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So expect spam from Carnegle Melon, offering to test your password strength for you.
And the actual thing is a neural network -- that means that everyone in the world will be giving their passwords to an AI!
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The algorithm is pretty simple isn't it?
1 - 3 character pwd = very, very, very weak
4 - 6 character pwd = very, very weak
7 - 9 character pwd = very weak
9 - 11 character pwd = weak
11 - 13 character pwd = now you're beginning to get there.
14 - 16 character pwd = ok, not bad
64 character password = you're probably going to be ok. 
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raddevus wrote: 64 character password = you're probably going to be ok.
heh.
When I'd typed the letter 'p' 52 times, it started flickered between "strong" and "pretty good".
'f' needed over 70, so 'f'-ing is obviously less safe than 'p'-ing
(Try it yourself; the numbers are real)
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Mark_Wallace wrote: 'f' needed over 70, so 'f'-ing is obviously less safe than 'p'-ing
That's a bug in the algorithm, for sure.
Better report it.
My passwords, as you probably know, are all sha-256 hashes that are 64 chars long.
Here, I give you one for free:
9e4ed6c3d4e16778c005190fd1dab5c5ab5b0f104660580e78d0f6c1bb0af558
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Hey, that's no good to me, unless you tell me where you bank! 
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Mark_Wallace wrote: Hey, that's no good to me, unless you tell me where you bank!
You're not understanding.
I gave it to you for your use.
Now, which bank are you logging into?
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Oh what a great thing! At least, umlauts are accepted, but that thingy fails to recognize ßüöä as lowercase and ÄÖÜ as uppercase letters...
What will it do with a password written in a different alphabet which does not have the uppercase/lowercase differentiation? Anyway, with ต่ร๕ู๗คกแยอตัเสทลห๓ it suggests to change it to ต่Uร๕mู๗คกแยอKตWเสทลBห๓ - i.e. it added 1 ASCII lowercase and 3 ASCII uppercase letters. Great idea! Especially switching keyboard layout while typing a password can be fun.
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I'll Hunter2 your Hunter2ing Hunter2.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Don't use words used on Wikipedia (andi)
Because there's only a one or two thousand words on Wikipedia. I know that's not what they mean, but that's how it comes across.
"...JavaScript could teach Dyson how to suck." -- Nagy Vilmos
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If Java is dying, it’s safe to say that death becomes it. Plummeting from #1 all the way down to #1
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Microsoft is doomed, too.
And Apple? Ha! Fergeddabahdit!
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It ain’t just about Windows, macOS, or Linux. Also-ran or fairly obscure operating systems, like OS/2, are everywhere—in some cases, hiding under your nose. Geeks gotta geek
Also: who's going to write a virus against BeOS or OS/2? Better than running antivirus.
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Quote: We're specifically dedicated to maintaining OS/2 and derivative operating systems as long as possible. As long as there's hardware that will support OS/2, that's what our focus is.
But what's really needed is an operating system that allows slashes in file names, obviously.
I've always wanted to know who decided to name it OS/2. It's such a stupid idea that it's almost art.
"Ok, they put Windows in the Windows directory, so we'll put OS/2 in the... Um... In somewhere else!"
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Mark_Wallace wrote: name it OS/2
"/2" means "half" - it is half of an Operating System.
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Why, oh why did I never think of that myself?
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Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have come up with a way to add touch controls to any object, no matter what shape or material it is. The system is called Electrick, and it uses a software algorithm to read the press of your finger by measuring changes in the flow of electricity across a conductive surface. Type by running your fingers through your hair!
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So you could use your missus as a keyboard -- but be a bit careful around the caps-lock key.
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Good job keeping clean snark on that one! You are a better man than I...
Sudden Sun Death Syndrome (SSDS) is a very real concern which we should be raising awareness of. 156 billion suns die every year before they're just 1 billion years old.
While the military are doing their part, it simply isn't enough to make the amount of nukes needed to save those poor stars. - TWI2T3D (Reddit)
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It certainly does have the required prerequisites for being moved to the Soapbox.
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IBM, the company that just weeks ago said it was doing away with its work-from-home policy, is now preaching the benefits of telecommuting to customers. Do as we say, not as we do
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Telecommuting is fantastic. Just make sure you're at the office when you do it. 
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You can always go into the office and remote to your home computer and work on personal projects.
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Roland M Smith wrote: You can always go into the office and remote to your home computer and work on personal projects.
I would, except the Internet connection at the office is so crappy it's not worth it.
Marc
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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A couple comments:
I was once interviewed for a position in Albany, near the airport, which would have meant a 50-60 minute commute, so that I could remote in to the main offices in Rochester. On site in Albany was a requirement. 
"There is only one recipe I know for success, particularly when we are in as much of a battle with Microsoft and the West Coast companies as we are, and that is by bringing great people with the right skills, give them the right tools, give them a mission, make sure they can analyze their results, put them in really creative inspiring locations and set them free," IBM marketing head Michelle Peluso said at the time.
OK, I work as a contractor at an office with great people that are actually quite skilled. That in itself is surprising and pleasing.
What is not surprising, and definitely a disappointment, is that everyone works in their cube, like an island unto themselves, and management has not the vision to gently nudge people to share the different skills that they have. Any synergy is completely lost.
As far as tooling, we all use 5 year old PC's (I know, there are many of you that use worse) that are crippled under the likes of VS2015/2017 -- trying to develop an ASP.NET/Razor application is a painful experience to say the least. On boot (15 minutes, waiting for all the security crap to load) and the minimum RAM footprint is 2.3GB, on and 8GB machine.
Mission? How can you have mission when nobody knows what anybody else's skills are or what they actually do every day? But there sure is a lot of keyboard clatter going on. How can you have a sense of mission when the walls are decorated with pictures of the great sales agents, and there's no recognition of the IT people that play a part in making those sales happen?
Creative inspiring locations? Cubicles are not creative inspiring locations, even on a rainy day. Oh sure, you might be able to get a loaner POS laptop and remote in to your POS desktop and work near a window.
Heck, the keyboard was so crappy on my machine I brought in my keyboard from home. Another person has to seat their VGA cable "just so" otherwise one of the color channels doesn't connect. Breathe on it and it goes green.
Then there's the guy who occasionally walks the cubicle maze bouncing a tennis ball on the recycled used tire rubber carpeting.
Marc
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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Ah then there is the other option where the company has embraced open plan office (you can squeeze a lot more of us drones into a smaller area with open plan) to enhance the interactivity between teams and generate a creative synergy.
Be bloody thankful for your cube, I live on a bench with 10 other people of various technical persuasion and absolutely no manners. There are 60 of those benches per floor.
There are a bunch of them that enjoy telling jokes and I've seen them in tears roaring with laughter 15 ft from where I am trying to work.
Across the aisle there is a lady with a sewer mouth, astonishing to have f*** this and f*** that shouted from a petite little asian lady.
I do NOT like my work environment - the pay on the other hand...
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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