Passive in a sentence as a noun

I've had steady passive income for the past 8 years of my life.

But maybe my concept of "passive" is different from yours.

But some of your friends won't; they'll be the passive party and expect you to make the plans.

I generate about $1K-$2K a month in passive income.

* During all my passive income ventures, I've had a real job. I think passive income works best when supplementing your natural income.

If you are unhappy, you have little recourse but to express your own power by indirect passive-aggressive means.

And who is the target audience?Reading this feels exactly like reading the passive aggressive facebook posts of someone currently in a fight with their boy/girlfriend.

We're going back to something more like the broadcast television model, where a more or less centralized authority produces the content for passive users to consume.

Passive in a sentence as an adjective

A passive attacker could, in an earlier version of the Dragonfly protocol, discern how many iterations through the loop had happened to find a valid point given a password.

I don't disagree absolutely with what this post is saying, but as someone who has run multiple successful ventures that I'd consider "passive" income, I have to say its not a fantasy.

Bruce Scheier, who was quoted in the Guardian piece about the same story, is America's foremost popularizer of the notion of NSA as crypto's global passive adversary.

Products like this are great, as they teach children how to get around stupid arbitrary restrictions from a young age, so are less likely to end up as drooling passive consumers poking at a tablet and more likely to become hackers.

Joyent's decision to publicly shame one of Node's largest contributors with a passive-aggressive blog post instead of approaching him privately speaks volumes about their maturity.

Everything in that report was couched in passive voice and dressed in self-important language - to a point where you had no idea who had done what but had only a vague sense that this or that "had transpired" with this or that result "having ensued.

This is one of those "why I am a great developer" sorts of posts that allows people to pat themselves on the back and congratulate each other on how great they are, passive-aggressively sending it out to the team in hopes of denigrating some team member who likes newer things.

Passive definitions

noun

the voice used to indicate that the grammatical subject of the verb is the recipient (not the source) of the action denoted by the verb; "`The ball was thrown by the boy' uses the passive voice"; "`The ball was thrown' is an abbreviated passive"

adjective

lacking in energy or will; "Much benevolence of the passive order may be traced to a disinclination to inflict pain upon oneself"- George Meredith

See also: inactive

adjective

peacefully resistant in response to injustice; "passive resistance"

See also: peaceful

adjective

expressing that the subject of the sentence is the patient of the action denoted by the verb; "academics seem to favor passive sentences"