There are so many stories to tell about the FIDE and corruption. If you are interested google for Kirsan Ilyumzhinov.. the president of the FIDE. He does not need to hide behind Blatter..

It's just soccer is covered by television and chess is not. That's why you don't hear about it usually.

The article says his password was 30 characters long. But maybe it still wasn't a strong password. Weak ones can be brute-forced pretty easily.

If they knew what they had there (and the balance of the wallet was in the blockchain, they probably knew exactly who they were targeting here), you could throw an awful lot of resources at bruteforcing the password. (Lets face it, they had this guy's bank accounts and PayPal - I wonder how much of his own money they spent on AWS cracking his wallet password?)

Talk about adding insult to injury. Imagine someone using your credit cards to buy compute time to brute-force your passwords.

You can't brute force a 30 character password that has randomness. Not with all the computers on the planet together.

Sure, depending on what you actually mean by "has randomness".

"correct horse battery staple"

is 29 characters, but it's _much_ more likely to fall to hashcat than

"OckivpykophshifcuvTocJorj%opAd"

I've only got 4 truly random passwords stored solely in my head, and they're all down at 12 chars because I need to write them down much above that instead of being reliably able to remember them (and yeah, I've got stuff I no longer have access to because I've forgotten the password...). There's a serious tradeoff to be made with a password for "millions of dollars worth of bitcoin" - where do you balance the "it's super secure" against the "Shit! I forgot the password!" (And if your first answer is "that's what password safes are for", then you've just moved the problem to the password safe's password...)

(With a reasonable dictionary, "correct horse battery staple" will probably pop out from hashcat in under a second on a Raspberry Pi! ;-) )

Perfect questions.. and also Europe consists of many countries.. Are the immigrants evenly distributed between them? I doubt it.

> Are the immigrants evenly distributed between them?

No. There was a hot debate about this in 2015, with countries that take more refugees than average [1] arguing for quotas that would implement a more even distribution. I distinctly remember that a compromise was made, and in the end, some 50 refugees were actually relocated to a different EU country.

[1] Relative to population size.

define evenly.

Although calling 1.e4 aggressive is kind of inaccurate there is some truth behind it. You could at least consider it to be active or ambitious :)

1.e4 introduces a quick development of the white kingside and also the center usually is opened very early in the game.

Still the article proves to be somehow unqualified in terms of chess with the following sentence: 'It’s an aggressive tactic, putting the bishop and queen into play.. '.

Usually it is not a good idea to develop the queen early on and certainly not the idea behind 1.e4.

About 9 months ago i created https://namesmith.io , a business and domain name generator. I practically did nothing to boost the search engine ranking but the volume of visitors is growing (very slowly).

So far the site can barely cover my vserver cost but that's ok since I can use the server for more than just namesmith. Most of the time some few dollar amounts tickle in but I had some sales of premium domains which gave > 50$ each.

I still plan to add some more features, such as URL shortening, but at the time it is not worth it.

I just tried it, list of X was generated, clicked Register on 1 I liked, took me to register, said 'is taken' :(

Is this common or did I do something wrong?

That's very nice tool! You can add accounts so a user can persist the starred ones.

Thanks! I considered accounts in the beginning but didn't go through with it because most users don't want to create yet another account.

Also the favorites should persist via cookies at least for some time.

this is pretty good! haha i am gonna use it (:

Every change that stops people from reading this awful newspaper should be welcomed..

though I somehow have the feeling that few of the people using AdBlock actually read Bild..

Hehe thanks! Glad you like it. It's really really good to hear positive feedback after all that time tinkering with it :)

Thanks for your feedback.

I'm not sure yet what is causing the problem. It could be that someone just registered the domain because i cache the results for a few minutes.. or the api I use produces too many bad results.. I will hopefully figure it out.

Your other point is already on my todo list and will be implemented soon. I'm still in the process of unifying different affiliate merchants.. using some of them directly, some via CJ makes things ugly (code wise).

For some reason all of the consulting names are hilarious to me. "baconsulting" "mexiconsulting"

I've worked with CJ apis before and they were pretty bad.

Yea it can spit out hilarious stuff..

Just to update you. Some affiliate links (e.g. namecheap) now redirect directly to the corresponding domain.

I've also changed the domain availability check from the api I used before to a homegrown dns ns lookup. This is not 100% accurate too but seems to be better and a lot faster until now!

Thanks!

I used UIkit (http://getuikit.com/) as frontend framework. After having used boostrap and others, I really like it most.

Other than that I did everything myself.. layout, colors etc. with one exception: I didn't create the icons on the landing page myself but the attribution is mentioned on the about page.

Hey thanks! It's nice to get some positive feedback on a project :)

I use an api from a domain registrar to check domain availability at the moment. I will investigate this.. should not be happening.

The automatic checking is a bit of a problem with the current design. It would be very many domains to check at once even if most are not inspected by the user.. I'm still thinking about a better system here.