Re: Slippery slope
Paris icon for "slippery slope".
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I see the argument as akin to the works of Schaub for example who produces work by filling a leaky bucket with paint and suspending it by a rope above a canvas. The bucket swings, the paint flows, artist sells the resulting canvas. The copyright exists in the idea to do this coupled with the uniqueness of that piece. Schaub is not the only or the first artist to paint this way though. There is no patent on production of works by this technique.
Neither the bucket nor the rope has been assigned copyright for the art they produced.
That's what they SHOULD be doing of course... but many don't allow "special" characters for some reason, and often you don't know that until it gets sent to a backend process. Sometimes of course the password validity is checked before being submitted. There are some reasons why you wouldn't want to submit some unusual characters, but then one should really be encrypting the password before transmission anyway, just in case! There are also maximum password lengths on many sites.
Anyway, besides all that, password suggestions generated by autofill suggestion tend to be restricted to not include special characters or only the dash and the rest is made up with random upper and lower case letters and numbers. They also limit themselves to e.g. 16 characters only. I suspect this is an attempt to maximise compatibility with websites, but it does restrict the range of passwords again - a sort of composition requirement by default.
If the PATTERN attribute of the password input, for example, was used to indicate acceptable values, then such auto-filled suggestions could better match the coder's requirement at either the back end or client-side. It would be totally possible to have a regex which simply hints to the suggestions composer which special characters are allowed and length, say, between 8 and 64 characters long:
(?=(.*[a-z]){0,})(?=(.*[A-Z]){0,})(?=(.*[0-9]){0,})(?=(.*[@%+\/$^?:,(){}[]~´-_.]){0,}).{8,64}
(escaping removed for clarity)
That is in this example any 8 to 64 character string made up of any number of lowercase, uppercase, numeric or special characters from the list. It would be great of course if this was somehow given a "shorthand" value such as "ISO_27001"
This would allow these random generators to become even more random with some confidence. It doesn't stop the site from additionally parsing the supplied input against a cracking dictionary or compromised list.
I've often wondered why sites don't implement some type of form input meta-data that informs e.g. Apple keychain, what are the minimum requirements for a password.
All too often I've found that Apple's rather handy random password generation tool falls foul of password restrictions on a site which means you have to fall back to old school methods of putting it in, which usually ends up as something like catchurchball&N33DC4P52!!!
A philosophy question... Article 7 of the declaration of human rights states that there should be no punishment without law, but is there no law without punishment?
I think that's fairly simple to answer... restorative justice does not seek to impose a punishment, merely the restoration of losses. Is that considered a punishment or penalty, though? The removal of gain.
I think the matter is open to debate really. What are other people's opinions or thoughts on this?
I hear you. The MySQL Quarter function has to be one of the most useless functions around. It returns 1 if the month is between January and March inclusive, 2 for April to June etc...
BUT businesses can select their own accounting reporting period, so Q1 for Apple starts on Sept 26th I think it is, whereas Oracle's is June 1st.
I did suggest an extension to the function whereby the Fiscal Year start date could be passed to it, but for some reason I got bawled out of the forum by a couple of irate developers.
We had a studio and control room / gallery and voice-over booths etc.
It caught fire (well, something outside caught fire and it spread.
We were asked by the insurers to cost a replacement.
The original studio and control room etc had actually been cobbled together by a succession of ex-BBC engineers who had retired and got bored in their early retirement so decided to get part-time jobs at the local technical college.
The cost for replacing it with comparable commercial kit was over 5 million.
Their assessor hadn't done a very good job in setting the premium! Still, they paid up, I'll give them that, and we had a first rate training facility for all of 2 years until the manglement fuzzed up the financial position so badly that the college effectively closed. They stopped offering any courses even remotely useful (they tend to be costlier to teach), sold the building (including the studio), moved into smaller accommodation and from then on it was practically all business studies, management courses and social sciences instead of printing, media production, music production, engineering, photography, ceramics etc.
Well unless the NSA wanted to demonstrate how effective cyber warfare could be by staging a false flag attack at a time of heightened tension with a believable scape goat ready to blame solely in order to increase cyber defence and therefore their own budget allocation..,
Hang on...
Isn't that the plot of Swordfish?
That Ukraine hacked its own websites and blamed it on Russia? Given that report from the west this week that however many percent of cyber-crime proceeds goes to Russian hacking crews, this is clearly slanderous and we must invade to silence them!
That kind of False Flag Operation?
How many years???!!!
It's dice. Die is singular.
But I always believed the railway running each day was determined by a modified version of Owzat! With minutes delay on one bar and if you scored an Owzat! Roll the other bar marked with Bridge Strike, Persons on the Line, Derailment, Signalling Problem, Trackside Fire and "Leave 'em Guessing"
*This isn't the clip half of you are thinking it is!
I believe Mazda owners are currently experiencing bricked radios because of a bug involving un-suffixed Album Art media files broadcast OTA by some radio stations.
Add to this the Bad Clock bug affecting Honda and Acura and we are starting to get a nice little catalogue of examples.