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On any given day, 10000 people are encountering the concept for the very first time. The important memes warrant repetition or they are lost to the next generation. https://xkcd.com/1053/

To compromise the re-used password, you only need to compromise one of the sites on which it is used,

No need to compromise a site - just deploy a new site specifically for harvesting shared passwords:
https://xkcd.com/792/

I see what you did there

Obligatory: https://xkcd.com/1129/

Maybe something like this?

Obligatory: https://xkcd.com/538/

You mean this scenario, don't you ?

Obligatory XKCD:
https://xkcd.com/670/

So do China and India and they are both pushing hard. China is investing heavily and has ambitiously planned to have a full sized thorium reactor in place in 10 years.

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/finance/ambroseevans-pritchard/100026863/china-going-for-broke-on-thorium-nuclear-power-and-good-luck-to-them/

Google "china thorium reactor progress" and see for yourself. Then weep for the lost opportunities in advanced power production being squandered by the US in particular and "the West" in general. The best hope for ubiquitous safe carbon neutral power and we aren't even interested on the national level.

I'll just leave this partial point right here: https://xkcd.com/1162/

Ah, bad kerning strikes again.

Obligatory xkcd.

Or a FedEx plane full of MicroSD cards.

There's this other thing called the phone book. Granted it doesn't contain your DOB. But it does have most of your name, address, and phone#.

I fail to see the importance of this database that these folks found. Yes - your data is out there - companies collect it. It exists, are you surprised? Was a law broken in "leaking" this information (doesn't sound published - more like an accidental leak). In my state it is illegal to post public access into on the web - you have to come get it in person. But I don't know what restrictions exist after that.

The larger concern from my POV is using this kind of data to build a larger database (like Nexus). My name & address? - send me lots of junk mail. Phone number? Already get plenty of robo-calls. But start opening bank accounts in my name or making purchases - that will be a PITA. It's the criminal activity I worry most about.

VISA/Mastercard already have a huge pile of data on me. They know what I purchase and how much I spend. I know this because my employer used to buy "your" name & address & income & spending history for mass-marketing campaigns (targeted marketing -- give us 50,000 people who make $80k+/year and spend X dollars at stores like Apple and Williams/Sonoma).

The fastest way to deal with this is --- delete the database. Fight back, name your children...Little Bobby Tables - https://xkcd.com/327/

One of my favorites:
https://xkcd.com/163/

https://xkcd.com/865/

Obligatory related web comics.

Obligatory related web comics.

I see the spacebar/control key patch did not achieve what you wanted, and instead melts your CPU when you use the spacebar?

                      https://xkcd.com/1172/

Ob. xkcd.

StackSort connects to StackOverflow, searches for 'sort a list', and downloads and runs code snippets until the list is sorted.
https://xkcd.com/1185/

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Does it really matter where your key is stored? I think not.

Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/538/

Your encryption is only as strong as your resistance to being drugged and tortured. They don't even need to do that much. They could plant false evidence for whatever crime they wanted to get you for and throw you in a hole for the rest of your life.

Encryption just means they have to do a little more work. If they're coming for you no matter what, they're going to get you. Period.

Ben Sisario writes at the NYT that Discogs has built one of the most exhaustive collections of discographical information in the world

Time for an obligatory xkcd. .

And for future web searches of the guy's name, the NYT writer, Ben Sisario, is a lazy brainless dumbass.

https://xkcd.com/1174/

http://xkcd.com/605/

xkcd suspicion

There's a lot wrong with this. First of all, you cannot use entanglement to transmit information. This is a theorem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-communication_theorem and this is closely related to this xkcd https://xkcd.com/1591/. Moreover, even if you timetravel, you don't automatically learn everything. In fact we know that closed-time-like curves make classical and quantum computing essentially equivalent http://www.scottaaronson.com/papers/ctc.pdf and you can then perform PSPACE computations in polynomial time, which is a hell of a lot, but that's not everything. You can't for example for a given Go position determine who will win efficiently (assuming you are playing with the generalized ko rule).

https://xkcd.com/221/

It's politically incorrect to say this, but most humans are not intelligent.

But you are one of the rare smart ones, right?

https://xkcd.com/610/

Really.. https://xkcd.com/927/

Let the children argue, they'll figure it out.

I've followed this GG thing since about Jan. Most of the followers on both sides are 14-22. They're quick to throw out something 'deep' they heard. XKCD made a comic that they all take as truth. What he meant to say was the "First Amendment" not "Free Speech".

It's just the children fighting. I'll take twitter's announcement like I would have taken a Usenet admin's word on "We've fixed the trolling". Everyone on both sides seems to either be a 14-22 year or the ~30 year olds that they're following. The only thing the 30 year olds seem to be good at is being professionally unemployed. "FreeBSD Girl" hasn't made a commit in 5 years, but still leverages her "I'M A PRECIOUS DEVELOPER".

I think what a lot of them are finding out is everyone has a ceiling in life. I made it until 30 until I hit mine. I've accepted that I will never be CEO or VP of my company because of the career paths I chose in my 20s. I have female friends from college hitting it just past 30 and they're blaming it on everything but the fact that they can't go any higher.

Personally I think half of the problem is that a lot of kids weren't raised with reality in mind. They got into what ever college and major and life they wanted and they're expecting jobs without being able to actually perform. Brianna Wu's game Revolution 60 looks like something a 13 year old would have designed in the late 90s. There are a lot of actual women in STEM that have real accomplishments to their name by their ages. Stuff like patents.

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Or this one.

To put it briefly.......

Obligatory: Unscientific

And you're apart of the reason why geeks and nerds are always looked down upon and constantly viewed as elitist self-centered asshats. Obligatory XKCD as reference: https://xkcd.com/1053/

Yep, that's us.
I'm also a budding grammar Nazi.

And you're apart of the reason why geeks and nerds are always looked down upon and constantly viewed as elitist self-centered asshats. Obligatory XKCD as reference: https://xkcd.com/1053/

Or the classic comma joke:

A panda walks into a restaurant, sits down and orders a sandwich. After he finishes eating the sandwich, the panda pulls out a gun and shoots the waiter, and then stands up to go. "Hey!" shouts the manager. "Where are you going? You just shot my waiter and you didn't pay for your sandwich!"

The panda yells back at the manager, "Hey man, I am a PANDA! Look it up!"

The manager opens his dictionary and sees the following definition for panda: "A tree-dwelling marsupial of Asian origin, characterised by distinct black and white colouring. Eats shoots and leaves."

Oblig. xkcd

You haven't tried correcting wikipedia - as soon as you fix something that is wrong, some idiot immediately reverts it in a few milliseconds. I gave up years ago trying to fix all the errors/mistakes/untruths I found.

Obligatory xkcd: http://xkcd.com/978/

https://xkcd.com/552/
https://xkcd.com/1132/

https://xkcd.com/552/
https://xkcd.com/1132/

It'll still be worth it if he includes a moon pool a la: this xkcd.

In broad terms, any argument Flash-haters can level at Flash can also be made against JavaScript (JS is just as likely to annoy you in as many ways as Flash). I remember when it was JS that was derided and Flash the way forward. Fashions in software platforms come and go. What we need is a decent, mature, fully-featured, free and open source scripting language for apps that run in web browsers (which JS isn't). I don't care what it is, whether it's ActionScript, Java, Python, or something else. However, that would be direct competition to all app stores and destroy their walled-garden business models and stop all the malware attacks resulting from people having to install apps on their desktops in order to run them. See: https://xkcd.com/1367/

obligatory xkcd. Bernie has more supporters, and Trump has historically high negatives. Plus, being black is probably a bigger hold up than being Jewish, as is being a woman (and Clinton has very high negatives outside of Dems too)

Oblig XKCD

https://xkcd.com/801/

I think it's more like, people who say AI will never happen are imagining the kind of AIs in terminator: androids walking around with lasers.

This xkcd says it quite well: http://www.xkcd.com/652/

Or more concretely:
- our primary industry, ie mines and so on, are increasingly automated
- second industry, ie factories, are heavily automated, already
- tertiary, ie services, are well under way
- military (drones and so on) is well under way

"Tar will probably still be here long after I am gone." Yes, but will anyone know how to use the tar command? http://xkcd.com/1168/

Very funny, troll.

(Yes I am an idiot, and actually wrote a real answer to your question before I realized what you were doing. Thankfully I was not crossing the street at the time.)

that's the wonderful thing about standards, there's so many to choose from!

Oblg XKCD: https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/s...

They apply the XKCD "backdoor" and/or arrest or bring in for questioning the recipients of that email.

Obligatory, relevant AND timely: https://xkcd.com/1262/

I'm sure lots of people want a 'work around', but what they want isn't always possible.

It is probably not what she meant, but off course there is a workaround for encryption.

Why yes, of course there is !