I don't stop with the websites. I create cryptic passwords for everything. The more you do it, the easier it becomes as a matter of course. But in order to remember my passwords, I may have to write something down. So I memorize random strings of alpha-numeric characters and symbols. Anywhere from five to eleven characters, and I string them together to make various passwords. So when I do write something down, its something like this:
!d_______3_________fF_________
Where the first character or two points to a string which I already have memorized. Usually it doesn't take long for any written notes to be useless, and they never leave my person anyway.
I will choose perhaps the same four or five strings to use for all of the web-based stuff, and just jumble them up.
So that is one method I use to make easy to remember passwords for various sites.
I have no choice. I might be able to get DSL. Maybe. I cannot get Cable access. Why? Because I live in the boonies? No, I live in Philadelphia PA, and I still cannot get cable access because it is not available in my area.
Philadelphia is carved up geographically, and there are few areas where you have a choice in provider. I'm stuck with a cable provider that was purchased by Time recently. When I called after the purchase to ask if they had any plans to offer cable internet access, the answer was no.
I have been waiting for more than a year for cable access to become available. RCN was negotiating a deal with the city, but the city council drove them off. So I went satellite tv, and now I am in the process of trying to get DSL. The entire process is infuriating.
I certainly don't want to be 'had.' But I do want high speed access at home, and DSP may be my only option. I'm sure that there are others in the same boat.
It is insidious, but how dangerous? What legislation can be passed that would truly curtail the open source movement?
That's a question, I don't see how anything binding in a real sense could be passed, but I am curious as to the possibilities as seen by others.
I hear you, believe me, and these stories are infuriating when they're not just amusing. The fact is most average computer users are ignorant of all things not Microsoft.
That sucks toads...
The media is a vehicle for the rich, and who is richer than MS?
Sway public opinion? The media IS public opinion, as unfortunate as that is.
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I don't stop with the websites. I create cryptic passwords for everything. The more you do it, the easier it becomes as a matter of course. But in order to remember my passwords, I may have to write something down. So I memorize random strings of alpha-numeric characters and symbols. Anywhere from five to eleven characters, and I string them together to make various passwords. So when I do write something down, its something like this:
!d_______3_________fF_________
Where the first character or two points to a string which I already have memorized. Usually it doesn't take long for any written notes to be useless, and they never leave my person anyway.
I will choose perhaps the same four or five strings to use for all of the web-based stuff, and just jumble them up.
So that is one method I use to make easy to remember passwords for various sites.
I have no choice. I might be able to get DSL. Maybe. I cannot get Cable access. Why? Because I live in the boonies? No, I live in Philadelphia PA, and I still cannot get cable access because it is not available in my area.
Philadelphia is carved up geographically, and there are few areas where you have a choice in provider. I'm stuck with a cable provider that was purchased by Time recently. When I called after the purchase to ask if they had any plans to offer cable internet access, the answer was no.
I have been waiting for more than a year for cable access to become available. RCN was negotiating a deal with the city, but the city council drove them off. So I went satellite tv, and now I am in the process of trying to get DSL. The entire process is infuriating.
I certainly don't want to be 'had.' But I do want high speed access at home, and DSP may be my only option. I'm sure that there are others in the same boat.
It is insidious, but how dangerous? What legislation can be passed that would truly curtail the open source movement?
That's a question, I don't see how anything binding in a real sense could be passed, but I am curious as to the possibilities as seen by others.
I hear you, believe me, and these stories are infuriating when they're not just amusing. The fact is most average computer users are ignorant of all things not Microsoft.
That sucks toads...
The media is a vehicle for the rich, and who is richer than MS?
Sway public opinion? The media IS public opinion, as unfortunate as that is.
Noam Chomsky for...uhhh, proletariat..I guess.