Comment: The past as a model for the future (Score 1) 317
The current system is about the same as 30 years ago. Since the boarding school system used 70 years ago is obsolete now, I am going to guess 50 years is about right for obsolescence.
Comment: Re:They're both delusional (Score 1) 94
Our space-tech is either going to advance at a humdrum, linear pace, in which case we're never getting out of this solar system. Or it'll advance by leaps and bounds in which case just going back to the Moon, or building a rocket capable of going to Mars is pointless in the long run.
Maybe the "leaps and bounds" are due to discrete events. Did we master the oceans because everyone tried to replicate Columbus bonanza?
Someone, sometime, is going to try and succeed. Then everyone else will try to follow. Maybe trying today will fail, but maybe not trying today or tomorrow will mean we will still fail in 50 years. You cannot succeed without effort.
Comment: Re:Powerless, my backside (Score 1) 328
some criminalize belief (like the French law preventing people from saying that the killing of Armenians was not genocide)
Well, if it's falsifiable it's not a belief. And if it has been proven wrong, it's a lie.
And are those examples part of the Criminal Code, or the Civil one?
Comment: quantum verbs? (Score 2) 52
Stop adjectivizing quantum verbs, they don't like it.
Comment: Re:Turn signals are a good thing (Score 1) 469
Then I realized that in some emergency situations, a lane change is absolutely required. Vibrating the steering wheel is ok, but if it's forcing you to move back to your lane, then this could cause accidents.
Yeah, right. If it takes you more than a mile to change lane, it must be a real emergency. If the system activates in less than a 1000 feet, it must be buggy.
Comment: generated (Score 1) 339
Use the same 26 pseudo-words to generate passwords. Always pick the same letters from the website, say ST from slashdot:
- Sierra Tango (or mangle it to ierraango)
- Lyndon Truman, as there's no S president (reduced alphabet)
- Street of my friend T. (or day month year phone city app familyname)
For secure password, the hint is used as the generator in case I forget.
Even if I end up using the same 50 words in all my passwords, my list will be different from anyone else's. If you manage to connect me to many of my password, you could start guessing the others. Which is the only reason why the algorithm need to change over time.
Comment: Solstice (Score 4, Insightful) 219
Winter solstice, you insensitive clod!
Comment: Re:Half of circumference? (Score 2) 332
20.000 km, because that would be the maximum distance in a straight line.
Actually it's almost 13.000 km, but that's a long dig. I like my space euclidian, tyvm.
Comment: Re:Proving a negative... (Score 1) 571
It is even possible to prove the nonexistence of something with only a single property... such as the existence of a number that is equivalent to itself plus 1. There is absolutely no number, in any number system defined by mathematics, that satisfies this criteria.
Aleph-zero?
Comment: Re:Planetes (Score 1) 145
Yeah, the differences in culture are sometimes very surprising. And she's so pushy, too!