>With population exploding, shouldn't we return to an era where the weak were culled out?

You first.

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Sockpuppeting moderation is bad form, idiot.

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"According to Yahoo, the information that was stolen didn't have passwords or any other information that would allow unauthorized users to carry out user identity verification."

There is so much bullshit here that you could grow world-class pumpkins that you need a crane to lift on to the flatbed truck (being careful, because it can crack under its own weight, *and then your fscked.).

Yahoo has been terrible at keeping control of this stuff, like the *other* massive leak they had just a year ago.

I used to be a fan of Y! but they started screwing the pooch severely 'round about 2005/6 when they suddenly decided to jump into this "social media" thing (and do it wrong), and it's gone downhill ever since, and the board wonders why Google continues to eat their lunch, breakfast, and dinner. Today, I no longer participate in any of their services at all, and my mail over there is a spamtrap, mostly.

They lost control of customer data, again? Color me unsuprised.

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But that's not what the article says.

If you're going to threadshit, at least threadshit with a username so I can filter you.

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Of late I've been using LastPass. I don't know any of my passwords by memory, simply because they're just random garbage.

Q908j0U9$!!uOVgJ2R!0XC*mN
4$J0X3B7d63r6Sr29&z9r0hdx

They all look like that. They are all unique per site too, so if Yahoo loses control of its passwords again, for example, the rest of my stuff isn't hosed.

Go ahead. Generate a rainbow table that takes into account 25 (or more) characters of pure junk.

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A nautical mile isn't an "imperial unit"

It's a nautical unit. It's actually Babylonian. It's useful for measuring the Earth because it's "close enough" to a minute of arc.

If Gunther had changed his surveyor's chain to 1/100 of a nautical mile in 1620, (instead of 1/80'th statute mile)^1 we wouldn't be talking about the Meter at all, as it would have been useless.

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1. A nautical mile is 92.06 chains. An adjustment of the chain to 100 per NM wouldn't have been a big difference, and made things even easier for surveyors and engineers.

galloping east towards Greenland at a rate of more than 7 milliarcseconds per year

>galloping
>milliarcseconds/yr

To put it into english:

1 arcsecond is 1/3600 of a degree (1/(60x60)). One thousandth of this is 1/3,600,000 degree. There are 7 of these per year.

I will leave it to the reader to determine how many thousands of years it will take to move one degree from where it is now, excluding normal precession.

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British Psychological Society's division of clinical psychology says "Psychiatry is bogus"

How much do you want to bet that this is a turf war?

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i have several games on steam that require admin rights to run

Why do you continue to play them?

Also, please name them so people can know what to avoid.

Seriously, this is shit that should have died last century.

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It' can happen on any site that advertisers have malware on their ads/sites

Fixed.

InvestorVillage once had a problem with malware. Blue now pays much more attention to who the advertisers are.

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The one that satisfies your needs. It's like on /g/ when someone says "What's the best Linux distro" to start a flamewar (it works), or what's the best motorcycle to ride, or what's the best chef's knife to wield in your kitchen.

The answer is always "It depends."

It depends on how much you want to spend and your technical expertise - whether you want to farm it out or DIY. There are arguments for and against both. To ask third parties that aren't intimately knowledgeable of your situation what's the "best" anything for you is silly.

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Or you could have just signed up on Thursdays when registration was completely open.

Or if you weren't a complete dick, people would have fired invites over to you. I had more than I knew what to do with.

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"New information just in suggests that if you logged into the fake Demonoid and used the same user/password combo on any other site (torrent, email, Steam, PayPal) you should change them immediately."

Password sharing is bad. I've moved all my passwords and password generation over to Lastpass. All my web passwords are 20 char random alphanumeric/symbol/randomcase automatically generated by Lastpass' randomizer. They are all completely different from each other - none are shared. Even I can't remember them. They require entry by Lastpass or copy-paste from a text tile or typed from dead tree archive.

There are other password tools that do similar things, and I highly recommend this style of password generation and usage.

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Neo-con: a conservative who supports a strong-pro-Israel middle east policy. I don't think Romney had a position either way on that

His whole foreign policy page was *titled* "American Century" and he gave a speech on a "New American Century."

http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2011-10-07/politics/35277977_1_clarity-of-american-purpose-mitt-romney-isolationist-shell

He didn't think of that on his own. His foreign policy page and speech echoed the Project for a New American Century and its descendant the Foreign Policy Initiative.

Listen to his speech, then read this:

http://www.newamericancentury.org/statementofprinciples.htm

Then look at the signatories.

And read the FPI statement:

http://www.foreignpolicyi.org/about

Former members of PNAC are now members of FPI. Indeed, 3 of the 4 board members of FPI were Romney's foreign policy advisors. Dan Senor (his head foreign policy wonk) said on Meet The Press that we'd unquestionably back Israel in an invasion of Iran. Romney didn't back away from that.

Romney is a neocon.

We narrowly escaped having to pay for a *third* war in the middle-east.

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or is it me?

It's you.

"Up To Date" != stability.

I'm running 12.04, the equivalent of Wheezy, with PPAs for certain bleeding edge stuff I can tolerate crashing. I don't want a rolling release for bloody everything, thanks.

Your post reeks of "stop liking what I don't like."

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