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It's like the medical version of the 500-mile email.

• arnemart 14y ago
  Link for reference: http://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html http://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html
• sateesh 14y ago
  In similar vein here is a case of the programmer who couldn't login to his system when he entered password standing up. http://netlib.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/pearls/sec0510.html http://netlib.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/pearls/sec0510.html
  • lelandbatey 14y ago
    Now that is an interesting story, and one I've never seen before. I'll have to keep that in my back pocket.
• chime 14y ago
  I posted my own similarly mysterious story a while ago on here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1293849 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1293849