I decided to get a geiger counter (Aware RM-60) and a small piece of relatively radioactive uranium. I threw together a little app that runs through letters of mixed case, numbers, and other assorted characters and stops when the meter hits a certain reading.
Every few days, I used to generate a good 12 character password using this method, but lately I've been getting these headaches...
Such ambiguity is difficult to judge by a person whose native language is something other than Japanese. For instance, English speakers find the use of definite and indefinite articles (the, an , a) incredibly important. This is why new speakers of English with a Russian or Japanese background fail to include "the" when referring to "the book."
According to Noam Chomsky of MIT, there are fundamental elements of language structure that are innate to human beings in general (hence "universal grammar"). This allows people to learn many different languages and function relatively competently in more than one language society. One would think (I may be wrong here) that a society would avoid ambiguity and produce a language that worked well for their purposes.
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I decided to get a geiger counter (Aware RM-60) and a small piece of relatively radioactive uranium. I threw together a little app that runs through letters of mixed case, numbers, and other assorted characters and stops when the meter hits a certain reading.
Every few days, I used to generate a good 12 character password using this method, but lately I've been getting these headaches
Such ambiguity is difficult to judge by a person whose native language is something other than Japanese. For instance, English speakers find the use of definite and indefinite articles (the, an , a) incredibly important. This is why new speakers of English with a Russian or Japanese background fail to include "the" when referring to "the book."
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See http://www. japanfile.com/culture_and_society/language/Ambigui ty-1.shtml.
According to Noam Chomsky of MIT, there are fundamental elements of language structure that are innate to human beings in general (hence "universal grammar"). This allows people to learn many different languages and function relatively competently in more than one language society. One would think (I may be wrong here) that a society would avoid ambiguity and produce a language that worked well for their purposes.
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