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Comment Re:Ignorant post (Score 0) 615

I agree, your post is ignorant. You ignorantly assume that only online authentication systems can impose a delay. But in realty, just about all systems, languages, and OS's have an easy to use delay function and that can easily be added just about anywhere, including in an authentication system. In POSIX C, sleep(60000); will do nicely. Encrypting your hash files is supported and not hard, and also sticking it somewhere other than the default location helps, but there is still such a thing as an incompetent sysadmin. If they can get their modified authentication system running in place of mine, I'm pretty sure I've already lost.

Comment waste of verbage (Score 1, Informative) 104

The second component is transformed into a CAPTCHA image and then protected using evolution of a two-dimensional dynamical system close to a phase transition, in such a way that standard brute-force attacks become ineffective.

You don't need a bunch of mumbo jumbo to make a brute force attack ineffective, all you need to do is lock the account after x failed login attempts.

Comment Re:Barrier not technological. (Score 1) 439

The QAM tuner can get all clear channels. Some places you get more than just networks. I get Braves TV in HD, for example. I also get about 5-10 other SD digital channels (NASA, etc.). But your point is correct for fiber systems. My point is, a lot of people are paying for the box when they don't need to, and until the FCC addresses that, cable viewers will still keep renting the cablecos box. In related news, my cableco is still hit-or-miss then you call and ask for CableCARD, even though they've been using them for more than 3 years. One rep I called had never heard of them, the next knew they had the dual-channel version and that they charged $5 for them ($2 each for the single channel).

Comment Barrier not technological. (Score 4, Insightful) 439

The barrier isn't technological, it's psychological. My mom has a cable box she doesn't need. The installer told her she needed to get cable. I told her to take it back and demand a refund. She won't. During the 80's, you had to have a box to get channels above 13, because that was the highest a TV could tune. Then the FCC mandated cable-ready TV's, and you didn't need a box at all except for pay TV. There was no education or information given to the public, so a lot of people went through the 90's still believing they need a box, and the cablecos still play on that. The only was to solve the problem is to educate the public, something like forcing the cablecos to hand their customers a pamphlet clearly showing what channels do and do not require a box.

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