a. you don't write it down b. you can remember it c. it's not in a dictionary (i like to use latinized versions of english words that never existed in latin in the first place) d. it has non-character portions (1 or 2 digits, non-standard characters like # * . > ) e. it's got nothing to do with your school, work, car, teacher, pet, child, parent, or birthplace.
The reality is that 80 plus percent of all passwords fail most of the above, even when they're more than 7 characters long.
Oh, and don't tape it under your keyboard, put it on a post-it, on the side of your monitor/computer, in your desk drawer or inside an unlocked cabinet - I already looked there.
But then I used to be the Acting Security Officer for MAPHQ back in my mil days, when I would wait till the Finance personnel just ducked out to get a drink at the water fountain or talk to an officer walking by outside about sports to go in and install keyboard listeners on their "secure" PCs that they said couldn't be cracked.
But since I Trademarked "World Intellectual Property Day" - they will be required to pay me (inserts pinky in mouth) one-million dollars - ah ha ha ha ha ha ha!
I overheard someone using the phrase All Of The Above (TM) today - which can't be registered since I trademarked that years ago, back in the 80s.
I thought about enforcing my trademark, but she was cute so I let it slide.
Copyright term in the U.S. was originally 14, extendable for another 14. Subsequent developments have lengthened the term to what it is today.
Sorry, forgot to check. Knew it was a lot less than 70 years plus life, the ridiculous value IP exists for today.
Just to put it in perspective, Genomics really has only hit its stride in the last ten years. One of the reasons why we shove things in the PDB and other public domain databases is that action defeats copyright by making it a Public Copyright and also defeats patents as it's not patentable except by method, not action.
We only release things on our websites AFTER we deposit them in the external databases so they are public domain.
We'll never be able to deny IP rights as long as we call them rights. After all, denying someone their rights is wrong by definition.
We have to recognize, and incorporate into our dialogue, that these concepts are better termed IP conventions; ie, things which are adopted because they are convenient in practice.
I suggest we call them what they are, limited personal copyrights. Because corporations aren't in the Constitution, so they have no rights other than those lawyers have pretended they do [note, judges and justices are classified in with lawyers, and representatives are mostly lawyers].
People don't like lawyers, although they're usually good in bed IMHO. At least women lawyers.
People don't think 70 years is limited, and that makes the point. So every time you talk about IP, talk about LPIP or Limited Personal Intellectual Property. Changes the whole debate right there.
Did Red even open this year? Heck, last year they didn't get much snow either.
Yup, in fact they were one of the only ski hills to actually get their usual snowfall, considering they're up in the Rockies north of the border, where most of the glaciers aren't melting - most of the ones in Washington State are melting fast and half will be gone soon.
Does Rossland even have a bar that is remotely close to the Longhorn? All I remember is a trucker bar where the women are more like men, and the men are more like bears.
Not as long as at Whistler, where Longhorn is, but then that means if we are to infer from Longhorn (actual) that Windows Longhorn will be slower than many other OS, wide (which is why they chose the name), and a b.tch to get off when newbs are using it with you or right before you.
The name of the project is a reflection of the ski hill area.
And so Longhorn is really just not that interesting, either.
Now, if it had been called Granite, from the Red Mountain Ski Area in the Purcells up in BC, instead of from the coastal mountains, we'd be cooking with gas!
Seriously, at the rate he's going, he'll be retired before he gets around to filming those, so he should GPL the script for Star Wars VII, VIII, and IX.
I've only scimmed the paper, but from the looks of it, a lot of not all that harmful trafic could be labeled "malicious", for example nmap port scans. I use them all the time, not to find valunerable services, but for more general sysadmin stuff.
If you had RTFP, you would have noticed they actually tracked a lot of that down and counted it as benign, not malicious, since they could ID the IP at their university.
Soon you'll be able to use your PC to control the lives of your very own artificial humans as they Blog away in their very own Blogs.
Watch them type on the keyboard when you click on them to Blog. See them take bathroom breaks when they've been blogging too long. Make sure their motives are kept high by ignoring the doorbell as Real Life tries to intrude on them.
Upgrade their blogging skills, learning new Social Interactions like Flamewar (hostile), Befriend A Blogger (friendly), Icon (greeting), and Blog Link (allows you to track their friends Blogs).
Have them access Facebook from their college or university to find out what parties are going on - and have them show up at Blogparties!
Coming soon to a gaming store near you!
[darn, where's the irony button when you need one...]
That's ok, I guess some people don't like questions.
My point was that, by nature, buying closed source software is buying a pig in a poke.
It might be a pig. It might be an excellent pig. But until you actually use it (shell out cash and buy it), you have no idea if it is a pig.
It might be a really fluffy gerbil with a pig mask on, and a How To Care For Pigs From Guinea manual, stuffed in a sack and selling at the price of a pig, but not a very good pig at that.
With open source, you know exactly what you're buying. You can open the code directly. You can be sure it's a pig. And if it isn't, you can modify the code and make it a pig.
But you can't do that with closed source. At some level you "trust" that it's a pig, but you have no proof, cause it's shrink-wrapped with a license agreement that takes effect before you open the shrinkwrap.
Sure, you can buy a brand of software. For example, Microsoft - most of the time when they say it does XYZ, it does XYZ - but sometimes they say it does ABCDEFGHIJKL and it really only does ABDGHIJKL and if you really need C or E, you have to buy an upgrade to get it to work, or the Developer's Edition, so you really might be getting a Pig missing a curly tail. No problem unless you actually wanted the curly tail. Sure, it's a Pig, but not the one on the Box.
I personally prefer the Gimp over Photoshop, but after seeing what features the professional graphics artist use in their day to day work I fully understand that firms specialize in that field are willing to pay the extra money for the Adobe series of products.
Well, I can see Adobe, which even runs on Linux. Heck, a bunch of my friends work there and I only live four blocks from their Seattle HQ.
But, in general, closed source is getting less and less interesting.
Slashdot Mirror
Mary's is dadisaparanoidgeek
...
John's is deathdealer2000
Linus's is ima1ee7haxx0r!
Boy, that took two minutes to figure out
the thing that matters is that:
a. you don't write it down
b. you can remember it
c. it's not in a dictionary (i like to use latinized versions of english words that never existed in latin in the first place)
d. it has non-character portions (1 or 2 digits, non-standard characters like # * . > )
e. it's got nothing to do with your school, work, car, teacher, pet, child, parent, or birthplace.
The reality is that 80 plus percent of all passwords fail most of the above, even when they're more than 7 characters long.
Oh, and don't tape it under your keyboard, put it on a post-it, on the side of your monitor/computer, in your desk drawer or inside an unlocked cabinet - I already looked there.
But then I used to be the Acting Security Officer for MAPHQ back in my mil days, when I would wait till the Finance personnel just ducked out to get a drink at the water fountain or talk to an officer walking by outside about sports to go in and install keyboard listeners on their "secure" PCs that they said couldn't be cracked.
um, what are slides?
...
Sorry, but I don't grok 20th century ideas.
Derez Metro
And Jobs is only paid one dollar a year for his work at Apple according to my annual report as a shareholder.
Think I'll go out and buy that Bioniformatics, Biocomputing and Perl book from Wiley now.
But since I Trademarked "World Intellectual Property Day" - they will be required to pay me (inserts pinky in mouth) one-million dollars - ah ha ha ha ha ha ha!
I overheard someone using the phrase All Of The Above (TM) today - which can't be registered since I trademarked that years ago, back in the 80s.
I thought about enforcing my trademark, but she was cute so I let it slide.
Copyright term in the U.S. was originally 14, extendable for another 14. Subsequent developments have lengthened the term to what it is today.
Sorry, forgot to check. Knew it was a lot less than 70 years plus life, the ridiculous value IP exists for today.
Just to put it in perspective, Genomics really has only hit its stride in the last ten years. One of the reasons why we shove things in the PDB and other public domain databases is that action defeats copyright by making it a Public Copyright and also defeats patents as it's not patentable except by method, not action.
We only release things on our websites AFTER we deposit them in the external databases so they are public domain.
We'll never be able to deny IP rights as long as we call them rights. After all, denying someone their rights is wrong by definition.
We have to recognize, and incorporate into our dialogue, that these concepts are better termed IP conventions; ie, things which are adopted because they are convenient in practice.
I suggest we call them what they are, limited personal copyrights. Because corporations aren't in the Constitution, so they have no rights other than those lawyers have pretended they do [note, judges and justices are classified in with lawyers, and representatives are mostly lawyers].
People don't like lawyers, although they're usually good in bed IMHO. At least women lawyers.
People don't think 70 years is limited, and that makes the point. So every time you talk about IP, talk about LPIP or Limited Personal Intellectual Property. Changes the whole debate right there.
Now they're 70 years plus life.
Corporations don't die, so that makes them even longer.
Talk about stifling innovation...
Did Red even open this year? Heck, last year they didn't get much snow either.
Yup, in fact they were one of the only ski hills to actually get their usual snowfall, considering they're up in the Rockies north of the border, where most of the glaciers aren't melting - most of the ones in Washington State are melting fast and half will be gone soon.
Does Rossland even have a bar that is remotely close to the Longhorn? All I remember is a trucker bar where the women are more like men, and the men are more like bears.
Not as long as at Whistler, where Longhorn is, but then that means if we are to infer from Longhorn (actual) that Windows Longhorn will be slower than many other OS, wide (which is why they chose the name), and a b.tch to get off when newbs are using it with you or right before you.
Crash city!
you'd know it was really not much.
The name of the project is a reflection of the ski hill area.
And so Longhorn is really just not that interesting, either.
Now, if it had been called Granite, from the Red Mountain Ski Area in the Purcells up in BC, instead of from the coastal mountains, we'd be cooking with gas!
it's grade 8 kids - at least based on what my son tells me, everyone in grade 8 in Seattle does this.
My son was telling me it's a fairly easy hack and all the 8th graders find it pretty easy to Wiki-hack.
Sigh.
I sure am happy no one can read my mind right now...
... that path leads to destruction.
Step 1: HamsterWebCam
Step 2: ???
Step 3: Profit!!
Beware of the Dark Hamster, Luke
And until a "normal" HDTV sells for less than $500, consumers will resist it.
It's all about the money, honey.
Seriously, at the rate he's going, he'll be retired before he gets around to filming those, so he should GPL the script for Star Wars VII, VIII, and IX.
It would do the same thing.
HamsterCam, ne1?
I've only scimmed the paper, but from the looks of it, a lot of not all that harmful trafic could be labeled "malicious", for example nmap port scans. I use them all the time, not to find valunerable services, but for more general sysadmin stuff.
If you had RTFP, you would have noticed they actually tracked a lot of that down and counted it as benign, not malicious, since they could ID the IP at their university.
It can't be good to have a 8731x1276 GIF as a logo [gatech.edu] on their first page, especially when being slashdotted.
Reminds me of a friend who works at Adobe, trying to get us to post a large PDF for our web page, when all we needed was a small 4k JPEG.
People who don't grok that half the Net has limited bandwidth don't deserve to ever use the Gigabit Internet we use here at universities, IMHO.
If it doesn't need formatting, sending it in clear text.
Soon you'll be able to use your PC to control the lives of your very own artificial humans as they Blog away in their very own Blogs.
...]
Watch them type on the keyboard when you click on them to Blog. See them take bathroom breaks when they've been blogging too long. Make sure their motives are kept high by ignoring the doorbell as Real Life tries to intrude on them.
Upgrade their blogging skills, learning new Social Interactions like Flamewar (hostile), Befriend A Blogger (friendly), Icon (greeting), and Blog Link (allows you to track their friends Blogs).
Have them access Facebook from their college or university to find out what parties are going on - and have them show up at Blogparties!
Coming soon to a gaming store near you!
[darn, where's the irony button when you need one
when a major business magazine writes an article on how it's such an important trend.
Happened with Sigma-5 (or whatever the lame GE methodology was), happened with dot coms, now it's blogging.
Well, it was fun while it lasted.
That's ok, I guess some people don't like questions.
My point was that, by nature, buying closed source software is buying a pig in a poke.
It might be a pig. It might be an excellent pig. But until you actually use it (shell out cash and buy it), you have no idea if it is a pig.
It might be a really fluffy gerbil with a pig mask on, and a How To Care For Pigs From Guinea manual, stuffed in a sack and selling at the price of a pig, but not a very good pig at that.
With open source, you know exactly what you're buying. You can open the code directly. You can be sure it's a pig. And if it isn't, you can modify the code and make it a pig.
But you can't do that with closed source. At some level you "trust" that it's a pig, but you have no proof, cause it's shrink-wrapped with a license agreement that takes effect before you open the shrinkwrap.
Sure, you can buy a brand of software. For example, Microsoft - most of the time when they say it does XYZ, it does XYZ - but sometimes they say it does ABCDEFGHIJKL and it really only does ABDGHIJKL and if you really need C or E, you have to buy an upgrade to get it to work, or the Developer's Edition, so you really might be getting a Pig missing a curly tail. No problem unless you actually wanted the curly tail. Sure, it's a Pig, but not the one on the Box.
I personally prefer the Gimp over Photoshop, but after seeing what features the professional graphics artist use in their day to day work I fully understand that firms specialize in that field are willing to pay the extra money for the Adobe series of products.
Well, I can see Adobe, which even runs on Linux. Heck, a bunch of my friends work there and I only live four blocks from their Seattle HQ.
But, in general, closed source is getting less and less interesting.
If it's not Open Source, why bother?
Seriously, it's not like anyone wants it.
of Inuit, one of Canada's official languages, RIAA will never figure that one out.
I wonder what a long list of John Smith, John Q. Public, I.M. Haxx0r, R.U. Krazy, looks like anyway?
but I've only got 233 MHz and 96MB of RAM, so I guess I'll stick with Opera 7.
Seriously, why bother upgrading? It works fine on my machine there, and Firefox works ok on my 450 MHz 512MB RAM Linux servers.
And it won't run on my iMac 96MB RRAM machine either.