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 -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus. Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
