This is How to Watch Your Favorite NFL Team Play Without Cable. While preseason games are already underway, the 2. NFL season will officially begin September 7 when the New England Patriots play the Kansas City Chiefs. Fans of the gridiron game who don’t have cable should still be able to catch every game without resorting to hooking your TV up to a cable box, provided they do some research, and keep close track of their team’s schedule. According to Techcrunch, it’s possible to enjoy all the football you want, though you’ll need a combination of live TV streaming plans, NFL- specific streaming services, and some free options from Yahoo. For starters, you’ll need to pick your team and figure out whether it’s an in- market or out- of- market team (basically, whether or not you are in the same state as your team). For out- of- market games, NFL Sunday Ticket is your best option.

At $6. 9. 9. 9 per month for four months, the streaming service isn’t exactly a money- saver, but does get you every out- of- market game, every Sunday. Let Deadspin’s Drew Magary tell it: your kid’s favorite NFL team sucks. Which means it’s almost…Read more Read. You can also sign up for CBS’ All Access streaming service for $5. It limits you to NFL on CBS games broadcast in your local market, and includes Thursday Night Football on CBS.

As for streaming TV, you’ll need to sign up for a Sling TV subscription. Sling offers two streaming packages. The Orange package, at $2. ESPN, AMC, and CNN. The Blue package, at $2. FOX, NBC, and USA, so you can get as many games as possible.

Signing up for both will cost $4. Regional markets may have different rules regarding what games are available for viewing, so be sure to check your favorite team’s schedule. Altogether, if you’re willing to put in the effort, streaming your favorite game ends up being a pretty inexpensive affair compared to the alternative of signing up for an actual cable or satellite TV plan. Here’s how much it will cost me to watch the NFL this season without cable Techcrunch.

We’ve all been forced to do it: create a password with at least so many characters, so many numbers, so many special characters, and maybe an uppercase letter. While preseason games are already underway, the 2017 NFL season will officially begin September 7 when the New England Patriots play the Kansas City Chiefs. Fans of.

The Guy Who Invented Those Annoying Password Rules Now Regrets Wasting Your Time. We’ve all been forced to do it: create a password with at least so many characters, so many numbers, so many special characters, and maybe an uppercase letter. Guess what? The guy who invented these standards nearly 1. He is also very sorry.

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The man in question is Bill Burr, a former manager at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). In 2. 00. 3, Burr drafted an eight- page guide on how to create secure passwords creatively called the “NIST Special Publication 8. Appendix A.” This became the document that would go on to more or less dictate password requirements on everything from email accounts to login pages to your online banking portal. All those rules about using uppercase letters and special characters and numbers—those are all because of Bill.

The only problem is that Bill Burr didn’t really know much about how passwords worked back in 2. He certainly wasn’t a security expert. And now the retired 7. Much of what I did I now regret,” Bill Burr told. The Wall Street Journal recently, admitting that his research into passwords mostly came from a white paper written in the 1. In the end, [the list of guidelines] was probably too complicated for a lot of folks to understand very well, and the truth is, it was barking up the wrong tree.”Bill is not wrong. Simple math shows that a shorter password with wacky characters is much easier to crack than a long string of easy- to- remember words.

This classic XKCD comic shows how four simple words create a passphrase that would take a computer 5. This is why the latest set of NIST guidelines recommends that people create long passphrases rather than gobbledygook words like the ones Bill thought were secure. Walking Dead 400 Days Season 2. Pro tip: Use this guide to create a super secure passcode using a pair of dice.)Inevitably, you have to wonder if Bill not only feels regretful but also a little embarrassed.

It’s not entirely his fault either. Fifteen years ago, there was very little research into passwords and information security, while researchers can now draw on millions upon millions of examples. Bill also wasn’t the only one to come up with some regrettable ideas in the early days of the web, either. Remember pop- ads, the scourge of the mid- aughts internet?

The inventor of those is super sorry as well. Oh, and the confusing, unnecessary double slash in web addresses?

The inventor of that idea (and the web itself) Tim Berners- Lee is also sorry. Technology is often an exercise of trial and error. If you get something right, like Jeff Bezos or Mark Zuckerberg have done, the rewards are sweet. If you screw up and waste years of unsuspecting internet users’ time in the process, like Bill did, you get to apologize years later. We forgive you, Bill. At least some of us do.[Wall Street Journal].