It's not acceptable to store passwords in plaintext. Mostly you just store a hash, if the user forgets a pass, reset it and email a new password and allow them to change it if the policy allows it.(many times you have a manager complain how everyone is complaining "passwords should be easier to remember" and people want to use their old passwords, mostly a repeat of their login or a variant on that. Which creates a weak entrypoint into your system)
The idea behind it is, that if someone hacks your system or somehow gains access to your database, it's still some work to discover the passwords if you use a known Hash algorithm (brute force or rainbow table required). I often use a proven Hash-method and add some flavour -obscure scrambling- to mislead anyone trying to break the passwords; if you don't know wherever or how the hash is scrambled or you don't see a familiour form you cannot piece it back together or try to crack it.
The only trick would be to keep the anchor in orbit, less it become an Earthly anchor while you're climbing the rope.
The trick is to spin the earth fast enough so the rope will be kept in space under the centrifuge force. You only have to put some sortof breaking system on the rope so you don't fly from earth. Hence the function of the rope.
Its not like to could tell Hitler 'no' if you wanted to live.
Ofcourse not. But at that time many Germans worked for their fürher, thinking their were superiour. They were being quite "patriotic" and chauvenistic, as Americans tend to be. Though a lot of scientists having committed war-crimes have been protected by the USA to understand the [rocket] technology the Germans had created. Russia had to do it with the scraps of what remained. So you cannot say it was 100% American technology that brought you to the moon, far from it... And thus no reason to be all chauvenistic about it. It was -if Armstrong actually set foot on the moon- a great achievement, but it didn't sprout just from US minds. It originated in German minds.
The men who actually landed on the moon would bitch slap you right out of your parents basement for making such a retarded comment.
Wouldn't that be an emotional reaction (which has been seen before), opposed to start a dialogue and bringing actually something insightful to the discussion/doubt? Explain to me why it would be so "retarded", instead of trying to "slap" into in me. I mean, being slapped doesn't provide any proof other then forcing a view onto the slapped one with force not with reason.
And FYI I have my own house, and my life isn't quite hermit like here in Europe where American media doesn't reach me as directly or isn't trying to manipulate me.
Building on your "living in your parents basement" sortof thinking, I conclude you're just a high-school kid. Let me tell you, you wont come far with beating stuff into people (meetings and seminars would be more fun though, but mostly those with the least intelligent things to say speak the most anyway) but by articulating your thoughts and beliefs. And you'll come across people disagreeing with you. That's life. You cannot make everyone think like you or adjust to your beliefs. And no one is ever going to come up to you "say, what you said really made sense" or "that really made me think and look deeper into the matter" after you "bitch slapped him silly" telling him or her what they should take as "real" or absolute truth. Don't ever think you yourself hold absolute truth, because noone does in the same way noone is more or less then anyone else.
What about the middle button-click on the tab? (mostly using the clickable scrollbutton on your mouse)
It took a bit of adjustment, but middleclicking a link to open it in a new tab is really easy; in the case of slashdot I just load the comments I want to read, or the article while I browse on until I decide to go more in depth or reply without losing where you were.
When finished, I just middle-click the tab. It dramatically speeds up the browsing experience if you're used to using your mouse alot. (once I'm actually with both hands on my keyboard I tend to switch to keyboard shortcuts. But it's tedious to get to the right links using TAB)
I can assume that a code-monkey who spends his time writing the latest and greatest new program can maybe concentrate on his job at hand for a few hours before dealing with emails.
I write code for a living. My mail-box has typical content like:
Customer X has problems with a new bug. Please fix.
I added a bug, please check bugtracker
FEAUTURE REQUEST! I'd like gizmo special ultra -requires massive redesign- by tomorrow. I saw it somewhere and want it too -Boss
Meeting at xx/xx/xx about new planned software. Prepare visualizations and analys.
Manual needed for program in alpha fase. Can you write it? I don't have time for it, too busy on support.
We wont buy and implement the Novell meta-database. You were on the meeting with Novell, can you make something with the same functionality? Make an analys asap, so we can discuss it.
I'm still waiting for the update. Customer is growing impatient, CANT YOU JUST QUICKLY UPDATE THE INSTALLER?
Can you put down a description of the issues we adressed in last meeting? So we can approve the core idea's before you start coding.
BUG FOUND!! (bug proves to be user configuration-error, described in manual)
I know product X-version 4 seems to be near completion. But I we might migrate to Linux. I know at first we wanted to use ASP.NET v2.0 (did you use that?) But would it be much work to translate it into PHP? We could cut license-costs that way. These things shouldn't be too hard to translate.
What's the status on program xzy? The deadline is closing.
In the meeting we discussed the use case where a new database could solve the problem. Can you design the database, so we can decide to go with it or to drop it? You can skip the specific columns to save time, just make sure you have all the 100 tables we brainstormed about and keep flexibility so we can expand if needed. Can this be done by next week? It would be clearer if you'd explain each table again as a reference.
Trust me, I often don't get around coding as much as I'd want to myself.
But I can verify from personal experience that abuse can be overcome and you can become a healthy adult.
Ofcourse. I never wanted to state it was impossible. For many its hard to get over the experience, but they do not end up in a miserable life persé.
I've had a few friends who've been sexually abused as a child (generally more girls as boys) and they all indeed struggle with the things you listed. (Some would just weave it off, others would just go into a regressive child-like state when something triggered a memory to the events. Triggers could be very subtle). My point was morely that it cannot be considered accepted behaviour.
It doesn't mean everyone who's attracted to solely children should commit suicide, but I believe they shouldn't be act on it with a child. (as you write, you say yourself the abuser reasoned himself into thinking it was consensual). You just can't make them a "discriminated" group who has rights to engage into (love/sexual) relationships with children.
... how this new type (spammers, mailflooders, scriptkiddies, 'hackers', scammers,...) of jail-citizen are welcomed and threated.
I often read these kindof things and wonder wherever punishment isn't tooo hard on cybercrime, if you compare the crimes committed to equal the sentence time. It appears out of proportion to me.
In this case one can argue it's a "conspiracy against the government" or a plot to "attack the US infrastructure". However, I doubt the guy ever planned to start some sortof war with the government, other then showing his discontent or something like that.
It doesn't really matter how I think about this specific case, but it makes me wonder to what computer crime (and the definition thereof) compares to other crimes? I can see the scammers being up there with fraud, no argue. But I'm sure about the others.
Poor man. Move to The Netherlands or something... They have like all sorts of freedoms.(that party just disgusses me beyond words and it's beyond comprehension really were a party wants to legalize pedophilia)
I know you're being funny though, but I don't really care about about some guy being a virgin who masturbates frustrated (heck, that's 99% of slashdot. I'm in the 1% percentile fyi). But I do care about a child who got abused and has a warped image of the world and is traumatized to a point where life is unpleasant to unbearable. (Mostly social related, as unability to trust, acquire intimacy or maintain a healthy relationship and that kindof thing)
I long just used a cellphone for texting and phoning. Just recently got a Nokia 3120 from my provider. (as my phone was outdated. So they offered a new cellphone able to operate on their renewed network) but now also enjoy some Java games on my phone as well or the organizer.
I don't want a touch screen. In fact, that is the precise antithesis of what I want.
Not present
I want a cell phone that has few to no menus. I want to be able to operate it without looking, by feeling the keypad.
it's my first Nokia, but the menu's are always very simular on all Nokia's I've found. There's also one screen where one can place shortcuts to common tasks. This significantly reduces the need to scroll and interact with the menu's present.
With all cellphones I've used, I've found that quite quickly I've adopted to blindly type and operate the phone. These all had however a pretty standard 1-*0# keypads with the 5-key accented to orient without a creative interpretation and positioning of keys.
I generally start every action with unlocking the keyboard (left upper key, *) followed by going to shortcuts (right upper key) or using the center button (up=contacts descending, down=contacts ascending, left=textmessage, right=organizer) or dubble hit the green phone (1st hit opens last calls, second hit on selected item phones number)
I don't care if the screen is even in colour, because I'm not going to be looking at it if I don't have to.
Valid point. I've found it a bit easier to the eyes and pleasant to add pictures to identify the caller. It's not necessary, but it's nice.
I also want to be able to connect it to my computer as a USB modem.
Possible, but it required me a 40 euro datacable. The phone lacks bleutooth, otherwise that'd be an already included feature.
Why do advanced races no longer need clothing in out shows? Would that mean people in nudist camps are onto something?:D
Well, clothing is considered an advanced sign of intelligence because animals do not wear clothes. Obviously because they are too stupid to make clothes and too primitive to feel shame and behave like beast. Humans have evolved so advancely beyond the point of growing their own clothes on their skin, and take pride in 2$ skin found in some sales.
I think the reason really is to create your ":D" and enthousiast reaction about some female body, and learn you to sit up and buy/watch/drool/whaterver when someone waves half to full nude females in front of you. In the process objectifying otherwise quite almost equally abled human people.
I'm not sure if a society would evolve beyond an parallel species to monkeys if everyone would be naked at all time. The proof of this is that nerd or geeks are generally the ones pushing technology, and at the very same time not getting any. Using their intellect to manipulate the world and objects rather then to manipulate or interact with the -social- environment to acquire a mating partner or to defy evolution induced boredom. As well all know, the more advanced and evolved your species, the more bored you get and the less tasks you master and are able to properly execute.
Now, on the matter of nudism; I haven't seen anyone naked launch anything that I would call evolutionary and intelligent...
It's kind of sad that kids today don't look up at the stars.
They can't with all the Light pollution Seriously, it's that bad.
I'm 24, and today I biked out into the fields (I have to bike 20km to get far enough from a quite tiny studentcity to get a small path of clear sky between blobs of light from the streets) and just was amazed at HOW MANY STARS there actually are visible to the naked eye, and wondered how it'd look like without light from the roads and what not.
I grew up just seeing the basic constellations, I've always grown up in regions where there's ALOT of light 24/7 and couldn't see any stars but the few of the clearest.
I haven't remembered the USA getting Bin Laden out of Iraq, Saddam isn't a terrorist! ha!
(The US is breeding terrorists of the future in Iraq right this instant though)
I just installed it, but there doesn't seem to be much more then the wiki? I tried the www.search.ano link, but the results are dissapointing. How do you find contents onthere?
I really believe that Macromedia might lose alot of its following to the Canvas tag once there's some software (fe. an "opensource webbased animation studio") to easily generate animations converted to Javascript in combination with the Canvas tag.
Wherever it'll be Macromedia themselves, or some individual...
Slashdot Mirror
Wouldn't it be more efficient to build a robot that somehow solves the problem at the root? The situation that gives you the need for a therapist?
Some suggestions, adjusted for the slashdot-crowd:It's not acceptable to store passwords in plaintext. Mostly you just store a hash, if the user forgets a pass, reset it and email a new password and allow them to change it if the policy allows it.(many times you have a manager complain how everyone is complaining "passwords should be easier to remember" and people want to use their old passwords, mostly a repeat of their login or a variant on that. Which creates a weak entrypoint into your system)
The idea behind it is, that if someone hacks your system or somehow gains access to your database, it's still some work to discover the passwords if you use a known Hash algorithm (brute force or rainbow table required). I often use a proven Hash-method and add some flavour -obscure scrambling- to mislead anyone trying to break the passwords; if you don't know wherever or how the hash is scrambled or you don't see a familiour form you cannot piece it back together or try to crack it.
heh, sounds like a contradiction
The trick is to spin the earth fast enough so the rope will be kept in space under the centrifuge force. You only have to put some sortof breaking system on the rope so you don't fly from earth. Hence the function of the rope.
Ofcourse not. But at that time many Germans worked for their fürher, thinking their were superiour. They were being quite "patriotic" and chauvenistic, as Americans tend to be. Though a lot of scientists having committed war-crimes have been protected by the USA to understand the [rocket] technology the Germans had created. Russia had to do it with the scraps of what remained. So you cannot say it was 100% American technology that brought you to the moon, far from it... And thus no reason to be all chauvenistic about it. It was -if Armstrong actually set foot on the moon- a great achievement, but it didn't sprout just from US minds. It originated in German minds.
Wouldn't that be an emotional reaction (which has been seen before), opposed to start a dialogue and bringing actually something insightful to the discussion/doubt? Explain to me why it would be so "retarded", instead of trying to "slap" into in me. I mean, being slapped doesn't provide any proof other then forcing a view onto the slapped one with force not with reason.
And FYI I have my own house, and my life isn't quite hermit like here in Europe where American media doesn't reach me as directly or isn't trying to manipulate me.
Building on your "living in your parents basement" sortof thinking, I conclude you're just a high-school kid. Let me tell you, you wont come far with beating stuff into people (meetings and seminars would be more fun though, but mostly those with the least intelligent things to say speak the most anyway) but by articulating your thoughts and beliefs. And you'll come across people disagreeing with you. That's life. You cannot make everyone think like you or adjust to your beliefs. And no one is ever going to come up to you "say, what you said really made sense" or "that really made me think and look deeper into the matter" after you "bitch slapped him silly" telling him or her what they should take as "real" or absolute truth. Don't ever think you yourself hold absolute truth, because noone does in the same way noone is more or less then anyone else.
I can see it now; "All in one graphic card. Now with easy to attach wheels to vacuum-clean other parts of your house too!"
Um... The Nazi's were the first on the moon. NASA was founded by Nazi's and Nazi scientists.
I got that from some old dusty documentary, but a search on google came up with this youtube video.
One learns every day
Thanks!
What about the middle button-click on the tab? (mostly using the clickable scrollbutton on your mouse)
It took a bit of adjustment, but middleclicking a link to open it in a new tab is really easy; in the case of slashdot I just load the comments I want to read, or the article while I browse on until I decide to go more in depth or reply without losing where you were.
When finished, I just middle-click the tab. It dramatically speeds up the browsing experience if you're used to using your mouse alot. (once I'm actually with both hands on my keyboard I tend to switch to keyboard shortcuts. But it's tedious to get to the right links using TAB)
Wow nice handling.
:)
No wonder I feel sometimes like I'm drowning in work
I tend to reply quickly, but perhaps not as efficient as you demonstrated.
I write code for a living. My mail-box has typical content like:
Trust me, I often don't get around coding as much as I'd want to myself.
Ah! BOB SAGET!
Ofcourse. I never wanted to state it was impossible. For many its hard to get over the experience, but they do not end up in a miserable life persé.
I've had a few friends who've been sexually abused as a child (generally more girls as boys) and they all indeed struggle with the things you listed. (Some would just weave it off, others would just go into a regressive child-like state when something triggered a memory to the events. Triggers could be very subtle). My point was morely that it cannot be considered accepted behaviour.
It doesn't mean everyone who's attracted to solely children should commit suicide, but I believe they shouldn't be act on it with a child. (as you write, you say yourself the abuser reasoned himself into thinking it was consensual). You just can't make them a "discriminated" group who has rights to engage into (love/sexual) relationships with children.
... how this new type (spammers, mailflooders, scriptkiddies, 'hackers', scammers, ...) of jail-citizen are welcomed and threated.
I often read these kindof things and wonder wherever punishment isn't tooo hard on cybercrime, if you compare the crimes committed to equal the sentence time. It appears out of proportion to me.
In this case one can argue it's a "conspiracy against the government" or a plot to "attack the US infrastructure". However, I doubt the guy ever planned to start some sortof war with the government, other then showing his discontent or something like that.
It doesn't really matter how I think about this specific case, but it makes me wonder to what computer crime (and the definition thereof) compares to other crimes? I can see the scammers being up there with fraud, no argue. But I'm sure about the others.
I know you're being funny though, but I don't really care about about some guy being a virgin who masturbates frustrated (heck, that's 99% of slashdot. I'm in the 1% percentile fyi). But I do care about a child who got abused and has a warped image of the world and is traumatized to a point where life is unpleasant to unbearable. (Mostly social related, as unability to trust, acquire intimacy or maintain a healthy relationship and that kindof thing)
I long just used a cellphone for texting and phoning. Just recently got a Nokia 3120 from my provider. (as my phone was outdated. So they offered a new cellphone able to operate on their renewed network) but now also enjoy some Java games on my phone as well or the organizer.
I don't want a touch screen. In fact, that is the precise antithesis of what I want.
Not present
I want a cell phone that has few to no menus. I want to be able to operate it without looking, by feeling the keypad.
it's my first Nokia, but the menu's are always very simular on all Nokia's I've found. There's also one screen where one can place shortcuts to common tasks. This significantly reduces the need to scroll and interact with the menu's present.
With all cellphones I've used, I've found that quite quickly I've adopted to blindly type and operate the phone. These all had however a pretty standard 1-*0# keypads with the 5-key accented to orient without a creative interpretation and positioning of keys.
I generally start every action with unlocking the keyboard (left upper key, *) followed by going to shortcuts (right upper key) or using the center button (up=contacts descending, down=contacts ascending, left=textmessage, right=organizer) or dubble hit the green phone (1st hit opens last calls, second hit on selected item phones number)
I don't care if the screen is even in colour, because I'm not going to be looking at it if I don't have to.
Valid point. I've found it a bit easier to the eyes and pleasant to add pictures to identify the caller. It's not necessary, but it's nice.
I also want to be able to connect it to my computer as a USB modem.
Possible, but it required me a 40 euro datacable. The phone lacks bleutooth, otherwise that'd be an already included feature.
I think you failed to notice the attempted -as you prove miserably failed- humor.
Why do advanced races no longer need clothing in out shows? Would that mean people in nudist camps are onto something? :D
Well, clothing is considered an advanced sign of intelligence because animals do not wear clothes. Obviously because they are too stupid to make clothes and too primitive to feel shame and behave like beast. Humans have evolved so advancely beyond the point of growing their own clothes on their skin, and take pride in 2$ skin found in some sales.
I think the reason really is to create your ":D" and enthousiast reaction about some female body, and learn you to sit up and buy/watch/drool/whaterver when someone waves half to full nude females in front of you. In the process objectifying otherwise quite almost equally abled human people.
I'm not sure if a society would evolve beyond an parallel species to monkeys if everyone would be naked at all time. The proof of this is that nerd or geeks are generally the ones pushing technology, and at the very same time not getting any. Using their intellect to manipulate the world and objects rather then to manipulate or interact with the -social- environment to acquire a mating partner or to defy evolution induced boredom. As well all know, the more advanced and evolved your species, the more bored you get and the less tasks you master and are able to properly execute.
Now, on the matter of nudism; I haven't seen anyone naked launch anything that I would call evolutionary and intelligent...
It's kind of sad that kids today don't look up at the stars.
They can't with all the Light pollution
Seriously, it's that bad.
I'm 24, and today I biked out into the fields (I have to bike 20km to get far enough from a quite tiny studentcity to get a small path of clear sky between blobs of light from the streets) and just was amazed at HOW MANY STARS there actually are visible to the naked eye, and wondered how it'd look like without light from the roads and what not.
I grew up just seeing the basic constellations, I've always grown up in regions where there's ALOT of light 24/7 and couldn't see any stars but the few of the clearest.
Google is as bad as Micromart, Wal-soft, and LOL.
Not to forget Mike Rowe, the bastard...
*shakes fist*
That made a permanent mental picture that I couldn't get rid of :(
They did already!
I haven't remembered the USA getting Bin Laden out of Iraq, Saddam isn't a terrorist! ha!
(The US is breeding terrorists of the future in Iraq right this instant though)
I just installed it, but there doesn't seem to be much more then the wiki? I tried the www.search.ano link, but the results are dissapointing. How do you find contents onthere?
I really believe that Macromedia might lose alot of its following to the Canvas tag once there's some software (fe. an "opensource webbased animation studio") to easily generate animations converted to Javascript in combination with the Canvas tag.
Wherever it'll be Macromedia themselves, or some individual...
Made me think about this fragment