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Worth repeating: Entering your bank PIN in reverse does NOT summon police
Security vendor Kasperky Lab yesterday issued this reminder as part of its “fact or fiction” series: No matter what you may have read on Facebook, entering your bank PIN in reverse will not summon the police.
From the Kaspersky post:
This urban legend is over a decade old and consistently makes it’s rounds on the Internet. Surprisingly, a lot of social media users care so much about this topic that they continually share this old tale with their friends, urging them to READ IT RIGHT AWAY!
As it goes with all urban legends, there is a grain of truth in this myth. The idea of ’emergency code’ for ATMs had been hatched some time ago and is obviously where the myth originated.
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How important is self-teaching prior to entering the programming world?
This Q&A is part of a biweekly series of posts highlighting common questions encountered by technophiles and answered by users at Stack Exchange, a free, community-powered network of 80+ Q&A sites.
ThePlan asks:
I’m 16. I started programming about a year ago when I was about to start high-school. I’m going for a career in programming, and I’m doing my best to learn as much as I can. When I first started, I learned the basics of C++ from a book and I started to learn things by myself from there on. Nowadays I’m much more experienced than I was a year ago. I knew I had to study by myself because high-school won’t (likely) teach me anything valuable about programming, and I want to be prepared.
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