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Not sure the situation in other countries, but in the US you aren't liable for any money lost in an ATM robbery. So this would be helpful to the banks, but not the victim.
Just the knowledge of this would discourage ATM robberies from happening. If you knew that you'd only get x bucks, and that the police would be called as the transaction was happening, you'd be less likely to try this technique.
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Speaking as a father of a 3-year-old, a separate profile for him would save me an immeasurable amount of frustration. "Figure out which folder the program I want is in" becomes really tiring after about the 600th time.
Spotlight could save you that frustration already.
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Yes, they restricted the selection. They also encouraged each number to be unique.
For the interested: enforcing no palindromes and unique digits reduces the number of possible PINs by about a factor of 2, bringing it down to 5040 4-digit combinations. [JS code] http://pastebin.com/3A46BP1C
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What kind of computer do you have that doesn't have a guest mode? Windows, Mac/UNIX and Linux have all been multi-user either from the beginning or for decades.
Yeah, but then I have to have a "guest" log-in. My computers are always on, so people never feel bad about asking to use them, and I feel it's unnecessary and unsmooth to log out. Since I've already been perfectly demanding|whining about a feature I'd like to have, what I _really_ want is to just click a program that boots up a vm with the same OS, but only the browser ready to go with a fresh lack of cookies, histor…
Somewhat related: I've long wondered why ATM cards don't have something similar. 1234 is my regular PIN. 1235 is my help I'm being robbed PIN -- it dispenses the cash, calls the cops, and tags the video.
Sounds really cool, but I'm not sure what problem it actually solves. Typical ATM robbery today probably ends with the cash coming out of the machine and the robber running away, hopefully without injuring or killing their victim. Victim calls police, they take a report, get the video from the ATM cam, bank refunds the stolen cash, done. In the scenario that you're proposing, the only advantage is that police are cal…
Smartphones seem to have mostly sacrificed some of their security for convenience. Take Windows for example, sure you can setup multiple user accounts with different levels of privilege , access to website and apps etc but how many people outside of a corporate or academic setting actually use this? Whenever I borrow someones laptop they just use their own login, sometimes I find porn in their Internet history but at…
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What kind of computer do you have that doesn't have a guest mode? Windows, Mac/UNIX and Linux have all been multi-user either from the beginning or for decades.
Yeah, but then I have to have a "guest" log-in. My computers are always on, so people never feel bad about asking to use them, and I feel it's unnecessary and unsmooth to log out. Since I've already been perfectly demanding|whining about a feature I'd like to have, what I _really_ want is to just click a program that boots up a vm with the same OS, but only the browser ready to go with a fresh lack of cookies, histor…
In Windows you'd hit Windows-L, which would take you to the login screen, and then they'd click "Guest" (or whatever alternate login you've set up). You'd still be logged in, and when they were done (or were giving it back to you for five minutes) you press Windows-L again and choose your own login to switch back to your still-running programs.
I'd be astounding if Linux didn't have an equivalent.
"Why Don’t Smartphones Have A Guest Mode?" Because dealing with multiple profiles and/or different profile types is a fucking huge giant pain the ass and a monumental amount of work! Xbox has local, guest, live silver, and live gold accounts. Dealing with all the different profiles and switching between is a nightmare. Urgh, no thanks.
It's for different people, not for you that an account should be created. I also would like that in all the *pads. I'd like to split the history and logins of each person using my touchpad. It's a mess when 2+ people start using it.
Somewhat related: I've long wondered why ATM cards don't have something similar. 1234 is my regular PIN. 1235 is my help I'm being robbed PIN -- it dispenses the cash, calls the cops, and tags the video.
My girlfriend worked at bank that did this. The alert PIN was your PIN backwards. I don't know if they still do this or not.
Privacy is important. But why not just avoid keeping weird stuff on your phone? Keep it somewhere else. Or say, "hold on let me log out of my bank app" or something.
> But why not just avoid keeping weird stuff on your phone? Keep it somewhere else. My girlfriend texting me about medical issues isn't "weird", but I still don't want my mom to read it if I happen to hand him my phone for a few minutes. My mom emailing me photos of my childhood self taking a bath isn't weird, but I wouldn't want my friends to see them. My friend asking me if I'll be showing up to the Atheist Associa…
Wow. I'm glad I don't live in a country where that would even be an issue. It would never occur to me as something anyone would need to be private in any country(until now).
(Or do you work for a fundamentalist religious organisation?)