It wasn't published on the Internet. I've sent private emails with private details before. They stayed private. For one, I'm not a target. For another, sending private communications over a network isn't "publishing on the Internet".
A linked list in multiple dimensions wouldn't reduce the entropy. The entropy given in the XKCD example assumes you are using the best possible dictionary attack against it. But yes, taking any common well-known phrase will make it open to a "pure" dictionary attack. "Busch" won't be found in a literal English Dictionary, but would be in a hacking dictionary. The hacking dictionary is distinct from a linguistic one. And common phrases in poems and such would likely make it into the hacking dictionary. The entire poem could be in there, but someone that uses the entire poem, except the first word, would be very very secure, unless every combination of words in the poem was in the dictionary, in which case the dictionary will be nearly the same as a brute force attack.
A hitch hiker "hails" a car, and negotiates terms. Yet, no restrictions exist on the drivers that pick them up. You are demanding different rules for different drivers, without defining the differentiators. What if someone uses Tinder to find a ride? Would that make the driver a hire driver? How about the ride shares from school to home (common with state schools and people that live far from it looking for rides home on holidays)? They are usually paid, and pre-arranged, but from what I can tell, operate under hitchhiker rules.
Worry less about what you want Uber to do, and more about how many classes of driver you want, and where the lines should be separating them. You stick to bashing Uber, without comparison to others. It makes you look obsessed and very biased.
The best thing about Unix was that non-characters were often accepted. If you type "abb[backspace]cde" for your password in Unix, you'd have to type it the same way every time, including the backspace at the right point. But in Windows, that's stored as "abcde". Those kind of things would really mess with the shoulder surfers.
We went in and out at odd times, so the controls may be aimed for commuters, and less for the off-time casual users. When there are only 10 people per car, there aren't that many people to catch.
The requirements for a private car service here are stricter then what uber work to. You require a different license, insurance, registration and permit.
Not everywhere. And they do meet all the requirements for a hitchhiking service. And nobody has found them to be otherwise in court, or by law. Just by assertion (usually by competitors).
Also as for the term Taxi it is exactly the same as I would have an issue in you calling yourself an engineer if you did not hold an engineering qualification, or calling yourself a doctor without being certified. I know this is different between the USA and Aus but here Engineer is what is called a protected term, similar to Dietician for example. You can call yourself a Nutritionist (which isn't) here and it has absolutely no meaning, you cannot however call yourself a Dietician without certification. Calling yourself a Taxi service has specific meanings which Uber do not meet.
They don't call themselves a taxi service. You are doing that, and their "enemies" are doing that. Set them at the highest legal requirement, without regard to what they do or how they operate. If they are ruled legally a hitchhiker service, they meet all the requirements. If they are a private car service, you don't need background checks on the drivers.
And you don't have "network engineers" in Australia? There are lots of engineer jobs on Seek that don't indicate any professional qualifications needed, mainly in IT. So I don't think "engineer" is as protected as you assert either.
However hitching a ride from an unmarked vehicle should not be considered the same as ordering a taxi. The taxi is the vetted service where the expectation is that the driver is not a danger.
So hitchhiking is legal, as is picking up a hitchhiker, and the hitchhiker has no more or less protections than a Uber user. But you want Uber illegal and hitchhiking legal?
I'm so confused.
No one is saying you can't hitch hike, or car pool or anything like that. What is being objected to is claiming to be a taxi service without going through the licensing and audit process of genuine taxis.
Oh, so if they call themselves a paid hitchhiking service, then you'd have no issue with it. And it's "taxi" you object to, not the service. That doesn't agree with what you've complained about, where you talk about "safety" and such, and never saying "it's a valid service, but not a taxi". What are the requirements for "private car" services where you are? In NYC, they are roughly the same as Uber applies. And that's true in many places. Uber is a private car service, where you order the car over the Internet, not the phone. And it meets most of the private car service requirements, but not always all of them.
Seems their stance is they won't meet the requirements for any specific type of service until the legality is settled. Otherwise, there's too much of a risk of a moving target.
Did the guy who entered the White House recently and spit on all the furniture have Ebola!
Uh Oh! For the Democratic High Command! Dead bodies.
Yea! Good for us. Citizens of the U.S.A.
Only if the president then chairs a join session of Congress and sneezes on everyone.
As others point out, in the US, the regulations aren't on the drivers (the seller) but on the business owner. That's a different thing. The driver is minimally held to a higher standard. And Uber and others aren't complaining about that. But that the car owner must be on an approved list for the car to be used as a taxi is what the objection is to.
At least in Germany the "proper credentials" do include e.g. a special driver license [wikipedia.org] which includes a medical analysis, a police clearance, a check of the driving penalty points registry, check of local knowledge,....
The worst taxi I ran across was in Germany. The taxi driver was second in the rank, but had a larger van for our 4 people plus gear, so we picked it. Then someone else came out of the train station. He started yelling loudly for me to get my stuff out of his taxi. I did. The people who came out walked off after he yelled at them as well. We had walked up to the first taxi and were seeing how we'd get everything in, when he started screaming at the first taxi driver for stealing his fare and yelled at me to get back in his taxi. We picked up our stuff and walked to the street and hailed a taxi there.
I'm not sure what the rules are, but I was in fear of my safety with him screaming at me. Frankfurt train station.
Or the piles of corporate breaches where they keep the (encrypted but not salted) user database on the public web server, and that server is hacked, being public and all. No need to go on site.
When getting sick, why don't you fly over to Africa (the plane tickets cost you about as much as a night in hospital in the US), and ask some witch doctor to treat you (his fees for a full treatment may be less than what your regular doctor will charge you for a consult)?
Because the borders will be closed on the way back. Though, it's illegal to close the border to citizens, but that doesn't stop the fearmongering politicians from suggesting something they know to be impossible.
But there is money in medical tourism. People do fly out of the US to receive treatment.
The real problem is that some treatment requires ongoing medicines, and there the FDA actively blocks your medical care by a licensed doctor, licensed to practice in the USA (yes, I've gone to foreign doctors that were US certified).
You are inferring rules which don't apply. You must pay a fee to be licensed. No more. There are no more rules for "Licensed hire vehicles" than any other, other than the fee attached. The article shows that some people found that the fee to be a licensed hire vehicle is less than the fees for not being one (for congestion rules in London).
There are separate issues here. The car must be licensed. The driver must be licensed. And often the business owner must be licensed. These are separate, and calling all three "licenses" confuses the issue.
There are no laws, but there are reviews. The race to the bottom can't happen when the profit motive isn't there. If I could register my car as a "hireable-ride" from North City to South City M-F from 8-9 am. and the reverse from 5-6, then it'd end up being a paid ride-share.
That's where I see these going in the middle term.
But then, as you say, they will eBay, and end up 99% commercial sellers on an "auction" site with no auctions, just commercial sellers with Buy Now sales. The professionals always ruin it for the casual users.
Nobody I know disassembles a motor in their new truck to make sure the goddamed thing runs.
Even for new an novel things like a Tesla, nobody I know insists the dealer take it appart and show them every winding and bolt.
No, a customer doesn't (but can), but the people evaluating it do.
The hoax in this case required that you not ever even open the hood to see if there was an engine, and there were rules around monitoring the inputs and outputs that allowed for trickery.
And the train controllers will go for the tourists, take it for granted
About 20 trips from Schiphol to Centraal over a week, and I never once saw a single controller. Nothing the locals said contradicted what I saw. Including trips outside Amsterdam and Holland. Unless I was crossing a border, or taking a train that required reservations, tickets were *never* checked. And most of the time we crossed a border, the police (or border patrol) got on and took someone off. I thought there were supposed to be no border controls, but names were checked at every border.
Yep. Any account that can compromise others gets a unique, secure password (email and others that can be used to reset any others). Forums, like here, get dictionary-attackable passwords. Who cares if someone takes this account? So "chair" it is. Hopefully that's not actually it, I never see my own passwords anymore with password storing programs.
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It wasn't published on the Internet. I've sent private emails with private details before. They stayed private. For one, I'm not a target. For another, sending private communications over a network isn't "publishing on the Internet".
Jennifer Lawrence now doesn't have that option for some future 'gay football player' movie.
They are remaking Varsity Blues?
A linked list in multiple dimensions wouldn't reduce the entropy. The entropy given in the XKCD example assumes you are using the best possible dictionary attack against it. But yes, taking any common well-known phrase will make it open to a "pure" dictionary attack. "Busch" won't be found in a literal English Dictionary, but would be in a hacking dictionary. The hacking dictionary is distinct from a linguistic one. And common phrases in poems and such would likely make it into the hacking dictionary. The entire poem could be in there, but someone that uses the entire poem, except the first word, would be very very secure, unless every combination of words in the poem was in the dictionary, in which case the dictionary will be nearly the same as a brute force attack.
A hitch hiker "hails" a car, and negotiates terms. Yet, no restrictions exist on the drivers that pick them up. You are demanding different rules for different drivers, without defining the differentiators. What if someone uses Tinder to find a ride? Would that make the driver a hire driver? How about the ride shares from school to home (common with state schools and people that live far from it looking for rides home on holidays)? They are usually paid, and pre-arranged, but from what I can tell, operate under hitchhiker rules.
Worry less about what you want Uber to do, and more about how many classes of driver you want, and where the lines should be separating them. You stick to bashing Uber, without comparison to others. It makes you look obsessed and very biased.
The best thing about Unix was that non-characters were often accepted. If you type "abb[backspace]cde" for your password in Unix, you'd have to type it the same way every time, including the backspace at the right point. But in Windows, that's stored as "abcde". Those kind of things would really mess with the shoulder surfers.
We went in and out at odd times, so the controls may be aimed for commuters, and less for the off-time casual users. When there are only 10 people per car, there aren't that many people to catch.
The requirements for a private car service here are stricter then what uber work to. You require a different license, insurance, registration and permit.
Not everywhere. And they do meet all the requirements for a hitchhiking service. And nobody has found them to be otherwise in court, or by law. Just by assertion (usually by competitors).
Also as for the term Taxi it is exactly the same as I would have an issue in you calling yourself an engineer if you did not hold an engineering qualification, or calling yourself a doctor without being certified. I know this is different between the USA and Aus but here Engineer is what is called a protected term, similar to Dietician for example. You can call yourself a Nutritionist (which isn't) here and it has absolutely no meaning, you cannot however call yourself a Dietician without certification. Calling yourself a Taxi service has specific meanings which Uber do not meet.
They don't call themselves a taxi service. You are doing that, and their "enemies" are doing that. Set them at the highest legal requirement, without regard to what they do or how they operate. If they are ruled legally a hitchhiker service, they meet all the requirements. If they are a private car service, you don't need background checks on the drivers.
And you don't have "network engineers" in Australia? There are lots of engineer jobs on Seek that don't indicate any professional qualifications needed, mainly in IT. So I don't think "engineer" is as protected as you assert either.
Yes. That was the point. AC said 7 off the list. For all we know, it's 0 off the list.
Your critical thinking needs work.
However hitching a ride from an unmarked vehicle should not be considered the same as ordering a taxi. The taxi is the vetted service where the expectation is that the driver is not a danger.
So hitchhiking is legal, as is picking up a hitchhiker, and the hitchhiker has no more or less protections than a Uber user. But you want Uber illegal and hitchhiking legal?
I'm so confused.
No one is saying you can't hitch hike, or car pool or anything like that. What is being objected to is claiming to be a taxi service without going through the licensing and audit process of genuine taxis.
Oh, so if they call themselves a paid hitchhiking service, then you'd have no issue with it. And it's "taxi" you object to, not the service. That doesn't agree with what you've complained about, where you talk about "safety" and such, and never saying "it's a valid service, but not a taxi". What are the requirements for "private car" services where you are? In NYC, they are roughly the same as Uber applies. And that's true in many places. Uber is a private car service, where you order the car over the Internet, not the phone. And it meets most of the private car service requirements, but not always all of them.
Seems their stance is they won't meet the requirements for any specific type of service until the legality is settled. Otherwise, there's too much of a risk of a moving target.
Nah, Doctor Allcome.
Did the guy who entered the White House recently and spit on all the furniture have Ebola! Uh Oh! For the Democratic High Command! Dead bodies. Yea! Good for us. Citizens of the U.S.A.
Only if the president then chairs a join session of Congress and sneezes on everyone.
As others point out, in the US, the regulations aren't on the drivers (the seller) but on the business owner. That's a different thing. The driver is minimally held to a higher standard. And Uber and others aren't complaining about that. But that the car owner must be on an approved list for the car to be used as a taxi is what the objection is to.
So it should be illegal to pick up hitchhikers? Illegal to let them pay for fuel? Illegal to let them pay more for thanks? Where do you draw the line?
At least in Germany the "proper credentials" do include e.g. a special driver license [wikipedia.org] which includes a medical analysis, a police clearance, a check of the driving penalty points registry, check of local knowledge, ... .
The worst taxi I ran across was in Germany. The taxi driver was second in the rank, but had a larger van for our 4 people plus gear, so we picked it. Then someone else came out of the train station. He started yelling loudly for me to get my stuff out of his taxi. I did. The people who came out walked off after he yelled at them as well. We had walked up to the first taxi and were seeing how we'd get everything in, when he started screaming at the first taxi driver for stealing his fare and yelled at me to get back in his taxi. We picked up our stuff and walked to the street and hailed a taxi there.
I'm not sure what the rules are, but I was in fear of my safety with him screaming at me. Frankfurt train station.
Or the piles of corporate breaches where they keep the (encrypted but not salted) user database on the public web server, and that server is hacked, being public and all. No need to go on site.
Your mother's grave.
Can you kill two birds with one coal?
Have they flown since? Have they been officially told they were on the list to begin with?
When getting sick, why don't you fly over to Africa (the plane tickets cost you about as much as a night in hospital in the US), and ask some witch doctor to treat you (his fees for a full treatment may be less than what your regular doctor will charge you for a consult)?
Because the borders will be closed on the way back. Though, it's illegal to close the border to citizens, but that doesn't stop the fearmongering politicians from suggesting something they know to be impossible.
But there is money in medical tourism. People do fly out of the US to receive treatment.
The real problem is that some treatment requires ongoing medicines, and there the FDA actively blocks your medical care by a licensed doctor, licensed to practice in the USA (yes, I've gone to foreign doctors that were US certified).
You are inferring rules which don't apply. You must pay a fee to be licensed. No more. There are no more rules for "Licensed hire vehicles" than any other, other than the fee attached. The article shows that some people found that the fee to be a licensed hire vehicle is less than the fees for not being one (for congestion rules in London).
There are separate issues here. The car must be licensed. The driver must be licensed. And often the business owner must be licensed. These are separate, and calling all three "licenses" confuses the issue.
There are no laws, but there are reviews. The race to the bottom can't happen when the profit motive isn't there. If I could register my car as a "hireable-ride" from North City to South City M-F from 8-9 am. and the reverse from 5-6, then it'd end up being a paid ride-share.
That's where I see these going in the middle term.
But then, as you say, they will eBay, and end up 99% commercial sellers on an "auction" site with no auctions, just commercial sellers with Buy Now sales. The professionals always ruin it for the casual users.
How does the brute force get banned when I have the local copy of the authentication database to test against?
Nobody I know disassembles a motor in their new truck to make sure the goddamed thing runs.
Even for new an novel things like a Tesla, nobody I know insists the dealer take it appart and show them every winding and bolt.
No, a customer doesn't (but can), but the people evaluating it do.
The hoax in this case required that you not ever even open the hood to see if there was an engine, and there were rules around monitoring the inputs and outputs that allowed for trickery.
And the train controllers will go for the tourists, take it for granted
About 20 trips from Schiphol to Centraal over a week, and I never once saw a single controller. Nothing the locals said contradicted what I saw. Including trips outside Amsterdam and Holland. Unless I was crossing a border, or taking a train that required reservations, tickets were *never* checked. And most of the time we crossed a border, the police (or border patrol) got on and took someone off. I thought there were supposed to be no border controls, but names were checked at every border.
Yep. Any account that can compromise others gets a unique, secure password (email and others that can be used to reset any others). Forums, like here, get dictionary-attackable passwords. Who cares if someone takes this account? So "chair" it is. Hopefully that's not actually it, I never see my own passwords anymore with password storing programs.