Most places have an off switch for the fountains. It costs an extra $million, but these people can afford it. /jk, but you know what I mean. Sometimes you want to look at the view, and other times LA is covered in smog and the fountains look nice.

I can just see them asking the seller "who the f--- is this Persson guy anyway?" OTOH, if they have kids of a certain age, they know.

Google is lobbying the AG's themselves, but they seem to be on the defensive. From Ars: http://arstechnica.com/tech-po...

The article makes clear that many AG offices seem to be favoring the MPAA side, even after hearing from Google. I'd be really interested to see a survey of who's funding election campaigns for all state AGs in the country. Follow the money and see what shows up.

Mind Games

Maybe, as long as the sentence isn't a quotation from anything online or exceeds 50 characters or so. Dictionary attacks use entire phrases now, but they still don't go beyond a character limit that's fairly low compared to entire sentences.

Some additional password fuzzing techniques to consider.
- Putting nums or special characters between syllables in words, not just between the words.
- Using multiple specials/nums between each word.
- Strange uses of spaces and punctuation.
- There are 2 additional ways to encode alpha characters as numbers besides 1337-speak. Use alternate means.
- use puns or homophones to make your phrase less likely to match a dictionary.

As far as the OP, there are some things that your company can do to improve security without completely abandoning the passwords. They may find some of these more palatable:
- Instead of sending new password direct to user, send an access code to the user's manager. User has to request the access code from the manager, then use the code to login to the site that gives them their temporary password. This has the additional advantage of bringing to manager's attention which employees are particularly bad at remembering their passwords, and who probably need more attention to assure they don't have any sticky note reminders on their desktop.
- Rather than use full 2-factor authentication, just enable a standard password locker software to install on each employee's computer and give them a flash drive to host their password file. This is a lot cheaper than buying customized smart cards or key dongles, and is significantly more secure than what you have now, especially if they use the random PW generators that most lockers make available.

I wouldn't use 1 PB as the benchmark. Only half of the drives in the sample made it that long. but 3 TB per year means 33 years to even reach 100 TB. It's pretty likely your entire computer will be obsolete by then, even if Moore's law bottoms out in the next decade or so.

Speaking of using misleading statements, you should make clear that NIH article states that THC does impair, although with the disclaimer that pot smokers tend to be able to compensate for their impairment:

This bears out some of the anecdotal evidence from LEOs in the thread above.

For a very drunk person a curve in the road or a traffic light turning yellow constitutes "something unusual" occurring. Weaving in and out of lane or running a light is a pretty sure indicator and will get you pulled over by any cop that sees you. The breath test is really just the extra bit of "scientific" evidence to back-up the officer's initial probable cause. Or another way of looking at it, the DWI charge is just an enhancement of the actual crime of failing to maintain a lane or running a red light.

Of course, when they set up sobriety checkpoints and they stop you without probable cause, they also catch the folks who aren't particularly impaired but have have alcohol on their breath and fall above the magic 0.10 or 0.08 blood alcohol threshold.

The thing is that alcohol is proven to impair most people's driving, in many cases severely - to the point where it's worth catching them before they drive erratically and risk other peoples' safety. You can argue whether 0.08 BAP is too low, but there should be some threshold. For pot, the evidence is less clear. The THC threshold in Washington's law is most likely a political bone thrown to conservatives who abhor the idea of legalization in the first place.

And of course the Pizza Hut and Papa John's drivers are absolutely safe by comparison...

Yeah, there's just as much risk from outside distractions as from the driver's innate reaction time. As others have stated, the big risk from drunks is that they tend to misjudge their abilities (so incompetent they don't realize they're incompetent) and fail to adjust to their impaired condition.

Yeah, playing is a matter of performing a known task. No reaction time required because you can plan your moves ahead.

The danger in driving is that you have to react to the unexpected. Anything that slows your reaction time down or delays the start of the reaction, whether you're drunk, texting or just looking in the rear-view mirror, is a risk. I don't know the evidence for measurement of reaction times when high or stoned, so I won't comment on the reasonableness of the law.

OTOH, Comcast business class accounts use Outlook/Exchange, so maybe you just need to point to their Exchange servers instead.

Comcast provides DNS registry service for their business customers, so their mail relays damn well better support mail coming from a domain that they registered (or at least acted as the middle-man for a real registrar).

In other words, you're advocating to restore the original works...

A lot of assumptions in both of these models. And climate change is only one failure mode of civilization that could be applicable here.
1) Global Thermonuclear War
2) Global Pandemic
3) extinction event (meteor/volcanic eruption)
4) mass civil uprisings from the 99%

This type of device _would_ be viable for specific locations where survival becomes an issue - say refugee camps or other civilian groups in war zones/famine zones, etc.