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LogGrad98 said:
I agree with this with every fiber of my being. I get the importance of data security, but really.

So I developed a method that works very well for me, fits the requirements of 99% of all password systems, and is easy to remember and very difficult to crack.

Step 1: Pick a 4 letter word and a 4 digit number that somehow go together, for you (yeah it can be that kind of 4 letter word if you want)
Example: jazz1997

Step 2: Alternate "shift" while typing in the new password. This gets you a combination of upper case, lower case, and symbols and numbers in your password.
Example: JaZz!9(7

Step 3: For added security, string a couple of these together. Security firms have shown that 8 characters is the "sweet spot" for remembering a password and providing decent protection against cracking, especially the password has all of the major character groups represented (upper case, lower case, numbers, symbols), but 16 characters is the magic number for making it virtually impossible to crack with known decryption methods. Something like hundreds of years to crack it.
Example: jazz1997 and karl1985, combined you get jazz1997karl1985, and then shift every other character gets you JaZz!9(7KaRl!9*5 - awesome password there, very easy to remember,.

The only downside to this method is remembering the symbols to be able to enter a password like this on a mobile device, but you can always just add a certain symbol at a certain point that you can always remember and change the words around it like this:

Jazz*1997&Karl*1985

So keeping the *'s and & intact, along with the numbers, and just make the first letter of the words upper case. Still far easier to remember and way more secure than what most people normally do with these, like adding a number at the end and just incrementing it +1 for every new password, like johnspassword1, then johnspassword2, etc.
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People that use their actual bank password in online examples of how to use passwords.


Wait... not a pet peeve, thank you.
 
I have a wife and 4 kids. You think you can get blood from that turnip be my guest.
 
But seriously, I hate it when I leave an awesome neg and forget to actually click the button, thus giving them a really rude pos rep.

Now I owe you two, HighlandHomo.
 
LogGrad98 said:
Lemme guess...canon?
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Gameface said:
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Here is a way to trick your printer. Every day, or it can also be every other day or so, run a small print job that uses lots of colors, like a rainbow in a black box, but very small on the page. This will run enough ink through the tanks that the printer thinks it is printing so it won't go into that ****ed up cleaning cycle so frequently. And it costs you a piece of paper (hint use the same paper for this each day) and a tiny amount of ink instead of 20% of each tank weekly.

The other way to trick the printer is to throw it away and get a new canon, or any other brand. Canon did this ostensibly to mollify some vocal critics of their ink heads drying up and getting clogged, so now if you go so long between print jobs it runs this gawd-awful cleaning cycle to keep the print head clear. Their newer printers instead run a limited clean less frequently. I have a newer one that is far better on ink.
 
LogGrad98 said:
Here is a way to trick your printer. Every day, or it can also be every other day or so, run a small print job that uses lots of colors, like a rainbow in a black box, but very small on the page. This will run enough ink through the tanks that the printer thinks it is printing so it won't go into that ****ed up cleaning cycle so frequently. And it costs you a piece of paper (hint use the same paper for this each day) and a tiny amount of ink instead of 20% of each tank weekly.

The other way to trick the printer is to throw it away and get a new canon, or any other brand. Canon did this ostensibly to mollify some vocal critics of their ink heads drying up and getting clogged, so now if you go so long between print jobs it runs this gawd-awful cleaning cycle to keep the print head clear. Their newer printers instead run a limited clean less frequently. I have a newer one that is far better on ink.
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I upgraded like 2 years ago. This sucks. I like my printer in general, but these cleans seriously cost like $20 a pop.
 
bigb said:
When people know I am coming to work on their house (because they called me) and yet still leave a ton of **** piled right where they know I need to work. So apparently the job description for electricians now includes "movers" because you can't figure out that I actually have to get access to the plugs that don't work that you called me to fix.
"No, don't worry about it. I LOVE moving your dresser, two night stands, bed, and computer desk because those plugs have something wrong with them and stopped working all the time. And don't worry, you just stand there and watch while I move it by myself."
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Tbh bro, I would def not think of moving stuff before an electrition came to my house. Would prolly help with the moving doe.


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Restaurant catch-phrases. Is there a special school where people go to learn how to come up with new ones?

A few years ago when I first was asked by a waiter "How are you finding everything?" I thought it sounded a little odd. Then I started to hear it more and more at different places and I've been tempted to answer "I'm finding it on my plate where it belongs. Should I be looking elsewhere?" So far I've managed to keep my snarky comments to myself.

So last night we're out to dinner at a nice place in Malibu and the waitstaff (another term that didn't even exist twenty-five years ago, but I digress...) kept coming around asking "Have you finished enjoying your _________ ?" (fill in the blank... the bread, your soup, your shrimp cocktail, your ice tea...)

I'm a fairly slow eater plus I often like to save a bit of my salad to eat with my main course, or maybe use a piece of bread to soak up some of the broth from my entree - or maybe I'm just not 100% certain that I've really, truly "finished enjoying" whatever it is you want to take from me.

I jokingly told my daughter and husband that I was waiting for them to ask if we had finished enjoying the view (right on the coast overlooking the waves pounding the shore, it was magnificent!) and were ready to get up from the table.

At any rate. I'm wondering if Im going to start to hear that more often...

Whatever happened to a simple "Can I bring you anything else right now?" or "May I clear some of these plates from the table?"

But it was a wonderful meal and a great restaurant and the Butter Cake for dessert was amazing!

(It was also the first time I've ever been asked if I'd prefer "dark linens or white" - but perhaps that's a discussion for a different thread! LOL)
 
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UGLI baby said:
Tbh bro, I would def not think of moving stuff before an electrition came to my house. Would prolly help with the moving doe.


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I've met you and you can't possibly be this stupid.


bigb said:
When people know I am coming to work on their house (because they called me) and yet still leave a ton of **** piled right where they know I need to work. So apparently the job description for electricians now includes "movers" because you can't figure out that I actually have to get access to the plugs that don't work that you called me to fix.
"No, don't worry about it. I LOVE moving your dresser, two night stands, bed, and computer desk because those plugs have something wrong with them and stopped working all the time. And don't worry, you just stand there and watch while I move it by myself."
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Speaking of work problems, I hate it when Governor Gary Gumshoe sends me on a witch hunt to shut down a business for some unknown reason (probably a real estate deal, it is what he used to do right???) because some out of state organization put out what amounts to a sensationalized youtube video akin to another "there's cyborg aliens on teh dark side of teh moonz yo".

Pretty sure I shouldn't have posted that.
 
People who don't push in their chairs when they get up from a table.
 
People who get all pissed off when I don't push my chair in when I get up from the table.
 
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