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<font class="Apple-style-span" face="Tahoma" size="2">When I had my brain tumor taken out, I could not remember the first number of 4 given to me. I had short term memory of a gold fish. At the same time I could remember the directions to repair shops in the UP that I had delivered</font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Tahoma" size="2"> to 10 years before. Memory is a very funny thing.</font><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Tahoma" size="2">Mike<br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Tahoma" size="2"><br></font><div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt; ">> From: philip.robar@gmail.com<br>> Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 01:36:12 -0400<br>> To: awilliam@whitemice.org; grlug@grlug.org<br>> Subject: Re: [GRLUG] hacked<br>> <br>> <br>> On Jul 27, 2011, at 6:23 PM, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:<br>> <br>> > Just to go on record: I dismiss the notion that an adult human can't<br>> > trivially memorize a ten character 'random' string as total and absolute<br>> > bull crap.<br>> > <br>> > If you have trouble memorizing a ten character string you should<br>> > immediately make an appointment with a mental health professional; soon<br>> > it will be an inability to memorize eight characters, then six<br>> > characters, then you'll get lost finding your way home [which requires<br>> > the equivalent of terabytes of information].<br>> <br>> I'm guessing that you've never studied psychology as the level of ignorance of human cognition displayed above is staggering.<br>> <br>> Nevertheless, yes, with appropriate effort and technique many can memorize a random string of 10 characters, but I wouldn't characterize the effort as trivial. And 10 characters would be pushing it for much of the population.<br>> <br>> Phil<br>> <br>> <br>> -- <br>> This message has been scanned for viruses and<br>> dangerous content by MailScanner, and is<br>> believed to be clean.<br>> <br>> _______________________________________________<br>> grlug mailing list<br>> grlug@grlug.org<br>> http://shinobu.grlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/grlug<br></div></div> </div><br />--
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