Video: Darth Vader calls about his iPhone 4
July 27th, 2010
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Steve Jobs may need to brush up on his lightsaber skills and enlist the help of a Wookie because Darth Vader doesn’t seem too pleased about the iPhone 4’s slew of reception problems.
Posted via AllTop’s Holy Kaw!
Wow… How quickly can your password be cracked?
I thought that this article was very interesting. I know that my passwords are not so strong, but this was a good article on password security and strength, and I thought to share:
Mike on ghacks has posted an interesting introduction to password strength. You may think your password is strong, but the range of times required to crack passwords of different types goes from essentially instantaneous (for any 3-character password, e.g. 3D%) to several years for an 8-character password of mixed case alphanumerics and symbols (e.g. 4$Gqvt}k).
Mike displays a nice table to show the range of crackability:
His top tip for passwords? “Choose one or two super-strong passwords and change the passwords on every website you have an account with to those.”
My own tip is to use a password manager, allow it to create a different random super strong password for every site and then create a super strong master password. Use an offline password manager that does not store your passwords on its servers whether encrypted or not.
This article was taken from Sciencetext.com.
Other Password articles:
10 facts: Blogging is more of a part of your life than you might think
10 years ago, most people on the internet did n ot know what a “blog” was — and some still don’t. If you are reading this on joshlovesjen.com, then you are reading a blog — da-da-dum!…
Technorati.com is the leading source, next to Google in my opinion, for indexing blogs and blogs posts around the web. In their own words, “The leading blog search engine, Technorati.com indexes millions of blog posts in real time and surfaces them in seconds. The site has become the definitive source for the top stories, opinions, photos and videos emerging across news, entertainment, technology, lifestyle, sports, politics and business. Technorati.com tracks not only the authority and influence of blogs, but also the most comprehensive and current index of who and what is most popular in the Blogosphere.”
Taken from Technorati’s State of the Blogosphere 2009, here are 10 facts that you might not have known about the online culture of blogging:
- 77% of Internet users read blogs.
- There are currently 133 million blogs listed on leading blog directory Technorati.
- 60% of bloggers are between the ages 18-44.
- One in five bloggers update their blogs daily.
- Not so surprising to me: Two thirds of bloggers are male.
- Corporate blogging accounts for 14% of blogs.
- 15% of bloggers spend 10 hours a week blogging.
- More than half of all bloggers are married and/or parents.
- More than 50% of bloggers have more than one blog.
- Bloggers use an average of five different social sites to drive traffic to their blog.
For more interesting ideas about the web and where things are going, see this web/technology clog that I just found: http://thefuturebuzz.com/.
Video: Marty McFly & Ke$ha mash-up video… Nice!
I am not so much a KEI$HA fan – in fact, I can’t say I’ve heard much of her music; Personally, I only listen to Power FM, CDs, or Talk Radio (KLIF or KSKY).
But I do say that I enjoy the geeky side in me that enjoy the classic Back to the Future movies. I don’t know, but watching this video just made me happy. Enjoy!
“Ke$ha’s annoyingly catchy ‘Tik Tok’ won’t die, thanks in part to clever mash-ups like the Star Trek one and this “Tik Tok to the Future.” Set to scenes from 80s flick fave Back to the Future, the pop ditty gives a fresh perspective on the residents of fictional Hill Valley.”
Video: Improv Everywhere … er — I mean Star Wars takes over the New York Subway
Improv Everywhere treated New York City subway riders to a delightfully dorky Star Wars reenactment, giving commuters a break from the usual entertainment of “Spot the biggest pit stain,” “What’s that smell?” and “Who’s touching my butt?”
Full story at Mashable.