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Yoms | 14 years ago | on: Updating Your Password on LinkedIn and Other Account Security Best Practices

This is getting silly now, the hash for my unique strong password was in the list. And there are many others who have stated the same. It should have taken them a whole of 5 minutes to find if these hashes were from their database. It's shameful and shows an utter disrespect for security that they didn't bother salting them (and sha1 really?).

Now it's time for them to own up to the mistake and inform their users, before anyone has anything else compromised.

Yoms | 14 years ago | on: 6.5 Million LinkedIn Password Hashes Leaked

It was about a year ago now. I checked the hashes for my previous password and it wasn't on the list... Mind you, as many have noticed, it seems to be very incomplete.

Yoms | 14 years ago | on: Slavery's last stronghold

The part you're missing (and what I think kls is getting at) is that groupthink is not exclusive to religion. A group of people will gravitate towards each other and stop critically thinking. It sucks, but it's human nature.

Atheists are just as capable of groupthink as any other group (conservatives, liberals, environmentalists, capitalists). And just as religion has been used, and still continues to be used, to justify some truly horrible things; the militant desire for the elimination of religion can be just as bad. Sitting around pointing fingers at a very large and varied group of philosophies doesn't really do any good...

In the parent post you mention we burned Toyota at the stake for a faulty floor mat, and then in the same sentence say "we pay no mind to the religious implications of our world's enormous head counts all tied to religion." What do you propose? We burn those religious at the stake? Because your groupthink of atheism makes you feel superior (saved)? Because critical thinking is king, and those that you deem unable to do so are inferior (not saved)?

Scary, and almost religious...

Yoms | 14 years ago | on: Slavery's last stronghold

This report shows us a terribly broken culture. It may have had foundations in religion, but that was so long ago that even if we could magically wipe away all trace of religion or God from the minds of every Mauritanian, the problem would continue. The only way to fix broken cultural aspects is through education, which is what the abolitionists in this report seem to be doing. Maybe it shows my ignorance, but if not for this report I would have never known about this problem, now that I do, I'd love to find ways to help.

Pinning the blame for Mauritania's slavery problem on "religion" takes the eye off the ball, which is fixing the problems there. It also seems like creating a convenient straw man for atheism, which if the constant preaching of is any indication, seems to be turning into quite the religion...

Yoms | 14 years ago | on: A Voice From the 1%

How did this get on here? The guy obviously has religiously political views.

I'm not sure what industry he's in, but in many industries it takes money to increase customer demand. And his absolute statement of "Hiring has no correlation at all to profits or to income - none." What? Again maybe in his industry...

If he has so much money left over, why not set up or donate to a charity that helps mining workers in Appalachia? Or invest it in a business?

If you want to make an argument for higher taxes, this is not the way to do it. This is political drivel, and not worthy of HN.

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