Recent Comments

1. about 15 hours ago on Pooch Cafe

   No, but Monroe is also well versed in the same mathematical underpinnings, despite divergent educational pathways.

2. 3 days ago on Pooch Cafe

   Corporate mathematically-illiterate mindset has spent the last 4 decades training users to pick passwords that are hard to remember but easy to crack.

3. 3 days ago on Pooch Cafe

   Actually, “jollypurplealligator” is an excellent password, because what counts is LENGTH. the usual demand of “12 characters , must include one special character and one number” only gives you 20-something bits of entropy. Modern bulk-loading password intrusions can break that in a couple of days. Three random words have ~35 bits or entropy, and would take more than 300 years to break using the same method. “special characters” are nothing but security theatre. LENGTH is how you enforce secure passwords.

4. 3 days ago on FoxTrot Classics

   Shows what we know – they actually did! we should buy lottery tickets or something

5. 4 days ago on Back in the Day

   imaging running a business that depends on ONE process firing correctly each day, and not having the basic business sense to pay a lowly intern to check a selection of titles each morning to see if there are blanks. Or random Spanish text. or whatever.

6. 5 days ago on FoxTrot Classics

   I love when the term “military-grade” gets thrown out without the user realizing that it literally means “the cheapest possible solution that meets the absolute minimum requirements”.

7. 10 days ago on Pooch Cafe

   Pluto is a planet. NDT can go suck a rock.

8. 24 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

   I trust in pizza and tiki to get me through, frankly.

9. 29 days ago on Baby Blues

   okay, fair. but if i was her dad i would REVEL in doling out that bit of info. right before bed.

10. 30 days ago on Baby Blues

    Don’t tell her about eyebrow mites.