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Pfft, hey, I make fun of second lifers too. But hey, this is actually kind of neat. Now where is the minecraft version?

Snow... I think i've seen this stuff before, it's in those older freezers that aren't smart enough to periodically defrost right?

This almost strikes me as looking down on mothers who stayed at home. I'm sure that that is not the intent but... Is this a thing? To scrutinize the work history/lack thereof of those who are called? If anything, I would think it an admirable thing that these women who have never worked outside the home are leaders in God's church. How cool is that? Motherhood isn't frowned upon here!

I think the FBI had a third party all along. They knew all along there was a way to do this without Apple. I think they thought they could play on the fear of terrorism to set a precedent. When they were met with public backlash they just fell back to the normal way of cracking things. Perhaps there's an exploit out there, maybe there's a flaw in the implementation of encryption on that series of phone. Heck I'm not *that* savvy with encryption breaking but I do know there are ways of speeding up a brute force with precomputed algorithms and probably a host of other cryptology magic I'm not aware of.

So let's all do a slow clap for the FBI. *slow clap* They broke into the phone themselves (well they hired a third party to do it) I'm guessing they figured out how to clone the contents of the image and bruteforce the multiple images? Anyways another slow clap for them. They really should share the method used with Apple though, what poor sports. http://money.cnn.com/2016/03/28/news/companies/fbi-apple-iphone-case-cracked/index.html?sr=twCNN032816fbi-apple-iphone-case-cracked1017PMStoryPhoto&linkId=22802920

Normally, I'm all for the general idea of this, get behind the Republican guy even if he's not your favorite one. But then Trump came around. If Trump is the face of the Republican party, then I guess the Republican party doesn't align as closely with my values as I thought. Perhaps there is a third party that does align with my values more closely. It could have been anyone but him, and I would've backed them.

I have three toddlers. One just turned 3, the other will turn 3 in April, and the youngest turns 2 in June. They aren't all biologically mine but they are all in my custody. The youngest repeats endlessly how unhappy he is with the current situation very loudly. He says "N, n, n, n, n, n, n, n, n" for the entirety of sacrament meeting, which we spent in the foyer. The two older ones can wiggle out of my lap sometimes, and take off in opposite directions. All of them know how to open doors. I did get the two older ones to sit quietly holding handout cards with pictures of Christ as their reward. Then they started eating the cards and pretending to be very hungry beasts who gobble up missionary handout cards. One fell over throwing a fit once and thought it was funny, then he started throwing his head into the ground and saying ouch! The second youngest thought that looked like fun and started in on it while I'm holding the youngest, who is doing everything in his power to wriggle out of my grasp, while trying to get them to stop. I was tying the second youngest shoes when the youngest came over and threw himself into both of us then started yelling "N, n, n, n, n, n, n, n, n, n, n, n, n, n, n, n!" The oldest began jumping up and down and telling me loudly that "JUDAH (the youngest) IS CRYING!" Sacrament is insane for us, we didn't attend our stake conference because we just can't do that for 2 hours, then last sunday I had mandatory overtime and my wife cannot manage the kids by herself due to health issues. This was probably one of our worst weeks, they were a bit out of practice. Sometimes we make it all the way through sacrament with only a fight or two breaking out, and no endless screaming. Just the occasional complaints about wanting to be next to daddy or whatever it is that strikes them at the time. Little ones are just tough, that's life. The good notes, we made it to sacrament meeting on time this week. We made it to sacrament before they got too unruly. My primary lesson went great.

The mobile version appears to be fantastic, it just doesn't keep me logged in under chrome my primary browser. Firefox for Android works though.

Ah, I didn't realize you can use a full blown password when encrypting an iPhone. That changes things a lot. Though... if you have to type this password in everytime you unlock your device.... boy the chances of it being much better than the pin aren't very good. I was assuming a 4 digit pin, which would be very simple to brute force even with the failed login attempts limit. I assume you can physically tell when you try to unlock it whether they are using a regular pin or a password based on the keyboard that shows up.

I'm fairly sure there is a utility you can run on a computer while the phone is connected via usb, that will simulate PIN attempts over the usb and aggressively cut power after each attempt which gets around the failed attempts limit. A bit slow maybe, but it's a 4 digit pin, it couldn't take *that* long. Probably no longer than a week or so for every combination to be tested. *Correction, it attempts 5 pins, then reboots the phone clearing the "failed attempts count" It can do every possible combination in 14 hours.

Whatever happened to good old brute forcing? Toss a dictionary at it, have they tried "all infidels die now" or "allah be praised"? I bet one of those will unlock it right there. But seriously. No. Backdooring the encryption is a terrible, horrible, no good idea. The most glaring problem, government aside, is that eventually people figure out where the backdoor is. People you definitely, not just maybe, but definitely don't want to be able to crack open encryption keys willy nilly.

That's far, far different from *always* insulting by those who used it. It's a lot like the term *Mormon*, which I was trying to point out. We don't prefer it because it can imply we worship Mormon instead of Jesus. Only we shrugged our shoulders and embraced the term since it's in such popular usage anyways. Maybe we should be more uppity about this stuff.

It doesn't seem to be intentionally insulting to me.

I have to say, (born in '85 here) I have never once seen the spelling Moslem and assumed it was an intentional derogative, like how people use shortened nicknames for the prophets to be intentionally disrespectful or use various misspellings of "mormon" to be disrespectful. I think you'll run into that anytime you use that form whether you mean it or not, I would drop it and go with Muslim just to prevent that kind of mix up with your intent.

Is croaker the mutant troll thing? His parents just feel bad for creating something so ugly. They gave him a bag of random stuff they bought off a traveling merchant and told him it was all magic gear and encouraged him to recover a family artifact from some kobolds a few miles out of the city.The parents are hoping he doesn't manage to survive. Oh right, I'm not the DM. Lucky for Croaker.

Straight out of the players handbook for 3rd edition. Half-Orcs.

There are half orcs.

We half elfs are not impressed with your human racist jokes.

Leoborin Duridic Half Elf Level 1 True Neutral HP 9 AC 10 + 3 (hide armor) + 2 (large shield) + 1 (dex) = 16 Str 13 Dex 12 Con 12 Int 13 Wis 17 Cha 8 Saves Fort 2 + 1 = 3, Ref 0 + 1 = 1, Will 2 + 3 = 5 bab 0 Skills Nature Knowledge = 4 + 1 = 5 Listen = 4 + 3 + 1 (half elf) = 6 Search = 0 + 1 + 1 (half elf) = 6 Spellcraft = 4 + 1 = 5 Survival = 4 + 3 = 7 Feats Scribe Scroll Amor proficiency light/medium shield porficiency Animal Companion Nature sense, wild empathy Languages common Druidic Elven Sylvan Equipment Shortspear (3) - 1d8 Sling - 1d4 Sling bullets Scimitar - 1d6 Hide Armor (+3) Large wooden shield (+2) Backpack Bedroll Blanket Flint/steel Waterskin Holly and Mistletoe Money 1 gp 3 sp Animal Companion Eagle 8 HP Initiative +2 AC 10 + 1 (size) + 2 (Dex) + 1 (natural) = 14 Attacks 2 claws +3 melee 1d3, bite -2 melee 1d4 Saves Fort +3, Ref +4, Will +2 Str 10 Dex 15 Con 12 Int 2 Wis 14 Cha 6 Listen +6 Spot +6 (+14 during daylight) I used this Character generator, it's a nice simple way to assist with the process http://dnd3rd.sourceforge.net/

How are we rolling stats? 3d6, 4d6 take lowest away, 28 or 32 point buy?

I would love to play a true neutral half-elf druid, a hunter that lives off of the land. The philosophical type of true neutral that sees good, evil, chaos and law as parts of a whole that must be balanced. He is an explorer who wants to see all he can in the world, and beyond. His goal is to become a powerful druid and explore all of the planes.

That sort of stuff I felt is accounted for. HP is just a virtual representation (that is easy to use) of how much better your character has gotten and what once would've taken him in the heart and killed him, he now has the awareness and the ability to inch it over so it misses the heart and only hurts him badly. In most rule sets there's something called a coupe de grace that allows you to instantly kill a helpless character, since you know they are helpless and the hp is meaningless in that situation. Mortal blows are still mortal, you are just much more deft at combat and don't eat fireballs to the face anymore.

I am king of the blue blobs, and I am quite ecstatic about it!

So like, according to you when I go running and adrenaline starts getting pumped out through my veins I am opening myself to possession by evil spirits? I knew runners were possessed! Now I'm no biological expert but I'm not familiar with adrenaline being associated with sexual excitment, I recall dopamine and oxytocin... But adrenaline doesn't sound right at all.