No, you misunderstand. If you never change passwords, then an attacker has unlimited time to brute-force it. So you change your password often enough that the odds become very small that someone brute-forcing your password from one change to the next.
The better the password, the longer you can safely go between changes, but every password can be brute-forced given enough time.
"Owner of company calls potential competitor's work 'complete garbage'. Film at 11."
Bram may be right about Microsoft's paper, but he would have had more credibility if he had taken the high road.
Quotes like "The lack of any concrete numbers at all shows the typical academic hand-wavy 'our asymptotic is good, we don't need to worry about reality' approach" certainly don't earn him much respect from academics in system programming research who work very hard, thankyou very much, to ensure that their results are realistic. He has turned a simple observation about the paper (they neglected certain overheads) into a bigoted rant (academics are foolish). Not cool.
Sorry, I'm a bit ignorant of BitTorrent... What does "smaller torrent" mean? Doesn't that depend on how many people participate? I'd think posting the only working torrent link on Slashdot would be a good way to make sure you get lots of participants in a hurry.
I have a feeling no answer will satisfy you, but how about this one...
We currently have all our eggs in one basket. If some global catastrophe occurs on the Earth, we're toast. We had better learn to migrate to other places if we're going to survive long-term as a species. Currently, we don't know how to do that. Going to the Moon and setting up a base is the first step toward learning how to colonize other worlds.
Ok, I'll say this slowly... Where do you think they (ie. the scientists quoted in the article) got the radius figure from? Hint: there's no known way to calculate it from observational data.
No I'm not. I don't need to assume anything about the density; it can be derived from the given radius and mass.
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This is pretty simple. Surface gravity for spherically-symmetrical masses scales linearly with mass and inverse-square with radius. The mass makes gravity 7.5 times higher, while the radius would make it 4 times lower, for a total surface gravity of about 1.9G.
If you write software, and haven't read Large Scale C++ Software Design by John Lakos (ISBN 0-201-63362-0), then you should. This is one of the most underrated books in software engineering. ("Software engineering" is a term I use quite sparingly, because I barely even believe such a thing exists, but it certainly applies to this book.)
I read this book 6 or 7 years ago, and so many of its concepts have become fundamental to the way I design software that I was shocked when I re-read it a few months back to discover how many of what I considered "my" design and coding techniques came straight out of this book!
There are some things that are very C++ specific, and some things that are probably obsolete since this was written in 1996 (redundant include guards come to mind), but there are more than enough gold nuggets in this book to make it worth a skim even if you never use C++.
True. I'm no chemist, but I think under the tremendous pressures at the core of a planet/moon, things act more like gases than we're accustomed to. For instance, Earth is denser than Mercury even though Mercury has more iron. Why is that? Because the Earth's pressure is higher, making our iron more dense than Mercury's.
It's not pressure that causes heat. Rather, an increase of pressure causes an increase of temperature. In this case, the increase in pressure is the gradual gravitational coalescing of Titan from whatever material it is composed of.
Having said that, I suspect that this is not the mechanism that heats Titan. I have no expertise in solar system physics, but I would guess that the tidal forces from Saturn and radioactive decay in Titan's core each must contribute more to Titan's heat than gravitational settling.
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The better the password, the longer you can safely go between changes, but every password can be brute-forced given enough time.
Try this link: irony.
Bram may be right about Microsoft's paper, but he would have had more credibility if he had taken the high road.
Quotes like "The lack of any concrete numbers at all shows the typical academic hand-wavy 'our asymptotic is good, we don't need to worry about reality' approach" certainly don't earn him much respect from academics in system programming research who work very hard, thankyou very much, to ensure that their results are realistic. He has turned a simple observation about the paper (they neglected certain overheads) into a bigoted rant (academics are foolish). Not cool.
Uh, he probably meant "magnetized".
How does any of that apply to the Eisenhower quote from the gransparent article?
I also just went and read the docs on BitTorrent so I won't ask dumb questions in the future.
Sorry, I'm a bit ignorant of BitTorrent... What does "smaller torrent" mean? Doesn't that depend on how many people participate? I'd think posting the only working torrent link on Slashdot would be a good way to make sure you get lots of participants in a hurry.
Practice runs for a trip to Mars?
We currently have all our eggs in one basket. If some global catastrophe occurs on the Earth, we're toast. We had better learn to migrate to other places if we're going to survive long-term as a species. Currently, we don't know how to do that. Going to the Moon and setting up a base is the first step toward learning how to colonize other worlds.
Ok, I'll say this slowly... Where do you think they (ie. the scientists quoted in the article) got the radius figure from? Hint: there's no known way to calculate it from observational data.
Yes, but I think his point is, where do you think they got the radius number? Probably from assuming the density is roughly equal to Earth's.
Agreed.
No I'm not. I don't need to assume anything about the density; it can be derived from the given radius and mass.
I'm going to guess there is no night and day. The plant is probably tidally locked.
This is pretty simple. Surface gravity for spherically-symmetrical masses scales linearly with mass and inverse-square with radius. The mass makes gravity 7.5 times higher, while the radius would make it 4 times lower, for a total surface gravity of about 1.9G.
Dear CNN: please don't report this. Screw you guys.
I read this book 6 or 7 years ago, and so many of its concepts have become fundamental to the way I design software that I was shocked when I re-read it a few months back to discover how many of what I considered "my" design and coding techniques came straight out of this book!
There are some things that are very C++ specific, and some things that are probably obsolete since this was written in 1996 (redundant include guards come to mind), but there are more than enough gold nuggets in this book to make it worth a skim even if you never use C++.
It's a weird world down there.
Having said that, I suspect that this is not the mechanism that heats Titan. I have no expertise in solar system physics, but I would guess that the tidal forces from Saturn and radioactive decay in Titan's core each must contribute more to Titan's heat than gravitational settling.