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Comment Sing your password in numbers. (Score 1) 895

As a password when I was a wee lad, I used to sing "Marry had a little lamb" while typing out it's corresponding telephone notation on the keyboard numpad. It was a suprisingly effective way to remember a huge string of numbers and symbols. I remember it as clear as day:

Grab a handset and dial: 65456665556**6545666655654

Good luck cracking that password.

And just for fun, here's a nifty grown-up password system I use that ensures an easy to remember password that is different for everything you visit:
1.) Pick a word. - ex: apple
2.) L33t-a-fie it - ex: 4pp13
3.) Take the first three letters of the domain/service you're using and add them somehow. - (ex: slashdot, gmail, amazon)
- If you're visiting GMail, your password becomes: gma4pp13
- If you're visiting slashdot your password becomes: sla4pp13
- If you're visiting Amazon your password becomes: ama4pp13

Now you have an easily memorable password that is different for every single place you use it, yet very secure and garbled.

* For added swank, use a foreign base word.
* You could also disburse your destination letters differently. IE, gma4pp13 becomes g4mpap13
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Violent Games 'Almost' As Dangerous as Smoking 545

Via Voodoo Extreme, a Reuters report on some very 'interesting' research into violent games. A study out of the University of Michigan has apparently found that 'exposure to violent electronic media' is almost as dangerous to our society as smoking. "'The research clearly shows that exposure to virtual violence increases the risk that both children and adults will behave aggressively,' said Huesmann, adding it could have a particularly detrimental effect on the well-being of youngsters. Although not every child exposed to violence in the media will become aggressive, he said it does not diminish the need for greater control on the part of parents and society of what children are exposed to in films, video games and television programs."

Windows Vista SP1 Hands-On Details 409

babyshiori writes "Users of Microsoft Windows Vista can rejoice in the fact that Microsoft just released a preview of the Windows Vista Service Pack 1 Release Candidate! The build is the lead-up to the actual service pack, which will be made available to even more testers at a later date. 'In our early tests with the beta, we saw some small improvements in boot time on an HP Compaq 8710p Core 2 Duo notebook. Before SP1, the laptop took 1 minute, 51 seconds to boot. After the update, that figure dropped by almost 20 seconds. Microsoft is also touting improvements in "the speed of copying and extracting files," so we tested a few of those scenarios. We noted a slight increase in the time required to copy 562 JPEG images totaling 1.9GB from an SD Card to the hard drive of the aforementioned HP Compaq notebook.'"

Comment Re:Ohhhhh the violence... (Score 1) 507

What?! Violence is a part of human nature. Every living organism on this planet destroys and consumes other organisms to survive. Humans, America specifically, thrives on violence. The back bone of this horribly mediocre society is the Bible, one of the most violent works ever written. As a whole, we need to stop fearing violence and death. We need to teach our young ones that death is a part of life, and vice versa. Before I go off more and become flame bate, I will stop here and leave you with a neat quote. "If adult entertainment killing our children, or is killing our children entertaining adults?"

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