The math is SOOOOOOOOOO wrong it isn't even funny.
The alpha cap and lower case letters gives you 52 bits....then you add the numbers.....that is 10 more to the total...then the special characters and punctuation (he used an &).. another 30.... so the total bits are 92.
so for 11 characters.....11*2^92 = 54469361728556732095561465856 possible combinations for the pass word length.
1000 guesses a second means it will take 863,606,064,950,480,912 years mean time to brute force that password. (50% chance of guessing the password before the end of the list of possibles)
increasing the guess rate by 25 orders of magnitude would weaken the password considerably, but it would still be pretty good at 863 years.
You are of course referring to the "math" following your initial statement, right? And it was sarcastic, right? I hope . . .
if the documents were fake, they wouldn't elicit such a strong reaction. therefore, the documents are real
By your reasoning, it should be okay to run around saying that black people are low IQ and are stealing all the white women. I mean, you know there would be a strong reaction to that, right? So it must be true.
I believe the "strong reaction" to which the GP was referring was the strong reaction of denial by the alleged authors of the leaked documents, not the "strong reaction" by those now reading them.
There is actually a pretty significant amount of evidence it's faked. Every document in the bundle except the strategy memo and an IRS document was printed to PDF in the central time zone. The IRS document was printed to PDF in GMT-4. The strategy memo was scanned in with an Epson scanner to a PDF by someone in the Pacific time zone. All documents except the strategy memo and a board directory were printed to PDF on January 16, the day before a board meeting. The board directory was printed January 25. The strategy memo was created at 3:41 PM on February 13. If you want more, read over here.
How do these dates, time zones and scanner types recorded in the PDFs suggest that some of these docs are fakes and some are original? Are you suggesting that the time zone discrepancy indicates that?
You probably got a coin from some other currency, either by mistake because it looked similar to a cent coin, or just because it looked similar. Maybe it was a US half cent coin. The Euro never had such a coin.
Would seem unlikely to find a piece of currency last struck over 150 years ago jingling around in your pocket. But I have to admit, it would be considerably more likely than finding a non-existent one. In either case, it's a shame he threw it out, that sucker'd be worth a mint, to coin a phrase.
Other great civilizations have done this and it always leads to ruin. The more you debase your currency, the less valuable the actual coins and other forms of currency become, the worse the devaluation gets. The only sane thing here to do is begin discussing plans to fundamentally bolster the foundation of the US dollar, not find ways to make producing it cheaper.
It's not like they're doing the common man any favors. Inflation hits the poor first and hits them hardest. It's a backdoor flat tax.
This does not follow. Making a penny -- a token of one cent -- more cheaply has nothing to do with debasing the currency. The US is not on a "zinc standard".
I looked that up, and I'm not sure if it means what you think it means. To quote "http://www.chacha.com/question/what-is-a-bull-simple-in-the-grapes-of-wrath", "Bull simple,in the movie "Grapes of Wrath" means that too many cops have been pushing him around."
I don't think it means what "chacha" thinks it does. But then again, I never saw the movie.
I'm also pretty good at behaving in a compliant manner when I want to. There's a trick to acting slightly confused but quick to follow explicit orders that makes authority figures feel they have control, and that mollifies them. The pat-down always goes smoothly and efficiently.
This is what is referred to in The Grapes of Wrath as "Bull Simple".
This hurts the airlines a lot more than the TSA. The airlines don't have any control over security screening, and the TSA isn't funded by your airline tickets.
But having deeper pockets, the airlines would also be more likely to have Congress's ears.
Even if you are being funny I think enhancing in-school education with some homeschooling is the best option. Parents sitting down with their children and going over their homework with them can make up for almost any crappy school. Assuming, of course, that the parents aren't less-knowledgeable about a subject than their children.
Reading your whole comment, I see what you mean. And I completely agree with your observation that parents should be part of their children's education.
However, that's not what's usually meant by "homeschooling." It's taken to mean "schooling at home in lieu of schooling at an institution, not in addition to."
(And to Slashdot pedants -- and you know who you are -- that's my personal and very rough definition used for illustrative purposes only. I am in no way trying to define "homeschooling" in any official capacity, and my definition is not intended to be complete, precise or absolute. It is almost certainly not worthy, it is not legal advice, and should not be taken internally.)
Why not? Who are you to decide where he should live? If his parents want to set him up with a paid-off house so he can live rent-free, why is that a problem? You think it's better that he give most of his income to a big apartment complex corporation instead?
Totally fine with me.
But alas, the joke's still on him if the folks didn't set up a trust to pay the property tax.
I guess they could have instead left him a manifesto on why property taxes should be abolished, but the pragmatist might rather have the cash.
Because they televised Charles' and Di's wedding. Pressure had been building before that, but it really tipped it over the edge.
I visited the Hoover Library last year, and saw pictures from Herb and Lou's wedding in 1899, which was just them, the in-laws and an officiant in the living room.
If you're getting married and want your friends and family to come I don't think its asking too much to use a phone, get a pen out or even get proper invitations created that you send by snailmail. Doing it online is all very well but just like email xmas cards , it really sends out a kind of "meh , whatever" message - that you couldn't really be bothered to make much effort and 1 minute in front of a PC is all your F & F are worth.
I didn't want anyone at my wedding who would judge me by the expense/effort/medium of the invite. I wanted them to witness the ceremony in person, not sit at home in awe of the engraved printing, vellum stock and hand-calligraphy address.
Of course, none of this matters anyway, you just let the girl do it, she's spent her whole life preparing for this anyway.
You know, having read the judge's reasoning, the headline and summary for this story are somewhat misleading. Yes, the photograph is "clearly different" in that it's not the exact same photograph, but it is clearly the same compositional idea, with the only practical difference between a difference in angle. Also, the second photo was intentionally made to avoid licensing fees from using the original.
I'd call it "recreated" more than copied. And even then, I don't think it's quite the right word.
Did K-Tel records do business in the UK? Did they have any legal trouble there with their "Recordings by the Original Artists" compilations? This exact sort of thing was their bread-and-butter, although their "recreations" were somewhat more "faithful" to the original, for certain definitions of "faithful."
Problem: The TSA has expanded their operations to trains and pulling-over cars along interstates. Also post offices and unemployment/social security buildings.
Citation Needed. I've never encountered the TSA in any of these situations. Any security I have encountered has been nowhere near TSA levels, and has been at a level appropriate to the location.
Since when does your right to "fly on a plane without being subjected to a thorough search" outweigh my right to "fly on an airplane with a reasonable certainty that the homicidal maniacs on board are NOT armed"?
Karma? Yes, I do have some to burn...
Given the actual number of homicidal maniacs in the world vs. the number of flights, I'm reasonably certain none are on my plane with or without a search of any kind.
I'm also reasonably certain that if I buy a lottery ticket, it won't win me big money.
We have security theater for the same reason lotteries are in business: general lack of understanding of probability and statistics.
Here in Norfolk, UK, Doctors used to use two terms in medical notes up until the late 1990s (or even later - my wife still sees references to them in notes from 2003 or so), Funny Looking Kid and Normal for Norfolk. The terms refer to congenital issues found in children in the more remote parts of the county, where incest and small breeding stock is still having knock on effects today. The terms were banned after they became legal issues in cases after patients got hold of their notes.
"FLK" is still used in the US, at least in conversations between doctors, perhaps not in the notes themselves.
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The terrorists did not put these practices in place... our government did.
Let's just say it was a joint effort, and mutually beneficial.
You only need the Visa if you plan on working there. The passport's enough for a visit.
You should travel more.
Not if your passport chip gets wet.
The math is SOOOOOOOOOO wrong it isn't even funny.
The alpha cap and lower case letters gives you 52 bits....then you add the numbers.....that is 10 more to the total...then the special characters and punctuation (he used an &).. another 30.... so the total bits are 92.
so for 11 characters.....11*2^92 = 54469361728556732095561465856 possible combinations for the pass word length.
1000 guesses a second means it will take 863,606,064,950,480,912 years mean time to brute force that password. (50% chance of guessing the password before the end of the list of possibles)
increasing the guess rate by 25 orders of magnitude would weaken the password considerably, but it would still be pretty good at 863 years.
You are of course referring to the "math" following your initial statement, right? And it was sarcastic, right? I hope . . .
By your reasoning, it should be okay to run around saying that black people are low IQ and are stealing all the white women. I mean, you know there would be a strong reaction to that, right? So it must be true.
I believe the "strong reaction" to which the GP was referring was the strong reaction of denial by the alleged authors of the leaked documents, not the "strong reaction" by those now reading them.
There is actually a pretty significant amount of evidence it's faked. Every document in the bundle except the strategy memo and an IRS document was printed to PDF in the central time zone. The IRS document was printed to PDF in GMT-4. The strategy memo was scanned in with an Epson scanner to a PDF by someone in the Pacific time zone. All documents except the strategy memo and a board directory were printed to PDF on January 16, the day before a board meeting. The board directory was printed January 25. The strategy memo was created at 3:41 PM on February 13. If you want more, read over here.
How do these dates, time zones and scanner types recorded in the PDFs suggest that some of these docs are fakes and some are original? Are you suggesting that the time zone discrepancy indicates that?
You probably got a coin from some other currency, either by mistake because it looked similar to a cent coin, or just because it looked similar. Maybe it was a US half cent coin. The Euro never had such a coin.
Would seem unlikely to find a piece of currency last struck over 150 years ago jingling around in your pocket. But I have to admit, it would be considerably more likely than finding a non-existent one. In either case, it's a shame he threw it out, that sucker'd be worth a mint, to coin a phrase.
Other great civilizations have done this and it always leads to ruin. The more you debase your currency, the less valuable the actual coins and other forms of currency become, the worse the devaluation gets. The only sane thing here to do is begin discussing plans to fundamentally bolster the foundation of the US dollar, not find ways to make producing it cheaper.
It's not like they're doing the common man any favors. Inflation hits the poor first and hits them hardest. It's a backdoor flat tax.
This does not follow. Making a penny -- a token of one cent -- more cheaply has nothing to do with debasing the currency. The US is not on a "zinc standard".
In most Euro-countries, people don't consider mathematical ability a sign of social awkwardness, as opposed to the U.S....
Unless you ask one to do a unit conversion to/from SI . . .
The vast majority if store clerks wouldn't be able to round up or down to the nearest nickel.
The vast majority of store clerks don't add up your total themselves, anyway.
I looked that up, and I'm not sure if it means what you think it means. To quote "http://www.chacha.com/question/what-is-a-bull-simple-in-the-grapes-of-wrath", "Bull simple,in the movie "Grapes of Wrath" means that too many cops have been pushing him around."
I don't think it means what "chacha" thinks it does. But then again, I never saw the movie.
You are taking the wrong pills. Please only take the pills we want you to.
So this is the point at which you draw the line?
Don't they enforce drugs?
Woot!
The DEA's racket is policing illegal drugs. The legal ones are handled by the FDA.
Most airlines aren't overly profitable, a normal recession will often kill off one or two. The defense industry has much deeper pockets.
I mean for purposes of bribery -- er -- campaign contributions.
I'm also pretty good at behaving in a compliant manner when I want to. There's a trick to acting slightly confused but quick to follow explicit orders that makes authority figures feel they have control, and that mollifies them. The pat-down always goes smoothly and efficiently.
This is what is referred to in The Grapes of Wrath as "Bull Simple".
This hurts the airlines a lot more than the TSA. The airlines don't have any control over security screening, and the TSA isn't funded by your airline tickets.
But having deeper pockets, the airlines would also be more likely to have Congress's ears.
Even if you are being funny I think enhancing in-school education with some homeschooling is the best option. Parents sitting down with their children and going over their homework with them can make up for almost any crappy school. Assuming, of course, that the parents aren't less-knowledgeable about a subject than their children.
Reading your whole comment, I see what you mean. And I completely agree with your observation that parents should be part of their children's education.
However, that's not what's usually meant by "homeschooling." It's taken to mean "schooling at home in lieu of schooling at an institution, not in addition to."
(And to Slashdot pedants -- and you know who you are -- that's my personal and very rough definition used for illustrative purposes only. I am in no way trying to define "homeschooling" in any official capacity, and my definition is not intended to be complete, precise or absolute. It is almost certainly not worthy, it is not legal advice, and should not be taken internally.)
Why not? Who are you to decide where he should live? If his parents want to set him up with a paid-off house so he can live rent-free, why is that a problem? You think it's better that he give most of his income to a big apartment complex corporation instead?
Totally fine with me.
But alas, the joke's still on him if the folks didn't set up a trust to pay the property tax.
I guess they could have instead left him a manifesto on why property taxes should be abolished, but the pragmatist might rather have the cash.
Why are they supposed to be "big, formal events"?
Because they televised Charles' and Di's wedding. Pressure had been building before that, but it really tipped it over the edge.
I visited the Hoover Library last year, and saw pictures from Herb and Lou's wedding in 1899, which was just them, the in-laws and an officiant in the living room.
If you're getting married and want your friends and family to come I don't think its asking too much to use a phone, get a pen out or even get proper invitations created that you send by snailmail. Doing it online is all very well but just like email xmas cards , it really sends out a kind of "meh , whatever" message - that you couldn't really be bothered to make much effort and 1 minute in front of a PC is all your F & F are worth.
I didn't want anyone at my wedding who would judge me by the expense/effort/medium of the invite. I wanted them to witness the ceremony in person, not sit at home in awe of the engraved printing, vellum stock and hand-calligraphy address.
Of course, none of this matters anyway, you just let the girl do it, she's spent her whole life preparing for this anyway.
You know, having read the judge's reasoning, the headline and summary for this story are somewhat misleading. Yes, the photograph is "clearly different" in that it's not the exact same photograph, but it is clearly the same compositional idea, with the only practical difference between a difference in angle. Also, the second photo was intentionally made to avoid licensing fees from using the original.
I'd call it "recreated" more than copied. And even then, I don't think it's quite the right word.
Did K-Tel records do business in the UK? Did they have any legal trouble there with their "Recordings by the Original Artists" compilations? This exact sort of thing was their bread-and-butter, although their "recreations" were somewhat more "faithful" to the original, for certain definitions of "faithful."
How am I supposed to take a summary seriously when it refers to bacteria as a "bug"?
I know what you mean. Synonyms make me ill, I mean sick -- oh crap!
Problem: The TSA has expanded their operations to trains and pulling-over cars along interstates. Also post offices and unemployment/social security buildings.
Citation Needed. I've never encountered the TSA in any of these situations. Any security I have encountered has been nowhere near TSA levels, and has been at a level appropriate to the location.
Did you miss all the stories on VIPR? Seriously? Here's a cite from the TSA's website from 2007!?
Since when does your right to "fly on a plane without being subjected to a thorough search" outweigh my right to "fly on an airplane with a reasonable certainty that the homicidal maniacs on board are NOT armed"?
Karma? Yes, I do have some to burn...
Given the actual number of homicidal maniacs in the world vs. the number of flights, I'm reasonably certain none are on my plane with or without a search of any kind.
I'm also reasonably certain that if I buy a lottery ticket, it won't win me big money.
We have security theater for the same reason lotteries are in business: general lack of understanding of probability and statistics.
Looks like I was trolled. My point still stands in general though.
LOL! It's not like I don't agree with you, but the comment was a little misdirected.
You weren't trolled, you were whooshed.
Here in Norfolk, UK, Doctors used to use two terms in medical notes up until the late 1990s (or even later - my wife still sees references to them in notes from 2003 or so), Funny Looking Kid and Normal for Norfolk. The terms refer to congenital issues found in children in the more remote parts of the county, where incest and small breeding stock is still having knock on effects today. The terms were banned after they became legal issues in cases after patients got hold of their notes.
"FLK" is still used in the US, at least in conversations between doctors, perhaps not in the notes themselves.