Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- Pawlenty: I’d Like A Second Senator But It’s Out Of My Hands: The Huffington Post News Team
- Kindle Blog Dreaming
- Me on Full-Body Scanners in Airports: schneier
- Romulan ships in the latest Star Trek Online screens – I don’t know if I’m interested in playing, but there’s plenty of joy in looking at this stuff.
- ‘this is fun’ Is A More Secure Password Than ‘J4fS<2’ – This is fascinating — as well as fun. Too-difficult passwords are highly secure, but promote security leaks by literally forcing someone to write them down on a piece of paper (especially when you are on a system that expires passwords every 90 days or something). Some good advice here. Maybe I’ll pass it on to my company security folks.
- Inhofe: Terrorists Already Incarcerated In The U.S. Were Just ‘Criminals’: Ali Frick
- Durbin to Republicans: ‘You ought to have a little more respect’ for American corrections officers. – Riiiight … the gazillions of horrible, awful criminals the GOP loves to support being locked away haven’t at all trained corrections officers to handle, well, high security prisoners. Yeesh.
- Gingrich: Only Republicans — Like Me — Are Allowed To Accuse The CIA Of Misleading Congress: Think Progress
- Having Daughters Rather Than Sons Makes You More Liberal – Margie says this explains me. Though not, perhaps, Dick Cheney.
- Prayer May Reshape Your Brain … And Your Reality – Interesting. I need to read the full series.
- Dueling church marquees – It’s like the Internet, only all centered.
- A man afraid to run away: Ars reviews inFamous – I’m hearing a lot of good buzz on this game (so to speak). If only I didn’t have other gaming addictions.
- Cable: let us experiment with metered Internet – As Les says, “I’m perfectly willing to let them experiment with metered Internet so long as they’re willing to allow me to experiment with their competitors.”
- Ann Coulter attacks faith of Notre Dame officials, but gets rattled when called on the carpet | Crooks and Liars – Ann Coulter is … reality-challenged. Or a doofus, take your pick.
- FRC’s Lou Engle-Less “Call” – The Christian Right is now comparing itself to the Black population in the US in the 50s and 60s, in terms of being discrminated against? Yeesh. Get back to me when you’re required to sit in the back of the bus, or drink from separate water fountains, guys.
- Ending Discrimination Against Gays Is Itself Discrimination – Actually, the Right is perfectly correct — this idea conflicts with DoMA (though, as a another law, it can supercede DoMA however it wishes). The answer, though, is really much simpler than that — we should repeal DoMA.
- So, let me get this straight… – 1. It’s reasonable to want a plan. 2. Not all Gitmo inmates are proven terrorists (that’s part of the problem, people). 3. It’s goofy to equate “putting terrorists into US prisons” with “releasing terrorists in the United states.” 4. Reid really seriously needs to think through what he’s saying before he start frantically rambling about incoherently.
- Man vs. Jury Duty – Well, now I want to know what the result was.
- Go, Team, Go!: Jason Kuznicki
- Darwinius masillae – Very cool fossil news — but keep the hyperbole down to a low simmer, folks. If nothing else, we know that what we can learn from such things sometimes changes over time, and the last thing we need is giving the creationists a field day if there’s some sort of reassessment of this find. “See? Evolution is wrong and a hoax! Even the scientists keep changing their minds!”
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RE:STO
The graphics are really bad…especially in a post DX10 world. Cryptic looks stuck in ’04 mode and done nothing to improve the graphics of their games. Still, there are some of the bits and peices that are rumoured that do appeal to me, the big one being that there will be tons of worlds and races to be discovered….in a massive way like it should be in a Trek Verse.
Still….gah! Those graphics need to go.
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The Password thing….
Yeah, that was old news back in like ’90 at the Flats, though I am amazed that it has to be continually relearned.
1. Well, the STO stills I’ve seen were pretty pretty.
2. Unfortunately, too many security types thing “longer, more complicated, and more frequently changed” = “more secure,” while completely missing the human factor.
1: Yes, but you are use to Cryptic Graphics. 🙂 To me it is just a step above WoW Graphics.
2: that was the big lesson: That 1) Changing several passwords. 2)randomly generated. 3)Having many requirements meant that people just wrote them down and put them on pieces of paper in places around their desks.
So when the Tiger Team came in and did several simulated attacks on the site, one of the things that they did was to hack into as many secure systems as they could, and the IT Department boasted how amazing their security system was (above)…and the tiger team was able to hack into every system they came across. All they did was search until they found bits of paper under someones keyboard and they were in.
After that your Passwords needed to be 12 characters, at least 1 special character or number…and it never changed. The next year after that the Tiger Team was unable to hack into any of the systems since the bits of paper had been eliminated.