• (nodebb)

    I imagine Nick's favorite food was "sausage"?

  • (nodebb) in reply to Mr. TA

    Perhaps "spotted dick"...

  • davethepirate (unregistered)

    Didn't Netflix actually have a "test" movie that you could use to confirm your connection was working at one point? I seem to recall that.

  • Nathan (unregistered)

    On the USPS item, that's probably not an error. I worked with a guy that when faced w/ these "Q&A" forms of account recovery would intentionally put (we'll say) 'brisk' answers. The idea was that it would protect against 'shoulder surfer' attacks. A phone call would go like this.

    Agent: "Who was your first grade teacher?" Coworker: "I'm not telling you my f'ing password." Agent: uhh... yeah, that's right.... "What was the name of your first dog?" Coworker: "I said quit propositioning me for sex."

  • Randal L. Schwartz (google) in reply to Nathan

    "What are you wearing?" "None of your business!" I'm tempted to use that some day.

  • Eric (unregistered) in reply to Steve_The_Cynic

    Spaghetti alla puttanesca?

    I'm probably giving USPS way too much credit on that one...

  • (nodebb)

    Remember the part where "secret question" is an awful security practice, thanks to people sharing so much on social media, and more generally many of the questions being easy enough to guess or find out for targeted attacks against high profile targets?

  • PacMan60 (unregistered) in reply to R3D3

    That’s why you never use the correct answer, and preferably don’t even give an answer in the same category. e.g. Favourite colour? Spaghetti

  • (nodebb)

    I'd report the phone booth is in pain, but somehow I suspect the service technician would just dim the sign.

  • Chris (unregistered)

    I hope the security question answer was "Shit on toast". A well-known delicacy made by parents of over-eager children everywhere.

  • (nodebb)

    Butter?

    molasses?

    Scunthorpe tea cakes?

  • (nodebb)

    The other thought about the insecurity questions is that I have to fill out so many, that I will generally only remember the truth, the same truth my ex-wife also knows. At this point, I really do not want her having access to my on-line accounts.

  • (nodebb)

    The real WTF is a USB sticking showing a "Made in USA"

  • Andrew Miller (unregistered)

    Meatballs from the English midlands have been known to trigger profanity filters

  • (nodebb)

    That DB2 history figure is easy to understand.

    Your see the clocks, they indicate time pressure.

    Below it, there is a bumble bee working on a yellow Asteraceae flower.

    Next to it, you see someone holding a coffee mug. With this context, you should know that it is filled with a calming chamomile tea.

    That's what you urgenzly need when working with DB2.

  • Anonymous') OR 1=1; DROP TABLE wtf; -- (unregistered)

    1MB = Approximately 1 billion bytes.

    Billion. They tried to avoid the 1000 vs. 1024 ambiguity and still messed it up.

  • DJ Dizzy Spudplucker (unregistered)

    "supports windows ME"? The copyright says 2007, for Pete's sake! Guess nobody revised the text for a long time

  • Dave K (unregistered)

    maybe the phone is french and it just needs bread

  • (nodebb) in reply to Dave K

    maybe the phone is french and it just needs bread

    As phones do.

    Maybe it's part of a scrolling display? But what would the original be? "Painless number porting" or something? Or potentially something in German, Afrikaans, or Oshiwambo?

  • redshirt (unregistered)

    I like how Dane Elec USB drives fit A LOT more bytes in their megabytes than other brands do.

    Usually 1 MB is close to a mere million bytes. But not when they're made by Dane Elec.

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