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Secnod, hopefully but I had a hard time entering your captcha.
Addendum 2026-01-16 07:50: What do you mean that's a one-circumflex, not an i-circumflex?
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My guess would be that it was testing for eight alphas and MarkR only had six.
To WTFGuy and gordonfish: I replied to your comments in https://thedailywtf.com/articles/comments/a-sudden-tern but I have no way to ping you.
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Harder than it should be to use Ubuntu's equivalent of "charmap" to type that, because unlike Windows, you can't construct a sequence in "Characters" and then copy the lot, just single characters.
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The service I got for free from the OPM breach was worthwhile - they did not send so many alerts as to be unmanageable, and one of the alerts actually was useful (someone using my information to open a cell phone account, and the service helped to resolve it). The free 10 years ran out recently and I paid for an additional year.
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My first guess was that they do a
uniqueon the password, which would only be 7 characters.Edit Admin
Nja is referring to Cory Booker's record-breaking speech on the floor of the US Senate lasting just over 25 hours.