Author: Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Occasional Puzzle: Passwords

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[SKIP ALL THIS IF YOU WANT TO GET STRAIGHT TO THE PUZZLE] A couple of days go the cloud password vault system "LastPass" was hacked.  Based on what I've read, their user tables were taken, which includes email addresses, password reminders, user salts, and authentication hashes.  Without getting overly technical, what happens when

Who are you? Where are you going?

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As some of you may have noticed, there's been some talk of migrating away from wordpress.com and off to our very own home.  We'd still use wordpress for publishing (so nothing would be all that different); we'd just be hosted elsewhere.  If we do that, of course, our new manor

KSK Radio 6-12-15

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Welcome to another installment of KSK Radio!  A couple of notes before we face the music: If you posted something and it didn't make it onto the playlist, don't take it personally.  There are a few videos that won't embed outside of youtube, so I have to cut them. If you haven't

Melisandre faces the Small Council

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INT. SMALL COUNCIL CHAMBERS - DAY VARYS: All right, the small council has received the raven regarding Miss Melisandre's conduct at the Siege of Winterfell, endorsement from the Warden of the North...Maester Pycelle? PYCELLE: As her supervisor I would describe Melinsandre's progress as quite remarkable. Taking into account her dedication to R'hllor and

KSK Radio 6-5-15

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Is it me, or does it seem like the dissatisfaction with Uproxx is getting more intense?  Anyhow, I'm happy that Ape will get a nice bit of a break from having to do PK takedowns - he deserves it.  Here's to hoping everyone has a productive work week; I'm setting

Occasional Puzzle: NFL SAT’s

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Inspired by my insinuation that Marissa Mayer's fingerprints were all over Yahoo's incomprehensible decision to shell out $20 million to broadcast a game between two terrible teams that was already being shown in the local markets (I personally don't believe Marissa had anything to do with it), I thought I'd prepare

Puzzle Solutions

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This is a permanent post that will contain puzzle solutions. SOLUTION: ROSTER CUTS Given three players, there are only seven potential arrangements of helmets - starting with Damiere on the left-hand side, here are all of them (S = silver, B= blue): SSS SSB SBS BSS SBB BSB BBS Damiere can see both other players, but the ONLY way he can

KSK Radio – Archives

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So I finished writing the code snippets I needed (or more appropriately, found some code samples from Google and tinkered with them a little bit) and can now easily make playlists of all the youtube contributions folks make on Friday open threads.  I'll be archiving some of the older ones

KSK Radio 5-29-15

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Happy Monday, everybody! I'm putting together some code to strip the youtube videos from KSK's Friday posts and make them into playlists.  Here's my first effort.  I wrote the code for getting all the links, but right now I have to cut and paste them into youtube's playlist builder manually.  So

The Underballing Issue

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No, this isn't a post about my significant other's failure to cup the balls properly.  Much like the text messages on Tom Brady's cellphone, that's none of your business.  I'm just getting sick of everything Ballghazi-related getting spammed with Underball going into contortions to defend the Patriots.  I feel like

Weekly Puzzle: Champions and Cheaters

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[INT, NFL Headquarters] GOODELL: No, no...it's just...Peter...listen to me...STOP CRYING! [takes breath] It's in the past, it really is. Just, next time, please wash your hands first. With soap. Thoroughly. All right. Yes. Of course, Peter, I won't be restricting your access to nuggets one iota. [hangs up phone] GOODELL: [under his breath]