This is just a mountain made out of a molehill by leftists who are fans of the government of Cuba ...

False dichotomy. Rejecting A does not mean accepting B.

... and don't like when Western governments try to undermine it.

See above.

I have news for them: doing things like this is the intelligence agencies' *job*.

Just because someone is paid to do something does not mean that anyone has to support that.

They're supposed to spy; that's why they're called spy agencies, and Cuba couldn't be a more deserving target.

Since Cuba is not a threat to the USofA in any way that statement is incorrect. There are many ways Cuba could be "a more deserving target".

If Cuba doesn't do such things itself, it's only because of lack of budget in these post-Soviet days, not lcak of scruples.

Circular reasoning. And you even admit that Cuba is not doing the same to the USofA.

But I wouldn't like it if Cuba dropped bombs on us either, yet I'm not foolish enough to say that it's immoral to drop bombs on another country.

That entirely depends upon how YOU define YOUR "morality".

The solution is the paper allows a weak authentication before the threshold is hit, so the server could allow "slightly wrong" passwords for the first 30-60 seconds after it starts up.

Yeah, I think that's a problem. There shouldn't be any way to tell a "slightly wrong" password from any other wrong password.

That brings up the question of how you authenticate those first N users.

Which is a different problem with that approach.

They could have also had the server admin type in the formula for the line that the system will use.

About the only issue this "solves" is having ONE secret that has to be shared between the admins. So you won't have the "disgruntled" problem. Each admin gets his/her own portion of the secret.

Just like requiring two keys to launch a missile.

More like you have the hashes for all the passwords (you downloaded it when you cracked their server).

And you have ONE password that you created on their system. So you have a password and a hash for that password. From which you can probably deduce the "salt" used.

But you cannot get the passwords from the other hashes because they each use a different "salt".

The problem is that the "salt" for each password is calculated by that machine based upon "special" accounts providing correct passwords that provide the information needed to generate the line that is used instead of a traditional "salt".

Which means that those "special" accounts are now ONE SET of keys to cracking that entire system. And they have to be secured.

And I'm still not convinced that, given enough passwords, their system does not fail anyway. And password re-use is a major problem with users and their passwords.

Until it returns to actually showing science fiction shows, as opposed to paranormal, fantasy, horror and talk shows...

All of the above!

Wheaton's Star Trek character takes on the role of Rod Serling/The Crypt Keeper and presents ghostly stories from alien races across the galaxy.

Episode 1 - The Kowardly Klingon. A Klingon who hides from battle is tormented by the ghosts of those who died. Or is it just his conscience?

It won't work because it will be, successfully, argued that you're getting paid in miles rather than cash.

And there will need to be a central authority where you can redeem miles and register to participate. And at that point the government can set a value on each mile.

Just because YOU don't set a value on something does NOT mean the government CANNOT.

And no, sex-work is NOT the same as a girlfriend who borrows money from you.

That's why the change happens on the weekend.

Read TFA about heart attacks increasing on the Monday after the change.

The problem is that people's "biological clocks" become accustomed to a specific cycle. They cannot be changed overnight.

My point was that if the computer can figure out the context of the other 90,000 languages it runs into, it can figure out the context of language #90,001. Else it wouldn't have been able to figure out the context of any languages, including ones on earth.

Do not stop there.

If the aliens were not able to communicate with the Enterprise then were they able to communicate with any of the other races they probably encountered?

If so, then why isn't the Federation using that translator tech?

If not, then why haven't the aliens figured out that their language is so unique that other cannot understand it ... and done something about it? Such as including films showing actors acting out the events.

Instead, they lose one of their people just to teach some basic phrases to Picard? Picard cannot order a cup of tea with those phrases. He cannot ask directions to a bathroom.

Both sides are written as too dumb to survive.

To be fair, the universal translator was probably a necessary license to avoid having the entire show consisting of puzzled humans and aliens getting frustrated because they can't communicate.

And that is why it is a bad episode. Because the plot depends upon a failure of a device that is only included in all the other episodes because there isn't enough time or money to be more realistic.

Suppose a plot focused on the absence of seatbelts.

Or a plot focused on a ship where everyone spoke German instead of American English.

Or a plot focused on why the consoles on the bridge are made of plywood.

And so forth.

Words have specific meanings only within the culture that uses them. The sounds have no meaning of their own.

This is another case where an episode's plot depends upon the failure of a system that works flawlessly in all other episodes.

The universal translator should have had no problem with that language. The same as it had no problem with any of the other brand new languages that it had no problem with.

For example, someone might say "You're such a Samantha", but if you haven't watched many hours of Sex and the City, you would have no idea what they meant despite knowing all of those words.

And that is where that episode breaks down. Because every other time the translator has encountered a new language it has translated it.

It doesn't matter if I know what "a Samantha" means or not.

The translator in that show has never had a problem with translating such before.

GOVERNMENT spies who are spying on POTENTIAL ENEMY GOVERNMENTS are okay.

GOVERNMENT spies who are spying on ALLIES are not okay.

GOVERNMENT spies who are spying on PRIVATE companies in allied nations are not okay.

And before you get to the next part I'll just say that GOVERNMENT spies who are spying on CITIZENS of that government are also not okay.

I'm not!

He wrote, "It's always uncomfortable to listen to criticism. But if one can step back a bit, it's often thought-provoking and even helpful."

"thought-provoking"? How was it even a question?

If they had a problem seeing the problem in the first place then I don't trust them to see the problem in the future.

I've worked for a company that used Trustwave.

I hate them.

They did NOTHING except forward
EVERY
SINGLE
ALERT
FOR
EVERY
SINGLE
SERVICE
ON
EVERY
SINGLE
SERVER
that was in scope.

I understand WHY Trustwave did that. It is so that they cannot be blamed for when YOU miss something. So you are buried in their reports.

But you do get to check off the box labelled "24/7 monitoring of all systems".

Which is why "compliance" is NOT the same thing as "security".

I don't care if it is the same fucking dictionary attack as yesterday. Root and Admin are NOT valid names. They can throw 10,000 attempts and they will still not get in. But Trustwave will send you 10,000 notifications AGAIN. Just like yesterday.

Per service. Per server.

How do you report something like this, if their own "support" is either ignorant or not prepared to deal with these issues. Obviously, someone at Target new of the problems, but couldn't get upper management to listen.

You don't.

And you don't leave ANY trails showing that you knew about it.

It's too easy for them to drag YOU into court on "hacking" charges.

They'll be looking for ways to cover their incompetency later. Do not be their victim.

What do you think a Glass user can do that a phone user can't?

Nothing. They just do it without the physical motions that would otherwise provide the visual cues to indicate what they're doing.

Really - the camera on Glass is not useful at all to record or photograph someone without them knowing.

Bullshit.

There's no zoom, no flash... however if I take a $99 camera with a 8x optical focus I can easily take the picture from a distance and no one is going to look at me funny because I'm taking pictures on the street.

Bullshit, again. I'm in Seattle. We get a lot of tourists. They're easy to spot with their cameras. And people do step out of the way of their shots.

So to sum it up: Get a life.

Got one already. Me having a life does not mean that you are not an ass hole.

You being an ass hole does not mean that I do not have a life.