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Comment Re:Seagate (Score 2) 161

> The short story is that Maxtor was the first to have a Marketing department take advantage of that, knowing full well most people see MB and assume powers of 2.

Then most people are stupid. Stop trying to bastardize the SI prefixes for your hard drive edge case, in every other measure Mega is a base 10 power, not base 2.

Comment Re:Citi is the worst, GW2 at the other end (Score 1) 271

> Compound this with the fact that they kick out "any password used by you or anybody else *ever*" as a password change, which makes it absolutely clear that they store all passwords in plaintext, and I'm not really impressed with those jokers either.

No, no it doesn't. You dont need to know what the source text was to do a digest comparison.

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