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Comment Re:I do not use the same password for multiple sit (Score 1) 339

I can't think of a single site that does this. And I forget my passwords all the time. Every single site seems to generate a new 8 character random password, and email *that* to you, or a link where you can click and enter a new password.

Oh, there are plenty of them out there. I recently even came across a domain registrar a client was using, which submitted your username and password in plaintext in the URL of the page request while logging in.

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Ask Slashdot: Changing Passwords For the New Year? 339

A new submitter asks "Every New Year's Day, I assemble and memorize a random collection of seven to ten mixed-case alphanumeric characters and proceed to change every password I have on the interwebs to these characters (plus a few extra characters unique to the site). The problem is I only change them on the sites I visit. Once in a while, I'll come across a site I haven't visited for a few years, and I may end up not being able to guess the password before the try-lockout takes effect. What are your password-changing rituals, and how do they deal with situations like mine? I do use Keepass for work, but it is sometimes impractical for times I'm at other computers."
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Verizon Backtracks On $2 Convenience Fee 281

Velcroman1 writes with a followup to yesterday's news that Verizon would be implementing a $2 'convenience fee' for certain online and phone-based bill payments. In addition to dealing with outrage from customers, Verizon also felt resistance from the Federal Communications Commission, who decided they would investigate the matter. Today, in a brief press release, Verizon announced that they've canceled their plans for the new fee in response to customer feedback.

Comment Re:That's pretty much what they did (Score 1) 576

I would call this a crazy conspiracy theory -- except for Dave with a V's really strange entangling of outrage, with simultaneous unending praise and desire for the product. I'm having a really hard time making sense of that part of it.

What's so hard to understand about it? Guy likes a product, tries to buy it, gets screwed around by sales/support staff.

After all, why would anybody be dealing with sales/support staff in the first place, if they didn't have an interest in the product? It's actually rather mundane, hardly some kind of intriguing mystery. I think most of us have been in a similar position before.

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