I use one basic 7 character set which consists of letters and numbers. I modify that depending on a sites sensitivity by adding characters.
For example "mi2SSrs", for common sites and forums such as/. For technical sites where I download software I add a three letter prefix to the main. For webmail, I capitalize the three letter prefix. For online money transactions I capitalize the prefix and add a character such as ~ at the end. For my home ftp server login I add in the last 4 numbers of a high school girlfriends phone number.
All of these numbers and letters are also followed or preceded by license plate numbers and letters that I choose at random and memorize from cars off the freeway. That is changed quarterly.
Bios passwords and administrator logins are pass phrases at least 8 words long with a number set.
Now, that may sound like alot to remember, but I write down mnemonic clues starting with the lowest level of protection, and as security gets higher, each set gets words associated with the add on characters.
These clues are saved to a text file and a yellow "post-it" and labeled "Passwords". The text file goes into my home directory and the post it goes underneath the keyboard on the desktops. Good luck trying to log into anything based on what is written down.
However, after using this system for a few years, I can easily remember passwords up to 25 characters without worry about losing anything. Muscle memory plays a big part too.....(btw, all of the information posted here is true, however I intentionally mixed up the order of things)
California is part of America, and we make some very good wines here. The price of French wine has come down quite a bit because of competition from the U.S. as well as Australia.
From Wikipedia....
In addition to large scale wineries, Napa Valley's boutique wineries produce some of the world's best wines. The producers of these wines include but are not limited to: Araujo, Bryant Family, Colgin, Dalla Valle Maya, Diamond Creek, Dominus, Dunn Howell Mountain, Grace Family, Harlan, Husic, Kistler, Jericho Canyon Vineyards, Marcassin, Screaming Eagle, Shafer Hillside Select, Sine Qua Non and Vineyard 29.
Today Napa Valley features more than two hundred wineries and grows many different grape varieties including Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay, Merlot, Zinfandel, and other popular varietals. Napa Valley is visited by as many as five million people each year, making it the second most popular tourist destination in California, second only to Disneyland.
How big of a sample was used? Where was the study held?
Were the people being polled from a small isolated town in the bible belt or were they from one of the coastal areas?
In a country with 300 million people in it, if you ask 2000 people in an isolated area a question, that wouldn't really reflect the majority of the population, but I bet it would make great headlines......
I would guess that those numbers correspond to the number of users combined with the number of users who have no idea what computer security means.
How many people buy a computer without knowing how to use one safely? How many of those people buy a computer and run around on the internet as administrator?
Anytime you have a large number of users who do not understand or care to secure their computers, you will have higher numbers of those users who have been owned.
North Korea's chemical arsenal has been well known for DECADES.
Chemical weapons are EFFECTIVE....
Biological weapons on the other hand, not so much.
Bio-weapons are more FUD than anything else. With proper safeguards Biological weapons are easily countered.
Inoculations, hygiene, medical care, gas masks and chem suits will limit the usefulness of germs in warfare.
The great Spanish Influenza pandemic of 1918 killed between 50 and 100 million people. Poor sanitation and lack of health care, (not to mention the first World War), had a lot to do with that.
Germ warfare is scary, but is ultimately inconsequential compared to the horror of nerve gas.
Uranium will be an available fuel for quite some time. However... since reprocessing spent fuel in breeder reactors is a process that violates a number of international treaties the scarcity of nuclear fuel will be a self imposed and artificial shortage.
I won't even bring up developing technology that could be developed that could use Thorium as a safer alternative to the enrichment cycle....
Some of humanity's biggest problems are man made, and hopefully they can also be solved by mankind before we choke to death on the by-products of fossil fuels.
All of my passwords are liscense plate numbers from random cars I have been behind while on the freeway.
I either have a knack for remembering plates, or the fact that traffic does not move much during rush hour gives me plenty of time to memorize completely random letter and number combinations.
Given the correct approach to password security, using your own plate or your wifes plate would be a dumb idea, as well as cars that commonly appear in your parking lot at work.
First of all I can not believe anyone would consider using the internet for something as vital as emergency response team communication.
The second thought that popped into my head was a VERY big question. "If Telcos can get people to move away from a neutral internet, will more of my tax dollars be required to insure that the Telcos do not throttle communications during an emergency?"
I am trying to learn how to play the drums, and I do great as long as I don't have to play with another instrument.
I know I am supposed to be the timekeeper, but what I really need is something to help me keep time untill I can get the timing turned into muscle memory.
I need something that I can load onto an mp3 player, because simply using a mechanical metronome doesn't work because I drown it out.
Anything paid for by taxpayers is subjected to government scrutiny and control. Sooner or later the government agency in charge of the local wi-fi will start to exert control over what is defined as "obcene" or "offensive". When offensive material is found, it will be banned.
First thing will be "no child pr0n", followed by no "regular pr0n", followed by "no [whatever we feel is a bad thing]....
It will only take a few elections before who ever is in charge will decide what is deemed as "viewable".
Sooner or later the "opposition" will be "unviewable".
The government "SHOULD NOT BE" in control of any medium related to speech.
"Yeah, they really should be more considerate of the mentally challenged readers." Ha ha, see the funny troll.
Ummm, that was an exaggeration. Sorry it wasn't obvious enough for you.
I will say, the main reason I was taken by suprise about the format change was because I had set up my Slashdot Firefox extension to make all of the pages show up in the YRO color scheme.
I have not seen the Slashdot main page in the normal green for a LONG time. The complete change from the normal layout was VERY suprising. I had completely forgoten the look of the normal page.
Three years ago my girlfriend took her machine to a friend of hers to get it fixed. The guy installed a bootleg copy of XP on the machine, as well as an install of Norton AV.
When I had to clean the malware off, I noticed that there were no service packs, and the Norton had not been updated in over a year and a half.
I backed up all the pictures and work documents, then installed a legal version of Win2K Pro, Anti Vir, Clamwin, Firefox, spybot and Ad Aware.
The hardest part was convincing her to use her newly created user account. She did not like the idea of not having privledges on her own computer.
After alot of explaining, she agreed that maybe I knew a little bit more than she does about maintaining a computer. I had to give her the root password, but made her promise not to use it.
Now, the box has had no malware infections for over a year and a half. The only programs not useable by the user accounts are StarCraft, and Bit Commet. Neither of wich she cares to use.
The three different accounts all have different wallpaper, admin has a very large picture wich is predominantly red....signifying "stop", or "Danger". If she wants to start browsing, she checks to see if anything is running, and then shells out into her user account.
My user account has a wall paper picture wich is a green background with a Templar in blue and green hues...signifying "go", or "Safe."
Her account has a nice picture of the San Francisco wharf, taken from a boat. There is no way for her to infect this machine unless she does it maliciously. And even then, the I keylogger installed will probably help me figure out what she did, as well as when.
My GF recently recieved a new wireless laptop from the company she works for. The day she recieved it, she drove down to the Comp Usa in the middle of her territory and bought a WAP. Not just any WAP. Not a good WAP...
The kid working in the wireless networking aisle showed her a "Sleek, shiny, Blue Led on top, wireless router firewall thingy with Rangemax," Netgear router.
When she brought this thing home, I Googled it, and found out that half the people that bought it loved it, and the other half hated it. (Sounds like quality control issues to me).
Now, 4 days later, we are experiencing the worst half of the reviews...dropped sessions, unable to connect, can't create a VPN, and dead spots in the house.
I would never have bought this thing based on the reviews by customers, but she did not even research it. The kid at CompUSA told her it was shiny and sleek,and high powered, and she bought it.
After the huge pain in the butt configuring this thing, I am going to take it back and use the boxed unit to beat the salesman half to death in order to pay for the three hours of my life it took to configure the bloody thing.
I can not wait to relate the hoops I will have to jumpt through in order to get a refund on this thing.
I have never used linux, OR VMware. I am doing this to learn how linux works so when I build my next machine, I can dual boot it with Win2K, and turn my other box into a Raid.
I am not what I would consider a n00b, but seriously, I am on my 3rd attempt at an install and I am still having problems. I google, I google some more, and then I end up with 4 windows open, with 5 or more tabs open in each one.
I picked this distro because my brother in law uses it, so I figured if I used the same, I could get help. Just watching him try to install VMware tools on an unsupported distro (Fedora Core 4), was helpfull.
I have read hundreds of threads on linuxquestions, I have a big ass book on redhat AND linux, and yet there are still times when I have no idea what the fuck I am supposed to be doing.
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Disregard all that. I suck cock!
I use one basic 7 character set which consists of letters and numbers. I modify that depending on a sites sensitivity by adding characters.
/.
....(btw, all of the information posted here is true, however I intentionally mixed up the order of things)
For example "mi2SSrs", for common sites and forums such as
For technical sites where I download software I add a three letter prefix to the main.
For webmail, I capitalize the three letter prefix.
For online money transactions I capitalize the prefix and add a character such as ~ at the end.
For my home ftp server login I add in the last 4 numbers of a high school girlfriends phone number.
All of these numbers and letters are also followed or preceded by license plate numbers and letters that I choose at random and memorize from cars off the freeway. That is changed quarterly.
Bios passwords and administrator logins are pass phrases at least 8 words long with a number set.
Now, that may sound like alot to remember, but I write down mnemonic clues starting with the lowest level of protection, and as security gets higher, each set gets words associated with the add on characters.
These clues are saved to a text file and a yellow "post-it" and labeled "Passwords". The text file goes into my home directory and the post it goes underneath the keyboard on the desktops. Good luck trying to log into anything based on what is written down.
However, after using this system for a few years, I can easily remember passwords up to 25 characters without worry about losing anything. Muscle memory plays a big part too.
That is what metamoderation is for, to balance the offtopic and troll moderations.
California is part of America, and we make some very good wines here. The price of French wine has come down quite a bit because of competition from the U.S. as well as Australia.
From Wikipedia....
In addition to large scale wineries, Napa Valley's boutique wineries produce some of the world's best wines. The producers of these wines include but are not limited to: Araujo, Bryant Family, Colgin, Dalla Valle Maya, Diamond Creek, Dominus, Dunn Howell Mountain, Grace Family, Harlan, Husic, Kistler, Jericho Canyon Vineyards, Marcassin, Screaming Eagle, Shafer Hillside Select, Sine Qua Non and Vineyard 29.
Today Napa Valley features more than two hundred wineries and grows many different grape varieties including Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay, Merlot, Zinfandel, and other popular varietals. Napa Valley is visited by as many as five million people each year, making it the second most popular tourist destination in California, second only to Disneyland.
How big of a sample was used? Where was the study held?
Were the people being polled from a small isolated town in the bible belt or were they from one of the coastal areas?
In a country with 300 million people in it, if you ask 2000 people in an isolated area a question, that wouldn't really reflect the majority of the population, but I bet it would make great headlines......
And it's being done right now.....
I would guess that those numbers correspond to the number of users combined with the number of users who have no idea what computer security means.
How many people buy a computer without knowing how to use one safely? How many of those people buy a computer and run around on the internet as administrator?
Anytime you have a large number of users who do not understand or care to secure their computers, you will have higher numbers of those users who have been owned.
North Korea's chemical arsenal has been well known for DECADES.
Chemical weapons are EFFECTIVE....
Biological weapons on the other hand, not so much.
Bio-weapons are more FUD than anything else. With proper safeguards Biological weapons are easily countered.
Inoculations, hygiene, medical care, gas masks and chem suits will limit the usefulness of germs in warfare.
The great Spanish Influenza pandemic of 1918 killed between 50 and 100 million people. Poor sanitation and lack of health care, (not to mention the first World War), had a lot to do with that.
Germ warfare is scary, but is ultimately inconsequential compared to the horror of nerve gas.
I'll bet a dollar the account they used was the admin account.
Uranium will be an available fuel for quite some time. However... since reprocessing spent fuel in breeder reactors is a process that violates a number of international treaties the scarcity of nuclear fuel will be a self imposed and artificial shortage.
I won't even bring up developing technology that could be developed that could use Thorium as a safer alternative to the enrichment cycle....
Some of humanity's biggest problems are man made, and hopefully they can also be solved by mankind before we choke to death on the by-products of fossil fuels.
Actually, as much as I hate to say it, free speech is always allowed.
No one says you have to agree with it, and in the case of trolls like this, wait for the mods to bury it.
Then read at +3 or above if you don't want to see it.
The cheerleader link is broken. :(
All of my passwords are liscense plate numbers from random cars I have been behind while on the freeway.
I either have a knack for remembering plates, or the fact that traffic does not move much during rush hour gives me plenty of time to memorize completely random letter and number combinations.
Given the correct approach to password security, using your own plate or your wifes plate would be a dumb idea, as well as cars that commonly appear in your parking lot at work.
First of all I can not believe anyone would consider using the internet for something as vital as emergency response team communication.
The second thought that popped into my head was a VERY big question. "If Telcos can get people to move away from a neutral internet, will more of my tax dollars be required to insure that the Telcos do not throttle communications during an emergency?"
I am trying to learn how to play the drums, and I do great as long as I don't have to play with another instrument.
I know I am supposed to be the timekeeper, but what I really need is something to help me keep time untill I can get the timing turned into muscle memory.
I need something that I can load onto an mp3 player, because simply using a mechanical metronome doesn't work because I drown it out.
Any suggestions?
...."we need ludicrous speed".
How hard would it be for a manufacturer to install something like this Key Katcher! into a keyboard?
...and Police photography day should be every tuesday, thursday, saturday and sunday.
If you are going to watch me, then I think you need to be watched as well...
Free wi-fi is anything but free.
It is paid for by tax payers.
Anything paid for by taxpayers is subjected to government scrutiny and control. Sooner or later the government agency in charge of the local wi-fi will start to exert control over what is defined as "obcene" or "offensive". When offensive material is found, it will be banned.
First thing will be "no child pr0n", followed by no "regular pr0n", followed by "no [whatever we feel is a bad thing]....
It will only take a few elections before who ever is in charge will decide what is deemed as "viewable".
Sooner or later the "opposition" will be "unviewable".
The government "SHOULD NOT BE" in control of any medium related to speech.
I do not trust my government anymore....
"Yeah, they really should be more considerate of the mentally challenged readers."
Ha ha, see the funny troll.
Ummm, that was an exaggeration. Sorry it wasn't obvious enough for you.
I will say, the main reason I was taken by suprise about the format change was because I had set up my Slashdot Firefox extension to make all of the pages show up in the YRO color scheme.
I have not seen the Slashdot main page in the normal green for a LONG time. The complete change from the normal layout was VERY suprising. I had completely forgoten the look of the normal page.
I think some sort of warning would have been nice, I spent 3 minutes reloading before I figured out my browser wasn't hosed.
I think this new layout would not be on the top 100 list...
Three years ago my girlfriend took her machine to a friend of hers to get it fixed. The guy installed a bootleg copy of XP on the machine, as well as an install of Norton AV.
When I had to clean the malware off, I noticed that there were no service packs, and the Norton had not been updated in over a year and a half.
I backed up all the pictures and work documents, then installed a legal version of Win2K Pro, Anti Vir, Clamwin, Firefox, spybot and Ad Aware.
The hardest part was convincing her to use her newly created user account. She did not like the idea of not having privledges on her own computer.
After alot of explaining, she agreed that maybe I knew a little bit more than she does about maintaining a computer. I had to give her the root password, but made her promise not to use it.
Now, the box has had no malware infections for over a year and a half. The only programs not useable by the user accounts are StarCraft, and Bit Commet. Neither of wich she cares to use.
The three different accounts all have different wallpaper, admin has a very large picture wich is predominantly red....signifying "stop", or "Danger". If she wants to start browsing, she checks to see if anything is running, and then shells out into her user account.
My user account has a wall paper picture wich is a green background with a Templar in blue and green hues...signifying "go", or "Safe."
Her account has a nice picture of the San Francisco wharf, taken from a boat. There is no way for her to infect this machine unless she does it maliciously. And even then, the I keylogger installed will probably help me figure out what she did, as well as when.
Wake up.
If it can happen there, in can happen here in the U.S.A
For fucks sake, you need to tell your representatives that this is unacceptable.
My GF recently recieved a new wireless laptop from the company she works for. The day she recieved it, she drove down to the Comp Usa in the middle of her territory and bought a WAP. Not just any WAP. Not a good WAP...
The kid working in the wireless networking aisle showed her a "Sleek, shiny, Blue Led on top, wireless router firewall thingy with Rangemax," Netgear router.
When she brought this thing home, I Googled it, and found out that half the people that bought it loved it, and the other half hated it. (Sounds like quality control issues to me).
Now, 4 days later, we are experiencing the worst half of the reviews...dropped sessions, unable to connect, can't create a VPN, and dead spots in the house.
I would never have bought this thing based on the reviews by customers, but she did not even research it. The kid at CompUSA told her it was shiny and sleek,and high powered, and she bought it.
After the huge pain in the butt configuring this thing, I am going to take it back and use the boxed unit to beat the salesman half to death in order to pay for the three hours of my life it took to configure the bloody thing.
I can not wait to relate the hoops I will have to jumpt through in order to get a refund on this thing.
Stay tuned.
I have never used linux, OR VMware. I am doing this to learn how linux works so when I build my next machine, I can dual boot it with Win2K, and turn my other box into a Raid.
:)
I am not what I would consider a n00b, but seriously, I am on my 3rd attempt at an install and I am still having problems. I google, I google some more, and then I end up with 4 windows open, with 5 or more tabs open in each one.
I picked this distro because my brother in law uses it, so I figured if I used the same, I could get help. Just watching him try to install VMware tools on an unsupported distro (Fedora Core 4), was helpfull.
I have read hundreds of threads on linuxquestions, I have a big ass book on redhat AND linux, and yet there are still times when I have no idea what the fuck I am supposed to be doing.
This promises to be fun.