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.

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.

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.

For example I am not worried that someone might get my Slashdot password.
Email, shopping and banking passwords are the ones I worry about.

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.

That was because Ti stopped competing in the phone market. Google picked Ti for the GNex CPU and that ended up being a problem. Yes I had one and it was a pretty good phone until then. Sprint sucked but the Gnex was okay. I am now waiting for the Nexus 6 and I have moved to T-Mobile.

1. Put all the connectors on one side of the board.
2. USB 3.0
3. More ram.
4 Faster CPU.
5. Built in Flash.
6. Fix all known problems.

Actually the Apollo could have worked fine for that. A small hab module around the size of the LM and an improved Saturn 1 with a single F1A or F1B and SRBs could have reached the Hubble.
The Shuttle is frankly a really flexible system but it would have been good if we had kept the Saturns and Apollos for some missions. Face it the Saturn V was the original HLLV.

So fire at will, who cares if you attack the innocent.