Tens of thousands at a minimum. My history goes back the earliest home 9-pin dot-matrix and line printers. You know, the things in noise cabinets that impact printed whole lines at a time, 600 lines a minute.
I've had more than a few to choose from.
But then it takes a few seconds for each one to be tested by the lastpass server, as the validation loop isn't instantaneous. It's better to just run a username / password combination list using the top 100 most-used passwords, as these are guaranteed to be shared across sites and unlock the vast majority of usernames. You don't need ALL of the accounts, just the ones of dumb people.
>Or just one like LastPass, that "only" suffered a plain ol' fashioned data breach?
They lost control of the password reminders and email addresses. My email addresses are out there and have been since forever, and the next oldest (the oldest was on conan.ids.net) is still active, BTW, on TMOK, which forwards to gmail, which forwards to protonmail.
My password reminder is simply "printer"
Guessing which brand and model number is impossible.
In this case it is totally appropriate - why the fuck was a cash-tight operation *spending their donor money* to buy a proprietary OS anyway? For their particular use-case I can almost guarantee that a default Linux installation with web-browser will work.
How do I know you live in a basement pontificating on how people work, don't know how to deal with PHBs, and in particular don't know how non-profits work? You don't get grant money if you can't convince your sponsor (likely in this case, a government) WTF "Linux" is, and for some grant writers, this is like trying to bleed a stone.
More to the point, EVEN IF IT IS DONATED EQUIPMENT, they need to find someone/trained/ to set up Linux for them, plus the applications, plus a whole lot of other stuff. If they do not have this kind of staff, what the fuck do you expect them to do? "Oh hay, not only was your grant for computers not enough, but we need to hire someone to convert them over to Linux. Because reasons." Reply from donor "We gave you the computers with software, WTF more do you want from us?"
Your mom is literally shouting down the basement stairs for you to come to dinner.
BTW, I have been using Linux (GNU/Linux) for around 22 years. And it's people like you that hold us back.
Windows Update should not pull any data unless/explicitly told to/.
For/all/ types of connections.
Your message is "blame the user, always."
Ever watch a "normal user" (not anyone here commenting at slashdot) deal with a PC? Demanding that the user figure out whether or not to manually set the upgrade to "metered connection" is beyond the pale.
GWX is malware attached to a user-hostile OS and society-hostile corporation.
"all our time arguing about political issues that are ultimately not that important."
Politics is what drives famines, for example, you fucking tool, not lack of food. We have plenty of food and medicine to go around. It's the politics of/getting it there/ to where it's needed, like drought and war zones. Politics is what kills people, or spares them, depending on a lot of things (but mostly greed, ultimately), none of which are the global capability of technology, shelter, medicine, or food, because we have a lot of all of that (artificial scarcity is artificial).
Politics aren't important? Fuck you.
"I got rich, therefore my opinion counts" - said the "Great Man" of Thomas Carlyle (and Robert Heinlein and Ayn Rand, and a whole lot of other people who are dead wrong).
No it doesn't. Not more than anyone else who is also as badly informed as you.
"The level of sophistication required to exploit most of the vulnerabilities we found is somewhere between that possessed by a coffee stain on the Duo lunch room floor and your average potted plant - meaning, trivial."
The Wikipedia claim is that the cost of the recorders (Sony DAT required a spinning head) was the problem, but people bought more expensive tape decks that had Dolby and metal capability to deal with tape hiss/all the time/, and since DAT effectively did away with tape hiss and low-bias, these would have sold just fine.
But the RIAA had shit-fits about "perfect third-generation recordings" that only/partially/ ended when Sony bought CBS.
They still don't like CD-Rs. "No sir, I don't like it." - Mr. Horse.
if I wanted I could output the video/audio of my screen and record them.
As a kid, I used to record music off FM radio, through the headphone jack to either cassette or reel-to-reel (gawd I'm old). Then the 80s came along and "tapes are killing music."
Which it didn't.
Videotape was supposed to kill movies.
It didn't.
The Internet was going to kill brick-and-mortar stores.
It didn't.
Corporations are composed of lying liars with lawyers who lie for them.
... use Gambas as a replacement? If there's sufficient demand for a replacement for Classic VB, then there should be enough people interested in contributing to Gambas.
Have you heard of drive-by infection through ad networks? It's not a new thing. It's at least 9 years old, as a concept, by my direct knowledge (when Investor Village got hit with it).
Yes, software just/does/ randomly appear on the web. Various people have railed against the use of executable code (Javascript, Action Script (flash), etc) on the web (korean web pages are awash in VBS), to no avail.
I came from the same background as you. There is even malware that runs just fine in wine on linux.
You can be cruising right along, going to "respectable" web pages, and be hit with malware from an untrustworthy ad network. Which is why I block ad networks right at the hosts file.
It looks like I changed my wife's computer to a Linux install with KDE as the desktop just in time. She's been using 7, hates 8 and 8.1, and read about the idiocy with 10 and insists that's not for her.
She is an ordinary user, one who doesn't understand much about what goes on inside a computer/at all/, but I have been teaching her. Nota bene, she requested the change, so it's not like I foisted it upon her one day.
I expected some confusion/"this kinda sucks" stuff.
No problems. None. The only thing I get asked is "how do I do x."
And if she needs specific Windows stuff, I'll throw a VM on it. I have everything from WinFLP here to 7 to stick on it. And the instant any shenanigans from Redmond show up, the VM gets rolled back.
I swear, the only people I've seen have problems with Linux are so-called "windows power users" who know only which dead chicken to wave at Windows to get it to obey.
"And here we are at the edge of the Grand Canyon to test the new plastic brake system - with the look of real metal - which has raised so many eyebrows among American consumers" -- Jackie Stupid - Firesign Theatre "Eat or be Eaten"
"We replaced their coffee with sand and ground up clamshells" -- Saturday Night Live (back when it was good)
The British said this about the Americans at the start of the Industrial Revolution, when we stole their technology.
We Americans said the same about the Japanese and Koreans.
The British were wrong. We were wrong. Everyone who says that "they just steal our innovation and copy it without any creativity" is wrong. Completely, utterly, to their own detriment, WRONG.
It screams "whistling past the graveyard"/at best/ and probably veiled racism depending on who you hear this stuff from.
"China's economy will collapse"
Whose economies don't have cycles of boom and bust? Ours? HAVE YOU FUCKING LOOKED AROUND?!
Christ on a stick. You have no fucking clue. You are complacent and have not looked past the headlines at all.
90 percent (or more) of SSDI claims are rejected on the first go-around.
If you do not have professional help, especially when you have a legitimate disability that makes the paperwork extremely onerous, you are far better off hiring a lawyer. Indeed, a lawyer friend who had to go on disability hired a lawyer himself, because it wasn't his specialty, and when you have memory issues and whatnot, doing the paperwork your own self and getting it right is next to impossible. It's especially hard when you need to know the key words that a judge is looking for. Don't say the right things, you have to do it all over again. People who rightly deserve disability do give up because of this.
It takes years for some people who have a legitimate claim. The SSA has a huge backlog.
$6k or 1/4 of the back-paid disability payments (whichever is less) is probably the best money anyone can spend on a lawyer.
And the people who go on disability typically/do not want/ to be on disability. It's perceived as "giving up" by people who have work ethics, and going on SSDI usually happens when they have burned through various amounts of cash and retirement benefits trying to stay afloat.
This business of calling it "the new welfare" is odious and dehumanizing.
It is insurance that people pay into. It's not a "gimme" and it's not a lot of money at all.
Want to make some money on the side? The Social Security Administration recognizes that there is a huge shortage of attorneys who are specialized in SSDI claims, so they have a program to teach ordinary people to do it for other people. Once you get certified, you get the same amount of money a lawyer would. It's hard work, though.
Your description of the pseudo-skeptic nattering on about chaotic systems is bewildering, but I guess that they don't really know what a chaotic system actually is. Are they really using it to say "you can't predict the future" or some such nonsense?
Since converting the huge operating expense into a a huge capital expense that results in an asset that can continue delivering value minus some small additional operating expense
And since capital equipment/always/ has a depreciation, you can write off the depreciation instead of watching it burn up in the atmosphere.
And then you can sell the capital equipment to some other sucker.
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>How many combos can there be?
Tens of thousands at a minimum. My history goes back the earliest home 9-pin dot-matrix and line printers. You know, the things in noise cabinets that impact printed whole lines at a time, 600 lines a minute.
I've had more than a few to choose from.
But then it takes a few seconds for each one to be tested by the lastpass server, as the validation loop isn't instantaneous. It's better to just run a username / password combination list using the top 100 most-used passwords, as these are guaranteed to be shared across sites and unlock the vast majority of usernames. You don't need ALL of the accounts, just the ones of dumb people.
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>Or just one like LastPass, that "only" suffered a plain ol' fashioned data breach?
They lost control of the password reminders and email addresses. My email addresses are out there and have been since forever, and the next oldest (the oldest was on conan.ids.net) is still active, BTW, on TMOK, which forwards to gmail, which forwards to protonmail.
My password reminder is simply "printer"
Guessing which brand and model number is impossible.
I'm going to continue using Lastpass.
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In this case it is totally appropriate - why the fuck was a cash-tight operation *spending their donor money* to buy a proprietary OS anyway? For their particular use-case I can almost guarantee that a default Linux installation with web-browser will work.
How do I know you live in a basement pontificating on how people work, don't know how to deal with PHBs, and in particular don't know how non-profits work? You don't get grant money if you can't convince your sponsor (likely in this case, a government) WTF "Linux" is, and for some grant writers, this is like trying to bleed a stone.
More to the point, EVEN IF IT IS DONATED EQUIPMENT, they need to find someone /trained/ to set up Linux for them, plus the applications, plus a whole lot of other stuff. If they do not have this kind of staff, what the fuck do you expect them to do? "Oh hay, not only was your grant for computers not enough, but we need to hire someone to convert them over to Linux. Because reasons." Reply from donor "We gave you the computers with software, WTF more do you want from us?"
Your mom is literally shouting down the basement stairs for you to come to dinner.
BTW, I have been using Linux (GNU/Linux) for around 22 years. And it's people like you that hold us back.
Just fucking stop it.
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Do you really think you matter that much?
YES.
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Windows Update should not pull any data unless /explicitly told to/.
For /all/ types of connections.
Your message is "blame the user, always."
Ever watch a "normal user" (not anyone here commenting at slashdot) deal with a PC? Demanding that the user figure out whether or not to manually set the upgrade to "metered connection" is beyond the pale.
GWX is malware attached to a user-hostile OS and society-hostile corporation.
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Eric Schmidt bloviated:
"all our time arguing about political issues that are ultimately not that important."
Politics is what drives famines, for example, you fucking tool, not lack of food. We have plenty of food and medicine to go around. It's the politics of /getting it there/ to where it's needed, like drought and war zones. Politics is what kills people, or spares them, depending on a lot of things (but mostly greed, ultimately), none of which are the global capability of technology, shelter, medicine, or food, because we have a lot of all of that (artificial scarcity is artificial).
Politics aren't important? Fuck you.
"I got rich, therefore my opinion counts" - said the "Great Man" of Thomas Carlyle (and Robert Heinlein and Ayn Rand, and a whole lot of other people who are dead wrong).
No it doesn't. Not more than anyone else who is also as badly informed as you.
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>Bernie is telling everyone, "free everything"
No he's not, and this meme needs to die.
And if you believe the meme, you're a moron.
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I wouldn't be surprised if more attacks don't start targeting the installed-by-default bloatware on most home and some business PCs.
https://duo.com/blog/out-of-bo...
"The level of sophistication required to exploit most of the vulnerabilities we found is somewhere between that possessed by a coffee stain on the Duo lunch room floor and your average potted plant - meaning, trivial."
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I do remember it.
It's what killed DAT.
The Wikipedia claim is that the cost of the recorders (Sony DAT required a spinning head) was the problem, but people bought more expensive tape decks that had Dolby and metal capability to deal with tape hiss /all the time/, and since DAT effectively did away with tape hiss and low-bias, these would have sold just fine.
But the RIAA had shit-fits about "perfect third-generation recordings" that only /partially/ ended when Sony bought CBS.
They still don't like CD-Rs. "No sir, I don't like it." - Mr. Horse.
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if I wanted I could output the video/audio of my screen and record them.
As a kid, I used to record music off FM radio, through the headphone jack to either cassette or reel-to-reel (gawd I'm old). Then the 80s came along and "tapes are killing music."
Which it didn't.
Videotape was supposed to kill movies.
It didn't.
The Internet was going to kill brick-and-mortar stores.
It didn't.
Corporations are composed of lying liars with lawyers who lie for them.
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And the only winner will be:
"Mr. Rogers in a blood-stained sweater."
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The Rural Electrification Act was a (relative) success. So let's try a similar scheme again. Let rural governments create cooperative ISPs,
The oligarchs will never allow that. They fight that tooth-and-nail every time someone tries it, up to and including statewide /bans/ on coops.
Because it's better to never sell anything than it is to allow locals to do for themselves. *spit*
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... use Gambas as a replacement? If there's sufficient demand for a replacement for Classic VB, then there should be enough people interested in contributing to Gambas.
Seriously.
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How do you block malware at the hosts file?
By sending the ad networks to 0.0.0.0.
https://github.com/StevenBlack...
That's the one I use.
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Have you heard of drive-by infection through ad networks? It's not a new thing. It's at least 9 years old, as a concept, by my direct knowledge (when Investor Village got hit with it).
Yes, software just /does/ randomly appear on the web. Various people have railed against the use of executable code (Javascript, Action Script (flash), etc) on the web (korean web pages are awash in VBS), to no avail.
I came from the same background as you. There is even malware that runs just fine in wine on linux.
You can be cruising right along, going to "respectable" web pages, and be hit with malware from an untrustworthy ad network. Which is why I block ad networks right at the hosts file.
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Television "aimed at women" is awful on the whole, and if I was a woman, pretty much insulting.
Sex and the City is the bar that we judge women's television by? I rest my case.
Scandal is a "targeted at women" show? REALLY?!
>one tree hill
"MY KIDS WATCHED THAT AS TEENAGERS." - wife. It's not exactly for adults.
>538 is surprised that Battlestar Galactica garners some women voters
That's because it's a good show.
I'm not going to actually go read the article, because there's enough in the summary to tell me that this is bullshit.
"The problem is that men writers /think/ they know what women want to watch." - also wife.
And she's right.
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It looks like I changed my wife's computer to a Linux install with KDE as the desktop just in time. She's been using 7, hates 8 and 8.1, and read about the idiocy with 10 and insists that's not for her.
She is an ordinary user, one who doesn't understand much about what goes on inside a computer /at all/, but I have been teaching her. Nota bene, she requested the change, so it's not like I foisted it upon her one day.
I expected some confusion/"this kinda sucks" stuff.
No problems. None. The only thing I get asked is "how do I do x."
And if she needs specific Windows stuff, I'll throw a VM on it. I have everything from WinFLP here to 7 to stick on it. And the instant any shenanigans from Redmond show up, the VM gets rolled back.
I swear, the only people I've seen have problems with Linux are so-called "windows power users" who know only which dead chicken to wave at Windows to get it to obey.
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BMO
"And here we are at the edge of the Grand Canyon to test the new plastic brake system - with the look of real metal - which has raised so many eyebrows among American consumers" -- Jackie Stupid - Firesign Theatre "Eat or be Eaten"
"We replaced their coffee with sand and ground up clamshells" -- Saturday Night Live (back when it was good)
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The British said this about the Americans at the start of the Industrial Revolution, when we stole their technology.
We Americans said the same about the Japanese and Koreans.
The British were wrong. We were wrong. Everyone who says that "they just steal our innovation and copy it without any creativity" is wrong. Completely, utterly, to their own detriment, WRONG.
It screams "whistling past the graveyard" /at best/ and probably veiled racism depending on who you hear this stuff from.
"China's economy will collapse"
Whose economies don't have cycles of boom and bust? Ours? HAVE YOU FUCKING LOOKED AROUND?!
Christ on a stick. You have no fucking clue. You are complacent and have not looked past the headlines at all.
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This is a profit-driven enterprise. Privately run prisons.
They get money per inmate.
Contracts are also written to guarantee a minimum number of inmates, so you pay even if the prison is empty.
It's the most odious scam going.
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This isn't .. even an exploit really. You could just put a fucking flashed based video player on a .onion and watch the logs.
Prisons are generally full of people who aren't smart enough to cover their tracks well enough, or not run Flash.
Catching enough low-hanging fruit as a cop makes you look efficient.
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90 percent (or more) of SSDI claims are rejected on the first go-around.
If you do not have professional help, especially when you have a legitimate disability that makes the paperwork extremely onerous, you are far better off hiring a lawyer. Indeed, a lawyer friend who had to go on disability hired a lawyer himself, because it wasn't his specialty, and when you have memory issues and whatnot, doing the paperwork your own self and getting it right is next to impossible. It's especially hard when you need to know the key words that a judge is looking for. Don't say the right things, you have to do it all over again. People who rightly deserve disability do give up because of this.
It takes years for some people who have a legitimate claim. The SSA has a huge backlog.
$6k or 1/4 of the back-paid disability payments (whichever is less) is probably the best money anyone can spend on a lawyer.
And the people who go on disability typically /do not want/ to be on disability. It's perceived as "giving up" by people who have work ethics, and going on SSDI usually happens when they have burned through various amounts of cash and retirement benefits trying to stay afloat.
This business of calling it "the new welfare" is odious and dehumanizing.
It is insurance that people pay into. It's not a "gimme" and it's not a lot of money at all.
Want to make some money on the side? The Social Security Administration recognizes that there is a huge shortage of attorneys who are specialized in SSDI claims, so they have a program to teach ordinary people to do it for other people. Once you get certified, you get the same amount of money a lawyer would. It's hard work, though.
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Your description of the pseudo-skeptic nattering on about chaotic systems is bewildering, but I guess that they don't really know what a chaotic system actually is. Are they really using it to say "you can't predict the future" or some such nonsense?
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No, he was talking about the other side of the isle. Pen Island, to be exact, where they sell pens online through penisland.com
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Since converting the huge operating expense into a a huge capital expense that results in an asset that can continue delivering value minus some small additional operating expense
And since capital equipment /always/ has a depreciation, you can write off the depreciation instead of watching it burn up in the atmosphere.
And then you can sell the capital equipment to some other sucker.
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BMO