Sorry, I was using purse in the UK English sense, not the US English sense. We say handbag where you say purse, and we say purse where you say... I don't know actually what you say. In UK English, a purse is literally "a bag for holding coins"; more practiacally these days a woman's purse is a large wallet that has a coin holding compartment. Wallet is optimised for people with trouser pockets; purse is optimised for people with bags.
Anyhow, what I mean is, keep the password in the same palce as your credit cards, ID card, paper money.
Make the passwords to hard to remember and people write them down because thay have to.
Some advice Bruce Schneider once gave: there is nothing so terribly wrong with writing your password down on a piece of paper and putting it into your wallet. Your wallet is a security mechanism that you already use, and you are very practiced at keeping it secure.
Myself, I use muscle memory to store mine. I make up an entierley random password and spend 20 minutes typing it over and over again until my hands remember how to make that sequence of twitches. Works great; and no risk of me acidentally telling someone my password because I don't know what it is.
Do we all get a PHd as well if we help you? If so, can you please provide details of the institution issuing the doctorate - I want to make sure that I don't get a bad school added to my CV.
So, you think we should do the greater of two evils, because the lesser of the two is still evil, and if you're going to be evil you might as well do it properly?
I heard one of their spokesmen put the case that given a choice between Google being banned, and google giveing censored results with a note on them saying "this was censored", it seemed that the latter might be more helpful to the cause of freedom in China, and I can't help but think that there was something in that point.
Another important point to remember is that they censor their results in other countries as well, for example France and Germany.
You haven't so much waived your right to fair use, but lost the ability to exercise that right.
This is because if you try to make a copy under fair use, the DRM software will stop you.
Of course I am, not unreasonably, assuming here that your DRM software does not include a perfect AI duplicate of the current US Supreme court (or your local equivelant) in software, and is therefore unable to tell if the copy you are making is fair use or not...
Worst thing of all, by not changing it at the same time as posting an announcement story, all the meta-discussion about the new look is stuck here in a story making it impossible to read.
So according to the article, a Mac Game developer thinks that Apple should stop what they're doing and promote Macs as... games machines? Holy Crap!
Steve should totally listen to that lady, I mean she must be a great businesswoman, what with deciding to work for a company that makes gaes for the Mac.
OK, that was rude of me, and before the flames come, I know Macs can do everything, like all personal computers they're general purpose machines.
But business 101: when you're in a market with lots of big players, you have to identify a unique selling point and promote the hell out of it. At the moment, the Mac USP is "imagine how good a computer must be if it's made by the people who invented the iPod" and while that does leave out lots of great things about the Mac, it's probably the best choice they could have made.
It would be suicide to push it as a games machine. If they did, people would say "Cool. Does it play GTA? Or Halo?" and the answer will be no.
But never mind the hypocracy - what kind of teacher uses materials in class that did not come from an independant source? Don't they have pride in their profession? Ahem - won't somebody think of the children?
Best time for it. My working pattern is: Come into the office. Dock Computer Open Lid Log on Go get coffee Work Close Lid Go Home Open Lid Work So a few moments extra at boot is cool by me.
"Gamecube"? You must know some stange men... have you got their phone numbers? I just wanted a few contacts. Just a few addresses, please... I can turn the microphone off if you...
I see your point, it's not a very good use of "inspired" though is it - bit like being inspired to be an architect because you saw Cary Grant go into a nice building in a film once.
Annie did, of course. Pity really, if he'd built a PDA instead it would have saved a lot of trouble, as perhaps then he'd have remembered when he got to Corsucant to politely ask one of his friends - the one who rules a planet would be a good place to start - to go back to Tatooine and buy his frickin' mother.
Funny chap, Annie.
"Ah, hello Mr Vader. Welcome to Jedi Heaven. Oh, wait a minute, there's a note on your file here - killed women and children, embraced Dark Side, killed your wife, hunted down and destroyed the Jedi order, killed billions of people with a Death Star, tortured your daughter, killed your master, cut your son's hand off, devised a workplace incentive scheme that involved you killing anyone who failed, or even stood next to someone who failed. Hmm, not sure if we can let you in. Unless, of course, there's something you'd like to say in your favour?"
"Er... well, there was this one time where I decided that I wasn't going to let someone kill my son."
"Oh, that's all right then! Come on in! Consider the whole thing forgotten about!"
Interesting thought, once Vista comes out, that's the time for the Linux distributions that want to gain market share in the home desktop area to push hard. If they can offer something roughly feature compatible that can run on existing hardware... And of course with Linux you can do a live CD and demonstrate that it works on your hardware.
Of course, Linux is not Windows, as I always say, but perhaps Linux is capable of pretending to be Windows.
You write that "Stallman's answer in 1985 was to create F/OSS software, not to outlaw proprietary software, nor to use unlawfully copied proprietary software. F/OSS was and is able to compete in the marketplace."
Well, very true. It would have been wrong for Stallman to try to outlaw propriatary software, and indeed he has never tried to do this.
But DRM legistlation is trying to outlaw F/OSS software. It already has in some places - try building your own DVD player some time and see how long it is before the MPAA kicks your door down. In fact, this is largely *because* DRM technology is so unretrievably broken. The only way the RIAA and MPAA and so on can make it work is to take over every Analogue to Digital converter in the world. I don't want them to do that.
I was just reading Tony Benn's diaries from when he was the UK Minister for Technology. Interesting discussion of the security worries when the UK AEA got a Centrifuge method working.
Most people had given up on the centrifuge method, as it was mechanically very difficult to engnieer such a big fast centrifuge, and indeed the UK was about to start work on an expensive huge new diffusion plant for making fuel.
Now they had the centrifuge, which, once you could actually make it work, was cheaper and smaller and easier. So they didn't need the diffudion plant, but it occured to the Govt. that if they didn't build it, then other countries would work out that they had the centrifuge, so they would restart their centrifuge development program.
Since a centrifuge is easier to build and hide, the worry was that e.g. South Africa would start manufacturing bomb fuel in an undetectable way.
Very easy problem this: I worked it out first when I was about 14.
First, what are your definitions?
A chicken is something with various characteristics, blah, blah, not important. Egg is the important thing to define.
Now, if egg just means generic egg, then clearly eggs came first, as dinosaurs lay eggs.;-)
If egg means "chicken egg", as we must presume it does as otherwise it is not much of a riddle, then we need to clarify this a little further. What do we mean by "chicken egg"?
If we mean "an egg laid by a chicken", then the chicken came first.
If we mean "an egg out of which a chicken hatches", then the egg came first.
If we mean "an egg laid by a chicken out of which a chicken hatches", then since laying happens before hatching, the chicken came first.
Oh, and if you beleive that God created heaven and earth, then it was the chicken, but don't feel worried if you thought it was the egg - it's all a big load of nonsense anyway, isn't it?
Easy peasy. Let's see, I did another one at the same time... why, when you drop toast, does it always land butter side down? The answer is that every time you drop a piece of toast it is exactly the same. The toast is more or less the same size, your plate is always at more or less the same height, the air density is always more or less the same, of course it's going to turn the same number of rotations every time you drop it.
Do you actually think anyone (apart from the ones who are mentally ill) in the current Big Brother house is real?
I'm not saying smart people can't be fooled, I'm just pointing out that asking Joe Sixpack to review hundreds of clauses like the one reproduced below (a relatively straightforward one from the draft UK Income Tax bill) is not going to get anyone anywhere.
292 Ceasing to meet requirements by reason of administration or receivership [j5081_28A] (1) A company which is in administration or receivership is not to be regarded as ceasing to meet the requirements of section 290(1) or 291(1) by reason only of anything done as a consequence of its being in administration or receivership. (2) Subsection (1) applies only if (a) the entry into administration or receivership, and (b) everything done as a consequence of the company being in administration or receivership, is for commercial reasons and is not part of a scheme or arrangement the main purpose of which, or one of the main purposes of which, is the avoidance of tax.
No, but for many people a laptop is just a machine that can be put on either their desk at work or ther desk at home. Mine pretty much is. Maybe 6 times a year I'll go on a business trip and use it as an actual laptop. And come to think of it, the last trip I made, I left the laptop at home and took a pad of paper, a pen, and my mobile phone to check my e-mail every hour or so. Worked fine, and a lot less to carry.
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Sorry, I was using purse in the UK English sense, not the US English sense. We say handbag where you say purse, and we say purse where you say... I don't know actually what you say.
In UK English, a purse is literally "a bag for holding coins"; more practiacally these days a woman's purse is a large wallet that has a coin holding compartment. Wallet is optimised for people with trouser pockets; purse is optimised for people with bags.
Anyhow, what I mean is, keep the password in the same palce as your credit cards, ID card, paper money.
Make the passwords to hard to remember and people write them down because thay have to.
Some advice Bruce Schneider once gave: there is nothing so terribly wrong with writing your password down on a piece of paper and putting it into your wallet. Your wallet is a security mechanism that you already use, and you are very practiced at keeping it secure.
Myself, I use muscle memory to store mine. I make up an entierley random password and spend 20 minutes typing it over and over again until my hands remember how to make that sequence of twitches. Works great; and no risk of me acidentally telling someone my password because I don't know what it is.
Do we all get a PHd as well if we help you? If so, can you please provide details of the institution issuing the doctorate - I want to make sure that I don't get a bad school added to my CV.
"overnment should be about fostering a dynamic and risk-taking economy, not preserving the certainty of anyone's business models."
Does that mean he's fighting the DMCA and coptright extensions just as hard? BEcause that's what they are all about.
I remember reading somewhere - and Gary Mitchell knows how cannon it is - that Vulcans can see magnetic fields. Always thought that would be cool.
I tell ya though, we geeks need better options. I mean, suppsoing my hand were to get chopped off tomorrow in a bizzare gardening accident.
Now, I'd want a full set of cybernetic impants - who wouldn't? But if this is the best there is to offer...
Well, we can't blame the editors, this is clearly a very addictive post.
So, you think we should do the greater of two evils, because the lesser of the two is still evil, and if you're going to be evil you might as well do it properly?
Interesting.
I heard one of their spokesmen put the case that given a choice between Google being banned, and google giveing censored results with a note on them saying "this was censored", it seemed that the latter might be more helpful to the cause of freedom in China, and I can't help but think that there was something in that point.
Another important point to remember is that they censor their results in other countries as well, for example France and Germany.
You haven't so much waived your right to fair use, but lost the ability to exercise that right.
This is because if you try to make a copy under fair use, the DRM software will stop you.
Of course I am, not unreasonably, assuming here that your DRM software does not include a perfect AI duplicate of the current US Supreme court (or your local equivelant) in software, and is therefore unable to tell if the copy you are making is fair use or not...
Worst thing of all, by not changing it at the same time as posting an announcement story, all the meta-discussion about the new look is stuck here in a story making it impossible to read.
So according to the article, a Mac Game developer thinks that Apple should stop what they're doing and promote Macs as... games machines? Holy Crap!
Steve should totally listen to that lady, I mean she must be a great businesswoman, what with deciding to work for a company that makes gaes for the Mac.
OK, that was rude of me, and before the flames come, I know Macs can do everything, like all personal computers they're general purpose machines.
But business 101: when you're in a market with lots of big players, you have to identify a unique selling point and promote the hell out of it. At the moment, the Mac USP is "imagine how good a computer must be if it's made by the people who invented the iPod" and while that does leave out lots of great things about the Mac, it's probably the best choice they could have made.
It would be suicide to push it as a games machine. If they did, people would say "Cool. Does it play GTA? Or Halo?" and the answer will be no.
Over on Boing Boing, they've noticed that the Captain Copyright web page has stolen a couple of sections from Wikipedia without including the required attributions. http://www.boingboing.net/2006/06/02/captain_copyr ight_wi.html
But never mind the hypocracy - what kind of teacher uses materials in class that did not come from an independant source? Don't they have pride in their profession? Ahem - won't somebody think of the children?
Best time for it. My working pattern is:
Come into the office.
Dock Computer
Open Lid
Log on
Go get coffee
Work
Close Lid
Go Home
Open Lid
Work
So a few moments extra at boot is cool by me.
"Gamecube"? You must know some stange men... have you got their phone numbers? I just wanted a few contacts. Just a few addresses, please... I can turn the microphone off if you...
I see your point, it's not a very good use of "inspired" though is it - bit like being inspired to be an architect because you saw Cary Grant go into a nice building in a film once.
I don't remember Luke building any droid's.
Annie did, of course. Pity really, if he'd built a PDA instead it would have saved a lot of trouble, as perhaps then he'd have remembered when he got to Corsucant to politely ask one of his friends - the one who rules a planet would be a good place to start - to go back to Tatooine and buy his frickin' mother.
Funny chap, Annie.
"Ah, hello Mr Vader. Welcome to Jedi Heaven. Oh, wait a minute, there's a note on your file here - killed women and children, embraced Dark Side, killed your wife, hunted down and destroyed the Jedi order, killed billions of people with a Death Star, tortured your daughter, killed your master, cut your son's hand off, devised a workplace incentive scheme that involved you killing anyone who failed, or even stood next to someone who failed. Hmm, not sure if we can let you in. Unless, of course, there's something you'd like to say in your favour?"
"Er... well, there was this one time where I decided that I wasn't going to let someone kill my son."
"Oh, that's all right then! Come on in! Consider the whole thing forgotten about!"
Interesting thought, once Vista comes out, that's the time for the Linux distributions that want to gain market share in the home desktop area to push hard. If they can offer something roughly feature compatible that can run on existing hardware... And of course with Linux you can do a live CD and demonstrate that it works on your hardware.
Of course, Linux is not Windows, as I always say, but perhaps Linux is capable of pretending to be Windows.
Er.. after 3 major revisions and 6 minor ones, I would imagine.
You write that "Stallman's answer in 1985 was to create F/OSS software, not to outlaw proprietary software, nor to use unlawfully copied proprietary software. F/OSS was and is able to compete in the marketplace."
Well, very true. It would have been wrong for Stallman to try to outlaw propriatary software, and indeed he has never tried to do this.
But DRM legistlation is trying to outlaw F/OSS software. It already has in some places - try building your own DVD player some time and see how long it is before the MPAA kicks your door down. In fact, this is largely *because* DRM technology is so unretrievably broken. The only way the RIAA and MPAA and so on can make it work is to take over every Analogue to Digital converter in the world. I don't want them to do that.
I was just reading Tony Benn's diaries from when he was the UK Minister for Technology. Interesting discussion of the security worries when the UK AEA got a Centrifuge method working.
Most people had given up on the centrifuge method, as it was mechanically very difficult to engnieer such a big fast centrifuge, and indeed the UK was about to start work on an expensive huge new diffusion plant for making fuel.
Now they had the centrifuge, which, once you could actually make it work, was cheaper and smaller and easier. So they didn't need the diffudion plant, but it occured to the Govt. that if they didn't build it, then other countries would work out that they had the centrifuge, so they would restart their centrifuge development program.
Since a centrifuge is easier to build and hide, the worry was that e.g. South Africa would start manufacturing bomb fuel in an undetectable way.
"Which came first, the chicken or the egg".
;-)
Very easy problem this: I worked it out first when I was about 14.
First, what are your definitions?
A chicken is something with various characteristics, blah, blah, not important. Egg is the important thing to define.
Now, if egg just means generic egg, then clearly eggs came first, as dinosaurs lay eggs.
If egg means "chicken egg", as we must presume it does as otherwise it is not much of a riddle, then we need to clarify this a little further. What do we mean by "chicken egg"?
If we mean "an egg laid by a chicken", then the chicken came first.
If we mean "an egg out of which a chicken hatches", then the egg came first.
If we mean "an egg laid by a chicken out of which a chicken hatches", then since laying happens before hatching, the chicken came first.
Oh, and if you beleive that God created heaven and earth, then it was the chicken, but don't feel worried if you thought it was the egg - it's all a big load of nonsense anyway, isn't it?
Easy peasy. Let's see, I did another one at the same time... why, when you drop toast, does it always land butter side down? The answer is that every time you drop a piece of toast it is exactly the same. The toast is more or less the same size, your plate is always at more or less the same height, the air density is always more or less the same, of course it's going to turn the same number of rotations every time you drop it.
Still no cure for cancer, though, I see.
Do you actually think anyone (apart from the ones who are mentally ill) in the current Big Brother house is real?
I'm not saying smart people can't be fooled, I'm just pointing out that asking Joe Sixpack to review hundreds of clauses like the one reproduced below (a relatively straightforward one from the draft UK Income Tax bill) is not going to get anyone anywhere.
292 Ceasing to meet requirements by reason of administration or receivership
[j5081_28A]
(1) A company which is in administration or receivership is not to be regarded as
ceasing to meet the requirements of section 290(1) or 291(1) by reason only of
anything done as a consequence of its being in administration or receivership.
(2) Subsection (1) applies only if
(a) the entry into administration or receivership, and
(b) everything done as a consequence of the company being in administration or receivership,
is for commercial reasons and is not part of a scheme or arrangement the main
purpose of which, or one of the main purposes of which, is the avoidance of
tax.
Well, it's sort of inherent in the phrase "many people" that I mean "not all".
No, but for many people a laptop is just a machine that can be put on either their desk at work or ther desk at home. Mine pretty much is. Maybe 6 times a year I'll go on a business trip and use it as an actual laptop. And come to think of it, the last trip I made, I left the laptop at home and took a pad of paper, a pen, and my mobile phone to check my e-mail every hour or so. Worked fine, and a lot less to carry.
You put a keylogger on your gf's machine? I hope she doesn't read slashdot.