In your post, I read an assumption that a physically secure password tracker implies secure passwords.
One advantage of password managers not captured with a physically secure password tracker is that you can employ more complex (including difficult to type?), changing passwords unique to each system. Some softare password managers do this for you automatically.
Physical security isn't the only attack vector on passwords.
I just read a book called "The Windup Girl" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... by Paolo Bacigalupi where local environmental police was a major component of the plot.
I enjoyed the book enough to get "Pump Six and Other Stories", a collection of his short stories where I believe he will introduce some of the ideas fleshed out in "The Windup Girl."
I recently started reading A Deepness in the Sky (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Deepness_in_the_Sky ) by Vernon Vinge who briefly touches on this issue.
He speculates that eventually hardware will stabilize allowing code written over the period of centuries to still be used. He says that bugs in old code, (the original designer, coder, maintainer are dead) eventually cause more deaths than hazardous activities like space travel.
I can see how code that hasn't needed TLC for years but is still used extensively (i.e.in chains like awk and grep) could have an impact on computing for years to come.
Vinge also talks about how back doors created by the coders but forgotten over time might be rediscovered and lead to control and manipulation of massive systems that still use those old libraries.
Actually, even the TSA provides some protection from "walk-on" terrorists. The protection is at the same level as your firewall which protects you from script kiddies who do port scans against blocks of IP addresses.
It prevents the random oddball who, without planning or a support structure, might otherwise walk-on with a gun, knife or bomb.
Has there ever been income in music production for artists (unless your album/cd goes gold)? I thought that artists make money with merchandise sales and licensing.
Linux is communist in a sense because the community 'owns' it, anyone can contribute to it regardless of social class, and the community governs itself without need of outside interferance [sic]. Not all linux developers are treated equally. There is a clear hierarchy in Linus' Linux tree. Greg Kroah-Hartman, for example, has a lot more latitude to contribute than I do (not that I'm complaining, he's earned it).
The social class is scaled on "linux development" ability.
But, if the management of the city is so bad that backup systems aren't in place, and properly trained IT staff to run networks, this might be the only way to raise awareness of the problem that could really impact lives of the city's residence.
I'm not disputing any of your points. But a city, especially during economic downturn, may not have tax revenues and bonds (and politicians) to spend money on things IT people consider reasonable. Backup systems are expensive and when weighed against other financial considerations, are likely areas to have budget cuts.
Not that I know SanFran's affairs at all, but I know other government agencies which cannot afford the best and brightest, and many times are stuck with employees who will work less for less; properly trained or not.
And every so often, they find an employee who is a "self-starter" and takes responsibility for the systems they manage.
Don't get me wrong, I would love to see us actually get the heck off this planet and start populating the solar system, but the realities aren't just daunting, they're outright Godzilla-like.
The Nova Now guy, Neil deGrasse Tyson said in Time
"Do you know that Antarctica is balmier and wetter than the surface of Mars? Yet I don't see people lining up to build condos in Antarctica. So how long? A thousand years. Never. We can visit them. But to land there and say, "What an oasis!"--not anytime soon."
I don't know much about this topic, so I'm going to speculate.
I wonder if the issue with reentry from orbit is the heat generated when scrubbing off the horizontal velocity. Basically, the space shuttle is aerobraking.
Since he doesn't have to establish or maintain an orbit maybe he'll have little or no horizontal velocity .
When I jumped from a hot-air balloon (from 5,000 feet), there was no forward velocity. At first, there was only a little air resistance. Then, as I accelerated due to gravity, I had more air resistance (and could control my fall better).
While I'm a Blackberry bigot, I've had several folks approach me about getting their iPhone connected to Domino (Lotus Notes' server). I believe I could use IMAP, but most other IMAP handhelds (generally on ATT&T) freak out at the quantity of e-mail in my end-users mailboxes.
And I still wouldn't be able to synchronize their calendar or address books:
I once wrote a program to randomly assign judges to court cases. It was on an old bouroughs mainframe that lacked any random number generator, so I had to create my own. The other issue was that the range of numbers I could use was severely limited, something like (2^16)-1 positive integers only.
Eventually, I was able to generate pseudo-random numbers and then pick from my array of available judges. Since the program was just as likely to assign consecutive cases to judge 240; or two really hard cases to judge 250 and three really easy cases to judge 260; they realized they didn't want random assignment.
I haven't done a packet capture recently, but my Comcast modem is usually pegged with crap packets (port scans). Why don't they send some resets for potentially harmful packets, then they wouldn't have to worry about a few torrents.
Did you win the school board election? I thought your commercial was clear regarding your platform.
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Do you think that the new Java 7 Kernel will actually make javascript faster to execute? Sun claims that it will because it only loads the classes it needs. Care to comment?
I second the idea of looking for a good mentor. My HR director has been a great resource as someone with whom to vent, to discuss open issues, give advice and to guide me when I'm in danger of making a mistake. A lot of HR directors are mired in managing the firm and department but would much rather be mentoring and advising staff, listening to issues, etc.
Meet with your HR director and spend some time yapping about minor issues. Let them know you value their input and welcome their assistance as you transition. Try to establish a good working relationship before you have a major issue to address.
How about using redirection? I'm not sure if it is the same as offline folders, but you can redirect the folder to a place on the network. Here's microsoft's tactical explanation
Thanks for the link. I'm currently reading Beyond the Quantum which claims the Aspect Experiment shows that there is a reality currently beyond our senses (that's an extreme oversimplification).
It will be interesting to read the counter-argument.
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In your post, I read an assumption that a physically secure password tracker implies secure passwords.
One advantage of password managers not captured with a physically secure password tracker is that you can employ more complex (including difficult to type?), changing passwords unique to each system. Some softare password managers do this for you automatically.
Physical security isn't the only attack vector on passwords.
Unfortunately, no one could repeat the study to validate the claims.
I agree, it's really quite graceful. The pirouette reminded me of figure ice skaters.
Link to a youtube video for those interested:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
I just read a book called "The Windup Girl" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... by Paolo Bacigalupi where local environmental police was a major component of the plot.
I enjoyed the book enough to get "Pump Six and Other Stories", a collection of his short stories where I believe he will introduce some of the ideas fleshed out in "The Windup Girl."
I recently started reading A Deepness in the Sky (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Deepness_in_the_Sky ) by Vernon Vinge who briefly touches on this issue.
He speculates that eventually hardware will stabilize allowing code written over the period of centuries to still be used. He says that bugs in old code, (the original designer, coder, maintainer are dead) eventually cause more deaths than hazardous activities like space travel.
I can see how code that hasn't needed TLC for years but is still used extensively (i.e.in chains like awk and grep) could have an impact on computing for years to come.
Vinge also talks about how back doors created by the coders but forgotten over time might be rediscovered and lead to control and manipulation of massive systems that still use those old libraries.
Actually, even the TSA provides some protection from "walk-on" terrorists. The protection is at the same level as your firewall which protects you from script kiddies who do port scans against blocks of IP addresses.
It prevents the random oddball who, without planning or a support structure, might otherwise walk-on with a gun, knife or bomb.
Maybe the rest of the world won't need to switch to IPv6 if 1/6 of the population no longer needs (and frees up) all of those IPv4 addresses?
Has there ever been income in music production for artists (unless your album/cd goes gold)? I thought that artists make money with merchandise sales and licensing.
I think the new kernels are faster.
My Pentium 600 running slackware with a 2.4.10 kernel is a lot slower than my Pentium 600 running debian 4.0r2 with a 2.6.x kernel.
Just set funny to -5 and the most they can ever be valued is 0.
http://slashdot.org/users.pl?op=editcomm
Linux is communist in a sense because the community 'owns' it, anyone can contribute to it regardless of social class, and the community governs itself without need of outside interferance [sic].
Not all linux developers are treated equally. There is a clear hierarchy in Linus' Linux tree. Greg Kroah-Hartman, for example, has a lot more latitude to contribute than I do (not that I'm complaining, he's earned it).
The social class is scaled on "linux development" ability.
But, if the management of the city is so bad that backup systems aren't in place, and properly trained IT staff to run networks, this might be the only way to raise awareness of the problem that could really impact lives of the city's residence.
I'm not disputing any of your points. But a city, especially during economic downturn, may not have tax revenues and bonds (and politicians) to spend money on things IT people consider reasonable. Backup systems are expensive and when weighed against other financial considerations, are likely areas to have budget cuts.
Not that I know SanFran's affairs at all, but I know other government agencies which cannot afford the best and brightest, and many times are stuck with employees who will work less for less; properly trained or not.
And every so often, they find an employee who is a "self-starter" and takes responsibility for the systems they manage.
Don't get me wrong, I would love to see us actually get the heck off this planet and start populating the solar system, but the realities aren't just daunting, they're outright Godzilla-like.
The Nova Now guy, Neil deGrasse Tyson said in Time
Maybe you aren't metamoding enough?
http://slashdot.org/metamod.pl
I believe that one can metamod twice a day if one desire to impact the moderation system.
I don't know much about this topic, so I'm going to speculate.
I wonder if the issue with reentry from orbit is the heat generated when scrubbing off the horizontal velocity. Basically, the space shuttle is aerobraking.
Since he doesn't have to establish or maintain an orbit maybe he'll have little or no horizontal velocity .
When I jumped from a hot-air balloon (from 5,000 feet), there was no forward velocity. At first, there was only a little air resistance. Then, as I accelerated due to gravity, I had more air resistance (and could control my fall better).
IBM is not supporting the iPhone and has no plans to support the iPhone.
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21271899
While I'm a Blackberry bigot, I've had several folks approach me about getting their iPhone connected to Domino (Lotus Notes' server). I believe I could use IMAP, but most other IMAP handhelds (generally on ATT&T) freak out at the quantity of e-mail in my end-users mailboxes.
And I still wouldn't be able to synchronize their calendar or address books:
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21296737
I once wrote a program to randomly assign judges to court cases. It was on an old bouroughs mainframe that lacked any random number generator, so I had to create my own. The other issue was that the range of numbers I could use was severely limited, something like (2^16)-1 positive integers only.
Eventually, I was able to generate pseudo-random numbers and then pick from my array of available judges. Since the program was just as likely to assign consecutive cases to judge 240; or two really hard cases to judge 250 and three really easy cases to judge 260; they realized they didn't want random assignment.
Its really tough to game the Hugo voting system. Here's a description:
http://www.thehugoawards.org/?page_id=4
Many US Libertarians feel that we should use this system (or perhaps, a system with a similar design) to vote in US elections:
http://rangevoting.org/rangeVapp.html
I haven't done a packet capture recently, but my Comcast modem is usually pegged with crap packets (port scans). Why don't they send some resets for potentially harmful packets, then they wouldn't have to worry about a few torrents.
Did you win the school board election? I thought your commercial was clear regarding your platform.
Do you think that the new
Java 7 Kernel will actually make javascript faster to execute? Sun claims that it will because it only loads the classes it needs. Care to comment?
I second the idea of looking for a good mentor. My HR director has been a great resource as someone with whom to vent, to discuss open issues, give advice and to guide me when I'm in danger of making a mistake. A lot of HR directors are mired in managing the firm and department but would much rather be mentoring and advising staff, listening to issues, etc.
Meet with your HR director and spend some time yapping about minor issues. Let them know you value their input and welcome their assistance as you transition. Try to establish a good working relationship before you have a major issue to address.
Good Luck.
How about using redirection? I'm not sure if it is the same as offline folders, but you can redirect the folder to a place on the network. Here's microsoft's tactical explanation
w indows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/gpx_redirecthome.mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/
Even if you are not running active directory, on a windows pc, you can run gpedit.msc and enable redirection on an individual basis.
Although this document discusses using the "home directory" you can redirect to any network share and path.
Isn't this a feature of Vista? To pop your 2 or 4 gig drive into the usb2 port and tell it to use that drive as the swap drive?
Thanks for the link. I'm currently reading Beyond the Quantum which claims the Aspect Experiment shows that there is a reality currently beyond our senses (that's an extreme oversimplification).
It will be interesting to read the counter-argument.