Hollywood screen writers just happened to land a gig adapting a decent 1950's science fiction novel into a shitty movie.
No joke.
SPOILER
In the movie, Will Smith becomes legendary by sacrificing himself and providing a cure.
In the book, the protagonist spends his daylight hours staking vampires while they sleep or dragging their comatose bodies into the sun, and eventually discovers that he's the last human and that vampires have made a new civilization after getting a handle on their infection (feeding on animal blood?). He's become the legendary monster that kills innocents while they sleep in the safety of their homes. Entirely different ending.
And who was mother to Cain and Able's children? This is what you want to stake your reputation on?
Abel didn't have any children. Cain's wife came from the people created on the sixth day. Notice the beginning of chapter two, where it describes the garden (and Adam/Eve) having a separate creation timeline? Adam was created before the sixth day, but on the sixth day, humanity was created. We don't know how long it took for Adam to feel lonely and want a mate, but Eve was probably created before the sixth day too.
They were martial artists trained in the ways of stealth and assassination for the express purpose of vengeance for the death of Hamato Yoshi. Sound like ninja to me.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Other Strangeness was the RPG. Published by Palladium. It suffered from the standard Palladium character creation process and XP leveling, but was tempered by the BIO-E character generation portion. Once your character was made, it was a fun game to play. Transdimensional TMNT had one of the few workable time travel mechanisms for RPG (where the GM didn't have to be prescient). And After the Bomb and its series we're interesting (especially for time traveling characters). FYI, after Palladium lost the rights to TMNT, they kept the After the Bomb line and expanded on it, including species detriments that gain you extra BIO-E (dogs can keep color blindness, cows can keep prey-eyes, etc)
The most recent TMNT cartoon series was quite good, and very close to the original comic book story (with less killing). It even ended with a hilarious movie where they teamed up with the 80's cartoon Turtles to find the original b&w TMNT (who derided both colorized groups for having non-red masks), then a nod to Eastman & Laird to say goodbye.
I use mobile browsing once a month, and couldn't care less about it.
I use mobile browsing at least twenty or more times a day. I used to use minimo eight years ago on my PDA. Now that I use my smart phone regularly, I find myself still complaining in my internal dialogue about how ancient and clunky mobile Safari is compared to minimo. Mobile Safari wouldn't even allow animated gifs until a couple years ago!
Have a room devoted to being a home office, and don't use the home office for anything other than job-related work, otherwise there won't be enough of the job/play disconnect.
It does help a great deal: Your VPN becomes the key to being on your private network. Then, you only have your VPN to secure, not your multitude of services you want exposed to the outside world.
That's like having your garage door closed. "As long as my garage door is closed, I don't have to worry about locking the door between the garage and the rest of the house" until someone uses a universal garage remote to mimic your garage door opener's signal.
Common sense is a 10 point advantage, which is like an extra point of strength or 3 levels of DR. It's also half the cost of an extra life, but since it keeps people from being Darwin award contenders, it's a deal at that price.
Phone/IM/email support is never a stepping stone for anything other than managing phone/IM/email support (and only if you're lucky). Never start at the bottom. Bottoms are quagmires.
Not for mom and pop. There was no useful information on the web until later in the 90's, and no advertising of website URLs on TV or print media until at least 1996. Encarta and other information CDs were the bee's knees back then, because a lot of people never bothered with Internet access.
My choices were a relatively up to date and easily searchable encarta or a twenty year old encyclopedia set. Guess which one I chose? Encarta got people used to thinking of the computer as an information source (before Internet access) instead of a game station or number cruncher.
You know how you solve big problems, you break them down into smaller problems and tackle one by one. Let's get rid of the infernal combustion engine and create smog free cities, [...] Next up a distributed suburban energy generation grid,
You've just painted yourself into a corner. You need the better electricity grid before you can get rid of the internal combustion engine (unless you want to make everyone ride bicycles instead of electric cars).
If companies would implement lockout policies, they would have to pay a group of four-five people to answer phones and unlock accounts all day. And woe betide the company which gets its username list posted somewhere ("everyone's locked out, and an admin has to walk down to the server room to log into the console as root to unlock us all. We've blocked the offending IP addresses, but this might happen several more times from new IPs").
There is something that always bothered me, how in the hell does the attacker knows if I am using words for my password or not? Second consider the following password where at one point was on my laptop: "A happy worker is mindless worker, so shut up and do your job!" I fail to see how this password is not safe just because I used actual words, wouldn't it take million of years(even with dictionary attack) to gess it ?
It's more secure than 5#f^x902 in almost every way, except that it's easier to shoulder-surf in one try because it's a proper sentence. As long as they catch enough parts, they can guess the rest. Try adding purposefully misspelled words or bad grammar and it makes shoulder surfing hu23 sekane in the despondingly overstitch. Side effects of using passphrases like that include speaking random gibberish on occasion.
Don't get too giddy. They're limiting max deployment size to six members. No more mowing down a destructible level with fourteen squaddies armed with laser pistols and rocket launchers (nothing better than shooting blindly into the dark and hearing a Sectoid death groan). And one base. I'm okay with the time unit change, and the cinematics, but 4-6 squaddies and no robot tanks? If I down an alien craft in America, and my one base is in Turkey, I have to let the enemy craft go due to time constraints? If I lose my one base, it's game over? It's X-Com for preschoolers.
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Hollywood screen writers just happened to land a gig adapting a decent 1950's science fiction novel into a shitty movie.
No joke.
SPOILER
In the movie, Will Smith becomes legendary by sacrificing himself and providing a cure.
In the book, the protagonist spends his daylight hours staking vampires while they sleep or dragging their comatose bodies into the sun, and eventually discovers that he's the last human and that vampires have made a new civilization after getting a handle on their infection (feeding on animal blood?). He's become the legendary monster that kills innocents while they sleep in the safety of their homes. Entirely different ending.
END SPOILER
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teenage_Mutant_Ninja_Turtles#Second_animated_series_.282003.E2.80.932009.29
And who was mother to Cain and Able's children? This is what you want to stake your reputation on?
Abel didn't have any children. Cain's wife came from the people created on the sixth day. Notice the beginning of chapter two, where it describes the garden (and Adam/Eve) having a separate creation timeline? Adam was created before the sixth day, but on the sixth day, humanity was created. We don't know how long it took for Adam to feel lonely and want a mate, but Eve was probably created before the sixth day too.
They were martial artists trained in the ways of stealth and assassination for the express purpose of vengeance for the death of Hamato Yoshi. Sound like ninja to me.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Other Strangeness was the RPG. Published by Palladium. It suffered from the standard Palladium character creation process and XP leveling, but was tempered by the BIO-E character generation portion. Once your character was made, it was a fun game to play. Transdimensional TMNT had one of the few workable time travel mechanisms for RPG (where the GM didn't have to be prescient). And After the Bomb and its series we're interesting (especially for time traveling characters). FYI, after Palladium lost the rights to TMNT, they kept the After the Bomb line and expanded on it, including species detriments that gain you extra BIO-E (dogs can keep color blindness, cows can keep prey-eyes, etc)
The most recent TMNT cartoon series was quite good, and very close to the original comic book story (with less killing). It even ended with a hilarious movie where they teamed up with the 80's cartoon Turtles to find the original b&w TMNT (who derided both colorized groups for having non-red masks), then a nod to Eastman & Laird to say goodbye.
They rewrote your news too.
I use mobile browsing once a month, and couldn't care less about it.
I use mobile browsing at least twenty or more times a day. I used to use minimo eight years ago on my PDA. Now that I use my smart phone regularly, I find myself still complaining in my internal dialogue about how ancient and clunky mobile Safari is compared to minimo. Mobile Safari wouldn't even allow animated gifs until a couple years ago!
Have a room devoted to being a home office, and don't use the home office for anything other than job-related work, otherwise there won't be enough of the job/play disconnect.
It does help a great deal: Your VPN becomes the key to being on your private network. Then, you only have your VPN to secure, not your multitude of services you want exposed to the outside world.
That's like having your garage door closed. "As long as my garage door is closed, I don't have to worry about locking the door between the garage and the rest of the house" until someone uses a universal garage remote to mimic your garage door opener's signal.
Common sense is a 10 point advantage, which is like an extra point of strength or 3 levels of DR. It's also half the cost of an extra life, but since it keeps people from being Darwin award contenders, it's a deal at that price.
I know you're joking, but garbage disposals have to have their own share of nasty chunks and bacteria.
Phone/IM/email support is never a stepping stone for anything other than managing phone/IM/email support (and only if you're lucky). Never start at the bottom. Bottoms are quagmires.
You won't be able to get a warrant to get it back!
Not for mom and pop. There was no useful information on the web until later in the 90's, and no advertising of website URLs on TV or print media until at least 1996. Encarta and other information CDs were the bee's knees back then, because a lot of people never bothered with Internet access.
My choices were a relatively up to date and easily searchable encarta or a twenty year old encyclopedia set. Guess which one I chose? Encarta got people used to thinking of the computer as an information source (before Internet access) instead of a game station or number cruncher.
Does that mean Britanica has cause to sue Microsoft for abuse of Monopoly position?
Recommending multi word passwords is fucking retarded. 95% of the login systems people will use DON'T ALLOW MULTIWORD PASSWORDS.
Huh?
Linux doesn't allow spaces
That's just plain incorrect.
no website I can find does
Because you only use /.?
and most corporate Windows networks also block spaces
Not the ones I've worked with.
You know how you solve big problems, you break them down into smaller problems and tackle one by one. Let's get rid of the infernal combustion engine and create smog free cities, [...] Next up a distributed suburban energy generation grid,
You've just painted yourself into a corner. You need the better electricity grid before you can get rid of the internal combustion engine (unless you want to make everyone ride bicycles instead of electric cars).
Yeah, I just realized I was the one who got it wrong. Since 8 bits is 2^8... I shouldn't post that early in the morning.
If companies would implement lockout policies, they would have to pay a group of four-five people to answer phones and unlock accounts all day. And woe betide the company which gets its username list posted somewhere ("everyone's locked out, and an admin has to walk down to the server room to log into the console as root to unlock us all. We've blocked the offending IP addresses, but this might happen several more times from new IPs").
He used 4 words. lets say 170k in words that is 170000^4.
With a dictionary of 170000 words, that's actually 4^170000. My /usr/share/dict/words has 230000+ lines, and it's only going to grow.
There is something that always bothered me, how in the hell does the attacker knows if I am using words for my password or not? Second consider the following password where at one point was on my laptop: "A happy worker is mindless worker, so shut up and do your job!" I fail to see how this password is not safe just because I used actual words, wouldn't it take million of years(even with dictionary attack) to gess it ?
It's more secure than 5#f^x902 in almost every way, except that it's easier to shoulder-surf in one try because it's a proper sentence. As long as they catch enough parts, they can guess the rest. Try adding purposefully misspelled words or bad grammar and it makes shoulder surfing hu23 sekane in the despondingly overstitch. Side effects of using passphrases like that include speaking random gibberish on occasion.
Don't get too giddy. They're limiting max deployment size to six members. No more mowing down a destructible level with fourteen squaddies armed with laser pistols and rocket launchers (nothing better than shooting blindly into the dark and hearing a Sectoid death groan). And one base. I'm okay with the time unit change, and the cinematics, but 4-6 squaddies and no robot tanks? If I down an alien craft in America, and my one base is in Turkey, I have to let the enemy craft go due to time constraints? If I lose my one base, it's game over? It's X-Com for preschoolers.