Actually I seem to remember reading that the number one cause of accidents is people gawking at other accidents. What they need is some kind of temporary wall that can be erected quickly to hide the accident, possibly in addition to glaring spotlights to keep people from staring at it like sheep as they drive by. Either that or maybe put pictures of the goatse guy or tubgirl around the accident so people avert their eyes quickly.
And it hardly includes everything. What about those freaky religious spams from strange cults trying to save my soul? And what about spam in some weird language that my mail reader can't even render properly, with a free bonus virus attachment? What about spam that has no subject or message, just a url to a website (or even a picture)? Personally I think we should just broaden the definition of spam to be "any weird crap that I didn't ask for in my inbox" and be done with it.
You know, I just realized something: if you buy a product from Microsoft that they are selling solely as a security product, does that mean you can sue them up the wazoo (and win) if it fails to protect your computer? I seem to recall Microsoft essentially denying their culpability regarding windows security, but now they will have no excuse if their product fails, since the only function of it will be to protect your machine.
I always wondered if maybe they see the writing on the wall, and they are planning on milking their cash cow for all its worth while they can, even if blood starts coming out instead of milk. Eww I think I just grossed myself out.
No matter how secure they make the OS, there WILL be people who will run as admins and click "yes" to everything. These are the solutions that they are going to sell.
In this case I am thinking their solution will be a 2x4 labelled "Clue-by-four" with a little attached sheet that says, 'If you always run everything as admin and/or click YES on dialog boxes without thinking, hit yourself in the head with the Clue-by-four. Repeat as needed'. Cost: $380 plus shipping.
Microsoft's disclosure that it may eventually charge extra for Windows protection reflects a recognition inside the company that it could collect significant profits by helping to protect its customers.
And they don't see a conflict of interest here? Exactly what incentive would they have to fix security holes which are allowing malware into the machine in the first place if they are selling other products to "block" these kinds of attacks, or are they planning on charging for patches?
You might perhaps include under the Application porting information about things like cygwin, vmware, crossover office, etc. for running windows tools under linux (and the other way around, i.e cygwin). I am still looking at the document so you may already have this, but it would be really really helpful if you could include resources for converting from various microsoft proprietary formats -> some other format as well. I am in the process of migrating people off of an exchange server (and probably eventually totally off of outlook) and migrating address books, folders, etc isn't much fun.
1. NASA rover finds water on Mars 2. Hobbits discovered in Indonesia, still searching for the one ring 3. Human embryos cloned 4. First pulsar pair discovered 5. Atkins diet proved sound 6. Turmeric found to be highly protective against many forms of cancer 7. Study shows eating chlorophyll will really oxygenate your blood 8. Elusive Batboy located 9. Discovery of hair-straightening treatment that causes water molucules to shrink 10. New condom developed that contains benzocaine to prolong the sex act
That name for the individual bricks, coupled with the fact the picture they have on the website of the partially constructed collection looks kinda like this is rather disturbing.
I am so glad I haven't seen this: The Wizard of Earthsea is one of my favorite books from when I was a kid. Lets hope that someone else with half a brain gets the rights to the book later and makes a decent adaptation (just compare the earlier horrible lord of the rings cartoons to the recent movies, ick).
My code is too crappy to post, but some things it does that yours doesn't seem to: - Tosses out some characters (number one and little letter L for example) since they can be hard to tell apart. Anyone know of a decent font that makes ALL of the characters look different? (zero and big letter o, eight and big letter B, etc) - Makes sure none of the two characters associated with any letter are the same
Thanks for the code btw, when I rewrite mine I will use chunks of yours that look nicer:-)
Yes, and this time I saved the text so the next time a "don't write your passwords down" article comes up I can just paste it in for an instant +5 informative:-)
Yeah I actually thought of that, which is why I typically use longer words (say maybe "mybank") for the memory word, or extra "secure bits" that I tack onto any password I care about. I have also thought about modifying this to include control characters for extra secure goodness.
Hey now this looks cool, I may have to play around with this:-) I always wanted to setup one time passwords on our incoming ssh server.
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Becoming tired of remembering passwords, I wrote a little perl program to randomly generate a matrix like this:
a E9 b ?p c &m d 6K e aY f eP g !S h gn i D= j Hd k vw l Cb m W5 n 4$ o R3 p x% q 7M r NF s +2 t s* u Ay v fL w zG x Zu y cX z Qr
I then print this, laminate it, and put it in my wallet (a backup copy somewhere isn't a bad idea either). Then, for every password I just remember a word (maybe "bank" for my bank for example) which gives me a password of: ?pE94$vw Hard to guess, easy for me to "remember". If someone gets my paper (say I lose my wallet), it is still not simple to figure out what my passwords are, or even what the heck that little paper is. Shoulder surfing doesn't work too well either, unless you can memorize the whole card and then figure out which word I am using (it would be easier to try to watch me type the password on the keyboard then get it off the paper. Luckily I type fast and get annoyed when people stand over me while I type a password:-) ).
Sea level has constantly fluctuated in the geological past: its highest recorded level was in the Cretaceous Period, some 80 million years ago, when CO2 levels were considerably higher than at present, and ice-caps were virtually absent from the earth. Then, sea level stood at least 200 metres higher than today, with most of the UK being submerged.
Now the key is to figure out where the least expensive land is that is currently about 202 meters above sea level so I can have beachfront property to retire on. I wonder if I can get a good deal on a submerged English castle to ship over to move onto said property?
So wait, not one but two other people posted similiar ideas to mine at the exact same minute? So basically whichever of the three of us is hated the least won't get modded redundant perhaps? Or is there a better way to solve ties like this? (Must learn to type faster.....)
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Actually I seem to remember reading that the number one cause of accidents is people gawking at other accidents. What they need is some kind of temporary wall that can be erected quickly to hide the accident, possibly in addition to glaring spotlights to keep people from staring at it like sheep as they drive by. Either that or maybe put pictures of the goatse guy or tubgirl around the accident so people avert their eyes quickly.
And it hardly includes everything. What about those freaky religious spams from strange cults trying to save my soul? And what about spam in some weird language that my mail reader can't even render properly, with a free bonus virus attachment? What about spam that has no subject or message, just a url to a website (or even a picture)? Personally I think we should just broaden the definition of spam to be "any weird crap that I didn't ask for in my inbox" and be done with it.
You know, I just realized something: if you buy a product from Microsoft that they are selling solely as a security product, does that mean you can sue them up the wazoo (and win) if it fails to protect your computer? I seem to recall Microsoft essentially denying their culpability regarding windows security, but now they will have no excuse if their product fails, since the only function of it will be to protect your machine.
I always wondered if maybe they see the writing on the wall, and they are planning on milking their cash cow for all its worth while they can, even if blood starts coming out instead of milk. Eww I think I just grossed myself out.
In this case I am thinking their solution will be a 2x4 labelled "Clue-by-four" with a little attached sheet that says, 'If you always run everything as admin and/or click YES on dialog boxes without thinking, hit yourself in the head with the Clue-by-four. Repeat as needed'. Cost: $380 plus shipping.
And they don't see a conflict of interest here? Exactly what incentive would they have to fix security holes which are allowing malware into the machine in the first place if they are selling other products to "block" these kinds of attacks, or are they planning on charging for patches?
You might perhaps include under the Application porting information about things like cygwin, vmware, crossover office, etc. for running windows tools under linux (and the other way around, i.e cygwin). I am still looking at the document so you may already have this, but it would be really really helpful if you could include resources for converting from various microsoft proprietary formats -> some other format as well. I am in the process of migrating people off of an exchange server (and probably eventually totally off of outlook) and migrating address books, folders, etc isn't much fun.
That name for the individual bricks, coupled with the fact the picture they have on the website of the partially constructed collection looks kinda like this is rather disturbing.
I knew that playing with legos would come in handy sooner or later.
Can someone tell me why they put the condoms on their tongues? Or is that part of their normal testing process for bad science?
The are working on Ender's game even as we type! You can look here for updates, but it looks like it may be awhile yet.
I am so glad I haven't seen this: The Wizard of Earthsea is one of my favorite books from when I was a kid. Lets hope that someone else with half a brain gets the rights to the book later and makes a decent adaptation (just compare the earlier horrible lord of the rings cartoons to the recent movies, ick).
While This movie about John Nash did show how you can use math to get sex, it sadly came at the expense of the man's sanity.
Virtual island, meet hurricane Slashdot.
Hmm, well I think I am safe because I use a pretty damn small font. But I will keep an eye out for people behind me with cell phones :-)
- Tosses out some characters (number one and little letter L for example) since they can be hard to tell apart. Anyone know of a decent font that makes ALL of the characters look different? (zero and big letter o, eight and big letter B, etc)
- Makes sure none of the two characters associated with any letter are the same
Thanks for the code btw, when I rewrite mine I will use chunks of yours that look nicer :-)
Thats why I keep a second copy somewhere else safe (at home, in a safe or whatever).
Yes, and this time I saved the text so the next time a "don't write your passwords down" article comes up I can just paste it in for an instant +5 informative :-)
Yeah I actually thought of that, which is why I typically use longer words (say maybe "mybank") for the memory word, or extra "secure bits" that I tack onto any password I care about. I have also thought about modifying this to include control characters for extra secure goodness.
Hey now this looks cool, I may have to play around with this :-) I always wanted to setup one time passwords on our incoming ssh server.
Hard to guess, easy for me to "remember". If someone gets my paper (say I lose my wallet), it is still not simple to figure out what my passwords are, or even what the heck that little paper is. Shoulder surfing doesn't work too well either, unless you can memorize the whole card and then figure out which word I am using (it would be easier to try to watch me type the password on the keyboard then get it off the paper. Luckily I type fast and get annoyed when people stand over me while I type a password
As a typical American, I would like to recommend that they simply build it on their shared border. Problem solved!
Now the key is to figure out where the least expensive land is that is currently about 202 meters above sea level so I can have beachfront property to retire on. I wonder if I can get a good deal on a submerged English castle to ship over to move onto said property?
So wait, not one but two other people posted similiar ideas to mine at the exact same minute? So basically whichever of the three of us is hated the least won't get modded redundant perhaps? Or is there a better way to solve ties like this? (Must learn to type faster.....)