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When my printer decides I have too much ink and goes into a "clean" that uses up 20% of every cartridge I just paid $90 to replace.
 
Gameface said:
When my printer decides I have too much ink and goes into a "clean" that uses up 20% of every cartridge I just paid $90 to replace.
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Lemme guess...canon?
 
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."
 
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.
 
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