Only if you've clicked through from a Google search result
It works from Yahoo as well...it must be the referrer...because it doesn't work from, say, startpage.com...
I could see Yahoo and Google saying to Experts-Exchange: "Hey, we like it when people use our engine over any else's...we'll shoot you some cash if you let is read your answers...
Scientist #2: Well, let's figure out why, and attempt to correct the cause...
Scientist #1: No, wait! We can use our powers of scientifity to create a new, ultraimpervious, megastrong bee...that way it'll survive anything we do to make it's natural habitat inhospitable...
Scientist #2: Hmmm, you might be on to something...but what if it's not just the environment? What if it's some other natural evolution of another species that is now a predator to the bee?
Scientist #1: Fuck that shit. It's gonna die up against our new SuperBee(R).
Scientist #2: I'm almost convinced. What if this strikes an unnatural balance across the continent? How can we be sure that we don't fuck shit up for everything else?
Scientist #1: Think of the money we're going to make once we patent the gene!
Scientist #2: Holy shit, your solution is perfect! Let's get our friends to write some endorsements, and we'll be golden.
Scientist #1: I'm glad we've come to an understanding.
There are no details of how the two panels would be made up, but the importance of the proposals mean they could have wide-ranging impacts on civil law
So, before it's ratified, no one (the general public) will have any idea that it's made of shills and stakeholders.
If anyone here knew how unsecured your data is (unless it has been encrypted outside of their setup), no one would ever use it.
This may be out of date information, but I highly doubt DropBox has changed their routine. Back in April, it was exposed that if anyone gets ahold of your DropBox's config.db file on your computer (which contains a host_id/GUID...which is open to random guessing as well) they can use ANY valid username/password (e.g. their own) to access files in that GUID's (your) box.
Yes, it's that easy.
When will people learn...these companies aren't giving you what you want out of the goodness of their hearts...they are making money doing whatever they are doing, and it's going to be somehow at your expense. Your security is NOT their concern. DropBox could EASILY tie your user/pass to validated hosts...but...they don't.
Anyone remember? You could gain access to anyone else's mailbox by replacing your own address with theirs in the URL bar...10 years later, a bank still can't figure that out? These are the jackasses we "trust" with all of our money and assets, too.
In an 8 character password:
62 ^ 8 = 218,340,105,584,896 combinations
93 ^ 8 = 4,702,525,276,151,521 combinations
which is just over 21.5 times as difficult to brute force.
Anyway, we should really be speaking about bits instead of this key/that key, because a password is only good if you can type it on the device you wish to use to access the data behind it. Sure, I can enter Unicode characters on my computer...but have fun trying to gain access with an phone, game console, or whatever other 'smart' device, but the simple fact remains that there are only so many typeable characters. We could use a Unicode character set, but that alone would provide any further difficulty to brute force because the attacker would know the keyspace...whether it's represented by ASCII or Unicode...(well, then we'd open it up to which alphabet/language is used, but that is a very guessable attribute).
When the URL bar is removed, it's way easier for 99% of the population to set your homepage to a search engine, and just enter the URL in the search box and click 'search'.
Now, I wonder who will get the click data for that? What is Chrome's default homepage? What is FireFox's default homepage?
Yeah, thought so. Guess who is probably getting a few $million to follow Chrome's URL bar delete?
Inevitability makes our cries an exercise in futility.
100% agreed, and I RTFM (the PCI compliance manual). I do work for a company that suggested that they had a PCI audit, and that their system was found to be in compliance. I know for a fact that they are not, and will never be even remotely close to compliant. PCI compliance is FAR too restrictive for any company that doesn't spend
It's also clear to me that it's not even close to enforced by the processors. Once, during a phone conference with my client and their client, I suggested that PCI security should be considered during the programming of an application...my client told me, in short, to shut up about it.
Furthermore, the only reason the payment card industry has come up with this is to make it so that they could yank processing permission for anyone they want. If they -really- wanted to enforce PCI compliance, they would use any of the very public cases to terminate CC processing...but I haven't seen it done yet.
Truth is, enforcing PCI compliance would cost the processor more money than they would lose on fraud claims.
Communism isn't inherently evil. Not at all. The people conducting communism have proven to be so (along with the propaganda you have been fed, I am sure), which is why you've drawn that conclusion.
Communism, capitalism, etc etc can be wonderful ways of life, as long as the people conducting those ways of lives are not evil and maintain the system with personal responsibility, altruism, and integrity.
Consider this: If everyone in the world chose not to exploit and take advantage of others, we would live in what most would consider heaven. It's only because there are a few (thousand?) people hell-bent on control and power that we (billions) suffer through THEIR system of control and power. Imagine how much money and power over an entire country/the world an ancient tribe desires. Once you realize that the society you (and I) live in is designed to prevent your satisfaction, contentment, and self-actualization, you'll realize that political and monetary systems are irrelevant to your true life. Yes...it's a natural drive...but it's not a requirement of life.
I have a few Email addresses. Each has its own purpose. One for people I just meet on the Net, one for business-type communication, etc. Why not one for use with the government? I'd use it -only- for comm with the government. The only problem with that (as with ANY Email) is that there's no way to be sure your recipient has indeed received your message. Sure, read receipts, but they don't tell you who received it, just that someone did...somewhere.
If I'm going to use Email, I want it to be properly authenticated somehow, so that I know a) it hasn't gone off into the abyss, like so many other messages I've sent to companies etc AND...and this is the most important part...b) that when I receive a reply, I know that it's my government replying. (Can you imagine the phishing that could occur?!)
In the end, I would do it only if they required public-key encryption...but I know they won't...because that would kick start something they wouldn't like very much.
Hmmm, now you've got me thinking. I think the engine in my car puts out 340kW (460HP). A 6.5MW generator would have to be something close to 20 times that. I've heard of some vehicle engines being 1,000HP, which is roughly double, so, maybe 10 of those high-output engines would do it...but that's peak output..not a happy place to sit for any motor or engine. I can only imagine feeding something of that size...and then cooling...
Why not put them on the roof? I think any datacenter designer would say that, first thing...I mean, they stored their precious depleted uranium and plutonium on the roof...why not the generators too?
The real problem everywhere...and I do see it everywhere...is that the people paid to be the people that 'know' simply don't know, or have no sense of creativity or foresight. I mean come on, they built a tsunami wall because they have a high probability of tsunamis, and then they go and put the most mission-critical, life-saving, life-altering power generators in the path of a tsunami-we-are-protected-from+1. For crying out loud, when I moved into my house I very easily decided that I won't put anything in my basement that I -really- care about...and I'm not even -near- a flood plane...let alone on a coastal fissure infested area known as the frickin' ring-of-fire!
I should be in charge of everything...that way crap would get done, it wouldn't be obsolescently planned, no one would die from corporate gree^H^H^H^H"mistakes", and life would be easy for everyone.
I would suggest that the same 'punch' as a.22cal kinetic weapon is not necessary. Kinetic weapons rely on the premise of uncontrolled damage for effectiveness (i.e. trauma = stopping 'power'). Energy weapons rely on a potentially different premise: tactical damage -- cleanly disablement of a target's vital system (i.e. disable the brain, heart, nervous system). You see the same effect from other energy weapons, such as a tazer. All it would take for this weapon to disable an enemy human, for example, would be to steam a whole through the chest into the lungs/heart, or through the skull into the brain. Tissue is pretty soft. I can't imagine it would take much more than this example to do it...and think of this: If some backyard engineer created this...what do you think the gargantuan budget of the U.S. military has created?
Kinetic weapons aren't dead, and won't be for quite a while. Energy weapons are in their infancy, and likely already have a niche. It just isn't advertised yet.
No, you are not right, you are a lemming, and you deserve the future you will build for yourself.
I, and Clone, on the other hand, are not. We don't deserve the future that you and every other ignorant, short-sighted, uneducated, self-involved cows of society are lallygagging us toward. I'm so glad you trust your government, just wait until your trust ends you up at the business end of knight stick, Taser, or bullet marked "City Police".
Enormous amounts of crime are permitted by the dollar? Are you joking?! We should kill the Internet then, because it supports an even greater amount of crime...what about cars...they permit crimes as well...they should be eliminated too.
Wait what? Currency may have it's faults, but it's been a long time since it was feasible to barter for anything. Part of industrialization (and specialization) means that what you produce won't be valuable to everybody. I can't exactly trade some software coding work with the farmer up the highway for some eggs, but I can trade it for some money from a software company and then use that money to buy my eggs. There's no reason to look so far backwards when trying to be "free." It's unfortunate the steps governments have taken these days to get the impression that anything a government can do is automatically restricting to freedom - but realistically speaking, without a small government with a rule of law and protection of property, you *can't* be free. Try bartering anything when the guy with the bigger guns will simply take what he wants. I'll be the first to stand up and say the government has far overstepped its bounds, but claiming there's more freedom in using a Mastercard than a nationally recognized legal tender is asinine.
Cash transactions are not to avoid reporting income. It's to buy what I want from who I want without anybody snooping into the details, government or otherwise.
...and control...snooping, that's a lesser evil...the government won't be the ones processing the transactions, it'll banks...which can turn an account off whenever they want. AND, if you want to take your money to another bank, how does everyone else here think that will happen? (consider for a moment that the bank doesn't like you because the gov't told them you are a terrorist or on a watch-list or something)...I know you understand...it's 99% of everyone else that doesn't have a clue...
It's not a government document you tool...it's legal tender. It's PERMITTED by the government to be used to settle a debt. The government doesn't know that you have any particular bill, and they don't know with whom you will trade it.
If you ever want to do a tax-free off-the-books transaction again in your life, you'll actually STOP using electronic methods of payment.
Find my other post in this thread about how you'll lose far more than just that and you'll see how myopic your perspective is on the matter.
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It works from Yahoo as well...it must be the referrer...because it doesn't work from, say, startpage.com...
I could see Yahoo and Google saying to Experts-Exchange: "Hey, we like it when people use our engine over any else's...we'll shoot you some cash if you let is read your answers...
...a girlfriend that requires you to swipe a credit card on the promise of future nooky...
Uhhhh, I think you need to find a different "type" of "girlfriend"...either that, or maybe start paying afterward.
Scientist #2: Well, let's figure out why, and attempt to correct the cause...
Scientist #1: No, wait! We can use our powers of scientifity to create a new, ultraimpervious, megastrong bee...that way it'll survive anything we do to make it's natural habitat inhospitable...
Scientist #2: Hmmm, you might be on to something...but what if it's not just the environment? What if it's some other natural evolution of another species that is now a predator to the bee?
Scientist #1: Fuck that shit. It's gonna die up against our new SuperBee(R).
Scientist #2: I'm almost convinced. What if this strikes an unnatural balance across the continent? How can we be sure that we don't fuck shit up for everything else?
Scientist #1: Think of the money we're going to make once we patent the gene!
Scientist #2: Holy shit, your solution is perfect! Let's get our friends to write some endorsements, and we'll be golden.
Scientist #1: I'm glad we've come to an understanding.
Software doesn't decay like your house does, jackass.
There are no details of how the two panels would be made up, but the importance of the proposals mean they could have wide-ranging impacts on civil law
So, before it's ratified, no one (the general public) will have any idea that it's made of shills and stakeholders.
Wonderful...
Dropbox is secure...
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH....
...
hahahhahahaahahahahahah
If anyone here knew how unsecured your data is (unless it has been encrypted outside of their setup), no one would ever use it.
This may be out of date information, but I highly doubt DropBox has changed their routine. Back in April, it was exposed that if anyone gets ahold of your DropBox's config.db file on your computer (which contains a host_id/GUID...which is open to random guessing as well) they can use ANY valid username/password (e.g. their own) to access files in that GUID's (your) box.
Yes, it's that easy.
When will people learn...these companies aren't giving you what you want out of the goodness of their hearts...they are making money doing whatever they are doing, and it's going to be somehow at your expense. Your security is NOT their concern. DropBox could EASILY tie your user/pass to validated hosts...but...they don't.
Some easy reading:
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Design-Security-Flaw-Allegedly-Discovered-in-Dropbox-Client-194427.shtml
May as well keep $500,000 worth of BitCoins in the same file...
who immediately went and checked their own bank website for the same vulnerability?
Anyone remember? You could gain access to anyone else's mailbox by replacing your own address with theirs in the URL bar...10 years later, a bank still can't figure that out? These are the jackasses we "trust" with all of our money and assets, too.
You missed a few:
[space] )_+-=[]\{}|;':"?,./
which is 71 + 20 = 91 values.
In an 8 character password:
62 ^ 8 = 218,340,105,584,896 combinations
93 ^ 8 = 4,702,525,276,151,521 combinations
which is just over 21.5 times as difficult to brute force.
Anyway, we should really be speaking about bits instead of this key/that key, because a password is only good if you can type it on the device you wish to use to access the data behind it. Sure, I can enter Unicode characters on my computer...but have fun trying to gain access with an phone, game console, or whatever other 'smart' device, but the simple fact remains that there are only so many typeable characters. We could use a Unicode character set, but that alone would provide any further difficulty to brute force because the attacker would know the keyspace...whether it's represented by ASCII or Unicode...(well, then we'd open it up to which alphabet/language is used, but that is a very guessable attribute).
Oh man, first post to make me actually laugh out loud in quite a while. Keep up the good work.
...on a fall 201 iMac...
Holy crap...dude...your computer is 1809 years old...I think it's time to upgrade.
It's all about advertising and dollars.
When the URL bar is removed, it's way easier for 99% of the population to set your homepage to a search engine, and just enter the URL in the search box and click 'search'.
Now, I wonder who will get the click data for that? What is Chrome's default homepage? What is FireFox's default homepage?
Yeah, thought so. Guess who is probably getting a few $million to follow Chrome's URL bar delete?
Inevitability makes our cries an exercise in futility.
definitely shows that PCI is bullshit ;)
100% agreed, and I RTFM (the PCI compliance manual). I do work for a company that suggested that they had a PCI audit, and that their system was found to be in compliance. I know for a fact that they are not, and will never be even remotely close to compliant. PCI compliance is FAR too restrictive for any company that doesn't spend
It's also clear to me that it's not even close to enforced by the processors. Once, during a phone conference with my client and their client, I suggested that PCI security should be considered during the programming of an application...my client told me, in short, to shut up about it.
Furthermore, the only reason the payment card industry has come up with this is to make it so that they could yank processing permission for anyone they want. If they -really- wanted to enforce PCI compliance, they would use any of the very public cases to terminate CC processing...but I haven't seen it done yet.
Truth is, enforcing PCI compliance would cost the processor more money than they would lose on fraud claims.
Communism isn't inherently evil. Not at all. The people conducting communism have proven to be so (along with the propaganda you have been fed, I am sure), which is why you've drawn that conclusion.
Communism, capitalism, etc etc can be wonderful ways of life, as long as the people conducting those ways of lives are not evil and maintain the system with personal responsibility, altruism, and integrity.
Consider this: If everyone in the world chose not to exploit and take advantage of others, we would live in what most would consider heaven. It's only because there are a few (thousand?) people hell-bent on control and power that we (billions) suffer through THEIR system of control and power. Imagine how much money and power over an entire country/the world an ancient tribe desires. Once you realize that the society you (and I) live in is designed to prevent your satisfaction, contentment, and self-actualization, you'll realize that political and monetary systems are irrelevant to your true life. Yes...it's a natural drive...but it's not a requirement of life.
I have a few Email addresses. Each has its own purpose. One for people I just meet on the Net, one for business-type communication, etc. Why not one for use with the government? I'd use it -only- for comm with the government. The only problem with that (as with ANY Email) is that there's no way to be sure your recipient has indeed received your message. Sure, read receipts, but they don't tell you who received it, just that someone did...somewhere.
If I'm going to use Email, I want it to be properly authenticated somehow, so that I know a) it hasn't gone off into the abyss, like so many other messages I've sent to companies etc AND...and this is the most important part...b) that when I receive a reply, I know that it's my government replying. (Can you imagine the phishing that could occur?!)
In the end, I would do it only if they required public-key encryption...but I know they won't...because that would kick start something they wouldn't like very much.
Hmmm, now you've got me thinking. I think the engine in my car puts out 340kW (460HP). A 6.5MW generator would have to be something close to 20 times that. I've heard of some vehicle engines being 1,000HP, which is roughly double, so, maybe 10 of those high-output engines would do it...but that's peak output..not a happy place to sit for any motor or engine. I can only imagine feeding something of that size...and then cooling...
Large-scale engineering amazes me.
6.5MW is a lot...over 10,000 fuel rods were stored there (well, maybe not right on the roof)...what can I say, I'm an arm-chair expert in the field.
Ok, I'll shut up.
Why not put them on the roof? I think any datacenter designer would say that, first thing...I mean, they stored their precious depleted uranium and plutonium on the roof...why not the generators too?
The real problem everywhere...and I do see it everywhere...is that the people paid to be the people that 'know' simply don't know, or have no sense of creativity or foresight. I mean come on, they built a tsunami wall because they have a high probability of tsunamis, and then they go and put the most mission-critical, life-saving, life-altering power generators in the path of a tsunami-we-are-protected-from+1. For crying out loud, when I moved into my house I very easily decided that I won't put anything in my basement that I -really- care about...and I'm not even -near- a flood plane...let alone on a coastal fissure infested area known as the frickin' ring-of-fire!
I should be in charge of everything...that way crap would get done, it wouldn't be obsolescently planned, no one would die from corporate gree^H^H^H^H"mistakes", and life would be easy for everyone.
Very scary business, this is.
Check the "tutorial"...chapter 6.
http://www.cellebrite.com/forensic-products/ufed-standard-kit/ufed-video-tutorial.html
I would suggest that the same 'punch' as a .22cal kinetic weapon is not necessary. Kinetic weapons rely on the premise of uncontrolled damage for effectiveness (i.e. trauma = stopping 'power'). Energy weapons rely on a potentially different premise: tactical damage -- cleanly disablement of a target's vital system (i.e. disable the brain, heart, nervous system). You see the same effect from other energy weapons, such as a tazer. All it would take for this weapon to disable an enemy human, for example, would be to steam a whole through the chest into the lungs/heart, or through the skull into the brain. Tissue is pretty soft. I can't imagine it would take much more than this example to do it...and think of this: If some backyard engineer created this...what do you think the gargantuan budget of the U.S. military has created?
Kinetic weapons aren't dead, and won't be for quite a while. Energy weapons are in their infancy, and likely already have a niche. It just isn't advertised yet.
$100 says you work for the payment card industry, law enforcement, or are contracted to one of them.
That'll be cash, please.
No, I'm right,
No, you are not right, you are a lemming, and you deserve the future you will build for yourself.
I, and Clone, on the other hand, are not. We don't deserve the future that you and every other ignorant, short-sighted, uneducated, self-involved cows of society are lallygagging us toward. I'm so glad you trust your government, just wait until your trust ends you up at the business end of knight stick, Taser, or bullet marked "City Police".
Enormous amounts of crime are permitted by the dollar? Are you joking?! We should kill the Internet then, because it supports an even greater amount of crime...what about cars...they permit crimes as well...they should be eliminated too.
Thanks, we appreciate what you've done for us.
Wait what? Currency may have it's faults, but it's been a long time since it was feasible to barter for anything. Part of industrialization (and specialization) means that what you produce won't be valuable to everybody. I can't exactly trade some software coding work with the farmer up the highway for some eggs, but I can trade it for some money from a software company and then use that money to buy my eggs. There's no reason to look so far backwards when trying to be "free." It's unfortunate the steps governments have taken these days to get the impression that anything a government can do is automatically restricting to freedom - but realistically speaking, without a small government with a rule of law and protection of property, you *can't* be free. Try bartering anything when the guy with the bigger guns will simply take what he wants. I'll be the first to stand up and say the government has far overstepped its bounds, but claiming there's more freedom in using a Mastercard than a nationally recognized legal tender is asinine.
Cash transactions are not to avoid reporting income. It's to buy what I want from who I want without anybody snooping into the details, government or otherwise.
This is exactly what is going to happen. Mark my words, if we go purely electronic we will then be owned by the banks, purely.
It's not a government document you tool...it's legal tender. It's PERMITTED by the government to be used to settle a debt. The government doesn't know that you have any particular bill, and they don't know with whom you will trade it.
If you ever want to do a tax-free off-the-books transaction again in your life, you'll actually STOP using electronic methods of payment.
Find my other post in this thread about how you'll lose far more than just that and you'll see how myopic your perspective is on the matter.