With even a slightly good password, the server response latency is enough of a brute force block. Anything more than that is to protect the server from the coincident DOS. The people cracking 10-12 character passwords are doing it locally on highly parallel hardware.

I get 24592 3-7 letter words, which a reasonable set to use for a passphrase:

$ grep -E '^[a-z]{3,7}$' /usr/share/dict/american-english | wc -l 24592

That gives 15.076 bits per symbol as opposed to 5.17 for single-case alphanumeric (my usual choice for memorability and efficient entry). That means passwords of the form of correcthorsebatterystaple are in between an 11 character and a 12 character alphanumeric password in strength, assuming you use a good RNG for generating passwords and your attacker has full knowledge of your dictionary. To get a random english password of equivalent strength to a 20 character alphanumeric (my standard for encrypted disks), you need to use 7 words. That might be reasonable if you are a relatively fast typist with a relatively poor memory.

If you wanted your random english password to be as strong as the AES key you're deriving from it, you'd need 9 words.

And the really good 3D glasses use circular polarization, so the picture doesn't change when you tilt your head.

With the handicap of being an interpreter for a layout-oriented scripting language written in an interpreted scripting language, I suppose one might choose to call the performance amazing.

Laptops are already under 25.5W, as long as you stay away from oversized screens and discrete GPUs.

On: 70W
Off: 0W
S3 Suspend: 2W

If the security risk of leaving your machine powered on is a serious concern, you should be using laptop with systemd and a fast SSD and keeping it in a tamper-evident safe. You might also consider potting an ultrabook in thermally-conductive epoxy.

Windows users still install programs by downloading executables from the internet and running them as root. It doesn't matter what we do to our windows and doors when one wall of our house is missing.

>20" Viewable
>0.24mm aperture grille

No.

Ah, good old glossy 1366x768.

I assure you, you don't have a 2048x1536 CRT. What you actually have is a 1600x1200 CRT, being overdriven so as to be so blurry it's useless.

What reports? The integrated GPU in my Core 2 Duo handles my 3520x1200 frame buffer reasonably well on Linux. I find it hard to believe that 5 generations later Intel hasn't improved at all.

How cute.

But that makes sense. None of those things involve moving data around, unless the folder is on a different block device.

Yes, most commercial movies are shot at 24 Hz, and yes, it's still barbaric.

Piledriver gets a lot better when you're not trying to run it at 4 GHz.