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I gave up reading it in full.
speramus in juniperus
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I've never understood the point of this partial censorship of words that's so popular on the web these days.
Do you really think that someone looks at F***ingA**hole and doesn't immediately translate it in their head to F***ingAsshole?
If they don't have the instinctive mental capacity to do this without even thinking, then they're probably too f***ing stupid to worry about offending in the first place.
Partial censorship is moronic. If you're going to employ censorship, remove the entire word, have a human rewrite the article so that it aligns with your personal agenda, or delete the whole thing.
Replacing characters with asterisks is nothing more than an attempt to be politically correct without really doing what you're pretending to do - "Look! We really care about eliminating bad words. See?"
Sorry, Chris. Not making fun of you. Making fun of the Interwebs. 
[edit] Just noticed that the post above has been automatically deleted for violating the Naughty Words rule. I suspect this one will suffer the same fate, even though it's making a point about said Naughty Words rule. Oh, well. At least it meets one of the criteria on my list. [/edit]
modified 17-Oct-13 7:41am.
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Here it is, a ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ half ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ hour later and your ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ post is still ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ up. I can't ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ understand what your ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ problem with the ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ censorship thing. ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬!
▬▬▬▬ this ▬▬▬▬!
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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By the way, nice Les Paul. I jump up and down a lot and was afraid I'd dislocate my shoulder wielding one of those things, so I took to hot rodding Strats instead. But nothing sounds like the real thing!
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Thanks! The weight doesn't bother me, I use a wide leather strap and that distributed the weight pretty well.
Can't knock the Strats, I have one of those as well there is nothing like the the clean tones of the middle and bridge PUPs on a Strat. And to give by back a rest (if it needs it...) I have nice lightweight ash 52 RI Tele that I love to rip in to.
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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In the mid 90s I bought a new Les Paul Studio, thinking I'd use it to record with and perhaps on gigs since it's lighter. I've probably played it ten times. It just never really grabbed me. Half the price of a full on Les Paul and really not a bad guitar, but I think it's the lighter wood and slightly thinner body that makes the tone pale in comparison.
I really need to get around to selling it, as I'd like to pick up a good full humbucker solid body to gig with alongside the Strats. There's so much to choose from. Back in the day, the only real stuff out there was Fender and Gibson. Now there are just too many good guitars to choose from. I like the PRS, having played a couple of friends' but they're very proud of their product.
Also want to add a Tele someday. Beyond being a big Who / Townsend fan, was listening to Brothers in Arms the other day and was reminded of what good tones Mark Knopfler always gets.
Too many guitars to buy! 
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Christopher Duncan wrote: Too many guitars to buy
 I get G.A.S.* a lot, the only known cure is not having enough money to buy more guitars.
I know what you mean about the LP studios, I also bought one and just can't bond with it. The action is great, plays nice, and sounds OK but the other one is perfectly comfortable, it's an extension of my hands.
*(Guitar Aquisition Syndrome)
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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Yeah, I'm a card carrying member of G.A.A. (Gear Acquirers Anonymous). Wanna buy 10,000 watts of stage lighting from my previous lighting rig? 
It's a great time to be a creative creature, ain't it?
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Christopher Duncan wrote: Wanna buy 10,000 watts of stage lighting from my previous lighting rig?
I have an LP studio I can trade... 
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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Collect the whole set!
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Why do US television and radio stations censor swear words with a *beep*? It's not like you couldn't instantly translate them in your heads to actual words?
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Couldn't agree more!
It's Samuel Jackson. It's not like I have to read his lips to know what word he's saying.
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Coding forums which censor class to cl*** are particularly silly.
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Like we don't have enough silliness in this business as it is, right?
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Message automatically removed. I missed it what was it about 
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Very funny. I have pinched it before the thought police move in.
Peter Wasser
Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
Frank Zappa
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It would be even funnier, it it wasn't that true.
Reminds me of my own experience: I had once to disclose my password to the IT guy (because of access problems bla bla), and 12f***ingstinkingIT was quite embarrassing.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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Only time I've ever had to tell an IT guy my password because of some problem it had a swear word in it too.
I assume that this is covered by Sod's Law, either that or it is just computers being bastards.
“I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.” Bill Hicks
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or that he had prior access to the Password and knew you had used naughty words and thought "I will get him"
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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Now the question is why will it take longer to crack. Well it isn't rocket science - it's because it IS longer and the time estimate is based on a brute force approach.
They have a point but a ~30 character password is not heaps of fun.
Btw If everyone was using sentences and I was a hacker I would start with "Mary had a little lamb" then "A quick brown....".
Peter Wasser
Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
Frank Zappa
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pwasser wrote: Well it isn't rocket science
So sweet, thinking it isn't rocket science. Obviously it is rocket science for the world of internet users!
The top ten passwords (Source: Google Apps)
1) Pet’s name
2) Significant dates (like a wedding anniversary)
3) Date of birth of close relation
4) Child’s name
5) Other family member’s name
6) Place of birth
7) Favourite holiday
8) Something related to favourite football team
9) Current partner’s name
10) The word "password"
All i am saying is not long sentences but rather just not one 'thing', 'thing' being something like a name, date etc, use combinations of stuff at the very least
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Well not exactly. Unless the hacker has stolen your identity 1-9 are random sequences. 10 is plain stupid.
Now if the hacker knew that you were using a saying or aphorism cracking it would be very easy even if
it had 50 characters.
In the end nobody bothers with cracking passwords - they steal the password file.
This is the basis of espionage.
Peter Wasser
Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
Frank Zappa
modified 17-Oct-13 9:09am.
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pwasser wrote: This is the basis of espionage.
Hussh  these are not the droids you are looking for
pwasser wrote: they steal the file.
Why steal the file if you can steal a life 
algorithm - a process or set of rules to be followed in calculations or other problem-solving operations, especially by a computer.
Why bother remembering something if only you need to remember the password of your email? The rest has forget password links where you can reset your password. So I will not steal a file, I will steal THE file, or their one secure email address details.
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