Don’t you have to be a professional hoser to use one of these?

Mt Rushmore is pretty much the worst. Built by a Klan leader, made by tearing up a mountain, and next to the concrete dinosaur parking lot that is Rapid City. The black hills are gorgeous, Mt Rushmore is sort of an advertisement about what is bad about America.

If the scale of 1-10 ends with Fifty Shades of Grey at the high end, the scale is broken.

Just don’t do this while flying into Indonesia.

I’d like to see the pictures better on this article, but they don’t render perfectly on my slave-built iphone. Plus, the Uber I’m in (driven by a contractor-partner who recently fled a war torn country and probably doesn’t understand the true weight of the pass-through liability he carries) is a little bumpy. However,…

I thought Connecticut was relatively wealthy, and could afford a decent education for its children. If I caught my student writing this, I’d hold him back for a year just for all the “your/you’re” fuck ups.

Mrs. Swineflu insisted that we visit this “state park” last year. It’s a field of dirt, with retirees scrabbling in the clay-like dirt hoping for a big win. It’s sadder than anything:

“mercenary shit for money”. The most redundant phrase I’ve read today.

None of the prices we pay for clothes are sustainable without massive numbers of suicides among cotton farmers in India and child-labor sweatshops in SE Asia. iPhones may be made by slaves, but you only buy one once in a while. Cheap apparel keeps the slave markets running.

It’s generated randomly and stored in the database. The reason is this: Creating an attack table using one salt takes a long time, but once it’s done, it can be used against all entries using the same salt. If you have to have as many lookup tables as you have passwords, it becomes prohibitively slow to build all of…

Salts are used to prevent rainbow table attacks against a password list in bulk. If the salts are different, you can’t run the attack once against the whole database. You have to run it for each row, increasing the time it takes to run the attack significantly.

This is what a password looks like in the database when done correctly:

Ooh, I wish they’d fix it. As a philatelist, I would be super excited to have the Maya Angelou version of the inverted jenny.

It sure would suck to live on $40k a year in SF. To be fair, it's pretty hard to be accurate when you're generalizing a state with 40 million people.

I’ve been in co-ed bands for years, and was pretty closely intertwined with the riot grrl scene. Bands and musicians NEVER stop the ridiculous bullshit. Female members of my bands are always “girlfriends”, not actual musicians. They’re always told they “play well for a chick” and on and on and on. Having been in the…

Person has unconventional sexual preferences. Makes a decision to make them even less conventional. Writes an article about it. People who are not romantically involved with this person take it personally, rather than deciding they probably won't date this person in the future, and if they did, this person's…

Not only might they see vaginas at the store, but did you know - moms - that kids saw your vagina on the way out? Or, if they happen to have one of their own, they see it every day, sometimes more than once?

This guy lost me at "water fluoridation". Those people are the same flat-earth loonies that are against smart meters "because of the waves."

One of the (only) nice things about working for fly-by-night startups is that they sometimes screw this up to your advantage. One job I worked at for a few months claimed it was a foreign company so that it didn't need to send a 1099 for anyone to the government. It was misclassifying employees as contractors too. …

You are brilliant. That's the funniest description I've heard all day.