Sounds like a Mayan ritual to pick the villager who 'gets' to be sacrificed. This could be a good socio-psycholgical study to see what went through the minds of those Mayan votees.
Have you ever heard of the snowball theory? It states the earth was once completely covered in ice, like Pluto looks. It was hotly debated and shot down by many scientists of the day (back in the 50's or 60's, I don't recall). Many stated this was impossible because even just a large covering of the poles (more so than now) would cause in irreversible freezing of the earth because of the reflected sunlight, causing the ice covered poles to grow larger and larger until they met at the equator BUT.. due to that same principle of reflecting sunlight, it could never have warmed back up to melt away. Therefore, it could never have been totally covered in ice.
However, it later went from a hypotheses to a theory when large boulders were found in geological layers in near the equator (and everywhere else, but the equator was most telling) that were layered in a position that can only be attained when "dropped" from an ice glacier. So it bolstered the theory that the equator was once covered in ice. But there was still the paradox that there would be no way for the earth to warm back up again to melt the ice away due to all the reflecting sun radiation that caused the covering to start with. That was when one scientist who had been studying the theory realized that volcanic activity of even minor proportions would shroud the atmosphere in ash, trapping greenhouse gases, causing a major melt down. Volcanic activity was hot and heavy in our past as we know from geological studies, and so now the snowball theory made sense. Not a fact, but makes sense.
So, we may be still receding from that, a reverse of what would be if the ice poles got larger.. if they get smaller, they will eventually melt away due to less and less sunlight being reflected back. Therefore, global warming may be a natural fact that has been going on for millions of years, never retreating, causing our temperatures on earth to rise more and more and prove the global warming criers right. But they might be wrong that we are causing it, and it's just a thing the earth will do, is get hotter and hotter until it is not livable.
Flames warranted. Didn't realize by my web layout that someone already pointed this out. I shall go and beat my head into the wall several times until I understand the implications of my fauz pas.
The sun is approximately 93 million miles form earth. Light travels 186,000 miles per second. with you math, we are a mere 744, 000 miles from the sun.
I recall being very upset during a D&D game that a drama queen of a friend and passincv agressive at that, foudn a way to kill my 3rd level elf with his 3rd level mage. He accidentlay stumbled upon it after we have an out of game disagreement. He, in desparation, threw a web spell on me, and then not knowing what to do next, figured out to just keep stabbing me with his 1d4 dagger, until all of my hitpoints were gone. I was insensed, felt powerless, and hated him for a bit. But then again, I was 13. I can only imagine these adults are feeling the same feelings, to a 10th degree, and thus too wrapped up in their game.
Yes, my guess is a GoogleOS thin-client is not far off. Why? The things that most people do don't require even a 10th the functionality of Windows. Google search/IM/mail, for many people, this covers it.
Shyeah. Google is enjoying, appropriately so, a positive approval rating for all things they touch. But... they are smart enough not to attempt an OS, because unlike Linux OS's, a Shiite load of people will use a Google OS. And when a Shiite load of people use an OS, virus' get written for it and security holes are relentless sought by hackers, and then you get what Microsoft gets... blamed for having those security holes and susceptibility to viruses. The axiom is this: If an OS/browser starts to get popular, it now makes it worthwhile for freckled 15 year olds to write viruses and find security holes in it, because more people get affected, and thus said 15 year old gets more ego stroking. I recall several years ago some geeks on a list telling me that Unix based systems will never have problems, because it's so stable and secure, unlike Windows. Enter Mac'sOSX. Again, because Mac used a Unix based system as an OS, they were suddenly a target. Google isn't so stupid. They may be good with what they touch, but they don't have the Midas touch.
"if retarted advertisers didn't think they were good advertising, I wouldn't have that problem."
Believe it or not, pop up marketing (as well as spam) works. For each pop up generated, the advertiser gets measurable siginificant click-thru's that result in purchases. When the cost of said pop ups are compared to the profit made from purchases, it's a no brainer that more useage of pop ups should be implemented. You'd be surprised how many 'normal' people, who hate spam, have purchased something via a pop up or spam.
Even though a few slash dotters say it's retarded advertising, said advertisers are gimping all the way to the bank.
"'Ordinary tap water (preferably distilled)'
is a contradiction in terms."
Precisely. The marketers are blatantly attempting to make it seem like it will be effortless ('ordinary tap water') but yet, it should be store bought (unless you know how to distill it yourself). Further, at 1/2 gallon per hour, it will be 4 gallons for a mere 8 hours per day. Figure 5 days a week on average, and that's 20 gallons per week. 1040 gallons/year. If you're buying distilled water from the store, that's about $1040/year.
OJ
Why doesn't the republican just look at the data of the study? Oh, that's right. He can't grasp the basic premises of science. Like most fundamentalist Christians, he think science is a sham to debunk religious beliefs. In reality, science is a legitimate testable rigorous process that debunks religious beliefs.
Just curious, but does the amount of electricity the peltier chips will need make a peltier chip AC unit in a car silly? I.e., if you are funneling that much electrical energy into the AC unit, why not keep the old AC unit and funnel that electrical energy into supplying a hybrid engine with energy? However, the ozone factor still is valid.
I am a cop. Cops are "supposedly" screened before hired to be honest and ethical. Even when liars get past this screening, they still have to face shame and being discredited if they are caught lying. This latter tool keeps most officers honest at LEAST on the stand and about minor things like traffic violations. It's not perfect at all, but until something better is figured out, that's a best we as a society can do (make the officer's word more credible than an opposing claim, if no evidence implies the officer is not telling the truth). If an officer witnesses someone throw a brick through your car window as it is parked on the street and catches them, there is no issue with credibility, the crook pays the price, and in that way it benefits you. Where it doesn't benefit you is if you are indeed speeding and want to lie out of it, you can't. Admittedly, it also doesn't benefit you if in the rare times an officer lies about your speeding (it's nearly ludicrous to imagine an officer doing that since they can simply wait two minutes and catch a REAL speeder), then yes, you are still cooked and a lying officer got you two points on your license and a fine.
While I agree it is silly to think no officer has ever lied about a minor traffic violation, it is just as ludicrous to claim it happens often. It just doesn't make sense to lie about a traffic violation when we don't need to. If I want to get someone for speeding, I can legitimately do it in 10 minutes. If I want to get someone on a turn signal violation, same time frame. There is no reason whatsoever for me to lie about a traffic violation.
OJ
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I wonder who has thought of this angle:
You buy something commercial where the commercial creator got the first round of money Also... make an item that is copyrighted, as long as it is not sold, no issues. BUT... try to sell an item you created using a copyrighted likeness, and it's illegal. Or is it? I'm no copyright lawyer, so someone else chime in here.
Note that I didn't say I took advantage of it. But I do wonder how many other students did. And note I said I did not reveal it. I didn't need to cheat.
heh. I recall a psych class where a graphics calculator was needed to do a few formulas for a portion of the exam... but the rest of the test was simple question and answer.....ahem... see the flaw the stupid professor didn't think of? And since I didn't announce how stupid it was, I have no idea how many other students simply put their notes in the graphics calculators.
How about hearing from a layman, like me? Well, I am somewhat a geek, but not in the field anymore, and was in mamagement when I was. I fix all my family member's computers with 100% success rate, get paid to fix other's, and custom build all my own systems.
About two years ago, I 'inherited' a KDE desktop and used it to my delight to do just what I needed for a bedroom computer... Surfing the Internet and accessing email. The problem was, I was worried that if something went wrong, I'd have no idea how to fix it. I knew how to find settings and preferences, but if there was a conflict, I was just as dumb as the average user who pays me to fix their windows machines. I didn't have a clue how to 'mount a drive' or 'create partititions', etc... and command lines? Give me a break... clueless.
BUT..... what was nice about using it was knowing it was free or next to free, and I could avoid Microsoft if I wanted. So while Linux needs to be more basic when it comes to getting one up and running from an unformatted drive, it does have the tremendous advantage of being free or darn near it.
The way I see it, I used to be a fundamentalist Young-Earth Creationist and anti-homosexual equality advocate. Now I am a scientific minded, non religious, quasi-liberal. I don't want my old content viewable by ANYone who wishes to do me harm by it. Not sure if I have a legal standing, but if they would at least offer, as Google does, the ability to have your old content removed form their publicly displayed database, then I would be okay with that.
The way I see it, I used to be a fundamentalist Young-Eath Creationist and anti-homosexual equality advocate. Now I am a scientific minded, non religious, quasi-liberal. I don't want my old content viewable by ANYone who wishes to do me harm by it. Not sure if I have a legal standing, but if they would at least offer, as Google does, the ability to have your old content removed form their publicly displayed database, then I would be okay with that.
Holy cow, reminds me of my exploits... before my current job (which has built in 'down time' that is darn near expected when nothing is pressing (awesome job, by the way... hint: it's government)), I was making $80k/year at a major telecom firm (the name of which I won't mention) as a Senior Program Manager (in my twenties). I ostensibly 'worked form home' two days a week on the average (simply woke up to send an email "I'll be working from home today", then went back to bed) and when I did go in, I went in at about 10am (again, was ostensibly 'working from home' those first few hours of the morning) and would leave at 3pm (as if I had been working since 7am). During those 5 hours I was at work, I made a few phone calls and took care of a few things (quite effectively I might add) and surfed the web 90% of the rest of my time there. Unethical? Yes and no. I had as much a workload as every other person in my team, and got it done more effectively with less problems. The unethical part was not sharing my secret of how I was so effective and efficient with my co-workers. On the ethical side, I carried my cell phone on me at all times, even on vacations, and answered phone calls and made decisions on my own time. I figured it was the least I could do with so much freedom at work. But then again, it was not hard at all to be pool-side and get a call from a vendor at a remote POP site who tells me there's a problem in Santa Barbara. I'd say "You have till Monday to get it done. If you foresee a problem getting it done by then, call me so I can hire a different vendor". Vendors have an amazing ability to meet deadlines when you have other eager vendors in the wings awaiting your call. Ah, the dot com boom... those were the golden years.
Killing an innocent person for ANY reason is absurd when there is an alternative, such as life in prison if their guilt isn't empirical. For example, I saw a video where some gang banger got confronted by a motel clerk when he tried to skip out of the hotel without paying. So what did the gang banger do? Pulled out a gun and shot the clerk several times, drove away, and shot back at him a few more times. On the video, the soon to be dead guy reads off the license plate to the camera he knows is recording, then slowly bleeds to death. That's what I mean by empirical and yes, he should be executed. But when you can't know for 100% certain, you shouldn't execute someone, especially when life in prison is no cake walk and is in some ways, worse. I for one feel that death, while scarier to face one's upcoming execution, is better than not being scared of execution, but knowing you are behind those prison walls forever. This gives the truly innocent a chance to prove their innocence, as many have.
I have to stick with QWERTY keyboards since I type with two fingers from each hand and my right thumb is used for the space bar. I typed this entire post without looking down to my keyboard once, and only had about 5 mistakes, and completed it in about 60 seconds. However, typically I look down with quick glances when I type and get an excellent speed and accuracy rate. I'd have to start all over again to learn another layout. Sheesh... I don't want to go back to all those BBS chat rooms at 2400 bps again...
Right. That must be why nearly noone used to get divorced at all when marriages were arranged and they only actually got to have sex *after* they were married.
You mean when everyone had premarital and extramarital sex as a matter of course, and men in power had (multiple) publicly acknowledged mistresses precisely because the marriages where arranged and loveless.
Don't forget that divorces in those cultures/times are/were heavily shameful to have, if not dangerous. Religionists ignore that aspect as to why they were few and far between.
The quickest way to see if 'advice' is based on logic, or religion is to ask "Does it make sense?" Yes=logic No=religion. There is no logical reason to NOT live with your girlfriend/boyfriend and have sex before marriage. Religionists like to pretend to have logic "saving yourself shows devotion" or "having sex with someone other than your future spouse cheapens the sex you will have with your future spouse". Millions of happily married couples had sex before marriage, with each other and former boyfriends/girlfriends. And it's only cheapened if one of the partners THINKS it cheapened.
Yeah, one way to recall passwords to sites is exactly as you said, base it off the domain name (only becomes a problem when the web site services are bought by another company and thus change the domain to their parent domain..i.e., onsale.com to egghead.com, or mailbank.com to netidentity.com) Anyway, one way to do it is pick the same letter deep into the URL, like the 3rd letter or 5th (if a short URL, just go back to the first letter and 'wrap around'). Then, you pick a "radio code". Like the military or Police... A=alpha B=bravo C=Charlie, etc etc... but you use your OWN words.... like use the word apple for every time you come across a domain name that's third letter is "a", and a "borneo" for "b", and so on. Add the same two digit number to each password to make it harder to crack if one were so determined.
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Sounds like a Mayan ritual to pick the villager who 'gets' to be sacrificed. This could be a good socio-psycholgical study to see what went through the minds of those Mayan votees.
OJ
Have you ever heard of the snowball theory? It states the earth was once completely covered in ice, like Pluto looks. It was hotly debated and shot down by many scientists of the day (back in the 50's or 60's, I don't recall). Many stated this was impossible because even just a large covering of the poles (more so than now) would cause in irreversible freezing of the earth because of the reflected sunlight, causing the ice covered poles to grow larger and larger until they met at the equator BUT.. due to that same principle of reflecting sunlight, it could never have warmed back up to melt away. Therefore, it could never have been totally covered in ice.
However, it later went from a hypotheses to a theory when large boulders were found in geological layers in near the equator (and everywhere else, but the equator was most telling) that were layered in a position that can only be attained when "dropped" from an ice glacier. So it bolstered the theory that the equator was once covered in ice. But there was still the paradox that there would be no way for the earth to warm back up again to melt the ice away due to all the reflecting sun radiation that caused the covering to start with. That was when one scientist who had been studying the theory realized that volcanic activity of even minor proportions would shroud the atmosphere in ash, trapping greenhouse gases, causing a major melt down. Volcanic activity was hot and heavy in our past as we know from geological studies, and so now the snowball theory made sense. Not a fact, but makes sense.
So, we may be still receding from that, a reverse of what would be if the ice poles got larger.. if they get smaller, they will eventually melt away due to less and less sunlight being reflected back. Therefore, global warming may be a natural fact that has been going on for millions of years, never retreating, causing our temperatures on earth to rise more and more and prove the global warming criers right. But they might be wrong that we are causing it, and it's just a thing the earth will do, is get hotter and hotter until it is not livable.
OJ
Flames warranted. Didn't realize by my web layout that someone already pointed this out. I shall go and beat my head into the wall several times until I understand the implications of my fauz pas.
OJ
4 light seconds? How about ~8 light minutes.
The sun is approximately 93 million miles form earth. Light travels 186,000 miles per second. with you math, we are a mere 744, 000 miles from the sun.
I recall being very upset during a D&D game that a drama queen of a friend and passincv agressive at that, foudn a way to kill my 3rd level elf with his 3rd level mage. He accidentlay stumbled upon it after we have an out of game disagreement. He, in desparation, threw a web spell on me, and then not knowing what to do next, figured out to just keep stabbing me with his 1d4 dagger, until all of my hitpoints were gone. I was insensed, felt powerless, and hated him for a bit. But then again, I was 13. I can only imagine these adults are feeling the same feelings, to a 10th degree, and thus too wrapped up in their game.
OJ
Shyeah. Google is enjoying, appropriately so, a positive approval rating for all things they touch. But... they are smart enough not to attempt an OS, because unlike Linux OS's, a Shiite load of people will use a Google OS. And when a Shiite load of people use an OS, virus' get written for it and security holes are relentless sought by hackers, and then you get what Microsoft gets... blamed for having those security holes and susceptibility to viruses. The axiom is this: If an OS/browser starts to get popular, it now makes it worthwhile for freckled 15 year olds to write viruses and find security holes in it, because more people get affected, and thus said 15 year old gets more ego stroking. I recall several years ago some geeks on a list telling me that Unix based systems will never have problems, because it's so stable and secure, unlike Windows. Enter Mac'sOSX. Again, because Mac used a Unix based system as an OS, they were suddenly a target. Google isn't so stupid. They may be good with what they touch, but they don't have the Midas touch.
"if retarted advertisers didn't think they were good advertising, I wouldn't have that problem."
Believe it or not, pop up marketing (as well as spam) works. For each pop up generated, the advertiser gets measurable siginificant click-thru's that result in purchases. When the cost of said pop ups are compared to the profit made from purchases, it's a no brainer that more useage of pop ups should be implemented. You'd be surprised how many 'normal' people, who hate spam, have purchased something via a pop up or spam.
Even though a few slash dotters say it's retarded advertising, said advertisers are gimping all the way to the bank.
Precisely. The marketers are blatantly attempting to make it seem like it will be effortless ('ordinary tap water') but yet, it should be store bought (unless you know how to distill it yourself). Further, at 1/2 gallon per hour, it will be 4 gallons for a mere 8 hours per day. Figure 5 days a week on average, and that's 20 gallons per week. 1040 gallons/year. If you're buying distilled water from the store, that's about $1040/year. OJ
Why doesn't the republican just look at the data of the study? Oh, that's right. He can't grasp the basic premises of science. Like most fundamentalist Christians, he think science is a sham to debunk religious beliefs. In reality, science is a legitimate testable rigorous process that debunks religious beliefs.
OJ
Just curious, but does the amount of electricity the peltier chips will need make a peltier chip AC unit in a car silly? I.e., if you are funneling that much electrical energy into the AC unit, why not keep the old AC unit and funnel that electrical energy into supplying a hybrid engine with energy? However, the ozone factor still is valid.
OJ
I am a cop. Cops are "supposedly" screened before hired to be honest and ethical. Even when liars get past this screening, they still have to face shame and being discredited if they are caught lying. This latter tool keeps most officers honest at LEAST on the stand and about minor things like traffic violations. It's not perfect at all, but until something better is figured out, that's a best we as a society can do (make the officer's word more credible than an opposing claim, if no evidence implies the officer is not telling the truth). If an officer witnesses someone throw a brick through your car window as it is parked on the street and catches them, there is no issue with credibility, the crook pays the price, and in that way it benefits you. Where it doesn't benefit you is if you are indeed speeding and want to lie out of it, you can't. Admittedly, it also doesn't benefit you if in the rare times an officer lies about your speeding (it's nearly ludicrous to imagine an officer doing that since they can simply wait two minutes and catch a REAL speeder), then yes, you are still cooked and a lying officer got you two points on your license and a fine.
While I agree it is silly to think no officer has ever lied about a minor traffic violation, it is just as ludicrous to claim it happens often. It just doesn't make sense to lie about a traffic violation when we don't need to. If I want to get someone for speeding, I can legitimately do it in 10 minutes. If I want to get someone on a turn signal violation, same time frame. There is no reason whatsoever for me to lie about a traffic violation.
OJ
I wonder who has thought of this angle:
You buy something commercial where the commercial creator got the first round of money Also... make an item that is copyrighted, as long as it is not sold, no issues. BUT... try to sell an item you created using a copyrighted likeness, and it's illegal. Or is it? I'm no copyright lawyer, so someone else chime in here.
OJ
Note that I didn't say I took advantage of it. But I do wonder how many other students did. And note I said I did not reveal it. I didn't need to cheat.
OJ
heh. I recall a psych class where a graphics calculator was needed to do a few formulas for a portion of the exam... but the rest of the test was simple question and answer... ..ahem... see the flaw the stupid professor didn't think of? And since I didn't announce how stupid it was, I have no idea how many other students simply put their notes in the graphics calculators.
How about hearing from a layman, like me? Well, I am somewhat a geek, but not in the field anymore, and was in mamagement when I was. I fix all my family member's computers with 100% success rate, get paid to fix other's, and custom build all my own systems.
About two years ago, I 'inherited' a KDE desktop and used it to my delight to do just what I needed for a bedroom computer... Surfing the Internet and accessing email. The problem was, I was worried that if something went wrong, I'd have no idea how to fix it. I knew how to find settings and preferences, but if there was a conflict, I was just as dumb as the average user who pays me to fix their windows machines. I didn't have a clue how to 'mount a drive' or 'create partititions', etc... and command lines? Give me a break... clueless.
BUT..... what was nice about using it was knowing it was free or next to free, and I could avoid Microsoft if I wanted. So while Linux needs to be more basic when it comes to getting one up and running from an unformatted drive, it does have the tremendous advantage of being free or darn near it.
OJ
The way I see it, I used to be a fundamentalist Young-Earth Creationist and anti-homosexual equality advocate. Now I am a scientific minded, non religious, quasi-liberal. I don't want my old content viewable by ANYone who wishes to do me harm by it. Not sure if I have a legal standing, but if they would at least offer, as Google does, the ability to have your old content removed form their publicly displayed database, then I would be okay with that.
OJ
The way I see it, I used to be a fundamentalist Young-Eath Creationist and anti-homosexual equality advocate. Now I am a scientific minded, non religious, quasi-liberal. I don't want my old content viewable by ANYone who wishes to do me harm by it. Not sure if I have a legal standing, but if they would at least offer, as Google does, the ability to have your old content removed form their publicly displayed database, then I would be okay with that.
OJ
Holy cow, reminds me of my exploits... before my current job (which has built in 'down time' that is darn near expected when nothing is pressing (awesome job, by the way... hint: it's government)), I was making $80k/year at a major telecom firm (the name of which I won't mention) as a Senior Program Manager (in my twenties). I ostensibly 'worked form home' two days a week on the average (simply woke up to send an email "I'll be working from home today", then went back to bed) and when I did go in, I went in at about 10am (again, was ostensibly 'working from home' those first few hours of the morning) and would leave at 3pm (as if I had been working since 7am). During those 5 hours I was at work, I made a few phone calls and took care of a few things (quite effectively I might add) and surfed the web 90% of the rest of my time there. Unethical? Yes and no. I had as much a workload as every other person in my team, and got it done more effectively with less problems. The unethical part was not sharing my secret of how I was so effective and efficient with my co-workers. On the ethical side, I carried my cell phone on me at all times, even on vacations, and answered phone calls and made decisions on my own time. I figured it was the least I could do with so much freedom at work. But then again, it was not hard at all to be pool-side and get a call from a vendor at a remote POP site who tells me there's a problem in Santa Barbara. I'd say "You have till Monday to get it done. If you foresee a problem getting it done by then, call me so I can hire a different vendor". Vendors have an amazing ability to meet deadlines when you have other eager vendors in the wings awaiting your call. Ah, the dot com boom... those were the golden years.
Killing an innocent person for ANY reason is absurd when there is an alternative, such as life in prison if their guilt isn't empirical. For example, I saw a video where some gang banger got confronted by a motel clerk when he tried to skip out of the hotel without paying. So what did the gang banger do? Pulled out a gun and shot the clerk several times, drove away, and shot back at him a few more times. On the video, the soon to be dead guy reads off the license plate to the camera he knows is recording, then slowly bleeds to death. That's what I mean by empirical and yes, he should be executed. But when you can't know for 100% certain, you shouldn't execute someone, especially when life in prison is no cake walk and is in some ways, worse. I for one feel that death, while scarier to face one's upcoming execution, is better than not being scared of execution, but knowing you are behind those prison walls forever. This gives the truly innocent a chance to prove their innocence, as many have.
OJ
I have to stick with QWERTY keyboards since I type with two fingers from each hand and my right thumb is used for the space bar. I typed this entire post without looking down to my keyboard once, and only had about 5 mistakes, and completed it in about 60 seconds. However, typically I look down with quick glances when I type and get an excellent speed and accuracy rate. I'd have to start all over again to learn another layout. Sheesh... I don't want to go back to all those BBS chat rooms at 2400 bps again...
OJ
Psycologically speaking, sex is sepcial with certain people, regardless of past experience. If you believe otherwise, than it won't be.
OJ
Right. That must be why nearly noone used to get divorced at all when marriages were arranged and they only actually got to have sex *after* they were married.
You mean when everyone had premarital and extramarital sex as a matter of course, and men in power had (multiple) publicly acknowledged mistresses precisely because the marriages where arranged and loveless.
Don't forget that divorces in those cultures/times are/were heavily shameful to have, if not dangerous. Religionists ignore that aspect as to why they were few and far between.
>The quickest route to divorce is a bad sex life.
The quickest way to see if 'advice' is based on logic, or religion is to ask "Does it make sense?" Yes=logic No=religion. There is no logical reason to NOT live with your girlfriend/boyfriend and have sex before marriage. Religionists like to pretend to have logic "saving yourself shows devotion" or "having sex with someone other than your future spouse cheapens the sex you will have with your future spouse". Millions of happily married couples had sex before marriage, with each other and former boyfriends/girlfriends. And it's only cheapened if one of the partners THINKS it cheapened.
OJ
All I know is that if men really ruled the world, tanks would be far easier to rent.
-stolen from "If men ruled the world"
OJ
Yeah, one way to recall passwords to sites is exactly as you said, base it off the domain name (only becomes a problem when the web site services are bought by another company and thus change the domain to their parent domain. .i.e., onsale.com to egghead.com, or mailbank.com to netidentity.com) Anyway, one way to do it is pick the same letter deep into the URL, like the 3rd letter or 5th (if a short URL, just go back to the first letter and 'wrap around'). Then, you pick a "radio code". Like the military or Police... A=alpha B=bravo C=Charlie, etc etc... but you use your OWN words.... like use the word apple for every time you come across a domain name that's third letter is "a", and a "borneo" for "b", and so on. Add the same two digit number to each password to make it harder to crack if one were so determined.