I would add to this: only use bookmarks to navigate the web instead of typing in addresses. Especially if the person has never used a keyboard before(or hasn't in a long while) and may have a bit of trouble reading the address bar accurately. One mistaken keystroke could send you right to a phisher/camper's site. Plus, if you only navigate to known trustworthy sites, your chances of getting spyware/virus etc. are greatly reduced.
Read the sentence again. I state that "either you have it or you don't" which would imply that it does exist.
In the US(certain states at any rate), nobody has the right of way, but in certain situations you have to yield it to someone else. It's really a dumb system.
I actually think the German system is safer. There are a lot more rules to learn(but the drivers ed requirements are also a lot more stringent) but everything is very cut and dry once you learn them. There is no "yielding the right of way", either you have it or you don't. Unlike say in Pennsylvania where the law actually states that "nobody has the right away".
Germany also has roughly half the number of traffic fatalities per capita as the US, take that for what it is worth.
A Chinese friend of mine offered me $10k to "marry" her so that she could get her green card instead of working on an H1-B visa. I ultimately rejected the offer, but it just goes to show that she thought she could make more than $10k just in the difference between H1B pay and green card pay. She has a pretty decent masters degree from Penn State, but after tax she was only making about $30k, I am just out of college with my bachelors and bagging almost 2x as much.
getting. A few weeks back I read an article that stated that some crackers had managed to get into the accounts of some of TD Waterhouse's investment clients. Since most of these accounts were retirement accounts liquidating them and stealing all the assets would have been difficult, required a lot of paperwork, and ran a much higher risk of getting caught. So instead what the attackers did was liquidate all the assets of the victims and then used those assets to buy a bunch of pump and dump stocks(high demand low supply=much higher prices). Pumped the value of the stock up significantly then as the name suggests, dumped it.
As much as I think they are scum for doing so, you have to admit that was pretty creative....
Sigh, having lived there 6 months I am aware of what time it is(it's almost tomorrow here in Germany). I said "today" because many of the people reading this are still in the 16th. I could have said "It's Miyamoto's birthday on the 16th, which is today to people not in Asia but yesterday in Asia", but what would have been the point?
the movie "Back to School" after reading, "and whether he'll return to Harvard to finish his studies". Replacing Dangerfield with Gates would make for a weird, weird movie.
Huh? Hubbert's peak said that production in the UNITED STATES would peak in the 1970's, and decline thereafter. And he was right(he said global peak would come about 50 years after the peak in the US). Outside of Alaska and the Gulf of Mexico there aren't very many huge oil producers in the United States anymore.
There used to be a lot more, but they ran out of oil. In fact, take a look around Western PA to see what devastation running out of oil can wrought on communities. Oil City is an aptly named example.
First, I know what one time pads are, and I have read a lot of material on old cryptography techniques, but you still missed the very point! Supposed you have a one time pad and an attacker manages to get a keylogger onto your computer(this is the situation we are talking about, ING Direct is an online bank end of story, if you didn't know that then you really should not have hit the reply button because it's offtopic). So you carefully type in your one time pad into the computer. Guess what, since the attacker has all your keystrokes, he can easily put himself in the middle and take the pad you so careflly entered and give them to the bank himself and boom, he has access with minimal effort. By using one time pads you just ensure that everyone has to be very annoyed when they log in, people can lose their account in a fire, and that the bank has a more expenses in trying to keep everyone's pad available and secure(much more work and effort compared to a SHA-1 of the password maybe with a little salt). That means more expenses for the bank, which gets passed on the customer. Brilliant!
I know one time pads are cryptographically secure, but they are not magic bullets. If you think they are, you are free to implement your own bank that uses them. If you fail, you fail, but the number of banks and customers that want to use one time pads are pretty small.
I was a math minor at Penn State, and I decided to concentrate on Stat because that is what interested me, but everyone is different. I would say that if you are interested mostly in "pure"(not pure!=better) CS, then courses like graph theory and combinatorics are probably best. If you are interested in applying your CS degree to problems in engineering and science, then differential equations and numerical analysis is your best bet. If you want to go into the business/actuarial side of things, statistics is obviously best. The most important thing is that you take a lot of math, and hopefully math that actually interests you.
Um, if the attacker has complete access to your screen(and takes enough screenshots to monitor every mouse click, a hell of a lot of bandwidth I might add) then what is to prevent him from looking at your one time pad? I know one time pads are "algorithmically secure" but they are only as secure as your pad. If they control your computer, it wouldn't be all that hard to look at your pad. How big is your pad? If it starts to repeat then it is no longer secure. Are you asking the bank to store a huge pad for each individual? Also, how are you going to transmit the pad to the bank? Chances are you will set up a supposedly secure transmission. If the attacker can look at the transmission(since they would have control of the computer) then again, they have the one time pad. I don't see what the advantage to your system is other than bigger headaches logging in(I would have to have one time pad software installed on my computer).
You are taking a very binary view of security(either it is secure or it is not). According to that view than anything that anyone could concievably access isn't secure because a determined enough attacker can potentially get access to it. It's like saying "I could put a lock on my front door, but a master locksmith could open it in seconds, therefore it is useless to put a lock on my door" While that may be true, the number of master locksmiths who want to get in and want to take my stuff is very, very small compared to the general population. Furthermore, if I can make the lock take longer to open, then I have a much greater chance of catching a potential thief.
What ING is doing is making the attackers use more resources and more importantly, require a much greater level of sophistication to launch an attack. Not to mention the longer a keylogger or some other malware is on a computer, the more chance it has of getting caught and removed before damage is done.
If you are looking for perfect security for your money then hide it under your mattress and guard it 24/7 with a shotgun, otherwise you aren't going to have perfect security and you will just have to do everything in your power to make your target as resistant as possible.
When I log on to my account, instead of typing in a PIN, I press buttons on a "virtual" keypad, ie a bunch of images. They will also randomly assign letters to each number(different every time you log in) so you can still type them if you want without a keylogger figuring out what your pin is.
So Euler was an idiot? Pascal an idiot? Newton an idiot? Wow, you must have contributed so much to the field of scientific endeavor, because you are certainly riding one mighty high horse there. Maybe you should actually calm down and see that not everyone views the world in the same way you do, and that has no bearing on their intelligence. Or maybe just grow up and realize that you are not in fact the smartest person in the world and if you are going to claim that others are idiots, you might want to check who that group includes first.
Funny that you mention wikipedia, have you ever looked at the articles on various religions in there(hint, they are there). Ever notice how some very well educated believers contribute material to the articles on their respective religions? Are you claiming you are in fact smarter than all those people?
Every world religion count(s/ed) among its adherents some of the smartest people ever to walk this earth, there are some insanely smart people who believe in no religion at all. My point? Believing in a religion has no bearing on your intelligence, and you are an arrogant fool to say otherwise.
The top states that they got a ps3 and really wanted to look inside. The big red box states that opening your ps3 will void the warranty, they will not answer any questions about doing so, and you won't be able to return it to the shop if you open it.
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called "human female", please, please, PLEASE release it into the public domain so the rest of us can maybe hope to understand it!
So basically the bags are mobile adverts that scream "mug me!"
They have done it in Pennsylvania a while too, like for at least 5 years. Slashdot is just a tad slow. Like half a decade slow....
I would add to this: only use bookmarks to navigate the web instead of typing in addresses. Especially if the person has never used a keyboard before(or hasn't in a long while) and may have a bit of trouble reading the address bar accurately. One mistaken keystroke could send you right to a phisher/camper's site. Plus, if you only navigate to known trustworthy sites, your chances of getting spyware/virus etc. are greatly reduced.
Terror alert level: blue screen
Means death and/or reboot is imminent.
Read the sentence again. I state that "either you have it or you don't" which would imply that it does exist.
In the US(certain states at any rate), nobody has the right of way, but in certain situations you have to yield it to someone else. It's really a dumb system.
I actually think the German system is safer. There are a lot more rules to learn(but the drivers ed requirements are also a lot more stringent) but everything is very cut and dry once you learn them. There is no "yielding the right of way", either you have it or you don't. Unlike say in Pennsylvania where the law actually states that "nobody has the right away".
Germany also has roughly half the number of traffic fatalities per capita as the US, take that for what it is worth.
A Chinese friend of mine offered me $10k to "marry" her so that she could get her green card instead of working on an H1-B visa. I ultimately rejected the offer, but it just goes to show that she thought she could make more than $10k just in the difference between H1B pay and green card pay. She has a pretty decent masters degree from Penn State, but after tax she was only making about $30k, I am just out of college with my bachelors and bagging almost 2x as much.
Is everyone playing with their wii instaed of posting on slashdot?
Yum! Tastes like kimchi.
getting. A few weeks back I read an article that stated that some crackers had managed to get into the accounts of some of TD Waterhouse's investment clients. Since most of these accounts were retirement accounts liquidating them and stealing all the assets would have been difficult, required a lot of paperwork, and ran a much higher risk of getting caught. So instead what the attackers did was liquidate all the assets of the victims and then used those assets to buy a bunch of pump and dump stocks(high demand low supply=much higher prices). Pumped the value of the stock up significantly then as the name suggests, dumped it.
As much as I think they are scum for doing so, you have to admit that was pretty creative....
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Helps if you are drunk too
Sigh, having lived there 6 months I am aware of what time it is(it's almost tomorrow here in Germany). I said "today" because many of the people reading this are still in the 16th. I could have said "It's Miyamoto's birthday on the 16th, which is today to people not in Asia but yesterday in Asia", but what would have been the point?
Nintendo is at an all time high as investors expect the Wii to make large profits(well, large for Nintendo anyway)
Miyamoto's birthday today.
the movie "Back to School" after reading, "and whether he'll return to Harvard to finish his studies". Replacing Dangerfield with Gates would make for a weird, weird movie.
You put your hd in the toilet? Are you hoping to make next years list?
Huh? Hubbert's peak said that production in the UNITED STATES would peak in the 1970's, and decline thereafter. And he was right(he said global peak would come about 50 years after the peak in the US). Outside of Alaska and the Gulf of Mexico there aren't very many huge oil producers in the United States anymore.
There used to be a lot more, but they ran out of oil. In fact, take a look around Western PA to see what devastation running out of oil can wrought on communities. Oil City is an aptly named example.
First, I know what one time pads are, and I have read a lot of material on old cryptography techniques, but you still missed the very point! Supposed you have a one time pad and an attacker manages to get a keylogger onto your computer(this is the situation we are talking about, ING Direct is an online bank end of story, if you didn't know that then you really should not have hit the reply button because it's offtopic). So you carefully type in your one time pad into the computer. Guess what, since the attacker has all your keystrokes, he can easily put himself in the middle and take the pad you so careflly entered and give them to the bank himself and boom, he has access with minimal effort. By using one time pads you just ensure that everyone has to be very annoyed when they log in, people can lose their account in a fire, and that the bank has a more expenses in trying to keep everyone's pad available and secure(much more work and effort compared to a SHA-1 of the password maybe with a little salt). That means more expenses for the bank, which gets passed on the customer. Brilliant!
I know one time pads are cryptographically secure, but they are not magic bullets. If you think they are, you are free to implement your own bank that uses them. If you fail, you fail, but the number of banks and customers that want to use one time pads are pretty small.
I was a math minor at Penn State, and I decided to concentrate on Stat because that is what interested me, but everyone is different. I would say that if you are interested mostly in "pure"(not pure!=better) CS, then courses like graph theory and combinatorics are probably best. If you are interested in applying your CS degree to problems in engineering and science, then differential equations and numerical analysis is your best bet. If you want to go into the business/actuarial side of things, statistics is obviously best. The most important thing is that you take a lot of math, and hopefully math that actually interests you.
Um, if the attacker has complete access to your screen(and takes enough screenshots to monitor every mouse click, a hell of a lot of bandwidth I might add) then what is to prevent him from looking at your one time pad? I know one time pads are "algorithmically secure" but they are only as secure as your pad. If they control your computer, it wouldn't be all that hard to look at your pad. How big is your pad? If it starts to repeat then it is no longer secure. Are you asking the bank to store a huge pad for each individual? Also, how are you going to transmit the pad to the bank? Chances are you will set up a supposedly secure transmission. If the attacker can look at the transmission(since they would have control of the computer) then again, they have the one time pad. I don't see what the advantage to your system is other than bigger headaches logging in(I would have to have one time pad software installed on my computer).
You are taking a very binary view of security(either it is secure or it is not). According to that view than anything that anyone could concievably access isn't secure because a determined enough attacker can potentially get access to it. It's like saying "I could put a lock on my front door, but a master locksmith could open it in seconds, therefore it is useless to put a lock on my door" While that may be true, the number of master locksmiths who want to get in and want to take my stuff is very, very small compared to the general population. Furthermore, if I can make the lock take longer to open, then I have a much greater chance of catching a potential thief.
What ING is doing is making the attackers use more resources and more importantly, require a much greater level of sophistication to launch an attack. Not to mention the longer a keylogger or some other malware is on a computer, the more chance it has of getting caught and removed before damage is done.
If you are looking for perfect security for your money then hide it under your mattress and guard it 24/7 with a shotgun, otherwise you aren't going to have perfect security and you will just have to do everything in your power to make your target as resistant as possible.
When I log on to my account, instead of typing in a PIN, I press buttons on a "virtual" keypad, ie a bunch of images. They will also randomly assign letters to each number(different every time you log in) so you can still type them if you want without a keylogger figuring out what your pin is.
So Euler was an idiot? Pascal an idiot? Newton an idiot? Wow, you must have contributed so much to the field of scientific endeavor, because you are certainly riding one mighty high horse there. Maybe you should actually calm down and see that not everyone views the world in the same way you do, and that has no bearing on their intelligence. Or maybe just grow up and realize that you are not in fact the smartest person in the world and if you are going to claim that others are idiots, you might want to check who that group includes first.
Funny that you mention wikipedia, have you ever looked at the articles on various religions in there(hint, they are there). Ever notice how some very well educated believers contribute material to the articles on their respective religions? Are you claiming you are in fact smarter than all those people?
Every world religion count(s/ed) among its adherents some of the smartest people ever to walk this earth, there are some insanely smart people who believe in no religion at all. My point? Believing in a religion has no bearing on your intelligence, and you are an arrogant fool to say otherwise.
The top states that they got a ps3 and really wanted to look inside. The big red box states that opening your ps3 will void the warranty, they will not answer any questions about doing so, and you won't be able to return it to the shop if you open it.