"Enough", and then double it, and then more for backups.

@Platypus Man: I've not experienced it first hand, but I've heard that false positives are nowhere near as rare as one would like.

@Breamworthy: It won't ever be, nobody stores passwords, they store the hashes. A hash is like one way encryption - you can get the hash from the password, but not the password from the hash. If gawker had have been salting their hashes (Adding pseudorandom strings to the passwords before hashing) then nobody would…

@zrag: Oh, perhaps they've fixed it. Great!

@zrag: Indeed you are - it turns out that gawker's (Old, deprecated, known-faulty) encryption methods truncate all passwords to 8 characters. Try logging in without the last character. It's certainly a lot less than I was expecting from a network like gawker (Noting, however, I place no blame of any kind on any of the…

@pplgoldblatt: Except that anything you do ONline is already being tracked by your ISP, and anything you do OFFline still isn't being tracked. Just because you're using a google OS doesn't mean they're tracking your 'every thought' - indeed, that'd be a PR disaster for them. There are problems with working in the…

Can we start using passwords with more than 8 characters yet? All the password changing in the world isn't going to make them invulnerable to another hack if we're limited to 8 effective characters.

Do headphones count? My PC is close enough to my bed that it's viable to watch TV shows and movies on it. That discovery hasn't done my sleeping habits any good, however!

I remember playing far too much lemmings in school IT lessons, that was good fun.

Vim. Hands down, the best text editor ever to grace my processor (Or the processors of external servers I'm sshing into, which it is also brilliant at)

Dropbox. Autohotkey. Firefox. Executor. Foobar2000. PuTTY. uTorrent. VLC. Notepad++. Python. Irssi. Probably countless others - I wish I could donate money to all of them, and one day I surely will.

@gr8dude: Unfortunately, I didn't, I just grabbed it out of a public url. I couldn't figure out a lightweight method of doing it.

Just, no. I may not trust google to not use my e-mails to advertise at me, but I don't trust facebook to keep any of my details to themselves - suddenly that's a lot more important for, say, e-mails from my bank.

@davepermen: I understand your points, but I still fail to see the benefit. Most users unable to see the advantages of using multiple passwords are also unlikely to go around browsing websites their friends or family haven't linked them to, so the chances of them signing up to a malicious site are tiny. And the…

@davepermen: My account password isn't a single point of failure

@davepermen: While I trust Twitter not to accidentally splurge out

@davepermen: This is not a better state of affairs than having only

While I have a twitter account, unrelated services requiring it for

@jma89: An american internet kill switch is possible - while there are millions of connections between machines, there are vastly fewer lines in and out of countries. America could indeed take themselves off the net, though how precisely that would help I'm not entirely sure. I get the idea it's just a case of the…

@gestuno: Saving multiple times before I close a program is something I do too. I have no idea why. I scare me sometimes.