Smurfing is a type of cheating, in that the player deliberately dodges the game’s built-in matchmaking algorithm designed to level the playing field.

NO, smurfing is NOT the same as “simply being good at the game”. If you don’t want to understand why the guy got banned, that’s your problem.

“I didn’t know we could get the smell to be so very rich, so horrendous,” Stone explained to the NYT.

United States: authoritarian country.

Why they need 35 friggin screws to keep a friggin lid shut anyway? You would think that with so many screws, there would be more opportunities for them to weld shut or otherwise cause problems.

You miss the point entirely - people don’t use bad passwords and PINs because they LIKE TO (like they like to drive too fast for example), but because they HAVE TO - they simply forget complex strings. It’s the security system which is bad, by not taking human nature into account - it’s not people who are at fault for…

It’s really not a trivial matter, these probes have been travelling for 40+ years at almost the highest ever velocity we’ve flung an object. First you gotta accelerate to a point that lets you catch up to the probe/s in some sort of reasonable time span, and these probes are now faaaaaar far away, so you’d have to go…

Yes, and?

Jesus fucking christ. Straight off the top of the page:

There’s creatives and then there’s creatives. It’s worth pointing out that a lot of gearhead type people aren’t terribly good on the human empathy front, and thus lean towards the right/vote conservatively.

Bill Maher is an old fool who rants at clouds (ranting topics typically range from anything he considers PC or “woke”, feminism, transsexualism/”pregnant men”, vaccination/masking and islam, to age-ism, because he’s getting fairly old himself these days, and maybe a couple more I forget), and is blatantly pro-Israel…

Well you see, if you build a security system that’s easy for users to misuse (and in fact invites misuse, since human brains are bad at remembering stuff like strings of random numbers), that’s actually on YOU and not on the users...

That no mention was made doesn’t mean they weren’t qualified or vetted... :)

Gonna be a multi-generational mission (unless we invent long distance nuclear rockets, and even then it would be a long long trip...)

Fine, fine. You’ve convinced me!

Washing machines often contain brushed motors that produce electric arcs as they run - this generates ozone. I’ve never heard claims that low voltage electronics (or brushless motors) can do that as well - I am quite sceptical of this. Are you sure that what you read actually states what you’re claiming here? :)

Gods, don’t make a ludicrously big deal out of a throwaway internet comment.

I’m not aware of any such laws in any country. That seems like quite a big stretch to me.

Consindering the number of people who use the worst passwords possible, I’m pretty sure that roughly equal numbers of people use really bad, easy to guess PINs as well. Especially as Apple doesn’t enforce more than 4 numerals - you can use more, but you’re not required to.

Time isn’t so critical a factor that we have to resort to ridiculous nonsense ideas.