a tip i read once was to use word / thought association to create unique, but repeatable passwords, ie for root at work you could but use carrot@streetname or turnip@town or whatever, root at home would be carrot@homebox, etc just something you can remember. or if you use b'day or somesuch, put b'day$sitename.
Passwords like the samples you provided seem really vulnerable to dictionary attacks.
Can you really blame them? Women have a fairly short window of only a few decades to have a family. Men have no such limit and can theoretically have children from puberty until death, so there's not as much pressure for us. Besides, people tend to think too much about their careers, IMO. A good job isn't everything. I would rather spend more time with my family than work hard to rise to the top. (in the end, what do you really have with that option? Is your life really going to be better?)
I review software for a living (in addition to doing other things) so I've been using virtualized Windows XP installations for awhile now. (I prefer Virtualbox, but you can do this with any utility)
A long time ago, I created a virtual hard disk image of a Windows XP installation, got it the way I like it, and then backed it up. (storing a few GB long-term is trivial these days) When the current disk image I'm using gets overly cluttered after a few weeks or months, I just get rid of it and load a fresh copy from my backup and start over.
I seem to recall seeing something awhile ago that Ubuntu is being ported to the ARM architecture. If the port is ready, using it would be a much better proposition than begging Microsoft to make a custom Windows OS for the XO-2, IMO. What would stop Microsoft from deliberately crippling the OS (and making it practically useless as a result) like they did with the starter editions of XP and Vista? Those were meant for the same type of market demographic as OLPC, after all.
I say slap a 1 TRILLION dollar fine on the CEO of the company and garnish his future wages. Whether he can actually pay that or not is beside the point, The objective is to completely bankrupt the guy and keep him on a sustenance income for the rest of his life. That way, the punishment only affects the guilty individual.
If you just gave a huge fine to the company, the company may go out of business and people could lose their jobs, so you would only end up hurting innocent people.
In fact, the victim has a Duty to Retreat, sometimes even within their own homes.
If someone barges into my house and threatens me, I should not have to retreat at all before I defend myself. I'm not one who enjoys shedding blood, but I'm far more concerned with my own well being than that of my assailant. I would try to give them a chance to leave or surrender without shooting first, but I'm not going to leave myself open to attack. If I have to shoot them to protect myself, then so be it. I would prefer to avoid killing them if possible, but I can make no guarantees. The way I see it, if an aggressive intruder gets hurt or disabled, then it's their own fault for being where they shouldn't be and conducting criminal activity. I'm certain they wouldn't hesitate to shoot me if the situations were reversed.
Federal regulators said Thursday they are going into 'search and rescue' mode to help the millions of consumers unprepared for the phased transition to digital television, which culminates with the June 12 transition deadline.
"Millions" of unprepared consumers? Seriously, the commercials warning about the transition have been playing several times an hour every day for the past 6 months or more (I was even getting them on Satellite TV, which is immune to the change) It's literally been impossible to avoid hearing about this.
Here's an example. The US government probably prevents you from selling your open source software to Cuba or Iran. If I read section 7 correctly, that counts as a "condition imposed on you". So really you lose all rights to using that code?
However, if you put your code up for free public download and someone from Cuba or Iran happens to come along and get a copy, then that is hardly your fault. You didn't personally give it to them; they simply acquired a copy that was meant for anyone who happens to want it, regardless of point of origin.
What about the opposite situation? Can an American citizen be forbidden from using open source code that was downloaded from a neutral third party yet originated from a country like Cuba or Iran? If you're an American and use code from that project in your open source project and redistribute it, does the whole thing become "Americanized?" Just curious.
I wonder what kind of "hacking" this will entail, and if they took computers with decent security into account. Owning a typical default-user-is-root-and-runs-MSIE Windows box is not very difficult, but I would like them to see them try that on a well secured Linux or BSD box with a competent administrator. Without root access, the police aren't going to get very far.
If Americans were willing to reduce their pampered exhorbiant standard of living, and work for less, the american economy would stand a chance.
You seem to assume the cost of living doesn't have anything to do with it. These days, many Americans are trying hard to hold onto their house, avoid foreclosure, and keep being laid off so they won't have to go live in a mud hut or a tar-paper shack. I would hardly call that kind of life exorbitant. Just because foreigners can work for cheap (and go back to their own country when they're done) doesn't mean that Americans are able to do so and have a life worth living. Most of us can't go anywhere even if we wanted to.
Yep. Ingrown toenails aren't too bad. I've had a few removed by a doctor, but once I did it myself. All you really need are some small CLEAN scissors, some CLEAN pliers, something to disinfect the tools with, antibiotic cream, some gauze/bandages, a really good pain tolerance, and a whole lot of paper towels to soak up the blood. I prefer the brief pain of cutting it and ripping it out myself to the doctor's method of giving me three local anesthetic injections in my toe before removing the ingrown. Each shot felt like it went to the bone, even after the others started to kick in. To me, that hurt worse than the ingrown.
Of course, I haven't had any ingrowns since I went up a shoe size, so prevention is the best strategy of all.
When I was in high school, all of the computers were extremely locked down (couldn't do anything except internet + word processing). It sucked. I'm not sure that schools would be willing to adopt a platform unless they'd be able to lock it down similarly (for reasons they'd cite as security, cost, whatever). Presenting up front the ways that you can control the user experience might be a good way to sell open source.
If user accounts are set up properly, there is no need to lock the system down. (the default account on the computers you used was probably admin...just guessing. Otherwise, they wouldn't have had to cripple it. That's how it was for me too. Of course, Win98 was the de-facto OS back in my day, and that POS had only one real user account) Linux would be ideal for such a case because students could be limited to low-privilege accounts where they wouldn't be able to tamper with anything.
I bought a Model M on Ebay a week or so ago. However, neither CTRL key works and you really have to hit the M key really hard to get it to register. Aside from that, it's a really good keyboard, but I have to get the seller to swap me for another one with 100% functionality.
If you want a really good lager, get something Czech like Budweiser Budvar, if they sell it in the US.
I love that stuff. They call it "Czechvar" here.
Lots of us Americans think that our macrobrewed domestics are bad too. However, not all of our beer is swill; there are LOTS of good microbrew domestics available. (Yuengling and Stone's product line specifically come to mind)
I believe that we must work to prevent the creation of digital copies of copyrighted works that can be illegally distributed throughout the world.
That's the problem right there. Politicians think too much for themselves where they should be completely subservient to those who got them elected. Senators are supposed to be the emissaries of their home states. If taxpayer money helps to fund the opulent lifestyle of a politician, then that politician should be held directly accountable to his or her constituents and should be FORCED to do the bidding of these who bother to send a letter. Insubordination is not tolerated in other professions, why should it be tolerated in politics?
P.S> Lobbying should be outlawed as well. Force corporations and interest groups to play on the same field as everyone else.
Checks may be bad, but to me, debit is worse. I carry an ATM card out of necessity, but I cringe every time I put in my 4-digit pin. 4 digits isn't very secure, since 4^4 yields only 256 possible combinations. Adding a 5th digit makes it a lot better with 3125 possible combinations, and 6 digits is exponentially better with 46656 possible combinations. I know that many people won't bother to brute-force an ATM, but with 2 extra digits your pin security gets a lot better.
XP and Vista Starter edition were cut-price, limited versions for developing markets, to combat piracy.
That never made sense to me. Why would anyone put up with a hopelessly-crippled-to-the-point-of-being-nearly-useless version of Windows when they could buy a bootleg of a Pro/Ultimate edition on a street corner for almost nothing or even torrent it for free?
locate(1) is absolutely worthless IMHO. It's one of that old stupid hacks that should have replaced LONG ago with something better.
I disagree. Locate is one of my favorite search utilities because it is so fast and I can pipe the results right into grep to find a specific file instead of having to browse the entire list. If updatedb bothers you, just change the cron job to run at 12:00 AM or any other time when the computer isn't doing anything.
The most prominent example I can think of is Steam, which uses IE to render content for its storefront and player services.
While running under Wine, Steam can use Gecko as its rendering engine and it works fairly well. (getting the games to work will is a whole different situation)
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Passwords like the samples you provided seem really vulnerable to dictionary attacks.
Can you really blame them? Women have a fairly short window of only a few decades to have a family. Men have no such limit and can theoretically have children from puberty until death, so there's not as much pressure for us. Besides, people tend to think too much about their careers, IMO. A good job isn't everything. I would rather spend more time with my family than work hard to rise to the top. (in the end, what do you really have with that option? Is your life really going to be better?)
I review software for a living (in addition to doing other things) so I've been using virtualized Windows XP installations for awhile now. (I prefer Virtualbox, but you can do this with any utility)
A long time ago, I created a virtual hard disk image of a Windows XP installation, got it the way I like it, and then backed it up. (storing a few GB long-term is trivial these days) When the current disk image I'm using gets overly cluttered after a few weeks or months, I just get rid of it and load a fresh copy from my backup and start over.
You could probably benefit from the same system.
I seem to recall seeing something awhile ago that Ubuntu is being ported to the ARM architecture. If the port is ready, using it would be a much better proposition than begging Microsoft to make a custom Windows OS for the XO-2, IMO. What would stop Microsoft from deliberately crippling the OS (and making it practically useless as a result) like they did with the starter editions of XP and Vista? Those were meant for the same type of market demographic as OLPC, after all.
I say slap a 1 TRILLION dollar fine on the CEO of the company and garnish his future wages. Whether he can actually pay that or not is beside the point, The objective is to completely bankrupt the guy and keep him on a sustenance income for the rest of his life. That way, the punishment only affects the guilty individual.
If you just gave a huge fine to the company, the company may go out of business and people could lose their jobs, so you would only end up hurting innocent people.
If someone barges into my house and threatens me, I should not have to retreat at all before I defend myself. I'm not one who enjoys shedding blood, but I'm far more concerned with my own well being than that of my assailant. I would try to give them a chance to leave or surrender without shooting first, but I'm not going to leave myself open to attack. If I have to shoot them to protect myself, then so be it. I would prefer to avoid killing them if possible, but I can make no guarantees. The way I see it, if an aggressive intruder gets hurt or disabled, then it's their own fault for being where they shouldn't be and conducting criminal activity. I'm certain they wouldn't hesitate to shoot me if the situations were reversed.
"Millions" of unprepared consumers? Seriously, the commercials warning about the transition have been playing several times an hour every day for the past 6 months or more (I was even getting them on Satellite TV, which is immune to the change) It's literally been impossible to avoid hearing about this.
I'm quite partial to Bluefish myself for web development work.
However, if you put your code up for free public download and someone from Cuba or Iran happens to come along and get a copy, then that is hardly your fault. You didn't personally give it to them; they simply acquired a copy that was meant for anyone who happens to want it, regardless of point of origin.
What about the opposite situation? Can an American citizen be forbidden from using open source code that was downloaded from a neutral third party yet originated from a country like Cuba or Iran? If you're an American and use code from that project in your open source project and redistribute it, does the whole thing become "Americanized?" Just curious.
I wonder what kind of "hacking" this will entail, and if they took computers with decent security into account. Owning a typical default-user-is-root-and-runs-MSIE Windows box is not very difficult, but I would like them to see them try that on a well secured Linux or BSD box with a competent administrator. Without root access, the police aren't going to get very far.
You seem to assume the cost of living doesn't have anything to do with it. These days, many Americans are trying hard to hold onto their house, avoid foreclosure, and keep being laid off so they won't have to go live in a mud hut or a tar-paper shack. I would hardly call that kind of life exorbitant. Just because foreigners can work for cheap (and go back to their own country when they're done) doesn't mean that Americans are able to do so and have a life worth living. Most of us can't go anywhere even if we wanted to.
Yep. Ingrown toenails aren't too bad. I've had a few removed by a doctor, but once I did it myself. All you really need are some small CLEAN scissors, some CLEAN pliers, something to disinfect the tools with, antibiotic cream, some gauze/bandages, a really good pain tolerance, and a whole lot of paper towels to soak up the blood. I prefer the brief pain of cutting it and ripping it out myself to the doctor's method of giving me three local anesthetic injections in my toe before removing the ingrown. Each shot felt like it went to the bone, even after the others started to kick in. To me, that hurt worse than the ingrown. Of course, I haven't had any ingrowns since I went up a shoe size, so prevention is the best strategy of all.
Those are called Pecs, you insensitive clod!
If user accounts are set up properly, there is no need to lock the system down. (the default account on the computers you used was probably admin...just guessing. Otherwise, they wouldn't have had to cripple it. That's how it was for me too. Of course, Win98 was the de-facto OS back in my day, and that POS had only one real user account) Linux would be ideal for such a case because students could be limited to low-privilege accounts where they wouldn't be able to tamper with anything.
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I bought a Model M on Ebay a week or so ago. However, neither CTRL key works and you really have to hit the M key really hard to get it to register. Aside from that, it's a really good keyboard, but I have to get the seller to swap me for another one with 100% functionality.
I love that stuff. They call it "Czechvar" here.
Lots of us Americans think that our macrobrewed domestics are bad too. However, not all of our beer is swill; there are LOTS of good microbrew domestics available. (Yuengling and Stone's product line specifically come to mind)
That's the problem right there. Politicians think too much for themselves where they should be completely subservient to those who got them elected. Senators are supposed to be the emissaries of their home states. If taxpayer money helps to fund the opulent lifestyle of a politician, then that politician should be held directly accountable to his or her constituents and should be FORCED to do the bidding of these who bother to send a letter. Insubordination is not tolerated in other professions, why should it be tolerated in politics?
P.S> Lobbying should be outlawed as well. Force corporations and interest groups to play on the same field as everyone else.
Corporations really don't need to vote. They have much more effective ways to get what they want. (lobbyists)
Checks may be bad, but to me, debit is worse. I carry an ATM card out of necessity, but I cringe every time I put in my 4-digit pin. 4 digits isn't very secure, since 4^4 yields only 256 possible combinations. Adding a 5th digit makes it a lot better with 3125 possible combinations, and 6 digits is exponentially better with 46656 possible combinations. I know that many people won't bother to brute-force an ATM, but with 2 extra digits your pin security gets a lot better.
If Windows is Middle-earth, then Linux must be the blessed realm of Valinor.
And how many species have gone extinct without a human cause? (Permian extinction event, Cretaceous event, etc?)
That never made sense to me. Why would anyone put up with a hopelessly-crippled-to-the-point-of-being-nearly-useless version of Windows when they could buy a bootleg of a Pro/Ultimate edition on a street corner for almost nothing or even torrent it for free?
I disagree. Locate is one of my favorite search utilities because it is so fast and I can pipe the results right into grep to find a specific file instead of having to browse the entire list. If updatedb bothers you, just change the cron job to run at 12:00 AM or any other time when the computer isn't doing anything.
While running under Wine, Steam can use Gecko as its rendering engine and it works fairly well. (getting the games to work will is a whole different situation)