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25 Jul 07 - 05:07 PM (#2111250) Subject: A.T.M. security! From: dame leon Subject: PIN NUMBER REVERSAL (GOOD TO KNOW) If you should ever be forced by a robber to withdraw money from an ATM machine, you can notify the police by entering your Pin in reverse. For example if your pin number is 1234 then you would put in 4321. The ATM recognizes that your pin number is backwards from the ATM card you placed in the machine. The machine will still give you the money you requested, but unknown to the robber, the police will be immediately dispatched to help you. This information was recently broadcasted on TV and it states that it is seldom used because people don't know it exists. Please pass this along to everyone possible. |
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25 Jul 07 - 05:11 PM (#2111253) Subject: RE: BS: ATM Robbery information From: Cluin Don't pass it along. It's not true. |
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25 Jul 07 - 05:11 PM (#2111254) Subject: RE: BS: ATM Robbery information From: Amergin Crap like this is easy to verify whether true or false....this is false....an easy search on the net can tell you. Pin reversal |
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25 Jul 07 - 05:21 PM (#2111257) Subject: RE: BS: ATM Robbery information From: dame leon Thanks might as well ask joe to delete this then.
-Joe- |
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25 Jul 07 - 05:40 PM (#2111271) Subject: RE: BS: ATM Robbery information From: JohnInKansas If dame leon doesn't mind the personal notoreity, exposing a lie is just as good for the community as creating a new one. I'd leave the thread up for the day, since this is another fairly persistent - and potentially harmful - rumor. John |
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25 Jul 07 - 06:34 PM (#2111310) Subject: RE: BS: ATM Robbery information From: Becca72 I'm just being picky here, but 2 of my biggest pet peeves are used in the opening post. ATM Machine...the M stands for Machine. The same applies to PIN number....that what the N is for...duh. Ok, thanks for letting me be a little childish. |
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25 Jul 07 - 06:36 PM (#2111311) Subject: RE: BS: ATM Robbery information From: Cluin If you were in Canada, you could vote for the NDP Party, Becca. |
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25 Jul 07 - 06:37 PM (#2111312) Subject: RE: BS: ATM Robbery information From: Cluin Brought to you from the Department of Redundancy Department. |
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25 Jul 07 - 06:40 PM (#2111317) Subject: RE: BS: ATM Robbery information From: Becca72 LOL...exactly, Cluin |
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26 Jul 07 - 01:20 AM (#2111509) Subject: RE: BS: ATM Robbery information From: Stilly River Sage And when you go to Japan, be sure to climb Mt. Fujiyama. |
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26 Jul 07 - 02:31 AM (#2111522) Subject: RE: BS: ATM Robbery information From: Doug Chadwick - Do you understand what is meant by "ATM machine" and "PIN number"? - Is there any possible ambiguity? - Does it cost you anything to hear "ATM" and "PIN" used incorrectly? If the answers are as I suspect, then what does it matter? I always use "cash machine" rather than ATM and would have to spend a second or two figuring out what was wanted if ATM was used. As "PIN" is pronounced as a single word, a possible, though admittedly unlikely, ambiguity could arise relating to pins used in other contexts. I think "PIN number" is an improvement. DC |
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26 Jul 07 - 02:46 AM (#2111528) Subject: RE: BS: ATM Robbery information From: Ebbie Ah, yes. Personal Identification Number number. And the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Makes sense to me. |
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26 Jul 07 - 10:52 AM (#2111795) Subject: RE: BS: ATM Robbery information From: Dave the Gnome It's called an 'ole in the wall and you put in your pint number to withdraw beer vouchers. Easy. :D |
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26 Jul 07 - 11:03 AM (#2111802) Subject: RE: BS: ATM Robbery information From: Becca72 Do you understand what is meant by "ATM machine" and "PIN number"? yes, Doug, I do. I also understand what is meant by ATM and PIN. As I stated above, it's a pet peeve of mine. If it's not a pet peeve of yours, so be it. |
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26 Jul 07 - 05:59 PM (#2112126) Subject: RE: BS: ATM Robbery information From: Liz the Squeak Becca - it drives me up the wall too... like using decimated to describe total destruction, rather than 90%. LTS |
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26 Jul 07 - 06:26 PM (#2112149) Subject: RE: BS: ATM Robbery information From: Becca72 The misuse of "literally" drives me nuts, too, Liz. I overheard someone say "I literally jumped out of my skin". As this person was actually still inside her skin, I assumed that she had no ideal what "literally" meant. |
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26 Jul 07 - 06:28 PM (#2112151) Subject: RE: BS: ATM Robbery information From: Dave the Gnome They literally had no idea what literally meant? :D |
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26 Jul 07 - 06:54 PM (#2112163) Subject: RE: BS: ATM Robbery information From: Don(Wyziwyg)T "Becca - it drives me up the wall too... like using decimated to describe total destruction, rather than 90%." Errrr! Sorry Liz, that's 10%. Decimation was the Roman Army disciplinary practice of executing every tenth man. Otherwise they'd have won far fewer battles. Don T. |
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26 Jul 07 - 06:56 PM (#2112165) Subject: RE: BS: ATM Robbery information From: Ebbie Thanks, Don T. Liz's math made me literally jump out of my skin. :) |
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26 Jul 07 - 06:57 PM (#2112167) Subject: RE: BS: ATM Robbery information From: Don(Wyziwyg)T Try not to make too much of a splash when you land dear. Don T |
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26 Jul 07 - 08:05 PM (#2112213) Subject: RE: BS: ATM Robbery information From: Bert Well we call ATM's Auntie Ems. |
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26 Jul 07 - 08:24 PM (#2112230) Subject: RE: BS: ATM Robbery information From: Bee-dubya-ell Instead of letting things like "ATM machine" and "PIN number" disturb you, why don't you just smile knowingly and gloat in your own smugness for a while? |
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26 Jul 07 - 09:23 PM (#2112263) Subject: RE: BS: ATM Robbery information From: GUEST,meself What bugs me is when people call ATMs Auntie Ems. |
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27 Jul 07 - 07:00 AM (#2112471) Subject: RE: BS: ATM Robbery information From: The Fooles Troupe Automatic Bonking Machine. Love Typos... |
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27 Jul 07 - 08:28 AM (#2112523) Subject: RE: BS: ATM Robbery information From: GUEST,PMB OK Don, sometimes for a really severe mutiny, a legion could be decimated twice. What proportion of soldiers remained afterwards? |
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27 Jul 07 - 09:18 AM (#2112554) Subject: RE: BS: ATM Robbery information From: The Fooles Troupe The more alive ones, probably... |
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27 Jul 07 - 09:43 AM (#2112580) Subject: RE: BS: ATM Robbery information From: Midchuck OK Don, sometimes for a really severe mutiny, a legion could be decimated twice. What proportion of soldiers remained afterwards? 81%. The first decimation took 10%. The second took 10% of the remaining 90%, or 9% of the original total. I think. Peter. |
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27 Jul 07 - 09:46 AM (#2112587) Subject: RE: BS: ATM Robbery information From: Midchuck So, Becca, do you use "presently" to mean "right now" rather than "in the very near future" which is the correct meaning? Do you use "convince" and "persuade" as though they meant the same thing? Do you use "data" as a singular? None of us are perfect. Peter. PS I meant to do that. |
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27 Jul 07 - 11:49 AM (#2112683) Subject: RE: BS: ATM Robbery information (hoax) From: Joe Offer I've noticed that most people use double diminutives, like "tiny little." People seldom seem to use "little" without another adjective to emphasize it. "Great big" is even more common, but doesn't seem to be quite as obviously redundant. I think redundancy can be a colorful and interesting part of our language. Rules, in grammar and in life, have a valuable function. But grammatical fundamentalism can really put a damper on the English language. A little redundancy is good for the soul. -Joe, who gets his money from an ATM machine- |
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27 Jul 07 - 12:18 PM (#2112709) Subject: RE: BS: ATM Robbery information (hoax) From: GUEST,PMB Redundancy is as old as the language. It was some idiot 17th century grammarian that dreamed up the rule that "two negatives make a positive", whereas from the first written English documents up until then it had been an intensifier. Not no harm did good Gawain never. I went to an automatic ATM machine today, then connected a device to my computer's USB bus. My car's got ABS braking. One plaicecism that gets me is the conflation of "refute" with "deny". |
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27 Jul 07 - 02:30 PM (#2112798) Subject: RE: BS: ATM Robbery information (hoax) From: catspaw49 Damn right Father JoeBro....Why use "tiny little" when you could say something better like "itsy bitsy?" BTW, I'm not bothered by any of the above but I can't stand mixed profanities like "that cocksuckin' motherfucker." I mean, like, uh, which is the guy, ya' know? Spaw |
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27 Jul 07 - 06:42 PM (#2112970) Subject: RE: BS: ATM Robbery information (hoax) From: Don(Wyziwyg)T There he goes again. You can always rely on Spaw to set a tone of rectitude and decorum. He's bloody right tho' Don T. |
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28 Jul 07 - 06:30 PM (#2113617) Subject: RE: BS: ATM Robbery information (hoax) From: robomatic I am totally on Becca's side, (who obviously dropped the 'RE' from the first part of the name in order to avoid the potential for 'RE'becca to imply "becca-becca"). Robo who was born in New York, NY. |
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28 Jul 07 - 08:16 PM (#2113665) Subject: RE: BS: ATM Robbery information (hoax) From: Cluin New York² |