You've got to be kidding me. Just what do you think "Brute Force" means anyway, and how do you imagine such an attack is carried out?

Hint: during such an attack, there has to be SOME mechanism for determining success of each attempt.

Yes.

When using one-strong-password for many sites you can't verify the security measures used to protect that password at any given site. They could be storing your password in plain text for all you know. Once one is compromised and linked to your personal information, that could potentially be used by an attacker to access other sites you use.

By using a keyring where only you have access to its password and how it's being treated (ie. not on some remote website), you avoid that problem.

Well, some quick math gives about 25.7 million of this size region to cover the entire sky. (assuming I didn't miss a decimal point

As far as number of galaxies in the photo, I'll leave that up to you to count. ;)

The statement by Artifex is NOT an additional requirement. It is merely restating the existing requirements of the GPL licence.

Please take a few minutes and actually read the GPL...

GPL v2.0 TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION 2c. You must cause the whole of the work to be licensed at no charge to all third parties under the terms of this License.

I agree. If we as a society are ever to overcome racial biases and discrimination, this is the attitude we need to have. A race-neutral attitude... Is that really so hard?

Agreed. Those were my thoughts as well. Stallman's insight to see what was coming and draft the GPL has contributed immeasurably to the freedom and variety in the current software landscape. I honestly think it was a stroke of genius to use Copyright law itself in such a way as to create a code base that cannot be bought-out/subverted by corporations. Stallman had the vision to make it possible.

The new equation aims to develop a single index for habitability based on variables totally unknown to anyone within many orders of magnitude.

Wow! Sounds very useful... </sarcasm>

Ever heard of circular polarization filters? Orientation is NOT an issue. :)

OK... Just to be clear, the space elevator is designed to get you out PAST geosynchronous orbit. The space platform at the top of the cable must be beyond geosynchronous in order to hold the cable up. So, you'll already have escape velocity when you reach the top platform and if you exit the platform, you'd go flying off into space rather than falling back to earth.

"a 6" telescope can NEVER beat a 24" one"

It sounds like you don't have much practical experience using telescopes either. ;)

The Rayleigh equation you state is for the theoretical *MINIMUM* resolvable angle based on aperture size but if you think that's all there is to telescope optics, you probably haven't had experience using a wide range of telescopes. I've used home-ground 10" refractors that have MUCH better resolving power than other commercial 14" scopes.

Size matters, but so do a lot of other factors that ultimately determine a scope's actual resolving power.