A dictionary attack won't guess four random whole words that are in the dictionary?  I'm skeptical.  4^4? I think it would take a very long time. Is that because the attacks aren't looking for words, but rather for letters?  Or are there true dictionary attacks being used?  If so, I feel the same w...

Many if not most college grads don't stay in the field of their degree.  On the one hand, that allows for someone to get an art degree.  On the other, I still say get something that will at least shuttle you into a career start.

Yesterday's Dilbert comic sums it up.  I'm one of the Elbonians in the last frame.  And no, I'm not saying anyone here is an idiot.

I had a real good run but only say 10 years, with a low Sharpe ratio.  I didn't have such a well defined system.  Mine was to buy beaten down stock market sectors, and hold them till they went up enough.  Rinse and repeat.  It seems like today, sectors are more correlated, so I don't know if I could...

Any fans of the Gold Rush reality TV series?  Wife and I have watched the past 3 seasons.  Man, you get the impression that there is still an awful lot of gold to be mined in the Yukon.

I know we talk about not looking.  I've said it before and I'll say it again.  I don't check my PP daily or even weekly.  Sometimes for whatever reason I'll take a look.  I will say "damn, I wonder what's dropping?"  Or, "Hey, good deal!"  Then what?  Nothing, that's what.  It has trended up over th...

PS, where in the midwest did you grow up?

At some point I have to conclude that the military industrial complex is real, it simply wants wars.  Say they are at the top of a pyramid labeled "we want war".  As you move down the pyramid, the motivations change.  You find the Zionists, the neocons (do I repeat myself), and other aggressive worl...

I'm okay with the PS prescription except for all the civilian casualties.  Just their bad luck to be in the caliphate?  In any event, that is probably what is going to happen once ISIS get more set up.

Not to pile on, but yeah that's pretty funny!

They are playing you like a fiddle.  That ought to give you pause.

As far as being a younger liberal and then becoming conservative... Reub, I was JUST LIKE YOU until 2003-4. I mean, I would have agreed 100% with everything you write here.  Up till then I had been very politically active.  It started dawning on me how the Bush team lied to us and led us into a tota...