The other guys were the ones who passed the bank bailout. Obama wasn't in office yet when that happened.

Because a rainbow table that included Password1 would have to store 13,537,086,546,263,552 ((26+26+10)^9) passwords, and assuming the developers were braindead and used 128-bit MD5 hashes with no salt, you'd have 1,732,747,077,921,734,656 (128*(26+26+10)^9) bits of hashes to store. That's two hundred thousand terabytes of data.

Now I understand that there are some time/memory tradeoffs that allow you to use much smaller tables and spend much more time, but even so, even the 8 character upper and lower case alphanumeric table from Project Rainbowcrack is 80GB and takes hours to crack.

So yeah, Password1 is actually not that bad. There are a lot worse! I'm a fan of pass-phrases myself.

Maybe, but the C&C series was being driven into the ground by Westwood at the time they were acquired. C&C2 was horrible, while Red Alert 2 was a bad joke. Sure, Generals, the first title that EA put out after acquiring the licence, was hardly fantastic, but C&C3 and RA3 have both been pretty decent games. I think in this case, EA put the developer out of its misery and saved the franchise.

Oh he will ruin Star Trek Online - just play the beta.

Speaking as someone with a "liftime" subscription to Hellgate London, the game really had a lot of potential. It felt like an early beta that just needed a few more months of polishing.

It's actually alive and well in Korea, the company that took it over has added pvp CTF and pvp domination. In short, they finished it.

It saddens me that Flagship didn't hang on and complete Hellgate London because I really think it could have been a fantastic game.

Radiohead made a effort to circumvent the industry, at least at first, with their release of In Rainbows. It was released via digital download, and only available for ten days. However, anyone who downloaded it could pay whatever they wanted, including nothing. After 1.2 million downloads, it was estimated that the average downloader paid approximately $6, earning the band somewhere in the neighborhood of $6+ million dollars. All of this with no astounding amount of expenditure for marketing, packaging, or distribution. I'm sure more solid figures are available all over the internet.

Ok Go would be in a different situation, not having the fan base and clout for those kind of numbers. However, this does leave something to be said for digital distribution as a means to avoid the record companies.

Sounds familiar. I also don't own a car, i live 3rd floor without an elevator in the building, i usually cycle to university (20min) or walk in winter (45min). Taking the bus would take 40min, so there's really no incentive for taking it. Bad weather? I got good clothing.

What, the U.S. violating agreements and acting unilaterally? You don't say!

tafkadasoh:
    First, full disclosure: I am employed by Trek Bicycle Corp, but my statements don't necessarily reflect my company's opinions. And I'm not in engineering or design (just an IT guy), so I'm no expert on the products. However...

Some of your answers can be found here:
http://www.trekbikes.com/us/en/rideplus/why_electric_assist/

The e-bikes primary advantage would not be for people going on "long tours". But if you're a city commuter, the electronic assist can allow you to make the commute in a reasonable amount of time with reduced effort. Why is reduced effort important? Well, the rest of the cyclists may have to bring a change of clothes and shower when they reach their destination. But if you've got an e-bike, you may even be able to accomplish your commute sweat-free. Cyclists who have to bring a backpack or pannier containing a change of clothes can appreciate this.

If you want to do a "long tour", you can remove the battery and ride w/o the assist (on Trek e-bikes, anyhow). As for concerns regarding parts, the standard Trek warranty covers all Ride+ models. Additionally, "electric components are covered for 2 years or 600 charge cycles (battery), whichever comes first."
http://www.trekbikes.com/us/en/rideplus/faqs/

Since your comments have mentioned measurements in metric (unlike us backwards Americans), you may find a Trek website to fit your country / language here:
http://www.trekbikes.com/

No, and that is exactly what I consider to be one of the biggest issues of the Cloud. The Terms of Service of many, if not most, Cloud Computing/SaaS providers explicitly allow them to outsource their storage (or either primary data or backups or both) to unnamed 3rd parties. Where are these mysterious 3rd parties located?

Like all businesses keeping costs down helps them keep profits up and since Cloud Computing IS largely sold as a low-cost solution (we can discuss price vs. cost later) we know that keeping costs low is imperative. As we know the Internet crosses International borders (most of them anyhow) effortlessly. Is there any reason to think that a Cloud/SaaS provider wouldn't gladly outsource their storage to a cut-rate data center in another country? Maybe even a country that isn't very friendly to the U.S.?

The 4th Amendment means nothing in Malaysia or China or Venezuela or ...you get the idea.

Depends. Some devices can produce DisplayPort and HDMI (DVI-D) signals. You can get a cheap adaptor for these that just changes the physical form factor of the connector. The formats for HDMI and DisplayPort are very different though, so if this isn't supported by your hardware then you need something that will decodes one signal and produces the other signal after buffering a frame. This is how the DisplayPort to Dual Link DVI adaptors that Apple sells work, and if you check the reviews you'll see that they are very unreliable.

Geez, what a miserable existence you must lead. Everyone is out to get you.

I've lived in Houston as well and many other cities, and yes, Houston is a very different type of city. But to claim that politicians purposely want to keep you from traveling around town? Come on. Metro has done a lot to try to get people to get out of their cars, and people around here just don't want to. They like their cars. So no, there is not going to be a direct bus from Greenspoint to Baytown, because there is not enough demand for it.

Houston is a HUGE metro area (600 sq miles compared to New York city at 305, Chicago 225, LA 460, Dallas 180), and you can find a bus from anywhere in the city to the Galleria, Medical Center, and Downtown. If you need to go from one city suburb to the next, then use one of those hubs, or drive. There's even a trip planner on the website, that will tell you when to arrive and when you will get there.

It's not rocket science, and nobody is out to get you. I've been successfully using the bus system for 4 years now. Yes, it takes about 50-100% longer to take the bus than to drive, I just make sure to leave early.

and therefore, it makes sense that it is also different legally

moving bits around is completely unlike moving pieces of paper around, in all sorts of fundamentally significant ways, with all sort of implications and ramifications for how society does work, could work, and should work

"Electric bicycles have been around for more than a century, but they have never quite captured the imagination of auto-obsessed Americans. "

That may be due to the fact that in america we have this phenomena called weather. 2 wheeled vehicles don't work so well on ice and snow covered streets, and -30 degree wind chills are not pleasent when riding.

Batteries don't work as well at 20 below either, people have trouble starting their cars. I would think that a bicycle with a battery that is parked outside won't go very far. At least a hybrid car has the gas engine to warm it up.

the only guy i read there is roger cohen, and you're right, he seems to be in some other country every day. his columns while in iran were incredible

the latest on google and china is good too

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/15/opinion/15iht-edcohen.html

That's a myth actually. You can't use IR to see anything you can't see with vis (the only difference is that your body glows in the IR, not in the vis, so if you're in a dark room you can see someone with an IR camera, but only if you could have seen them normally if there was enough light) IR can't penetrate walls or even stuff like glass. To take an IR spectra of a chemical (I'm a chemist) you have to put it in a salt container because IR doesn't go through lab glassware.