I have read countless articles where people tell you how bad it is to:

• Use dictionary words in combination with symbols - like Helicopter123
• Phrases with dictionary words - like I Like To Eat Spunk
• Dictionary words with letters replaced by symbols - like P@ssw0rd
• Part of your personal details mangled with other characters - like Girls081975
• Not use all of the character classes lower, upper, digits and symbols - like some123
• Using repeats of constructs - like NotMyPassword!NotMyPassword

Their reasonings are:

How do you report an email not working problem to your IT support vendor?

You email them….

Doh!

A CAPTCHA is a challenge-response test used to discriminate between humans and computers. It is widely used for registration pages, and wherever a system needs to ensure it is dealing with a user and not a bot. Which is just swell.

If it was not for the fact that some CAPTCHA's are so hard to read that they actually defeat humans too. Look at these examples from Microsoft:

It is simple - they always exaggerate the truth. Take Gizmodo for example…

The Biggest Diamond in the Universe Is Actually a Planet

I mean, come on… scientists have barely discovered the first signs of what could be a pure diamond based planet, how on earth can anyone abuse hyperbole to this extent of pure lies? How does this journalist know that there are not other larger diamonds in the form of asteroids or dead stars in the universe, as it is an immense area and impossible to fully explore? That title is misleading, and all it needed was one little word: