Actually, I do. Made an envelope of duct tape. Two layers of duct tape with aluminium foil in between. As an excuse I say I do not want it to become unreadable when crossing a border and the silver helps me find it much easier then the brownish red it is.
They used to have that at Citibank in Belgium. Not anymore. Now I understand why. Their excuse was that it was safer now they use "Visa / MasterCard SecureCode". The downside is that it is yet another password what I apparently need to remember. However none of the stores I use use it.
Till now the security questions that were asked by people from citibank where very generic and could be had by every person who stole my wallet. What is your postal code. (Check my ID I have in my wallet) What is your birth date. (Check my ID I have in my wallet) What is the limit of your card. When that was asked I really did not know and said "I believe between 2 and 5 thousand." and it was enough to satisfy them. No other question exept these three have ever been asked.
I had touch typing in school. I still search and peck. OK, I use 4 fingers instead of two. I would not be better or faster if I had passed that class.
The reason that I do not think it is very important is because I seldom type many words after another. Most of the time I type a few words and then re-think or do a research. e.g. the two few lines took me some 5 minutes, not because I could not find the letters, but because I stop every now and then.
I do not say that touch typing is useless, It is just that often going SLOWER is better then typing at full speed. In a real life explanation: you get an email from somebody in a business environment asking you on your progress on a certain project. I do not know what others do, but what I do is re-read the email, think about who the person is and how I will be answering.
Most of the time I will need to lookup some extra information. So during the answering, I will be twitching with alt/tab between screens. I will also use the mouse to do copy and pasting.
So the speed I might gain with touch typing will be very limited as typing is only part of the process and most of the time not the biggest part. I have tested working processes with people who were able to touch type very fast and the time difference was almost not existing.
Car example: You can have a ferrari and a yugo. You go a a big shopping spree where you drive from store to store and the stores are very close to each other. Say 2 minutes with the ferrari and 3 with the Yugo. Visit 10 stores with 30 minute visites each. That means 320 instead of 330 minutes or a gain of 10 minutes or 3%.
From the point of view of other professions, it might be a good adia to include that, because some people will be writing a lot without stopping in between. So it should depend on what they become later. Oh well, if they start doing it, they just take that time away from gym and kids already hate that.
Nonsense. While Chrome doesn't seem to have this yet, Firefox and Konqueror come with encrypted password stores out of the box.
There are some computers that are under my control. There are some that are NOT under my control. I cn not install software on those systems. I can not add anything on those systems. Further not all logins are weblogins and some that are only work on very locked down IE machines where I can not even do a 'save password'.
Finally, there is the option to use client-side certificates and/or OpenID, with services that support them. This would allow you to choose whatever means of authentication you like, passwords or otherwise.
Almost none have this option. Those are the ones I use privately from my own box, so no issue there. The ones that bother me are all the different systems I need to access remotely. The worst I ever had to work with was a forced password change every 5 days. I now have several digipasses laying around for different systems.
One is for a company where I first have to enter a login and then the digicode with a pincode, then the same login with a password, then a different login with a different password. So what I have done is against all security. We have a dedicated machine just for that application (was also a requirement. We needed to install their closed source software, so we decided not to use a standard machine for it.) I have placed a text file on the PC I use it on with all the details AND I have connected the code generator thing to the keyboard AND have the login and password on the monitor so people can login both as user and as admin. Yes I know it is extremely bad practice. I need the machine perhaps once every two weeks and then I need it fast. I then do not have the time looking what the logins where and where that stupid key was again.
So by increasing the security on their side by doing all the things that are possible, they actually have decreased it in the end. The main difference is that if something goes wrong, they can blame me. So to me that means this is not about security, but about pointing fingers and placing the blame on somebody else.
Some others are not that bad, but still pretty awefull. What I actually do is have the same password, but often I have to guess the login, because I have not chosen them myself and they are various variations on first name, last name, company, numbers and whatever they can think of is logical to THEM.
These are third parties where my company works for and makes money from, so the only option not to use it is taking another job where I most likely would be in a similar situation, unless I would change my sort of job I do.
No, the right approach is to increase the ease with which someone could use the system properly, and how far "properly" extends.
Yes, unfortunately many systems are not under my control. Actually most systems are not under my control. They are third parties or for some other reason beyond my control. The most known reason is that instead of understanding that people have many, many logins nowadays, the sole interest is that they can show that they have done what needs to be done. By doing that, they will cause that people write logins and passwords down. I know that a lot of people use other peoples passwords and logins on some systems, because 'security' is so tight getting a new password is too much of a hassle and takes sometimes two days.
So if after say 20 years of intensive computer usage by non-geeks what we do now does not work, I would suggest we should start looking for something else.
Great if you are able to do that. I have problems remembering what the sentence was this month for each of them and would confuse them with the ones for last month. The majority of people have the same problem.
There are two ways around this. 1) Alter the people. 2) Alter the system
1) is tried now for many years and it does not seem to help. Perhaps it is time to think about changing 2)
Or we can just keep blaming the people for being morons and sit on our ivory throne laughing at these morons and be able to blame them for the insecurity of our infallible system.
Sure. That is what people tell me all the time to use a secure password. http://maord.com/ can easily help you with that. So now I have a secure password like cJQKUG4P generated by that website. Obviously like most people I have a bunch of different logins, many where I was not able to select my own login. To be secure I must use several ones. e.g. one for work, one for the bank, one for mail and one for websites. 9b3MHDHz m4YBn3t8 vMSLs44e CsQnP5Fy
These four I must remember and change every month. And that is if I only use four and group my logins. If I want to be really secure, I will use a different one for each login I am able to change the password (17 of them, not calculating the many websites): UVvCUmE3 Snip 15 random passwords Lameness filter encountered. Post aborted! Filter error: That's an awful long string of letters there. qAv9qZHR
I am not allowed to save them. I must memorize them. Yes, there are other options, like using the first letters of a sentence, but due to the sheer number of logins it becomes impossible.
It is a known fact that people are stupid. If you make something that proves that fact, then the problem is not the moron users, but the designers. I have no clear answer on how to solve it, but I would start with removing the forceful changing of passwords every month. That WILL lead to weaker passwords.
Ireland is the whole island. Both Nothern Ireland (which is part of the UK and Republic of Ireland) As it could be seen over the whole island, it can be tagged as UK. Now if it only could have been seen in the southern part, then you would have been right.
But it looks very much like something real to me. Sure you can make fun of people not knowing it does not look like an AK47. I can also imagine that somebody who knows very little about riffles would say 'ak47' where he means 'looks like an assault wepon that is not like any standard hunting rifle'.
I understand driving to the gym. I do not understand that people then start running on a treadmill. Go run in a park or somewhere were the ground is not as hard. Much better for your feet AND you are outside.
The BBC are arguably the most "socialist" organisation in the democratic world [...] and yet they still question and challenge everything.
What does their political thinking have to do with whether they challenge anything or not? I would call many unions more socialist then the BBC. And they do challenge everything all the time as well (Rightfully or not is another discussion).
I think you confused "socialist" with "socially engaged" which is not the same thing.
Been there, done that. Nothing about it was shadowy. It was just enormously boring. Telling each other how boring it is, is also some kind of team building I guess. I just know more interesting stuff to do with a team.
CDs are sooo last century. I have ripped all my CDs. My PC is my player and with Amarok I not only get the lyrics and the cover image. I get links to wiki from where I can get a ton of other information not available on the printed CD.
When I want to listen elsewhere I put them on a microSD that fits in my phone and am able to put the microSD in a SD adapter so I can put it in my car radio.
So why would I use CDs again? Selfmade or bought is the same. 46 CD set or 1 SD card with plenty of room to add other things? The Hobbit and LOTR is a total of 1.8GB.
SD cards and mp3 players are much easier to transfer files to then placing them on CD first. I hardly use CDs anymore and the only reason I use DVDs is to burn Linux images and those will soon be replaced by USB disk images (where I use microSD with an USB adapter). DVDs I have ripped on my HD as well.
Sure, some people will like the physical part of it, just like some people like the physical part of lifting an arm with a needle to play an LP. The majority just wants to listen to the music.
Other than a generic "hire a lawyer!", are there practical steps a software author can do here?
No. That said, you are one of the many millions of people who have great ideas that will help many people and will make you a millionaire. There is however a huge difference between buying and liking a product. It could very well be that the product you have would raise interest and even our company would like it. That does absolutely mean nothing. I first must make my own calculation if I can make money on it and if I can sell it to those who agree to part with their budget.
And then there is that fact that patenting software is silly and stupid and I hope by patenting it will bankrupt you in such a way that with your next idea you won't do it again.
That depends on what the team building is. I have worked together with many geeks and almost all of them liked to have a beer. Most liked the heavier beers (I live in Belgium, so plenty of that around.).
Trow in a few beers and drop the words "The source is better Open/Closed for our project." and you will see a lot of team building going on. It will be boring for the bystanders, but who cares.
Full ack. We do this from time to time and even the non-drinkers will be more talkative. But then I live in Belgium where alcohol is not seen as the Devil. Minor problems will be solved "tussen pot en pint". It will increase communication on the work floor, which is especially great if there is more then one department present.
It does not even have to be a big brawl, just a couple of beers after work for one or two hours once every two weeks or so.
The only team building I would get from that is sharing our misery because for some reason our boss gave us this punishment. I went to strip clubs and I never liked it. Most likely because I understand that the women there are not there to give me a good time or really are interested in me. They like what is in my wallet. And yes, I have seen, if not all, most of it. The same goes for gambling. I understand that the whole purpose is to take my money, so why waste so much time on a table? It is boring and I am too smart to think I could beat the system. Hold it up, perhaps, but not beat it.
There are many better ways to do team building. Eating out is one of the easiest ways of team building. Sharing food with others is always a bonding experience (except family dinners on X-mas and weddings).
The Id card as proposed by the UK government is not a simple reference document, but it allows connection with any means of electronic media, including computer databases, of course.
In Belgium everybody has an ID. They also have a chip in it that you can read yourself if you have a reader. (Sourcecode is available for Mac, Win and Linux).
Obviously these can be linked to anything you desire, but so could anything else. Now you go into a store and say you want to take a two year subscription. Then the seller will most likely have some ID so that he can get his money. So you would need to give some sort of ID? You hand over your ID and if they write it down or put it in a reader and put it directly in the database does not matter. It is the process that is different, not the fact that your name ends up in a database.
In the above, people who would not want to pay, would try to trick you with a fake ID. With this it is much, much, much harder. Impossible? No, but so much work that it becomes useless for most crimes.
What the real worry is not that you end up in a database (that will happen with or without IS) but that these databases become linked. We work with this and with payment by Visa. After the transaction we can not see the creditcard number any more. Visa does not know what goods the customer bought.
there would arise a problem if we were able to get the credit card details afterwards or if Visa and could see what the customer bought. Mind you, they see where they bought it, but not what. They can guess, but they will not be sure.
So it is not the ID, it is the linking of databases that is the real problem.
I disagree. At most it should be: We realize they were wrong. An entity like a government or company does not know right or wrong. It is the people who make up that entity are able to do so. If that entity is still liable is a different matter.
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Actually, I do. Made an envelope of duct tape. Two layers of duct tape with aluminium foil in between. As an excuse I say I do not want it to become unreadable when crossing a border and the silver helps me find it much easier then the brownish red it is.
Not only would he be an uberhacker, he would rename the country to GNU/USA.
They used to have that at Citibank in Belgium. Not anymore. Now I understand why.
Their excuse was that it was safer now they use "Visa / MasterCard SecureCode". The downside is that it is yet another password what I apparently need to remember. However none of the stores I use use it.
Till now the security questions that were asked by people from citibank where very generic and could be had by every person who stole my wallet.
What is your postal code. (Check my ID I have in my wallet)
What is your birth date. (Check my ID I have in my wallet)
What is the limit of your card. When that was asked I really did not know and said "I believe between 2 and 5 thousand." and it was enough to satisfy them. No other question exept these three have ever been asked.
I felt safer when I used the virtual accounts.
I use AZERTY you insensitive clod.
I had touch typing in school. I still search and peck. OK, I use 4 fingers instead of two. I would not be better or faster if I had passed that class.
The reason that I do not think it is very important is because I seldom type many words after another. Most of the time I type a few words and then re-think or do a research. e.g. the two few lines took me some 5 minutes, not because I could not find the letters, but because I stop every now and then.
I do not say that touch typing is useless, It is just that often going SLOWER is better then typing at full speed. In a real life explanation: you get an email from somebody in a business environment asking you on your progress on a certain project. I do not know what others do, but what I do is re-read the email, think about who the person is and how I will be answering.
Most of the time I will need to lookup some extra information. So during the answering, I will be twitching with alt/tab between screens. I will also use the mouse to do copy and pasting.
So the speed I might gain with touch typing will be very limited as typing is only part of the process and most of the time not the biggest part. I have tested working processes with people who were able to touch type very fast and the time difference was almost not existing.
Car example: You can have a ferrari and a yugo. You go a a big shopping spree where you drive from store to store and the stores are very close to each other. Say 2 minutes with the ferrari and 3 with the Yugo. Visit 10 stores with 30 minute visites each. That means 320 instead of 330 minutes or a gain of 10 minutes or 3%.
From the point of view of other professions, it might be a good adia to include that, because some people will be writing a lot without stopping in between. So it should depend on what they become later. Oh well, if they start doing it, they just take that time away from gym and kids already hate that.
There are some computers that are under my control. There are some that are NOT under my control. I cn not install software on those systems. I can not add anything on those systems. Further not all logins are weblogins and some that are only work on very locked down IE machines where I can not even do a 'save password'.
Almost none have this option. Those are the ones I use privately from my own box, so no issue there. The ones that bother me are all the different systems I need to access remotely. The worst I ever had to work with was a forced password change every 5 days.
I now have several digipasses laying around for different systems.
One is for a company where I first have to enter a login and then the digicode with a pincode, then the same login with a password, then a different login with a different password.
So what I have done is against all security. We have a dedicated machine just for that application (was also a requirement. We needed to install their closed source software, so we decided not to use a standard machine for it.) I have placed a text file on the PC I use it on with all the details AND I have connected the code generator thing to the keyboard AND have the login and password on the monitor so people can login both as user and as admin.
Yes I know it is extremely bad practice. I need the machine perhaps once every two weeks and then I need it fast. I then do not have the time looking what the logins where and where that stupid key was again.
So by increasing the security on their side by doing all the things that are possible, they actually have decreased it in the end. The main difference is that if something goes wrong, they can blame me. So to me that means this is not about security, but about pointing fingers and placing the blame on somebody else.
Some others are not that bad, but still pretty awefull. What I actually do is have the same password, but often I have to guess the login, because I have not chosen them myself and they are various variations on first name, last name, company, numbers and whatever they can think of is logical to THEM.
These are third parties where my company works for and makes money from, so the only option not to use it is taking another job where I most likely would be in a similar situation, unless I would change my sort of job I do.
Yes, unfortunately many systems are not under my control. Actually most systems are not under my control. They are third parties or for some other reason beyond my control. The most known reason is that instead of understanding that people have many, many logins nowadays, the sole interest is that they can show that they have done what needs to be done. By doing that, they will cause that people write logins and passwords down. I know that a lot of people use other peoples passwords and logins on some systems, because 'security' is so tight getting a new password is too much of a hassle and takes sometimes two days.
So if after say 20 years of intensive computer usage by non-geeks what we do now does not work, I would suggest we should start looking for something else.
Great if you are able to do that. I have problems remembering what the sentence was this month for each of them and would confuse them with the ones for last month. The majority of people have the same problem.
There are two ways around this. 1) Alter the people. 2) Alter the system
1) is tried now for many years and it does not seem to help. Perhaps it is time to think about changing 2)
Or we can just keep blaming the people for being morons and sit on our ivory throne laughing at these morons and be able to blame them for the insecurity of our infallible system.
Sure. That is what people tell me all the time to use a secure password. http://maord.com/ can easily help you with that. So now I have a secure password like cJQKUG4P generated by that website.
Obviously like most people I have a bunch of different logins, many where I was not able to select my own login. To be secure I must use several ones. e.g. one for work, one for the bank, one for mail and one for websites.
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CsQnP5Fy
These four I must remember and change every month. And that is if I only use four and group my logins. If I want to be really secure, I will use a different one for each login I am able to change the password (17 of them, not calculating the many websites):
UVvCUmE3
Snip 15 random passwords
Lameness filter encountered. Post aborted!
Filter error: That's an awful long string of letters there.
qAv9qZHR
I am not allowed to save them. I must memorize them. Yes, there are other options, like using the first letters of a sentence, but due to the sheer number of logins it becomes impossible.
It is a known fact that people are stupid. If you make something that proves that fact, then the problem is not the moron users, but the designers. I have no clear answer on how to solve it, but I would start with removing the forceful changing of passwords every month. That WILL lead to weaker passwords.
Ireland is the whole island. Both Nothern Ireland (which is part of the UK and Republic of Ireland)
As it could be seen over the whole island, it can be tagged as UK. Now if it only could have been seen in the southern part, then you would have been right.
But it looks very much like something real to me. Sure you can make fun of people not knowing it does not look like an AK47. I can also imagine that somebody who knows very little about riffles would say 'ak47' where he means 'looks like an assault wepon that is not like any standard hunting rifle'.
The big advantage is that all we need is only 5 computers.
Nah. It is just another idea they stole from Linux.
We call it an install party.
I hope none of my friends thinks the same. What I want from my friends is friendship, not marketing.
I understand driving to the gym. I do not understand that people then start running on a treadmill. Go run in a park or somewhere were the ground is not as hard. Much better for your feet AND you are outside.
What does their political thinking have to do with whether they challenge anything or not? I would call many unions more socialist then the BBC. And they do challenge everything all the time as well (Rightfully or not is another discussion).
I think you confused "socialist" with "socially engaged" which is not the same thing.
Been there, done that. Nothing about it was shadowy. It was just enormously boring. Telling each other how boring it is, is also some kind of team building I guess. I just know more interesting stuff to do with a team.
CDs are sooo last century. I have ripped all my CDs. My PC is my player and with Amarok I not only get the lyrics and the cover image. I get links to wiki from where I can get a ton of other information not available on the printed CD.
When I want to listen elsewhere I put them on a microSD that fits in my phone and am able to put the microSD in a SD adapter so I can put it in my car radio.
So why would I use CDs again? Selfmade or bought is the same. 46 CD set or 1 SD card with plenty of room to add other things? The Hobbit and LOTR is a total of 1.8GB.
SD cards and mp3 players are much easier to transfer files to then placing them on CD first. I hardly use CDs anymore and the only reason I use DVDs is to burn Linux images and those will soon be replaced by USB disk images (where I use microSD with an USB adapter). DVDs I have ripped on my HD as well.
Sure, some people will like the physical part of it, just like some people like the physical part of lifting an arm with a needle to play an LP. The majority just wants to listen to the music.
No.
That said, you are one of the many millions of people who have great ideas that will help many people and will make you a millionaire. There is however a huge difference between buying and liking a product. It could very well be that the product you have would raise interest and even our company would like it. That does absolutely mean nothing.
I first must make my own calculation if I can make money on it and if I can sell it to those who agree to part with their budget.
And then there is that fact that patenting software is silly and stupid and I hope by patenting it will bankrupt you in such a way that with your next idea you won't do it again.
It might be that Robbin Williams put it that way, the saying is a bit older then Robin Williams.
That depends on what the team building is. I have worked together with many geeks and almost all of them liked to have a beer. Most liked the heavier beers (I live in Belgium, so plenty of that around.).
Trow in a few beers and drop the words "The source is better Open/Closed for our project." and you will see a lot of team building going on. It will be boring for the bystanders, but who cares.
Full ack. We do this from time to time and even the non-drinkers will be more talkative. But then I live in Belgium where alcohol is not seen as the Devil. Minor problems will be solved "tussen pot en pint". It will increase communication on the work floor, which is especially great if there is more then one department present.
It does not even have to be a big brawl, just a couple of beers after work for one or two hours once every two weeks or so.
The only team building I would get from that is sharing our misery because for some reason our boss gave us this punishment.
I went to strip clubs and I never liked it. Most likely because I understand that the women there are not there to give me a good time or really are interested in me. They like what is in my wallet. And yes, I have seen, if not all, most of it.
The same goes for gambling. I understand that the whole purpose is to take my money, so why waste so much time on a table? It is boring and I am too smart to think I could beat the system. Hold it up, perhaps, but not beat it.
There are many better ways to do team building. Eating out is one of the easiest ways of team building. Sharing food with others is always a bonding experience (except family dinners on X-mas and weddings).
That would violate both the copyright and the trademark that Google has. And if malicious most likely many other laws.
In Belgium everybody has an ID. They also have a chip in it that you can read yourself if you have a reader. (Sourcecode is available for Mac, Win and Linux).
Obviously these can be linked to anything you desire, but so could anything else. Now you go into a store and say you want to take a two year subscription. Then the seller will most likely have some ID so that he can get his money. So you would need to give some sort of ID? You hand over your ID and if they write it down or put it in a reader and put it directly in the database does not matter. It is the process that is different, not the fact that your name ends up in a database.
In the above, people who would not want to pay, would try to trick you with a fake ID. With this it is much, much, much harder. Impossible? No, but so much work that it becomes useless for most crimes.
What the real worry is not that you end up in a database (that will happen with or without IS) but that these databases become linked. We work with this and with payment by Visa. After the transaction we can not see the creditcard number any more. Visa does not know what goods the customer bought.
there would arise a problem if we were able to get the credit card details afterwards or if Visa and could see what the customer bought. Mind you, they see where they bought it, but not what. They can guess, but they will not be sure.
So it is not the ID, it is the linking of databases that is the real problem.
I disagree. At most it should be: We realize they were wrong. An entity like a government or company does not know right or wrong. It is the people who make up that entity are able to do so.
If that entity is still liable is a different matter.