The Case For Lousy Passwords

itwbennett writes "Since the Gawker and McDonald's hack attacks, the web has been overrun with admonishments against using weak passwords. But weak passwords have their place too, says blogger Peter Smith. Like, for example, on Gawker, where he really doesn't care if it gets cracked. 'Life is too short to be worrying about 24 character passwords for trivial sites,' says Smith. And, to put things in perspective, your good passwords are pretty weak too. In a 2007 Coding Horror article, Jeff Atwood points out that the password "Fgpyyih804423" was cracked in 160 seconds by the Ophcrack cracker."

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Offtopic but please help

[metrix007]

I appear to have broken slashdot.

My stories now load in a way that I have to click "More" a few times to get all comments.

Is there any way to have them load all comments by default, and is there any way to have it set that the majority of comments are abbreviated by default?

I want to do this with D2, and at least comments were fully expanded a few days ago before I broke it so it is possible....

I know I shouldn't post here but there isn't exactly a tech support line....any help appreciated!