Surprise! It’s 123456! Dark Helmet: So the combination is… one, two, three, four, five? That’s the stupidest combination I’ve ever heard in my life! The kind of thing an idiot would have on his luggage! [next scene] President Skroob: Did it work? Where’s the king? Dark Helmet: It worked, sir. We have the combination. President …
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Despite the title, the power grid itself is apparently not at risk — because its computers don’t run on Windows. Despite the (deservedly) bad reputation it has in security circles, there is something to be said for “security through obscurity.” 🙂
An interesting rider to the old saying.
“A fool and his money,” the saying goes, “are soon parted.” Will people ever figure out that if something sounds too good to be true, it’s because it is?! When the scam-ees let their own greed do most of the scammers’ work for them, the scammers don’t have to be very smart to waltz away …
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“[A] new record for stupidly large lawsuit demands.”
An interesting, if rather unhygienic, idea.
Judging by history, this (or rather, a much, much smaller and sleeker version of it) represents the kind of computing power we’ll all be playing with in another decade. Or maybe less.
Hm… Go tinker with windows mobile. As someone who has written serious, production-quality code for WM5 and WM6, I say this from many months of hard experience: I WOULD RATHER STICK A FONDUE FORK THROUGH MY [censored]. Never the [censored] again will I develop for that platform. My god, I thought X11 was bad… Do …
When “if it bleeds, it leads” falls flat, this is the kind of sensationalist reporting that you get. It’s a good thing that we aren’t paying for content, I’d hate to actually pay for this kind of drivel.
You’ve got to love the human race’s ability to turn off its collective brain.