My suggestion is the story only you can tell. As stupid as that sounds, what I mean is-- how many people could this happen to?
That's a good call.
And almost sixty-five percent of that was actual compliment. Is that a personal best?
Xander ,'End of Days'
Natter 40: The Nice One
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Jesse - Nov 16, 2005 10:36:51 am PST #4678 of 10006
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
tommyrot - Nov 16, 2005 10:53:20 am PST #4679 of 10006
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Is Jilli about?
Monty Python Killer Rabbit Plush
Death with Big Pointy Teeth
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Emily - Nov 16, 2005 10:56:39 am PST #4680 of 10006
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
So hey, I totally get wanting passwords to be unguessable by others. But there's a line past which they become totally unguessable by the owners, which I think is the point at which it becomes ineffective.
tommyrot - Nov 16, 2005 10:59:55 am PST #4681 of 10006
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Ooh - windchill in Chicago is now 9 degrees F.
Actuall temperature is 25 - it's just very windy.
§ ita § - Nov 16, 2005 11:03:27 am PST #4682 of 10006
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
But there's a line past which they become totally unguessable by the owners, which I think is the point at which it becomes ineffective.
What's the policy in question?
It was very windy in Simi yesterday. Made it feel mid 70s. Huh. It's not rained much this November. My first two Novembers come back to me as a whole lot of rain.
Emily - Nov 16, 2005 11:05:26 am PST #4683 of 10006
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
8 characters, one capital, one lowercase, one number, one non-alphanumeric.
Also, this new system my university has just implemented is a freaking nightmare.
Tom Scola - Nov 16, 2005 11:06:04 am PST #4684 of 10006
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
tommyrot, the company that manufactures the Rabbit with Big Pointy Teeth plush also makes a "Gilly" plush.
tommyrot - Nov 16, 2005 11:08:18 am PST #4685 of 10006
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Oh cool - I didn't realize they were the same company.
bon bon - Nov 16, 2005 11:08:46 am PST #4686 of 10006
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
I have a similar password problem. It's easier to remember if you start it with an uppercase and end with a punctuation like Emi1y!
§ ita § - Nov 16, 2005 11:09:09 am PST #4687 of 10006
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
That's the same one we have at my office -- you just need a system. How often do you have to change them? Me, I do something like:
- pick a word you'll remember
- capitalise one letter of it
- put a period between two of the syllables
- replace one of the letters with a digit, and you can increment that digit if you have to change the password regularly
So I could end up with something like Am1lio.ration. Or whatever.