The solution. The company should realise that remembering passwords is not easy and provide extra time, extra incentives and extra [whatever] to motivate the users. For example, when it's time to change the passwords (let's say every month), invite the employees to the tech office, have the tech admin explain it to them in a comfortable and a novel (each month) way during a couple of minutes. Then give them a cup of good coffee turn on some good soothing classical music, and give them 5-10 minutes to enjoy the coffee and the music, as well as have time to invent a new password or find a way to remember a computer-generated one. There are many techniques to do that and I believe with a little bit of effort everyone can do it.
As it is, people do not believe that good passwords are important and so are unwilling to make an honest effort. Give them some extra motivation and show that the company cares (both about them and about the security) and things will change.
Disclaimer: I am neither affiliated, nor a satisfied customer. I prefer getting my daily dose of "child porn" for free.:) Disclaimer N2: 8 y.o. is an arbitrary limit. In fact there is nothing wrong about selling pictures of even younger kids. I remember there was a photoalbum on sale at Amazon with pictures of extremely young kids (a few year olds, may be).
Child porn should be legalised. It is definitely wrong to abuse people (children or adults), but posing for photos or even having sex does not equal abuse. There should be no limit for porn or for having sex in RL. There should be only one requirement - consent and no harm. The idea of equaling "informed consent" with certain "age of consent" was a horrible one, we can safely admit it today.
P.S. BTW, the idea that Internet is full of child porn is so 20th century. P.P.S. I am proud and happy to live in a country where you are legally allowed to store any materials on your computer, including child porn. How is that for you, you pediatrician-hating Brittons and Yankees?:]
Of course, he know that. RTFA. They hired a research company to demonstrate that 42% of materials found when searching for "incest" and "underage" will feature descriptions associated with pornographic images of children. You see, if your kids will try searching for these words and then download all files, they might end up with all kinds of sick smut on their computer. I suggest we ban P2P.
You are right. The main reason searches for Britney turn up some pornographics results is because people are intentially teased by her videos and concerts. This leads to people sexualising her (and RIAA doesn't worry about that because sex sells), which in turn leads to people searching for brittney spears naked (link to AltaVista, because Google censors search results). Because of that people sharing porn and wanting additional exposure add keywords that are likely to increase popularity of the file. Words like "lolita", "teen", "fuck", "cunt", "britney spears", etc. Nobody is using "Celine Dion" for that.:) A word to RIAA: if you wouldn't market a teenage pop idol like a pornstar, nothing like that would happen.
A study in March by the General Accounting Office found that KaZaA would be effective for someone looking for child pornography. The agency searched for 12 terms associated with child pornography, such as "incest" and "underage." It did not actually download the files it found, but it determined that 42 percent of them had titles or descriptions associated with pornographic images of children.
In other news, searching for "murder" and "torture" is likely to bring you results with titles or descriptions associated with violence, searching for "cuddle" and "kiss" will bring the results associated with tenderness and sentimentality. Like searching for "robbery" and "burglary" bight turn up some links to materials associated with criminal acts and searching for "shithead" and "moron" will give you some RIAA-related materials.
Sometimes I feel like Anakin from Attack of the Clones. We need someone to make all people behave right. Someone like Darth Vader. No kidding.
Absolutely. And know Google proves (with each example) that it can filter the results. So when next evil organisation comes to Google and asks to remove some links, Google will have no excuse not to do that. We know for sure that many people don't have the resources to fight for the right in the courts. And we also know that in many cases just some negative feedback was sufficient to force people to abandon their software or web projects. Imagine when would a DMCA accusation do!
IANAL, but I am not convinced that Google qualifies as "ISP" and so must remove the links. Why didn't they challenge it in KaZaA case or earlier with Scientology, I do not know.
I tried it and got the same score (~78%) for fragments of essay for which I was invited to the ISC Symposium and for the fragment of this Slashdot discussion.:)
More and more people and even whole countries are refusing to deal on their terms anymore.
That's insightful. Just how fucked up a company, its products and business practices need to be to face opposition from several governments (not just Asian, but Germany, Brazil, etc., although to lesser extent). You don't usually see French government deciding to start a fast food chain to compete with McDonalds.:) Often governments support their existing industries (aerospace, agriculture) through subsidies, but for social reasons, not to beat a competing corporation...
It's not even that. It's governments deciding to spend money on a development project. Arguing against it is the same as attacking UK + France for building the Tunnel instead of relying on British Airways and Air France for passenger and cargo transportation.:) And as a bonus, WTO bureaucrats probably are less sold out and not so clueless. I really can't imagine WTO asking Japan+China+Korea to stop this development.
Steal? Bit harsh, don't you think? An idea's only as good as its implementation. If the original idea needed to be tweaked to have a bigger appeal, then the general populous benefits from that.
Yep. And by, the way, copying is not stealing, for P2P's sake! Ideas can't be owned by anyone, they belong to the public. Come on, let's be consistent.:)
The problem is not the scarcity per se, the problem is our common heritage from our animal roots. We used to compete for land, for food, for sexual partners. Now we compete for money, for power in the social hierarchy, for sexual partners again. But the main reason is still scarcity of basic resources - food, shelter, medicine. That's why we need power and money and that's why our mates need us to have the power and the money. But the promise of communism is that all basic and many advanced needs will be met by technology, without requiring hard labour and 40+ hour/week dedication. You see, competing for real estate just doesn't have the same thrill as competing to have money for food, kid's college and drugs for your old parents.:)
And with that a change in human nature will come. To some extent it will be gradual and natural, to some extent purposeful and voluntary. We will edit our minds to remove the agression, greed and hunger for power. We will become loving, caring and compassionate instead. And then you will not have to worry about your fellow humans.:) There will be scarcity, but these problems will be resolved for the common good, because then it will be natural for people.
As for the population growth, it will have to cede. It is no longer needed, once humans are mostly immortal and forever young. You say, kids are expensive, I say that they are simply no longer useful. When you have a lot of interesting things to do and when the state will care for you when you are old, you suddenly no longer need children that much. Of course, there is still the tiranny of tradition, but eventually we'll get used to living without offspring.
And it should be relatively easy to eliminate the possibility of it flying into space by automatically dropping off an outer part of the cable or just pulling it a bit closer to the geosync orbit. The remaining on is "it hangs there, severed".
I don't want to sound like a troll, but slavery was ok at some point in time. You see, the humankind did not instantly advance from primeval tribes to modern humanism. It may sound perverse, but slave-owning system was progressive compared with primitive communal system. Yes, extending slavery into the 18th century was an abomination, but it was still relatively natural. Of course, even then many people already opposed it and eventually it was abolished.
Holocaust wasn't wanted by the majority of people. It was wanted by an anti-Semite minority and supported by the system that was built. It was no more democratic than Stalin's Gulag.
Constitutional democracy is good, definitely better than just democracy, but I think you are mistaken about its main point. It exists not to protect the society from the majority, but from unwarrantable actions of the minority. You don't need to worry about majority commiting some nasty things, because since they have obviously became ethical enough to prohibite them in the consitution. I don't know about the US, but in Russia it's clearly said in the text of the Consitution that people are the primary source of power in the country. And people wrote this law mostly to protect themselves from the government, corporations and the like, not from other people.
I can edit Slashdot home page. I fact I just did that. By posting this comment I changed the number of posts that follows after the 'Electronic Voting: Your Worst Nightmares are True' story on the frontpage.
I've sent an e-mail to them too and the fact is their response is not completely boilerplate. I've got a slightly different text and a personal comment in the PS. It's nice that a human being is reading the comments (not just a auto-reply if DRM is included in the body/subject) and it looks like they might at least consider them.
Well, there is a number of international data carriers, so I don't think that monopolism is a problem. But the capacity might be somewhat limited, because in 1990s we didn't have as much investment in fibre as other countries had. I think the links from St. Petersburg to Finland amount to less than 1Gbit/sec. So incoming international traffic does indeed cost a few cents per Mb (of course, providers pay for the link, not for the traffic). For the end clients this increases to 5-7 cents per Mb.
Laying more fibre to Finland might be cheap, but there are no financial resources available for that. It's difficult for me to pinpoint the cause of the problem, but it's not mafia.
If that is all you do, then you don't need broadband, unless you want your browsing to be quick. Have fun with your solitary web-browsing online existence, buddy.
May be he will even be content with public library Internet access.:)
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No, I AM confident! I have excellent memory! I still remember my first dial-up password I got in early 90s.
:)
P.S. In fact I still use it for more than 50% of my accounts.
The solution. The company should realise that remembering passwords is not easy and provide extra time, extra incentives and extra [whatever] to motivate the users. For example, when it's time to change the passwords (let's say every month), invite the employees to the tech office, have the tech admin explain it to them in a comfortable and a novel (each month) way during a couple of minutes. Then give them a cup of good coffee turn on some good soothing classical music, and give them 5-10 minutes to enjoy the coffee and the music, as well as have time to invent a new password or find a way to remember a computer-generated one. There are many techniques to do that and I believe with a little bit of effort everyone can do it.
As it is, people do not believe that good passwords are important and so are unwilling to make an honest effort. Give them some extra motivation and show that the company cares (both about them and about the security) and things will change.
Disclaimer: I am neither affiliated, nor a satisfied customer. I prefer getting my daily dose of "child porn" for free.
Disclaimer N2: 8 y.o. is an arbitrary limit. In fact there is nothing wrong about selling pictures of even younger kids. I remember there was a photoalbum on sale at Amazon with pictures of extremely young kids (a few year olds, may be).
Child porn should be legalised. It is definitely wrong to abuse people (children or adults), but posing for photos or even having sex does not equal abuse. There should be no limit for porn or for having sex in RL. There should be only one requirement - consent and no harm. The idea of equaling "informed consent" with certain "age of consent" was a horrible one, we can safely admit it today.
At least they do not sell out too cheaply and to single industries. :)
Try this innocuous photo of a sunflower field. Then select the image using Ctrl+A (works only in IE).
:]
See? BAN THE INTERNET.
P.S. BTW, the idea that Internet is full of child porn is so 20th century.
P.P.S. I am proud and happy to live in a country where you are legally allowed to store any materials on your computer, including child porn. How is that for you, you pediatrician-hating Brittons and Yankees?
Of course, he know that. RTFA. They hired a research company to demonstrate that 42% of materials found when searching for "incest" and "underage" will feature descriptions associated with pornographic images of children. You see, if your kids will try searching for these words and then download all files, they might end up with all kinds of sick smut on their computer. I suggest we ban P2P.
You are right. The main reason searches for Britney turn up some pornographics results is because people are intentially teased by her videos and concerts. This leads to people sexualising her (and RIAA doesn't worry about that because sex sells), which in turn leads to people searching for brittney spears naked (link to AltaVista, because Google censors search results). Because of that people sharing porn and wanting additional exposure add keywords that are likely to increase popularity of the file. Words like "lolita", "teen", "fuck", "cunt", "britney spears", etc. Nobody is using "Celine Dion" for that. :) A word to RIAA: if you wouldn't market a teenage pop idol like a pornstar, nothing like that would happen.
A study in March by the General Accounting Office found that KaZaA would be effective for someone looking for child pornography. The agency searched for 12 terms associated with child pornography, such as "incest" and "underage." It did not actually download the files it found, but it determined that 42 percent of them had titles or descriptions associated with pornographic images of children.
In other news, searching for "murder" and "torture" is likely to bring you results with titles or descriptions associated with violence, searching for "cuddle" and "kiss" will bring the results associated with tenderness and sentimentality. Like searching for "robbery" and "burglary" bight turn up some links to materials associated with criminal acts and searching for "shithead" and "moron" will give you some RIAA-related materials.
Sometimes I feel like Anakin from Attack of the Clones. We need someone to make all people behave right. Someone like Darth Vader. No kidding.
Bullshit. The results used to be on the first page, now they are just linked to in the bottom of the page.
Absolutely. And know Google proves (with each example) that it can filter the results. So when next evil organisation comes to Google and asks to remove some links, Google will have no excuse not to do that. We know for sure that many people don't have the resources to fight for the right in the courts. And we also know that in many cases just some negative feedback was sufficient to force people to abandon their software or web projects. Imagine when would a DMCA accusation do!
IANAL, but I am not convinced that Google qualifies as "ISP" and so must remove the links. Why didn't they challenge it in KaZaA case or earlier with Scientology, I do not know.
I tried it and got the same score (~78%) for fragments of essay for which I was invited to the ISC Symposium and for the fragment of this Slashdot discussion. :)
It's because it was probably too long. I got the same result with longer texts (all 100 except for creativity 99.973).
More and more people and even whole countries are refusing to deal on their terms anymore.
:) Often governments support their existing industries (aerospace, agriculture) through subsidies, but for social reasons, not to beat a competing corporation...
That's insightful. Just how fucked up a company, its products and business practices need to be to face opposition from several governments (not just Asian, but Germany, Brazil, etc., although to lesser extent). You don't usually see French government deciding to start a fast food chain to compete with McDonalds.
MS got some serious problems, that's for sure.
It's not even that. It's governments deciding to spend money on a development project. Arguing against it is the same as attacking UK + France for building the Tunnel instead of relying on British Airways and Air France for passenger and cargo transportation. :) And as a bonus, WTO bureaucrats probably are less sold out and not so clueless. I really can't imagine WTO asking Japan+China+Korea to stop this development.
That was fucking hilarious! Thank for the link!!!
Steal? Bit harsh, don't you think? An idea's only as good as its implementation. If the original idea needed to be tweaked to have a bigger appeal, then the general populous benefits from that.
:)
Yep. And by, the way, copying is not stealing, for P2P's sake! Ideas can't be owned by anyone, they belong to the public. Come on, let's be consistent.
The problem is not the scarcity per se, the problem is our common heritage from our animal roots. We used to compete for land, for food, for sexual partners. Now we compete for money, for power in the social hierarchy, for sexual partners again. But the main reason is still scarcity of basic resources - food, shelter, medicine. That's why we need power and money and that's why our mates need us to have the power and the money. But the promise of communism is that all basic and many advanced needs will be met by technology, without requiring hard labour and 40+ hour/week dedication. You see, competing for real estate just doesn't have the same thrill as competing to have money for food, kid's college and drugs for your old parents. :)
:) There will be scarcity, but these problems will be resolved for the common good, because then it will be natural for people.
And with that a change in human nature will come. To some extent it will be gradual and natural, to some extent purposeful and voluntary. We will edit our minds to remove the agression, greed and hunger for power. We will become loving, caring and compassionate instead. And then you will not have to worry about your fellow humans.
As for the population growth, it will have to cede. It is no longer needed, once humans are mostly immortal and forever young. You say, kids are expensive, I say that they are simply no longer useful. When you have a lot of interesting things to do and when the state will care for you when you are old, you suddenly no longer need children that much. Of course, there is still the tiranny of tradition, but eventually we'll get used to living without offspring.
And it should be relatively easy to eliminate the possibility of it flying into space by automatically dropping off an outer part of the cable or just pulling it a bit closer to the geosync orbit. The remaining on is "it hangs there, severed".
I don't want to sound like a troll, but slavery was ok at some point in time. You see, the humankind did not instantly advance from primeval tribes to modern humanism. It may sound perverse, but slave-owning system was progressive compared with primitive communal system. Yes, extending slavery into the 18th century was an abomination, but it was still relatively natural. Of course, even then many people already opposed it and eventually it was abolished.
Holocaust wasn't wanted by the majority of people. It was wanted by an anti-Semite minority and supported by the system that was built. It was no more democratic than Stalin's Gulag.
Constitutional democracy is good, definitely better than just democracy, but I think you are mistaken about its main point. It exists not to protect the society from the majority, but from unwarrantable actions of the minority. You don't need to worry about majority commiting some nasty things, because since they have obviously became ethical enough to prohibite them in the consitution. I don't know about the US, but in Russia it's clearly said in the text of the Consitution that people are the primary source of power in the country. And people wrote this law mostly to protect themselves from the government, corporations and the like, not from other people.
I can edit Slashdot home page. I fact I just did that. By posting this comment I changed the number of posts that follows after the 'Electronic Voting: Your Worst Nightmares are True' story on the frontpage.
:)
See?
Those who speak Russian can read this short story (fiction) about hacking Russian 1999 presidential elections.
If you have any links to materials about that, it would be very interesting. Thanks.
I've sent an e-mail to them too and the fact is their response is not completely boilerplate. I've got a slightly different text and a personal comment in the PS. It's nice that a human being is reading the comments (not just a auto-reply if DRM is included in the body/subject) and it looks like they might at least consider them.
Well, there is a number of international data carriers, so I don't think that monopolism is a problem. But the capacity might be somewhat limited, because in 1990s we didn't have as much investment in fibre as other countries had. I think the links from St. Petersburg to Finland amount to less than 1Gbit/sec. So incoming international traffic does indeed cost a few cents per Mb (of course, providers pay for the link, not for the traffic). For the end clients this increases to 5-7 cents per Mb.
Laying more fibre to Finland might be cheap, but there are no financial resources available for that. It's difficult for me to pinpoint the cause of the problem, but it's not mafia.
If that is all you do, then you don't need broadband, unless you want your browsing to be quick. Have fun with your solitary web-browsing online existence, buddy.
:)
May be he will even be content with public library Internet access.