Comment Re:Here's a silly question (Score 1) 111
Wow, thank you everyone for the interesting and informative posts on this thread. Great to see some signal in the noise.
Wow, thank you everyone for the interesting and informative posts on this thread. Great to see some signal in the noise.
In Soviet Russia, signal transmits you!
Or something like that.
After they break into my car, how do they know where I live to actually utilise this bundle of keys?
Perhaps they then open your glove box and get the address from insurance, registration, and other documents usually kept in the vehicle?
Because a rainbow table that included Password1 would have to store 13,537,086,546,263,552 ((26+26+10)^9) passwords, and assuming the developers were braindead and used 128-bit MD5 hashes with no salt, you'd have 1,732,747,077,921,734,656 (128*(26+26+10)^9) bits of hashes to store. That's two hundred thousand terabytes of data.
Now I understand that there are some time/memory tradeoffs that allow you to use much smaller tables and spend much more time, but even so, even the 8 character upper and lower case alphanumeric table from Project Rainbowcrack is 80GB and takes hours to crack.
So yeah, Password1 is actually not that bad. There are a lot worse! I'm a fan of pass-phrases myself.
They know it works fine? Like...really fine, on slower machines (and connections - it had bandwidth preserving functions for a long time, now there's even 2-3x compression via Opera Turbo)
The father of my buddy that I mentioned uses P4-era machine (with Celeron based on P4 even, from what I remember) with 256MB of RAM (and dial-up, in a huge city like Dnepropetrovsk). From what he says such machine isn't very atypical, upgrades are postponed much longer than in the "West". I don't have any trouble believing that Opera is a fully usable browser on them...since I have an old dual PII 266 with 192MB & win2k lying around - and latest versions of Opera still run fine when I try them (excluding Flash of course). Firefox (on mine) - no way.
And lately it even seems like Opera tries to make their GUI more approachable...
"We geeks have a hard time with sports"
Speak for yourself mate. I'm as geeky as the next nerd when it comes to computers but I still go to the gym 4 times a week and run.
Its not an either or thing with brain vs body - you can have both fit and healthy you know.
What I posted is not what I want to happen but rather what will happen sooner or later if a population continually gets abused. They'll take it and take it until all of a sudden they don't any more.
It's much better to have a fair and equitable court system so that it never gets to that point but if the government ever loses legitimacy in the eyes of the citizens then it's just a matter of time.
It's important to remember, anything worth doing isn't easy. Remember that next time you're in the bar with your beer goggles on, and the "cute" girl wants to sleep with you.. Trust me, you'll regret it in the morning.
There's nothing like rolling over in the morning and saying "Dear god, what did I do?"
Sure, if you're going to do something really dangerous, like racing or tricks on a bike, skateboard, or scooter, then, yes, protection is a must.
But, riding your bike on a residential street in a sane manner does not carry those risks.
Still, if your kid does not have a helmet the neighborhood busybodies will turn you in to CPS for neglect.
Ya'll hear about the geometer who went to the beach to catch some rays and became a tangent ?