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Truth is, almost everybody "knows" that deep down, everybody else is secretly really like them, and it's just a lack of knowledge or external influence that leads to apparently disagreements.

That's actually the liberal (in the US sense)/Left conceit, than man is very malleable, that simply by supplying the correct knowledge and/or external influence (AKA environment in the non-strictly biological sense) can be changed. In practice, at the extreme, those who refuse to be changed end up in a forced labor camp if they're lucky.

The position of the right was well expressed by one of my favorite history professors, who said to my and my fellow STEM students' great applause that "Original sin is an empirical observation."

As you say, "the evidence overwhelmingly contradicts this belief."
The problem with passphrases are wordlists and combinator attacks. This is been known for a long time.
This headline is very misleading and I hope no one use passphrase-based passwords for extremely sensitive data.
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Are you saying the article was lying? "There is nothing like Dechoker on the market." ;-)

Looks like the earliest mention I can find of LifeVac is May 15, 2014, while Dechoker is from 2011. I wonder if this is a case of "imitation is the sincerest form of flattery", or whether they were independent ideas?
So, having darker skin makes someone a threat?
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Canada makes it pretty difficult as well. Canadians living abroad have to sever all ties with Canada completely (no address, no bank account, no property... not sure about drivers license, you may give that up as well:) in order not to pay Canadian taxes.
Why would that distort the prisoner population in the US but not anywhere else that has private interest invesment in prisons?
Ah that's how I took it. Thanks for clarifying.
The entropy of multiple choice selections is easily calculable and very low.

number of options * number of questions

This is essentially the same "password reset questions" loophole that allowed the apple cloud storage hack on a bunch of celebrities.
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> I don't think anyone says prisons should be inhumane in order to punish criminals. The imprisonment is the punishment, not the treatment inside the prison.

I think there are many people who say prisons should be inhumane to punish criminals, it's just that they don't understand what they're advocating is inhumane.

An example is the meme that prisoners aren't being punished enough in their "country club prisons", and they should be denied all "luxuries" (defined as thing like TV sets, education, and other things to pass the time). The people who subscribe to that are advocating for inhumane punishment (sensory/psychological/social deprivation), but often they're reflective and haven't thought though their own ideas to really understand them.
One of these passwords, if they truly are sufficiently-secure, could be used to secure a password manager's encrypted file at rest on a system outside of one's own control.

Right now, the best guidance is to only use a memorable password on files which never leave one's physical control, and to use truly-random passwords on remote machines. This is a pain, because it means that one cannot (or at least, should not) back up one's data securely: any encrypted backup would require a password under one's physical control, but the whole point of the remote backup is to recover from incidents compromising one's physical control. It's a conundrum.

This development could be of real use in securing a remote backup of one's passwords: high-entropy and memorable.
Legally you'd run into §101 problems for patenting a natural occurrence. And you'd run into prior art problems because people have been walking before your patent.

Could you slip one through the patent office? Probably not anymore.

But a big weakness in the patent examination process is that the USPTO mostly relies on other patents and academic articles. So sometimes you can get some commonly known and well understood products and processes patented because the USPTO doesn't find any written evidence of prior art.
The biggest drawback is that many sites these days limit the number of characters that you can use in your passwords, so these poems are probably too long for many of your accounts. But perhaps that will change someday soon. More and more sites are considering dropping the character limit, since shorter passwords are a lot less secure.

This is my biggest pet peeve. Actually, my second-biggest. My biggest is when registration silently fails because the password was too long.
I've thought about this same issue a lot, especially while reading Crichton's Timeline. I decided to justify all of it in my head by making an assumption about the fictional time-travel technology. The assumption is that the function of the device is somehow tied to matter, either through the physical manifestation itself or through the distortion that matter has on spacetime. Either way, the mass of the earth would "drag" the path through time with it to about the same location from an earthling's perspective.
Maybe if this http://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/jul/11/cia-fake-vaccin... didn't happened there would be less resistance.
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Who is responsible for the property damage in the example you gave? The car manufacturer? No. The water bottle manufacturer? No. You. You were the driver behind the wheel.

It's still the driver's fault for not reacting properly. You could have unexpected acceleration or deceleration (which is just as dangerous in some circumstances) due to a lot of different problems; throttle stuck open, O2 Sensor goes wonky and tells the ECU to adjust the fuel mixture in a way that makes your car run rich and stall out, tire blows out causing your car to swerve severely to the right. In all of these cases it is up to the driver to react properly.

NOW, if they had proven that there was a design/manufacturing defect in these cars that Toyota knew about and did nothing about (like in the GM faulty ignition switch case), that's a different story. That would mean the manufacturer put customers at risk deliberately and not only should they pay financial penalties for that, but there should be jail time involved.

However, in the Toyota unintended acceleration case, not only was it very few drivers, they were never even able to establish a cause for the unintended acceleration. The software "experts" that testified for the plaintiffs only said that basically the software is badly written. It was never demonstrated that a specific piece of code caused unintended acceleration.

Instead, what is the obvious answer is that panicking drivers hit the throttle when they meant to hit the brakes. Especially since at least one of the drivers testified that they hit the brakes and it was unable to stop the car, which is total baloney.

EDIT: Also let me just state as a disclaimer I do not work for Toyota, never have, don't know anybody who does, I don't own any Toyota cars and never have. I just can't deal with people spreading bullshit.
For services, sure, generate a long random password and remember it via a password manager. But this seems like a fine method to generate your disk encryption passphrase, or GPG/SSH key passphrase.
"All of which means that because Anderson was too poor to pay his $170 fine, his overall debt ballooned to $580. His fine more than tripled, solely because he was too poor to pay it."

This seems pretty much like the status quo. If you default on your credit card bill, and ultimately choose minimal payments until it's paid off, rather than bankruptcy, you'll end up paying several times the value of the original loan.

That said, if you go to the Biloxi court house's web site, they offer people the ability to do a payment plan for tickets, but they explicitly say "Remember that release on a payment plan is a privilege afforded by the Court and a violation of the payment order will result in your immediate arrest." I think that's pretty terrible since in this post-6th-amendment society, "arrest" is frequently indistinguishable from "imprisonment". Debt, especially something so trivial, should be a civil matter.
Just because its more complicated than calories in calories out doesnt mean its not true.

http://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/woman-becomes-...
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Yes, it's an potentially acceptable tradeoff. While the figures vary, economists and the like have estimates of how many people you'll kill for every N million dollars you extract from the economy (and they're below 10 million last time I checked). Just how much do you propose to extract with such a regime?
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Social Justice is a big part of who I am. I get so mad when i read it and read this

> This means that poorer counties are more reliant on fines and fees produced by municipal courts, which inevitably come from the poor residents of those areas. Those governments then put pressure on police departments to generate revenue by targeting residents for traffic offenses, jaywalking, and other misdemeanors and petty crimes...

> The city got poorer. That meant less revenue from other sources. So the city sought more revenue by imposing more fines and fees on its citizens. Which of course only makes them poorer.

> Private probation companies have a strong incentive to keep people on probation for as long as possible.

I live in a poor city with a school district where 90% of the students qualify for free lunch. We are privatizing Public Education to also feed off the poor take the money out of the community and are rewarded if the Public School system does poorly.
It's a bit disappointing that they're focusing on 60-bit passwords; a 128- or 256-bit security level is best for securing important data.
On Windows you can query for information about any font using the Windows API. This call allows you to enumerate fonts based upon their name, etc:

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd1...

and the callback function used with it will get you this structure:

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd1...

and the lfPitchAndFamily member will tell you what type of font it is.
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Similar injustices in Georgia, with people jailed for traffic tickets: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/02/georgia-probatio....
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I think Keynes was firmly in the camp that involuntary unemployment in a depression+ is caused by a cascading demand shortfall due to everyone trying to put their money in safe assets and pay off debt vs consume.

+ As opposed to a central bank engineered recession.
That's a classic!
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No https, but there is this: http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/people/poem/poem.php

The "email me a password" service also currently has a note on it that says "Note: Site is super busy!
Approximate waiting time: 269 hours."
> Whenever I see those sorts of limitation I assume there's probably some kind of poorly handled escape situation to exploit

Which, in turn, implies that some system handles the password as plaintext rather than via a password-appropriate digest.
The big problem with patents in the USA right is almost exactly the opposite of big guy suing little guy.

We have little guys (patent trolls) suing the largest most profitable companies on earth.
I wouldn't make such a big issue if it was only breaking rules promoting existing monopoly (which I agree is pretty crappy). There's also tax rules, safety rules, promoting the idea of a fast-moving startup with enough money to throw at lawyers that they can attack laws directly (evil megacorps have at least the decency to bribe government officials), as well as a whole laundry list of their management being assholes, all of it together strongly suggesting that if Uber succeeds in breaking the existing monopoly and establishing their own, they'll be strictly worse for everyone, customers included. Uber is nice now because it still needs people's support, but everything they did over the years strongly suggests that they'll turn hostile to their users as soon as they're safe to do so. They simply don't care about people.
> As a writer, I'd like you to maybe consider that the effort you put forward at least was self-improvement exercise in communication - as in, through practice and time, you had some realizations about how you want to present yourself, your product, etc. I genuinely think time spent in your objective isn't a waste, per se, because you've got material that you created which can be used as a reference, template, or reminder in the future.

I agree with this broadly, but I feel like I am too biased by how fortunate I have been to really appraise how useful the exercise was in the terms you describe.

By "fortunate", I mean the application has been a success in my own modest terms, relative to the time I spent working on it. I think that success is attributable mainly to luck.

Although the people who use the application like it based on its inherent qualities, I don't think those inherent qualities alone were enough to guarantee that my application would find users back in the critical early stage. I think it found users because when I submitted it to Reddit a couple of years ago, shortly after creating the first version, I was lucky that enough people happened to see it in the list of new submissions and happened to like it and happened to like it enough to upvote it. There are 5-10 people out there who I will never meet who are responsible for that submission getting on to the front page of that subreddit, which resulted in a flood of traffic, which resulted in a chain of events that eventually led to success (again, on my own terms).

If you flip a couple of bits of background entropy, I build exactly the same thing and try to spread the word about it in exactly the same way and it never gets any traction and no one ever really finds out about it.

So while the current version of me may agree that I value the self-knowledge "I'm not the kind of person who feels comfortable mass-emailing strangers in an attempt to promote myself", the version of me in that other, equally plausible reality where my application never got any users might not feel the same way, or might still be mass-emailing strangers, or what have you. I don't know, because I've been so fortunate with how things have turned out.
I actually took what he said at face value and I understood that he does tear paper up.
> The phrasing of the title made me think of an Onion article along the lines of: They found the perfect password, it's '42Lemons?' and everyone should use it!

I thought the same thing. A great example of "what worked for someone else may not work for you".
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Anyone know what frequency bands these are being deployed in in the US? I am assuming they using the 902-928Mhz ISM license free band.

Licensed frequencies would make this significantly more involved to deploy in the US.
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When the really big criminals (corrupt bankers and wealthy businessmen) cant pay fines they just declare bankruptsy (or their corporations do) and nothing happens to them. Afterwards they seem to be perfectly well off.
This happens all the time. I very recently had an issue where a deadlock was fixed by a print statement, because two lists were being lazily evaluated at the same time, and the print statement forced one of the lists to be evaluated earlier and finished by the time the deadlock was occurring.
I think you meant "Requiring you...", rather than "Relegating you...".
There's a very interesting book on this topic - "Trust me, I'm lying."

It looks at similar methods, at people getting published on small blogs and then leveraging that to get articles in major publications.

The book has it's flaws, but it was still a great read.
That only works against basic bruteforce attacks, if you are using hybrid attacks those passwords become easier to crack.

What people don't realize that professionals who crack passwords for a living use quite sophisticated techniques using known information about the target, common masks, and patterns makes cracking specific passwords easier than just bruteforcing them.

If you use a 300K words dictionary and know or can assume that the paraphrase will be constructed out of 3-5 words the password entropy isn't as large as just thinking this is a single case or mixed case alpha with say 12-16 characters.

When dealing with generic password your basic unit is a character so a 16 char password is made out of 16 units each of those has a specific search space single case alpha it's 26, mixed alpha it's 52, single alpha numeric it's 36 and so on.

Here you have 3-4 units each has a fixed search space and that's the dictionary you use, the search space can be even more restricted if we can assume certain things about the algorithm that generated the passphrase.

If we take the poem example we can assume that words will not appear more than once in the passphrase and that they might need to rhyme this alone can reduce the password entropy considerably.

If we take other examples like story based passphrases e.g. "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" then we can base our assumptions based on what we know of the English language for example that words like "the" will appear at least once in such sentences as well as take some estimates about how many verbs, nouns, and pronouns will appear on average in each sentence based on their common distribution which allows you again to reduce the search space considerably.

Passphreases are still great when you need to ensure that your passwords won't be broken in bulk when a breach happens because unless your account is admin@ijustgothacked.com you most likely won't be a target and those types of datadumps are still usually broken through basic dictionary, masked and cheap bruteforce attacks.

If you might be targeted directly or phished than passphrases might not offer any sufficient level of protection and could actually be weaker than an annoying mixed-alpha-num-special password.

That of-course will change if everyone will start using passphrases if you expect that 50% of your hashed passwords dump is passphrases you will adapt your password cracking techniques accordingly.
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To the extent that's true, it's only for the period of high acceleration (I know this intimately since my first vehicle was a 1967 Kaiser Jeep CJ-5 with vacuum powered windshield wipers). Once the new engine speed is achieved, that vacuum sure ought to come back (weaseling because I don't remember checking for this while at sustained high RPMs).
>Now it has been digitized and released by the Idaho Historical Society and the department of fish and game on YouTube.

But we will not link you to it. Because...this is a news website...
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I find your metaphor agreeable but not your argument: I'd wager that many minivans are running far below optimal gas efficiency because their tires are under-inflated.
Top for me are sites that silently truncate part of the end of a new password without informing you, then leaving you logged in thinking that the registration process completed successfully.
Yeah, it's made me consider switching to "system" as my daily font
You've just redefined memorable to make the problem disappear. That's not terrible useful. The idea is not to come up with a perfect solution that virtually no one will use.
Yes. My opinion on both issues is similar (one party may be to blame for an act, but the other can still be considered as behaving irresponsibly), and I am surprised that my comment has not yet been downvoted to the lowest circle of hell.
> the instructor told him frankly that the victim would die.
He researched the subject thoroughly and found that there was absolutely no other solution to choking besides the Heimlich maneuver

maybe I've seen too many movies, but what about the old knife and ball pen Tracheotomy?
>you can't select and execute SQL embedded in other source code files..

How is it possible anyway? Queries in source files almost always cannot be executed as such, because of placeholders/parameters. Or what am I missing?
It isn't just judicial fines and such that are the problem, government as a whole has turned lower income into a debtor prison. They provide some food assistance, maybe living assistance, and such, then take away the free cash and even ability to drive with fee after fee after fee. Throw in sales taxes in some cities and the burden is greater.

However what this article points out is just flat out abuse and should result in government officials locked up. Just like previous stories about deals states cut with prison phone companies we have a justice system, if not most of government, which only exists to keep people poor and more controllable
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Damn, and I was so busy hating SAML and hoping next system would use OAuth.
No one is overweight/obese because of gut bacteria.

That is an excellent baseless assertion you have there!

Care to back that up with facts?

Or should we just take your word for it?
My perception is there's dissatisfaction with Chinese trade in many parts of American politics. So that there's an eleven-figure (or so) protection system in place seems like it would trigger howls of outrage and condemnation, and doesn't.

(I'm not sure it should, but "should" doesn't seem like a big obstacle to political outrage, normally. :-))
What? Most states have usury laws right now [1], as do plenty of places outside the US.

[1] http://www.alqlist.com/interestratesummary.html
Memorize two poems.
Here is that section:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APLz2bTprMA&feature=youtu.be...
Before you dismiss the downvotes as people being overly PC or ignoring what you view as obvious, consider the following:

Having that opinion is fine. Starting it without any evidence or reasoning isn't useful and doesn't advance the discussion. Useless comments get downvoted.
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It's not unusual to be checked coming from Holland. Then again, police being disrespectful, giving condescending replies, being commandeering and taking advantage of uninformed people is not exactly unheard of. In fact, once an individual has been targeted it's par for the course in many a place.

It's a shame but no wonder that police force turns abrasive so often given that they handle so many abrasive people.
'Persona' has other meaning in Spanish, in a way that makes it hard to market for any Spanish speaking country.
Not only that but many sites force you to add punctuations numbers and capital letters. Tr0ub4dor&3 is the only style of password allowed.
It is also good tool to check is Unicode supported well: just convert all user visible messages and then check interface of the program for <?> or [].