Can you honestly tell me that'd you'd guess "The nuances devour"? (past passphrase). Having substitutions in there isn't going to help you, they'll only confuse you when you try to remember what was replaced with what. This whole "password" thing is shit as well. That's a relic from the 80s when you only had enough of your previous space to store one word at most. In the modern world where space is cheap, all "passwords" should be passphrases.

Another dumb thing that I see a lot is that sites will have the obnoxious rules to increase passphrase "safety". What they're really doing is narrowing down the possible passphrases, thus /decreasing/ security, instead of increasing it. The only requirement that is actually legit, and that should be on every site, in /minimum/ passphrase length. Sadly, some sites are deluded into putting max passphrase length (Which means they're storing it as plaintext in a database like idiots). It doesn't f***ing matter how long a passphrase is. When it's hashed, a one word password will turn out the same as a 200 word passphrase, in terms of length. Any other restrictions just make it harder to remember.

For example, my school recently changed its restrictions on passwords. After I got locked out of my account, they decided to change my passphrase to the school name, because that was the easiest way they knew how to fix locked accounts (Dumb Windows). Of couse, now I can't use spaces, punctuation, or anything else to increase the strength of my password. So I didn't even bother changing it to something stronger, because I'd never remember where I put the underscores and- whoops, I forgot, I can't use punctuation now. Forcing users to go from a multi-word, secure passphrase, to a one-word password that's easily guessable, is ludicrous. The restrictions have to have an end put to them, and now is the time.

What're you guys talking about? Microsoft tries to make an OS based on tablets/smartphones. It fails miserably due to android and iOS (as it has before). It also alienates desktop users. Looking for a new, less pricy OS, people stumbe upon linux. The last time something like this happened (early 2000s), linux wasn't ready for it (Had problems with user-friendlyness, configuration, compatability with earlier systems), and we lost that crowd. Now linux has answered all of these problems (And it looks /good/ at it too). Here's when we can really surge back as Microsoft pulls off one of their biggest failures ever: Windows 8.

I name all my computers after mechanical devices from THHGTTG. My desktop is Marvin, and my laptop is Deep Thought.

Grades are BS. I know lots about some subjects, but I hate doing homework, and so I get bad grades in those classes. I do the best in classes that don't have lots of homework, even if they aren't my best subjects. If I had to teach myself, I'd probably pick some of the classes I was interested in the most to focus on, even though I don't do so well in them.

Yes. Me.

Nice essay. I hate how the media turns a blind eyte to the other side of content sharing, and protrays it just like the movie and recording companys would like them to. The media is suppose to be protecting americans by exposing afults, not covering them up.

DHS declares all bathrooms to be restricted.
"But where am I supposed to go?"
"Outside"
"Isn't that a criminal offense?"
"That's the point"
"Goddammit"

God, what the heck do they think they're doing? They lost already. Why the heck are they beating their own dead horse?

I'm a new linux user (6 months) and I've tried the modern versions of all the DEs. I must say that I like xfce the best, though.

I first started out with KDE. I liked how it had a familliar interface out of the box, and had tons of tools and games. I really liked crusader, as well. All this was well and good, but I discovered that it was slowly eating up my CPU cycles. The problem with KDE is that it's become bloated to the point of using up all the processing power of a computer, even on a midrange one.

GNOME I tried next. I was bewildered by an unfamilliar interface, and not being able to configure even basic aspects of the UI (Such as panel osition) without another package. Even then, I was put off by it's strange way of organizing stuff in the menu(Alphabetacally, not Fuctionally.) It was also almost as heavy on processing power as KDE.

Finally, I tried xfce. Immediately I noticed the lack of the bloat of KDE, and the intuitiveness of the interface. I like how I could right-click on the panel, and change everything around. It had easy ways to add just what I wanted, unlike in GNOME where I had to wrench it into doing what I wanted, not what the designers thought looked best. It was also lightweight, no sucking up all the cycles. It includes only 20 programs, unlike the hundreds in KDE.

I think this clearly sets xfce above everything else, except maybe lxde. Xfce includes a few features that lxde doesn't have, but lxde is almost twice as light. This makes it better for smaller systems, but xfce has a larger support base. GNOME and the Kool Desktop Environment don't have anything on xfce. Light, fast, and functional; What else could I want?