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Easy to remember high-entropy pass phrases still makes the most sense to me, with maybe a number or symbol thrown in somewhere for added extra oomph.
correct horse 19 battery staple
https://xkcd.com/936/
Having a QAM card and living in an apartment complex, there was a couple years where I never had to pay for big PPV sporting/wrestling events. And also, _other_ programming types late at night, which was a bit creepy and left me to which neighbors had which proclivities.
I also found that NBA League Pass and NHL Center Ice weren't encrypted that way too.
I'm reminded of the "Rathergate" incident that got Dan Rather fired from CBS, where they went to air with documents critical of George Bush that were clumsily faked, purporting that a typewritten document from 1973 used Times New Roman in the exact same size and spacing of Word's default settings.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killian_documents_authenticity...
If a poor kid goes to a shitty school and has life impediments that limit the amount of studying and preparation they do and still scores a 1300, is that kid any less capable than a rich kid who goes to a private school and has all the opportunity in the world and gets 1500?
There was! But I can't for the life of me remember who or what the site address was.
I spent most of my time in the mid 90s through early 2000s as an op in #HTML on Undernet. Good times. I actually got my first job through there.
With these types of documents, it's obvious they are done after the fact for fluff and to justify design decisions that were made by people different than the ones who wrote the document. At worst, the weirder stuff in the document was commissioned to be an absurdist marketing gimmick when it "leaked" to the press and they wrote stories on it.
It's like the Apple document for their logo redesign that showed that it was really something like 37 distinct circles placed in mathematically-relevant positions.[1] Yeah, no.
[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2013/05/17/does-the-apple...
Similarly, rebooting an Android will disable the fingerprint unlock. The first time you log in after a reboot, it requires you to enter your pin.
When you are young, you think adults have it all figured out. When you become an adult yourself, you realize a good chunk of people are straight winging it and, in many cases, entire companies are winging it all together without fully realizing it.
The millions of unwed military-aged Chinese men that could be seen as economically expendable has always made me nervous.
Water damage on its own is incredibly destructive.
Where's the line between technology advancing forward and weeping for buggy whip makers?
Self-checkouts allow several people to check out a few items at once, leaving the cashiers to deal with those with full carts. They are not inherently evil. It's a good technology (when implemented well with functioning machines...)
I'm all for treating employees with fairness and dignity. But expecting employers to not innovate in a competitive marketplace for the sake of keeping employees doing low-skill work makes no sense.
So... where's the line? Do we demand no automation in order to protect these workers? Or do we demand additional safety nets for these workers and the opportunity for them to improve their skills if they so choose?