The dealers I've dealt with treated a cashiers check no differently than a personal check, for some reason: requiring a financing agreement in case the cashier's check bounced. So, at least according to them, it's not just like cash.
It's a hack to get around with the fact that things are built in a stupid way. If you came up with a real solution, a password manager would probably be useless, or at least redundant.
There are better solutions of course. They are not yet widely implemented. I'm sure glad that we've had internal combustion engine automobiles as an imperfect tool before we adopt whatever better technology we adopt in the future. Just like I am glad we have password managers today before we move to whatever better authentication technology we adopt be they certificates or whatever else. I will gladly dump an antiquated tool then. Until then, they're not really antiquated.
That's one dealership. Most dealerships take checks, some require silly process to take a check. Many dealerships have commented about how few cash deals they get, but they do get them (cash meaning no financing). Usually they're happy to accept a check but not always in which case they are happy to take cash. No one is looking for a solution to any problem here, merely that there are legitimate uses for cash in large denominations. They don't have to come up often though. I don't use $100 bills every day, but I'm glad they exist when I do need them on occasion.
Yes and looks rather conspicuous walking down the street, whereas $30,000 in thousands fits in my wallet and looks rather inconspicuous. I was merely answering what need one might have for higher denomination bills.
I don't have the memory bandwidth to memorize a hundred unique passwords. I memorize four or five passwords (my email, my bank, my work, my home and my password manager). For everything else (my Slashdot, my wifi, etc) I use a password manager.
Great. As I said, "There are plenty of scenarios for which a password manager is helpful." Good for you for finding some. It's still not a real solution to the problem.
No one said it was an ideal solution, but it is a valuable component of a good solution.
What advantage can you think of that a $1000 bill has over 10 x $100 bills
They take up one tenth the space and weight, obviously? Just because you don't make cash transactions over a couple of hundred dollars, does not mean that people don't make cash transactions over a couple of thousand dollars.
I recently wanted to buy a car. In order to take a personal check or cashiers check, the dealership required me signing a financing agreement in the case the check bounced. I refused to do that, for why should I want a hard credit pull for a cash transaction? The only other option they would take was cash. Carrying $40,000 in hundreds is far more annoying and dangerous than in thousand or five thousand dollar bills.
Ever buy a new car with cash? $30,000 in hundred dollar bills is annoying to carry and count in $20s.
I don't have the memory bandwidth to memorize a hundred unique passwords. I memorize four or five passwords (my email, my bank, my work, my home and my password manager). For everything else (my Slashdot, my wifi, etc) I use a password manager. Given that most websites uses email password resets just remembering my email password means I can log into almost anywhere from anywhere with a network connection.
Yes, very few tools are stellar in every scenario. That's why I use the tool for the less-critical scenarios and remember the critical ones. Even if I were to forget my password manager password and lose access to my password manager permanently, I can recreate those 100 passwords given some time.
there are no good password managers.
Yes, that was what I was pointing out.
For your set of requirements yes. Many people are okay with carrying a trusted device. For that scenario, which is quite common, there are good password managers.
Perhaps I misunderstand you. It seems like you want a database/file that is accessible from any internet-connected device regardless of software installed upon it. That's a desire I don't know how to ensure. Windows does not have an SSH client without running a downloaded binary. Not all machines have browsers. Those that do, I am not sure I would trust their browser.
What is it you actually want?
I would say that for this to be true, I'd need a "good password manager" that was easily and transparently accessible on any platform that can access the internet, without installing anything, and without exposing my password to others.
That's a fairly impossible requirement to meet. If you want to access your secure store from an untrusted machine--which it sounds like you do--then there are no good password managers.
Use program X they say, as if that will never fail. If it is local, I will break it. If it is remote, I do not trust it with all my passwords.
Do you trust encryption? If you do, encrypt your password database and store it both locally and remotely. If you do not trust encryption, then almost every website you visit is already wide open to you anyhow so no point in having strong passwords.
No, it's like saying: in the artic, fur is the superior material. No one said anything about wearing a fur coat anywhere else. I think you might be putting words into the conversation that weren't there.
If I get 30MPG and my tank holds 10 gallons, I know I can make any trip shorter than 300 miles on a full tank.
You don't really. 30 MPG is an average you measured (presumably) in the past. It tells you nothing about the future trip. If you measured that 30MPG while driving on a flat highway at 55 MPH and then used that number to estimate your trip through a hilly city, you'd be off, but a lot.
My whole point was that the purpose of these measures is to compare TCO of cars when buying them, not to estimate how much gas a particular trip will make. At best, you can get a rough measure of mileage of a tank of gas based on your typical driving, like I know that with my typical commute I can go two weeks between trips to the gas station. I know I can get 500 miles out of my tank doing my commute, but that's a trip I make all the time. If I add one trip to that, I have no idea what that's going to do to my mileage in advance. My car gets 1.9 MPG sometimes and 100 MPG other times.
You grasp how an exponential works. You do not grasp that the 1.7 infections have to happen to uninfected individuals. I don't mean to imply that we can ignore this disease, but by presenting a worst case scenario discounting a large part of reality is fear mongering.
Any program which runs right is obsolete.
