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Comment Re:Excellent Predictor (Score 2) 389

"Education" doesn't have to be college. Going into a trade after high school is just as much of an 'education' as college is.

There's no reason you can't do an a la carte education. You like history? Sign up for a 5-10 week course offered nights. Cooking, music, food, etc. There are educational opportunities everywhere.

Comment Re:College admissions is not a life-value system (Score 1) 389

Part of the problem is people have been told that if you don't go to college straight out of highschool you're a failure.

It'd be much better if they took 2-3 years off in a vocational rotational program of some sort. Rotate them through a lot of trades. If they hate the trades maybe they'll have matured enough to try college again or maybe they'll find a job they like.

Comment Re:College admissions is not a life-value system (Score 1) 389

You can go through life with just vocational training an certification with a nice paying job. Just keep in mind you will be the first to get axed and vs the low experienced degree'd person.

No you won't. When a ship builder is in trouble he isn't going to fire his welders or plumbers. Half of the people currently in college probably shouldn't be there and should be studying an actual trade instead.

What good is a Psychology BS? There are a ton of college graduates that aren't STEM and are currently looking for jobs. They are the ones bitching that "You all told us to go to college, now what?"

Comment Re:Excellent Predictor (Score 4, Interesting) 389

"doing well in school is consistently the strongest predictor of doing well in school"

And if they aren't going to perform well in school maybe they shouldn't be going to school?

The US has a huge shortage in the trades because we stopped telling high school students to go into plumbing, welding, electrical, etc. Suddenly the 'poor' student that would have excelled in something hands on like a trade were told "Go to college! You'll make more. Just pick something you like."

It's why we have a ton of "college graduates" that can't find a job because we don't need more Psychology majors with only a BS.

Comment Re:Informed consent? (Score 1) 141

The funny thing is, this goes back to how facebook originally was set up. People wrote on each others walls. People had to go to a friend's page to see what they've done.

Then they added the News Feed to compete with twitter to help people update. Then it became overwhelming. Assume random people have 500+ friends. Those friends update 2-3 times a day. You need an algorithm to filter what is going on.

Comment Re:password manager (Score 1) 191

Your local HTML script (a HTML file with JavaScript?) generally can't decide whether to send information to an arbitrary server encrypted or not.

Yes it can. Because the local HTML script doesn't send anything. I think you're completely missing the point. My local HTML doesn't interact with the outside world. I don't use it to populate any forms. I use it to determine my password.

I'm assuming your script can help you remember a password to log into, say, your airline customer account you created two years ago in order to change some bookings.

MY SCRIPT REMEMBERS NOTHING. Do you people need a drawing to understand this?

My password is formulated out of a salt (my 'password') and the website I'm booking at.

Say I go back to delta.com to book tickets. I have no clue what my login or password is. But I have a guess: The e-mail is going to be "delta.com@example.com" (I have my own domain) and the password is going to be an 8 character substring from: sha1(md5(hunter2delta.com))

I have a Javascript implementation because it is the easiest. I have a little bookmarklet with the code in it. I have a bash implementation. I've written implementations in other stuff but use the Javascript the most because I use the password maker on the web the most.

Hehe, not "grease money"

I know it's not 'grease monkey'. I haven't used GreaseMonkey since I switched to Chrome years ago. It's not that funny. You see people write MAC or mbps. I haven't used GreaseMonkey in long enough to remember the proper camelcase.

Comment Re:password manager (Score 1) 191

It's usually not your choice whether or not to send the password in clear text over the internet, but I strongly recommend simply not using services that don't offer encryption.

Um. Yeah. It kind of is. If I made a *local* html script and run it on my local machine. I'm fairly certain it's not sending passwords out cleartext over the internet. You can make it so that it just copies a result to the clipboard, etc.

I'm not sure why it's such a terrible example. If you're in a situation where you're scared about screen readers there's really no safe way to enter your password anyway because you might as well assume the NSA is logging everything on that machine.

Its a standalone everything. There is no grease money. I don't try to inject my password into pages.

If I ever need to generate my password I can open a .html file on my desktop and generate one.

I could write a SHA1 method for my TI-89 and use that to generate passwords. I could have a different salt depending on what type of website it was (Social, health, banking).

Comment Re:password manager (Score 2) 191

You don't have to do it that way. It was a case and point on how you can easily remember a password but not your password

I made a javascript that does it locally (no sending my passwords cleartext over the internet).

If SSH to my home computer is compromised a password to Slashdot is the least I have to worry about. SSH is also protected with Google Authenticator so I have to have my phone with me to log in with 2-factor.

I use LastPass to remember my passwords but in a pinch, (not on a machine with LastPass, Last Pass goes out of business, etc) I can always regenerate my passwords.

Comment Re:password manager (Score 1) 191

Why need to make it that complicate?

- Use your password as a salt and the website then cut it down to how many characters you use. Most websites allow for 8.

- md5("hunter2" + "slashdot.org")

- sha265(md5("hunter2" + "slashdot.org"))

For websites that insist on upper and lowercase or special characters I wrote my own "rot72" that will rotate the numbers and lowercase letters through specials and uppercase.

It's trivial to implement in about any language:

  echo -n hunter2slashdot.org | md5sum | sha1sum
f096039fd8dc0ff71e3144526321639d5ecd4622 -

Then just clip off 6-10 characters and you have a very easy to find password (I honestly don't any of my passwords) but very hard to go the other way.

For work where they insist on changing a password every quarter I add "Q1-4" to the beginning of that.

Comment Re:Where to draw the line (Score 1, Interesting) 326

There is a long proven track record of BSD software getting embedded in commercial software and becoming effectively or actually closed.

Good call on the FreeBSD, it was before my coffee.

Anyway, FreeNAS still exists because a commercial company picked it up. A lot of big companies use BSD for some things because it doesn't have the limitations of GPLv3.

"Everything is free" is a great idea but I need to pay my bills.

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