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Comment Re:stupidly weak (Score 2) 267

No.

There are 10 digits, there are (in this list) 7.7k dictionary words.

If you tell a hacker "my password is 5 digits" - they have 10^5 keys to test, or 100000.
If you tell them "my password is 5 words" they have 7700^5 keys to test, or 2.7 * 10^19 - which is more than twice as hard to crack as an 19-digit password, which again is 10 trillion times as hard as your 5 digit password.

It's just math, people. You don't have to rely on hand-rules like "dictionary words are bad."

Comment Re:Memorizing site-unique passwords isn't possible (Score 2) 267

I wish that we could trust central ID systems, where we could create an account on a forum site with a unique user ID and then link that user ID to a central authentication database so that our central credentials give us acces via that unique user ID, but I just don't trust the authentication databases. I'm already leery enough of Active Directory that I don't use work passwords anywhere else to begin with, but companies providing such a service don't necessarily know what they're doing, and they're probably too willin to hand over information for what sites people would need authentication to as well.

You mean OAuth?

Comment Re: $1000 for a genome? (Score 1) 111

Yes - Illuminas HiSeq X machine (family) is one of the machines marketed as this. Please note that this is the projected internal per-genome cost of a dedicated sequencing facility - before any customer markup is applied, and only if you have the high quantity of data required to get your money's worth.

Comment Re:homeowner fail (Score 5, Informative) 536

I was expecting this to be a homeowner fail, but:

Q: Why Didn’t you check this before you moved?
A: Oh, but I did. Having broadband of some kind was an absolute requirement for our new home. Before we even made an offer, I placed two separate phone calls; one to Comcast Business, and one to Xfinity. Both sales agents told me that service was available at the address. The Comcast Business agent even told me that a previous resident had already had service. So I believed them.

Comment Re: Here's MY test (Score 1) 522

Alien passes: http://bechdeltest.com/view/13... - it's actually the movie specifically called out in the originating comic as passing.

But to answer your broader question, whether an individual movie passes or not isn't /really/ the point of the test. The point is to look at patterns in movies as a whole - that "passing the Bechdel test" is not a given, despite how minimal the requirements actually are. There really are very few movies that don't pass the "reverse Bechdel test" - it's something like 90% of movies that have at least two dudes who talk about things that aren't women.

http://www.passthebechdeltest.... for some more reading.

Comment Re: The dumbest thing (Score 1) 522

It's not about "not talking about men/women at all," it's "having at least one conversation that isn't about men."

The point of the test is to say "are there women who exist outside of props for the men?"

How many movies fail the dude bechdel test? How many fail the regular one?

Comment Re: Here's MY test (Score 3, Insightful) 522

You just unintentionally illustrated the entire point of the Bechdel test - how many team software projects pass your version of the test? Nearly all of them, right? The bechdel "test" is meant to illustrate how low the bar is, and how many movies/projects still fail it.

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