Comment Secure passwords (Score 1) 637

by mikeq on Monday June 06, 2016 @11:24AM (#52259483) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: How Do You Create A Highly-Secure Password?

Two factor authentication.

Comment Trading your password for a candy bar... (Score 2) 258

by mikeq on Sunday October 04, 2015 @12:11AM (#50654537) Attached to: You can have my passwords ...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/tec...

Comment Beyond Stupid (Score 1) 412

by mikeq on Tuesday June 21, 2011 @08:52PM (#36522468) Attached to: Paying Hacker Extortion

Won't the hackers just keep demanding more and more money?

Comment Spinoff! (Score 1) 332

by mikeq on Wednesday June 01, 2011 @07:40AM (#36306632) Attached to: Daleks To Be Given 'A Rest' From Dr. Who

They should do a spinoff that shows the situation from the Dalek point of view.

Comment Free subscriptions (Score 1) 117

by mikeq on Thursday April 21, 2011 @06:09PM (#35900616) Attached to: NYTimes.com Reports 100k Subscribers

NYT offered me a free one year subscription ( "sponsored by Lincoln") which I accepted. If they hadn't I would either have stopped reading their articles or used one of the workarounds.

Comment One option (Score 4, Insightful) 936

by mikeq on Tuesday July 01, 2008 @05:57PM (#24022729) Attached to: Non-Programming Jobs For a Computer Science Major?

If you can't do it, teach it.

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