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We do it to satisfy client audits.
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My favourite is the security question where a valid answer is invalid!
Stupid Security: What colour was your first car?
Me: Blue
Stupid Security: Sorry, your answer must contain at least 6 characters.
Me: OK, my first car was "F-ck Off!" coloured! 
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That is an odd security question since there are only about 10 expected possible answers.
Perfect example of an inconvenience introduced in the name of security that has no benefit.
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More than ten, Shirley.
I had a Ford Ka whose colour was Karome, for example.
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Kyudos wrote: My favourite is the security question where a valid answer is invalid!
My favorite is when they force me to pick from a set of canned insecurity questions that I have no possible legitimate answer to.
ex "What is your favorite sports team" - "none! the tax swilling vermin sucking as the public teat should die in a fire for wasting my money on enormous new boondogles that despite their lies never actually earn out the amount of money they extorted from the govt."
"what is your favorite niece's name" - "not that it's any of your elephanting business; but unless they're not telling me something none of my siblings have children."
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I've got some sites I have to visit occasionally. Maybe 3, 4 times a year.
Of course, the passwords expire every 60 days.
So I have to create a new password every single time I go to those sites.
Sigh.
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Is it just me who gets irritated by the fact that all google search results provide links which go via google? These links seem to pause for a couple of seconds (yeah I know....) before going to wherever it is I want them to go. It just seems to be getting noticeably slower.
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That's because Google indexes the page hits, and also most likely adds the clicked link to your personal search history.
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Paddington Bear wrote: pause
Paws, Shirley?
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A funny clause selection (I lined up another one for you)
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I quit Google for this reason; since a few weeks now it becomes very difficult to browse the results, especially if you have some Adblock-like extensions on your browser.
while (!working) {
Reboot();
}
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Three words: DuckDuckGo[^]. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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I tried that a while back. It was so-so a the time but I ended up going back to the evil google at some point. Can't recall why.
Think I will give it another go though.
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Tried them a while back and got mediocre at best results. Went back to Bing. (I'm free of Google.)
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I adopted this one
while (!working) {
Reboot();
}
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It's actually kind of funny. A long, long, time ago (ok not that long but early Google) I wanted to work for Google. With an unimpressive résumé at the time I figured the best way to get the job was to author a search engine that had a unique feature they didn't have. This was the feature I chose.
Unfortunately, I never finished the project. Got a job : )
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It works fine for me. It does what it says and I don't care about the rest as I have it adblocked away.
PS. I have specifically excluded CodeProject from being blocked as I think we need to make sure we support our favourite site.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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I have two coupons available for CodeProject's collaboration or beta testing projects. Any serious developer interested in joining?
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I also have two, but I'm saving them for if I decide to create a sock puppet... 
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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CM forgot to send me two
thatrajaCode converters | Education Needed
No thanks, I am all stocked up. - Luc Pattyn
When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is - Henry Minute
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That's ok - he sent everyone else three to make up for it!
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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OriginalGriff wrote: ...he sent everyone else...
Who is this 'everyone' you speak of? 
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Are you interested?
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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Yep, go ahead
thatrajaCode converters | Education Needed
No thanks, I am all stocked up. - Luc Pattyn
When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is - Henry Minute
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Quote: Coupon is not valid.
thatrajaCode converters | Education Needed
No thanks, I am all stocked up. - Luc Pattyn
When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is - Henry Minute
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