Re: [OT: Elfquest]
On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 10:23:54AM -0400, Bret Comstock Waldow wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 13:50, David Fokkema wrote:
>
> > <taking a sip of salted water> <swallowing it with some difficulties>
> > <taking a sip of fresh water> Yes, indeed! Funny (and lucky) my taste
> > buds for 'bitterness' didn't kick in.
>
> Salt is not bitter. In fact, salt suppresses bitter, so it's added to
> treats/sweets/goodies in order to make them taste sweeter, by
> suppressing the bitter. Bitter, in turn, suppresses sweetness, so
> suppressing bitter enhances sweetness.
Actually, I know that. Saturating your salt taste buds by taking a sip
of salt water is (I think) what's making sweet water taste a bit sweet
afterwards. But that could mean (it doesn't) that the taste buds for
bitterness are also eager to get released by a fresh sip of sweet water.
Apparently (I didn't realize that) the salt suppresses the bitter for a
while longer, while your sweet buds don't feel this effect ;-)
> And in order to graft some GNU/Linux-ness into this, adding "salt" to
> passwords (random characters) helps suppress the "bitterness" of having
> your system cracked by brute-force dictionary approaches.
;-))
David
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