In summary: An oldie but a goodie: Why do programmers confuse halloween and Christmas?What do you call it when a story goes round a stable time loop and returns to its own beginning?CSS properties are pretty flexible and browser renderers can be pretty accommodating. For example, the font-size property can accept a few different units of measurement, including px and em.Why does it take programmers so long to wash their hair?Because on the shampoo bottle it says "Lather, rinse and repeat".Q: How do you comfort a JavaScript bug?A: You console it.From a college drinking song:An MIT computer man got drunk one
Is this borderline genius? Worst case scenario, you double the time for a brute force attack. I could even imagine fine-tuning it with the perfect percentage of 'failed' first attempts to balance best UX and account protection.
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In the webcomic Schlock Mercenary a human tries to explain "rubberhose cryptanalysis" to an alien. The alien is disgusted pointing out that any member of his race needs a good long brutal ironpipe beating to give anything up. In his words: