The first thing I learned about storing passwords is that you use a salted hash, which is impossible to decrypt back into plaintext. Am I missing something, or is this practice not standard practically everywhere now?
Apparently you are missing something because while common practice, it's not ubiquitous. And like all common practices, it gets spoken of less and less until new developers reinvent the wheel and decide they want passwords in plain text to make password recovery 'easier' ("click on the http link in your email and you'll see your password!")
Passphrases don't help the root problem, that "memorable" implies low-entropy.
Except that the human brain can separate out words as atomics rather than the parts that make up their whole. This makes remembering a string of a small number of truly random words easy to remember.
Demiurgic precompel Pediculicidal superimpersonally trichromate Voq
increep Sporodochium impassioning Winesburg Spicknel bacon-and-eggs
Are those really so impossible to remember? The biggest problem is when someone starts using sporodochium in casual conversation a lot, you know it's part of their new random passphrase or they started a word-of-the-day calendar.
Minutes can matter to news networks these days, as its the difference between breaking it first or second.
Which is silly since the difference between first and last is thirty seconds at most. First used to mean something back when papers came out once a day. A full day's lead time on an important story means everyone buys your paper that day. Today, I'd rather pay attention to a news service that checks sources and gets the story right than one that "had it first".
You do realize that nobody runs servers on bare metal these days, right?
I'll grant you that print servers and web servers tend to be on VMs these days, but the VM host OS has to run on bare metal, and if you're doing number crunching or large data storage, it's going to be bare metal too, because the VM host/guest overhead is a waste of resources.
No. I want it to go back in time a couple minutes before grub even runs to magically make all the bios stuff happen in parallel. I will accept nothing less. And I want binary consoles instead of just log files so that I can feel like I'm in the matrix.
Thirty seconds every six months on a system where the motherboard BIOS POST, each NIC firmware, the SCSI card firmware, spinning up the drives, and the RAID bios take around two to three minutes to complete. So not really much at all. I propose new features to systemd to parallelize the hardware components to server startups. And a pony. I want a pony.
Did he have an employment contract with his employer? Did Comcast purposefully interfere with this contract? Also: Libel, Slander? He can actually prove monetary damage, which is more than most libel cases.
People speed because they are impatient, not because they think it's just as safe. People fail to wash their hands because they don't want to take 60 seconds to do it properly, not because they think it is better for others if they themselves don't wash.
People speed because they are impatient and because they think it's just as safe. Notice how most people speed at 5-10mph over the limit. They speed "safely". Occasionally you'll have some fool who speeds at 40-50mph over the limit. They're the people you describe, but they're very rare. Same thing with the hand-washing. They don't go through a full calculation and think to themselves "I've washed 40 seconds. 20 seconds more is worth someone getting sick". The risk doesn't even occur to them because they think any sort of washing makes them and others safe.
You're looking at this backwards. The re-training would be an ongoing expense, where Windows is a one time hit. You're investing in a one time Windows expense, that you then make back with interest over the coming months and years by eliminating necessary re-training to be able to use an uncommon and unfamiliar OS.
Re-training is already an ongoing expense with Microsoft products. Office ribbon, Windows 8 tile screen, any slightest change in Windows XYZ where the ABC isn't in the same pixels on the screen or is renamed something intelligible. The biggest drawback isn't the training expense, it's the fear of incompatibility with other companies' software.
The attempts by WWF and others to link this event to global warming is self-serving nonsense
"this event" is the walrus beaching, which she had darn well better know about. If the WWF said your computer started overheating due to global warming, would you take their word for it because they know climate science better, or would you check your system fans and blow dust off your heat sinks, knowing what the real cause likely is since it happens regularly, albeit rarely?
If an alien religion requires human sacrifice, then I guess we know why they bothered to come all this way. Sucks for all the aliens that died before they reached Earth though.
This release contains improvements and bug fixes, including:
Fixes an issue in iOS 8.0.1 that impacted cellular network connectivity and Touch ID on iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus
On their new flagship phones for iOS8. If Apple devs were really that thorough, I doubt that would have passed the first round of tests. On the other hand, I've noticed patches on RHEL take longer to release than Ubuntu which take longer than other Linux distros. But I'm not sure OSX is delayed due to rigorous testing.
It could simply be that considering that considering their user base, Apple puts any patches through a much more rigorous testing than a linux distro typically does.
Yeah, I was really pissed when RHEL released a patch for a kernel bug last week and it disabled the phone app on my iPhone. *#$^ing RedHat.
I'd also be very happy if somebody could tell me what GIMP does that Photoshop doesn't. It's free. if it shaves man-hours off my work, then load me up with the tips. I ain't gonna switch, but I ain't above using both.
PayPal's yearly revenues exceed $7 billion... they're also too big to be acquired, which is on [investors'?] minds after the ludicrously successful Alibaba IPO
Not if you're legally required to use some power from the grid or face an immediately levied tax (it's not a fine!). I could even see some rationale behind it: something about national emergency preparedness, keeping the grid working, and jobs. Battery banks beyond a certain size could be made illegal for home use (just like rainwater storage in the western USA) to encourage uploading excess to the grid and require pulling from the grid in dark hours (the electrical companies become flywheel companies). Everyone pays more to the utilities. That's nature's way.
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The first thing I learned about storing passwords is that you use a salted hash, which is impossible to decrypt back into plaintext. Am I missing something, or is this practice not standard practically everywhere now?
Apparently you are missing something because while common practice, it's not ubiquitous. And like all common practices, it gets spoken of less and less until new developers reinvent the wheel and decide they want passwords in plain text to make password recovery 'easier' ("click on the http link in your email and you'll see your password!")
Passphrases don't help the root problem, that "memorable" implies low-entropy.
Except that the human brain can separate out words as atomics rather than the parts that make up their whole. This makes remembering a string of a small number of truly random words easy to remember.
Demiurgic precompel Pediculicidal superimpersonally trichromate Voq
increep Sporodochium impassioning Winesburg Spicknel bacon-and-eggs
Are those really so impossible to remember? The biggest problem is when someone starts using sporodochium in casual conversation a lot, you know it's part of their new random passphrase or they started a word-of-the-day calendar.
Minutes can matter to news networks these days, as its the difference between breaking it first or second.
Which is silly since the difference between first and last is thirty seconds at most. First used to mean something back when papers came out once a day. A full day's lead time on an important story means everyone buys your paper that day. Today, I'd rather pay attention to a news service that checks sources and gets the story right than one that "had it first".
No, that's the beautiful part. When wintertime rolls around, the gorillas simply freeze to death.
"We have a deliverable! Congratulations, you're fired!"
You do realize that nobody runs servers on bare metal these days, right?
I'll grant you that print servers and web servers tend to be on VMs these days, but the VM host OS has to run on bare metal, and if you're doing number crunching or large data storage, it's going to be bare metal too, because the VM host/guest overhead is a waste of resources.
You should neko a Japanese file instead.
No. I want it to go back in time a couple minutes before grub even runs to magically make all the bios stuff happen in parallel. I will accept nothing less. And I want binary consoles instead of just log files so that I can feel like I'm in the matrix.
Thirty seconds every six months on a system where the motherboard BIOS POST, each NIC firmware, the SCSI card firmware, spinning up the drives, and the RAID bios take around two to three minutes to complete. So not really much at all. I propose new features to systemd to parallelize the hardware components to server startups. And a pony. I want a pony.
Court mandated identity theft. Too cruel or too unusual?
Did he have an employment contract with his employer? Did Comcast purposefully interfere with this contract? Also: Libel, Slander? He can actually prove monetary damage, which is more than most libel cases.
That settles it then. I'm naming my first son Gene.
People speed because they are impatient, not because they think it's just as safe. People fail to wash their hands because they don't want to take 60 seconds to do it properly, not because they think it is better for others if they themselves don't wash.
People speed because they are impatient and because they think it's just as safe. Notice how most people speed at 5-10mph over the limit. They speed "safely". Occasionally you'll have some fool who speeds at 40-50mph over the limit. They're the people you describe, but they're very rare. Same thing with the hand-washing. They don't go through a full calculation and think to themselves "I've washed 40 seconds. 20 seconds more is worth someone getting sick". The risk doesn't even occur to them because they think any sort of washing makes them and others safe.
You're looking at this backwards. The re-training would be an ongoing expense, where Windows is a one time hit. You're investing in a one time Windows expense, that you then make back with interest over the coming months and years by eliminating necessary re-training to be able to use an uncommon and unfamiliar OS.
Re-training is already an ongoing expense with Microsoft products. Office ribbon, Windows 8 tile screen, any slightest change in Windows XYZ where the ABC isn't in the same pixels on the screen or is renamed something intelligible. The biggest drawback isn't the training expense, it's the fear of incompatibility with other companies' software.
So are the computer, CPU, and hard drive, but people use those terms interchangeably.
The attempts by WWF and others to link this event to global warming is self-serving nonsense
"this event" is the walrus beaching, which she had darn well better know about. If the WWF said your computer started overheating due to global warming, would you take their word for it because they know climate science better, or would you check your system fans and blow dust off your heat sinks, knowing what the real cause likely is since it happens regularly, albeit rarely?
If an alien religion requires human sacrifice, then I guess we know why they bothered to come all this way. Sucks for all the aliens that died before they reached Earth though.
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL...?
This release contains improvements and bug fixes, including:
Fixes an issue in iOS 8.0.1 that impacted cellular network connectivity and Touch ID on iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus
On their new flagship phones for iOS8. If Apple devs were really that thorough, I doubt that would have passed the first round of tests. On the other hand, I've noticed patches on RHEL take longer to release than Ubuntu which take longer than other Linux distros. But I'm not sure OSX is delayed due to rigorous testing.
It could simply be that considering that considering their user base, Apple puts any patches through a much more rigorous testing than a linux distro typically does.
Yeah, I was really pissed when RHEL released a patch for a kernel bug last week and it disabled the phone app on my iPhone. *#$^ing RedHat.
I'd also be very happy if somebody could tell me what GIMP does that Photoshop doesn't. It's free. if it shaves man-hours off my work, then load me up with the tips. I ain't gonna switch, but I ain't above using both.
Programmatically accessible from command line scripts (if you're not hep to the ImageMagick fu):
http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/...
and other languages
http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/...
but if that sandbox can ping...
Papa's gonna buy you a diamond ring.
PayPal's yearly revenues exceed $7 billion ... they're also too big to be acquired, which is on [investors'?] minds after the ludicrously successful Alibaba IPO
Just ask for dividends.
Is it really a deus ex machina if a central theme of the story is Deus?
Telephone lines in the USA are 48VDC, 90VDC when ringing.
Not if you're legally required to use some power from the grid or face an immediately levied tax (it's not a fine!). I could even see some rationale behind it: something about national emergency preparedness, keeping the grid working, and jobs. Battery banks beyond a certain size could be made illegal for home use (just like rainwater storage in the western USA) to encourage uploading excess to the grid and require pulling from the grid in dark hours (the electrical companies become flywheel companies). Everyone pays more to the utilities. That's nature's way.