Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for September 04, 2022

And how many of those delicious eggs does the female Lionfish eat

Even the NIST says that rule for passwords is more trouble than helpful. But yet the government and companies still insists on it.

Häagen-Dazs certainly does have meaning.

It makes me feel better.

so who was the password inventor?

For those worried about the spider fact, that is only really referring to equivalent mass, like saying “humans could eat 50 Empire State Buildings each day”. Spiders are specialized predators, and would have no way of consuming humans even if they tried.

WINDOWS PASSWORD

WINDOWS: Please enter your new password.

USER: potato

WINDOWS: Sorry, the password must be more than 8 characters.

USER: boiled potato

WINDOWS: Sorry, the password must contain 1 numerical character.

USER: 1 boiled potato

WINDOWS: Sorry, the password cannot have blank spaces.

USER: 20boiledpotatoes

WINDOWS: Sorry, the password must contain at least one uppercase character.

USER: 20BOILEDpotatoes

WINDOWS: Sorry, the password cannot use more than one uppercase character consecutively.

USER: 20BOILEDPotatoesYouIdiotGiveMeAccessNow!

WINDOWS: Sorry, the password cannot contain punctuation.

USER: IWillHuntYouDown20BOILEDPotatoesYouIdiotGiveMeAccessNow

WINDOWS: SORRY, THAT PASSWORD IS ALREADY IN USE

That eating all humans remark would be more believable if we brought back all the bugs from the Carboniferous Era, before the dinosaurs, like the eight-foot millipede.

So it’s no wonder that Mary Lou didn’t like spiders and snakes.

I use the VIN to a Vista Cruiser that I owned in the mid-1980s, plus a lower case letter and a punctuation mark.

He may regret but best stay incognito for his health! My military pay office has such a system, and the user needs to change it every few months without repeating one previously used. Blindfold for you sir?

“All ice cream has meaning, no matter the name.” ~ Lenore McWhiney, Therapist Extraordinaire, just ask me.

Take care, may one of several dozen surviving baby spiders Gmbluk “Humans Think Mom Spider Is Sweet To Carry Us Around On Her Back But Truth Be Told She Chased And Ate All That Could Not Get Here As The Only Safe Place To Be Until She Goes To Sleep Engorged With Our Unfortunate Siblings” Kbiifglpord be with you, and gesundheit.

Diceware is an interesting approach to generating passwords. https://diceware.dmuth.org/

Having worked on computers since the mid eighties I always struggled to come up with new passwords. Did the usual using my wifes name, the dogs, favorite football team etc. Finally figured out an easy way to remember it, I use a pattern. Now I just have to remember the first letter and the pattern. Wished I had thought of it years ago.

Passwords are easy to create and remember. I just use sentences from obscure books as my passwords. CallmeIshmael would be an example, though Moby Dick is a little too popular for me to actually use as a source.

wow, RBION has scraped the absolute bottom of the barrel lately. Kind of useless ones. sigh. There were times I was tempted to say it, but this time I actually feel it -I want the seconds back that it took to look at today’s panels.

But the spiders couldn’t eat all the Lionfish (even if they could swim) since each female lays 1 million eggs a year…

RBION seems to like topics dealing with spiders. Well, I can flow with that.

What’s worse than a box of spiders?A box that was meant to be full of spiders.

More to come.

Why is there no Australian Spider-Man?

He didn’t survive the bite.

My boss told me, “Dress for the job you want, not the job you have.”

Now I’m sitting in a disciplinary meeting dressed as spiderman.

So you know the fear of spiders is arachnophobia?

What’s the fear of chainsaws?

Common sense.

One more? O.K.

What do you call the fear of spiders crawling up your hind end?

Arachnoprobia.

Enough for now.

Isn’t Haagen Dazs Swedish for “brain freeze”???

I keep a list of all my passwords on an encoded page on a thumb drive. When I need to look one up, I plug in the drive, then unplug when I’m done.

Anyone remember Hagen-DOS on early pCs?

re: Passwords… 50 lashes with a wet nOoDI3…

And some organizations require you change passwords periodically and the new password be entirely different from the last [insert random number] passwords you have used. And other ridiculous rules.

Keep the passwords simple and easy to break so the hackers can get to you.

The best passwords are actually pass phrases, because the more a hacker has to decode, the stronger your password is. A pass phrase contains spaces and is essentially a full sentence with punctuation if allowed.

Of course, humans being who we are, in short order the most popular pass phrases will undoubtedly be such classics as “The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dogs” or “Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country”. sigh…..

A French waiter needs to offer that spider a mint. “Please, monsieur. It is waf-air thin”

Even worse than passwords are the security questions. My favourite book, movie or athlete today might not be the same favourite 6-12 months later.

What if you forget what was your first car? or first pet? or first mother’s maiden name?

The fish that Captain Jean-Luc Picard of Star Trek – The Next Generation had in his “ready room” aquarium was a lionfish. Apparently its name was Livingston, so I guess it was a male, and didn’t lay eggs. :-D