So you claim that you read Applied Cryptography, and yet you use a proprietary/secret method, not obviously subjected to peer review, to generate your "secure" passwords?
You, sir, are probably an idiot.
Your idea is interesting and overall it sounds sensible, but unless others poke and prod at the exact details, you'll never know if your passwords really are secure or not.
Include some more links, will ya? After all, you can't really expect us to find our way to Google ourselves, can you?
Honestly? No.
If you've been around for any length of time, you know that/.ers are the laziest people on earth. They comment willingly without either R-ing TFA nor researching the issue at hand. Why would googling the topic (not to mention looking to the image search) be any different?
Christ. What some idiots are willing to do to get first post..
I don't care about FP, it just took me less than 3 minutes after the article was written to come up with that. I can't be blamed for the rest of the/. community (including you ACs) taking two more minutes for the inevitable "FP/Hot Grits/AntiSlash" posts, you should've been quicker.
From TFA, a BRILLIANT! quote from a fella who apparently enjoys being a crotchety old bastard:
All my life, I have enjoyed the reputation of being someone who disrupted prevailing ideas. Now that I'm in my 80th year, I can play on my age and provoke people even more.
I hope to be like him when I get to be that old. In case any of you haven't heard of Mandelbrot, you should take a look here.
Amusingly literal-minded. I hope that was your intent.
That was my intent, indeed. I understood the point, and it'd be great to have the freedom that comes with a good stash of Fuck-You-money.
It is the best feeling in the world to truly be able to leave a job "at will". That tricky little phrase, meant as a two-way street, has undoubtedly trapped many people who would love nothing more than to live the Office Space dream of take this job and shove it. If one has children, mortgage, car payment, etc. then "at will" has an entirely different meaning than it does for me.
A 'hard drive' could be the same size and shape as an LCD screen
Personally, I prefer my harddrives to be less than 12 inches square... (12x12 = 17" diagonal)
I could see this as possibly useful for a slim computer/tablet sort of thing, but I'd imagine that I could get more oomph out of a slim computer with a 0.25" thick CF card.
This is a phenomenon known as the uncanny valley, and there's a good discussion about it here. It's the same thing as Finaly Fantasy: Spirits Within, where the backgrounds were fantastic, the people were "best.... humans.... ever!" and they still looked weird.
Is there anyone out there that doesn't already know this? Tell me if this sounds familiar:
1. The ??AA Sues a file sharer.
2. Jane Doe, spokesperson for the ??AA reports "File sharing is bad".
3. The EFF steps in on the side of the defendant, stating "Information wants to be free".
4. ???
5. Profit!
Not a troll, but the whole story should be modded -1 Redundant.
Maybe because some of us can't get to good ol' 8090 anyway?
I can get to exactly 4 external ports:
80/443 - http/s
20/21 - ftp (cmd/dat)
So all the coralized links in the world won't help me. I couldn't even get to an 8080 if there was one, and that's a fairly well-known alternate HTTP port.
Regular earphones don't work well because they need an uninterrupted air channel to function.
Some acoustic physicist please explain to me: Why wouldn't earphones work better underwater? AFAIK sound is propagated through compression waves, so it should work fine underwater as the density is greater. Am I missing something?
I remember being underwater in a swimming pool years ago, and I heard a watch alarm beeping. It was very clear, like it was next to me, but I found out that it was practically on the other end of the pool!
It's also the same basic concept used by some torpedoes (IIRC), you don't actually have to hit the bad guy's sub, you just have to explode close to it and the water will carry the shockwave right through 'em.
Turn in your geek card, right now!
If you don't know how to make your microwave work without closing the door (or haven't destroyed at least two microwaves attempting to do exactly that), you're outta the club.
From reading the mini-summary of this wonderful new release, can anyone out there tell me what the hell this is?
NO! YOU CAN'T!
If you already know what it is, you could extoll its virtues to the world. If you know what it is, you probably already know about the new release and don't need to be told!. For the average/.er, my guess is they say "that's nice... whatever it is," and skip this one over.
Please, people: When you submit a story about the new release of XYZ version 12423 (stupid animal pseudonym here) put in at least some vague description of WTF it is!
For anyone who didn't RTFA, Parrot is apparently the bastard-child of Python and Perl, using/supporting elements of both languages. Perl is a ridiculous, intentionally obfuscated language, and a Python ate my sister, so I have no interest in this.
I have the feeling that the only problem with HD Cable is his specific system. I have Comcast HD at home, and it looks great. There is an incredible difference between HD and non-HD, especially for live sporting events.
Discovery HD does look fantastic (think National Geographic Magazine in motion), as do the 10-15 stations in HD (at least one each network plus movie channels). Probably half the time the broadcast stations aren't broadcasting HD, they do show up as 4:3 letterboxed on my 16:9 (Sony Vega). Commercials do too sometimes, you can tell pretty clearly when a commercial has been reformatted versus shot in native HD.
I've never seen any noise/etc. on the digital broadcasts beyond a cool transition effect between channels as the reciever resets its MP2 decoder and the channel "blocks" in for half a second. My only problem has been with locking into the signal, sometimes after setting the channel I have to pop it up-and-down one to get the picture to appear.
Comcast uses Scientific Atlanta boxes too, will have to check out the DVR version if it's available locally. I live 20 miles from the nearest large city (Baltimore or Washington DC, take your pick), so that might be a factor in my signal quality too, not 5000 neighbors draining my bandwidth. Cable modem is awesome, too, 1.5 or better sometimes.
No, I don't work for Comcast. I was REALLY mad at them for a while, but for a couple months i've been a happy customer.
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So you claim that you read Applied Cryptography, and yet you use a proprietary/secret method, not obviously subjected to peer review, to generate your "secure" passwords?
You, sir, are probably an idiot.
Your idea is interesting and overall it sounds sensible, but unless others poke and prod at the exact details, you'll never know if your passwords really are secure or not.
If you've been around for any length of time, you know that
I don't care about FP, it just took me less than 3 minutes after the article was written to come up with that. I can't be blamed for the rest of the
I hope to be like him when I get to be that old. In case any of you haven't heard of Mandelbrot, you should take a look here.
You'll shoot your eye out!
It is the best feeling in the world to truly be able to leave a job "at will". That tricky little phrase, meant as a two-way street, has undoubtedly trapped many people who would love nothing more than to live the Office Space dream of take this job and shove it. If one has children, mortgage, car payment, etc. then "at will" has an entirely different meaning than it does for me.
A 'hard drive' could be the same size and shape as an LCD screen
Personally, I prefer my harddrives to be less than 12 inches square... (12x12 = 17" diagonal)
I could see this as possibly useful for a slim computer/tablet sort of thing, but I'd imagine that I could get more oomph out of a slim computer with a 0.25" thick CF card.
This is a phenomenon known as the uncanny valley, and there's a good discussion about it here. It's the same thing as Finaly Fantasy: Spirits Within, where the backgrounds were fantastic, the people were "best.... humans.... ever!" and they still looked weird.
Right date, wrong year... Opening November 4th, 2005.
... ice is cold.
Is there anyone out there that doesn't already know this? Tell me if this sounds familiar:
1. The ??AA Sues a file sharer.
2. Jane Doe, spokesperson for the ??AA reports "File sharing is bad".
3. The EFF steps in on the side of the defendant, stating "Information wants to be free". 4. ??? 5. Profit!
Not a troll, but the whole story should be modded -1 Redundant.
Fine, then use this instead... or just don't visit the site.
Here's some more from Google.
You forgot the [pun] [/pun] tags on that one
Maybe because some of us can't get to good ol' 8090 anyway?
I can get to exactly 4 external ports:
80/443 - http/s
20/21 - ftp (cmd/dat)
So all the coralized links in the world won't help me. I couldn't even get to an 8080 if there was one, and that's a fairly well-known alternate HTTP port.
i'm a whore with a website: NSFW mirror here...
yes, this is real. NSFW keeps bandwidth down.
Regular earphones don't work well because they need an uninterrupted air channel to function.
Some acoustic physicist please explain to me: Why wouldn't earphones work better underwater? AFAIK sound is propagated through compression waves, so it should work fine underwater as the density is greater. Am I missing something?
I remember being underwater in a swimming pool years ago, and I heard a watch alarm beeping. It was very clear, like it was next to me, but I found out that it was practically on the other end of the pool!
It's also the same basic concept used by some torpedoes (IIRC), you don't actually have to hit the bad guy's sub, you just have to explode close to it and the water will carry the shockwave right through 'em.
The header of this fella's article is the same as groklaw... is that a template or a blatant ripoff?
Turn in your geek card, right now! If you don't know how to make your microwave work without closing the door (or haven't destroyed at least two microwaves attempting to do exactly that), you're outta the club.
Or just tell it not to search secure webpages you visit to start with:
Right-click, select Preferences
Under Search Types, uncheck Web history and/or Include secure pages (HTTPS) in web history
Yet another "this is a benefit, not a design flaw" instance from Google. Why are people such idiots that this is a problem?
nevermind, I don't really want to know... it would just depress me.
sorry, that's all i got...
Which only supports my point further. I RTFA and I still got it wrong. How hard would it be to include this one simple line?
Parrot is a virtual machine which just happens to be able to run both of them.
From reading the mini-summary of this wonderful new release, can anyone out there tell me what the hell this is?
NO! YOU CAN'T!
If you already know what it is, you could extoll its virtues to the world. If you know what it is, you probably already know about the new release and don't need to be told!. For the average
Please, people: When you submit a story about the new release of XYZ version 12423 (stupid animal pseudonym here) put in at least some vague description of WTF it is!
For anyone who didn't RTFA, Parrot is apparently the bastard-child of Python and Perl, using/supporting elements of both languages. Perl is a ridiculous, intentionally obfuscated language, and a Python ate my sister, so I have no interest in this.
I've had that quote on my homepage for ages (since at least August 2002)! They're only now coming out with the actual game?
I'd like to think that NS would kick WGs butt, but Google Fight says it'd be Gibson...
I have the feeling that the only problem with HD Cable is his specific system. I have Comcast HD at home, and it looks great. There is an incredible difference between HD and non-HD, especially for live sporting events.
Discovery HD does look fantastic (think National Geographic Magazine in motion), as do the 10-15 stations in HD (at least one each network plus movie channels). Probably half the time the broadcast stations aren't broadcasting HD, they do show up as 4:3 letterboxed on my 16:9 (Sony Vega). Commercials do too sometimes, you can tell pretty clearly when a commercial has been reformatted versus shot in native HD.
I've never seen any noise/etc. on the digital broadcasts beyond a cool transition effect between channels as the reciever resets its MP2 decoder and the channel "blocks" in for half a second. My only problem has been with locking into the signal, sometimes after setting the channel I have to pop it up-and-down one to get the picture to appear.
Comcast uses Scientific Atlanta boxes too, will have to check out the DVR version if it's available locally. I live 20 miles from the nearest large city (Baltimore or Washington DC, take your pick), so that might be a factor in my signal quality too, not 5000 neighbors draining my bandwidth. Cable modem is awesome, too, 1.5 or better sometimes.
No, I don't work for Comcast. I was REALLY mad at them for a while, but for a couple months i've been a happy customer.