Sharply limit password tries before account lockout
Let me introduce you to a very simple business plan:
1. Get the usernames of some company that is making good money. Not too hard, majority of them should be first/last names concatenated.
2. Keep logging in with the usernames and password as "password". Watch as the IT is brought to their knees trying to deal with hundreds of employees being constantly locked out.
3. Contact the company asking for good sum for you to stop it.
4. PROFIT!!!
In essence this is a very trivial DoS attack. This is the reason why login attempts get long pauses before letting you try again and why accounts don't get locked down.
Do you think it was men that demanded for women to have careers?
During the WW2, due to the shortage of men, women entered the workforce. The loved it so much that after the war there was no putting them back in the homes anymore.
Face it, women want to work. They are free. It is only fair to let them choose their destiny. Yes, it did lessen (Not killed. Some women prefer to be stay-at-home moms) the traditional gender roles, but I will argue it resulted in happier population as a whole.
Looking at the natural world, the purpose of life is to survive through the genetic code. That is encoded in every organism. They are born, breed and die. Some in a very short time frame.
Humans are special in that we get to choose our purpose. However having children still feels the best. Many have said that real happiness is impossible without children. Not to mention you want someone to take care of you when you get old.
Why do you think males are more immune to these drives than females? Just because we are not limited in our number of sex cells? Men want children just as much as anyone regardless of the financial strain. It is very rare indeed for a person to choose never to have children.
Amazing how long WWII is being milked to keep patriotism and massive military complex alive. Hell, it was before I was born! I wonder how may decades 9/11 will be used as a propaganda cry.
<Sarcasm> Why are you all friendly towards Canada? They burnt down the White House!!!
Where is your hatred for Mexico? Don't you remember Alamo?!
One side will eventually win out, massacre the able men, fuck the opposed side's women and the women back home when they get back. After a few years of the coming-home-boom the population is much larger than before the war.
Sure the violence is dramatic, but much more effective solution to population control is education. If a couple has only two children, the population is stable. So if the child is able to take care of the parents in their old age, it becomes counter-productive to keep breeding (It is expensive to raise a child after all). Europe and Japan are now seeing decreasing population without massive scale plagues or slaughter.
Alas is it impossible to have all places on Earth to have a civilization level of that quality:-(
Madagascar is quite impossible to spread the virus due to only having a port, but its also useless for vaccine research. Have you noticed that it got no hospitals?
In my experience elegant source code (1) uses descriptive yet concise names for variables and functions/methods/procedures, (2) each function/method/procedure is documented with a header block immediately preceding it, (3) a competent computer programmer / software developer / software engineer can read through the source code and understand it; this person need not be an expert in the particular language, and (4) the source code is maintainable and extensible. In fact using language specific idioms often detracts from producing easily maintainable source code.
Agreed. Have you ever encountered/worked with such code? Any available for viewing somewhere?
In my entire career I have never seen any examples. Could really use some for morale boosting.
No DRM, clean installers, good responsive forums, reasonably priced. And now Linux support incoming. Virtually unheard of in today's game publishing/distributing business.
It would seem IBM has no problem with their DB/2 UDB releases, which run on every version of Linux I've thrown them at over the past 5-6 years.
True, but that is IBM you are talking about.
It is a MASSIVE corporation that charges arms-legs-and-all-other-body-parts for their services. They got the resources to spare in order to test and support their products on all the hundreds of Linux distributions.
Contrast it to GoG.com that is a speck in comparison.
You are right about Crimea. Crimea was part of Russia until relatively recently (1954). Their leaving of Ukraine was inevitable.
I am more curious about your opinion on Eastern Ukraine. That part too has quite a bit of Russian population, but was never historically part of Russia. Do you think Russia would be welcomed if they invade?
For as long as Putin and his cronies are in power, the U.S. and the rest of the western world should offer any law-abiding Russian citizen who wants to leave an automatic green card, work permit, etc.
You don't know what you are asking for! All the really smart Russians have been emigrating away in thousands since the fall of the iron curtain. If you open your doors your country will get swamped and you will be complaining about all those damn immigrants taking your jobs for cheap.
Besides, the Russian oligarchs hold all their funds in US dollars. They won't tolerate a drop in their net worth over something like this.
You hit the nail squarely on the head. This is precisely the reason why I don't think Russia will ever do any kind of economic threats nor will enter any direct conflict with the United States.
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Yeah. I still occasionally hear "Come in! Don't just stand there! COME IN!" sound when I try to fall asleep.
Person responsible for the design decision to have that play on every single fucking visit to the bar needs to have terrible things done to him.
He had already done that with Catelyn.
Who the hell uses Windows for gaming?!! Linux is where all the games are. Windows is only for serious work. :-)
If I remember correctly, one of the primary design purposes of the Shuttle was to retrieve satellites from orbit.
Apparently this requirement was so rare, that it hardly ever flew just for this reason.
Good point. I have miss-read the original post.
I was under the impression is that the second level is accessed only after the initial weak-password passes.
My bad.
Sharply limit password tries before account lockout
Let me introduce you to a very simple business plan:
1. Get the usernames of some company that is making good money. Not too hard, majority of them should be first/last names concatenated.
2. Keep logging in with the usernames and password as "password". Watch as the IT is brought to their knees trying to deal with hundreds of employees being constantly locked out.
3. Contact the company asking for good sum for you to stop it.
4. PROFIT!!!
In essence this is a very trivial DoS attack. This is the reason why login attempts get long pauses before letting you try again and why accounts don't get locked down.
And along that other line, why are so many opposed to adoption?
Same reason lion male kills off all the offspring from their competitors: You want your genetic information to live on, not someone else.
But your genetic information keeps diluting with every generation. By the fourth generation, you are well and truly dead.
Do you think it was men that demanded for women to have careers?
During the WW2, due to the shortage of men, women entered the workforce. The loved it so much that after the war there was no putting them back in the homes anymore.
Face it, women want to work. They are free. It is only fair to let them choose their destiny. Yes, it did lessen (Not killed. Some women prefer to be stay-at-home moms) the traditional gender roles, but I will argue it resulted in happier population as a whole.
Looking at the natural world, the purpose of life is to survive through the genetic code. That is encoded in every organism. They are born, breed and die. Some in a very short time frame.
Humans are special in that we get to choose our purpose. However having children still feels the best. Many have said that real happiness is impossible without children. Not to mention you want someone to take care of you when you get old.
Why do you think males are more immune to these drives than females? Just because we are not limited in our number of sex cells? Men want children just as much as anyone regardless of the financial strain. It is very rare indeed for a person to choose never to have children.
So much for discipline. Hopefully more than one child is had at a time or the single child will be spoiled rotten.
Amazing how long WWII is being milked to keep patriotism and massive military complex alive. Hell, it was before I was born! I wonder how may decades 9/11 will be used as a propaganda cry.
<Sarcasm>
Why are you all friendly towards Canada? They burnt down the White House!!!
Where is your hatred for Mexico? Don't you remember Alamo?!
Traitor!
</Sarcasm>
Um.. that never worked out.
One side will eventually win out, massacre the able men, fuck the opposed side's women and the women back home when they get back. After a few years of the coming-home-boom the population is much larger than before the war.
Sure the violence is dramatic, but much more effective solution to population control is education. If a couple has only two children, the population is stable. So if the child is able to take care of the parents in their old age, it becomes counter-productive to keep breeding (It is expensive to raise a child after all). Europe and Japan are now seeing decreasing population without massive scale plagues or slaughter.
Alas is it impossible to have all places on Earth to have a civilization level of that quality :-(
I am willing to bet that it has much better success rate than asking questions on Slashdot.
Madagascar is quite impossible to spread the virus due to only having a port, but its also useless for vaccine research. Have you noticed that it got no hospitals?
Yeah! Nuclear and Chemical weapons get all the rage these days. It is time that the "B" in the NBC gets some love!
RIP April Fools on Slashdot.
Good riddance. Internet turns useless on that particular day.
RIP Leslie. He was a genuinely funny comedian without reducing to slapstick.
In my experience elegant source code (1) uses descriptive yet concise names for variables and functions/methods/procedures, (2) each function/method/procedure is documented with a header block immediately preceding it, (3) a competent computer programmer / software developer / software engineer can read through the source code and understand it; this person need not be an expert in the particular language, and (4) the source code is maintainable and extensible. In fact using language specific idioms often detracts from producing easily maintainable source code.
Agreed. Have you ever encountered/worked with such code? Any available for viewing somewhere?
In my entire career I have never seen any examples. Could really use some for morale boosting.
Thank you so much GoG!!!
No DRM, clean installers, good responsive forums, reasonably priced. And now Linux support incoming. Virtually unheard of in today's game publishing/distributing business.
It would seem IBM has no problem with their DB/2 UDB releases, which run on every version of Linux I've thrown them at over the past 5-6 years.
True, but that is IBM you are talking about.
It is a MASSIVE corporation that charges arms-legs-and-all-other-body-parts for their services. They got the resources to spare in order to test and support their products on all the hundreds of Linux distributions.
Contrast it to GoG.com that is a speck in comparison.
You are right about Crimea. Crimea was part of Russia until relatively recently (1954). Their leaving of Ukraine was inevitable.
I am more curious about your opinion on Eastern Ukraine. That part too has quite a bit of Russian population, but was never historically part of Russia. Do you think Russia would be welcomed if they invade?
For as long as Putin and his cronies are in power, the U.S. and the rest of the western world should offer any law-abiding Russian citizen who wants to leave an automatic green card, work permit, etc.
You don't know what you are asking for! All the really smart Russians have been emigrating away in thousands since the fall of the iron curtain. If you open your doors your country will get swamped and you will be complaining about all those damn immigrants taking your jobs for cheap.
Have a look at refugee crisis in Australia.
I will hazard a guess that your grandmother was not Jewish or Roma.
Besides, the Russian oligarchs hold all their funds in US dollars. They won't tolerate a drop in their net worth over something like this.
You hit the nail squarely on the head. This is precisely the reason why I don't think Russia will ever do any kind of economic threats nor will enter any direct conflict with the United States.