However many of the uses convert electric energy to things like formulation of chemical bonds that require energy for creation.

By definition bond formation doesn't require energy but releases it, since "bond" is something that requires energy to break and energy must be conserved. It's setting up the preconditions for bond formation that requires energy, possibly less than is released when the bond forms.

At one point when I was a system administrator and we only required 6-digit passwords changed every 90 days,

Why did you? Require the password to be changed periodically, I mean? The only thing it seems to accomplish is make sure the users will either pick weak passwords or resort to post-it notes.

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.

The DoD has two problems:
1. The sequester
2. Wildly over-budget acquisition programs for the F-35, the Littoral Combat Ship, IT efforts, and a bunch of other stuff

There's also the issue of the Navy buying a large number of submarines it doesn't have the money to pay for, despite the submarines coming in under budget.

It kind of does. Well, at least it will go a long way toward having your opinions fall on deaf and unwelcoming ears - here, anyway.

I don't know you, Florian, and I don't have anything against you personally. You might be a great guy that I'd enjoy hanging out with for all I know. However, I'm sure this isn't the first time you've heard that large chunks of the F/OSS community don't particularly trust you. I can't comment on your disclosure timeline that you described in another post, but I know that I was disgusted to find out that you'd written some very supportive stuff about a company which was seen as attacking Free Software, and then it came out that they were paying you. While you have as much right to speak your opinion as anyone else, you can't be surprised that forums like Slashdot are unlikely to care to hear it.

You are a potential customer for Verizon's (in-house) streaming offerings.
Hence the conflict between Verizon and Netflix.

Verizon owned 65% of the now-defunct Redbox Instant.
Speculation is that the Redbox Instant team will be retasked to work on Verizon's new digital video service.

The part you're missing is Markov chains and Bayesian analysis. I'll bet a reasonable corpus of phrases would show that "is" follows "love" fairly often, and "love is beautiful" is far more common than "love is axiopisty". Similarly, "birds that sing" is hugely more likely than "birds that exhibitorship".

While the whole phrase is unlikely to be the first random thing someone types, each word in that phrase is quite likely to be the one chosen based on its predecessors. I still think correct horse battery staple is a poor idea compared to a strong randomly generated string, but /usr/share/dict/words on my system has 235886 entries and 235886^4 ~= 2^72. That's reasonably random. I would much rather have to iterate through Markov chains branching from each word in the dictionary and trying the likely phrases than to have to brute force each possible 4-word combination. I don't have the numbers to back it, but I bet you could reduce the search space by quite a lot of orders of magnitude.

By what corruption do you assume that those are mutually exclusive? It's perfectly normal to be in a loving, healthy relationship with someone you're attracted to and want to have sex with. If Ms. Lawrence wanted her boyfriend to think of her when the separation grew unbearable, then that's between her and her boyfriend. There's nothing remotely unhealthy or unusual about that.

No they don't. Lots of people believe that Facebook's privacy controls actually work as advertised, and that WhatsApp messages disappear after a while. Most people have no idea how a computer works, and anyway it would never occur to them that you could just use a camera to take a picture of your screen if you really wanted to preserve a photo or chat so badly.

You and I know that privacy controls mean "best effort but no guarantee" and that DRM is impossible, but plenty (maybe most) intelligent adults don't have the technical background to reach the same conclusion.

Thank you! If you want to blacklist all advice giving as victim blaming, then you quickly create an environment where it's impossible to give someone safety tips without someone else calling you an ass for doing it.

By the way, I wrote up my own advice to my children in "What I Tell My Kids About The Internet". I'd be very upset if my kids' private information was leaked all over the place, so I gave them practical advice on how to make that not happen. This isn't the same as blaming them if it got out anyway.

If you write your pin number on your ATM card are you not at least partially to blame when a thief finds the card and cleans out your account?

Certainly. But what if you didn't, and simply have an ATM card some malefactor manages to use to get money without your PIN due to bank's bad security? Because it seems like having your account cracked is closer to that.

Of course, a more important question is: does it matter? If I run a red light and drive over you, should I get off lighter because you didn't look both ways before crossing? Yes, you were dumb as hell, but does that mean that you deserved to die and if so, on what basis?

This is a question that we should put some serious thought into, since it has ripple effects on a lot of different areas of society.

something considered burdensome

Isn't "walking around with a camera and photographing everything" considered a vacation, usually?

Closing scene is the last few rocket ships barely escaping Earth as it disappears, with innumerable other rocket ships not making it.

Collapses, not disappears. The hole is hollowing out the insides of the planet, and when enough is gone, the no-longer-supported crust cracks into pieces that fall in as magma sprays everywhere. And of course we have terrible earthquakes and volcanic activity leading up to the final doom.

Obviously none of it has to be scientifically accurate, so pedants please don't start trying to pick the plot apart, because it's just too easy pickings.

Well, scientifically speaking the entire mass of the Earth would only create a hole the size of a centimeter or so, so it'd take a long time for the entire planet to plunge down that drain. The "superball of death", on the other hand, could easily trigger massive quakes and tides at every bounce due to the tidal forces, despite the hole itself being very small.