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  1. Passwords at least 14 random chars, nums, symbols. on AI Just Made Guessing Your Password a Whole Lot Easier (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    A good estimator: https://www.grc.com/haystack.h...

    For example: abc123ABC!1234

    Search Space Depth (Alphabet): 26+26+10+33 = 95
    Search Space Length (Characters): 14 characters
    Exact Search Space Size (Count):
    (count of all possible passwords with this alphabet size and up to this password's length) 4,928,630,108,082,482,617,642,017,120
    Search Space Size (as a power of 10): 4.93 x 1027
    Time Required to Exhaustively Search this Password's Space:
    Online Attack Scenario: (Assuming one thousand guesses per second) 1.57 thousand trillion centuries
    Offline Fast Attack Scenario: (Assuming one hundred billion guesses per second) 15.67 million centuries
    Massive Cracking Array Scenario:(Assuming one hundred trillion guesses per second) 15.67 thousand centuries

  2. Well for me, as a cord cutter I like having my apps right there. I have an XBox but the convenience of one device handling tv-apps is nice, if it works!

  3. Time estimates and naming: the two hardest problems in CS. Why? Because they both require the most human thought and no clear right or wrong answers.

  4. re. politicians Investigators can find different angles, albeit probably unsuccessfully. But this is a case of evidence that is just not there, well unless they can break the encryption, even then maybe it's still not there.

  5. Re:Cultural sickness. on How Social Isolation Is Killing Us (nymag.com) · · Score: 1

    In Sillycon Valley there are still some schools with open fields but DeAnza used to have an open pool my friends and I used to go to all the time in the summer. Now you have to sign your life away or belong to a swim club to use it. They even closed the 10m platform because someone got hurt or died jumping off it.

  6. Re:Do the Energy Math and Space is a Distraction on Boeing CEO Vows To Beat Elon Musk To Mars (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    One of the goals of space exploration includes mining asteroids among other celestial bodies for energy and resources.

  7. Re:Batteries going to 11? on Sony To Boost Smartphone Batteries Because People Aren't Replacing Phones (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    But it does to 11...

  8. Re:Omar Saddiqui Mateen? on World Reacts To The Worst Mass Shooting In U.S. History (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Nope Voldemort, whoops I said it.

  9. Re:Where women aren't allowed to drive on Uber Raises $3.5 Billion From Saudi Arabia (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    I think they can drive with Burkas, but that's like driving drunk is modern countries. And if you're a drunk female Burka driver might as well drive off a cliff and get it over with.

  10. Re:Buy them Macs with AppleCare. on Ask Slashdot: Good Subscription-Based Solution For PC Tech Support? · · Score: 1

    Get them some used Macbook Pro's. I've been having this debate with my uncle who is 72.

  11. Re:sigh... on Court: Lawsuit Over NYPD Surveillance of Muslims Can Proceed (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Old Testament my friend.

    The Quran goes in the opposite direction of the Bible getting more violent as it progresses, as Mohammed is denied as a prophet as he trekked north from Mecca to Medina.

  12. Re:No religious protection on Court: Lawsuit Over NYPD Surveillance of Muslims Can Proceed (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    It was actually a donkey but anyway. Islam is defensive and it has a right to be because of these crazy ideas. At least with Christianity you have the New Testament which is reasonably sane.

    You could drop Jesus in almost any country in any century and he would bring peace, or try to dying. With Mohamed you'd just have a big perverted mess on your hands.

  13. Re:sigh... on Court: Lawsuit Over NYPD Surveillance of Muslims Can Proceed (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 0, Insightful

    And much of that is collateral damage, still wrong yes. Also U.S. intervention has only exacerbated the Sunni-Shia strife in the region. The U.S. is guilty yes, but of not understanding political Islam and how it plays a role in the M.E.

    Intentions matter, people killing or subjugating others because they are among the dis-believers is part of the ideology as stated in the Quran 9:29.

  14. Quartz watches on Fossil CEO: Wearables Smothering Swiss Watch Business · · Score: 0

    Same thing happened in the 60's and 70's when quartz watches were so much cheaper and accurate compared to mechanical movements.

    Mechanical watches will always be a niche market and will never go away. I'd rather have a watch that will last 50+ years and still look and sound good after that time. Take your pick, you got: Omega, Rolex, Breitling, Seiko, etc.. plus high end makers like Patek Phillip.

    Sure the swiss watchmakers will go through their slump, but after the novelty of fancy usb charged smart watches wear off you'll always have the artistic mechanical movements of old.
     

  15. Re: Justifiable under CHRISTIANITY on Fourth Bangladeshi Blogger Murdered · · Score: 0

    Violence in the name of Christianity is hard to define if going by the New Testament. The Quran goes in the opposite direction getting more violent as it progresses. The Old Testament has Deuteronomy and Leviticus which are pretty violent, but the New Testament has Jesus' teachings.

    Even if you don't believe in religions you can easily see the Bible "evolved" and we are left with the New Testament. The Quran's last marching orders are violent, if it stopped at "You have your religion and I have mine" we'd be much better off.

    But you can thank Quran abrogration Surah 2:106 for all this mess.

  16. Re:Confusion on Fourth Bangladeshi Blogger Murdered · · Score: 0

    Bravo, as a liberal Christian I couldn't have said it better myself.

  17. Re:Domestic war on Paris Terror Spurs Plan For Military Zones Around Nuclear Plants · · Score: 0, Troll

    It's a domestic war against a defined enemy not undefined. However the defined enemy hides behind the media claiming anyone who criticizes a racist bigot, and politicians rightly so won't touch that with a 10' pole.

  18. Simulated Universe on Experiment Shows Stylized Rendering Enhances Presence In Immersive AR · · Score: 0

    Since we are living withing a simulation already this doesn't surprise me.

  19. Re:How did Java beat C on IEEE Spectrum Ranks the Top Programming Languages · · Score: 1

    Work in Java for a few years or on a large Java project then go back to C or switch to Python.

    It boils down to what you want to do: use best tool for the job. But I wouldn't be caught dead working on a new project/team who decided to use Java as the primary language.

  20. Re:How did Java beat C on IEEE Spectrum Ranks the Top Programming Languages · · Score: 1

    Lazy? Java is overly verbose, a lot of typing.

    protected static transient synchronized const unsigned int m;

    It loses points in my book for being too verbose.

  21. Re:Maybe it's just us on Are Habitable Exoplanets Bad News For Humanity? · · Score: 2

    Gotta love Jack Handey. ....

    "If someone tells you you should 'walk a mile in their shoes' you should take them up on that: you'll be a mile away and have their shoes."

  22. I'm surprised no one said, yet... on Seagate Releases 6TB Hard Drive Sans Helium · · Score: 1

    That's a lot of porn...

  23. EQ? on Ice Age Fossils Found During Los Angeles Subway Exploration · · Score: 1

    My ranger used to kite dire-wolves... And my tree-hugging druid too.

  24. Re:Run to the hills! on The JavaScript Juggernaut Rolls On · · Score: 1

    If you don't like that you won't like:

    > [] + []
    ""

    Hmm, I wonder what [] - [] is?
    > [] - []
    0

    How about adding an element to array?
    > [1,2,3] + 4
    "1,2,34"
    And subtracting?
    > [1,2,3] - 1
    NaN

    Come on, jeeze

  25. Newb question about OS X being Unix...not Linux on Ask Slashdot: Is Linux Set To Be PC Gaming's Number Two Platform? · · Score: 1

    Isn't Mac OSX certified as Unix S3 compliant since 10.5'ish? Does this help in any way to port a Linux game to OSX?

    I am under the impression it is, albeit lack of full OPEN GL support in their video card drivers.