In the early 90's, I had a 10 digit pin with Wells Fargo. It was great for security, but it was a pain when all of the POS terminals didn't expect it. They only allowed for 4 digit input.
Also, my current bank (name withheld) offers the two account approach. One account has card access and the other has the money. You transfer periodically to cover the other. If your card is ever compromised, you stop the transfers and limit the losses. Of course, you still also get the protection you would normally get with your card.
Anyone know which of these work with a touch screen? I've got a glossy touch screen laptop and would really like to go to a matte finish. Of course, smudge free is also a high requirement.
If you just transmit the hash, then all I need to do is generate hashes; I don't actually need your password at all. This would be more or less the same as sending the password in clear-text.....it's just that the password is some fixed length string that can't be pronounced.
I've got a USB headset (for my VOIP phone @ work). No reason that you have to have the audio jacks, but those connectors are simple and small, so most people don't think of it as wasted space. They can be wired in any free spot, probably easier than replacing them with a single USB port. Also, headphones are cheap and would actually cost more if they had to switch to USB.
So, they aren't REQUIRED, but keeping them is really easy.
I think people love to bash Dell. They don't say anything about the capacitor problems, they suck. They are the first to disclose the exploding battery issue, they suck. All of the issues stem from the suppliers parts that are shared by other computer manufacturers. But Dell gets bashed for their response to the situation and other companies don't. Dell's response to the battery isssue was actually the best one for the customer (and was more recent than the 2003 to 2005 for the capacitor issue) but they get no credit for changing their ways, no credit for doing right by the customer, no credit for being the first to admit that there was a problem.
I've bought Dell computers and not had issues. They are solid computers. Tech support via chat is fine (I don't use the phone support). Of course, I only contact them when it's something that requires a part replacement because I can fix my own computer. Computers are commodity items now, there isn't a significant difference between any of them, buy on price and features and repeat in three years.
Fair enough. But if a parent hasn't checked on their kid in enough time for decomp to generate enough heat to notice, I'd contend that the parent has other issues.
Wouldn't it be better for detecting living babies? The dead ones would approach room temp and become "invisible" in the IR spectrum. The live ones should stand out like a sore thumb.
"The companies will waive the early termination fee if you die."
"Next to death, moving to a place where your phone company does not have service may not seem so draconian. Each company provides maps on its Web site or at its stores that show the general service area, so you can easily figure that out. But companies will ask for proof of the new address. The T-Mobile spokesman warns that it has to be a legitimate address, and post office boxes will not work.
There is an intriguing escape clause in contracts with phone companies that offer "roaming" services, though it is intended to give the carrier a way out. When a cellphone is used outside the provider's network, calls are routed through another company's network. The consumer pays a monthly fee for this service, which the carrier uses to pay the other phone companies to handle those calls.
Roam too much and your phone company starts losing money. Find a place where your phone goes into roaming mode and make at least half your calls from there. Every carrier said they would cancel the contract, though it might take them a month or two to notice."
The wife did everything she needed to according to the NYTimes article to have the contract voided w/o the termination fee. She signed a contract for them to provide service and moved to an area that they didn't cover. For the contract to continue, they would have needed to provide service for her.....much cheaper for them to just waive the ETF.
Why would I use a digital download service if I have bad or no internet? Won't that mean I won't even be able to download anything? I mean, when games weigh in at 7-10GB each, a flaky connection isn't going to make it usable at all.
Because I installed it on my laptop at home before I travelled to my cabin in the woods and wanted to fire up a game to kill some time?
You mean you didn't download the free "Everybody Votes" channel? %)
Yeah, I haven't seen anything on the shopping channel that I felt was worth spending money on. My Wii isn't homebrewed (but I was thinking about it just to play DVDs since my player went out and the XBox is loud when it plays them), but not any more.
Don't forget that the mobile market gets to take advantage of knowledge and research done for the server/desktop market. Sure, there's new tech going on in there, but it's the whole trickle down approach, too. The mobile market is *catching up* to the desktop market, so there's a lot of acceleration just from using all of the prior knowledge. Building multi-core processors isn't easy and how many mobile phones do you know that are sporting them? Zero that I know of. And what about Intel's turbo processing (dropping cores and overclocking the remaining cores when not needing as many cores), how long do you think before a mobile phone will have that technology?
The innovation in a lagging area (mobile) seems faster only because the innovation has already been researched in the leading area (servers first and consumer second). It takes longer to figure out something the first time than it does to figure out how to make it "smaller" (smaller in the sense that it is for the mobile market, it may be a smaller die footprint or power footprint or whatever).
I've found that putting the serial/date element earlier in the string (instead of the end) is enough to confound any of the "significantly different" algorithms.
So, if your password is: C0mp@ny And the next password has to be "significantly different" than the previous one you can use the following (in order): 1C0mp@ny 2C0mp@ny 3C0mp@ny
And because the "significantly different" is normally based on the encrypted password (since they are usually one-way and compare the hash), these don't trigger the logic and then all you have to remember is which sequence you used. Of course, YMMV. I've also placed the changing value in the middle instead of the ends because I assume someone (besides me) will get wise to this fact and picking out the middle elements from a hashed password seems like it would be tantamount to cracking the encryption -- and if that can be done, it doesn't matter what your password is.
The fourth (and possibly fifth) monitors can be remoted into your dev server(s) so that you can watch and tweak them (web server, db server, etc.). They aren't as critical, so they can be smaller or placed in a different row, depending on your preferences. Still not 12, though.
Get yourself a 4G MiFi device and take your connection with you. You don't need a cell PHONE. You need a cellular network data connection. Voice Over MiFi. At home? Your MiFi is docked for power and your devices all run through that. On the road? Your "phone" and laptop and iPad and Kindle and Nintendo DS and and and all connect via the MiFi.
One data plan to rule them all.
You *might* want to have a second MiFi for your house so that you can SlingBox your TV shows, but with so much of it going online now, you could probably just get by with Hulu and Netflix streaming.
All it takes is one cool app that people want (say, a really cool free Tower Defense game) that incorporates the Trojan. The point of the Trojan is that is pretends to be something you want to get you to install it. Until someone figures out that it's a Trojan, it'll spread like wildfire.
Well, if I have to get punched, I want to be #202 in line. After the bully punches #201 and the rich kid can't pay, the bully will turn around and punch the rich kid so that I get off scott-free.
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[quote]two 8-bit microcontrollers[/quote]
Reading comprehension fail. $20 for 16-bit. $1.25 each.
In the early 90's, I had a 10 digit pin with Wells Fargo. It was great for security, but it was a pain when all of the POS terminals didn't expect it. They only allowed for 4 digit input.
Also, my current bank (name withheld) offers the two account approach. One account has card access and the other has the money. You transfer periodically to cover the other. If your card is ever compromised, you stop the transfers and limit the losses. Of course, you still also get the protection you would normally get with your card.
Anyone know which of these work with a touch screen? I've got a glossy touch screen laptop and would really like to go to a matte finish. Of course, smudge free is also a high requirement.
If you just transmit the hash, then all I need to do is generate hashes; I don't actually need your password at all. This would be more or less the same as sending the password in clear-text.....it's just that the password is some fixed length string that can't be pronounced.
The server needs to do the hash, not the client.
I've got a USB headset (for my VOIP phone @ work). No reason that you have to have the audio jacks, but those connectors are simple and small, so most people don't think of it as wasted space. They can be wired in any free spot, probably easier than replacing them with a single USB port. Also, headphones are cheap and would actually cost more if they had to switch to USB.
So, they aren't REQUIRED, but keeping them is really easy.
You're holding it wrong.
We're displaying it wrong.
I think people love to bash Dell. They don't say anything about the capacitor problems, they suck. They are the first to disclose the exploding battery issue, they suck. All of the issues stem from the suppliers parts that are shared by other computer manufacturers. But Dell gets bashed for their response to the situation and other companies don't. Dell's response to the battery isssue was actually the best one for the customer (and was more recent than the 2003 to 2005 for the capacitor issue) but they get no credit for changing their ways, no credit for doing right by the customer, no credit for being the first to admit that there was a problem.
I've bought Dell computers and not had issues. They are solid computers. Tech support via chat is fine (I don't use the phone support). Of course, I only contact them when it's something that requires a part replacement because I can fix my own computer. Computers are commodity items now, there isn't a significant difference between any of them, buy on price and features and repeat in three years.
--Sent from my Dell laptop
Fair enough. But if a parent hasn't checked on their kid in enough time for decomp to generate enough heat to notice, I'd contend that the parent has other issues.
Wouldn't it be better for detecting living babies? The dead ones would approach room temp and become "invisible" in the IR spectrum. The live ones should stand out like a sore thumb.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/10/technology/10money.html
"The companies will waive the early termination fee if you die."
"Next to death, moving to a place where your phone company does not have service may not seem so draconian. Each company provides maps on its Web site or at its stores that show the general service area, so you can easily figure that out. But companies will ask for proof of the new address. The T-Mobile spokesman warns that it has to be a legitimate address, and post office boxes will not work.
There is an intriguing escape clause in contracts with phone companies that offer "roaming" services, though it is intended to give the carrier a way out. When a cellphone is used outside the provider's network, calls are routed through another company's network. The consumer pays a monthly fee for this service, which the carrier uses to pay the other phone companies to handle those calls.
Roam too much and your phone company starts losing money. Find a place where your phone goes into roaming mode and make at least half your calls from there. Every carrier said they would cancel the contract, though it might take them a month or two to notice."
The wife did everything she needed to according to the NYTimes article to have the contract voided w/o the termination fee. She signed a contract for them to provide service and moved to an area that they didn't cover. For the contract to continue, they would have needed to provide service for her.....much cheaper for them to just waive the ETF.
Why would I use a digital download service if I have bad or no internet? Won't that mean I won't even be able to download anything? I mean, when games weigh in at 7-10GB each, a flaky connection isn't going to make it usable at all.
Because I installed it on my laptop at home before I travelled to my cabin in the woods and wanted to fire up a game to kill some time?
You mean you didn't download the free "Everybody Votes" channel? %)
Yeah, I haven't seen anything on the shopping channel that I felt was worth spending money on. My Wii isn't homebrewed (but I was thinking about it just to play DVDs since my player went out and the XBox is loud when it plays them), but not any more.
We've seen that before. Unrecoverable Application Error vs General Protection Fault. You'll never get a UAE again if we change the name to GPF.
You'll never get a red ring of death if we change it to the evil eye of Xbox.
Don't forget that the mobile market gets to take advantage of knowledge and research done for the server/desktop market. Sure, there's new tech going on in there, but it's the whole trickle down approach, too. The mobile market is *catching up* to the desktop market, so there's a lot of acceleration just from using all of the prior knowledge. Building multi-core processors isn't easy and how many mobile phones do you know that are sporting them? Zero that I know of. And what about Intel's turbo processing (dropping cores and overclocking the remaining cores when not needing as many cores), how long do you think before a mobile phone will have that technology?
The innovation in a lagging area (mobile) seems faster only because the innovation has already been researched in the leading area (servers first and consumer second). It takes longer to figure out something the first time than it does to figure out how to make it "smaller" (smaller in the sense that it is for the mobile market, it may be a smaller die footprint or power footprint or whatever).
So, you lived near the police station, then? (ATX!)
I've found that putting the serial/date element earlier in the string (instead of the end) is enough to confound any of the "significantly different" algorithms.
So, if your password is: C0mp@ny
And the next password has to be "significantly different" than the previous one you can use the following (in order):
1C0mp@ny
2C0mp@ny
3C0mp@ny
And because the "significantly different" is normally based on the encrypted password (since they are usually one-way and compare the hash), these don't trigger the logic and then all you have to remember is which sequence you used. Of course, YMMV. I've also placed the changing value in the middle instead of the ends because I assume someone (besides me) will get wise to this fact and picking out the middle elements from a hashed password seems like it would be tantamount to cracking the encryption -- and if that can be done, it doesn't matter what your password is.
There would still be AOL.......
Or you could just switch the 10mpg car with the 50mpg car and be even better off.....
The fourth (and possibly fifth) monitors can be remoted into your dev server(s) so that you can watch and tweak them (web server, db server, etc.). They aren't as critical, so they can be smaller or placed in a different row, depending on your preferences. Still not 12, though.
Get yourself a 4G MiFi device and take your connection with you. You don't need a cell PHONE. You need a cellular network data connection. Voice Over MiFi. At home? Your MiFi is docked for power and your devices all run through that. On the road? Your "phone" and laptop and iPad and Kindle and Nintendo DS and and and all connect via the MiFi.
One data plan to rule them all.
You *might* want to have a second MiFi for your house so that you can SlingBox your TV shows, but with so much of it going online now, you could probably just get by with Hulu and Netflix streaming.
If you're going to be anal, at least know what the F you're talking about.
What does 15 have to do with it?
All it takes is one cool app that people want (say, a really cool free Tower Defense game) that incorporates the Trojan. The point of the Trojan is that is pretends to be something you want to get you to install it. Until someone figures out that it's a Trojan, it'll spread like wildfire.
Wait, you have to plug your phone into your computer? My WinMo phone syncs via Bluetooth (and if I had a data plan, would sync via the 3g).
Actually Kaspersky has a mobile AV that's been available for a while: http://usa.kaspersky.com/products_services/mobile-security.php
Well, if I have to get punched, I want to be #202 in line. After the bully punches #201 and the rich kid can't pay, the bully will turn around and punch the rich kid so that I get off scott-free.
You win this round, Anonymous Coward!! [shakes fist vehemently]