The disgusting part of this disaster was the way the US Navy persecuted Captain McVay, railroading him in a court martial with trumped-up charges shown to be nonsense by testimony of the Japanese sub captain, and finally driving McVay to suicide. He was the final victim, 24 years delayed. It took an act of Congress to force the Navy, kicking and screaming, to finally clear his record of all findings of wrongdoing, 56 years too late.

The mismanagement of the stupidly, needlessly, and literally carelessly delayed search and rescue of survivors, as day after day drifting in the water dehydrating, starving, going mad, and being picked off by sharks, is also a huge part of the disaster. Something very similar happened at the Battle off Samar, in which hundreds of sailors from a small group of destroyers and escort carriers, after being pulverized by a huge Japanese battle fleet, were also left to drift for days, with many needless drowning and shark bite deaths.

I'd definitely advocate for this system

Go back to grammar school. You don't advocate "for" something. That is illiterate. You just advocate something. Same as "recommend".

No they won't. Christ, how stupid do you think we are?

Whoosh.

Since K-rations were retired in 1948, you'd have to be pretty damned old to have eaten them.

I resemble that remark, since I would only have to be 17 years older than my present age of 70 to have been a possible K-ration eater.

Bwahaha, these monkeys set up rsyncd naked on port 873? And all these stupid commenters are bleating about firewalls when using rsync with ssh is perfectly secure.

Wha? Are you daft? Setting an "at least" says NOTHING about how many you CAN have beyond that. The password could have one UC, or two, or three, ... or ALL UC. >= 2 LC + >= 1 UC could be satisfied by LULL, UULL, LUUU, or UUUL. The brute force cracker still has to try all combinations. OK, he can eliminate a trivial part of the combinations, like UUUU and LLLL, but his life if not made "a lot easier".

Do they also break control-Insert paste? I've never used control-V. All my life I've used control-Insert to paste.

If "similar combinations" produce the SAME hash, then your goddam hash is no goddam good. It's not a real hash. Hash collisions, no matter how trivial the difference in input, should be virtually impossible. Certainly that is true for SHA512. Change one character in the input, and the hash is COMPLETELY changed.

Practices like that should be a hanging offense.

If the friggin auth mechanism even knows/stores your password, the system is hopeless from a security standpoint. The auth mechanism only needs to know the non-reversible HASH of your password, so it can compare it to the HASH of the input you type to log in. There is no excuse for storing passwords ANYWHERE.

But nobody could memorize 11 random characters, while anyone can easily memorize 4 random words. So the comparison is unfair. To be fair you have to compare 11 random characters with 11 random words, or 4 random characters with 4 random words.

ALL internal combustion engines produce NOx, sparky. Diesel exhaust is just more difficult and expensive to aftertreat to remove the last vestiges.

Just what we need. Alkaleaks now with increased chances of ruining equipment.

In fact all alkaline batteries are rechargeable

Bullshit. Alkalines can sometimes be "rejuvenated" to some limited extent. It's not the same thing.