Comment Re:Am I the only one? (Score 1) 203
Where did you get the password list from?
Where did you get the password list from?
I'm guessing that if this really is a list of Google accounts and passwords, that they got it from somewhere other than Google. As far as I know, Google doesn't store passwords, they store salted hashes of passwords.
It's worse than that, it's exactly 100 years old today.
According to The Onion, 80% of our nation's grandchildren are above average.
Intelligent people can be immature. In fact, all intelligent people were immature at some stage.
It's possible that an organism might resemble the hexagonal parts of a buckyball but not the pentagonal parts if the pentagonal parts are uneven or convex.
Although this looks just like a normal icosahedron. I can't find a transalation other than an automated one.
Truncated icosahedron, maybe?
Consider the continuum as it extends over time and space. Everything is and/or was a continuum, but occasionally holes and tears in the continuum occur that cause the appearance of hard distinctions between species.
Drake's Equation hasn't predicted anything, because no-one knows what the vaues of any of the variables are.
The unit of energy is fff, the energy required to accelerate one firkin by one furlong-per-fortnight.
And you seem to like our language. Please treat it with respect.
Citation needed.
Google shouldn't have to make intelligent decisions as to what needs to be removed. It should all be automatic. Either everything is removed, or nothing is removed. Only by court orders otherwise.
So I should be able to request that searches for "microsoft" should not go to "microsoft.com"? And Google should be forced to honour that?
Those people, who want to be forgotten, should go after those hosting the material, not the search engine pointing.
The reason that going via the search engine works, is that it is possible. Many content platforms don't have easy mechanisms for identifying and removing content, and many are hosted abroad (whereas Google is active in the EU and can therefore be instructed by EU authorities). Slashdot, for instance, has only ever removed comment content once to my knowledge and they made a huge deal over it. Search engines, however, have enough layers of indirection between the search box and the results that adding a rule to exclude certain results from certain keywords isn't all that difficult.
I don't think that the "right to be forgotten" is a good idea. But saying "Instead of doing it via a route that is possible, they should do it via a route that is impossible" isn't a helpful contribution. Just say it's a bad idea, rather than suggesting an impossible course of action.
Bitcon is NEVER mentioned.
It IS mentioned.
The assembly member that proposed it, in the press release announcing the passing of the bill, talks about BitCoin, Amazon Coins, Starbucks Stars, and Diablo II Stones of Jordan*. Of course the legislation itself doesn't mention BitCoin, since the section that it repeals pre-dates BitCoin, and when you're repealing a section, you just say "Section X is repealed", not "Section X is repealed because BitCoin".
*One of these is a lie.
What this country needs is a good five cent nickel.