Most consumers don’t buy their own routers. The only time I’ve helped people buy routers in the last decade is to get one you could install a vpn on. Looking at the wireless standards never crossed our minds.

Canadians as a dogwhistle for what, dare I ask? Or was that part of what you refused to ask?

At&t lost a bunch of people’s SSNs

Why do they even have SSNs to lose?

To check for terrorism

(Also/but) that doesn’t mean they need to store it.

Be honest. Which word actually makes sense?

“Also” doesn’t make sense in context.

I think this miscommunication is more on you for taking it as an attack towards yourself when it was pretty clearly suspicious towards at&t, not you. In the future, I suggest trying to read things as charitably as possible. It will make forums a much more pleasant place if you don’t immediately assume aggression based on pretty innocuous words.

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To keep the same probabilities, you can only reduce and only to one that is a factor. E.g. d20 can be equivalent to d10, d5, d4 and d2.

Multiplying the rolls messes things up. As an example, for d12 as a d6xd2 you have double the chance to roll 2, 4, and 6 and no chance to roll 7, 9, and 11.

You could make the equation a little more complicated (6×(d2-1))+d6 to make it work.

But if you roll the d00 on accident, you can easily still treat it as a d10. If you roll the d8/4, you can’t.

If you read the article it’s explained that some SSL implementations put random data in the time field (OpenSSL was given as an example). Microsoft knows about this and so needs a certain number of closely matching timestamps to be confident about the new time to change the system time. However, if you get particularly unlucky with a string of random timestamps that match, you end up with a random time.

Most of what they use your data for is to serve you ads. If you’re blocking ads, that data isn’t all that valuable.