1) LastPass lets you configure length and character set rules independently for every site. If it generates one the site won't accept for other reasons, you can just click "generate" again.
2) The mobile app (which isn't free; it's part of the premium package for $12/year) includes (for Android, anway; can't speak to iOS) a "keyboard method", so you switch your keyboard entry method to "LastPass", and it works with the few banking type apps I've tried it with.
"The Witches of Karres" seems to get the most attention, but that one kind of left me cold. I much preferred the Telzy Amberdon stories. Yeah, psi powers, which kind of pushes it towards the "fantasy" border, but it's handled very much in a science-fiction/space opera sort of way.
My favorite of his that I can think of right off is "The Tuvela", a.k.a. "The Demon Breed". Not much psi in that one (maybe none; Nile Etland doesn't have any psi powers I recall... she's just very, very competent.) Great "One really pissed-off woman vs. an alien invasion. Pity the aliens" story.
Oh, wow, yes. It's a damning indictment of Hollywood that though they've optioned "The High Crusade" at least once, no one has ever managed to summon up the interest to actually make a movie out of it. Even though it's a straight-forward enough adventure story that even Hollywood types should be able to understand it.
I'm more fond of his earlier stuff, the "Polesotechnic League" stories on the trade ship "Muddlin' Through" than the more pessimistic (and more complex) Flandry stories set later in the same universe. But everything I've read by him as been good, and much of it great.
I have made up one really, really good password that I will not forget -- over 16 characters of mixed case, digits, and punctuation -- that I use for one purpose:
The password for my key manager.
I let the key manager create long, totally impossible passwords, and use it to log into everything else.
I've used pwsafe and keepass in the past; currently, I'm using LastPass. (Logging in to it with a very special email address that I use only for LastPass, nothing else.)
Marvelous writer... who uses all his amazing skill to get you to emotionally invest in a character, just so he can make you watch while he rips the character's liver out before your eyes and serves it to you, raw, on a silver platter with fava beans and a nice Chianti. While the dying character screams and screams and screams...
The climactic horror in the book is when the male protagonist murders his beloved daughter because the parasite irresistably compells him to.
This was the "Gimme a *deleted* BREAK (book impacts far wall hard enough to leave a dent)" moment in the story for me. The parasite, as described, would no more have irresistably compelled him to murder his daughter than he would have been irresistably compelled, minus the parasite, to rape her.
If the parasite could have just overridden all human will and compelled a human to do anything, then, hey, presto, make everyone kill themselves, much quicker solution.
Make it $500 for the first offence of a fraudulent DMCA complaint. $1000 for the second. $2000 for the third. Double it for each offense thereafter. Don't charge Youtube with them; charge the entity making the fraudulent claim. This would provide an appropriate smackdown for an individual doing it once for whatever reason, and quickly reach into "bankrupt the company" levels of penalty for the major offenders. (See the "grains of wheat on the chessboard" story.)
That was what I was thinking. When I ran for a local office and did some precinct walking back in 1992, I got a printout (fan-fold, green-lined line printer output) with this information. I don't recall what it cost, but it wasn't that much.
If you could use all the energy you wanted but have zero environmental impact, I'm pretty sure the greens would care less about how much you use.
If only. Cheap, clean, abundant energy would be "nothing short of disastrous", unquote, according to Amory Lovins. And back in the 80s when it looked like Pons and Fleishman had actually discovered something, Paul Erlich wrote a "the horror, oh, the horror, this dooms us" type editorial.
Energy sources are supported by the so-called "green movement" precisely to the extent that they are limited or, better, unavailable. As soon as any energy source they tout beings to show any signs of actually producing energy in significant quantity, some reason will always be found or manufactured to oppose it. Every. Single. Time.
The first time the votes are tallied, and in a write-in landslide, "7337 H4X0R" wins, we'll go to "Show your face at the poll, show ID, and mark your vote on paper" a lot faster than you'd have ever believed Congress could move.
This will probably happen the first time there's Internet voting. Definitely by the second.
Short stories might be a good fit. Some I like that I read pretty young:
Larry Niven's "Neutron Star", and the other stories in that book. (These are at the top of my list.)
The "Analog Annuals"; collections of some of the best from Analog back in the 70s. Kids, especially, should love Vinge's "Bookworm, Run!" from here. Some libraries may have them.
The various "Hugo Winners", "A Treasury of Great Science Fiction", etc., type anthologies.
Actually, I thought "The Puppet Masters" movie was pretty good. It hit a lot of Heinlein's points from the book, and Donald Sutherland positively nailed the role of "The Old Man."
Yeah, in the movie they defeat the slugs long before "Schedule Suntan" is neccesary, but then, they didn't want an NC-17 rating.
That's exactly it. I often use the term "Omni-obstructionist" to describe these cretins.
Obviously, I'm not referring to intelligent people who have valid, supportable objections to things that are genuinely harmful. But based on the ignorant scare-mongering that permeates their press release that has been spammed in this topic any number of times, that does not describe these "Environment Texas" wackos.
Sure, have a "yes/no": check box, but after it, a text box where the voter gives their reasoning behind their vote. No reasoning, then the vote can be appropriately weighted. A whole bunch of votes with identical boilerplate "reasoning" pasted in, also weighted appropriately.
This proposal seems sort of OK... he's not constrained to vote whatever way the internet polling goes. I'm very much against internet voting for real votes, though -- unless some scheme can be devised to guarantee the secret ballot. It is absolutely essential that a person is not only able to cast a vote where no one can tell how he voted -- it *must* be impossible for anyone to prove to a third party how he voted to prevent vote buying/extortion schemes. Absentee ballots are a violation of this, but probably necessary. I'd sure like to see their use restricted to people who are actually absent, or have mobility issues with getting to a polling place.
Perhaps some way a person can change their vote later, up to the deadline? There should be a way with one-way hashes and encryption to make that possible, while not making it possible for anyone on the inside to determine how they voted, either time.
Now that's a bit of information that hasn't been in any of the stories I've read about this guy up until now. He left the U.S. three years ago, it's not a recent "just to avoid IPO taxes" thing.
Looking at the reviews to get an idea of what it's about.... The impression I get from even the five-star reviews is of a story about a relentlessly grim-dark dystopian horror, life sucks, then you die in horrible agony, and things only get worse for the survivors. Sounds like it's very well written, but not something I'm interested in reading. Or watching.
(Cue absolutely predictable and completely off-base "You're a moron who only wants Disney endings" diatribes, to which I say "PHBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBTTTT!!!!")
Any source of power will have the usual suspects reeling in terror of it... or pretend terror. We're going to have to understand that some people are really opposed to clean, cheap, abundant energy. "Nothing short of a disaster" is how one of the leading soft energy types described it.
People need to understand where the omni-obstructionists are coming from, and weigh their arguments appropriately.
Fusion, even if it's the Mr. Fusion of the Back to the Future movies (I WANT ONE!!!) will definitely not be immune from the kind of over-the-top scaremongering we've seen all too much of.
If I had to explain antitrust in a single word, it would not be 'competition' -- it would be 'power.' The power to raise prices above a competitive level; the power to punish people who break your rules. Such power is something society usually vests in government. Antitrust law is in part concerned with private industry attempting to assert government-like power.
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1) LastPass lets you configure length and character set rules independently for every site. If it generates one the site won't accept for other reasons, you can just click "generate" again.
2) The mobile app (which isn't free; it's part of the premium package for $12/year) includes (for Android, anway; can't speak to iOS) a "keyboard method", so you switch your keyboard entry method to "LastPass", and it works with the few banking type apps I've tried it with.
"The Witches of Karres" seems to get the most attention, but that one kind of left me cold. I much preferred the Telzy Amberdon stories. Yeah, psi powers, which kind of pushes it towards the "fantasy" border, but it's handled very much in a science-fiction/space opera sort of way.
My favorite of his that I can think of right off is "The Tuvela", a.k.a. "The Demon Breed". Not much psi in that one (maybe none; Nile Etland doesn't have any psi powers I recall... she's just very, very competent.) Great "One really pissed-off woman vs. an alien invasion. Pity the aliens" story.
Oh, wow, yes. It's a damning indictment of Hollywood that though they've optioned "The High Crusade" at least once, no one has ever managed to summon up the interest to actually make a movie out of it. Even though it's a straight-forward enough adventure story that even Hollywood types should be able to understand it.
I'm more fond of his earlier stuff, the "Polesotechnic League" stories on the trade ship "Muddlin' Through" than the more pessimistic (and more complex) Flandry stories set later in the same universe. But everything I've read by him as been good, and much of it great.
I have made up one really, really good password that I will not forget -- over 16 characters of mixed case, digits, and punctuation -- that I use for one purpose:
The password for my key manager.
I let the key manager create long, totally impossible passwords, and use it to log into everything else.
I've used pwsafe and keepass in the past; currently, I'm using LastPass. (Logging in to it with a very special email address that I use only for LastPass, nothing else.)
Marvelous writer ... who uses all his amazing skill to get you to emotionally invest in a character, just so he can make you watch while he rips the character's liver out before your eyes and serves it to you, raw, on a silver platter with fava beans and a nice Chianti. While the dying character screams and screams and screams...
The climactic horror in the book is when the male protagonist murders his beloved daughter because the parasite irresistably compells him to.
This was the "Gimme a *deleted* BREAK (book impacts far wall hard enough to leave a dent)" moment in the story for me. The parasite, as described, would no more have irresistably compelled him to murder his daughter than he would have been irresistably compelled, minus the parasite, to rape her.
If the parasite could have just overridden all human will and compelled a human to do anything, then, hey, presto, make everyone kill themselves, much quicker solution.
Cue "Workplace Culture Patent Violation" lawsuit in 3... 2... 1...
Make it $500 for the first offence of a fraudulent DMCA complaint. $1000 for the second. $2000 for the third. Double it for each offense thereafter. Don't charge Youtube with them; charge the entity making the fraudulent claim. This would provide an appropriate smackdown for an individual doing it once for whatever reason, and quickly reach into "bankrupt the company" levels of penalty for the major offenders. (See the "grains of wheat on the chessboard" story.)
A reporter under the delusion that a "bulletproof vest" would make bullets bounce off him like he was Superman puts it to the test on camera.
And this looks like it was just a .38.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8hHkNPmqCk
If CO2 is the huge apocolypse-causing crisis that the AGW proponents claim it is...
Why have they, for the most part, been at the forefront of the "anti-nuke shut 'em all down NOW" movement for decades?
One could easily come to the conclusion that their aim is not to reduce CO2; their aim is to reduce human access to energy.
That was what I was thinking. When I ran for a local office and did some precinct walking back in 1992, I got a printout (fan-fold, green-lined line printer output) with this information. I don't recall what it cost, but it wasn't that much.
If only. Cheap, clean, abundant energy would be "nothing short of disastrous", unquote, according to Amory Lovins. And back in the 80s when it looked like Pons and Fleishman had actually discovered something, Paul Erlich wrote a "the horror, oh, the horror, this dooms us" type editorial.
Energy sources are supported by the so-called "green movement" precisely to the extent that they are limited or, better, unavailable. As soon as any energy source they tout beings to show any signs of actually producing energy in significant quantity, some reason will always be found or manufactured to oppose it. Every. Single. Time.
... Life catches up with Girl Genius.
http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20071126
The first time the votes are tallied, and in a write-in landslide, "7337 H4X0R" wins, we'll go to "Show your face at the poll, show ID, and mark your vote on paper" a lot faster than you'd have ever believed Congress could move.
This will probably happen the first time there's Internet voting. Definitely by the second.
Short stories might be a good fit. Some I like that I read pretty young:
Larry Niven's "Neutron Star", and the other stories in that book. (These are at the top of my list.)
The "Analog Annuals"; collections of some of the best from Analog back in the 70s. Kids, especially, should love Vinge's "Bookworm, Run!" from here. Some libraries may have them.
The various "Hugo Winners", "A Treasury of Great Science Fiction", etc., type anthologies.
Actually, I thought "The Puppet Masters" movie was pretty good. It hit a lot of Heinlein's points from the book, and Donald Sutherland positively nailed the role of "The Old Man."
Yeah, in the movie they defeat the slugs long before "Schedule Suntan" is neccesary, but then, they didn't want an NC-17 rating.
Don't start with the beginning of the first season of TNG. Much of it was pretty disappointing. TNG didn't really get going until the second season.
That's exactly it. I often use the term "Omni-obstructionist" to describe these cretins.
Obviously, I'm not referring to intelligent people who have valid, supportable objections to things that are genuinely harmful. But based on the ignorant scare-mongering that permeates their press release that has been spammed in this topic any number of times, that does not describe these "Environment Texas" wackos.
Sure, have a "yes/no": check box, but after it, a text box where the voter gives their reasoning behind their vote. No reasoning, then the vote can be appropriately weighted. A whole bunch of votes with identical boilerplate "reasoning" pasted in, also weighted appropriately.
This proposal seems sort of OK ... he's not constrained to vote whatever way the internet polling goes. I'm very much against internet voting for real votes, though -- unless some scheme can be devised to guarantee the secret ballot. It is absolutely essential that a person is not only able to cast a vote where no one can tell how he voted -- it *must* be impossible for anyone to prove to a third party how he voted to prevent vote buying/extortion schemes. Absentee ballots are a violation of this, but probably necessary. I'd sure like to see their use restricted to people who are actually absent, or have mobility issues with getting to a polling place.
Perhaps some way a person can change their vote later, up to the deadline? There should be a way with one-way hashes and encryption to make that possible, while not making it possible for anyone on the inside to determine how they voted, either time.
Now that's a bit of information that hasn't been in any of the stories I've read about this guy up until now. He left the U.S. three years ago, it's not a recent "just to avoid IPO taxes" thing.
Looking at the reviews to get an idea of what it's about.... The impression I get from even the five-star reviews is of a story about a relentlessly grim-dark dystopian horror, life sucks, then you die in horrible agony, and things only get worse for the survivors. Sounds like it's very well written, but not something I'm interested in reading. Or watching.
(Cue absolutely predictable and completely off-base "You're a moron who only wants Disney endings" diatribes, to which I say "PHBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBTTTT!!!!")
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Any source of power will have the usual suspects reeling in terror of it ... or pretend terror. We're going to have to understand that some people are really opposed to clean, cheap, abundant energy. "Nothing short of a disaster" is how one of the leading soft energy types described it.
People need to understand where the omni-obstructionists are coming from, and weigh their arguments appropriately.
Fusion, even if it's the Mr. Fusion of the Back to the Future movies (I WANT ONE!!!) will definitely not be immune from the kind of over-the-top scaremongering we've seen all too much of.
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