MattPie

One of the two of us is reading that wrong, because I think he's saying Miller's numbers are lower this year than last.

I was waiting for that. :)

Interesting, I just finished up the books a few weeks ago. There's apparently a draft of another book that Larsson wrote before he died, but there's A> a lot of dispute over who owns the rights and B> conflicting reports on how finished it is. I'm a little worried about it's being (according to the article) "potential global significance to that of Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code". If that means it's going to be big: perhaps. If it has Lisbeth Salander traipsing around the globe solving some vast conspiracy, I'm not sure that'll work. I mean, where will she get those pizzas she's always eating?

OK, so everyone agrees that having this year pick X is generally more valuable than next year pick X. Most seem to agree that Pick X next year is more valuable than pick X+30 this year (next year's 11th pick is more valuable than this year's 41st), but it's widely quoted that a 2015 2nd rounder is worth a 2016 1st. So it's more like this years 30th pick is worth around as much as next year's 15th pick, but the trick is figuring out where teams are going to finish next year. Do I have that right?

I'm reviving this. Guy directly above Moulson's head: For instance, Mr. Ugly Habs Sweater, take my wife... Please! Hey-oooo! EDIT: Grey sweatshirt: GMTM doing a Bellicheck impression.

I don't think he really meant "bold" as in he was actually being bold. Humor: we've heard of it. In any case, my bold prediction is the Sabres go into the third down by one, tie it up, and lose on some horribly blown D coverage in OT. Buoyed by tonight's non-loss they put a Sabres blow out on St Louis on Thursday (which is a 3-1 win for this team).

I mentioned it somewhere, I'd have to think about #2 + Top LW and top RW for #1. The example I used is Eberle and Hall from EDM, someone else mentioned that having Sharp, Toews, and Kane may be better than Crosby.

Controller Reconnected.

Oh hell no, I want to see them running parallel to whomever is in 10th in the east. EDIT: On second thought, I'd rather see them make it in at 8th and either get blown out in the first round, or blow it in game 7 again.

How many nines before we call it? 5-9s?

The Sabres plot from game 18 or so to now looks like a cartoon mountain background. Also, did we ever decide whether the Y-axis should be frozen with a "here be dragons" note or adjust down to show the plot? I suppose it'd depend if there was more than one team down there.

Awesome: listening to my wife make my kid laugh. Puppies and ktitens can't hold a cuteness-candle to a 5-month-old laughing.

I think you have that backwards, this year is all about losing battles to win the war.

Nice!

Ahem. ;)

I think adding Richards is a bit odd, although I suppose "free" wasn't a good enough price (waivers), but maybe there's some plan for the Sabres to get him plus some assets. I think the roster would look OK if you just bumped the centers up, although having two rookie centers may be a recipe for disaster. Probably better to slide Zemgus into Richards spot and move Grigs up to LW2. He really doesn't belong in the 4th line anyways.

Nope, as much as I'm behind the tank I'm still annoyed when EDM scores.

"Giving blows, accepting blows."

Looks like a gold Skagen.

Maybe Le Canucks feel they need to beef up their D for Buffalo tomorrow.

Gamecenter on my PS3 and Phone is really shaky tonight, I need to watch the SuperTankBowl. All I get is moments and freeze, moment and freeze, moment and never come back. At least watching on my laptop and forcing the quality to low is giving my somewhat jumpy vision but not stopping.

Someone had that idea, but I think it was decided it was too much.

Ah, I wasn't reading that closely I guess. In any case, it's tough to say players will want out ofr Buffalo when 10 years ago, Pittsburgh wasn't really in that better of shape either as a franchise or a city. One of the G will probably move, but the return will be underwhelming (or as a throw-in as part of a bigger trade). G in general don't get a lot unless you're a huge name (Miller).

I was going to mention the Pitts. Pitts felt a lot like Buffalo when I was there earlier this year, but 5-10 years further along with the rebuilding. There was a lot of talk of moving the Pens just before Crosby came around, They've had it good for the last 10 years or so, and you may be more right in that kids being drafted now are going to put more stock into that then the periods where they were terrible.

It's mentioned in the second link, I think, but the dictionaries they use have to be small or combining words spirals in complexity quickly. The crackers will use the top 1000 or 10000 words, so if you keep out of those you'll be in better shape. The interesting thing I saw in there is they'll use the strings the find first on a given site as the dictionary when they ratchet up the complexity. It makes sense, since in a lot of cases a system will attract similar people and similar passwords. There's undoubtedly a user or 3 here whose password is "sabres", so for the later passes they'll feed that back in as part of the dictionary. Some user thinks they're being clever with a password like "Sabres1970#394ever" but really that's not as strong as you'd think because individuals have used each of the components in their crappy passwords. Interesting stuff. I guess the best system (other than completely random) is to use long passwords with obscure words with intentional misspellings. Of course, part of this experiment is that the password list in the articles is using MD5, which is a terrible hash for passwords. If they used a better hash (SHA256, for instance), then these attacks become far more computationally difficult and take a lot longer.