One of the trickiest things about suing a small business is serving the lawsuit to them. The defendant has to receive the papers in person. Mailing is often not proper service. The sheriff's serving service costs money and does not guarantee that the sheriff will be able to reach the defendant.

Somebody made a VIDEO about this? Really?

I'd say that previewing a lecture by reading the texts ahead of the lecture is helpful even if you're not trying to "remember" it. The goal is not recall that's good enough for the exam. It's just enough recall so that when the prof says it, you'll think, "Oh yeah, I read something about that last night."

It's not impossible to use a laptop: turn off the wifi radio, use gvim or Notepad++ at fullscreen, don't touch the touchpad. ;)

But then you end up hearing the lecture twice. Either that, or deleting the recording without listening to it.

I did this for awhile but found out that I didn't actually pay attention to what was being said. My brain was focused on hearing sounds and directing fingers to type those sounds. None of what was said was internalized. So by the time I walked out of the lecture, I had not learned very much. The actual learning was…

Which means, of course, that your reading of the textbook and related materials should anticipate the lecture. Ideally, your first encounter with the new material is with the textbook, your second encounter is at the lecture, and your third encounter is with the homework / problem set / TA discussion.

When applying a label, you can type any letters from the label, not just the first few letters. For example, if I have labels "client-lotus", "client-sun", "client-palm", I just have to type "lo" to select the first label.

Ohhh yes. Try [www.nicekicks.com] and http://solecollector.com for starters.

If you've got lots of photos to store, sign up for Google+. Photo storage for files under 2048 x 2048 pixels is free and unlimited. Same goes for videos under 15 minutes long. [picasa.google.com]

It's supposed to make you feel bad. Updates include security fixes, too.

I grew up with a well-rounded musical education centered around classical music (specifically, European instrumental music from Baroque, Classical, and Romantic eras, with a little dabbling in contemporary music).

Steve Gibson has a reputation of publishing ideas that others researched and claiming them, at least partially, as his own.

The size of the alphabet on my keyboard is less than 100. Unless you are talking about entering Unicode via some Alt+[number] method?

Those are interesting ways to get random words. But if I crack just ONE of your passwords, I could quickly compromise all the rest of them using your Flickr photo of your living room bookshelf!

No. [en.wikipedia.org] says that dictionary attack is a technique that involves "searching likely possibilities". In other words, dictionary attack *is a brute-force technique*.

It really isn't endless. The passwords that are hardest to crack (via brute force) are long ones. The passwords that are easiest to remember are words. The passwords that are hardest to crack and easiest to remember are phrases of multiple words. Even better: phrases of randomly chosen words.

Merricat is right. Dictionary attack (aka brute force) would take a VERY LONG TIME. The reason is that there are 100s of 1000s of words in the English language to try, as opposed to a few 100s of characters to try in a standard dictionary attack.

But you can still combine the higher-entropy passphrases with a password manager to solve the problem of not remembering.

LIFEHACKER FAIL.