The dictionary attack doesn't know where the words are in the password. The entropy of a dictionary attack for a 5-10 word phrase is better than any 8 letter character, and much much better than 8 character password with regular rules.
Those are easy to brute force (an uninformed dictionary attack with substitution is a brute force, of a kind). How long is the password? 6-8 chars? Then only look at dictionary words of 5-7 letters. Make the first letter caps, and do all the number for letter substitutions (brute force style), and a variety of punctuation at the end. That'd get 90% of the "secure" passwords I've seen. If that doesn't get it, try the $ for S and such, and start varrying the caps. With simple rules to look for, you'll be able to dictionary attack nearly all "secure" passwords.
How do you know the engine works, if you aren't allowed to open the hood. For all you know, it's a VW bug, and the engine you are told is under the hood is actually in the trunk, and the details about the engine are all lies, and a distraction from the traditional engine hidden elsewhere, you aren't allowed to see or test, based on the test rules.
I've seen someone do that. Throw some old dead lead-acid batteries under the hood of a Bug and tell people it's a hybrid (not an EV, as you can't explain the loud engine in back if it's an EV).
Sure, so how can you tell if the car you are driving is a 4-cyl with a supercharger or an 8-cyl with the same power curve? Or a rotary vs a miller cycle? There are some quiet diesels that would be hard to tell from gasoline engines.
Nope, just driving it gives you no idea how many valves are in it. And in dealership test drive distances, you don't even get details like fuel consumption.
You've never seen an conventional contract, but are sure that nothing in the pile you signed looked like one.
In short, I think you are a lying jerk. I've never heard of any reasonable sized company that didn't have employment contracts. And I don't believe you when you say you've worked several full-time jobs and never seen a contract. You'd be the first, and the liklihood over the Internet is that you are much more willing to lie to win the argument than tell the truth and "concede defeat".
Funny then that the rules for driving someone around in a car are higher than flying someone in a plane. You can fly someone in a plane for money and not have a "commercial pilot license". But driving someone around, charging them gas money is illegal without complete and full commercial licensing? Seems silly and oppressive.
What's next? If a hitchhiker offers you $5 for gas when you pick him up, it's a felony to take it?
The locals told me it's easier to ride illegally, and pay if caught. The fine is less than the cost of the rides you stole before being caught.
Train tickets are a tax on the honest.
Oh, and a taxi into Hoofddorp (from the airport) wasn't that much, better than Taxis in France and elsewhere I've been. The hotel I was going to was nowhere near the Hoofdorp train station, so it wouldn't have really helped taking the train to Hoofdorp, then taxi from there, and there are lots of taxis to choose from at the airport. Smaller train stations are less reliable.
The worst taxi I ran across I walked away from without getting in, while two taxi drivers were yelling at me. Frankfurt. It appears I walked into the middle of a taxi turf war when I walked out of the train station, and they took it out on me, until I walked to the street in front of the station and took a taxi that was never in the train station taxi ranks.
Of course it does. It's not necessary to have the theory fully elaborated and to calculate the interactions to the nth degree, but you have to have some basis for believing that putting objects together in such-and-such a way will produce such-and-such a result, and why. That's theory.
That's what an engineering student would say. Practice it for a few years and get back to us. It's looking up loads in a table, maybe calculating where the max load would be, and look that up in a table. No theory needed.
Most engineers do nothing interesting, and stay far away from theory.
Because it's impossible. How do you block travel from those countries? What if they all fly to Europe before changing planes and flying to the US? If the US stops letting people in with passport stamps from Africa, then African nations will stop stamping US passports (that was the solution to the Cuban embargo).
Because it's impossible, it's pointless to aspire to.
Wear a painter's mask and sunglasses, and you'll be better off than most. If you are around infected, then you need gloves and more, but a 90% solution is easy.
You send them all home. Sentence them to quarantine in their own house.
Though the issue is that we'd really need a 5-minute test for Ebola. Because, as you say, we'd need to make sure we didn't infect people with our quarantine.
The parent is right. Level 4 containment is exactly what the CDC mandates themselves in order to even study this virus or warehouse it. If it were "easy" to contain, you sure as hell wouldn't have those kinds of insanely expensive precautions being taken to store it in a jar.
It's easy to contain, but very high risk if it gets out, so it gets high containment.
The flu is contagious before one is symptomatic. If people were to stay home the moment they feel symptoms of any kind, ebola wouldn't spread, but the flu still would.
Yep, especially when they deny all of the screening questions.. That's helpful.
He truthfully answered every question to the best of his ability at the airport and the hospital. The last information he had on the sick person he saw was that they had malaria, not ebola, and that was a diagnosis made by a hospital, not some guy in denial claiming he wasn't dying from it.
He indicated he was in the region multiple times. It made no difference.
I can't buy a DVD on Amazon and see the bulge in the ethernet cable as the disc is physically moved over the Internet.
Copyright covers the work played over speakers, and since I can't see my speaker wires bulge as the song is played, then your analogy is obviously wrong.
The physics of it is that the actual work is copied at the server. They keep one copy on the server HD, copying it into RAM, then that RAM is copied to my RAM, by the server. An exact duplicate of the server copy, transmitted to my computer in 100% the original form.
Your discussion of books and such is irrelevant. The original isn't a book. It's a list. A long list of 1 or 0. That is all. That unique arrangement is made non-unique by the server, and sent to me in the EXACT same format as if a book were to be spit from the side of my computer. The original on the server isn't paper. It's bits on a drive. The new copy isn't paper, it's bits on the drive. That the copy can be sent over a wire without the wire bulging doesn't demonstrate it's different. It just demonstrates you don't know what a file is.
If your analogy using the mail were accurate, it would be possible for me to download a blender from Amazon and have it emerge from the side of my computer.
According to you it is. The USB drive I downloaded it to is a physical copy of the original work, according to your assertions elsewhere.
You have RAM, which is a material object. You have a hard drive, which is a material object. You have flash memory, which is a material object. A work written to those makes them copies, just as a work written to a paper book makes it a copy.
The router passing the copy along has RAM, flash, and possibly a hard drive as well. Yet you assert the copy made by the network isn't a copy, but the copy when it gets to my computer is a copy.
A copy is defined in the Copyright Act (17 USC 101) as a material object in which a copy is fixed. A hard drive is a material object, a flash drive is a material object, RAM is a material object. But data coming in over the network is not a material object
The network is a collection of material objects. You are asserting that RAM on the network router doesn't hold a copy, but sends me a copy without ever receiving what it sends on. How can the RAM on my computer get a copy without the physical network in the middle holding it on a material object, even if only for a moment?
If it helps, think of two people talking on the phone, the first reading a book, and the second writing it down. The reader isn't making the copy; if the writer secretly refuses to write, no new copy is produced.
Great analogy. The only problem is that the person "on the phone" is instead "through the mail". So the recipient gets the whole book, in paper, from the first reader. The first reader is asked for a copy, and makes one, and passes it along. The "listener"
And remember -- a copy is defined in the law as a material object -- it can't be sent over the network.
My local copy is no more a material object than the network the copy passed over. So, until they seize the entirety of AT&T's network for holding copyrighted material, they shouldn't be able to do the same with my local computer.
Almost no companies hire solely on verbal agreements, as they have all of the responsibilities, and no protections. They put it in writing.
Given that the law specifically states that an employer employing without a written contract has reduced legal rights, I would think that nearly all companies would require written contracts, as per MN law.
In short, I think you are confused or lying (or only worked odd jobs, never a regular full time job with a large company, as most people do, and what people think of when they hear "job").
but you said worked at an ISP and have been solicited for bribes; i.e. been offered money by the speed test companies.
i.e. I was asked to pay a bribe. I was solicited. I was approached by someone and asked to pay a bribe.
If I were offered money by speed test companies, I would be offered a bribe, not being solicited for one.
If you're claiming the speed test companies tried to get you to pay them for better results, that's extortion, not a bribe.
Being solicited for a bribe is being extorted. http://www.bullmanlawgroup.com... The cop extorted someone, and it's called "solicited a bribe". Yes, I chose wording you wouldn't, but that doesn't make it wrong.
Why would an ISP pay a bribe? Because the speed test is used by competitors to "prove" the ISP has bad service, and the only way to improve it (possibly because the people running the "independent" speed test are throttling it for those who don't pay the extortion), is to pay a bribe.
Are you sure? I've seen the racism in US hospitals, where they (illegally I'm told here) get insurance information before admitting someone, rather than basing the treatment in the ER solely based on need. And they demand proof of ability to pay earlier in the process for those who "look" less likely to pay (hint, that's them Black folk).
Being asured constantly on Slashdot that it isn't racism, when I've seen in personally, many times, doesn't change my opinion based on first hand knowledge.
That's wrong. When you have a read/write download, like a torrent, I've topped out a 5400 laptop at about 50 MBps. Maybe it was other factors, but the same file on a "better" computer did much better.
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Most won't take good passwords because so many still limit passwords to 8 character for backward compatibility with Windows NT 3.1.
The dictionary attack doesn't know where the words are in the password. The entropy of a dictionary attack for a 5-10 word phrase is better than any 8 letter character, and much much better than 8 character password with regular rules.
Those are easy to brute force (an uninformed dictionary attack with substitution is a brute force, of a kind). How long is the password? 6-8 chars? Then only look at dictionary words of 5-7 letters. Make the first letter caps, and do all the number for letter substitutions (brute force style), and a variety of punctuation at the end. That'd get 90% of the "secure" passwords I've seen. If that doesn't get it, try the $ for S and such, and start varrying the caps. With simple rules to look for, you'll be able to dictionary attack nearly all "secure" passwords.
How do you know the engine works, if you aren't allowed to open the hood. For all you know, it's a VW bug, and the engine you are told is under the hood is actually in the trunk, and the details about the engine are all lies, and a distraction from the traditional engine hidden elsewhere, you aren't allowed to see or test, based on the test rules.
I've seen someone do that. Throw some old dead lead-acid batteries under the hood of a Bug and tell people it's a hybrid (not an EV, as you can't explain the loud engine in back if it's an EV).
Sure, so how can you tell if the car you are driving is a 4-cyl with a supercharger or an 8-cyl with the same power curve? Or a rotary vs a miller cycle? There are some quiet diesels that would be hard to tell from gasoline engines.
Nope, just driving it gives you no idea how many valves are in it. And in dealership test drive distances, you don't even get details like fuel consumption.
You've never seen an conventional contract, but are sure that nothing in the pile you signed looked like one.
In short, I think you are a lying jerk. I've never heard of any reasonable sized company that didn't have employment contracts. And I don't believe you when you say you've worked several full-time jobs and never seen a contract. You'd be the first, and the liklihood over the Internet is that you are much more willing to lie to win the argument than tell the truth and "concede defeat".
Funny then that the rules for driving someone around in a car are higher than flying someone in a plane. You can fly someone in a plane for money and not have a "commercial pilot license". But driving someone around, charging them gas money is illegal without complete and full commercial licensing? Seems silly and oppressive.
What's next? If a hitchhiker offers you $5 for gas when you pick him up, it's a felony to take it?
The locals told me it's easier to ride illegally, and pay if caught. The fine is less than the cost of the rides you stole before being caught.
Train tickets are a tax on the honest.
Oh, and a taxi into Hoofddorp (from the airport) wasn't that much, better than Taxis in France and elsewhere I've been. The hotel I was going to was nowhere near the Hoofdorp train station, so it wouldn't have really helped taking the train to Hoofdorp, then taxi from there, and there are lots of taxis to choose from at the airport. Smaller train stations are less reliable.
The worst taxi I ran across I walked away from without getting in, while two taxi drivers were yelling at me. Frankfurt. It appears I walked into the middle of a taxi turf war when I walked out of the train station, and they took it out on me, until I walked to the street in front of the station and took a taxi that was never in the train station taxi ranks.
Like driving a car gives me insight into how the engine works...
Of course it does. It's not necessary to have the theory fully elaborated and to calculate the interactions to the nth degree, but you have to have some basis for believing that putting objects together in such-and-such a way will produce such-and-such a result, and why. That's theory.
That's what an engineering student would say. Practice it for a few years and get back to us. It's looking up loads in a table, maybe calculating where the max load would be, and look that up in a table. No theory needed.
Most engineers do nothing interesting, and stay far away from theory.
Because it's impossible. How do you block travel from those countries? What if they all fly to Europe before changing planes and flying to the US? If the US stops letting people in with passport stamps from Africa, then African nations will stop stamping US passports (that was the solution to the Cuban embargo).
Because it's impossible, it's pointless to aspire to.
Wear a painter's mask and sunglasses, and you'll be better off than most. If you are around infected, then you need gloves and more, but a 90% solution is easy.
You send them all home. Sentence them to quarantine in their own house.
Though the issue is that we'd really need a 5-minute test for Ebola. Because, as you say, we'd need to make sure we didn't infect people with our quarantine.
The parent is right. Level 4 containment is exactly what the CDC mandates themselves in order to even study this virus or warehouse it. If it were "easy" to contain, you sure as hell wouldn't have those kinds of insanely expensive precautions being taken to store it in a jar.
It's easy to contain, but very high risk if it gets out, so it gets high containment.
The flu is contagious before one is symptomatic. If people were to stay home the moment they feel symptoms of any kind, ebola wouldn't spread, but the flu still would.
Yep, especially when they deny all of the screening questions.. That's helpful.
He truthfully answered every question to the best of his ability at the airport and the hospital. The last information he had on the sick person he saw was that they had malaria, not ebola, and that was a diagnosis made by a hospital, not some guy in denial claiming he wasn't dying from it.
He indicated he was in the region multiple times. It made no difference.
I can't buy a DVD on Amazon and see the bulge in the ethernet cable as the disc is physically moved over the Internet.
Copyright covers the work played over speakers, and since I can't see my speaker wires bulge as the song is played, then your analogy is obviously wrong.
The physics of it is that the actual work is copied at the server. They keep one copy on the server HD, copying it into RAM, then that RAM is copied to my RAM, by the server. An exact duplicate of the server copy, transmitted to my computer in 100% the original form.
Your discussion of books and such is irrelevant. The original isn't a book. It's a list. A long list of 1 or 0. That is all. That unique arrangement is made non-unique by the server, and sent to me in the EXACT same format as if a book were to be spit from the side of my computer. The original on the server isn't paper. It's bits on a drive. The new copy isn't paper, it's bits on the drive. That the copy can be sent over a wire without the wire bulging doesn't demonstrate it's different. It just demonstrates you don't know what a file is.
If your analogy using the mail were accurate, it would be possible for me to download a blender from Amazon and have it emerge from the side of my computer.
According to you it is. The USB drive I downloaded it to is a physical copy of the original work, according to your assertions elsewhere.
You have RAM, which is a material object. You have a hard drive, which is a material object. You have flash memory, which is a material object. A work written to those makes them copies, just as a work written to a paper book makes it a copy.
The router passing the copy along has RAM, flash, and possibly a hard drive as well. Yet you assert the copy made by the network isn't a copy, but the copy when it gets to my computer is a copy.
That's logically inconsistent.
A copy is defined in the Copyright Act (17 USC 101) as a material object in which a copy is fixed. A hard drive is a material object, a flash drive is a material object, RAM is a material object. But data coming in over the network is not a material object
The network is a collection of material objects. You are asserting that RAM on the network router doesn't hold a copy, but sends me a copy without ever receiving what it sends on. How can the RAM on my computer get a copy without the physical network in the middle holding it on a material object, even if only for a moment?
If it helps, think of two people talking on the phone, the first reading a book, and the second writing it down. The reader isn't making the copy; if the writer secretly refuses to write, no new copy is produced.
Great analogy. The only problem is that the person "on the phone" is instead "through the mail". So the recipient gets the whole book, in paper, from the first reader. The first reader is asked for a copy, and makes one, and passes it along. The "listener"
And remember -- a copy is defined in the law as a material object -- it can't be sent over the network.
My local copy is no more a material object than the network the copy passed over. So, until they seize the entirety of AT&T's network for holding copyrighted material, they shouldn't be able to do the same with my local computer.
Almost no companies hire solely on verbal agreements, as they have all of the responsibilities, and no protections. They put it in writing.
Given that the law specifically states that an employer employing without a written contract has reduced legal rights, I would think that nearly all companies would require written contracts, as per MN law.
In short, I think you are confused or lying (or only worked odd jobs, never a regular full time job with a large company, as most people do, and what people think of when they hear "job").
but you said worked at an ISP and have been solicited for bribes; i.e. been offered money by the speed test companies.
i.e. I was asked to pay a bribe. I was solicited. I was approached by someone and asked to pay a bribe.
If I were offered money by speed test companies, I would be offered a bribe, not being solicited for one.
If you're claiming the speed test companies tried to get you to pay them for better results, that's extortion, not a bribe.
Being solicited for a bribe is being extorted. http://www.bullmanlawgroup.com... The cop extorted someone, and it's called "solicited a bribe". Yes, I chose wording you wouldn't, but that doesn't make it wrong.
Why would an ISP pay a bribe? Because the speed test is used by competitors to "prove" the ISP has bad service, and the only way to improve it (possibly because the people running the "independent" speed test are throttling it for those who don't pay the extortion), is to pay a bribe.
Gotta love the "free market".
Are you sure? I've seen the racism in US hospitals, where they (illegally I'm told here) get insurance information before admitting someone, rather than basing the treatment in the ER solely based on need. And they demand proof of ability to pay earlier in the process for those who "look" less likely to pay (hint, that's them Black folk).
Being asured constantly on Slashdot that it isn't racism, when I've seen in personally, many times, doesn't change my opinion based on first hand knowledge.
That's wrong. When you have a read/write download, like a torrent, I've topped out a 5400 laptop at about 50 MBps. Maybe it was other factors, but the same file on a "better" computer did much better.