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Comment: LastPass (Score 0) 123

by bmo (#43759747) Attached to: Password Strength Testers Work For Important Accounts

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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BMO

Comment: Re:Three Gorges Dam (Score 5, Interesting) 471

by bmo (#43731505) Attached to: Global Warming Shifts the Earth's Poles

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.

Comment: Galloping? Really? (Score 2) 471

by bmo (#43731425) Attached to: Global Warming Shifts the Earth's Poles

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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BMO

Comment: What is the best? (Score 1) 154

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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BMO

Comment: Lastpass (Score 1) 62

"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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BMO

Comment: Re:Another company moving to China (Score 1) 49

by bmo (#43649441) Attached to: BMC Going Private In $6.9 Billion Deal

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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BMO

Comment: Re:FYI - Comparisons... (Score 2) 292

by bmo (#43519743) Attached to: Omnidirectional Treadmill: The Ultimate FPS Input Device?

A comparison follows. Power Bar vs a Banana.

240 kcal (30 from fat) --- A banana has 200. 6.2 calories from fat.
3g fat (1g saturated fat) --- A banana has 1gram of total fat, Negligible saturated fat.
200mg sodium --- A banana has 2mg
45g carbs (3g from fiber, 25g from sugar) --- A banana has 51, 28 from sugars, 6 from fiber, 12 from starch
8g protein --- A banana has 2.5g
70%dv Vitamin C --- A banana has 33
25%dv Calcium Iron and B6 --- A banana has 1% Calcium, 3%Iron, and 41% B6
15%dv Thiamin --- A banana has 5%
10%dv Riboflavin. --- A banana has 10%

A banana is lower cal, lower sodium, nearly equivalent amount of sugars, twice the fiber, a third the fat (and no bad fat), much more B6, same amount of Riboflavin, and a bunch of extras that are good for you, like a quarter of your daily Potassium requirements. While it doesn't have the same amount of Vitamin C, Calcium, and Iron, you can get that from the rest of your diet.

And the banana is cheaper, by a lot.

Moar banana stats:

Amounts Per Selected Serving%DV
Calories200 (837 kJ)10%
From Carbohydrate186 (779 kJ)
From Fat6.2 (26.0 kJ)
From Protein8.2 (34.3 kJ)

Carbohydrates
Amounts Per Selected Serving%DV
Total Carbohydrate 51.4g 17%
Dietary Fiber 5.9g23%
Starch 12.1g
Sugars 27.5g

Vitamins
Amounts Per Selected Serving%DV
Vitamin A 144IU 3%
Vitamin C 19.6mg 33%
Vitamin D~ ~
Vitamin E (Alpha Tocopherol) 0.2mg 1%
Vitamin K 1.1 mcg 1%
Thiamin 0.1mg 5%
Riboflavin 0.2mg 10%
Niacin 1.5mg 7%
Vitamin B 60.8mg 41%
Folate 45.0mcg 11%
Vitamin B 120.0mcg 0%
Pantothenic Acid 0.8mg 8%
Choline 22.0mg
Betaine 0.2mg

Minerals
Amounts Per Selected Serving%DV
Calcium 11.3mg 1%
Iron 0.6mg 3%
Magnesium 60.8mg 15%
Phosphorus 49.5mg 5%
Potassium 806mg 23%
Sodium 2.3mg 0%
Zinc 0.3mg 2%
Copper 0.2mg 9%
Manganese 0.6mg 30%
Selenium 2.3mcg 3%

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BMO

P.S. A banana and a large black coffee is what gets me through cardio.

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