you're correct that a lot of measures such as substituting letters for numbers don't do much.
if you want to make it more difficult, add length to a password along with the password. Gizmodo or some gawker site talked about this once and it's a great password concept.
Example password for everything : Anon4321
add to it the website you're on, so sdAnon4321 or slashdotAnon4321. or twitter becomes tAnon4321
etc. you can choose what your variable is for each website, so to speak, and it's still a simple concept for people since they keep remembering the same password.
That way you can apply that same concept if you rotate your passwords too and it would modify them all but keep the consistency.
sure you can have both at the same time, but that doesn't mean they're in harmony or any more effective by having both go on at the same time.
How many drugs are released to the market and then later retracted by the FDA? How well is that system gamed by companies like GSK?
yeah. Laws by themselves, standards by themselves, it's all about the execution - standards and legislation together don't mean it's going to be magically more successful.
WP7 is useless. Maybe WP8 will be interesting. who knows? Even Anandtech confirms in their review of the phone:
If you’re looking for a feature replacement to an Android phone or Windows Mobile device, WP7 will disappoint. Windows Phone is more like the iPhone than it is anything else. If you don’t like the iPhone (for reasons other than an inherent dislike for Apple), you probably won’t like Windows Phone. If your sole reason is disdain for Apple, then pick up a Windows Phone.
What I’m most excited about isn’t the fact that we’ll have another good competitor in the smartphone space, but rather the hope this gives me for Microsoft’s future products. Windows 7 was a nice OS, but it was nothing earth shattering and clearly did nothing to fend off Apple’s erosion of PC market share. Windows Phone 7 is a beacon of hope for Microsoft. If Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8 are designed with similar focus and clarity of thought as WP7 was, we may be looking at the beginning of Microsoft’s return.
So essentially, late to the party and failure. However, the new version of windows is 2 years off - are you going to think they're going to be positioned to compete by then, if they can't do it now? Guessing by the lack of a competitor now, I'm going to say no - not a chance.
what you're talking about is more about setting standards, not legislation. There are already best practices in place for stuff like this, it's more that people don't follow them.
The thing is not as accurate as it could be, and letting folks try to make it work better/fit specific purposes could enable new things MS didn't think of, actually adding value to the kinect.
or they can sit and whine about possibly losing sales.
you don't have to be of any party affiliation to be tired of the pointless fucking wars the US has been waging for 40 years, and I haven't even been alive that long.
housing has skyrocketed around the country, and only crashed down slightly. Prices are still high. Or have you never heard of the mortgage fiasco?
Believing that you can make money off obtaining a home and refurnishing it/selling it when it's worth more value is a hilarious scenario because a: you can never guarantee the value will go up substantially versus the investment put into it and b: you can't guarantee someone will buy the fixed up locations or rent them for that matter, and c: if a tenant defaults, guess who's on the line for costs, not to mention that there are costs which are not fixed over time that you are now liable for. Even foreclosed homes have issues with tax liens, too.
I don't mean any of this to hate on you, I'm just saying that it is far more commonly a pipe dream than reality in a lot of scenarios when it comes to owning real estate and renting it out.
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yes, I think this is their intent too - and being sued for easily disproved patents and with google's resources, I wouldn't be surprised.
yeah, I think that works too. I'm not sure if either is a better approach as opposed to just different.
what makes you think they have to go after a country?
they'd have to go after the entire open handset alliance, which spans probably 3/4 of the world.
this is why it will never succeed.
say what?
google pretty much just shot oracle in the face, and expects to fight the hell out of this and possibly invalidate patents on java.
Google not only expects to succeed, but is fighting everything. It is oracle who expected a fast settlement and a win, not google.
nah, our patent office decided this was a non-obvious patent because it used words and drawings.
you're correct that a lot of measures such as substituting letters for numbers don't do much.
if you want to make it more difficult, add length to a password along with the password. Gizmodo or some gawker site talked about this once and it's a great password concept.
Example password for everything : Anon4321
add to it the website you're on, so sdAnon4321 or slashdotAnon4321. or twitter becomes tAnon4321
etc. you can choose what your variable is for each website, so to speak, and it's still a simple concept for people since they keep remembering the same password.
That way you can apply that same concept if you rotate your passwords too and it would modify them all but keep the consistency.
sure you can have both at the same time, but that doesn't mean they're in harmony or any more effective by having both go on at the same time.
How many drugs are released to the market and then later retracted by the FDA? How well is that system gamed by companies like GSK?
yeah. Laws by themselves, standards by themselves, it's all about the execution - standards and legislation together don't mean it's going to be magically more successful.
WP7 is useless. Maybe WP8 will be interesting. who knows? Even Anandtech confirms in their review of the phone:
So essentially, late to the party and failure. However, the new version of windows is 2 years off - are you going to think they're going to be positioned to compete by then, if they can't do it now? Guessing by the lack of a competitor now, I'm going to say no - not a chance.
please. you're thinking too detailed. It's thinking that is to be patented, and you owe me money for thinking, even if it's subconscious.
what you're talking about is more about setting standards, not legislation. There are already best practices in place for stuff like this, it's more that people don't follow them.
remember, they added the word cyber, so we need new legislation!
as opposed to, you know, economic terrorism.
do you even know what you're talking about?
google wants data to be bidirectional - you can take your information out of facebook, you can take your information into facebook.
It's google trying to get facebook to acknowledge better privacy standards.
and if there's no public opinion, there's always grandstanding.
hunger strikes can work, it just helps to have a legitimate cause. In this scenario, there isn't one.
actually they have a lot to *gain*.
The thing is not as accurate as it could be, and letting folks try to make it work better/fit specific purposes could enable new things MS didn't think of, actually adding value to the kinect.
or they can sit and whine about possibly losing sales.
the suits are about pressure on hips and shoulders, has nothing to do with said pressure on the chest.
boobs live on.
you don't have to be of any party affiliation to be tired of the pointless fucking wars the US has been waging for 40 years, and I haven't even been alive that long.
It's beyond hilarity that they even mention google. This shows you how far people go to aim at the easy target.
Instead of "maybe we should have had better intel" it's "this is because google maps is inaccurate".
really? The original android phone has no problem with froyo 2.2, the original droid has no problem with 2.2.
It's not about hardware, it's whether people are willing to make it work.
helps to copy it with proper english or do a lazier copy paste.
"I will be Chief Technologist at the Federal Trade Commission. http://bit.ly/bRiFrS http://bit.ly/9HujRz"
if they can't prevent third party installation they won't be able to enforce third party removal either.
so it's pretty much a guarantee that it will be circumvented.
so wait, you think that when people add functionality it's not going to reduce security?
do you even know what programming and programatically introducing security means?
It means your choice is : functionality or security. You don't get both.
At least they're using fairly current kernels, if they weren't then I'd say it's different.
wha? they can only take away app store stuff - not everything.
housing has skyrocketed around the country, and only crashed down slightly. Prices are still high. Or have you never heard of the mortgage fiasco?
Believing that you can make money off obtaining a home and refurnishing it/selling it when it's worth more value is a hilarious scenario because a: you can never guarantee the value will go up substantially versus the investment put into it and b: you can't guarantee someone will buy the fixed up locations or rent them for that matter, and c: if a tenant defaults, guess who's on the line for costs, not to mention that there are costs which are not fixed over time that you are now liable for. Even foreclosed homes have issues with tax liens, too.
I don't mean any of this to hate on you, I'm just saying that it is far more commonly a pipe dream than reality in a lot of scenarios when it comes to owning real estate and renting it out.
no, that was deliberate. I was trying to imply that the numbers are significantly worse than they sound.