Well... they might see your address or account number or whatever, but most password fields are masked with asterisks. That's fine and dandy for someone standing behind you, but this discussion is about computers that have key loggers on them. There are two simple ways of entering a password. Cut and paste from another file, or type it in. So, if you're using cut and paste to prevent potential key loggers from reading your key strokes, the screen captures will show the file that you copied from.
If you were crazy, I guess you could write something that would pull a password from a database on a flash drive in such a fashion as to enter the password to the corresponding field but not display the password on the screen. A saner approach would be to start demanding that your e-mail provider/bank offers RSA SecurID devices to interested consumers.
Remember that Mac that was released that didn't even have a manual? That's what the goal should be. I agree whole heartedly. Ubuntu is "GNU/Linux for Human Beings", something I personally translate to mean "accessible to everyone regardless of experience or expertise". At my recommendation, two of my friends have installed Ubuntu and have since begun using it as their primary OS. It's been about nine months so far, and between the two of them I get at most one support call a month. What I don't like about your statement is that it infers that the existence of an official Ubuntu book necessarily means Ubuntu is not accessible to everyone. That is a very silly jump of logic.
Ubuntu is pretty easy for almost anyone to pick up and run. This book is for users who don't just want a whizbang Word Processing Internet Browsing Machine but want to learn about some of the underlying dynamics of the system and it's applicable uses. My grandmother is mostly uninterested in enabling filesharing, but I am sure that there are hobbyists out there who would like a reliable guide to set up a LTSP network and put the OS to more complicated uses than sharing pictures of cats with friends.
The Mac, like Ubuntu, offers both ease of use and a powerful underlying system. Sure, your grandma might be content with performing simple tasks, but there IS a terminal available for the geeks out there. Simplicity and power are not mutually exclusive.
My probably fractured memory is that one particularly decisive win was not by a supercar, but by a Japanese king cab mini pickup. The drivers filled the be with a fuel tank and were able to drive straight through without ever stopping or breaking the speed limit. IIRC the win margin was tremendous.
The man is trying to be cute and generate publicity by using a method which might be intended to be viewed as "cool", but if he was really going for time this very well might not the right way to do it.
As a side note, Family legend has it that as a teenager my grandmother once participated in the north south trans U.S. speed record. IRC the average speed was something like 15mph and change. My father was born in 1925, So I'm suspecting this was around 1920 or so. High quality 20's vehicles such as Cords and Auburns could still comfortably do 70 or 80mph so I suspect the pickup method has merit. I RTFA, and apparently this guy was averaging at 90 or so miles an hour. A pickup loaded with fuel traveling at 100 miles per hour is not any safer saner than an M5 at 130 miles per hour. After accounting for traffic, speed traps, and bad weather, the pickup would have to move like lightning on clear road. All things accounted for, the case for the pickup isn't as strong and isn't safer than the case for the M5
In other news... ? I would sincerely like to know who qualifies a blog with the following mission statement as news:
This political blog is dedicated to informed citizens who understand the benefits of limited government, capitalism, private property rights, and plain common sense. If you disagree with any or all of the political satire on this blog, we apologize for the intellectual abuse inflicted upon you by your university professors." So, what? If I feel that capitalism allowed to be unrestrained by a hampered limited government is bad news, then I have clearly been tainted by university professors? Whatever. I'll just pass on reading your blog and instead ask the moderators why the Hell this article was accepted at all (let alone promoted to front page material).
Turn off Adblock Plus for a second and look at the ads that tpb offers. Now, I might be crazy, but I don't think that an obscure auction site or a "MEET HOT WOMEN IN YOUR AREA" site is putting out 20,000 per day for advertising.
I feel especially bad for the people who waited in line for hours, only to have their iPhone be useless for several more hours as they waited for it to activate.
The essay seemed to suggest that subculture adoption was more influential than socioeconomic status is in determining what sorts of people frequent each site. "Punks goths and queers" typically inhabit myspace according to TA, and so far as I know there isn't any barriers preventing affluent youth from joining ranks with "outcasts". To that end, there certainly isn't anything preventing at-risk youth from aspiring to higher education. Mixing up class with arbitrary clique preferences is a dangerous ground.
Besides, do you have any idea how much a pre-torn punk t-shirt costs at the mall?
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Turn off Adblock Plus for a second and look at the ads that tpb offers. Now, I might be crazy, but I don't think that an obscure auction site or a "MEET HOT WOMEN IN YOUR AREA" site is putting out 20,000 per day for advertising.
I feel especially bad for the people who waited in line for hours, only to have their iPhone be useless for several more hours as they waited for it to activate.
The essay seemed to suggest that subculture adoption was more influential than socioeconomic status is in determining what sorts of people frequent each site. "Punks goths and queers" typically inhabit myspace according to TA, and so far as I know there isn't any barriers preventing affluent youth from joining ranks with "outcasts". To that end, there certainly isn't anything preventing at-risk youth from aspiring to higher education. Mixing up class with arbitrary clique preferences is a dangerous ground. Besides, do you have any idea how much a pre-torn punk t-shirt costs at the mall?