You underestimate how much a lawyer costs. That $341,000 you estimate they've gotten from this might cover the cost of one lawyer for six months to a year.
Considering that these "thieves" are a sizable fraction of their potential customer base, I'd be worried about lost business.
To extend your example:
If fifteen percent of the people entering your store shoplift something, do you just spend your time throwing them out, or do you consider that there might be something wrong with the way your business operates?
There are too ways to avoid easy to guess passwords:
(1) more entropy per character (2) long low entropy passwords
Your solution is (2)? Fine. You want to force people to use solution (2)? You're an asshole. A high-entropy 8 character password has great security (94^8 = 6e+15).
Which is easier to remember, "Low entropy rocks!", or "s8%hJ`;Q"?
11 occurrences of my/. ID, one occurrence of my ICQ number, and fortunately, my Social Security number isn't in there.
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Voice recognition can by bypassed by a $10 piece of technology known as a "tape recorder".
And it can fail to recognize a valid user if they happen to have a sore throat.
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Speaking as a cracker, I say "Yes! Short passwords! The shorter the better!"
As a sysadmin, though, I feel longer passwords are better. If systems supported it, I'd require medium-long sentences for passwords. A full sentence is fairly easy to remember, but not very vulnerable to a dictionary attack.
What I would like to know is why more research isn't being done on artificial gravity. So many of the health problems encountered in LEO gravity cound be sidestepped if you just spin the damn craft.
Coriolis forces and differential gravity. In order for you to not get dizzy from simply standing up, a spinning habitat with a 1G environment needs to be almost a mile in diameter.
for a while, whenever i do a search, i haven't found relevant results on the first search page, sometimes the second will have something useful. specially when searching for hardware or manuals for devices.
My technique is to either search by manufacturer name to find the website of the manufacturer, then search on that site by product name, or to search by product identification number.
Perhaps the government should be looking at why it is that we have so many painkiller-addicted people in the first place. We have a $ystem that encourages doctors to pump people full of pills, rather than take more time-intensive solutions such as actually developing a long-term plan to treat the underlying sources of pain and illness.
We also have a system that doesn't consider pain as being something worth taking seriously. Consequently, if you need powerful painkillers, the easiest way to get them is from one of these unlicensed pharmacies.
I'm running a copy of SAproxy on my home computer. For a lifetime fee of $1, I will filter incoming e-mail and mark suspected spam, if you are able to connect to my computer. I guess that'd make me an internet access service.
Sure there are always the experts that like the challenge of doing the impossible. Those are not the people DRM is designed for.
On the contrary, these are exactly the people DRM is designed for. DRM protection of content gives them the challenge of breaking the DRM. Who else benefits? Not the average consumer -- if the DRM is properly implemented, they won't notice a difference, and if it isn't, they will be inconvenienced. Pirates won't benefit -- there's always the analog hole. The companies won't benefit -- analog hole again.
Actually, the technical term is "Management by Piles", and it's a valid (if not widely accepted) way of organizing things. People with good visual-spatial memories usually do quite well with this technique (It's in this stack, about a third of the way down -- here you go!).
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But once you start talking about warez, they'll pull the morality crown on you.
What about warezed copies of Windows? Or are those just called "pointless"?
You underestimate how much a lawyer costs. That $341,000 you estimate they've gotten from this might cover the cost of one lawyer for six months to a year.
Considering that these "thieves" are a sizable fraction of their potential customer base, I'd be worried about lost business.
To extend your example:
If fifteen percent of the people entering your store shoplift something, do you just spend your time throwing them out, or do you consider that there might be something wrong with the way your business operates?
There are too ways to avoid easy to guess passwords:
(1) more entropy per character
(2) long low entropy passwords
Your solution is (2)? Fine. You want to force people to use solution (2)? You're an asshole. A high-entropy 8 character password has great security (94^8 = 6e+15).
Which is easier to remember, "Low entropy rocks!", or "s8%hJ`;Q"?
Personal questions, unless the answer is worded in a personal way, can be researched. Bad idea.
11 occurrences of my /. ID, one occurrence of my ICQ number, and fortunately, my Social Security number isn't in there.
Voice recognition can by bypassed by a $10 piece of technology known as a "tape recorder".
And it can fail to recognize a valid user if they happen to have a sore throat.
Speaking as a cracker, I say "Yes! Short passwords! The shorter the better!"
As a sysadmin, though, I feel longer passwords are better. If systems supported it, I'd require medium-long sentences for passwords. A full sentence is fairly easy to remember, but not very vulnerable to a dictionary attack.
Quoth: Final image file size: 2,068,654,055 bytes
How big would that be as a JPEG?
I have a trash can in my office that my girlfriend loves to throw all my important documents in.
Which important documents? The ones from Playboy?
So you're saying that exponential growth can be sustained forever?
I made extensive use of a calculator in my Calculus 3 class -- I spent most of each class period playing Minesweeper. (I finished the class with an A)
3 to 3.5 Gs, unless the Russian rockets are a lot harder on their occupants than US rockets are.
What I would like to know is why more research isn't being done on artificial gravity. So many of the health problems encountered in LEO gravity cound be sidestepped if you just spin the damn craft.
Coriolis forces and differential gravity. In order for you to not get dizzy from simply standing up, a spinning habitat with a 1G environment needs to be almost a mile in diameter.
for a while, whenever i do a search, i haven't found relevant results on the first search page, sometimes the second will have something useful. specially when searching for hardware or manuals for devices.
My technique is to either search by manufacturer name to find the website of the manufacturer, then search on that site by product name, or to search by product identification number.
Perhaps the government should be looking at why it is that we have so many painkiller-addicted people in the first place. We have a $ystem that encourages doctors to pump people full of pills, rather than take more time-intensive solutions such as actually developing a long-term plan to treat the underlying sources of pain and illness.
We also have a system that doesn't consider pain as being something worth taking seriously. Consequently, if you need powerful painkillers, the easiest way to get them is from one of these unlicensed pharmacies.
I'm running a copy of SAproxy on my home computer. For a lifetime fee of $1, I will filter incoming e-mail and mark suspected spam, if you are able to connect to my computer. I guess that'd make me an internet access service.
College students are the ones who tend to have the time for it, just like college students are often the major contributers to open-source projects.
Gee. My definition of "Massively Multiplayer" is any game big enough that you can't comfortably fit everyone into a single adventuring party.
The Proxomitron does #3 -- with the side benefit of letting me view images that people have hotlinked from Geocities and other free hosting providers.
Sure there are always the experts that like the challenge of doing the impossible. Those are not the people DRM is designed for.
On the contrary, these are exactly the people DRM is designed for. DRM protection of content gives them the challenge of breaking the DRM. Who else benefits? Not the average consumer -- if the DRM is properly implemented, they won't notice a difference, and if it isn't, they will be inconvenienced. Pirates won't benefit -- there's always the analog hole. The companies won't benefit -- analog hole again.
Which 51st state is that?
Actually, the technical term is "Management by Piles", and it's a valid (if not widely accepted) way of organizing things. People with good visual-spatial memories usually do quite well with this technique (It's in this stack, about a third of the way down -- here you go!).
My legos are currently stored in four 25-gallon bins, waiting for me to settle down in one place long enough to do some serious building.
There are one or two submitted every April 1.
RFCs are the standards mechanism for the Internet, and have been since the beginning. There's no need for additional effort to give them credibility.