A subset with one limitation: changing it is very difficult.
Security is very simple in its needs (though it can certainly get complicated in implementation.
All you need is (3) "something you know". period. If it's not secure enough, you can make it longer.
Now, if you're talking about a multi-user environment, you need to segregate peoples areas of access, or at the very least log their activity so if the nutrient rich plant feed hits the fan, you at least know who to blame. That's where (1/2) "Something you are" (user name) comes in handy.
But you don't actually need a separate user name: your password hash could be your user name. It's just convenient to have plaintext names because it's easier grant and remove access to at least vaguely pronounceable, easy-to remember names.
The problem is lawyers (and capricious cops.) If you put in a "common sense" law like, Driving recklessly is illegal and results in a fine, you're going to have police who enforce it more strictly on some than on others, and you're going to have lawyers who claim that this ticket is a result of capricious enforcement, and anyway, the driver wasn't really driving recklessly.
The speed (and other) laws provide a precise definition of "reckless driving" for enforcement purposes. You might not be able to unambiguously declare that a person was driving at an "unsafe" speed (after all, how do you measure the probability that an accident will occur?), but you can objectively measure using several different methods whether they are exceeding some arbitrary limit.
They're not good laws. They're just the only laws we can all mostly agree on
Not really. It was interesting at one time, but by the time the MIT club was making its rounds, it had been solved for quite some time. The only really unique thing they did was to do it as a quasi-team effort, train as a team, and operate as a MIT club, with a faculty adviser (who was very poor with his advice*) and everything.
But more importantly, it really doesn't rise to the level of MIT interesting. The actual practice is just mechanical and rote, after all. There was never a question of whether or not it would work. Least of all the owners of the Casinos themselves (who even sell books on counting, knowing that few people have the discipline to pull it off)
*there shouldn't have been a club, because the theory is what's interesting at the MIT level, and that was well known. All that's left is the practice, and the practice was potentially very dangerous. At least they did it in Vegas, where the worst that can happen is to get banned from every casino in the network. As opposed to lower profile areas where they could potentially look forward to visits from the law offices of Bruiser, Slicer, Garrote and Gunn.
Have you ever actually done this? I imagine there's a proper order, such that if you do it the wrong way, you can't finish on account of the inability to see enough widgets to accomplish the task.
It's a way for "businesses" who can't even muster enough confidence from a bank to get an account with them, to still be able to "accept" credit cards.
But although you can do something that's very much like banking, with paypal, they are not, themselves, a bank. So they can get away with outrageous fees and also avoid any of the liability the CC banks have.
This is very much in line with Ebay's business practices: a classified-ad web site server which charges based on how much money changes hands rather than how much bandwidth & back-end processing you sop up.
You're getting free content, it has to be paid for somehow. All you really need of those four is noscript For the bits where noscript overlaps with adblock, you really shouldn't be blocking, anyway.
In any large organization, why are people using the c: drive (or local drive) at all? That's already silly from a backing-things-up point of view. There's nothing wrong with network drives for stuff people are working on and storing profiles similarly. People shouldn't be able to set other people's backgrounds any more than they should be able to log in as other people.
A halfway good admin might say that, but a good one wouldn't need to, because it wouldn't be possible.
Regardless, though, your last paragraph is mostly on. Pranks should be thermodynamically efficient: they should be 100% reversible by the prankster at any time, and the prankster should monitor the prank and end it if things look they might get out of hand. "I was gonna get you so good" is so much better to say than, "Those one point five million dollars in damages were worth it to see the look on your face."
Indeed. Although Pratchett wasn't the first to make that joke.
But more in the spirit of today, we should, as a society, build a <really big monument> as mysterious and long-lasting as possible, just to jerk around our long-off descendants.
The dark part of tall dark and handsome is because of the inversion of indoor-outdoor work habits: "common laborers" now work inside, becoming pasty white, while the idle rich have the time to spend luxuriating on the beach.
In other words, it's a physical indicator of bank account levels.
and I wonder if how managers juggle players around is really very helpful at all, beyond the obvious "get a couple guys on base before the slugger" plan.
The founders were struck by the same realization, which is why one of them said, "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
And I think that he may have believed that "from time to time" would be approximately once per generation.
Which is not to say that people should be on the lookout for revolution. Just not opposed to it when the need arises, and all of the better options have been thoroughly exhausted.
The usefulness of revolution is not in that it changes the regime for the better: it may not. It's that the new regime has to start from scratch. The problem is evolution. Namely that tyranny doesn't come all at once in a democracy. It piles on like plaque, and the deeper it gets, the harder it becomes to shed.
Now, certainly, there is risk in revolution: you could get tyrants right off the bat. In which case, you'd better have another revolution in the wings. And that's the reason why it's a good idea to be careful about starting one, but they're certainly not never the answer.
The hardware old enough to have trouble with MPEG4 is pretty damn old, and they can probably get their customers to subsidize even that: if they drop the least watched MPEG2 channels, and replace them with a new tier of MPEG4 channels that they then charge more for. People with too-slow hardware get to pay extra for no upgrade whatsoever.
If that plan's not evil enough for them, I don't know what is.
Every political school of thought, including the libertarians, is concerned almost exclusively with the public good. The disagreement is in how best to achieve it. Socialism would be a tad less laughable if central planning wasn't such an abysmal failure everywhere it's been tried.
The economic philosophies boil down to:
Socialism: The greatest quality of life for the most people can be achieved by spreading all of the existing wealth around more equitably.
Libertarianism, Laissez Faire Capitalism: The greatest quality of life for the most people can be achieved by producing wealth as efficiently as possible.
Libertarians aren't concerned with the specific equity of wealth, under the assumption that the economic system which generates the most wealth will, despite being inequitable, still result in the people at the bottom having the greatest possible quality of life (as compared to other systems).
That the free-market plan has had more practical success is important to note, especially for people believe quality of life is more important than social justice.
If you give her enough attention, she'll eventually start mentioning her boyfriend.
I've known a few girls like that, and I don't think it's necessarily wrong for them do do it. It's a convenient way of expressing a lack of desire without any of the confrontation inherent in just outright saying, "I'm not interested in you, romantically." Although, if preceded by flirting, it's just as awkward.
But, it can go too far. It's very annoying to hear, "My boyfriend this" and "My boyfriend that" every two minutes, not the least of which because it conveys, "I'm not interested in you, romantically, and I'm SO not interested in you that I want to mention it every two minutes to really drive home the point." which is unnecessarily insulting, if you think about it.
11 yr. olds don't lack critical thinking skills. They might lack the knowledge needed to look at the school's idea of a fun after-school activity and say, "No, I'd rather be playing in a field" or something. But if he doesn't spend a whole lot of time on the actual administration, he's not going to miss out on too much. Still, if they can't afford an admin, they really should get one of the parents to volunteer. Preferably someone who can record the hours spent as a charitable donation.
The school on the other hand is probably going to find that it's not really saving that much money. What with the upgrades, anti-virus licenses, etc. that the kid is proposing in his rather scorched earth house cleaning plan.
It's kind of a tricky pickle, though. If the old machines are filled with viruses, and the original install material has gone missing, what the hell would an inexperienced admin choose to do?
According to the very episode you referenced, the high end, ridiculously expensive readers were among the easiest to crack. Now, I'll grant that that doesn't exclude the possibility of even more expensive and high-end readers, but it doesn't exactly inspire much hope, either.
My guess is that they're that expensive not because of a low false positive rate, but because of a low false negative rate. Since the more expensive they are, the higher up in the management chain they're going to be authorized at. And a high-level manager for whom it fails is going to think it's broken. He's not going to notice a dozen thieves walking in behind him.
And yet, every application I have that was written in Java is slow and buggy compared to its typical c-programmed counterpart. And yes, I'm including OO.org in that list. What's the deal with that?
And the mythbusters showed an even quicker method:
1) print fingerprint on laser printer 2) hold over sensor.
Seriously, as sloppy as those guys usually are, after that episode, I don't see why anyone who speaks English or has access to a translation would seriously consider fingerprint-based authentication for anything.
I never understood why people seem to want counterweight-terminated space elevators, anyway. With a full length elevator, you can launch things on interplanetary orbits, you just release the cable at the appropriate point. Also, positing arbitrarily strong tow cables or dynamo sporting launch sleds, you can use your interplanetary launches to hoist material up to GEO. So what if it makes the day longer?
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(1) is really a subset of (2)
A subset with one limitation: changing it is very difficult.
Security is very simple in its needs (though it can certainly get complicated in implementation.
All you need is (3) "something you know". period. If it's not secure enough, you can make it longer.
Now, if you're talking about a multi-user environment, you need to segregate peoples areas of access, or at the very least log their activity so if the nutrient rich plant feed hits the fan, you at least know who to blame. That's where (1/2) "Something you are" (user name) comes in handy.
But you don't actually need a separate user name: your password hash could be your user name. It's just convenient to have plaintext names because it's easier grant and remove access to at least vaguely pronounceable, easy-to remember names.
The problem is lawyers (and capricious cops.) If you put in a "common sense" law like, Driving recklessly is illegal and results in a fine, you're going to have police who enforce it more strictly on some than on others, and you're going to have lawyers who claim that this ticket is a result of capricious enforcement, and anyway, the driver wasn't really driving recklessly.
The speed (and other) laws provide a precise definition of "reckless driving" for enforcement purposes. You might not be able to unambiguously declare that a person was driving at an "unsafe" speed (after all, how do you measure the probability that an accident will occur?), but you can objectively measure using several different methods whether they are exceeding some arbitrary limit.
They're not good laws. They're just the only laws we can all mostly agree on
Not really. It was interesting at one time, but by the time the MIT club was making its rounds, it had been solved for quite some time. The only really unique thing they did was to do it as a quasi-team effort, train as a team, and operate as a MIT club, with a faculty adviser (who was very poor with his advice*) and everything.
But more importantly, it really doesn't rise to the level of MIT interesting. The actual practice is just mechanical and rote, after all. There was never a question of whether or not it would work. Least of all the owners of the Casinos themselves (who even sell books on counting, knowing that few people have the discipline to pull it off)
*there shouldn't have been a club, because the theory is what's interesting at the MIT level, and that was well known. All that's left is the practice, and the practice was potentially very dangerous. At least they did it in Vegas, where the worst that can happen is to get banned from every casino in the network. As opposed to lower profile areas where they could potentially look forward to visits from the law offices of Bruiser, Slicer, Garrote and Gunn.
Have you ever actually done this? I imagine there's a proper order, such that if you do it the wrong way, you can't finish on account of the inability to see enough widgets to accomplish the task.
Paypal is, itself, a scam.
It's a way for "businesses" who can't even muster enough confidence from a bank to get an account with them, to still be able to "accept" credit cards.
But although you can do something that's very much like banking, with paypal, they are not, themselves, a bank. So they can get away with outrageous fees and also avoid any of the liability the CC banks have.
This is very much in line with Ebay's business practices: a classified-ad web site server which charges based on how much money changes hands rather than how much bandwidth & back-end processing you sop up.
You're getting free content, it has to be paid for somehow. All you really need of those four is noscript For the bits where noscript overlaps with adblock, you really shouldn't be blocking, anyway.
VHS is analog in the horizontal, so that "320" is sort of meaningless.
In any large organization, why are people using the c: drive (or local drive) at all? That's already silly from a backing-things-up point of view. There's nothing wrong with network drives for stuff people are working on and storing profiles similarly. People shouldn't be able to set other people's backgrounds any more than they should be able to log in as other people.
A halfway good admin might say that, but a good one wouldn't need to, because it wouldn't be possible.
Regardless, though, your last paragraph is mostly on. Pranks should be thermodynamically efficient: they should be 100% reversible by the prankster at any time, and the prankster should monitor the prank and end it if things look they might get out of hand.
"I was gonna get you so good" is so much better to say than, "Those one point five million dollars in damages were worth it to see the look on your face."
Indeed. Although Pratchett wasn't the first to make that joke.
But more in the spirit of today, we should, as a society, build a <really big monument> as mysterious and long-lasting as possible, just to jerk around our long-off descendants.
Heh. Clever what you did there.
The dark part of tall dark and handsome is because of the inversion of indoor-outdoor work habits: "common laborers" now work inside, becoming pasty white, while the idle rich have the time to spend luxuriating on the beach.
In other words, it's a physical indicator of bank account levels.
1 in 300 over the whole history of baseball (which lengthens by one year every year) or 1 in 300 over any given year in the history of baseball?
and I wonder if how managers juggle players around is really very helpful at all, beyond the obvious "get a couple guys on base before the slugger" plan.
so disconnect one of the battery leads and solder in a photodiode. If the voltage drop is too much, get a geek to wire it in with a FET.
And as "creep" is to "mission."
The founders were struck by the same realization, which is why one of them said, "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
And I think that he may have believed that "from time to time" would be approximately once per generation.
Which is not to say that people should be on the lookout for revolution. Just not opposed to it when the need arises, and all of the better options have been thoroughly exhausted.
The usefulness of revolution is not in that it changes the regime for the better: it may not. It's that the new regime has to start from scratch. The problem is evolution. Namely that tyranny doesn't come all at once in a democracy. It piles on like plaque, and the deeper it gets, the harder it becomes to shed.
Now, certainly, there is risk in revolution: you could get tyrants right off the bat. In which case, you'd better have another revolution in the wings. And that's the reason why it's a good idea to be careful about starting one, but they're certainly not never the answer.
The hardware old enough to have trouble with MPEG4 is pretty damn old, and they can probably get their customers to subsidize even that: if they drop the least watched MPEG2 channels, and replace them with a new tier of MPEG4 channels that they then charge more for. People with too-slow hardware get to pay extra for no upgrade whatsoever.
If that plan's not evil enough for them, I don't know what is.
Every political school of thought, including the libertarians, is concerned almost exclusively with the public good. The disagreement is in how best to achieve it. Socialism would be a tad less laughable if central planning wasn't such an abysmal failure everywhere it's been tried.
The economic philosophies boil down to:
Socialism: The greatest quality of life for the most people can be achieved by spreading all of the existing wealth around more equitably.
Libertarianism, Laissez Faire Capitalism: The greatest quality of life for the most people can be achieved by producing wealth as efficiently as possible.
Libertarians aren't concerned with the specific equity of wealth, under the assumption that the economic system which generates the most wealth will, despite being inequitable, still result in the people at the bottom having the greatest possible quality of life (as compared to other systems).
That the free-market plan has had more practical success is important to note, especially for people believe quality of life is more important than social justice.
I've known a few girls like that, and I don't think it's necessarily wrong for them do do it. It's a convenient way of expressing a lack of desire without any of the confrontation inherent in just outright saying, "I'm not interested in you, romantically." Although, if preceded by flirting, it's just as awkward.
But, it can go too far. It's very annoying to hear, "My boyfriend this" and "My boyfriend that" every two minutes, not the least of which because it conveys, "I'm not interested in you, romantically, and I'm SO not interested in you that I want to mention it every two minutes to really drive home the point." which is unnecessarily insulting, if you think about it.
11 yr. olds don't lack critical thinking skills. They might lack the knowledge needed to look at the school's idea of a fun after-school activity and say, "No, I'd rather be playing in a field" or something. But if he doesn't spend a whole lot of time on the actual administration, he's not going to miss out on too much. Still, if they can't afford an admin, they really should get one of the parents to volunteer. Preferably someone who can record the hours spent as a charitable donation.
The school on the other hand is probably going to find that it's not really saving that much money. What with the upgrades, anti-virus licenses, etc. that the kid is proposing in his rather scorched earth house cleaning plan.
It's kind of a tricky pickle, though. If the old machines are filled with viruses, and the original install material has gone missing, what the hell would an inexperienced admin choose to do?
According to the very episode you referenced, the high end, ridiculously expensive readers were among the easiest to crack. Now, I'll grant that that doesn't exclude the possibility of even more expensive and high-end readers, but it doesn't exactly inspire much hope, either.
My guess is that they're that expensive not because of a low false positive rate, but because of a low false negative rate. Since the more expensive they are, the higher up in the management chain they're going to be authorized at. And a high-level manager for whom it fails is going to think it's broken. He's not going to notice a dozen thieves walking in behind him.
And yet, every application I have that was written in Java is slow and buggy compared to its typical c-programmed counterpart. And yes, I'm including OO.org in that list. What's the deal with that?
And the mythbusters showed an even quicker method:
1) print fingerprint on laser printer
2) hold over sensor.
Seriously, as sloppy as those guys usually are, after that episode, I don't see why anyone who speaks English or has access to a translation would seriously consider fingerprint-based authentication for anything.
I never understood why people seem to want counterweight-terminated space elevators, anyway. With a full length elevator, you can launch things on interplanetary orbits, you just release the cable at the appropriate point. Also, positing arbitrarily strong tow cables or dynamo sporting launch sleds, you can use your interplanetary launches to hoist material up to GEO. So what if it makes the day longer?
If you have a band, even an indie band, and you're selling stuff or live performances, wouldn't that classify as "commercial" enough for a .com domain?