So your argument is that his bad behavior excuses anything you might do ?

No, my argument is "People who live in glass houses probably shouldn't be smearing their own feces all over the walls."

I use sentences of my own creation. In the case of mandatory password changes, I will sometimes use some piece of trivia. For example, I might use the counties of a state. It reduces the entropy somewhat, especially if someone finds out what the reference is, but it allows me some room to work and embeds a new bit of trivia into my head.

I do use password managers (a couple of them, actually), and I know there are some enterprise password managers out there. There's a danger to stand-alone managers, but a well-managed enterprise should have all of the core passwords securely stored somewhere.

It's pretty hard to take climate change alarmists seriously when y'all

Who are you talking to? Do you have some internal argument going on in your head?

We're talking about a guy, a congressman with actual power, who chairs the House Science & Technology Committee, who believes the earth is 6000 years old, that someone named "Adam & Eve" were the first humans (one of which was fashioned out of the other's spare rib). And who then flips out over an ecology project that costs less than 1/2 that of a single failed fighter/bomber (one that's built in his district by the way). Oh, and that fighter/bomber? It'll never be used and the military says they don't want or need it. He does this of course, after taking shitloads of money from the defense industry.

Now THAT'S integrity.

He's crying about waste in government, while he works exactly 70 four-hour days, drawing a taxpayer-funded salary of $174,000, not to mention a full pension for life, all his expenses paid (a household in DC for those 70 days) and one at home, health care for life and even free postage he can use to write letters asking his constituents for more money.

It's hard to take rightwing, science-hating Bible-humpers seriously when y'all defend such an obvious fraud, not to mention an obvious shitlord who believes governing is basically the publicly-funded version of gamergate. Oh, by the way this fraud supported no less than nine separate House inquiries into Benghazi, even after the first eight found no wrongdoing. Each one of those investigations had a multi-million dollar pricetag.

So you can just walk that climate change denying ass right out of here with that bullshit, parson. Your ass is showing.

And before you ask for a citation regarding those child molestation/murder cults among the elite:

http://www.theguardian.com/soc...

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/u...

Except for the bankers and child molestation murder cults among the elite. Nobody's watching them, apparently.

The more realistic, 509,000 people and 619 cameras sounds much less dramatic.

Not really. If you place those 619 cameras correctly (and I assume they did) in such a small area, I'll bet every single person who lives or works in that place gets their image recorded several times a day.

Remember, the 500,000 people who come to the City of London to work every day have a limited number of routes to take to get there. A relatively small number of bus stops, train stations, parking lots, bridges and streets makes for easy work for the guys who are upskirting their own citizens' lives.

I'm guessing it could be done with even fewer cameras.

So, a Texas Republican who is a climate change and evolution skeptic that's been put in charge of the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology, has a problem with an ecological project by the NSF. I'm shocked.

You might want to look at this Science article for a little clarification.

http://news.sciencemag.org/pol...

Meanwhile, the defense budget...

2A supporter like George Zimmerman and Michael Dunn?

I'll admit, as a 2nd amendment proponent I laughed out loud at this one.

And then shot a black guy.

That, or master your Chi to the point where the entire concept of fighting is superfluous

There you go. That's the point where the bandits figure out to leave you alone.

When I first started studying with my teacher, the neighborhoods around Chicago's Chinatown were really bad. Yet, he insisted on taking long walks through those parts of town. Now he's a small man, not the least bit threatening looking, yet nobody ever bothered him in the least. In fact, he made friends in those neighborhoods, even going to a barbershop there (he said he liked the way the guy cut his hair). He retired last year and moved back to China, to live at a school he founded in the 1960s.

. Seeing him encounter a violent dog for example was quite amazing to watch.

I bet. I would like to have seen that.

You know, as a long-time tai chi practitioner and teacher, I've never heard that joke about "fighting in slow motion" before. You get the prize.

I'd like to see someone kick a bandit's ass while performing Stand High Search for Horse or Golden Rooster Stands on One Leg

The movements in the tai chi form relate to what you would do in combat the same way the Hanon exercises, or Liszt Etudes relate to playing jazz piano. It's preparation not diagram. Your joke has been done to death. Someone who has studied tai chi as a martial art will be able to kick mucho bandit ass. My teacher, who is almost 90, can kick bandit ass without spilling his tea (I'm not joking).

And tai chi is basically a first step on a route that takes you through baguazhang, Hsing I or liuhebafachuan (my specialty). You learn those, and you'll be mowing down bandits without breaking a sweat. And it all starts with The Birth of Yin and Yang. 24 form, 64 form or 108 form, it doesn't matter if you have a good teacher. You get to the same place.

My teacher told me, a long time ago (I'm an old man myself, now), that if you want to learn tai chi for fighting, you better not leave your house for 10 years. Learning hsing i especially will make you a very effective fighter in less time. That's why they're often taught side-by-side. But again, you get to the same place. And by that time, bandits know enough to leave you alone.

Tai Chi. Seriously, if you want to increase your mindfulness and ability to concentrate and learn new material, learn to do taichi. It takes a while, but you start to get benefits right away. Unlike yoga, you get to move around and if bandits come while you're meditating, you'll be able to kick their asses and send them on their way.

More launches mean more cost, especially if you're scattering it across launch pads located around the world. There aren't many sites that can handle significant launch masses: Cape Canaveral, Baikonur, Plesetsk, French Guiana, Jiuquan (China), Satish Dhawan (India), and Tanegashima (Japan). So you have enormous coordination between nations that have widely varying launch experience for their heavy lifters, that use different technologies and procedures, and have different goals for their space programs. This doesn't even get into the politics of "What do you do for me if I agree to lift this 15T payload into orbit?"

It also would cost more fuel, since launching from different locations means having to match inclinations. This has already led to one major limitation with the ISS, since its inclination is a compromise between the ideal inclinations for Cape Canaveral and Baikonur.

On top of that, you add complexity in having to dock so many more times, increasing the risk of an incident. While the potential loss from a single large launch is significantly more than that of a single small launch, the cumulative risk of any loss is greater with multiple launches. Putting a thousand tons into orbit would take eight SLS launches, but a minimum of 44 launches of the Delta IV Heavy or Proton, currently the heaviest launchers available.

I would rather see projects like the Falcon XX or MCT encouraged, and I expect they'll be showing up on the test schedule around the same time as the SLS. But NASA is going to have their own path despite the costs, and so they may as well work on an SLS-class launcher. If nothing else, it will give SpaceX (and maybe others) something to aim for and probably provide some valuable lessons along the way.

For one thing, that is likely the storage size, not the transfer size which is likely going to be way less due to compression.

The transfer size probably is smaller to some degree. But to hit that uncompressed volume of storage size, there is going to be a lot of data with poor compression rates. I expect that a lot of pristine, high-resolution digital video is in that, and that certainly won't compress all that well.

But as you point out, those can be terabytes in size. Even with the potential value of that, most people aren't going to download the raw files, and fewer still will go through the work of converting them to lower-res files more amenable to download. I'm not saying it won't happen, just that I think it's unlikely. Sony has more to worry about from the financial and personal information that was obtained than the revenue loss from any movies that were downloaded.