Cross Country Anthropology

[Kesa]

Possibly because you seem to think that all Americans have the same mentality..
(And you think the rest of the world all has the same, but different from America, mentality???)
That's a bad starting point if you're trying to understand anything...


desiv

Yes. Yes i do think America sees itself differently to the rest of the world.

As for the rest of the worlds cultures. I have friends from all over. Finland, Germany, France, England, Russia, Africa, South America, Canada, Korea, China, etc, and i can always find common ground with all of them. The only country i cannot find any is with my American friends. America is a complex and contradictory place. I believe accepting that i don't have the answers allows me to remain open minded to new ideas. Yes i am ignorant and yes i do not understand it but I embrace this  ignorance because i believe admitting not understanding is the first step in  aquiring wisdom. Does that make sense?

[gertsy]

Don't understand what you're talking about.

[J-Golden]

I understand him just fine, but I'm American.  

[whabang]

It's a continuation of a discussion in another thread. He brought it here to avoid derailing it.

Anyway, to make a long story short: About 15% of all people are idiots. The U.S. have quite a large population, so they have more idiots than many others. Be thankful that media coverage from Asia isn't as extensive as it could be, or we'd all run around talking about what idiots the Indians and Chinese are.

[odin]

15%? Quotation needed, sometimes I think it's closer to 85% .

[whabang]

Well, me and a coworker came across a database with password hashes. Roughly 15% matched the hashes of one of the top 50 most common passwords. -.-

[Argo]

*facepalm*

[gertsy]

Well, me and a coworker came across a database with password hashes. Roughly 15% matched the hashes of one of the top 50 most common passwords. -.-

How could the hashes match those of the top 50% most common passwords?
Either you or I just moved into the 15%. And unless all the salts were the same, or your talking simple bit shifting or unsalted hashing(both a crime), I'm suggesting it's you.....

[odin]

Still funny, one way or the other =).

[Karlos]

Well, me and a coworker came across a database with password hashes. Roughly 15% matched the hashes of one of the top 50 most common passwords. -.-

Of which the developers of said database must surely be included since it would seem they neglected to apply any random salt when generating said hashes. Otherwise, there's no way you could have ran the comparison ;-)

[gertsy]

Of which the developers of said database must surely be included since it would seem they neglected to apply any random salt when generating said hashes. Otherwise, there's no way you could have ran the comparison ;-)

I thought I said that....But no. It could have been considered inferred though!

[whabang]

Yeah, whoever got the idea to store the passwords' MD5 hashes unsalted also belong to the 15% imo.

[whabang]

Also: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2060825/123456-millions-of-adobe-hack-victims-used-horrible-passwords.html

Yeah, 10% used passwords in the top-20 list. If we extend that to top-50 I'd say my estimate of 15% is quite accurate.

[Iggy]

As another American "idiot" I owe a few of you an apology (and maybe even a more specific one to both bloodline and Linus Torvalds).
I'll get around to something more exact in the future, but none of you needs any abuse from me, you all bring enough of it on yourselves from other sources.

And after going back and forth over it, I've decided to take a closer look at UNIX and UNIX like OS' (like those based on Linux).
It will be nice to get back to something that is designed inherently to handle multiple threads.

[Retrofan]

Sorry... is this thread still opened? I've missed a lot of recent posts, but I thought it was clear all the people was complaining about the moderator who opened it, and that this was a very annoying thread.

Just read the posts here... now talking about the amount of idiots by countries or going absolutely off topic... What's this thread about?  incredible to have this on an Amiga thread.
I will leave this forum if it stays supporting this kind of things.

I vote to close this thread and ban the moderator who started all this ****. Don't know where he wanted to sink this boat.