
XKCD
XKCD explains it all here: http://xkcd.com/1179/
15 publicly visible posts • joined 28 Jul 2012
> Try turning off data access on your smartphone, for example: it will probably complain incessantly that it can't connect to Google or Apple.
I have never seen that on my iPhones. Only during initialisation procedures and specific things like updating or upgrading. Otherwise no nagging.
In the early 1980's my school decided to move into a new building, think about a small campus for some 10,000 students and staff. In order to cut costs, management decided to not implement a modular key system, just plain random locks with only one master key. This meant that department custodians would have to carry around huge key chains with copies of all the keys of their department on them. So the physics and AV depts custodians got together and from a batch of random keys they reduced the master key profile. From this they machined a master key and to make a long story short, half the school staff ended up with copies of it in no time. These were all copied again when management ordered all staff to hand over their master keys, or else. Only when all locks were replaced with swipe card locks recently, was the problem solved.
A strange thing I noticed: The girl driver got off relatively light with no further strings attached. In NL you will pay for the rest of your life if you are not adequately insured. We are obliged by law to have a general liability insurance for starters. But when you drive without a valid license or the obligatory MV insurance package for instance, any insurance is void and you will still have to pay yourself all the extra costs the victim has to make to live, without a time limit.