The Best Password

Passwords can stress you out if you let them. My health insurance exchange requires a password to be changed every so often, and won’t accept any that I’ve used before, plus you have to remember the old one to set a new one. I have trouble remembering any passwords that have been changed, so it’s good that my computer remembers for me. But I also need a password to boot up the computer. And if I need to print something, I must go to the library, and when I’m asked for a password for email or whatever, I am lost. Sure, a password must be secure, but it must also be something you can remember. Admin/password seems easy to remember. I’ll have to use that sometime, although some sites might not like me going around calling myself “admin.” This is the latest from CommitStrip.


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My company insisted on a new password every month, and the software remembered the last ten used. So, I settled on the Month name and Number in a fixed format. Thus, 'October-10' worked just fine. Right number of capitals, numerals, special characters, all that. The secret was in the format, not the content. Worked fine for ten years.
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This might have been true a decade ago, but modern routers use one of two security measures: A preset password printed on the outside of the router or requiring a password be set by the first device that connects to it.
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I have all my passwords managed at an inexpensive password service, so they're all in a database on my phone and my computers. No trouble at all. Also, I can log in from any computer in the world and retreive a password.
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"This doesn’t outlaw the measurement or reporting of sea-level rise. It only says how state agencies will or will not do it."

But they HAVE to use the long-discredited hockey stick model that the one true scientific authority tells them to use, otherwise they're being not just stupid, but evil. They're murdering millions of dollars in grant money! Don't you care about that?
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This doesn't outlaw the measurement or reporting of sea-level rise. It only says how state agencies will or will not do it. I don't see what the problem is. We didn't like the state agencies (or federal agencies for that matter) doing this in the first place.
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Shades of Shrodinger's Cat, rising sea levels haven't risen if they aren't measured. Extrapolating potential rise in sea level using century old data is just dumb, no matter what side of the arguement you take.
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Yeaaah!
What a great idea that is.
I've always said: don't just let anyone measure stuff when they want to, there would be chaos. What we need is one government-authorized committee per thing to measure in the universe. And only when they're asked to by the government.
Also, don't let those "scientists" fool you with their statistical analysis and fancy "exponential growth" mumbo-jumbo! Everyone knows nature always behaves linearly. So be a real scientist: draw a straight line through a graph!
That's how science works, innit?
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