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Oh, sweet Lord, yes! A few of your points in particular:

IANA psychologist, but here's the armchair difference as I understand it: Sociopathic behavior is driven by some misguided version of self-interest, whereas psychopathic behavior acts without regard to self-interest. For a simple (over)generalization, if you piss off a murderous sociopath, he will stalk you and attempt to kill you at a time and in a manner where he believes he's most likely to get away with it. If you piss off a murderous psychopath, he will likely attempt to kill you immediately with whatever he happens to have at hand, up to and including strangling you with his bare hands in front of a group of law enforcement officers.

Another Aeropress fan here! It's perfect for me since I'm the only one in the house that drinks coffee. I do have a standard drip machine for when we have guests and I need more than one cup at a time.

I discovered the wonders of Aeropress on a coffee-related Ask Slashdot a few years ago.

Why am I not surprised that someone who would go to a setup like that is using an IBM Model M keyboard? Awesome.

I'm in my second semester of going back to school pursuing an engineering degree. So far, I've had a group project both semesters, and have had good experiences in both. They have both been in engineering classes, rather than gen-ed, which makes a lot of difference. The only downside is that I learned if the group project is a research paper, and the group consists of Kushal, Hatim, Stanislav, and Josh, it's going to be Josh that gets stuck doing all the final edits. Not to criticize the rest of the group; they're smart guys who did good work, but the writing needed a bit of cleanup by someone for whom English is their primary language.

In one of the earliest meetings for the group project this semester, one of the girls in the group said, "I always hated group projects in high school, because I always ended up being the smart one that got stuck doing all the work. I don't mind them now, because we're all 'the smart one'."

Not even close. Looking at the other responses, I'm clearly not the only one who's thought of this joke.

My personal favorite SSID that I've seen was when I was eating at Buffalo Wild Wings. I went to connect my phone and saw their public hotspot, but someone nearby had set up one called "pubes in my bww". I'm assuming it was just some customer with a sense of humor, but I like to think it could also be either an unhappy neighbor or a semi-disgruntled staff member.

Cheap phones in AP mode with maliciously-chosen SSIDs, randomly distributed at airports = instant DoS attack against the US air travel system.

Doesn't really seem like Al Quida's style, but I imagine people at Amtrack and Greyhound might be interested.

That was my first thought. I know when I'm running my phone as a hot-spot, I have the SSID set to "FBI Surveillance Van 42".

Well, now that we've had 3 cases in the Dallas area, we might actually see the US-Mexico border secured... ...by the Mexican government.

If the pile of cash disappears down some pocket, then when you are dragged to court to produce the password, you explain the password storage method to the judge, and the fact that no pile of cash was entered into evidence shows that evidence tampering occurred. Assuming you are in a legal jurisdiction where the rule of law holds any sway, this should get the case thrown out.

If you're in a jurisdiction where this doesn't apply, you're pretty much screwed anyway, (and it's all but guaranteed that your pile of cash disappeared into a pocket rather than the evidence locker.) Granted, in a no-rule-of-law jurisdiction, I'd recommend this method only for data you would literally rather die than give up. The Powers That Be aren't going to stop torturing you once you tell them about your password method, they'll keep torturing you hoping that you're lying and you really can produce the password if they push hard enough. At some point, you'll really wish you had a way to give them the password.

An obvious variation of this is to have a pile of cash that contains 48 bills, with a password constructed from the serials as described, plus something extra you have memorized and inserted in specific spots in the sequence. Then when dragged before the judge, you say that the password was from the serials of the 50 bills you had next to the computer. "What, there's only 48 now? Well, you can try the existing sequence and brute force the remaining digits, but since there are 2 bills missing, there's no way to know for certain where in the sequence to insert the missing digits for the brute force attempt, and since the stack was obviously tampered with, there's no guarantee that the remaining bills are in the original order."

AC here actually gets the point of this method - you have plausible deniability - "I can't produce my password from memory because it was based on the pile of cash. A pile that is suspiciously smaller than it was before the raid."

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Here's a version compatible with KeePass 2.0 databases. This version also has native support for syncing databases stored in DropBox, Gdrive, or even over FTP, (which beats my old method of using a 3rd-party file syncing app)

Forget making up your own phrase - just talk to a child under 8 for a little while. I guarantee they will say something completely random, totally memorable, and guaranteed not to show up in a phrase-based dictionary. Here's a sample of passwords I have used in the past that originated with my nephew - now 7.

I wanna be a squid when I grow up!
I'm a lizard in a swimsuit with a wedgie.
The backyard smells like a wombat
My grandma's stinking it up!

(The last one, by the way, was shouted when Grandma had taken him into a public bathroom with her. No relevance whatsoever to picking a secure password, but just take a couple of seconds to imagine walking past a public bathroom and overhearing a kid yelling that.)

Additionally, quoting Monty Python on a regular basis leads to a 400% increase in divorce threats from my wife.

Mod parent up!

For what it's worth, my wife and I have been married a bit over 15 years, dated a little over 3 years. We got married right out of college, and were therefore broke as heck. My parents paid for the rehearsal dinner, but the rest came out of our pockets. We spent somewhere around $2400, (not counting rings) with the photos making about a third of that. We had somewhere around 300 people at our wedding, which included a general invitation to everyone at the church we attended at the time. To fill in the rest of the data points, we attend church regularly, didn't live together prior to the wedding, and while I think my wife is hot, she certainly didn't marry me for my money. Oh, and we're still pretty broke.