If you can stand in line to vote, you can stand in line to get photographed. Voter fraud is a worse problem.

Is "horse" the master race or not? I'm still trying to sort this one out ...

The summary mixes and matches some very different lists. The "no fly list" consists of about 13 people resident in the US and a few hundred who live in other countries and these people aren't allowed to fly into or out of the US - they are to be detained at the border. This suit was about the no-fly list.

Next up, we have the terrorism watch list. This is a mich larger list, too large in my opinion. This is a list of people authorities might look at if something happens, similar to the sex offender registry except it's not public. For example, if someone were to plant a bomb at UCLA, they would check to see of any UCLA students or staff were on the terrorism watch list. If so, authorities would ask those people where they were at the time of the bombing and check those alibis. So it kind of serves as a starting point - these are people who have advocated violence or whatever, so when something happens in their neighborhood it might be worth checking them out.

TFA says "lists", so they may also have in mind other lists such as:
People who have exercised their second amendment rights (instant background check system)
People licensed to buy and use explosives, such as for road construction or professional fireworks
People who have taken courses in cybersecurity, which are federally subsidized

I'm on the last three lists.

BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Damn, that was the best laugh I had all day. Thank you, sir (or madam).

I have not. I suspect though that they will be phased in over several years for existing facilities, as is the norm for most any new regulation. And if it stops new coal plants from being constructed, so much the better - INCREASING our dependency on coal by building even more obsolete power plants is exactly the wrong thing to be doing - those resources should be spent on making new renewable or nuclear power plants that actually have a future.

Interesting, I was under the impression that there was more than enough uranium to last for a long, long time.

Correction - stopping all energy-producing sources would be the end of civilization. Sure, if we're talking about doing this tomorrow we've got a problem - but if we got serious we could do it in a decade without trouble for a lot less than we're spending on the military, (and probably with a much better effect on geopolitical stability) - we already have plenty of alternatives. Complementary renewables wherever possible, and nuclear elsewhere. If we'd just return to reprocessing spent fuel like we did before advances in uranium mining made it economically inviable the waste would be anon-issue. Safely storing waste for a century or two is a bit of a challenge, but nothing like trying to store it for tens of millenia as is required with the current lunacy of burying fertile fuel alongside the waste so that fresh waste will continue to be produced almost indefinitely.

Well, if they're the ones creating those expenses exist then it seems only reasonable that they should be the ones to pay for them. Or are you honestly advocating on behalf of any asshole who can figure out how to make himself rich by forcing someone else to pay the costs of his business?

Actually, most deserts seem to largely be a human creation - we can watch them spreading from cities today, and most of the big ones are centered on historic population centers - the Middle East was after all once the fertile birthplace of modern civilization. Once we kill off the large, inconvenient animals trying to live around alongside us the ecosystem goes into a tailspin.

Even disregarding that, shade actually tends to be a valuable commodity in the desert - just about everything thrives better with a place to get out of the midday sun, even those species who have evolved to survive it.

You see this confusion with Voter ID laws too. Every state these days has an official non-driver's photo ID, sometimes called a "drinker's license". They're usually less than $10 - the real cost is showing up to be photographed and present whatever records are required.

You can also use a passport card as an ID when flying - I've done that before. I always carry my passport card separate from my wallet when I travel, just in case.

Wind was cheaper if you added costs to coal for Global Warming (a large cost), for depletion of energy resources (a medium cost), and in the third category (a small cost even when all elements are totaled) "human toxicity, agricultural land occupation, water depletion, metal depletion, ecosystem toxicity, radiation, acidification and eutrophication."

Interestingly, they also included ozone depletion as an external cost. I didn't realize the ozone layer was affected by coal plants, but apparently it is.

To calculate the damage caused by Global Warming, they relied on some other papers published on the topic. I wasn't able to access those papers, so that is where my summary will end.

We could change that - it's just a pollution tax away.

I think you're confusing the US with China, the latter of which did increase its defense budget by 12% (and has for about the last 12 years), and is on track to exceed US defense spending by 2020-2025.

His point is that bits of entropy doesn't really matter, because unless the hacker gets the password hashes, he's not going to be able to brute-force the password by attempting to log in over and over and over. This is probably true.

The main thing attackers do is try to find the usernames, and try a few of the most common passwords on each username. If they try X number of usernames, then ~3% of those usernames will have 10 of the most common passwords.

His solution is to suggest to everyone to use a generated password (or even an ssl public key), because if it is required for everyone to do that, then the problem of a small percentage of users all using the 10 most common passwords will go away.

I'm perfectly fine with that (except 12 words?!? seems very likely to make people use the Post-It note password manager), but that's quite a lot different from what we were discussing.