Delicious LiveJournal Links for 8-12-2009

[andrewducker]

• Suffragettes in The City
  a comic
  (tags: funny comic)
• Dude-watching with The Brontes
  (a comic)
  (tags: funny comics literature)
• Socialising advice for introverts
  (tags: social communication introversion introvert)
• Women Prefer Poaching
  Research on animal mating (e.g., ï¬sh, birds) has shown that female animals are more likely to choose a male that has already been chosen by other females ⦠Research on human preferences does show that women rate men as more desirable when they are surrounded by other women, compared to being alone or surrounded by other men. Conversely, men rate women as less desirable when they are surrounded by other men, compared to being alone or surrounded by other women.
  (tags: dating life men psychology relationships women research sex)
• Choose Your Own Adventure â“ Most Likely You'll Die
  An analysis of the paths through a Choose Your Own Adventure book
  (tags: visualization books writing chooseyourownadventure adventure games)
• On a cosmological timescale, The Earth's period of habitability is nearly over
  PANIC IN THE STREETS!!!
  (tags: Space sun earth science astronomy environment life evolution)
• Nightmare Con Experiences
  Both convention and conference
  (tags: conventions conference EpicFail)
• Giant meat-eating plant found
  It eats rats...
  (tags: plants carnivorous biology)
• The End of the GPU
  Tim Sweeney - the guy behind Epic/Unreal talks about the future of graphics. Interesting stuff, if you're a massive geek.
  (tags: graphics programming games development hardware 3D cpu computing gpu concurrency)
• Two convicted for refusal to decrypt data
  (tags: law UK encryption)
• Optimistic women live longer
  So cheer the hell up!
  (tags: optimism attitude emotion health age women)
• Secrets of the Amazon best-seller list
  (tags: amazon books business marketing)

Comments

[broin.livejournal.com]

The decryption story is interesting. I partitioned an external drive recently, and encrypted one of the partitions with TrueCrypt. I recently tried mounting it recently and realised I'd completely forgotten the (new, appropriately complex) password.

I can scrub the partition and start again, and that's fine. But what if I was asked for my password and genuinely couldn't remember?

[andrewducker]

Aaah, but can you _prove_ you can't remember?

We may need a note from your doctor proving you have amnesia :->

[broin.livejournal.com]

Heh!

The Reg comments thread has a bunch of good advice... like keeping everything 'dodgy' or 'interesting' on a wireless NAS in your neighbour's loft.