If someone told me I voided my warranty for installing CM, I really would see them in court. They're going to have to show that CM is incompatible, and in the process, they'll basically have to declare that their phone is not an android phone, which will make them look like cunts in the press.

That's because it's such a successful imitation of life. That feeling is supposed to galvanize you to action... hopefully not involving firearms

But a lot of government really is after their guns. Why do you see this as an unrealistic concern? Forgot Waco already?

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Before you even try, you're completely, absolutely wrong. The assault rifle did nothing to blow away the second amendment, because it does nothing to change the reasons for its inception. And the internet does nothing to blow away the first amendment, it only makes it more important.

But, I can't wait to see your reasoning as to why freedom should be reduced because progress has happened. You just want to maintain a balance of progress, and we have to go backwards socially to make you happy?

oh, you get it!

You can't work towards an unattainable goal. And that's what this is about. It's not trying to get as close as possible to utopia, it's trying to create it. But utopia means "nowhere" for a reason. You cannot create perfection. You can only mitigate the lack of perfection inherent to a world with free will. Or, you know, you can eliminate free will. That's the only way to have an "ideal" system. And again, that's precisely what this is about. The attempt to eliminate free will. Instead of building a fairer system, and thus reducing events like these, they want to build a system that maintains the status quo while also suppressing events like these. In order to do that, they will reduce free will.

He mostly just shouldn't be there in the first place, all this assignation of military honor guards merely celebrates war. We should be ashamed, not proud, of our war dead.

If our government finds tracking bullets to be an arduous task, perhaps they are not qualified to have them in the first place.

Then it's a miserable piece of shit. Only shitty guns discharge when dropped. Spend the money to get them a decent fucking gun, especially if they're your honor guard. There's no honor in standing there with a shitty gun. (The gun imparts no particular honor IMO, but it should at least be decent.)

Took your gun? Seriously? TOOK YOUR GUN? What the actual FUCK? You don't put the fucking thing down

If their gun doesn't have a sharp bayonet now, why would it magically gain one if you gave them bullets?

What if the person you assigned to the honor guard was a total fuckup who should not be allowed to look at a gun, let alone hold one? Well gee, then I guess they shouldn't be in the fucking military. Give them a dishonorable discharge immediately. They failed to take their responsibilities seriously.

Or, you know, again, don't specify a shitty gun. Because again, an honor guard standing there holding a shitty gun is a symbol of impotence, and that's not what we want representing us.

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This is not about expecting them to get shot at. This is about it's fucking stupid to have a gun and no bullets. An unarmed honor guard is like a dick with no balls. How is that honorable?

Yes, yes it is. At least, I am satisfied by such an answer.

And if it's not fine to use it, then it should be removed from the repo, without a request from the developer.

There's no technical reason they can't remove a non-required package from a release. So yes, that's the solution, but it shouldn't be the only solution.

The only computer-related business I can think of with more R&D budget is Microsoft, IBM isn't a tech company? Shut your mouth. Then again, if Cringely says it, it's probably wrong.

Amazon is clearly a business. But its model is Microsoftian EEE. Sure, you can sell through Amazon, but they keep stats and if it becomes worth it to stock what you're selling, they're going to do that. Of course, on eBay, if the Chinese see you sell a lot of what they've got, they'll start selling it directly. Then you only get to sell to people who care about shipping time and support.

Amazon is a real business, but their business model basically requires that they shut everyone else down, and not everyone wants to shop with Amazon. So they'll eventually fail if they don't find a new model.

You didn't even mention registration cost. Moving the goalposts.

get a better insurer.

No, no it does not. The number is different for everyone. They basically invent them, that's why they won't share their formulas. It's not because of competitive advantage. They're all fucking people in the same ways. It's to hide the fucking.

As long as it's new enough to have side curtain airbags, it doesn't really matter.

Synthetics have less problem with this, the more synthetic they are the less problem. Run Schaeffer's or AMSOIL, because the other supposedly "full" synthetics have been tested as low as 24%. Mobil 1 was actually downranked a full grade it's such bullshit.

Fuel stabilizers are readily available, and will easily let gasoline keep for a year.

Again, your logical fallacy is moving the goalposts. I said the costs don't double.

If I didn't, I wouldn't have been treated to your stupidity.

So?

There is extortion. You have to pay with your time.

Are you sure you're not a computing expert? I don't know what an order driver is, and neither does google. It knows what driver order is, though. But you seem to think you know what you're talking about.

Really? Searching for "order driver" just gets me a lot of stuff about driver order. How do we find these step-by-step guides for idiots?

Don't we all?

No, instead you'll choke on FTDI's cock and beg for more.

They're talking about a different problem. If hackers get ahold of the password hashes, then restricting the rate of login attempts on the server itself won't help. That's where that "100,000,000,000,000" number comes from. I believe it's saying that's how strong the password needs to be to withstand a brute force attack when an attacker has gotten ahold of the table containing encrypted passwords. That's why it says:

However, that seems like a short-term solution when there's a better long-term solution that's pretty obvious, which doesn't require relying on system administrators to secure password databases. If we stopped using passwords and used public key encryption instead, then websites wouldn't have your password, so they wouldn't be able to leak it.

It's an obvious solution. We know how to do it; the technology isn't new. We won't do it, though, because we don't care about security and we're unwilling to develop new standards. The companies who could push new standards forward are more interested in maintaining walled gardens.

Well then you're not the person to figure the problem out. It should actually be fairly easy to discriminate between an email from your aunt and a cron job error. Leave that problem to someone who does see how it can be done.

I see. So let's just round up all people everywhere and control how they send email, since that'll be easy. Why even apply existing techniques for analyzing text to improve existing email filtering/sorting tools in email clients, when it's so much easier to control human behavior?

That's all well and good when you're working in a big mindless factory, and your hired to churn out widgets on a quota system. The problem is, often enough I'm looking to hire someone with a little more brains. I want someone who's going to bring some ideas to the table, who's going to think outside the box. I want them to speak up, and there isn't anything like, "I'm going to steal your ideas and present them as my own, and take credit." It's not a big mindless factory that would allow it. If you can come up with a way to save the business money, you're probably going to get a bonus and/or promotion at some time soon, because you're doing good work.

Now arguably a situation like that is a rarity, but part of the problem is, even when you're in that situation, it can be hard to find good people to work that way. It can be hard enough to find people who will do a job when you set out simple instructions to follow. It's much harder to find someone who has enough judgement to know when to follow the instructions, and when not to. When you can find someone like that, it's worth something extra.

Now I understand the desire to get a good job with nice, clear-cut responsibilities-- churn out 500 widgets, and if you do that, you get paid, and it's all that simple. Not all jobs are like that. Especially working for smaller companies, sometimes it boils down to, "I'm just trying to make my company successful. If you can just get done what I need to get done, I'll keep you around. But if you can help me figure out how to improve things, then I'll be trying to figure out how to keep you happy, because that's hard to find."

You're off-topic. You're right that password-reuse is probably a bigger security threat than having a super-secure password. Of course, to some extent that assumes that you have a reasonably strong password to begin with, that you have basic brute-force protection (e.g. timeout/lock after too many failed login attempts), and/or that you're not being specifically targeted. Because if I really want to get access into your email account specifically, and you have no protection from brute-force attacks, then suddenly password complexity becomes a very big issue.

But setting that all aside, we weren't really rating the level of importance of various security exploits. We were just talking about what constitutes a "strong password".

If you want to talk about the reality of hacks, I might put weak security questions ahead of password reuse, and social engineering above all of them. For a lot of people, you can call them up, tell them that you're calling form Microsoft because their computer has a virus, and get them to install remote-administration and keyloggers on their own computers. It won't fool everyone, but apparently it's not a small problem.