Smuggling Computer Parts

I read on a HK computer hardware forum that some guys need to buy and install new computer hardware in secret because they’re afraid that their wives would know. Some commented that some wives would get their husbands to open up the computer case (no, no, no, the wives won’t do it themselves, most females think that touching the insides of a computer would make them age faster, remember?) and take pictures of the inside, so that the wife can check whether the husband swapped any of the components… -_________-” + orz

Some commented that they don’t like to use cases with side windows because of that reason…

If there’s something that would scare me away from marriages, this would really be it. Imagine this:

Wife: (measuring the length of the monitor using a tape measure) How come the monitor is longer today? Last week it was 30″, how come it is 37″ today?

(the wife doesn’t even realize the colour and brand of the monitor is different)

Me: urm… It… grew by itself! Yes, that is one of the monitor’s feature. That’s why I spent $1500 on it.

Computer Security

Random thoughts:

I hate it when people says “I don’t care about security” when I told them about how some software may be more secure/insecure than others. I hate it not because I care about whether their credit card numbers get stolen (if they don’t take the basic measures to protect themselves, they deserve to pay the price for a lesson), but because if their computers are compromised, it put my computer at risk too (there’s only so much your anti-virus / firewall can do when you get bombarded by msn and e-mail viruses).

And that “I don’t care about security” sentence coming out from a software engineering graduate is totally unacceptable to me.