"What people do on their own webpage is their own damn business."
Which means what google's doing on their own webpage (i.e., dumping wordpress) is their own damn business, so I don't see why you're getting your panties in a wad over it.
"I believe the site is hosted in the United States, and last I checked, in most of those states, the 1st Amendment still applies."
I know good trolls. Good trolls are friends of mine. You, sir, are no good troll.
The CherryOS "lawyer" (assuming he's not just a sock puppet email account--and the site is dead, so I couldn't RTFA to get more info on it) would have to be a brain-dead, drooling vegetable to allow the "developers" to set foot in a courtroom. I predict an out-of-court settlement and no more CherryOS distribution.
Which piece of shit browser are you using that doesn't inform you of the links you're about to visit when you hover the mouse over them? You might want to drop the developers an email and see if they can't include that functionality in the next version.
"Adobe relies on their software getting cracked so mom-and-pop consumers will purchase the upgrade version to make themselves feel better."
Except Adobe blacklists pirated serials, like they did when CS was first released into the wild. So buying an upgrade won't do you much good, and I'm not really sure what point you want to make when it falls apart that easily.
I didn't bother reading the rest of your post, so I can't comment on it.
Interestingly (or not), this is how I memorize my own random passwords. I create the passwords themselves through other methods, but once I type it in a few times I generally forget the password and just remember the way my fingers move (I'm a fast hunt-and-peck typer so I look at the keyboard when I'm typing anyway). I also remember tens of phone numbers the same way...I can't for the life of me recite a number from memory unless I have a phone keypad handy.
"And if you're thinking of hanging the 'decryption key' on your cube wall"
That's a shitty idea in any case, because I've sat at desks and done exactly what you just proposed: used the first letters of any phrases I saw around the workspace in addition to other methods. Let me clarify: using the first letters of a phrase isn't itself a bad idea if you seed the result with other random characters, but putting the original phrase anywhere someone else can access it makes your password nearly useless.
That's a fantastic idea, especially when you consider that brute-force password crackers have had the ability to take dictionary words and make those exact same substitutions for over a decade now.
My method is easier. I scribble a random long word or string onto my Axim as sloppily as I can, and use whatever the handwriting recognition thinks I wrote, using the original word or string as a mnemonic and throwing in a random non-alpha character into it somewhere. It's surprisingly effective.
He whipped up a portal page and added a hosts entry? Impressive hack!!@
Of slightly more interest would be if someone actually hacked the firmware update (assuming it has the URL encoded in it) with a hex editor and made the "net update firmware" function go straight to your portal from anywhere you can find 802.11 access, not just home.
Maybe a stupid question, but I couldn't find much info on the UMD format online. First off, the firmware is upgradeable through 802.11 or mem stick, which means hacked firmware will be along soon. The question is, can a UMD reader also read mini-DVDs? If so, the PSP is going to be bent over like a cheap whore (and I'll get one). If not, Sony has announced they're opening the UMD format, so burners may not be far off anyway. In which case, see "cheap whore" note earlier in this post.
Once again, sir, I must applaud you on your mind-reading prowess. I'm considering a thorough perusal of your posting history to see what other nuggets of information you've gleaned from the minds of mere mortals. Bravo!
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That sounds entirely unconstitutional. Legal tender is legal tender.
"like a lot of people pointed out RFID does not work at long distances at all and is almost unusable in open spaces like the highway."
Unless the sensor is embedded in the highway itself? I don't know enough about RFID to know if it would work, but it's plausible.
And since the designer gets local wages, you'll be swimming in a pool of money a la Scrooge McDuck in no time! Oh boy!
Ah, so shitty spammer tactics are great as long as they help a good cause, is that your position?
"What people do on their own webpage is their own damn business."
Which means what google's doing on their own webpage (i.e., dumping wordpress) is their own damn business, so I don't see why you're getting your panties in a wad over it.
"I believe the site is hosted in the United States, and last I checked, in most of those states, the 1st Amendment still applies."
I know good trolls. Good trolls are friends of mine. You, sir, are no good troll.
Who's running the "How long until Adobe sues Scott?" pool? I have $10 on a week.
s/turbine/generator but someone modded it as funny anyway...
"When someone says "KB" I say 'Kelvin bytes?'"
How do you know they're capitalizing the letters when they're speaking?
The CherryOS "lawyer" (assuming he's not just a sock puppet email account--and the site is dead, so I couldn't RTFA to get more info on it) would have to be a brain-dead, drooling vegetable to allow the "developers" to set foot in a courtroom. I predict an out-of-court settlement and no more CherryOS distribution.
Don't take it so hard.
"What was that noise? Oh nevermind that, it was just ole Jefferson rolling in his grave."
Someone needs to hook some magnets up to that guy and create the world's first corpse-powered turbine.
Maybe now I'll be able to crank all the settings up in Doom 3.
Which piece of shit browser are you using that doesn't inform you of the links you're about to visit when you hover the mouse over them? You might want to drop the developers an email and see if they can't include that functionality in the next version.
The Secret Agency. Now shut your piehole or you'll be disappeared.
"Adobe relies on their software getting cracked so mom-and-pop consumers will purchase the upgrade version to make themselves feel better."
Except Adobe blacklists pirated serials, like they did when CS was first released into the wild. So buying an upgrade won't do you much good, and I'm not really sure what point you want to make when it falls apart that easily.
I didn't bother reading the rest of your post, so I can't comment on it.
The reason he was turned down is because Bill wanted to play his own teen character.
Better luck next time, Bill, you irrelevant old fart.
Interestingly (or not), this is how I memorize my own random passwords. I create the passwords themselves through other methods, but once I type it in a few times I generally forget the password and just remember the way my fingers move (I'm a fast hunt-and-peck typer so I look at the keyboard when I'm typing anyway). I also remember tens of phone numbers the same way...I can't for the life of me recite a number from memory unless I have a phone keypad handy.
"And if you're thinking of hanging the 'decryption key' on your cube wall"
That's a shitty idea in any case, because I've sat at desks and done exactly what you just proposed: used the first letters of any phrases I saw around the workspace in addition to other methods. Let me clarify: using the first letters of a phrase isn't itself a bad idea if you seed the result with other random characters, but putting the original phrase anywhere someone else can access it makes your password nearly useless.
That's a fantastic idea, especially when you consider that brute-force password crackers have had the ability to take dictionary words and make those exact same substitutions for over a decade now.
My method is easier. I scribble a random long word or string onto my Axim as sloppily as I can, and use whatever the handwriting recognition thinks I wrote, using the original word or string as a mnemonic and throwing in a random non-alpha character into it somewhere. It's surprisingly effective.
Works fine for me on v1.02. Maybe it's your OS.
He whipped up a portal page and added a hosts entry? Impressive hack!!@
Of slightly more interest would be if someone actually hacked the firmware update (assuming it has the URL encoded in it) with a hex editor and made the "net update firmware" function go straight to your portal from anywhere you can find 802.11 access, not just home.
Maybe a stupid question, but I couldn't find much info on the UMD format online. First off, the firmware is upgradeable through 802.11 or mem stick, which means hacked firmware will be along soon. The question is, can a UMD reader also read mini-DVDs? If so, the PSP is going to be bent over like a cheap whore (and I'll get one). If not, Sony has announced they're opening the UMD format, so burners may not be far off anyway. In which case, see "cheap whore" note earlier in this post.
This was just reported in Science yesterday.
Science, Vol 307, Issue 5717, 1927 , 25 March 2005
Once again, sir, I must applaud you on your mind-reading prowess. I'm considering a thorough perusal of your posting history to see what other nuggets of information you've gleaned from the minds of mere mortals. Bravo!