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Comment Re:Mozilla's public disclosure (Score 1) 154

It's just me then probably ;) . I'd rather trust my memory jello than a scrap of paper or an electronic device to keep my most important information both accessible to me and private. Sometimes there are situations where you must leave your phone or wallet somewhere and I'd rather part with them and their contents than my most secure passwords. Of course, given a drug-and-five-dollar-wrench situation, i'm screwed either way, but up until now, I could always remember every one of my passes - and some of them are very long and very random. If i change a high-security password, i perform a series of test logins from a secure and trusted terminal until I can log in correctly ten times in succession without any delays on my part. I've been doing this for up to six years now, so I suppose it comes with practice, but it makes some pretty big assumptions on the security of the password. This method, for instance, surely wouldn't work in an office high-security environment, where passwords are changed pretty often.

Comment Re:Mozilla's public disclosure (Score 1) 154

If you don't trust automated password keeper software and don't want to clutter your brain too much, just tier your passwords. Seriously. Have a set of five, maybe six levels of passwords with different levels of length and complexity. Lev1 on throwaway accounts you won't miss, Lev2 for accounts you don't use often but return once in a while, Lev3 for untrusted websites you need to use regularly, Lev4 for trusted sites containing no specific data, Lev5 for trusted domains with your private information, Lev6 for the holy-fucking-shit-if-this-were-ever-hacked-i'd-lose-everything-and-kill-myself places. Obviously, it goes without saying that you shouldn't ever write these down anywhere - and I mean everywhere.

This is a pretty good compromise between different passwords on every site and using just one everywhere. It's not a security measure good enough for the 3l33t and/or paranoid, but it should be enough for the average internet-enabled Joe.

Bonus points if you change your passwords once in a while.

Comment Re:id should give Tom Hall Keen's rights. (Score 4, Informative) 152

Correction: not Activision, but Infogrames, which is now Atari. It went something like this:

With CKeen, episode 6 (Aliens Ate My Babysitter), the game was published by FormGen, and Apogee was only a retailer. In 1996, FormGen was sold to GT Interactive, along with the rights to Commander Keen. In 1999, Infogrames Entertainment SA took a controlling stake in GT and renamed the whole company Infogrames, Inc. Then, in 2003, Infogrames Inc. changed their name to Atari Inc. and it sits like that up until now. Formally, Atari is the owner of all the IP surrounding Commander Keen.

I mistook Atari for Activision since it was Activision who published the GameBoy Color version in 2001 (leading to much Fanon Discontinuity).

Comment Re:cool, but.. (Score 4, Interesting) 51

Remember these are just baby steps of solar powered flight. This in itself is quite an achievement, but there's still room for improvement. As solar panel technology gets better, so will the capabilities and usefulness of such projects in real life. However, i think just waiting for a better panel won't cut it - the rest can still be optimized, like internal circuitry, materials, the design and so on. That's why IMO it's important to keep making such prototypes. If (when?) we finally get better panels, we'll be all set with a proper aircraft architecture and, if we're lucky, it'll be able to sustain itself in every climate.

That said, the military will probably never release the specs to the public, so meh ;) .

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