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Cell phones have been around long enough, twentysomethings very well could.
Of course I'm old enough they've changed the numbering system since we banged rocks together when I was little  .
Software Zen: delete this;
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I do the same thing -- a landline number that hasn't existed in 30 years since my folks sold my childhood house.
Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors - and miss.
Lazarus Long, "Time Enough For Love" by Robert A. Heinlein
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That's clever.
There are no solutions, only trade-offs. - Thomas Sowell
A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.
- Calvin (Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes)
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Now someone needs to pin this post. We should probably do it in numbers.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
I’m begging you for the benefit of everyone, don’t be STUPID.
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As having personally used a pin number I had to guess in order to use, I'd have to say "It's not how you used the pin number to "get in", it's how do you change it that really matters".
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Whelp! Time to change all my pins to more secure ones! 9596 it is!
/s
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I had no choice in the matter; I just got a letter saying that this is your PIN number.
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That's normal in the UK as well, but every bank I know allows you to set it to your preferred one once you know the one they gave you. THat's probably for security - a PIN you remember has got to be better than one written down and kept in your wallet / purse.*
* Herself did that: her PIN was on a piece of paper wrapped round her debit card ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Oops, I guess using a particular year is not so unique anymore (and I'm guessing padding it with zeroes in 6 digit pins ain't either)
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I'm smart, to many would use 5050, so 5150 
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Good, but! Back to real life. How many tries do you have, until ATM eats your credit/debet card? Here in Europe exactly 3 times. IDK how it's overseas, but I hope it's similarly limited, too. Soooo, unless PIN is explicitly linked to a card number, I think we are generally safe, aren't we? On the other hand, I checked, and my PIN is nowhere near the first hundred thousand (I didn't look further), so I can sleep like a baby one more night. 
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Wordle 1,094 6/6
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Wordle 1,094 3/6*
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"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have. -Anon
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. -Frederick Nietzsche
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Ok, I have had my coffee, so you can all come out now!
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Greetings Kind Regards
My most recent interaction w/ Microsoft Support was signed off as " support person name (Shanghai Wicresoft Co,.Ltd.) [MSFT]" They have a web site. Apparently many happy programmers. And they know how to dance.
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And they probably enjoy driving in their affordable electric vehicles 
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Soon we may also unless they invent something superior perhaps teleporting the inexpensive EVs as it seems it is the United Federation of Planets vs the Romulans.
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When thinking of driving, my last desire is for the car to leave the surface of the road, yet the Tesla fans seem to like this idea  
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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GuyThiebaut wrote: When thinking of driving, my last desire is for the car to leave the surface of the road, yet the Tesla fans seem to like this idea
Yes, only backwards-flat-earther, luddites who know nothing of technology would say something against flying cars. Same thing for EVs. Anyone who knows anything about tech knows that electric flying car is the optimal solution and anyone who says it's not so are dumber than the rocks they keep drilling through to get oil. 
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Most people can't handle the two dimensions of road driving. They'll never figure out three-dimensional driving.
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raddevus wrote: electric flying car is the optimal solution and anyone who says it's not so are dumber than the rocks they keep drilling through to get oil. 
As someone who is dumber than rocks, I would like to counter your assertion.
In order to gain altitude, or maintain an altitude, you need a lot of energy to counter the opposing force of gravity. Which requires more energy? A car parked on the ground running at idle, or a helicopter hovering 50 ft. in the air? I'd say that the helicopter is expending more energy than the car parked on the ground idling.
Consider battery technology. There has been great progress, but modern batteries are heavy. Given how heavy batteries are in relation to the amount of energy that they produce prohibit them from use in operating aircraft. Sure, I've seen aircraft prototypes that are powered by electricity. It's a neat concept, but I can't see how it would be practical with today's technology.
I would love to have a car that flies, and with all of the highways in the sky, it would revolutionize transportation. One day, we will have the technology to build electrically powered aircraft that are practical and efficient. I don't know when that will be, but it will happen.
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