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http://www.cnbc.com/2015/08/24/caitlyn-jenner-halloween-costume-sparks-social-media-outrage-.html

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It's nowhere near October, but one ensemble is already on track to be named the most controversial Halloween costume of 2015.

Social media users were out in full force on Monday criticizing several Halloween retailers for offering a Caitlyn Jenner costume reminiscent of the former-athlete's Vanity Fair cover earlier this year.

While Jenner's supporters condemned the costume as "transphobic" and "disgusting" on Twitter, Spirit Halloween, a retailer that carries the costume, defended the getup.

"At Spirit Halloween, we create a wide range of costumes that are often based upon celebrities, public figures, heroes and superheroes," said Lisa Barr, senior director of marking at Spirit Halloween. "We feel that Caitlyn Jenner is all of the above and that she should be celebrated. The Caitlyn Jenner costume reflects just that."
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Jonghyun, K-pop star and SHINee singer, dies in possible suicide

https://www.usatoday.com/story/life...ember-dies-possible-suicide-shinee/108714930/
I don't know anything about Kpop other than the Tumblr sperging that occasionally amuses me. But it looks like this popular singer has committed suicide. He sent text messages to his sister saying goodbye. It looks to be carbon monoxide poisoning.

I hear these Kpop singers have it tough in terms of keeping up the image and everything. It's really heavily controlled. Everyone looks the same from plastic surgery. All these pretty faces that are basically identical. It's very bizarre.

Kim Jong-Hyun was 27. So the 27 truthers will have another name to add to their crazy.

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The lead singer of popular South Korean boy band SHINee died on Monday, police said, in a possible suicide.

Kim Jong-hyun, better known by the stage name Jonghyun, was found unconscious at a residence hotel in Seoul and was later pronounced dead at a nearby hospital, Seoul police said.

Police said Kim's sister told them that the singer sent her text messages such as "Final farewell" and "I've had difficulties" before his death.

Police said they have not yet determined whether he killed himself.

Yonhap news agency said authorities found burned coal briquettes, which produce carbon monoxide, in a frying pan in Kim's hotel room.

Kim debuted in 2008 as the main singer of SHINee, and cultivated a career as both a group member and a solo singer-songwriter. His last public appearance was at a solo concert titled Inspired on Dec. 9-10 in Seoul, and he was scheduled to hold concerts with SHINee members in Tokyo and Osaka in February, Yonhap said.

South Korea has one of the highest suicide rates among developed countries. A string of high-profile figures, including a former president and business executives, have killed themselves in recent years.
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Jonghyun, K-pop star and SHINee singer, dies in possible suicide

https://www.usatoday.com/story/life...ember-dies-possible-suicide-shinee/108714930/
I don't know anything about Kpop other than the Tumblr sperging that occasionally amuses me. But it looks like this popular singer has committed suicide. He sent text messages to his sister saying goodbye. It looks to be carbon monoxide poisoning.

I hear these Kpop singers have it tough in terms of keeping up the image and everything. It's really heavily controlled. Everyone looks the same from plastic surgery. All these pretty faces that are basically identical. It's very bizarre.

Kim Jong-Hyun was 27. So the 27 truthers will have another name to add to their crazy.
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Yeah, but if he went through the trouble of getting trademarks he obviously thinks it might work better for him this time. The NFL has been losing ratings for several seasons now, if anyone was going to try and start up a new professional league now is the time to do so.
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More importantly, he should find more people to invest in it so he doesn't take much of a financial loss this time.
 
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I have used qazwsx in the past. :neutral:

Too Many People Are Still Using ‘Password’ as a Password
'Starwars' was another popular and bad choice for passwords this year.
  • Yael Grauer

    Dec 19 2017, 8:00am
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    For the seventh year in a row, password management security company SplashDatahas scraped password dumps to find the year’s worst passwords. This year’s research was drawn from over five million leaked passwords, not including those on adult sites or from the massive Yahoo email breach. The passwords were mostly held by users in North America and Western Europe.

    SplashData estimates that nearly 10 percent of people have used at least one of the 25 worst passwords on this year’s list, and almost 3 percent used the worst password, ‘123456’. ‘Password’ was the second most popular password.


    Other numeric passwords that weren’t new to the list were ‘12345678’ in third place, ‘12345’ at number five, and ‘1234567’ in seventh place. But there were some new, more creative (or, you know, not) variations: ‘123456789’ (in sixth place), and ‘123123’ in 17th.

    Additional repeat offenders include a handful of very obvious words: ‘qwerty,’ ‘football,’ ‘‘admin,’ ‘welcome,’ ‘login,’ ‘abc123,’ ‘dragon,’ ‘passw0rd,’ and ‘master.’ But there were some new passwords on the top 25 list this year, including ‘letmein,’ ‘iloveyou,’ ‘monkey,’ ‘starwars,’ ‘hello,’ ‘freedom,’ ‘whatever,’ ‘qazwsx’ (from the two left columns on a standard keyboard), and ‘trustno1.’ The new passwords replaced 2016's ‘123456790,’ ‘princess,’ ‘1234,’ ‘solo,’ ‘121212,’ ‘flower,’ ‘sunshine,’ ‘hottie,’ ‘loveme,’ ‘zaq1zaq1,’ and ‘password1.’

    Many people wrongly assume that adding a zero instead of the letter O will make their passwords more secure, but, as SplashData CEO Morgan Slain is quick to point out in a press release, “hackers know your tricks, and merely tweaking an easily guessable password does not make it secure.” Additionally, Slain points out that attackers are quick to use common pop culture terms to break into accounts online, in case you thought you were the only Star Wars fan.

    Password advice hasn’t changed any more than people’s proclivity for horrible reused passwords, but here’s a quick refresher: think complex pass phrases rather than simple pass words, and create unique passwords for every account. Reusing passwords on multiple accounts leaves all of them vulnerable: if one account is compromised, attackers can test out that password on all of your other accounts. Memorizing unique passwords for dozens of accounts ain’t easy, though, so storing passwords in a password manager will let the tech do the heavy lifting. It won’t just make you more secure, it will simplify your life as the manager can fill password forms for you.


    Read more: The Motherboard Guide To Not Getting Hacked

    Unfortunately, much of the oft-repeated advice on passwords is often incorrect, including that from login forms complimenting users on their supposedly strong passwords. A 2015 research study from Concordia University showed that strength measurements on password strength meters on popular websites and password managers were highly inconsistent. They may even lead users astray and provide a false sense of confidence, since they rely on length, variety of characters, and sometimes common words or weak patterns, but fail to identify other weak patterns and do not account for replacing letters with similar numerical characters, for example, even though any malicious hacker worth their salt certainly would.

    “In our large-scale empirical analysis, it is evident that the commonly-used meters are highly inconsistent, fail to provide coherent feedback, and sometimes provide strength measurements that are blatantly misleading,” the study read.

    In addition to using a good passphrase (whether that’s a ≥12-character passphrase with various symbols, letters, and numbers or a seven-word diceware phrase), setting up two-factor authentication on your email accounts is a good idea. 2FA will add an extra layer of security by asking for a second factor in addition to a username and password to prove your identity. As digital freedom non-profit organization Access Now points out, 2FA via SMS has many drawbacks, ranging from shoulder surfing, the possibility of attackers hijacking messages by counterfeiting SIM cards or infiltrating mobile carriers, and the vulnerability of mobile networks themselves. Codes generated on phone apps like Google Authenticator or on a small hardware device like Yubikey are generally better bets than SMS messages.


    Having 2FA enabled makes it far more difficult for an attacker to access your account. This is of particular importance on email accounts since malicious actors can typically reset all other passwords from an email account. Having 2FA set up on your email account can stop that—unless the attacker can crack your easy, awful password anyway, that is.

    The complete list of the 25 most common passwords this year follows below:
    1. 123456
    2. Password
    3. 12345678
    4. qwerty
    5. 12345
    6. 123456789
    7. letmein
    8. 1234567
    9. football
    10. iloveyou
    11. admin
    12. welcome
    13. monkey
    14. login
    15. abc123
    16. starwars
    17. 123123
    18. dragon
    19. passw0rd
    20. master
    21. hello
    22. freedom
    23. whatever
    24. qazwsx
    25. trustno1
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We still don’t have those scanners from Men in Black that take a sample of your blood for verification? Thanks Obama
 
If you still use password as your password, you are a retard. Doesn't take a genius to tell you that.
 
Password? Seriously?:lol:

I know random nonsense can be hard to remember. You can always write it down and hide the note somewhere. But using anything common is a bad idea. Is your cat's name Muffin? Do you instagram Muffin's pics all the time? Then don't use muffin or even muff1n. It's way too easy to figure out. People are stupid. If you use an easy to figure out password and you get hacked I hope you've learned a valuable lesson.

And change your bank passwords regularly. Don't rotate them. Make each one different.
 
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