Just don't use that as the key to generate your BitCoin address. I saw a funny video, can't remember where, where a guy does that to prove a point. He sends a small amount of BitCoin to the wallet address, and someone steals it within seconds.
There's an article floating around about Ethereum private keys, where people use "0x[...]0000" or "0x[...]0314" or what have you. You can check the corresponding public addresses on Etherscan and see funds being systematically siphoned out by the same few accounts.
Having a QAM card and living in an apartment complex, there was a couple years where I never had to pay for big PPV sporting/wrestling events. And also, _other_ programming types late at night, which was a bit creepy and left me to which neighbors had which proclivities.
I also found that NBA League Pass and NHL Center Ice weren't encrypted that way too.
I'm reminded of the "Rathergate" incident that got Dan Rather fired from CBS, where they went to air with documents critical of George Bush that were clumsily faked, purporting that a typewritten document from 1973 used Times New Roman in the exact same size and spacing of Word's default settings.
I remember being astonished when I first saw images of the purported documents. I could not believe this got past anyone at CBS news, let alone Dan Rather. Did they have no memory of what manual typewriter type face looked like?
If a poor kid goes to a shitty school and has life impediments that limit the amount of studying and preparation they do and still scores a 1300, is that kid any less capable than a rich kid who goes to a private school and has all the opportunity in the world and gets 1500?
the original word choice was "prepared", which has a different meaning from "capable". if the poor kid never took calculus in high school and the rich kid already understands integration, that's probably two whole college semesters behind on a STEM track. there's no way you could say they're at the same level of preparedness for college. as for "capable", who knows?
Well, someone has to prop up the humanities. Universities are supposed to be communities of scholars. They aren't job training centers. Unless some students are persuaded to pursue less-career-oriented majors, all our universities would soon into polytechnics.
I chose the Calc I/II sequence as a concrete example that would be familiar to the large number of STEM majors on this forum. my point works just as well if you substitute "reading skills" for "calculus" and "humanities" for "STEM".
I spent way too much time on undernet during the same period of time, mostly on #asp. I got my first and second programming jobs through friends I made there.
Wasn't there a site ran by one of the #html ops, htmlcenter or something like that?
With these types of documents, it's obvious they are done after the fact for fluff and to justify design decisions that were made by people different than the ones who wrote the document. At worst, the weirder stuff in the document was commissioned to be an absurdist marketing gimmick when it "leaked" to the press and they wrote stories on it.
It's like the Apple document for their logo redesign that showed that it was really something like 37 distinct circles placed in mathematically-relevant positions.[1] Yeah, no.
Exactly, the document reads like some kind of numerology for graphical designers...
The new logo itself looked like a vintage airliner logo. I kind of see the one in my mind's eye but cannot quite place it. Googled for it but couldn't find it.
If you have a newer version of android (oreo I think? Not sure, I have a pixel), you can enable "lockdown"
Lockdown brings up a menu when you press and hold the power button to disable the fingerprint reader for the next unlock.
It's not on by default, you have to turn it on in the settings.
When you are young, you think adults have it all figured out. When you become an adult yourself, you realize a good chunk of people are straight winging it and, in many cases, entire companies are winging it all together without fully realizing it.
If a person or a company is lucky in some way, they will credit it to their own competence, thinking they figured it out. I know I have done this several times in the past.
Also, you can start at a company where things are figured out and watch the "growth phases" introduce layer upon layer of smooth-talking, overly-confident bullshitters, and, before you know it, the entire company has gone from knowing what they're doing to entirely winging it. This is what frightens me the most, because it seems to be systemic and almost everyone that I talk to these days in tech is suffering through some phase of this problem.
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https://xkcd.com/936/