So, basically getting rid of uppercase letters essentially shortens your effective password by 2 letters? OK, makes sense.
On the subject of dictionary based sequences of words - how much entropy would be added if you deliberately misspelled one of the words in the password phrase? Would you get the entire sequence of characters for entropy in that case - 26^42 in your example, since the codebreaker would have to go back to fully brute force? (I get 2 x 10^59)
Nice to see we have some Real Men at the Treasury - none of these mamby-pamby programming languages for them. No - Real Men write in machine code (falling back to assembler for more object oriented stuff)!
To be fair, my first thought on reading the Fine Summary was that IF it were accurate - that road, tire, and brake dust are 10x the particulate emissions of all the ENGINES on the road today - and from the source we do need to be somewhat skeptical - then holy crap Batman - we've won! I mean, if engine emissions are that low, we never need any new emissions regs for particulates - we've effectively eliminated them.
Now we need new standards on brakes and tires - we need EPA regs to improve THEIR 'emissions' next. That is a staggering amount of progress vs. air quality - like, wow!
Yeah! 'Merica!
Anyone else got that sense of awe? Or is it just me?
Well Angelo,
I guess you had better get used to the idea of an ice free planet. It is not even remotely possible to get CO2 emissions down to ZERO - [Really?? ZERO - not stabilized, not substantially reduced, but ZERO?? Pfffft] in any timeframe, much les "very very rapidly".
Also, since I have seen the evidence that CO2 levels have been higher in the distant past, the notion of a "runaway self reinforcing effect" is ludicrous. If that were even possible it would have already happened sometime in the last 4 BILLION years and would never have reversed.
Stop self aggrandizing - you are not vital, are not alive in the pivotal moment of Earth's history - all this vitriol is simply to feed your own ego, and has nothing to do with hard science.
I'll still be around in 20 years, so will you, and you will find the world is still spinning, same as it always has, same as it always will. The sky is not falling Chicken Little.
From what I gather from the articles - I had to dig a little - zero-rating is the practice of having a data cap on your mobile data plan, and then offering certain sites/services that do NOT count towards your cap.
Net neutrality is preventing your carrier from slowing down OR SPEEDING UP certain services or sites in relation to others - everything must be on an absolutely equal level.
This breaks that by effectively creating a fast lane. So they could force, say, Netflixs to pay them in order to be included in the zero-rated zone. OR, have their own service that competes with Netflix, but look - it's zero rated too! Why not use ours - won't count against your data cap!
Basically just another way to get around net neutrality.
I find I am in disagreement with you. Having more tall people, with more trendy bits, with IQs over 130 in the population than we have currently should be encouraged - regardless of the source. Bring the average UP for a change I say!
He likely had to have them removed to prevent fatal infections. The implants are foreign objects and the connectors to them were through the skin - so it gets infected. Left long enough really bad infections would set in, that may be ultimately fatal.
Anything like that for experimental purposes is temporary
Be helpful in posting - if you can't say something nice...
Also, on Moderation (if you are selected for that) - I always try to moderate UP only (very rarely do I moderate down - obvious trolls or flamebait sometimes), and I try to only evaluate the post I'm Moderating based on the criteria of "Does it add to the discussion going on?".
I never use Moderation to disagree with someone. I can know what they say is flat out wrong, and STILL moderate them up. It's a difficult distinction to keep in mind, but that's how I do it.
Sift through the chaff - there are some nuggets here and there to find. Welcome aboard.
I second this - things are much faster, for me at least. Manchester NH is my "30 minute airport". I live a couple of towns over and I can: 1) Get up off my couch 2) Grab my bags 3) Get in the car and drive to the airport 4) Park long term 5) Check in at the counter (I check my bag, not carry it on) 6) Go through security 7) Get through the airport so I am standing in front of my plane's gate.
All in 30 minutes or less. Who could ask for more?
Sounds like it may work out - glad to hear you are out and about and having fun. Definitely try things you have never done before - that's where you meet the most interesting people (well, I do at least). And if you ever just want to chat, you can email me at br4nm4n - thats at comcast dot net - directly instead of through/.
No problem - ideas are free to share and if anything I've suggested helps, I'm glad. My goals? Don't have many actually - I've got a pretty good life, I enjoy what I do (so by some accounts I've never worked a day in my life), and who I'm with. Can't ask for more.
Another idea came to me - look online or on your cable for a show called "Millionaire Matchmaker". There are actually people out there specializing in, yes, matchmaking for the wealthy. Can't say how well it works out really, but hey, it's another thing you may not have considered.
Nice to hear you're helping out some of those around you - I'd probably sneak in similar acts of kindness as you've managed. I try to help out as I can too - there are plenty of people 'below' me on the financial scale that I can and have given a little boost.
I of course could tell you're not a native speaker - I've never heard the term 'sexing' before - but it's all good. Surprised you are apparently living in Maine - I'm living next door in New Hampshire myself.
Good luck with finding The One! And for all our sakes keep off the opiates. Nasty stuff - glad you kicked it.
A bit of a late reply, but I just came across this. I have enjoyed reading your ramblings. I'm a bit below you on the pay scale - comfortable but still definitely working for a living - saving and planning for retirement at some point, so I'll have time on my hands then for sure.
Romantic relationships seem really important to you, so that's what I will talk about here.
Once I gave relationship advise to a woman I met during a layover in an airport who was heading off to a political party convention of all things. The only thing I could come up with kind of stuck with me - "Find the one you can't live without. Then.... don't [live without them]". I've been pretty lucky in that department - coming up on my 25th wedding anniversary next year.
A friend of mine met the man of her dreams - they are still together to this day I am sure, though I have not seen them in many years - at a gaming convention of all things. Met and talked and hit it off and stayed up all night talking. And that was that.
What I'm trying to get at with my rambling is that when it happens it just happens. And if you know them enough to trust them you can trust them with anything - you just know.
My advise to you is to get out there on the road like you don't have much in the bank, and just meet people. This I know you think is dishonest, but bear with me. Take the time to get to know her - find the ONE man - and during the course of a year play all the "what if" games. What if we won the lottery - what would we do? Then make it happen - concoct your own lottery, or contest, or drawing, or whatever, and "win" a couple of million dollars.
Then do with her all the things you'd do in that case - that will be more fun than you can imagine. And after a year of that - if it hasn't all come unglued - come clean about everything. And she will not care one bit - if anything she'll think it's the most romantic thing she has ever heard of.
The marriage bonus exists because the servicemen are expected to support their spouses - and need the means to do so. Getting married means starting a family, and when deployed servicemen are not around to help raise the family - that falls on the spouse.
Being married to someone who gets deployed far away on a regular basis is very hard on a marriage - the spouse is effectively a single parent during those periods.
Not sure if you were just trolling, If not, here's your answer
GPL means open source. Means you, I, and Frank down the road can download and read the source. We can compile it ourselves from the source, to make sure we have what we expect. We can inspect the code to discover back doors (hiding a direct back-door in source is REALLY REALLY hard to do) - crypto experts in this or other countries can look through it to ascertain if it is secure or subject to attacks (theses have been based on this, so it is no idle task)
In fact no one with any standing in the cryto community of experts will say any crypto algorithm is anything but *insecure* until the whole world has tried to break it, and all fail.
Good crypto is possible. GPL means open source, so good crypto applications *are* possible. Anything close sourced, i.e. commercial or government furnished, as binary only, cannot be trusted.
That is why GPL is so important. It isn't magical, but no one can muck with it in secret. Just isn't physically possible - you get the source code too.
Do you have control of the (local) AC? I ask because you could crank it up in south Florida, and basically force yourself to take a walk outside every so often just to 'thaw out your bones'.
I used to do that in college when I was doing track and cross country - my body got so good at dumping heat I was freezing every day in normal temperature classrooms.
From numbers from an earlier comment Germany is at about 15% non-baseload renuables (i.e. power that can come and go like wind and solar) and 15% baseload renuables (i.e. power that is constant like hydro and biomass). So they are definitely doing something right.
Hmm.... That sounds like 90% of a hit TV series premise to me. Just add "and solving ingenious crimes that baffle the police" to that story and I thing we have it.
Good for you for having the wit to not believe what you were told and the fortitude to get to college anyway.
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So, basically getting rid of uppercase letters essentially shortens your effective password by 2 letters? OK, makes sense.
On the subject of dictionary based sequences of words - how much entropy would be added if you deliberately misspelled one of the words in the password phrase? Would you get the entire sequence of characters for entropy in that case - 26^42 in your example, since the codebreaker would have to go back to fully brute force? (I get 2 x 10^59)
Nice to see we have some Real Men at the Treasury - none of these mamby-pamby programming languages for them. No - Real Men write in machine code (falling back to assembler for more object oriented stuff)!
To be fair, my first thought on reading the Fine Summary was that IF it were accurate - that road, tire, and brake dust are 10x the particulate emissions of all the ENGINES on the road today - and from the source we do need to be somewhat skeptical - then holy crap Batman - we've won! I mean, if engine emissions are that low, we never need any new emissions regs for particulates - we've effectively eliminated them.
Now we need new standards on brakes and tires - we need EPA regs to improve THEIR 'emissions' next. That is a staggering amount of progress vs. air quality - like, wow!
Yeah! 'Merica!
Anyone else got that sense of awe? Or is it just me?
Well Angelo,
I guess you had better get used to the idea of an ice free planet. It is not even remotely possible to get CO2 emissions down to ZERO - [Really?? ZERO - not stabilized, not substantially reduced, but ZERO?? Pfffft] in any timeframe, much les "very very rapidly".
Also, since I have seen the evidence that CO2 levels have been higher in the distant past, the notion of a "runaway self reinforcing effect" is ludicrous. If that were even possible it would have already happened sometime in the last 4 BILLION years and would never have reversed.
Stop self aggrandizing - you are not vital, are not alive in the pivotal moment of Earth's history - all this vitriol is simply to feed your own ego, and has nothing to do with hard science.
I'll still be around in 20 years, so will you, and you will find the world is still spinning, same as it always has, same as it always will. The sky is not falling Chicken Little.
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640,000 years should be enough for anyone!
From what I gather from the articles - I had to dig a little - zero-rating is the practice of having a data cap on your mobile data plan, and then offering certain sites/services that do NOT count towards your cap.
Net neutrality is preventing your carrier from slowing down OR SPEEDING UP certain services or sites in relation to others - everything must be on an absolutely equal level.
This breaks that by effectively creating a fast lane. So they could force, say, Netflixs to pay them in order to be included in the zero-rated zone. OR, have their own service that competes with Netflix, but look - it's zero rated too! Why not use ours - won't count against your data cap!
Basically just another way to get around net neutrality.
So basically Australians go to Pamplona for a day off.
I find I am in disagreement with you. Having more tall people, with more trendy bits, with IQs over 130 in the population than we have currently should be encouraged - regardless of the source. Bring the average UP for a change I say!
He likely had to have them removed to prevent fatal infections. The implants are foreign objects and the connectors to them were through the skin - so it gets infected. Left long enough really bad infections would set in, that may be ultimately fatal.
Anything like that for experimental purposes is temporary
No state servant HAS subjects! W. T. F.
I'm exhausted just reading this. Wow. I need a nap.
Be helpful in posting - if you can't say something nice ...
Also, on Moderation (if you are selected for that) - I always try to moderate UP only (very rarely do I moderate down - obvious trolls or flamebait sometimes), and I try to only evaluate the post I'm Moderating based on the criteria of "Does it add to the discussion going on?".
I never use Moderation to disagree with someone. I can know what they say is flat out wrong, and STILL moderate them up. It's a difficult distinction to keep in mind, but that's how I do it.
Sift through the chaff - there are some nuggets here and there to find. Welcome aboard.
I second this - things are much faster, for me at least. Manchester NH is my "30 minute airport". I live a couple of towns over and I can:
1) Get up off my couch
2) Grab my bags
3) Get in the car and drive to the airport
4) Park long term
5) Check in at the counter (I check my bag, not carry it on)
6) Go through security
7) Get through the airport so I am standing in front of my plane's gate.
All in 30 minutes or less. Who could ask for more?
To quote one of the more fun episodes of the original:
"All I ever seen is you, and a couple of your boys. I don' see no FEDERATION !
Sounds like it may work out - glad to hear you are out and about and having fun. Definitely try things you have never done before - that's where you meet the most interesting people (well, I do at least). And if you ever just want to chat, you can email me at br4nm4n - thats at comcast dot net - directly instead of through /.
Surrounded by incompetents!
"I say we dust off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure"
New Hampshire has no income tax or sales tax - all our taxes are in property taxes - in one place where you can keep an eye on them. I like that.
New Hampshire allows us to play Texas Hold-em poker - while Texas itself does not! (Oh, the irony)
New Hampshire does not penalize you for not wearing a seat-belt or a helmet (as long as you are an adult).
Oh, and good luck devising an effective public transportation system given New Hampshire terrain and population density.
So there.
No problem - ideas are free to share and if anything I've suggested helps, I'm glad. My goals? Don't have many actually - I've got a pretty good life, I enjoy what I do (so by some accounts I've never worked a day in my life), and who I'm with. Can't ask for more.
Another idea came to me - look online or on your cable for a show called "Millionaire Matchmaker". There are actually people out there specializing in, yes, matchmaking for the wealthy. Can't say how well it works out really, but hey, it's another thing you may not have considered.
Nice to hear you're helping out some of those around you - I'd probably sneak in similar acts of kindness as you've managed. I try to help out as I can too - there are plenty of people 'below' me on the financial scale that I can and have given a little boost.
I of course could tell you're not a native speaker - I've never heard the term 'sexing' before - but it's all good. Surprised you are apparently living in Maine - I'm living next door in New Hampshire myself.
Good luck with finding The One! And for all our sakes keep off the opiates. Nasty stuff - glad you kicked it.
A bit of a late reply, but I just came across this. I have enjoyed reading your ramblings. I'm a bit below you on the pay scale - comfortable but still definitely working for a living - saving and planning for retirement at some point, so I'll have time on my hands then for sure.
Romantic relationships seem really important to you, so that's what I will talk about here.
Once I gave relationship advise to a woman I met during a layover in an airport who was heading off to a political party convention of all things. The only thing I could come up with kind of stuck with me - "Find the one you can't live without. Then.... don't [live without them]". I've been pretty lucky in that department - coming up on my 25th wedding anniversary next year.
A friend of mine met the man of her dreams - they are still together to this day I am sure, though I have not seen them in many years - at a gaming convention of all things. Met and talked and hit it off and stayed up all night talking. And that was that.
What I'm trying to get at with my rambling is that when it happens it just happens. And if you know them enough to trust them you can trust them with anything - you just know.
My advise to you is to get out there on the road like you don't have much in the bank, and just meet people. This I know you think is dishonest, but bear with me. Take the time to get to know her - find the ONE man - and during the course of a year play all the "what if" games. What if we won the lottery - what would we do? Then make it happen - concoct your own lottery, or contest, or drawing, or whatever, and "win" a couple of million dollars.
Then do with her all the things you'd do in that case - that will be more fun than you can imagine. And after a year of that - if it hasn't all come unglued - come clean about everything. And she will not care one bit - if anything she'll think it's the most romantic thing she has ever heard of.
That's how I'd do it.
The marriage bonus exists because the servicemen are expected to support their spouses - and need the means to do so. Getting married means starting a family, and when deployed servicemen are not around to help raise the family - that falls on the spouse.
Being married to someone who gets deployed far away on a regular basis is very hard on a marriage - the spouse is effectively a single parent during those periods.
Not sure if you were just trolling, If not, here's your answer
GPL means open source. Means you, I, and Frank down the road can download and read the source. We can compile it ourselves from the source, to make sure we have what we expect. We can inspect the code to discover back doors (hiding a direct back-door in source is REALLY REALLY hard to do) - crypto experts in this or other countries can look through it to ascertain if it is secure or subject to attacks (theses have been based on this, so it is no idle task)
In fact no one with any standing in the cryto community of experts will say any crypto algorithm is anything but *insecure* until the whole world has tried to break it, and all fail.
Good crypto is possible. GPL means open source, so good crypto applications *are* possible. Anything close sourced, i.e. commercial or government furnished, as binary only, cannot be trusted.
That is why GPL is so important. It isn't magical, but no one can muck with it in secret. Just isn't physically possible - you get the source code too.
Do you have control of the (local) AC? I ask because you could crank it up in south Florida, and basically force yourself to take a walk outside every so often just to 'thaw out your bones'.
I used to do that in college when I was doing track and cross country - my body got so good at dumping heat I was freezing every day in normal temperature classrooms.
From numbers from an earlier comment Germany is at about 15% non-baseload renuables (i.e. power that can come and go like wind and solar) and 15% baseload renuables (i.e. power that is constant like hydro and biomass). So they are definitely doing something right.
Hmm.... That sounds like 90% of a hit TV series premise to me. Just add "and solving ingenious crimes that baffle the police" to that story and I thing we have it.
Good for you for having the wit to not believe what you were told and the fortitude to get to college anyway.