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I disagree with his "First Letters from a Phrase" point. I find mnemonic passwords very useful and keeps me from having to open up KeePass every time I want to log in to a system b…

When storing data on my server I always treat secret questions and answers the same as passwords, because that is exactly what they are. What use is a strong password if a weak sec…

For anybody that is interested, it is called "Off-the-Record Messaging" and you can get the plugin at http://www.cypherpunks.ca/otr/

No crawler should perform POST requests. it is simply bad etiquette and it is understood that POST requests are typically used to create/change/delete content or affect the environ…

As a Netflix customer I applaud their 180 turnaround on their Qwikster plans. It doesn't matter to me if their flip-flop makes them seem a little scatterbrained, because the decisi…

Major PHP versions are the evolutionary jumps for the language. They don't tend to worry as much about backwards-compatibility when going from PHP3 to PHP4 to PHP5. I've read that …

What protects you from outsourcing the reading of scans to foreign countries, such as India? Obviously some medical institutions will want to keep it all local, but won't this open…

I doubt Gen X is stymied.much. It is the younger generations that are going to suffer due to fewer employment opportunities.