I worked on a project almost 30 years ago where we took delivery of the full source code, in Ada no less. After various career moves I've cycled back to the organization that took over that code and is maintaining it still. It's still being used alongside of a bunch of new contractor code. The difference working with the Gov't coders versus contractors is like night and day. Want something fixed in the Gov't code? "Oh yeah, I can have that in 2 weeks." With the contractors it's "write a contract mod, we can negotiate that in a few weeks and have that for you in 4 months."

Does Kolmogorov complexity adequately describe what users actually choose as passwords when "complex" password rules are imposed? Most people will do something easy to remember involving pet and kid names mixed with birth dates and a few obvious special character substitutions, or variations on that theme. This should be your expectation when attempting to estimate the entropy in your passwords.

There is also a Java based STIG Viewer. http://iasecontent.disa.mil/stigs/jar/STIGViewer_2.2.jar

There was an ice age from about 200,000 BCE to 135,000 BCE so the sea distances were probably not as great. Borneo was apparently connected to mainland Asia and Sulawesi is just east of Borneo, with mountains along the adjoining coast that would be visible at some distance.

I wonder about other sites that do the same thing. I know of at least one site that's been doing this longer than Routebuilder and AFAIK have not announced a shutdown.

You're making an assumption that all intelligent species will self destruct. Based on a sample size of one species that hasn't really come close to that yet. Who knows, maybe somewhere out there a perfectly unselfish, logical species exists and has launched colony ships in our direction.

And they'll arrive here much like the ships in Independence Day, except that they'll finish what they started in spite of Will Smith and Randy Quail.

For a brief period of time I thought Diceware style passphrases would be the answer but I found that a lot of places don't accept space characters in a password and as you observed, they all have random, undisclosed length limitations and the usual special characters requirement, Most of my low risk forum site passwords are based on one I was assigned about 15 years ago that had "good enough" length and was not guessable based on personal details like dog names and such.

Flights to resort locations are cheaper than major business destinations. Business travelers will pay more to fly since they're spending corporate money instead of their own while vacationers are stingy. Somehow this works even though that vacation resort requires a layover in a hub at a popular business destination.

I had a friend fly in to visit me once who found that fairs to Atlantic City were hundreds less than Newark.

I think the major manufacturers are afraid of the reduced parts count that pure electric cars have and the implied loss of profit margin because of it. So they keep trying to sell hybrid systems that bundle an internal combustion engine with an electric motor in order to keep the parts count high.

Writing the date on bulbs would be a great idea if the market was stable and all you ever saw in the store was the same brand of bulbs year after year. I probably have 20 or so LED lightbulbs in my house. My oldest one is probably 4 years old and is still going strong. I'd buy some more just like it if I could. But that model of bulb has been replaced by other designs from other manufacturers in my local stores and is probably out of production.

One of my best change overs was a set of track lights in my family room. These lights run from dinnertime until bedtime, 7 days a week. They've been flawless.

I'm sure they wouldn't just accuse people at random. They'd do market research and select targets that meet a profile. Something like middle class households with parents that aren't particularly tech savvy but with teenage kids that might be, all of which use decent amounts of data. All they'd have to do is convince the parents that the kids downloaded something that could illegal or hint to the fathers that it might be the porn their wife doesn't know about. And boom $20 faster than you can blink.

I had internet access at work starting in 1986 but since it was work related I stuck to fairly sensible net usage. My first home ISP was through a small startup in rural northern NJ, starting in 1992 or so The local phone service at that time under NJ Bell was pretty terrible. Local calls only serviced half the county, and not even the county seat where AOL and Compuserve's dial-up phone banks were established, so AOL use was a toll call. Recognizing this, two guys set up a dial-up phone bank in an area that serviced this little gap in dial-up access and ran with it for about 5 years. This was a full fledged ISP right from the start with IP addresses, ftp access, mail servers, Usenet, etc. And for the first year or two tech support meant talking to the sysadmin himself. Planet.net was the name of it and as far as I can tell the domain name is up for grabs.

I remember reading the Mac System 7 announcements on the Mac listserve (Appletalk?, something like that) about a year before it was released, and then downloading it from ftp.apple.com for free when it was released. In floppy disk image files. Reportedly ftp.apple.com was hosted by a Mac SE/30 running A/UX.

I do this and add the wrinkle that the password for really important financial sites in my password manager is not entered as is, I have another layer of obfuscation on what I store in there.

Don't think Diplomats, think Conquistadors. A space faring alien species that shows up here will be like gun toting soldiers in a stone age civilization. Killing, pillaging and burning for sport and decimating us without even trying.