It's only stupidly weak if you don't follow the stupidly simple instructions involving using a die roll to choose random words. Using the 7700 word dictionary they recommend and 5 words gives 64 bits of password entropy. Granted, that's much less than the 144 bits of entropy you provided in your 28 character alphanumeric password, but still no one is going to brute force 2^63 bits in a few seconds.

This procedure assumes fair, unbiased dice. For years, the NSA has required precise machining of dice to generate predictable rolls. Once someone cracks the code, Casinos will lose billions.

What, other than precision machining, would explain why plastic dice with a materials cost of pennies cost over $2/each?

It's a dress code, it says nothing about attractiveness or even gender (except where it says that it applies regardless of gender, so men can't wear mini skirts either).

I don't understand how that relates to what I just wrote?

The people who are attracted by the booth babes are likely not the same set of people that are making fun of them.

There's no ban against attractive women, just guidelines on appropriate dress. Pretty women are still pretty even in business attire.

Why do I have a feeling that "appropriate action" means a "privacy violation fee" that's paid to the government?

How do you ever buy anything if you're upset that technology keeps improving and you want to wait until the next leap in performance? If you're looking for the best performance, you're *always* better off waiting, but if you need a computer in the meantime, you have to draw a line in the sand and declare that the price/performance is good enough where it is now.

Though for most uses, you won't see a significant difference between a 650MB/sec SSD and a 1300MB/sec SSD.

If they really believe they will prevail in the end, at a minimum, the resulting punishment should include a fine large enough to cover the agency's costs of pursuing the case, then no tax dollars would be needed.

What are you talking about? 11 *is* 3.

I've never had a problem getting the rate I was quoted. It's common that they are out of the particular car class I ordered, but that's to be expected, they don't have unlimited room to store each of a dozen car classes. They've always either upgraded me for "free" (except that the upgraded car often uses more gas, so it's not really "free", but I've had good luck talking them into giving me a Hybrid when that happens if they have one available), or gave me a discount for a downgraded car.

Rental agencies overbook just like the airlines, but it's harder for them to ensure supply when people don't return cars on time, at least an airline knows that they can seat 300 people on a 300 person aircraft, the rental agency isn't sure if they'l have 0 or 50 cars on the lot by the time you get there because some people may be late, or they may have sent a lot of cars on one-way trips. It's a tough logistical problem.

If you rent a car regularly, sign up for the rental agency's premier club. When I used to travel a lot, my company rented from Avis and Hertz almost exclusively, I was in both of their permier rental programs, and when I got to the car lot I could just find the car with my name on it, and drive away, showing my ID to the guy at the gate. The other advantage is that my premier reserved car is *always* there, even if they have to turn away other customers to make sure the car is there.

Yeah, you think that's bad, I don't even have a computer or internet access and they wouldn't let me sign up.I must have sent them a dozen faxes and letters, and I'm still waiting for my so called "free" email account. Is it really "free" if it requires an expensive computer to use it!?

I'd be surprised if LED's are ever as cheap as incandescents, a few year back I bought a bulk pack of bulbs - I paid around 35 cents/bulb, and the 100W bulbs were the same price as the 60W bulbs.

LED's have many more components than a light bulb, and are more difficult to assemble.

There's still a large number of people who just don't like LED's or CFL's... and some even claim that the high efficiency halogens just aren't the same, it could take decades for those people to make the switch to LED's without legislation that makes it more difficult and more expensive to purchase incandescents. If even 1 out of 100 people want to stick with incandescents, that's over a million households in the USA alone, still plenty of room for economies of scale to keep prices reasonable.

If you're going to use punch cards, you'd be better off printing each video frame on a card and building a flip-book as someone suggested earlier. Much better data density.

It'd be awfully surprising if the knowledge of Volt as a unit of measurement will be lost to the world in 100 years (assuming that society hasn't collapsed), so supplying power shouldn't be a problem. I'd be surprised if the data lasts on on the flash drive that long. Maybe an old school burnt ROM chip (not EEPROM) would be safer. And make sure to leave instructions for replacing other components that might degrade, like capacitors.