For the record, I think Scott Adams is the /real/ prophet:

http://dilbert.com/dyn/str_strip/000000000/00000000/0000000/000000/00000/1000/700/1782/1782.strip.gif

Ben

PS 
Here's a source study for True Cost:

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/shb10/
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/shb10/angela2.pdf

On Aug 15, 2011, at 9:56 AM, Andrew Hendrickson wrote:

> Unless the math is faulty, this comic, sent to me by an unnamed colleague, makes an interesting point regarding passwords:
> 
> http://www.xkcd.com/936/
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> Discuss amongst yourselves, I'll get coffee . . .
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