Long passwords composed of random words are highly random, highly resistant to bruit forcing, and relatively easy to remember. The battle to make users remember arbitrary characters isn't just foolish, it's insecure.
What's not easy to remember, at least for me, is which long string of random words corresponds to which login.
Any fool knows you couldn't accomplish this with one, single trampoline.
If years of Saturday morning cartooning have taught us nothing else, it's clear you would need, like, several dozen hundred trampolines to pull it off.
I'd forget about the box-in-the-field thing. Get the safe deposit box everyone else recommends. Print your important contacts and whatever vital information you might need and keep a copy somewhere off-site. Maybe sealed in an envelope at work, maybe with a nearby relative, friend or trusted neighbor. This could come in handy for many much less serious problems, like you get injured or sick at work or collapse while mowing the lawn. That happens a lot more than exploding houses.
But really, forget the box plan. You're not gonna find it when you need it. Earlier this Spring, the neighbors hired a surveyor to mark their property line before installing a fence. The property line monuments were clearly marked on maps. He had a metal detector to find the iron bar embedded in it, and a shovel to dig for it. I knew exactly where they were, and I was home to help him find them. Even with all that, and knowing the 4 square feet to look in took him hours. Landscapes change quickly from season to season. Last thing you want to be doing after your house-leveling explosion is be digging around in the snow, ice, fallen leaves and frozen ground with your bare hands.
Remember, your exploding house will certainly attract your local emergency services. In the US, states now digitize and save your DL picture, so the cops will be able to ID you with their SCMODS, or whatever they call what they use now. Your local Red Cross or equivalent will make sure you're not sleeping on a bed of twigs trapping squirrels for food with a snare made of your shoelaces. (Note to self, no more loafers.) You'll get your identity papers replaced. You'll get in contact with friends, relatives, your boss and your bank.
Before I even moved in, every organization with foreknowledge of the sale apparently sold my information to whoever was paying. My mailbox was PACKED with junk mail in my name before I even moved in!
If you can think of a better way to heat your new house next winter, I'd love to hear it.
(Also still impressed with google predictive search: "roll paper in" becomes "roll paper into firewood".)
I wonder if it took more than $48k in tax payer dollars to fund the two year man hunt to catch this dangerous criminal. (/sarcasm)
Enforcing the laws and regulations is often considered an end unto itself, and not a revenue generating device. Little profit flows into public coffers for incarcerating people, after all.
The obvious question to ask was why someone would do such a thing.
Now, if it was a movie theater, I could see someone jamming cell phones. But on a road? Why?
Was he using an over-powered machine and doing it by mistake? Was he just insane?
Plenty of APKs out there. This guy just kicked it up a notch (and went IRL). Worse than an internet spammer crank, not nearly as bad as the Unabomber, but somewhere in the middle of the nuisance/danger spectrum
It's a fucking movie. IT's going to violate its previous mythologic narratives? It was MADE UP by writers. IT doesn't matter. It will still be a crap movie.
Well thank you very much, Mr. . . . uh . . . Spoilsport.
It's not immediately clear to me why the Koch brothers should be against renewable energy. I can certainly understand why they would oppose "incentives" (read: subsidies) for renewable energy, and if that's going on then there's nothing to see here. But if we suppose they're motivated by a desire to enrich themselves and not a love of coal per se, then why couldn't they just invest heavily in solar and then exert all their shady political influence to make that investment extra-profitable?
Maybe the ROI on changing laws is better than ROI on changing their business.
this is horrible, imagine if they could build out for peak capacity in the right locations for the right times so there wouldn't be anymore rolling blackouts in july and august
presumably the next step is for the power companies to control your thermostat to cut back your A/C during peak times.
That aside, I don't use FB. So there wasn't any data for that site to mine.
Are you sure? You didn't give them data about you -- at least not directly and on purpose -- but who's to say your friends and family haven't? (And since you and I aren't using facebook, we know even less about what's being said about us there . . . ) And by "friends", I mean the facebook definition of "friend," i.e. someone who knows you by name. Does facebook collect and analyze this anecdotal evidence about us non-facebook users? If there's money to be made at it, I'd guess "yes".
Since the summary didn't mention it, and I'm sure others were wondering.
Ya. That first sentence could have been written: "When Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper died in 2005 at age 115, she was the oldest woman in the world."
Typing another 10 characters wouldn't have killed the submitter. And it would've spared many Slashdotters from puzzling through a tedious run-on sentence in the Wikipedia article.
This is pretty typical of Slashdot, really: technical people with some education second-guessing people who do $THING for a living even though they don't have the same knowledge of the field or the circumstances, but by $DEITY they're smart people and they know things, so they're instantly armchair experts.
This isn't limited to the technical community. Doctors are pretty bad about this too. Particularly in regard to the field of finance: some of them should practically hang out a "Scam Me" sign. I'm sure there are "Modern Major Generals" in almost any field who feel -- incorrectly -- their own expertise and success in one field should make equally competent in anything.
You apparently never had to put your C64 power supply in the refrigerator.
I've heard of drilling through the potting material to remove and replace a fuse buried in there, but never that. What was the hope behind the refrigeration of the "brick"?
You've just found an undiscovered work by Andy Warhol. Do you want to:
1. Wipe it down with Pledge(TM)?
2. Call an appropriate professional for advice?
Because I'm pretty sure that . . . "I would've just stuck the disks in and tried to copy it myself" . . . is the physical artifact equivalent of using some randomly chosen household cleaner. And museum curators are pretty anal about curation of their stuff.
Also, for the love of God, do not use "DiskDoctor"!
'You need to be very adaptable, so that you have a baseline skill set that allows you to be a call center operator today and tomorrow be able to interpret MRI scans.'
Sure, that's a good idea. If you were able to do every job, then there would always be something useful to do if your job or industry disappeared. But since we're talking magic here, why not win the lottery of inherit a fortune instead? Provided you've got a good finance guy, that's an even better plan for long-term economic stability in your household.
Can you make one with stone knives and bear skins? But seriously, compared to having to "advance" the lead by grinding down the case of my primitive Ticonderoga, I thought my first mechanical pencil was a technological wonder.
And after all, we're talking about long-lasting technology. The longer it lasts, the older it gets, right? If someone were still using their great-great-grandpa's John Deere steel(!) plow bought from his blacksmith shop in Grand Detour, I guess that would win.
I still use my HP-11C and HP-32S calculators at least weekly. They're now 25+ years old, and I've changed the batteries maybe twice.
Enter > Equal..... Yeah!
My 11C and 32C (darn you and your extra memory, Mr. 32S guy. I shoulda waited.) still work, but alas, they are not working all that hard lately. I'm not sure I've ever changed the batteries in the 11C . ..
I have no sympathy. In fact, many of you cheered it as a sign of greatness and freedom that America was doing this. Your allies, however, were fucking appalled. Let
Let me finish that sentence for you:
Option 1: "Let me just say that I laugh at your situation, secure in my knowledge that nothing like that can happen where I live."
Option 2: "Let me see this as a warning that despite rule of law, foundational documents, and all the trappings of representative government, this could still happen here. I will be especially on guard against those that try to subvert my country."
I like the UK system - if you're an employee and you're happy with the tax your employer has withheld on your behalf, you don't have to do anything. You get a statement at the end of the year telling you how much you've been paid and how much tax has been withheld - if you think they've got it wrong, or you want to claim deductions, you file a tax return saying so.
We could do this in the US. By could I mean, if we changed tax regulations -- the system is mostly in place already. Wage income is deducted "pay-as-you-go" here, too. All of my interest, dividends and gains were already reported (but not deducted) by the entities that paid them. The IRS could have just sent me a bill for that with what they already know. Most of the data I put on my 1040 is redundant for the IRS. The biggest impediment -- other than changing the law -- would be that not claiming all your deductions could result in paying far more than you really should owe, especially if you have a mortgage, give to charity, or need to report other such deductions.
. . . at some point you're clicking quickly because you just want to get shit done and accidentally upgrade yourself to a $120 tax package. After that, you literally cannot back out or restart.
You can, but it requires human intervention from customer service and takes a few hours. Obviously, this would be a problem if it happened at the last minute
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Long passwords composed of random words are highly random, highly resistant to bruit forcing, and relatively easy to remember. The battle to make users remember arbitrary characters isn't just foolish, it's insecure.
What's not easy to remember, at least for me, is which long string of random words corresponds to which login.
Nerval's Lobster is out of his depth here.
We're still talking about reviewing a super-hero movie here, right? You may be taking this a little too seriously.
Any fool knows you couldn't accomplish this with one, single trampoline.
If years of Saturday morning cartooning have taught us nothing else, it's clear you would need, like, several dozen hundred trampolines to pull it off.
Also from Saturday morning cartoons, we know that all the back-and-forth threats and accusations are just a day at the office. At the end of the day, the wolf and sheepdog punch out and go home, coming back for the same thing again tomorrow.
I'd forget about the box-in-the-field thing. Get the safe deposit box everyone else recommends. Print your important contacts and whatever vital information you might need and keep a copy somewhere off-site. Maybe sealed in an envelope at work, maybe with a nearby relative, friend or trusted neighbor. This could come in handy for many much less serious problems, like you get injured or sick at work or collapse while mowing the lawn. That happens a lot more than exploding houses.
But really, forget the box plan. You're not gonna find it when you need it. Earlier this Spring, the neighbors hired a surveyor to mark their property line before installing a fence. The property line monuments were clearly marked on maps. He had a metal detector to find the iron bar embedded in it, and a shovel to dig for it. I knew exactly where they were, and I was home to help him find them. Even with all that, and knowing the 4 square feet to look in took him hours. Landscapes change quickly from season to season. Last thing you want to be doing after your house-leveling explosion is be digging around in the snow, ice, fallen leaves and frozen ground with your bare hands.
Remember, your exploding house will certainly attract your local emergency services. In the US, states now digitize and save your DL picture, so the cops will be able to ID you with their SCMODS, or whatever they call what they use now. Your local Red Cross or equivalent will make sure you're not sleeping on a bed of twigs trapping squirrels for food with a snare made of your shoelaces. (Note to self, no more loafers.) You'll get your identity papers replaced. You'll get in contact with friends, relatives, your boss and your bank.
Before I even moved in, every organization with foreknowledge of the sale apparently sold my information to whoever was paying. My mailbox was PACKED with junk mail in my name before I even moved in!
If you can think of a better way to heat your new house next winter, I'd love to hear it.
(Also still impressed with google predictive search: "roll paper in" becomes "roll paper into firewood".)
I wonder if it took more than $48k in tax payer dollars to fund the two year man hunt to catch this dangerous criminal. (/sarcasm)
Enforcing the laws and regulations is often considered an end unto itself, and not a revenue generating device. Little profit flows into public coffers for incarcerating people, after all.
The obvious question to ask was why someone would do such a thing.
Now, if it was a movie theater, I could see someone jamming cell phones. But on a road? Why?
Was he using an over-powered machine and doing it by mistake? Was he just insane?
Plenty of APKs out there. This guy just kicked it up a notch (and went IRL). Worse than an internet spammer crank, not nearly as bad as the Unabomber, but somewhere in the middle of the nuisance/danger spectrum
It's a fucking movie. IT's going to violate its previous mythologic narratives? It was MADE UP by writers. IT doesn't matter. It will still be a crap movie.
Well thank you very much, Mr. . . . uh . . . Spoilsport.
It's not immediately clear to me why the Koch brothers should be against renewable energy. I can certainly understand why they would oppose "incentives" (read: subsidies) for renewable energy, and if that's going on then there's nothing to see here. But if we suppose they're motivated by a desire to enrich themselves and not a love of coal per se, then why couldn't they just invest heavily in solar and then exert all their shady political influence to make that investment extra-profitable?
Maybe the ROI on changing laws is better than ROI on changing their business.
this is horrible, imagine if they could build out for peak capacity in the right locations for the right times so there wouldn't be anymore rolling blackouts in july and august
presumably the next step is for the power companies to control your thermostat to cut back your A/C during peak times.
It is, in fact, the current step in some places.
No, I am NOT favorite movies.
That aside, I don't use FB. So there wasn't any data for that site to mine.
Are you sure? You didn't give them data about you -- at least not directly and on purpose -- but who's to say your friends and family haven't? (And since you and I aren't using facebook, we know even less about what's being said about us there . . . ) And by "friends", I mean the facebook definition of "friend," i.e. someone who knows you by name. Does facebook collect and analyze this anecdotal evidence about us non-facebook users? If there's money to be made at it, I'd guess "yes".
Since the summary didn't mention it, and I'm sure others were wondering.
Ya. That first sentence could have been written: "When Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper died in 2005 at age 115, she was the oldest woman in the world."
Typing another 10 characters wouldn't have killed the submitter. And it would've spared many Slashdotters from puzzling through a tedious run-on sentence in the Wikipedia article.
Isn't this old news?
I see what you did there.
If.
This is pretty typical of Slashdot, really: technical people with some education second-guessing people who do $THING for a living even though they don't have the same knowledge of the field or the circumstances, but by $DEITY they're smart people and they know things, so they're instantly armchair experts.
This isn't limited to the technical community. Doctors are pretty bad about this too. Particularly in regard to the field of finance: some of them should practically hang out a "Scam Me" sign. I'm sure there are "Modern Major Generals" in almost any field who feel -- incorrectly -- their own expertise and success in one field should make equally competent in anything.
You apparently never had to put your C64 power supply in the refrigerator.
I've heard of drilling through the potting material to remove and replace a fuse buried in there, but never that. What was the hope behind the refrigeration of the "brick"?
You've just found an undiscovered work by Andy Warhol. Do you want to:
1. Wipe it down with Pledge(TM)?
2. Call an appropriate professional for advice?
Because I'm pretty sure that . . . "I would've just stuck the disks in and tried to copy it myself" . . . is the physical artifact equivalent of using some randomly chosen household cleaner. And museum curators are pretty anal about curation of their stuff.
Also, for the love of God, do not use "DiskDoctor"!
If so, when does the Game Over banner come on?
Never. You get to keep playing long after you've lost. Like Monopoly would be if you could just keep racking up debt instead of going bankrupt.
Same way as every other behavior: reward desired behavior and/or punish undesired behavior.
...can turn water into wine.
Moped Jesus is pissed.
From reading the comments on the bevlaw link, it seems that NASCAR Jesus is pissed, too. In the US English sense, at least.
'You need to be very adaptable, so that you have a baseline skill set that allows you to be a call center operator today and tomorrow be able to interpret MRI scans.'
Sure, that's a good idea. If you were able to do every job, then there would always be something useful to do if your job or industry disappeared. But since we're talking magic here, why not win the lottery of inherit a fortune instead? Provided you've got a good finance guy, that's an even better plan for long-term economic stability in your household.
A mechanical pencil is a tech product?
Can you make one with stone knives and bear skins? But seriously, compared to having to "advance" the lead by grinding down the case of my primitive Ticonderoga, I thought my first mechanical pencil was a technological wonder.
And after all, we're talking about long-lasting technology. The longer it lasts, the older it gets, right? If someone were still using their great-great-grandpa's John Deere steel(!) plow bought from his blacksmith shop in Grand Detour, I guess that would win.
I still use my HP-11C and HP-32S calculators at least weekly. They're now 25+ years old, and I've changed the batteries maybe twice.
Enter > Equal ..... Yeah!
My 11C and 32C (darn you and your extra memory, Mr. 32S guy. I shoulda waited.) still work, but alas, they are not working all that hard lately. I'm not sure I've ever changed the batteries in the 11C . . .
I have no sympathy. In fact, many of you cheered it as a sign of greatness and freedom that America was doing this. Your allies, however, were fucking appalled. Let
Let me finish that sentence for you:
Option 1: "Let me just say that I laugh at your situation, secure in my knowledge that nothing like that can happen where I live."
Option 2: "Let me see this as a warning that despite rule of law, foundational documents, and all the trappings of representative government, this could still happen here. I will be especially on guard against those that try to subvert my country."
I like the UK system - if you're an employee and you're happy with the tax your employer has withheld on your behalf, you don't have to do anything. You get a statement at the end of the year telling you how much you've been paid and how much tax has been withheld - if you think they've got it wrong, or you want to claim deductions, you file a tax return saying so.
We could do this in the US. By could I mean, if we changed tax regulations -- the system is mostly in place already. Wage income is deducted "pay-as-you-go" here, too. All of my interest, dividends and gains were already reported (but not deducted) by the entities that paid them. The IRS could have just sent me a bill for that with what they already know. Most of the data I put on my 1040 is redundant for the IRS. The biggest impediment -- other than changing the law -- would be that not claiming all your deductions could result in paying far more than you really should owe, especially if you have a mortgage, give to charity, or need to report other such deductions.
. . . at some point you're clicking quickly because you just want to get shit done and accidentally upgrade yourself to a $120 tax package. After that, you literally cannot back out or restart.
You can, but it requires human intervention from customer service and takes a few hours. Obviously, this would be a problem if it happened at the last minute