malnutritian is the major problem facing the poor today, not outright starvation.
Spoken like a true American! Do you guys get any footage of the famine Niger and other West African countries on TV over there? I think any sort of nuturion would a bonus to the people trying to keep their sons and daughters alive.
Was watching "American Hotrod" the other night. The fat bloke and the fellow who talks without moving his lips were installing a firewall in some custom car they were building
Does that mean that Boyd Coddington should become an Information Security writer?
I thought the Mod was for the PC version not the console. As far as I know since I built my PC I can alter it as much as I like, aslong as I don't touch Bill's crown jewels.
I guess you are saying that ignoring a rating is illegal, not sure, in the UK I think they are only voluntary the game industry has managed to avoid the compulsory ones movies are subject to.
Surely though when your Sims shower or use the toilet it is pixelated so you can't see their genitals, does that meant he gentials are not longer there? or are they included in the game but covered?
How is this different from placing a wall in front of the sex scence in GTASA?
Are we talking about tracking items with RFID tags, and are talking about being able to track them once they've left the store?
You can detect the tag anywhere, providing you have a reader. What I would need to know if you were looking to discover what you had bought from a store would be the link with its EPC code and from their the info on the product.
Surely that depends on what you are securing and what you are securing it against?
I my house secure? Sure I have never been burgled.
Should we shut down fort knox and store all the bullion in my spare room? Probably not
If I want to protect my information against my flatmate or a friend from opening it then an 8 character password is probably ok. If I want to protect my bank's central records or the ID's of my intelligence agents in North Korea 20 characters will not cut the mustard either.
Perhaps I did not make my point very well, the posters problem was not that they had to keep changing their password frequently and could not alternate between "password1" and "password2" but that they had to have several different passwords for several different systems. I was saying that by using personalised passphrases or passphrase acronyms this could be accomplished quite easily until SSO is implemented properly
SSO working fully fits in somewhere betweeen a totally secure Windows, a working manageable PKI and a viable method of stopping spam, pop-ups, 419 fraud and link spamming!!;)
Is the problem not that your password has very strict complexity requirements but that there are too many of them?
I did read a paper (I think from Microsoft not sure) about how passwords were essentially redundant as you could pre compute the hashes of all alphnumeric combinations and then run a dictionary attack against a file pretty quickly. They suggested a pass phrase as the way forward. Perhaps something along the lines of "I love/. last month I posted 10 times" this fulfils all requirements for complexity and is changeable and easy to remember.
The other solution I often tell people is make your passwords a personal acronym, who would guess "Il/mIp10t" as a password, yet it is easy for me to remember.
But there is a substantial mature, adult gaming population out there. But chances are they are pretty busy with their lives, careers, kids, and don't spend nearly as much money on games, and don't always have time to read gaming magazines.
I have a limit on both the amount of time I can spend gaming and the amount of money I will "invest" in games. I find that a good gaming magazine, such as the UK edition of PC Gamer helps me choose which game I should buy. Sure sometimes they can be the gaming equiavlent of porn, drooling over pixel shading or clever lighting in the latest blockbuster. On the other hand they are never scared of marking something as dross when it should never have been made.
Having said that I don't read it anywhere near as often as online resources.
You must have been doing something wrong. I just installed Windows, from scratched, patched the system and was working within 4 hours.
The system had been running for over a year without crashing, without BSOD and without problems. Until last week when I got a bit overzealous on regedit and knackered the boot sequence so badly I had to start again!
I have seen them, I have even used one, for about 10 minutes until I found that ping was something you had to download (I admit that it was about 4 years ago). I have also seen them filled with spam emails that contain lots of non spammy words in a string of nonsense that fool the filter into thinking that it was normal traffic.
BTW Outlook 2003 also has a spam filter built in to it.
As well as IE, windows file explorer and a CAD app that my father uses.
Perhaps they will like how the Mac works better overall?
Does it look like windows 2000? If not I doubt it, it confuses them.
Then probably, they should have a Mac and not a PC.
Why it is just something else to learn!!
How are they going to fare in the long term when Longhorn comes out if they don't even like changig a menu?
Like Longhorn will ever be released in their lifetime!
I just think it is very easy for people who understand technology and think it is cool and interesting to learn about new ways of working and new systems to say switch OS or switch platform. It is not that easy when you think of a PC as a clever typewriter and you are scared that there is an icon for blow up house that you might click on by mistake.
1. My parents both use Windows PCs at work. they work for large companies that are not going to transition from Windows to Linux or Macs.
2. My parents get confused if I alter a toolbar on their home PC when I am working on it. They think it is broken if it does not look exectly like the one they use at work.
3. They do not want to learn how to use a PC. They still can't program the video player, they have no DVD player, they think CDs are some sort of voodoo.
How would/.ers suggest that I wish a perfectly straight face suggest they use a Mac or Linux? Not gonna float people.
Essentially I am saying that the perhaps increase in weapons, for cirminal and for "home defence" purposes is an arms race.
Why would a burglar arm himself with a gun? They increase the chances of being prosecuted for something worse than breaking and entering and run the risk of actually murdering someone. Forty years ago taking a gun to a burglary would have been unheard of.
Of course the answer is that they would arm themselves in case the broke into a house where the occupier was in and was capable of firing on them. Homeowners and burglars are approaching a sort of mutually assured destruction similar to the nuclear profileration of the cold war (I said similar, not on the same scale or identical).
Perhaps if the weapons were reduced on one side it would eventually lead to a reduction in the other. Especially if you consider that the majority of weapons used in this situation will have been stolen from legitimate owners at some point.
Obviously this will not reduce the number of gun crimes used in gang wars or by psychotics that set out to murder or inflict pain, but these are in the huge minority of instances.
Is my point clearer? Even if you disagree with it!
Why would they need to be armed with guns though? Which would you prefer to be shot in the head or smacked over the head with a bat? Both will probably stop you bothering a criminal, one you might be able to get up the next day (obviously both could be fatal, but this is lesser of two evils).
Lou, selling guns out the back of his van in the alley just off the redlight district doesn't bother calling in background checks if you know what I mean
Perhaps you could consider where "Lou" gets his guns to sell out of his van. There are obviously sources of automatic weapons avaialble smuggled in by organised crime rings, Most illegal handguns will at some point have been owned by a legitimate owners who do not take proper care to secure them when unattended.
It may seem like a good idea to keep it in the glovebox of a car to stop carjacking, not so clever when the care is broken into and another weapon is on the streets to be sold for $5 to pay for the local crackhead's next fix.
Britain has never banned firearms. It has always been legal to won a licensed non-automatic shotgun, i.e. one without a magazine. You can also own a non automatic rifle, again providing you have the correct license. Most of these weapons are used for sport or gamekeeping.
After the Dunblane masacre there was a ban on all handguns, including models designed for target shooting, and some replicas, starting pistols and the like.
As Cedric pointed out you can also own air rifles, but these are limited in power.
I know of nobody that actually owns a weapon for protection, or home defense. Is there not an arguement to made that there is an escalation factor here? As an increase in avaialable pornography leads to a corrisponding increase in sexual crime, as an increase in the use of soft drugs leads to an increase in instances of addiction to harder drugs so the increased preavalence of weaponry, combined with there use in popular entertainment, leads to an increase in gun and gun related crime?
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malnutritian is the major problem facing the poor today, not outright starvation.
Spoken like a true American! Do you guys get any footage of the famine Niger and other West African countries on TV over there? I think any sort of nuturion would a bonus to the people trying to keep their sons and daughters alive.
Dunno, but he is like a muppet without the hand up the back. Everything else moves apart from his pie-hole. Worth watching the show just for him!
But we all loved the recent tri-nations!
How else would you put it? He was looking into the field of biocomputing and went to MIT, it does not say he ran the place!
Was watching "American Hotrod" the other night. The fat bloke and the fellow who talks without moving his lips were installing a firewall in some custom car they were building
Does that mean that Boyd Coddington should become an Information Security writer?
I thought the Mod was for the PC version not the console. As far as I know since I built my PC I can alter it as much as I like, aslong as I don't touch Bill's crown jewels.
I guess you are saying that ignoring a rating is illegal, not sure, in the UK I think they are only voluntary the game industry has managed to avoid the compulsory ones movies are subject to.
Surely though when your Sims shower or use the toilet it is pixelated so you can't see their genitals, does that meant he gentials are not longer there? or are they included in the game but covered?
How is this different from placing a wall in front of the sex scence in GTASA?
Are we talking about tracking items with RFID tags, and are talking about being able to track them once they've left the store?
You can detect the tag anywhere, providing you have a reader. What I would need to know if you were looking to discover what you had bought from a store would be the link with its EPC code and from their the info on the product.
Acronym, A word formed from the initial letters or symbols of a name.
/. is / therefore the passwords as I wrote it is correct, and your pedantry does you no credit.
The initial letter in
Surely that depends on what you are securing and what you are securing it against?
;)
I my house secure? Sure I have never been burgled.
Should we shut down fort knox and store all the bullion in my spare room? Probably not
If I want to protect my information against my flatmate or a friend from opening it then an 8 character password is probably ok. If I want to protect my bank's central records or the ID's of my intelligence agents in North Korea 20 characters will not cut the mustard either.
Perhaps I did not make my point very well, the posters problem was not that they had to keep changing their password frequently and could not alternate between "password1" and "password2" but that they had to have several different passwords for several different systems. I was saying that by using personalised passphrases or passphrase acronyms this could be accomplished quite easily until SSO is implemented properly
SSO working fully fits in somewhere betweeen a totally secure Windows, a working manageable PKI and a viable method of stopping spam, pop-ups, 419 fraud and link spamming!!
Not if you have to have a token and pin for each application! I have managed to keep mine down to two so far.
Is the problem not that your password has very strict complexity requirements but that there are too many of them?
/. last month I posted 10 times" this fulfils all requirements for complexity and is changeable and easy to remember.
I did read a paper (I think from Microsoft not sure) about how passwords were essentially redundant as you could pre compute the hashes of all alphnumeric combinations and then run a dictionary attack against a file pretty quickly. They suggested a pass phrase as the way forward. Perhaps something along the lines of "I love
The other solution I often tell people is make your passwords a personal acronym, who would guess "Il/mIp10t" as a password, yet it is easy for me to remember.
But there is a substantial mature, adult gaming population out there. But chances are they are pretty busy with their lives, careers, kids, and don't spend nearly as much money on games, and don't always have time to read gaming magazines.
I have a limit on both the amount of time I can spend gaming and the amount of money I will "invest" in games. I find that a good gaming magazine, such as the UK edition of PC Gamer helps me choose which game I should buy. Sure sometimes they can be the gaming equiavlent of porn, drooling over pixel shading or clever lighting in the latest blockbuster. On the other hand they are never scared of marking something as dross when it should never have been made.
Having said that I don't read it anywhere near as often as online resources.
Ever read a review of Matrix Revolutions, that was basically the gist of it. Most neglected to mention the dire story line and pitiful acting!
That was 90 minutes of my lige I will never get back
You must have been doing something wrong. I just installed Windows, from scratched, patched the system and was working within 4 hours.
The system had been running for over a year without crashing, without BSOD and without problems. Until last week when I got a bit overzealous on regedit and knackered the boot sequence so badly I had to start again!
Well said old man. There is nothing that gets on my goat more than "x will solve all your problems!", whether it is a Mac, Linux or anthing else.
I have seen them, I have even used one, for about 10 minutes until I found that ping was something you had to download (I admit that it was about 4 years ago). I have also seen them filled with spam emails that contain lots of non spammy words in a string of nonsense that fool the filter into thinking that it was normal traffic.
BTW Outlook 2003 also has a spam filter built in to it.
Good for her, I wish you were my brother!!
Again she has probably grown up with technology unlike the ludittes I am blessed with!
No - they use Office at work. Admit it!!
As well as IE, windows file explorer and a CAD app that my father uses.
Perhaps they will like how the Mac works better overall?
Does it look like windows 2000? If not I doubt it, it confuses them.
Then probably, they should have a Mac and not a PC.
Why it is just something else to learn!!
How are they going to fare in the long term when Longhorn comes out if they don't even like changig a menu?
Like Longhorn will ever be released in their lifetime!
I just think it is very easy for people who understand technology and think it is cool and interesting to learn about new ways of working and new systems to say switch OS or switch platform. It is not that easy when you think of a PC as a clever typewriter and you are scared that there is an icon for blow up house that you might click on by mistake.
1. My parents both use Windows PCs at work. they work for large companies that are not going to transition from Windows to Linux or Macs.
/.ers suggest that I wish a perfectly straight face suggest they use a Mac or Linux? Not gonna float people.
2. My parents get confused if I alter a toolbar on their home PC when I am working on it. They think it is broken if it does not look exectly like the one they use at work.
3. They do not want to learn how to use a PC. They still can't program the video player, they have no DVD player, they think CDs are some sort of voodoo.
How would
You don't get spam on a Mac?
Yet you don't put your email in your sig strange.....
Essentially I am saying that the perhaps increase in weapons, for cirminal and for "home defence" purposes is an arms race.
Why would a burglar arm himself with a gun? They increase the chances of being prosecuted for something worse than breaking and entering and run the risk of actually murdering someone. Forty years ago taking a gun to a burglary would have been unheard of.
Of course the answer is that they would arm themselves in case the broke into a house where the occupier was in and was capable of firing on them. Homeowners and burglars are approaching a sort of mutually assured destruction similar to the nuclear profileration of the cold war (I said similar, not on the same scale or identical).
Perhaps if the weapons were reduced on one side it would eventually lead to a reduction in the other. Especially if you consider that the majority of weapons used in this situation will have been stolen from legitimate owners at some point.
Obviously this will not reduce the number of gun crimes used in gang wars or by psychotics that set out to murder or inflict pain, but these are in the huge minority of instances.
Is my point clearer? Even if you disagree with it!
Why would they need to be armed with guns though? Which would you prefer to be shot in the head or smacked over the head with a bat? Both will probably stop you bothering a criminal, one you might be able to get up the next day (obviously both could be fatal, but this is lesser of two evils).
Lou, selling guns out the back of his van in the alley just off the redlight district doesn't bother calling in background checks if you know what I mean
Perhaps you could consider where "Lou" gets his guns to sell out of his van. There are obviously sources of automatic weapons avaialble smuggled in by organised crime rings, Most illegal handguns will at some point have been owned by a legitimate owners who do not take proper care to secure them when unattended.
It may seem like a good idea to keep it in the glovebox of a car to stop carjacking, not so clever when the care is broken into and another weapon is on the streets to be sold for $5 to pay for the local crackhead's next fix.
Britain has never banned firearms. It has always been legal to won a licensed non-automatic shotgun, i.e. one without a magazine. You can also own a non automatic rifle, again providing you have the correct license. Most of these weapons are used for sport or gamekeeping.
After the Dunblane masacre there was a ban on all handguns, including models designed for target shooting, and some replicas, starting pistols and the like.
As Cedric pointed out you can also own air rifles, but these are limited in power.
I know of nobody that actually owns a weapon for protection, or home defense. Is there not an arguement to made that there is an escalation factor here? As an increase in avaialable pornography leads to a corrisponding increase in sexual crime, as an increase in the use of soft drugs leads to an increase in instances of addiction to harder drugs so the increased preavalence of weaponry, combined with there use in popular entertainment, leads to an increase in gun and gun related crime?