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I like the idea of having to type 6 numbers (yes those numbers!) into a computer to release the pressure.



er... which numbers? can someone expand on this?


4 8 15 16 23 and 42


Lost. Old TV show. Netflix maybe?


I think he means the 000000 that the USAF set the password to for launching the LGM-30 Minuteman ICBM. For expediency, apparently.


That was eight zeroes, not six. Two more bits of entropy!


Ah, 8 of them.

I bet that made it some much more secure! /s


> Twelve milkmen IS theoretically possible. Thirteen is silly.

From "Freaked" (1993)


You really consider a TV programme that ran from 2004 to 2010 old?


I'm the old dude (42) who works in a team with a bunch of milennials. It is humbling and bizarre to realize that they were kids when 9/11 happened, when Lost ran, when George W. Bush was president, when Java 5 was released, Ruby on Rails became trendy, all events that occurred when I was already old and even having kids.

Ugh


Wow, that hit me right in the feeling-old-shin. I gave up on it between season 2 and 3, thinking I'd get back to it sometime. Didn't realize it's become an "old TV show", but I suppose you're right.


"That's amazing! I've got the same combination on my luggage!"


I think I might start buying lotto tickets with those numbers.




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