MattPie

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.

That's two big men agreeing with each other.

I might even agree with you on it's merit, but is one center more valuable than (hopefully) an entire first line. I'd have to think about it.

The only at-all possible move would be if Buffalo takes #1, and #2 throws a bunch of stuff that could be considered. Is McDavid better than Eichel, Eberle, and Hall, for instance?

I didn't get a chance to watch earlier, that kid has an awesome mohawk.

Team ----- GP - L - W - OT - PTS - MPP Buffalo 48 31 14 3 65 133 Edmonton 48 27 12 9 63 131 Arizona 47 25 16 6 56 126 Carolina 47 25 17 5 55 125 New Jersey 48 22 18 8 52 120 Philadelph 49 22 20 7 51 117 Columbus 46 22 21 3 47 119 Colorado 49 18 20 11 47 113 Minnesota 47 20 21 6 46 116 Ottawa 46 18 19 9 45 117 Posting the numbers in Courier New helps with the alignment a bit. You'd have to space out the names by hand, but the rest of the numbers are close enough that you don't really need to line them up.

The funny thing about Volbeat is about half the time I hear them I think it's a new Metallica song.

True, but it depends on what attack vector we're talking about. If we're talking about guessing, I'd hope that most of the sites we're talking about have password guessing rate limits and lock outs after X bad guesses. If we're talking about someone stealing an encrypted password database, I'd think player names would be long enough and far enough down the list that it'll buy you time (assuming the encryption is well done, of course). Even if the encryption is not that good (no salting, for instance) most Rainbow tables aren't going to go out to 20 characters. To sum up, longer less complex is better than short, complex passwords, and phrases are a lot easier to remember than complex strings. http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/06/password-complexity-rules-more-annoying-less-effective-than-length-ones/ I do concede your point though, I'm just paranoid about losing the keys to the kingdom with a centralized password management solution (either actually losing the db or having that get compromised). EDIT: This is a nice article on the subject (linked from the above): http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/05/how-crackers-make-minced-meat-out-of-your-passwords/3/

http://w.mawebcenters.com/Buffalofoods/ecommerce/condiments-sauces/wing-sauce.html NOt La Nova, but...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEzdVV9U8Tc You need to use the "regular" link, not the short version. http:// www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEzdVV9U8Tc (no space in the middle though)

No matter how careful you are with your password, there's a chance that it'll be compromised in some other way. None the less, I find a good scheme for passwords is to use phrases that are easy to remember and type rather than "substitute 0 for o and whatnot" (hint: the password crackers know that trick and try the words with 0 and o). You can choose your own theme, but an example could be "Buffalo Sabres", so you password would be "Christian Ruutu #21" or "Taro Tsujimoto #0". Complex (with all four character classes), unlikely to be randomly guessed, and longer than most would normally remember (those are 20 characters). Better yet, rotate themes each change (movies, book quotes, famous tank commanders, etc.). Even better yet, intentionally make mistakes so even if someone learns your pattern you might fool them. "Wayne Gretzky #98", for instance.

Not wathcing this game is giving into loser-mentality. When the good times come, fans are going to be divided into two groups: those that had the stomach to watch this ####-show game and those that didn't. Bunch of wusses. ;)

The stars they have aren't playing with anyone around them. It's 4-5 first-line guys and nothing else. You could put Crosby, Toews, Kane, and Gretzky in that situation and they probably wouldn't win.

I miss the "single up the middle".

It's be awesome to see what he can do without all the cheating!

By that standard, having to change the rules to neutralize one player, Rob Ray is in the conversation for best forward in history. ;)

How are you sure he never gave it a thought? Maybe he decided that this would have to work since the franchise couldn't take a couple down years of ticket sales.

1st bold: One might say Taro's a sweet potato. I'm here all week folks. 2nd bold: I'm sure she doesn't hold a candle to you. What the does an 18-year-old have to talk about that would be any interest to a grown up?

To be fair, you could move the drafting back a few years to account for the top-5 pick to contender time frame (I'm thinking of Carolina).

I don't mind Target, but don't go there as much as I used to (Amazon Prime is a god-send when you have a young child). Did they give a reason? Too much cost having to print everything in English and en Francais? :)

Ctrl-Shift-R, for force Reload, usually works too.

You guys remember that's Derek Roy, right?

Last night, roasted Brussels Sprouts, Japonica and Mahogany Rice blend, and home-made Guacamole and store-bought chips. It was "use up stuff night" in Pietown.

Why not limit down to 6, and use some clever play on the original 6 theme? Septic Six, Terrible Six, [insert something way more clever than I can think of] Six.

Um, you guys can report all you want; it doesn't mean anything will be done about it by the mgmt.