VbyV is not quite right. In my experience VbyV and I have a single shared secret which must be completely uttered as verification. One phish and you are lost.
HSBC has a much more robust method for using a shared secret. They ask for three digits of our shared secret number, as in "enter the second, fourth, and last digits of your pass number". They change the digit selection every few minutes, so any man-in-the-middle or key-logging phish is almost immediately useless. A minimum length secret of 7 digits allows 35 different challenges. This is sufficient for even a very simple backend process to detect attempted misuse.
My experience is limited to the UK. HSBC is not the most joined-up outfit I ever dealt with, so YMMV. -- Never build a computer more wicked than yourself.
Don't DAT tapes suffer the same problems with all spooled magnetic media:
1) print-through - magnetic patterns drift across adjacent layers of the spool;
2) cinching, if not kept at constant temperature? thermal-induced expansion causes slack in the middle of a spool, then contraction causes the tapes to fold and form creases that interfere with playback.
Twenty years ago I was maintaining an engineering inspection data archive on half-inch reels - read-test-rewind every three months, copy to new tape every three years, keep the last two copies. The inspected equipment is still in operation. The archive was only about 30 Gigabytes, so there are many ways it could be stored safely now. -- Nuclear engineering isn't rocket science, either.
Several of my immediate family can't be bothered to appreciate the traffic around us, so I have had to start shouting "Busy!" when I need to concentrate on driving. They seem to have learned to be quiet and not distract me at these times.
I do not think that I would ever want to be a passenger when one of them was driving. -- Slashdot: When News Breaks, We Give You The Pieces
I want the future where "resurrection" is a medical specialty.
as a tag line. Perhaps you have not read the first chapter of "Distress" by Greg Egan. He presents a version of resurrection that few of us would wish on ourselves, our friends, or even our enemies. -- Complex numbers are magical - the real and the imaginary mixed together.
... the name someone at MS gave to the HPFS file system driver, as used in OS/2.
It was in NT 3.51, but not NT 4.0, and OS/2 users were advised to get a copy from an NT 3.51 installation kit if they wanted to dual boot NT 4.0 and OS/2. Advice from a newsgroup somewhere, somewhen.
Human memory is an unreliable resource, so please correct me if I am (now) wrong.
...ashes that have remnants of the victims DNS...
on
The Future of ReiserFS
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... he just happened to be wearing a Lunar Module over his space suit.
The words of Buzz Aldrin as the Apollo 11 Lunar Module approached the lunar surface:
Light's on. Down 2 1/2... forward, forward. Good. 40 feet, down 2 1/2. Picking up some dust. 30 feet, 2 1/2 down. Faint shadow. Four forward, drifting to the right a little. Forward...drifting right...contact light. OK, engine stop. ACA out of detent. Mode controls both auto. Descent engine command override off. Engine arm off. 413 is in.
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VbyV is not quite right. In my experience VbyV and I have a single shared secret which must be completely uttered as verification. One phish and you are lost.
HSBC has a much more robust method for using a shared secret. They ask for three digits of our shared secret number, as in "enter the second, fourth, and last digits of your pass number". They change the digit selection every few minutes, so any man-in-the-middle or key-logging phish is almost immediately useless. A minimum length secret of 7 digits allows 35 different challenges. This is sufficient for even a very simple backend process to detect attempted misuse.
My experience is limited to the UK. HSBC is not the most joined-up outfit I ever dealt with, so YMMV.
--
Never build a computer more wicked than yourself.
In your tag line you stated "605413? Yes, it's a prime."
Base 10 and base 16, yes, but not base 8, where 605143 = 5 * 115717.
Just being pedantic, as to be expected of a slashdot user.
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I'm really a nice guy. If I had friends, they would tell you.
A stupid question is better than a stupid answer.
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How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
Acoustic couplers?
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Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known, but not here.
Sounds like Theo could use a good moderator to preview and edit his communications.
Any voluteers to be his PA?
--
Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
Don't DAT tapes suffer the same problems with all spooled magnetic media:
1) print-through - magnetic patterns drift across adjacent layers of the spool;
2) cinching, if not kept at constant temperature? thermal-induced expansion causes slack in the middle of a spool, then contraction causes the tapes to fold and form creases that interfere with playback.
Twenty years ago I was maintaining an engineering inspection data archive on half-inch reels - read-test-rewind every three months, copy to new tape every three years, keep the last two copies. The inspected equipment is still in operation. The archive was only about 30 Gigabytes, so there are many ways it could be stored safely now.
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Nuclear engineering isn't rocket science, either.
Several of my immediate family can't be bothered to appreciate the traffic around us, so I have had to start shouting "Busy!" when I need to concentrate on driving. They seem to have learned to be quiet and not distract me at these times.
I do not think that I would ever want to be a passenger when one of them was driving.
--
Slashdot: When News Breaks, We Give You The Pieces
ISTR Vista is not ready for systems based on 64 bit Intel/AMD processors. They still come with XP.
You may have to shop around to find one.
You have been using
I want the future where "resurrection" is a medical specialty.
as a tag line. Perhaps you have not read the first chapter of "Distress" by Greg Egan.
He presents a version of resurrection that few of us would wish on ourselves, our friends, or even our enemies.
--
Complex numbers are magical - the real and the imaginary mixed together.
Thinkpad users can keep their fingers in position.
There is a desktop solution available, too:
http://www.pckeyboard.com/pdf/Onthestick.pdf
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No one ever got fired for buying Lenovo. Or something like that...
Fixed it for you: "Don't get caught doing anything evil that loses money"
... nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
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Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
Try Opera - Press F12, select "Block all pop-ups" or "Block unwanted pop-ups".
[How does it decide which ones are 'wanted'?]
Try telling that to the Kyoto supporters.
Well, son of a beach!
Got them moderator blues I blieve I walk out the do', With these mod-points I been gettin', I 'most never post no mo'
1. Go to 'Preferences', then 'Homepage',
2. Uncheck the "Willing to Moderate" box,
3. No more mod-points for you.
Dumb people tend to get fat.
... the name someone at MS gave to the HPFS file system driver, as used in OS/2.
It was in NT 3.51, but not NT 4.0, and OS/2 users were advised to get a copy from an NT 3.51 installation kit if they wanted to dual boot NT 4.0 and OS/2. Advice from a newsgroup somewhere, somewhen.
Human memory is an unreliable resource, so please correct me if I am (now) wrong.
so the police can reconstruct her ip address.
One of their competitors is the German supermarket chain named LIDL.
The LIDL supermarkets are smaller, but I rather like their products.
LIDL really does help me. Thanks for reminding me, Tesco.
... he just happened to be wearing a Lunar Module over his space suit.
The words of Buzz Aldrin as the Apollo 11 Lunar Module approached the
lunar surface:
Light's on.
Down 2 1/2... forward, forward. Good.
40 feet, down 2 1/2. Picking up some dust.
30 feet, 2 1/2 down. Faint shadow.
Four forward, drifting to the right a little.
Forward...drifting right...contact light.
OK, engine stop. ACA out of detent. Mode controls both auto.
Descent engine command override off. Engine arm off. 413 is in.
Won't that be grand? Computers and the programs will start thinking and the people will stop. - Dr. Walter Gibbs
Tell the computers to hurry.
#ifdefDEBUG + "world/enough" + "time"
Hola, gringo! Mexico is in the Americas.
Microsoft never *released* a 64 bit version of NT on Alpha. Compared to any other Alpha operating system (that is, Tru64 or VMS), NT was crippled.
Toward the end, RAH was so famous that nobody would edit his copy, not even correct the spelling.
There were some good novellas lurking in his final few door-stoppers.
And yes, I have read RAH serials in Astounding, and all the sad long stuff that came toward the end.