Posts by Galidron

Big Goverment

Hmm

Democrat Big Government is bad because it helps poor people live until they can get that second job the need.

Republican Big Government good because it mostly just takes away our freedoms.

IPv6

With IPv6 Point-to-Point encryption is a built in option. All you would have to do is say yes please.

Puffer Fish

Title says it all

You might think

I saw a different article elsewhere that mentioned Defense contractors were complaining about being required to increase their security because it would be too expensive.

@Matt Bryant - Posted Sunday 26th June 2011 15:19 GMT

"The laws that Arizona Republican-dominated Senare are enacting are just national laws, it's just that Arizona is enforcing them."

That is plainly false. There is no national law that makes it a crime not to be carrying identification. It is a law that clearly does not only affect illegal immigrants. If an officer believes you might be a foreigner, perhaps your accent is a little to British for his tastes, then you must be able to produce documents proving you are legal or go to jail and prepare for deportation. I should hope that includes any white teenage hoodlums running about.

I like the idea

Perhaps rather then sending all SMS messages to /dev/null you could also have a popup show you the message is being sent and ask for permission to send it. A similar thing for accessing the contact list wouldn't really be logical, but I'm not sure how many apps could actually have a good reason for doing that.

@Nanny State

"On car windscreens to warn people to put their seat belts on?"

This is very likely and not far away. They are working on HUDs for cars. This will likely be better then the annoying bell and the flashing light on the dash.

AC @9:11

"ALl this bollocks about faster and fatter net pipes ( so we can download Linux distros", absolutely horse-crap!! It's so people can torrent movies, TV shows, games and music, you know it , I know it ( I have even done it in the past, a lot! ) and the media corps know it."

You've obviously never downloaded EQ2 at over 9 GB. You've also never waited on patch downloads when all you really want to do is spend what time you have available playing instead. You probably haven't done much Netflix streaming either.

Time wise it is often faster to drive to the store, buy the game, come home and install it then it is to download it. But since these are not valid complaints in your world I guess I shouldn't be worried about it.

Why would you do that?

That seems like a very silly way to generate a pin. I personally use an alphanumeric pin longer then 4 characters.

Peter Gathercole

"Also, as far as I am aware, nobody has produced a calculator that does non-integer arithmetic in anything other than base 10 (what a mind-bending concept that would be!)."

You may be right about that, which is interesting since it is easier to convert binary to both hex and octal then to decimal.

Religion

Religion didn't create sexism it just validated and reinforced existing cultural behavior at that time. Homophobia I'll give you. Several cultures used to accept and sometimes encourage homosexuality.

@electronic post-t

Reasons

1. You can store the vault in a more secure location then real post-its. To crack the vault you have to be able to get your hands on it first.

2. A vault can be copied to additional locations so you can have access to your passwords from multiple locations if necessary.

3. Unless you use a weak password for the vault or the vault has a weakness in key generation, you should have changed your passwords at least once sometime in the years it will take to crack.

@AC 20:20

Like cars and vans? They have used for far more bombings then airplanes so I assume it would be best to have someone standing at the end of everyone's driveway to ID them before they go out on the road.

Huh?

Are you saying that the register lied when they claimed to be quoting Kessler or that they forced Kessler to say that?

I think showing that undersea methane leaks might not make it to the atmosphere may alter some climate models. Even if it doesn't significantly change them, the more accurately we can represent climate mechanisms the more accurate our predictions will be. Less error here will help make up for error elsewhere.

@no it doesnt

It makes me sad too because I would like to play SH5, but I can't allow myself to because of this.

@Algorithm

Cracking the encryption algorithm doesn't make the encryption any less secure unless the agorithm has some sort of weakness in it. Knowing the encryption algorithm gives you little, what you need are the encryption keys. I'm not sure how long it would take to brute force the 40-bit keyspace if you know the algorithm, but for the manufacture that uses the VIN as a key it would be pretty short.

Law Breaking

This came from Wikileaks and I think it implies breaking of the law. http://blogs.houstonpress.com/hairballs/2010/12/wikileaks_texas_company_helped.php

Self Defense

Their actions are probably self-defense as much as anything. There are people here in the US who want Assange classified as a terrorist. We have some pretty serious laws about aiding and abetting terrorists, laws that don't require evidence, warrants, or judicial review. I can see why these US based companies might honestly be afraid. That may not make it right, but I can see why they might feel that way.

I agree

There exist extreme cases where the authorities need to get involved, but there are a several behaviors that can draw bullying and will continue to cause problems in your adult life if you don't learn to give them up.

I sometimes think we are becoming a culture that believes we have some sort of right not to have our feelings hurt, even accidentally. I know people who consider it bullying to be told how to do something correctly the first time they are doing it.

True

People like to bandy about numbers like that but they are meaningless if you don't provide context. 1500 out of 2000 is quite a lot but 1500 out of 200 million isn't really much.

Interesting

I must have read this part of the article incorrectly.

"Applications developed by third parties had lower security quality than those developed in-house, failing to reach acceptable security standards 81 per cent of the time, according to Veracode."