I'm not completely familiar with Microsoft's password recovery practices, but if recovery is something like 'enter your mom's name' then your password is as strong as your mom's name.
It just takes an extra step.
I'm lucky my mother's maiden name is made up of numeric and symbolic characters. (She got teased a lot at school).
e-books will not seriously take off until they are suitably cheap....That won't happen for a very long time, book publishers are terrified of losing control of the entire distribution and "scarcity" control.
I knew it! It's a conspiracy! I also reckon that the eBook publishers shot footage of the Apollo landings from the grassy knoll! Not to mention [insert favourite conspiracy theory here]
"An email which was intended for a member of staff who was leaving today was accidentally sent to all Aviva Investors staff worldwide," said Paul Lockstone, a spokesperson for Aviva.
Lockstone said that Aviva's quick actions to correct the issue ensured that no employees were truly offended.
"People were pretty quickly aware of the fact that this was a mistake," Lockstone said. "I don't believe any of our staff would have seen it really as anything other than the mistake that it was."
No employees truly offended? What planet is this man on?
That is to say, I could say "Creationism is falsifiable if you see a monkey with three tails, five wings, eating custard in a French cafe on January 12, 1892",
Diverting from the normal car analogy there. A refreshing change, though somewhat difficult to categorize.
Uncle Owen: "What I really need is a droid who understands the binary language of moisture vaporators."
C-3PO: "Vaporators? Sir, my first job was programming binary load lifters very similar to your vaporators in most respects."
Reminds me of a story about a student who was asked to measure the height of a building, given nothing but a barometer. The answer was the obvious one, but rather than give that, she came up with three alternatives.
a) Measure the height of the barometer, and carefully laying it end to end on the side of the building, find how many barometer-lengths high the building is.
b) Measure the length of the shadow of the barometer and the length of the shadow of the building. Using proportions, work out the height of the building
c) Locate the custodian of the building. Say to him, 'If you tell me how high your building is, I'll give you this barometer".
History doesn't record whether she got a pass or not.
That's the one people should be the most concerned with. When I first started using NoScript, I was stunned at how many supposedly reputable sites were using javascript pulled from ten or twenty different unrelated sites. There's just NO good excuse for that at all.
Agreed - quite amazing. And how insidious FaceBook is...
I believe this was more of an analysis. They fed thousands of time stamped memos into an algorithm. The idea was to look for differences in speech pattern or word choice in reference to the conspiracy.
Yeah, but they knew that if there was something to find, it would be there. This tends to make people look harder at innocent phrases - example "Gee, I just can't wait for the weekend". For you and me (well, me) I have things to do. For Mr Enron he has things to do. And we all know what they are...
Feed the algorithm a hundred different strings of emails, and tell it to pick out something fishy. Betcha it doesn't find anyone who's suspect. Or it finds everyone. Or too many false positives.
Friend here in the office chews her thumb. She's almost been denied entry to the States once or twice as the fingerprint-taker won't get a good reading off a nibbled digit.
So will finger-chewers be able to withdraw their cash? Come to that, how about amputees? Or the remaining thalidomide generation?
Be honest - say "I like this product" but add the disclaimer "I work for the company that makes this product". Marketing can't gripe about that (can they?). I've seen disclaimers on/. so it's common practice.
Of course, if you don't like the product, why are you wasting your time working for a company that makes things you don't like?
(Disclaimer - I work for an insurance company and have my insurance with a competitor. Why? They're not that competitive in my circumstances, and I need the $$)
True - I chased Amazon once for a failed book delivery. Sorry, they said, and shipped another. Of course, I ended up with two. I contacted Amazon and offered to return one at my cost. No need they said, enjoy it.
I donated it to the local library. And I shop at Amazon again, and again...
I remember one time I was talking with a Catholic Bishop. One thing that really got me was how Intelligent this guy was, and I found out he had a PHD in Bio-Chemistry, he spoke fluently at least 5 different languages. What got me most was not all of his views were not 100% inline with the Pope.
Have to disagree - without disputing the intelligence of the Bishop. My in-laws are catholics (in name) and my nephew married into a catholic family - also in name. They describe themselves as catholics, tick the box on the census, send their kids off to catholic schools (an issue for my nephew to cope with in time). But - they certainly use, or used birth control. I've no doubt they broke a few of the other "don't" rules that are necessary if you want to be a catholic. So, they are not catholic. They may lean that way, but that's not the same.
If you're a catholic, you do what the man at the top of the tree does. Otherwise, you're not a catholic. You can't be a vegetarian between meals.
... it's odd how a company doesn't look at what it is and what it has rather than look at where it wants to be. Some of these companies go through a lot of change, and come out the other side as a totally different company from where they started (if they come out at all).
Imagine a drafting company that has 50 drafting employees. The CEO decides they want to be an IT company. They can either
a) Lay off the 50 drafting employees and hire 50 IT people, or
b) Not do that, and keep going as a drafting company
Actually I heard recently that she's slipped from the world's billionaires list to the millionaires one, because she's given away so much to her charities. I suspect money isn't her driving force.
Need I add, I wish more gazillionaires were as generous. How many million do you need in one lifetime, after all.
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I'm not completely familiar with Microsoft's password recovery practices, but if recovery is something like 'enter your mom's name' then your password is as strong as your mom's name.
It just takes an extra step.
I'm lucky my mother's maiden name is made up of numeric and symbolic characters. (She got teased a lot at school).
e-books will not seriously take off until they are suitably cheap. ...That won't happen for a very long time, book publishers are terrified of losing control of the entire distribution and "scarcity" control.
I knew it! It's a conspiracy! I also reckon that the eBook publishers shot footage of the Apollo landings from the grassy knoll! Not to mention [insert favourite conspiracy theory here]
Ftfa ..
"An email which was intended for a member of staff who was leaving today was accidentally sent to all Aviva Investors staff worldwide," said Paul Lockstone, a spokesperson for Aviva.
Lockstone said that Aviva's quick actions to correct the issue ensured that no employees were truly offended.
"People were pretty quickly aware of the fact that this was a mistake," Lockstone said. "I don't believe any of our staff would have seen it really as anything other than the mistake that it was."
No employees truly offended? What planet is this man on?
That is to say, I could say "Creationism is falsifiable if you see a monkey with three tails, five wings, eating custard in a French cafe on January 12, 1892",
Diverting from the normal car analogy there. A refreshing change, though somewhat difficult to categorize.
52, still coding.
Uncle Owen: "What I really need is a droid who understands the binary language of moisture vaporators." C-3PO: "Vaporators? Sir, my first job was programming binary load lifters very similar to your vaporators in most respects."
Er ... you need to get out more.
Reminds me of a story about a student who was asked to measure the height of a building, given nothing but a barometer. The answer was the obvious one, but rather than give that, she came up with three alternatives.
a) Measure the height of the barometer, and carefully laying it end to end on the side of the building, find how many barometer-lengths high the building is.
b) Measure the length of the shadow of the barometer and the length of the shadow of the building. Using proportions, work out the height of the building
c) Locate the custodian of the building. Say to him, 'If you tell me how high your building is, I'll give you this barometer".
History doesn't record whether she got a pass or not.
Only 5 GB? Anyone else a little surprised by that?
Free. Read my lips. Free. I'm sure they can provide some more space for a little (cough) incentive...
That's the one people should be the most concerned with. When I first started using NoScript, I was stunned at how many supposedly reputable sites were using javascript pulled from ten or twenty different unrelated sites. There's just NO good excuse for that at all.
Agreed - quite amazing. And how insidious FaceBook is...
Utter tosh. ...
I like the phrase "utter tosh" and want to use it more in conversation.
It's an extreme form of "partial tosh" or "just a bit of tosh". Tosh itself is slang for something you don't want to know about.
I believe this was more of an analysis. They fed thousands of time stamped memos into an algorithm. The idea was to look for differences in speech pattern or word choice in reference to the conspiracy.
Yeah, but they knew that if there was something to find, it would be there. This tends to make people look harder at innocent phrases - example "Gee, I just can't wait for the weekend". For you and me (well, me) I have things to do. For Mr Enron he has things to do. And we all know what they are ...
Feed the algorithm a hundred different strings of emails, and tell it to pick out something fishy. Betcha it doesn't find anyone who's suspect. Or it finds everyone. Or too many false positives.
Friend here in the office chews her thumb. She's almost been denied entry to the States once or twice as the fingerprint-taker won't get a good reading off a nibbled digit.
So will finger-chewers be able to withdraw their cash? Come to that, how about amputees? Or the remaining thalidomide generation?
Theory is that if something is good, more is better. Food and information alike
There you go, I've said it in one line.
Be honest - say "I like this product" but add the disclaimer "I work for the company that makes this product". Marketing can't gripe about that (can they?). I've seen disclaimers on /. so it's common practice.
Of course, if you don't like the product, why are you wasting your time working for a company that makes things you don't like?
(Disclaimer - I work for an insurance company and have my insurance with a competitor. Why? They're not that competitive in my circumstances, and I need the $$)
Nothing so see here, move one. This is on every media outlet.
Because nerds are somehow immune to the outcome of a national election such as a presidential race.....
Certainly the ones outside the States (or at least, mostly immune).
True - I chased Amazon once for a failed book delivery. Sorry, they said, and shipped another. Of course, I ended up with two. I contacted Amazon and offered to return one at my cost. No need they said, enjoy it.
...
I donated it to the local library. And I shop at Amazon again, and again
America has spent the last few decades transferring massive amounts of wealth from the middle class to the wealthy.
Shouldn't that be ..
America has spent the last few decades transferring massive amounts of wealth from the middle class to the Chinese?
I remember one time I was talking with a Catholic Bishop. One thing that really got me was how Intelligent this guy was, and I found out he had a PHD in Bio-Chemistry, he spoke fluently at least 5 different languages. What got me most was not all of his views were not 100% inline with the Pope.
Have to disagree - without disputing the intelligence of the Bishop. My in-laws are catholics (in name) and my nephew married into a catholic family - also in name. They describe themselves as catholics, tick the box on the census, send their kids off to catholic schools (an issue for my nephew to cope with in time). But - they certainly use, or used birth control. I've no doubt they broke a few of the other "don't" rules that are necessary if you want to be a catholic. So, they are not catholic. They may lean that way, but that's not the same.
If you're a catholic, you do what the man at the top of the tree does. Otherwise, you're not a catholic. You can't be a vegetarian between meals.
Weren't they the ones that Moses brought down from Mt Sinai?
(Thank you, I'm here 'til Thursday).
http://xkcd.com/
I think you mean http://xkcd.com/1040/ - or you will do next week.
I'm here for you with the Raymond Chandler sig. though. That's the stuff that dreams are made of...
Vaio, eh? My local laptop place allows people to purchase extended warranties on all laptops except the Vaio. 'Nuff said
And those colours!
Imagine a drafting company that has 50 drafting employees. The CEO decides they want to be an IT company. They can either
a) Lay off the 50 drafting employees and hire 50 IT people, or
b) Not do that, and keep going as a drafting company
And of course, its always more palatable to couch surveillance projects in "Somebody Please think of the Children" language.
Note - don't use "couch" in a chat log that's likely to be scanned. Prefix it with 'casting', for example...
Need I add, I wish more gazillionaires were as generous. How many million do you need in one lifetime, after all.
"Metal poor worlds" - so one of those could be Terminus?