Comment Re:First Post (Score 4, Funny) 162
Someone let the white smoke out...
Someone let the white smoke out...
Damn, that's a useful device! Amazon carries this one and the slightly smaller QE4531 if you want faster shipping than the month wait on SentrySafe's website.
I know I probably lose geek points, but after fighting with interference on wireless phones (2.4 and 5 ghz) or headsets that don't go loud enough, I went out to Walmart, bought the cheapest POTS phone I could find that didn't have an answering machine in it. Then I bought a 50-foot handset cord, and tie-wrapped it to the side of my network rack. Yeah, I can't make it to rack # 15, but for casual "read me the diag lights" calls to vendors, works pretty good.
In a study involving 130 people, the researchers found that 28 percent of the people who knew and were trusted by the study's participants could guess the correct answers to the participant's secret questions. Even people not trusted by the participant still had a 17 percent chance of guessing the correct answer to a secret question.
The least-secure questions are simple ones whose answers can be guessed with no existing knowledge of the subject, the researchers say. For example, the answers to the questions "What is your favorite town?" and "What is your favorite sports team?" were relatively easy for participants to guess. All told, 30 percent and 57 percent of the correct answers, respectively, appeared in the top-five list of guesses.
Oh for the want of modpoints...
For thee 50 GP tribute, I raise thee 300!
Just don't let him try to fly the shuttle to coordinates 6,6,6 to try and get his ring back!
Now, I must admit, I've twice before gotten 10 moderator points at a time. At which time, I had gone looking to find out if this was indeed a
"The one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception a neccessity." - Oscar Wilde