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Taxi drivers and chauffeurs are more likely to die from violence on the job than police (though police are more likely to die in transportation incidents).

Randall's are all unique, too, because if two passwords were the same they wouldn't be two passwords.

And if memorization isn't an issue, just use randomly generated gibberish, as it will be much more secure than a list of discrete words.

I assumed the final post was the desired version and just deleted the earlier copies. (But yeah, we've all done the same thing before.)

Yeah, it doesn't mean the same thing as being in contact with a physical object that's 2.7K, but that doesn't make it meaningless.

If you rearrange the four words you get, and if there were objectively easiest to remember arrangement of any four words on the list (or if the attacker somehow knew enough about you to know which one you'd pick), it reduces the number of possibilities by a factor of 24. Adding another word to the m...

↶ Right now I'm trying to understand if uniqueness is meaningful in this regime. Uniqueness of what? Randall's password doesn't work based on individual characters, but on words chosen randomly from a list. Those words have to be unique (i.e. each appearing only once on the list), but the letters i...

commodorejohn wrote:↶
striving to avoid ever exposing students to terms they're unfamiliar with is an excellent way of ensuring that they never become familiar with them in the first place.

True, but it's also not a thing anyone in this discussion has done or suggested.

Could be. What I called nonsense was your claim that accessible language is self-defeating. This particular bit of inaccessibility may be fine, depending on the context and how much other new material being presented at the same time. But it's still potentially inaccessible, and that has to be somet...

So why not just teach them science with papers published in Nature ? There comes a point when adding more unfamiliar things they'll have to ask about becomes counterproductive, because the explanation is beyond the scope of the present endeavor and will amount to a waste of time that could be better...

I must have missed the part where the OP said the educational content was also intended to teach Greek mythology.

In any case, you don't generally introduce information by assuming students already know it.

If it's such a trivial point, then why do you think it's so important to keep the inaccessible reference? Also, the only nonsense here is your claim that accessible language is a self-defeating goal. The whole point of education is to build up knowledge, and you can't do that effectively if you act ...

↶ Ok, you've attacked my choice of words, now attack my idea. Does it have greater entropy than his? You can say no and I'll take my toys and skulk away. It's that simple. It seems you've described a few different things, which might be why you've gotten different answers about how much entropy you...

which made his idea a little better No, it didn't. All you did was slightly alter his list of words so now the ones with double letters are spelled wrong. The security comes from randomly choosing words from the list, not from how those words are spelled. The point is that it remains as secure as t...

Making the password a loop and starting at a random point adds a factor of 25 to the number of possibilities. Adding one random letter to the end multiplies it by 26 and is probably easier to remember. Adding one more random word from the list multiplies it by 2,000. There are lots of ways to make a...

And my argument is that you're completely missing the point of the method. You've come up with something that converts a password into another number, and then place some significance on the fact that different passwords can result in the same number. But so what? That doesn't make the password weak...

That password can be attacked on its parity. Randall may have already calculated this in. Yes, he did. Double letters don't affect any of the math in the comic. Allowing or disallowing them would change the entropy of a random string, but the random sequence of four words from a list of 2^11 is gua...

I borrowed a stranger's glasses for a moment to look at the maximal eclipse but didn't want to keep them long enough to take a photo. I was however able to make an improvised pinhole projector and then someone left a cereal box pinhole viewer on a windowsill that I took a couple other pictures into....

(PSA in case people can't tell that's a joke: DO NOT trust your eyes to sunglasses, even if you have a few sunglasses taped together.)

I suspect a lot of the discussion that would have happened in its own thread has instead been taking place in the multiple comic discussion threads about it. I have students interested in it here in Boston, but unfortunately most of the YouTube videos I found that I could have shown them are about h...

morriswalters wrote:↶If it is the equinox here, what is it in Australia?

Also the equinox, though if you call it the spring or fall equinox in the US, it will be the fall or spring equinox, respectively, in Australia.

Correction from a Brit - Solstice is NOT the same as Equinox, quite the opposite. The Solstice is the longest and shortest days (21 June and 21 December), the Equinox is when the night and day are equal, in March and September. Yes, like almost every other word in the comic, this one was intentiona...

CorruptUser wrote:I'm trying to get a proper legal framework for when and where "punching Nazis should be legal"

Why? Was anyone else here arguing that it should be legal?

Yeah, you're one of the other people who keeps wanting to change the topic and argue against "punching Nazis should always be legal" strawmen.

Who else is discussing 2?

All kinds of homophobic and racist shit is already legally allowed.

Stop fellating the rule of law and join the moral conversation everyone else is having.

I don't think "This time let's stop Nazis *before* they start exterminating people" is any kind of extremist endpoint.

We're talking about whether it's wrong to punch the ones who have decided to come together and form an armed mob to intimidate and terrorize and assault minority populations and anyone who stands beside them. ... and part of that is why it is (or isn't) wrong to do so. "Because they are Nazis&...

Even if you want to pretend that saying, "In my heart of hearts, I'm a Nazi," is somehow comparable to saying, "In my heart of hearts, I'm a Muslim," we're not and never have been just talking about words uttered into a vacuum. Nobody's talking about hunting down all the secret, ...

You could arguably say "...and Nazis all support genocide even if they didn't actually do it, and merely supporting genocide is enough of an evil action to merit a response, and a violence is the best way to combat their opinions and public image." And then we'd have something to discuss;...

I mean, I suppose one of us might look similar enough to one of the Nazis at the rally that we could be mistaken for them by overzealous doxxers. But even then it's not something I'm terribly afraid of because one look at my online presence (plus where I physically was last weekend) makes it pretty ...

Like, again, show us the majority group of non-hateful Nazis who are around and actually doing wonderful things with their lives and are ashamed of their fanatic brethren. Once you demonstrate them then maybe you get to compare them to Muslims, but only maybe. It's called the majority of white peop...

↶ The nominal point of the protest was to protect a Confederate Statue. And the people who showed up to do that were Nazis. And really they showed up to be violent, as evidenced by the fact that that was the first thing they did, the night before the nominal "protect our treason participation ...

There are hundreds of them, but then you'd have to admit you're getting your news from places like Stormfront. Yeah... I'm ignoring those obviously. Why would that be obvious? You're making an effort to hear from "both sides" where one side is Nazis. Where else would you expect to find th...

There are hundreds of them, but then you'd have to admit you're getting your news from places like Stormfront.

Which piece of caught-on-video Nazi violence is fake news? The mainstream media has been glossing over the actions of their opposition. People on both sides came out for a fight, but the media only want to concentrate on the violence coming from one side, tacitly absolving the likes of antifa for t...

Great, does that mean you take back this comment? Are you Natraj? And if not, were you personally at the protest? That comment was something you posted in response to natraj, which I thought would have been fairly obvious by the little "natraj wrote" at the top of the quote. Yes. And I wr...

Great, does that mean you take back this comment? Are you Natraj? And if not, were you personally at the protest? That comment was something you posted in response to natraj, which I thought would have been fairly obvious by the little "natraj wrote" at the top of the quote. Here's the po...

Only one side literally lost lives in this case. Only one side lost any innocent blood (not least because only one side had any innocents on it to begin with). Natraj was. Thanks. I'll weigh his opinion more appropriately. Great, does that mean you take back this comment? y'all know they were just ...

Its hard for me to make a judgment without being there. Then how about you shut the fuck up and listen to people who were there? Maybe you've seen a Nazi-dude actually armed with a long-rifle though? So if you got a picture, I'd be glad to change my opinion. For now, I can't tell if it was one of t...

Imagine for a moment that I asked the question before any weapons caches were mentioned and just fucking answer it instead of dodging.

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