Perhaps the real study is: How will people react to this study?

This DARPA work sound like it's in the same space as the Pandas library. I hope they can work together.

How do Hotmail manage to shorten an existing password? I mean, unless Hotmail store the clear text version of the password all they have is a hash or something, and they can't work out a shorter version of the cleartext password from the hash ... can they?

But why should I be limited to 'CD Quality'? Linn Records have it right, I think. You can get the same recording at various quality levels, and for certain kinds of recordings I am more than happy to part with 20 quid for an album which is what they charge for 24bit 192kHz FLAC. ... plus I don't want to consume space in my home to store my music collection.

I think the key point here is that choice is good. The music industry needs to start responding to market demand.

Koreans slightly beaten to it by The London Electrobus Company founded in 1906 which ran for a couple of years. Well that's what Wikipedia says so it must be true!

The problem with passwords is we all have to 'remember' so many of the darned things.

I really wish I could authenticate by being able to decrypt a secret using my private OpenPGP key. That way I would only need to remember one password, and changing that regularly would be something I could imagine. Changing the swarm of passwords I currently have to deal with is just inconcevable.

I always refer to it as MOO-XML (Microsoft Office Open - XML). It makes things clearer.

>Quite honestly, if (like me) you are a European, I guess it's time to kick some butt and make Europe more democratic.

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