapon at gps xxx,yyy"
"I had premeditation in committing my illegal acts"
Then it would definitely be self-incriminating to reveal his passphrase, and if forced to, he could get the conviction overturned on appeal.
I'm afraid that your information is out of date, with the progression of Moore's Law, even ROT-39 now fails to today's botnet based distributed key cracking apps, i recommend using 128-bit ROT keys (or even-256 bit ROT keys for super secure data) despite the performance impact requirements.
Using just ROT-128bit (aka ROT-3.40282367e38 or ROT-340,282,367,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000) should keep your data secure for years.
I might add the Swartz was charged with 13 felonies, with a maximum sentence of 65 years in felony lockup, effectively life in prison. Murder, even multiple murders, has no more harsh a punishment (except in death penalty states).
You're point is valid, but it's, at best,a Type D "crime" being punished as a type A "the most harsh society can inflict" and might not even be a good civil suit for mild contract violation.
At the risk of admitting to being "whoooshed", i have to wonder if this is sarcasm?
It's wrong in so many ways, i can't even being to start.
Well, it was mainly meant as a tongue-in-cheek dig at the folks in Redmund.
However, while it's not like I've gone to trouble of checking it, it's my understanding that modern password guessing dictionaries are incredibly extensive and have lengthy sections of common key combinations such as single letter repetitions of all acceptable lengths, numeric sequences, and keyboard patterns like qwerty, extended qwerty (qwertyuiop[]\asdfghjkl;'z), as well as many more folks have been dreaming up for decades now.
Of course the webpage is just a local javascript for simple complexity checking, but it's important to remember that it's not really a good simulation of a password's unguessability.
Some "best" password tested results from the Microsoft site:
- aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
- 123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345
- qwertyuiop[]\asdfghjkl;'z
- `1234567890-=qwertyuiop[
I'm thinking they don't do dictionary attacks here...
As a former broadband network architect (Telocity/Directv DSL) my understanding of modern Cable and DSL provider use of the term "modem" is that Modem implies a tunneled link between the CPE (Customer Premise Equipment) and a box at the ISP.
So here at my home using Comcast, we have a CPE Cable Ethernet/Cable COAX proxy that gets a outward facing DHCP IP from a server at the local Comcast ISP. This IP is part of a private non-Internet network. The CPE/Proxy then connects to a server at Comcast's data center using a PPTP tunnel, authenticating (customer-side) using keys stored in the CPE and (server-side) with a database of current active paid customers.
If authentication completes successfully, then the CPE Device links the PPTP tunnel to my local network and to the real internet on the far side of the multi-interface ISP Server.
so it's more like:
_______________{------- PPTP tunnel ------}
PC-- local net -- CPE -- ISP Private net -- ISP Server -- Internet
This is much more like a real telephony modem than a router or network type converting Gateway.
The reason they use this is of course now all they need to do to cut you off is change the ISP Database if you don't pay your bill.
If the real Internet was run out to your house, you could just run your own CPE and get free service until they sent a Tech to unwire your link (or have smarter more expensive hubs that can remotely cut-off links). That's too expensive to be cost effective, so they use the "modem" model to control costs. They usually make you pay for the CPE too so it's really a net gain.
Interestingly, this is why rebooting your CPE "modem" often fixes broken Cable Internet connectivity. It forces it to connect out to a new PPTP server and if the ISP PPTP server being broken/overloaded is the issue, then you have a whole new one and it tends to work better.
No, instead I sniff somebody else's pickles.
Now, if I could just find out why toddlers don't do what they're told, I think we'd solve the final frontier. But let's be real, this is slashdot, not ivillage.
Who needs iVillage. Speaking from recent experience: Toddlers don't do what they're told because either they weren't listening or you weren't telling them something they wanted to do.
The solution is simple and goes something like:
"Billy... Hey Billy...Billy! BILLY! Now eat all the cookies and spill the milk everywhere. Good Boy! That's it!".
Follow that model and you'll have no trouble.
My only problem is figuring out how to reply to this kind of post by hitting the "Parent" button.
I'm sure the design targets memory intensive applications like VMware ESX virtualization hosting servers. (You could also use Solaris Zones or Xen Server)
With 8-16GB of ram statically assigned to each Guest VM (Virtual Machine), 128GB only covers 7 to 15 hosted Servers (less ESX memory overhead)
If you're doing VDI (Virtualized Desktops with Vista), that's only up to 31 VM PCs per blade.
Storage is commonly not an issue/botteneck since a SAN is often used (It works even with VMotion).
Religion, when done well, addresses only what happens in your head, before history and after your own death. It also provides lessons for how to lead a happy life and help others and society.
You can enjoy the benefits of science and religion simply by excepting both. You can say "God made the universe and has a greater plan than I am capable of seeing during my brief lifetime". The more Science discovers only shows how more wonderful God's creation is than you previously thought.
This is very comforting if your life is going to be brief and otherwise unpleasant anyways.
Many folks lack the education, intelligence and desire to comprehend even the basics of current scientific thought. Many take Science on faith anyways, trusting to their teachers to have it right.
If a scientific rationalism approach to life works for you and you're happy, that's just fine with me. If a religious faith based approach works for others I'd hope you'd let them be happy in what you consider their ignorance.
Nobody should try to stuff their beliefs and philosophies down anyone else's throats.
That said, there are many religions that are controlled by individuals for their own earthly reasons. These same ones often proselytize and try to force others to follow their beliefs. There even some smaller number of scientific themed zealots that try to do the same thing and have the same self-serving goals. I'm not for this in any way.
I believe that regardless what anyone says in a particular religion, a wide variety of life-styles and belief systems are needed for the wide variety of people across the earth.
Where they make claims they can't live up to, I'd hope they get discarded, where they can live up to them (such as advocating basic good behavior and caring for the poor, the infirm and the elderly) I'd hope you support them.
If there is no greater good and a common morality society can agree to, why behave civilized at all? Murder, rape, delighting in the suffering of others are all things most good religions advocate against. Hopefully these greater than oneself goals are things we can all agree to.
In any case, Science does not state that most religions are false, merely that they remain unproven by the evidence we have yet. I don't expect that evidence anytime soon either.
If you take into account that most religious writings are massive nth person retellings of eye witness accounts by semi-educated farmers and such from thousands of years ago, you'll have to excuse things like the Bible for guessing wrong at the cause of events they witnessed and telling it from their own limited perspective, especially if a life lesson was to be learned by the telling.
If there is an afterlife I fully expect it to be populated by those that do good in life (whatever that is), including Christians, Jews, Agnostics, Thor worshipers, Buddhists and even Atheists. The Atheists get to look chagrined about being wrong, but are applauded for living a good life despite having to work out morality all on their own.
The question you have to ask yourself is not whether Science or religion offers the most accurate philosophy but which would make you live a happier more enjoyable life.
Would you rather know how everything works and be miserable about the pointlessness and brief nature of life or would you rather have a happier and somewhat more ignorant life lived with hope and happiness, even to looking forward to your inevitable demise.
Even if religion is completely wrong and a complete fiction, adopting and truly believing it is the right philosophical life choice choice for a very great many of folks and has been for thousands of years.
...the bricklayer was on a train that left Kansas City at 12:25pm and while traveling he wrote a song at 3 notes per minute. Also the memorabilia (2 boxes) had been shipped to his home from 2 different cities. One was twice as far away than the other and one of these rains was an express that traveled at 60MPH (the other train left at 1:45pm.)Now assuming that he paid for shipping at $.45/mile and all three trains unexpectedly met at some central spot where he picked up the packages, paid for the shipping used and "cashed in" on the percentage of the $1000, 3000 note song he had written on his planned 3 hour train ride.
How much money did he make or gain at the end of the day? The answers are simple, they don't let you pickup packages mid-shipment. You don't get paid for partial incomplete songs.
As a bricklayer, you should know that no payments come till ALL the work is done.
Also, If you're wasting your money on old barbershop memorabilia then shipping fees are the least of your financial worries.
I'm just waiting for somebody to point out that my 3rd Age timeline figures for c. 1493 are off by five hundred years or so (got the others right though).
Further research show that it the Perinath (in southern Gondor) migrations westward i should have been referring to and not the founding of the Shire.
If you'd translated 1993 A.D to c. 1993 (Shire reconning) you might have been very close and I probably would have made sense of your 9/11/1993 joke.
You actually get Kudos for your LOTR joke.
Cheers!
OK I get that Halimath is the 9th month of the Shire calendar, and that an eternal one would be one that lasts a long time, but what you mean by 1493 is beyond me.
In 3rd Age c. 1493* (Shire reconning) the proto-hobbits had just ended (-50 years) a battle against the Men of Harad and some were starting to move west into what would later be the Shire. So why they would suffer an Internet outage then seems to be a bit of a stretch...
Of course, if you had said c. 1636 (when the Great Plague devastates Gondor) or c. 2002 (Fall of Minas Ithil) that would have made a lot more sense.
* - Note: Everyone can always find someone who knows more about LOTR than themselves, sometimes a scary amount more.
Note: the above so-so photo link can't be reached directly from Slashdot (they checking that referring page is from their own site to block Google image search), so....
1) Copy the following to the clipboard " http://www.beautifulbritain.co.uk/images/OutAndAbo ut/sign_language/secret_bunker.jpg "
2) Click the URL of their main webpage http://www.beautifulbritain.co.uk/ then paste the clipboard into the URL filed of your browser (Note: if your current browser is IE, dock yourself 150 geek points).
Voila! The referring page is now their own site and the link is allowed.
Extra credit can be achieved by manually controlling your browser's refer page field to achieve the same effect, 2x extra credit if you can hand emulate (from telnet to port 80) a browser actually making this request. 3x extra credit if you do this from shell scripts. 4x if written in C++, 5x if done in assembly code, 8x if done in machine code without using a compiler.