Comment by mint2
2 years ago
Okay that title was confusing, the 3M is quantity not the company 3M’s locks. The locks are not build by 3M or a subsidiary.
2 years ago
Okay that title was confusing, the 3M is quantity not the company 3M’s locks. The locks are not build by 3M or a subsidiary.
It's especially confusing because 3M does make almost every thing under the sun, from respirators to electrical tape to medical equipment and supplies. No locks as far as I can find though.
But with a roll of 3M Gaffa Tape, you can secure an hotel room door such that those inside inside the room can't open it without help from outside.
* other brands of very sticky strong tape are available.
You could, of course, still open it with 3M Glass Bubbles or explosives from other brands.
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How?
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It would be nice if the title could get changed, as per below, because it confused me, too:
https://corporatefinanceinstitute.com/resources/fixed-income...
The original title sez "millions" and is clearly distinct from both "Minnesota mining and manufacturing" and "millimeters".
Yes, because the millimeter is “mm”, a meter is “m” and “M” means mega (for example MPa for megapascal) in SI.
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While I agree, I think you underestimated how much this comment thread would wind up somewhat derailing conversation about the actual article. Dear lord people it's a simple disambiguation - there's no need for upwards of 40 comments about it.
Well it is apparent that so many people got confused (me included) that it deservedly became part of the conversation.
Yes, please change it to 3MM, which also abbreviates to "3 million". My first impression was strongly that 3M had some lock system that was now compromised, not that it was referring to 3 million locks in the wild.
Also perhaps consider expanding the headline character limit above 80, or maybe not count numbers in the total.
How about "Hackers Found a Way to Open Any of 3 Million Hotel Keycard Locks in Seconds" its only 75 characters. Nobody has to guess about abbreviations or whether it's really Latin or mm.
Or just drop all the clickbait crap from the headline - "Hackers", "any", "3 million" and "in seconds" are all just fluff meant to create an emotional response. Change the subject to where the responsibility lies, the locks themselves or the lock manufacturer, and add "major brand" or "widely deployed" if it's necessary to separately indicate notoriety.
3 millimeters is a really small lock.
It's the World's tiniest open-source lock.
I think its the lock found on most kids' diaries!
Actually, I believe what you want is 3mm, which I believe they use in accounting. Lowercase m in this instance would stand for milli-, as in thousand. So 3mm would be 3 thousand thousand. 3M is technically correct, though confusing in this specific case. Capital M would indicate Mega, as in the progression from kilobit to megabit to gigabit.
3MM is three million, for US accountants and thus engineers writing docs for VPs. 3mm is three millimeters.
Gamers just write it as 3kk. (PS: never seen MM used as a "million" even in my two decades on the internet)
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3mm hotel keycard form factor.
Interesting, I'd seen it as "MM", as in "Thousand Thousand" in Roman numerals.
Of course lowercase "mm" is most recognizable as millimeter, so that would be confusing in a different way.
it would take all of about 3 seconds to realize why an unlimited character count would break the site's layout and know that it will never happen.
i do agree that the "don't editorialize" and strict char count are very contradictory, but suggesting that the site changes because of it is also naive at best.
It took about 1 second to realize that "80 characters" and "unlimited" aren't the only two options.
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mm is milimeters. MM does not exist.
MM = 1,000 * 1,000 == 1,000,000 <- thats where MM comes from Roman numerals.
jeasus christ:
https://corporatefinanceinstitute.com/resources/fixed-income...
Seems like you engineers have been behind code and not having to defend your project budgets to CFOs and stakeholders often.
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Maybe 3M should rename themselves to something less confusing.
"In business news, 3M and M&M have merged to form, get this, Ultradyne Systems." Simpsons S14E12 [0]
[0] https://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/view_episode_script...
They were originally "Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Co."
Seems the 3M branding has worked quite well...
Many 3M adhesives would hold the hotel doors closed.
Does 3M stand for 3 musketeers?
It should be 3MM
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