Actually, the article is a little sensationalist. I just looked at the password file. About 2/3rds of the passwords are decent. Long, not 100% obvious, mix of numbers & characters, etc. I was expecting more of an 80/20 ratio of crap vs decent and I was really surprised. Also kudos to the guy who uses "707294en14.SmMeG"
That said, I see a pattern of lots of numerical 6 and 7 digit passwords. They don't look like phone or postal codes. I'm guessing that their password reset tool picked 6 or 7 random numbers and people never changed them. Still better than 'password' or 'princess.'
So infinite humans, no problem? Your incredibly naive if you think human life is sustainable at any comfortable levels past a certain amount of people.
Here's an example. Ehrlich's time was the 60s and 70s. Back then an American could work ONE JOB and OWN A HOME AND AFFORD TWO CARS AND A FAMILY.
Fast forward to today and myself and everyone I know is a working couple who can barely afford the things people in the 60s and 70s middle class people had. We've cut back on driving because gas is so expensive. Our food costs have almost doubled since 2003 or so. Competition for jobs is so fierce that companies are now offering to pay less than they did before. Vacation days are nothing compared to what other western countries get. Healthcare is a coin-toss on whether anything I get gets covered. The real cost of basic utilities is high. etc.
Most of those issues have to do with how expensive it is to extract resources for the earth and how expensive it is to buy those resources because market demands raise their cost.
30 years from now, you'll be living in some 300 sq ft box, working full time, and eating gruel and still refusing to believe that population affects lifestyle.
Sadly, its probably too late to do anything. Imagine getting a one child per couple policy in the US with our puritanical roots and "family" above all else policies and culture. Compare China to India. Both were just as poor not too long ago, but one has a wildly expanding population while the other put in a one child per couple policy. Guess which one will be tomorrow's world leader?
Depends on your definition of safety. Right now I can go and buy as much socially acceptable poison as I like (alcohol). If we use alcohol as a metric than ecstasy should far into the same category.
Also weed isn't safe either if we're going to be overly critical. Some people get panic attacks or paranoia and inhaling smoke cant be good for you in the long run.
Of course, compared to cigarettes they both are incredibly healthy.
Right, because its the currencies' issue. Its not like I've ever bought bags upon bags of pot with dollars and euros.
What would be surprising would be currency that wasn't ever used for illicit things. It doesn't and will never exist. Especially with conservative philosophies that don't let us decrim or legalize mostly safe things like pot or ecstasy.
Open your eyes, all these guys are doing is playing up "War on Drugs" bullshit so they can get larger budgets next year so that a SWAT team can no-knock your home and shoot you when you try to defend yourself thinking you're being robbed.
Thats a pretty defeatist approach. Look at backpacks that fold open so you can scan your laptop without removing it.
If I presented that to you 10 years ago you'd think it was crazy and say "sheez just open the laptop bag."
Now I see professional travelers with these things at a rate of 80% or so. I have one also.
I don't see why the EM issue would be so difficult. Most of the changes would be trivial shielding and its not going to add that much when they are designing a new product.
Also its worth noting that this is not just a perk for passengers but a revenue stream for the airlines. I'd pay 15 dollars wireless if they allowed me to really use my laptop as opposed to keeping it locked up 50% of the time.
EM is probably something we're going to be looking at regardless. We're already replacing paper manuals with ipads. We're moving to a paperless society. This stuff is getting addressed now for a lot of equipment. Just make a spec companies can work off and let us make these machines.
The real issue is why no one is partnering with the FAA to get low EMI laptops going. I could see this as a feature in business class laptops. I imagine if its overly shielded and can be controlled by onboard wireless commands to disable its wireless/bluetooth, etc it'll work just fine. Some will balk at how big brothery this would be, but others might not care because they just want to get some work done during that long "we're starting to descend soon" call the pilot makes which can take up to an hour.
Or we can start slowly by approving new shielded Kindles and Nooks.
I could even see ethernet on every arm-rest. That way you can have a shielded laptop doing zero wifi and still getting internet. One can dream, I guess.
Oh America, why don't you have high speed rail connecting everything?
To be fair, this is virtually true of every game. Somewhere there's a work/reward process at work. Its just a lot more obvious with MMOs. Even before the age of "achievements" (what a cynical term) we had level bosses and other things that made you think you were accomplishing something.
My problem with MMOs is how horribly stupid and dumbed down they are. Its the same old D&D/MUD mechanisms. Its so safe and balanced and kid-friendly. Everything is pretty much on a rail. Maybe EVE and others are different. A part of me is thinking of getting an EVE account, but I'm not very tolerant of grinding anymore.
Comments like yours just illustrate how art is subjective.
I love Moffat's work. Its incredible. The production is good too. The music you dislike, I feel is wonderful and cinematic. I find the stories incredibly engaging and the stories before Moffat's reign to be a bit of a cookie-cutter yawn-fest and drama that, frankly, just didn't work most of the time.
That said, I do find the show to be incredibly ridiculous and I'm not sure what 'gritty realism" people like you celebrate. Every episode of this show is incredibly shlocky. Its more "adult fairytales" than anything approaching sci-fi. I think Moffat understands this on a fundamental level and is really delivering the goods.
Yeah, that just outsourcing. It didn't work when they tried selling it to us as the solution for everything about 10 years ago and I don't see why its suddenly going to work now.
Before it was thin clients. Then thick clients. Then outsourcing. Then mobile devices. Then tablets. Now cloud services.
Who exactly is going to manage all your cloud based servers? Do these guys really expect some $8/hr amazon support monkey to manage your linux patches, fix bugs, write scripts, install applications, customize applications, etc.
If the cloud does anything, it just moves your server room to a different room off-site. You still need IT to make it do anything useful.
That model? The same exact model I have? The same one made by the thousands at Foxconn? I doubt it has any extra shielding or anything.
Airlines need to revise their rules. I dont see why I cant have an ebook on during take off and landing. And by "during" I mean 35 minutes before landing. Heck I'm okay for 5 or so minutes, but once it couldnt use it for an hour. That's also a problem.
I manage a WSUS environment and push out Adobe Flash and Reader updates every month via WSUS and System Center. You can yell "bullshit" all you want but that makes you an ignorant person and sadly, people like you just never learn because its easier to keep obsessing over your biases than admitting youre wrong and learning something new.
I'm responsible for more windows machines than I care to admit and we dont have this issue. I did see it at my old employer and after some investigation I found:
1. All the machines that got this had out of date Adobe Reader or Java plugins.
2. Or the end user installed it clicking yes at every warning prompt.
Most likely your plugin security isn't up to snuff. Stats released by Brian Krebs at his security blog show that crimepacks that use this exploit Java or Reader vulnerabilities 90% of the time, and the rest of the 10% is old patched browser or windows exploits.
That's a little like saying "Oh just run noscript or make disable the java plugin" in the Windows world. Most end user have no clue what "safe files" are or what any of what you wrote means.
Not to mention, any web based exploit can install this malware now. It runs purely in userland. Java exploits, flash exploits, browser exploits, etc open the gate for this malware. Today its the safe files in Safari, tomorrow its one of dozens of Java exploits.
Its simply easier for end users to do updates and buy an AV than to dick around with settings they don't remotely understand. To Apple's benefit they're usually good about software updates and also update Java (at least for now).
How about the comments in the last article from the fanboys screaming "BUT THEY NEED TO PUT IN THEIR PASSWORD UNLIKE SHITTY WINDOWS" and then modded up to +5 insightful.
Welcome to the new reality. I think they'll find that userland rights on any modern OS are pretty lenient and will allow for a great deal of scammy malware activities. Malware doesnt need to run in any system directory or open any low ports or anything.
Now is probably a good time to invest in OSX AV products.
Not to mention, Facebook's TOS is that you must use your real name when creating an account. If FB cared one whit about privacy it would let people uses aliases. It really is incredible how ghetto and scammy FB is with their tactics and policies.
>For years in USA had the URSS (and viceversa), then URSS dissapeared and three years later it was Irak,
Ah yes, the United Republic of Soviet States. They were truly an incredible enemy. Remember when they launched a theremin guided tesla space coil at Atlanta and it turned everyone into an ape for 10 days? Or when they landed on Mars only to find an ancient race of rock-based life who beat them back with mud weapons? Or when Kennedy and Khruschev fought each other telepathically on national television to win control over the the Fidel Castro android that was running Cuba?
Oh man, don't get me started on Irak. Lord Irak himself killed my grandfather in a electric sword duel. Those were the days...
have done this. You can shoot US soldiers in Battlefield if you play the other team. In fact, I prefer playing the MEC in BF2 because the sniper weapon is just better. Not sure why this is news, other than getting censorship blowhards and right-wing nuts agitated. I'm sure we'll see this on Fox News tonight wrapped in a typical "Are liberals to blame" bullshit.
Buzz! learn how to read. I said like Chrome, which means that the update is done in the background with zero user intervention. I thought this was obvious but I guess the low reading comprehension contrarian nitpick brigade is in full force today.
Microsoft does offer these vendors Windows Update. Heck, a few years ago Adobe was using it for a critical exploit. If you run WSUS or System Center you can see that MS goes out of its way for third-party updates.
Turns out Adobe and Sun have a 'not invented here' problem with using MS.
>Oh, and by the way, Microsoft, your fucking browser still sucks and is still atrociously insecure. Shape up, Redmond.
Really? Care to point to some statistics showing me big holes in IE9 that are actively used by malware?
Not much out there. Oh, there's no shortage of Java, Flash, and Adobe Reader holes, and according to stats lifted from crimepacks those are the ones used.
I just looked at that stats on my website. 90% of those users have Java installed. How many of those are the latest version? Maybe 50% Most of the flash installs are not the latest version. Who knows what version of Reader they have.
Plugin security is a nightmare right now. Blame Sun and Adobe for not having autoupdaters like Chrome does for Flash. Joe User has no idea what he's doing with a computer. Blaming MS isn't really helping him.
>If you think theres no compelling difference between the CPU-bound USB 3.0 and what is essentially an external PCIe connector
Don't confuse merit with popularity/cheapness.
Firewire was the superior standard 10 years ago and USB killed it. Non-tech savvy consumers will shake their heads at Thunderbolt (silly name) and demand the "new" USB. They'll say they have lots of USB stuff and it needs to go faster. The tech geek in their family will be talking up USB 3.
Its impossible to predict the future, but the merits of Thunderbolt may not save it from economic extinction. I don't see Apple approved connectors making much way outside of the Apple world. Displayport anyone?
I'm not taking sides. I just make sure whatever I buy has an eSATA port.
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Actually, the article is a little sensationalist. I just looked at the password file. About 2/3rds of the passwords are decent. Long, not 100% obvious, mix of numbers & characters, etc. I was expecting more of an 80/20 ratio of crap vs decent and I was really surprised. Also kudos to the guy who uses "707294en14.SmMeG"
That said, I see a pattern of lots of numerical 6 and 7 digit passwords. They don't look like phone or postal codes. I'm guessing that their password reset tool picked 6 or 7 random numbers and people never changed them. Still better than 'password' or 'princess.'
The X-box is a triple core machine. I imagine that certain tasks are done per core and single-cores can cause performance issues.
So infinite humans, no problem? Your incredibly naive if you think human life is sustainable at any comfortable levels past a certain amount of people.
Here's an example. Ehrlich's time was the 60s and 70s. Back then an American could work ONE JOB and OWN A HOME AND AFFORD TWO CARS AND A FAMILY.
Fast forward to today and myself and everyone I know is a working couple who can barely afford the things people in the 60s and 70s middle class people had. We've cut back on driving because gas is so expensive. Our food costs have almost doubled since 2003 or so. Competition for jobs is so fierce that companies are now offering to pay less than they did before. Vacation days are nothing compared to what other western countries get. Healthcare is a coin-toss on whether anything I get gets covered. The real cost of basic utilities is high. etc.
Most of those issues have to do with how expensive it is to extract resources for the earth and how expensive it is to buy those resources because market demands raise their cost.
30 years from now, you'll be living in some 300 sq ft box, working full time, and eating gruel and still refusing to believe that population affects lifestyle.
Sadly, its probably too late to do anything. Imagine getting a one child per couple policy in the US with our puritanical roots and "family" above all else policies and culture. Compare China to India. Both were just as poor not too long ago, but one has a wildly expanding population while the other put in a one child per couple policy. Guess which one will be tomorrow's world leader?
Depends on your definition of safety. Right now I can go and buy as much socially acceptable poison as I like (alcohol). If we use alcohol as a metric than ecstasy should far into the same category.
Also weed isn't safe either if we're going to be overly critical. Some people get panic attacks or paranoia and inhaling smoke cant be good for you in the long run.
Of course, compared to cigarettes they both are incredibly healthy.
Right, because its the currencies' issue. Its not like I've ever bought bags upon bags of pot with dollars and euros.
What would be surprising would be currency that wasn't ever used for illicit things. It doesn't and will never exist. Especially with conservative philosophies that don't let us decrim or legalize mostly safe things like pot or ecstasy.
Open your eyes, all these guys are doing is playing up "War on Drugs" bullshit so they can get larger budgets next year so that a SWAT team can no-knock your home and shoot you when you try to defend yourself thinking you're being robbed.
Thats a pretty defeatist approach. Look at backpacks that fold open so you can scan your laptop without removing it.
If I presented that to you 10 years ago you'd think it was crazy and say "sheez just open the laptop bag."
Now I see professional travelers with these things at a rate of 80% or so. I have one also.
I don't see why the EM issue would be so difficult. Most of the changes would be trivial shielding and its not going to add that much when they are designing a new product.
Also its worth noting that this is not just a perk for passengers but a revenue stream for the airlines. I'd pay 15 dollars wireless if they allowed me to really use my laptop as opposed to keeping it locked up 50% of the time.
EM is probably something we're going to be looking at regardless. We're already replacing paper manuals with ipads. We're moving to a paperless society. This stuff is getting addressed now for a lot of equipment. Just make a spec companies can work off and let us make these machines.
Agreed. There's all sorts of evidence.
The real issue is why no one is partnering with the FAA to get low EMI laptops going. I could see this as a feature in business class laptops. I imagine if its overly shielded and can be controlled by onboard wireless commands to disable its wireless/bluetooth, etc it'll work just fine. Some will balk at how big brothery this would be, but others might not care because they just want to get some work done during that long "we're starting to descend soon" call the pilot makes which can take up to an hour.
Or we can start slowly by approving new shielded Kindles and Nooks.
I could even see ethernet on every arm-rest. That way you can have a shielded laptop doing zero wifi and still getting internet. One can dream, I guess.
Oh America, why don't you have high speed rail connecting everything?
To be fair, this is virtually true of every game. Somewhere there's a work/reward process at work. Its just a lot more obvious with MMOs. Even before the age of "achievements" (what a cynical term) we had level bosses and other things that made you think you were accomplishing something.
My problem with MMOs is how horribly stupid and dumbed down they are. Its the same old D&D/MUD mechanisms. Its so safe and balanced and kid-friendly. Everything is pretty much on a rail. Maybe EVE and others are different. A part of me is thinking of getting an EVE account, but I'm not very tolerant of grinding anymore.
>Greed has truly fucked up this countr
This country like all countries was built on greed. Nothing got worse lately, if anything, things are more regulated than ever.
I don't buy the whole 'idealizing the past' argument but it does get you mod points on slashdot.
Comments like yours just illustrate how art is subjective.
I love Moffat's work. Its incredible. The production is good too. The music you dislike, I feel is wonderful and cinematic. I find the stories incredibly engaging and the stories before Moffat's reign to be a bit of a cookie-cutter yawn-fest and drama that, frankly, just didn't work most of the time.
That said, I do find the show to be incredibly ridiculous and I'm not sure what 'gritty realism" people like you celebrate. Every episode of this show is incredibly shlocky. Its more "adult fairytales" than anything approaching sci-fi. I think Moffat understands this on a fundamental level and is really delivering the goods.
Yeah, that just outsourcing. It didn't work when they tried selling it to us as the solution for everything about 10 years ago and I don't see why its suddenly going to work now.
Before it was thin clients. Then thick clients. Then outsourcing. Then mobile devices. Then tablets. Now cloud services.
Who exactly is going to manage all your cloud based servers? Do these guys really expect some $8/hr amazon support monkey to manage your linux patches, fix bugs, write scripts, install applications, customize applications, etc.
If the cloud does anything, it just moves your server room to a different room off-site. You still need IT to make it do anything useful.
Funny. You might like this ipad comic I drew:
http://www.gentletentacle.com/2011/05/secret-of-his-success/
That model? The same exact model I have? The same one made by the thousands at Foxconn? I doubt it has any extra shielding or anything.
Airlines need to revise their rules. I dont see why I cant have an ebook on during take off and landing. And by "during" I mean 35 minutes before landing. Heck I'm okay for 5 or so minutes, but once it couldnt use it for an hour. That's also a problem.
I manage a WSUS environment and push out Adobe Flash and Reader updates every month via WSUS and System Center. You can yell "bullshit" all you want but that makes you an ignorant person and sadly, people like you just never learn because its easier to keep obsessing over your biases than admitting youre wrong and learning something new.
I'm responsible for more windows machines than I care to admit and we dont have this issue. I did see it at my old employer and after some investigation I found:
1. All the machines that got this had out of date Adobe Reader or Java plugins.
2. Or the end user installed it clicking yes at every warning prompt.
Most likely your plugin security isn't up to snuff. Stats released by Brian Krebs at his security blog show that crimepacks that use this exploit Java or Reader vulnerabilities 90% of the time, and the rest of the 10% is old patched browser or windows exploits.
That's a little like saying "Oh just run noscript or make disable the java plugin" in the Windows world. Most end user have no clue what "safe files" are or what any of what you wrote means.
Not to mention, any web based exploit can install this malware now. It runs purely in userland. Java exploits, flash exploits, browser exploits, etc open the gate for this malware. Today its the safe files in Safari, tomorrow its one of dozens of Java exploits.
Its simply easier for end users to do updates and buy an AV than to dick around with settings they don't remotely understand. To Apple's benefit they're usually good about software updates and also update Java (at least for now).
How about the comments in the last article from the fanboys screaming "BUT THEY NEED TO PUT IN THEIR PASSWORD UNLIKE SHITTY WINDOWS" and then modded up to +5 insightful.
Welcome to the new reality. I think they'll find that userland rights on any modern OS are pretty lenient and will allow for a great deal of scammy malware activities. Malware doesnt need to run in any system directory or open any low ports or anything.
Now is probably a good time to invest in OSX AV products.
Not to mention, Facebook's TOS is that you must use your real name when creating an account. If FB cared one whit about privacy it would let people uses aliases. It really is incredible how ghetto and scammy FB is with their tactics and policies.
>For years in USA had the URSS (and viceversa), then URSS dissapeared and three years later it was Irak,
Ah yes, the United Republic of Soviet States. They were truly an incredible enemy. Remember when they launched a theremin guided tesla space coil at Atlanta and it turned everyone into an ape for 10 days? Or when they landed on Mars only to find an ancient race of rock-based life who beat them back with mud weapons? Or when Kennedy and Khruschev fought each other telepathically on national television to win control over the the Fidel Castro android that was running Cuba?
Oh man, don't get me started on Irak. Lord Irak himself killed my grandfather in a electric sword duel. Those were the days...
have done this. You can shoot US soldiers in Battlefield if you play the other team. In fact, I prefer playing the MEC in BF2 because the sniper weapon is just better. Not sure why this is news, other than getting censorship blowhards and right-wing nuts agitated. I'm sure we'll see this on Fox News tonight wrapped in a typical "Are liberals to blame" bullshit.
Buzz! learn how to read. I said like Chrome, which means that the update is done in the background with zero user intervention. I thought this was obvious but I guess the low reading comprehension contrarian nitpick brigade is in full force today.
Microsoft does offer these vendors Windows Update. Heck, a few years ago Adobe was using it for a critical exploit. If you run WSUS or System Center you can see that MS goes out of its way for third-party updates.
Turns out Adobe and Sun have a 'not invented here' problem with using MS.
>Oh, and by the way, Microsoft, your fucking browser still sucks and is still atrociously insecure. Shape up, Redmond.
Really? Care to point to some statistics showing me big holes in IE9 that are actively used by malware?
Not much out there. Oh, there's no shortage of Java, Flash, and Adobe Reader holes, and according to stats lifted from crimepacks those are the ones used.
I just looked at that stats on my website. 90% of those users have Java installed. How many of those are the latest version? Maybe 50% Most of the flash installs are not the latest version. Who knows what version of Reader they have.
Plugin security is a nightmare right now. Blame Sun and Adobe for not having autoupdaters like Chrome does for Flash. Joe User has no idea what he's doing with a computer. Blaming MS isn't really helping him.
>If you think theres no compelling difference between the CPU-bound USB 3.0 and what is essentially an external PCIe connector
Don't confuse merit with popularity/cheapness.
Firewire was the superior standard 10 years ago and USB killed it. Non-tech savvy consumers will shake their heads at Thunderbolt (silly name) and demand the "new" USB. They'll say they have lots of USB stuff and it needs to go faster. The tech geek in their family will be talking up USB 3.
Its impossible to predict the future, but the merits of Thunderbolt may not save it from economic extinction. I don't see Apple approved connectors making much way outside of the Apple world. Displayport anyone?
I'm not taking sides. I just make sure whatever I buy has an eSATA port.