The advice is only wrong that he said "common words" and didn't give a random procedure for picking - the size of the dictionary matters, and expecting humans to be random without some help isn't reliable. If he said "take a paper dictionary, open it a random page and finger position and pick a word 5 times" he'd have extremely good advice.
If you pick 7 different words at random from a dictionary of 100,000 words and make a sentence from them you have log(100,000 choose 7)/log(2) bits of entropy that's 104 bits.
You'll never be able to remember a random character password worth 104 bits. Never. But you could remember a 7 word sentence.
entropy is, and how to measure it. Then we will solve the problem. Oh my God there is nothing worse than what passes for good passwords. People are good at remembering sentences and those have lots of entropy. People are terrible at remembering what we call passwords and those have very little.
We're just doing this wrong from beginning to end.
A good password could be made from real words as long as there are enough of them.
It's true that you want to pick from a larger dictionary rather than a smaller one. Perhaps you should estimate the entropy of a word by how common it is. What matters is total entropy not horrors like expecting users to remember misspelled words or strange symbols.
"“When they are 15, you don’t, for example, let them go to pub..."
She's saying that our kids are killing themselves because they aren't drinking enough... and they're depressed because they know what wanking looks like. You know, I think any kid with a mirror already knows that.
Since over evolutionary periods we didn't have buildings or privacy, and since we evolved from apes, NOT SEEING that is what is new, different and probably harmful.
For some reason there isn't a single thing that isn't assumed to be bad for kids.
However there are plenty of changes I would roll back... like when I was a kid, I was "free range," I decided how to spend my time, all of the time and I came and went as I pleased - that's almost considered a crime now.
I deliberately refused to join any extra classes or such organized things, which meant that I could play.
Here she is arguing that allowing her university to host a speech by a feminist who is helping sex workers would not only be a personal attack on herself and every woman and but also, somehow, a danger
Cynthia McKinney is probably the one who pushed very hard for making people avoid talking about sex, and for laws to enforce that.
She said that such speech was an attack on her and other women.
But it's easy to see why. She'd been abused and molested since she was 8. She was in abusive relationships. She had a husband force her into prostitution.
She was a surpremely damaged person! But America has taken the limitations of a maximally emotionally damaged person and made her limits EVERYONE'S limits in public.
A little dirty humor "is controversial" in the United States and probably would be in, say, Iran. But there are cultures that consider talking about sex totally harmless. I know that's a foreign idea in a country where you can lose your job or, conceivably, end up in court or even prison for making a harmless joke at the wrong time or in front of the wrong person. Cultures that aren't so uptight are superior to ours.
Having one study where they use a few premade pictures is hardly proof that they've really succeeded. Early stage stuff, and none of us have seen it in action. When they ACTUALLY succeed with stock machines then we'll all know it.
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Iiiiiiiiit's supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!
Note: copying and pasting passwords is a hell of a security hole. Every single program can read the clipboard.
If only society had some way of teaching people things so that they wouldn't be incompetent.
We could call it Skowol.
The advice is only wrong that he said "common words" and didn't give a random procedure for picking - the size of the dictionary matters, and expecting humans to be random without some help isn't reliable. If he said "take a paper dictionary, open it a random page and finger position and pick a word 5 times" he'd have extremely good advice.
Uhm you didn't understand what I typed.
If you pick 7 different words at random from a dictionary of 100,000 words and make a sentence from them you have log(100,000 choose 7)/log(2) bits of entropy that's 104 bits.
You'll never be able to remember a random character password worth 104 bits. Never. But you could remember a 7 word sentence.
entropy is, and how to measure it. Then we will solve the problem. Oh my God there is nothing worse than what passes for good passwords. People are good at remembering sentences and those have lots of entropy. People are terrible at remembering what we call passwords and those have very little.
We're just doing this wrong from beginning to end.
Bull. Totally wrong.
A good password could be made from real words as long as there are enough of them.
It's true that you want to pick from a larger dictionary rather than a smaller one. Perhaps you should estimate the entropy of a word by how common it is. What matters is total entropy not horrors like expecting users to remember misspelled words or strange symbols.
that we're doing it exactly backwards. https://xkcd.com/936/
Are we ever going to make strong passwords? Ever?
For God's sake, password strength meters were either invented by an incompetent or by the NSA to weaken the web.
Especially after "Anthony"
just resting.
There will be articles saying that our kids are sick because they don't troll enough on the internet, see enough porn or play enough video games.
Well, she probably wants to be a writer and knows that this is one of the most common "phone it in" articles that get printed.
And she got it printed. Good job!
Oops, misread >.>
"“When they are 15, you don’t, for example, let them go to pub..."
She's saying that our kids are killing themselves because they aren't drinking enough ... and they're depressed because they know what wanking looks like. You know, I think any kid with a mirror already knows that.
Since over evolutionary periods we didn't have buildings or privacy, and since we evolved from apes, NOT SEEING that is what is new, different and probably harmful.
For some reason there isn't a single thing that isn't assumed to be bad for kids.
However there are plenty of changes I would roll back...
like when I was a kid, I was "free range," I decided how to spend my time, all of the time and I came and went as I pleased - that's almost considered a crime now.
I deliberately refused to join any extra classes or such organized things, which meant that I could play.
Oh be fair, everyone has killed millions in gulags. The important thing is to get it out in the open. I know I have!
"wiredlogic" is a manipulative argument. Those aren't required to make any sense. The point is not to make any sense, the point is to get obedience.
In Iran, the punishment for having pornography is death.
I believe they're also famous for the saying "there is no humor in Islam."
Yes, sorry for the mixup.
Here she is arguing that allowing her university to host a speech by a feminist who is helping sex workers would not only be a personal attack on herself and every woman and but also, somehow, a danger
http://hurryupharry.org/2015/0...
Cynthia McKinney is probably the one who pushed very hard for making people avoid talking about sex, and for laws to enforce that.
She said that such speech was an attack on her and other women.
But it's easy to see why. She'd been abused and molested since she was 8. She was in abusive relationships. She had a husband force her into prostitution.
She was a surpremely damaged person! But America has taken the limitations of a maximally emotionally damaged person and made her limits EVERYONE'S limits in public.
This is a bad thing.
A little dirty humor "is controversial" in the United States and probably would be in, say, Iran. But there are cultures that consider talking about sex totally harmless. I know that's a foreign idea in a country where you can lose your job or, conceivably, end up in court or even prison for making a harmless joke at the wrong time or in front of the wrong person. Cultures that aren't so uptight are superior to ours.
The end of the Republican party. Normal people voting instead of crazy, obsessed people who have no life, such as elderly voters who watch Fox.
Having one study where they use a few premade pictures is hardly proof that they've really succeeded. Early stage stuff, and none of us have seen it in action. When they ACTUALLY succeed with stock machines then we'll all know it.
We're nowhere near that point.
modeling? How about if we wait until we all have experience that computers are good at the basics before we assume that they can safely drive cars?