What account? I use KeePass, which has no account. Just an encrypted database which is stored locally. I use DropBox to back it up and replicate it across devices; if someone hacks DropBox they still have to break the encryption on the database. Breaking strong encryption is virtually impossible. The biggest threat is…

This goes back to Far Cry 2. It becomes clear in that that you, the player, are the bad guy. You present as amoral, just doing what others pay you to do, but in practice that means destroying infrastructure that the country needs so your impact is very negative.

UK laws against child porn are stricter than US ones. In particular, they include hand-drawn or computer-generated works for which there was no actual victim. US law has the caveat, “images distinguishable from an actual minor”. UK doesn’t. See https://www.cps.gov.uk/legal-guidance/prohibited-images-children.

Mostly they don’t care. They have their own stuff their care about. They just want to make sure we don’t nick the silverware as we leave, and we don’t mess up the EU for them (eg by having some kind of trade backdoor that evades their tariffs).

There is if you find the right community. r/spacex is good, for example.

The Deus Ex (2000) pistol would too. Not the first one you are offered at the start, but the silenced one you find later in the first level.

No, he’s wrong and XKCD is right. The 44 bits of entropy that XKCD claims already allows for dictionary attacks. It’s 4 words from a 2024 word dictionary, 11 bits per word.

It’s not wrong. It uses 4 words from a dictionary of 2048, so 11 bits of entropy per word, or 44 in total. It tells you that right there in the comic. It is allowing for dictionary attacks. It is not wrong. If you think it is, you can’t do maths, or you didn’t read the comic properly.

It can be exchanged for real money.

Don’t you think that some of those technology contributions might just have been made by other people instead? The idea that there is a kind of maths that only one person could do is simple wrong.

This article is part of why I, a man, sometimes browse Jesebel. I had read these books as a teenager, drawn partly by the covers and the sex. However, I quickly found those parts boring and forgettable. For me the core idea of the first book was that Neanderthals had perfect genetic memory and thus vast stores of…

How does this differ from commissioning the Steele report into Trump? Steele worked for MI6. It is as wrong for the British to influence US elections as it would be for Russia.

Crazy low or crazy high? Depending on the model, there are some going for around that price on eBay.

I’m the opposite. It takes me a long time to get to sleep at the best of times. If I were hungry, not only am I sure it would take longer, but I’d hate lying there for an over hour feeling hungry with nothing to distract me.

It is the job of the electoral college to reject candidates that are not qualified to be President. They should do this even if the general people voted for that candidate. This part of their role is one of the checks and balances built into the constitution to prevent demagogues gain power. It’s exactly what you…

In the first film, the chap who inspects the egg doesn’t have any reason to think he’s in a danger that his suit won’t protect him from. I doubt an Earth snake would have got through his face plate, for example. He suffered because the face-hugger had magical abilities he could not have predicted.

It sounds to me like fidget spinners are a benefit to a specific group of people, namely those on the spectrum, and a distraction for everyone else. If, as is common, a class has no-one who will benefit, then it’s reasonable to exclude the spinners.

There’s an in-game explanation. Spoiler: It involves quantum mechanics and a parallel universe.

As I understand it, the second and later games were made by different people.

It’s still quite fun to play, but it no longer has the feel of being on holiday.