Related story: For some weird reason, I memorized the serial key for a very popular software (I must be fifteen then). Even today, I can recite the 25-letter key without a hitch. And I have used its first ten letters as a password to one of my accounts. Guess what? The password has been used 4000+ times before [1]. It's hard to digest the fact that there are at least a thousand people in the world who did the same th…
lol, when i was 9 or 10 i memorized 'the big cheat' for turok 64, which i can also recite today -- nthgthdgdcrtdtrk turns out 204 other people can too! (though apparently not in all caps) never used it as a password but i can see why one would
lol, when i was 9 or 10 i memorized 'the big cheat' for turok 64, which i can also recite today -- nthgthdgdcrtdtrk turns out 204 other people can too! (though apparently not in all caps) never used it as a password but i can see why one would
"On the eigth day, God created Turok" without vowels :)
Wow! Is this really what the developers meant or is this just a mnemonic that you used?
That follow-up tweet freaks me out. What does that have to do with anything, really. I think it's rather unprofessional and would prefer people not make self-congratulatory statements about their personal beliefs.
How condescending and moral relativistic of you to say that there is a wrong time and place to assert what is and is not a human right, that there is no unselfish reason to do so, and that human rights are merely a matter of individual preference.
How are trans people excluded from human rights, again? I seem to have missed that part in my source [0], because that should certainly be covered most formidably by article 3, "Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person".
Let this thread be a reminder for everyone to use a password manager.
I'm willing to bet that a major upcoming security disaster is a compromised password manager that leaks out tens of millions of accounts and passwords in nicely structured XML that's perfect for automated attacks and frauds. Yes, I use a password manager too, but an ancient one that has no Internet connection, no syncing, and no cloud storage. The only "modern" password manager I've been able to find that works compl…
> a password manager that leaks out tens of millions of accounts and passwords
While I agree that this would be a security disaster, its not a whole lot different then someone using the same credentials for all their accounts. Also, one of the great benefits of a password manager is that they remove a very high mental cost of passwords. Before I used a password manager, although I knew it was good practice to change passwords, I wasn't willing to invest that effort into it. The cost of good random passwords was too high. Today, if my password manager was hacked, it would suck going through all my accounts and changing all the passwords - it would take a lot of physical time, but there would be no long-term fallout and mental effort involved for me. I'm not attached to those passwords - I don't even know them.
How condescending and moral relativistic of you to say that there is a wrong time and place to assert what is and is not a human right, that there is no unselfish reason to do so, and that human rights are merely a matter of individual preference.
How are trans people excluded from human rights, again? I seem to have missed that part in my source [0], because that should certainly be covered most formidably by article 3, "Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person". [0] http://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/inde...
Rights that aren't asserted are not likely to be respected. Yes, of course these rights apply to everyone, but the laws and policies being enacted aren't taking those rights away from everyone, they're taking them away from trans people. If there were laws passed to do things like prevent cisgender men and women from using anything other than unisex bathrooms, it wouldn't make much sense to rally support for trans rights, would it? But that's not what's happening, what's happening is an infringement against trans people, specifically. Would it make much sense for firefighters to ignore individual fires and only put fires out when everything was on fire?
For the unfamiliar, "ㄨㄛˇㄉㄜ˙ㄇㄧˋㄇㄚˇ" is an example of "bopomofo" script, the phonetic system used to teach kids reading and pronunciation in Taiwan, and adapted to Chinese keyboard input (zhuyin). I learned it in the 1990s studying Mandarin in Taipei. It maps closely to pinyin romanization used in China (i.e., "ㄨㄛˇ" = "wo3" which is the sound in the Mandarin dialect for "我" and potentially other characters with the sam…
Bopomofo has nothing to do with Taiwan, specifically. It's a system introduced by the Republic of China, and tha continues to be used in the Republic of China (only Taiwan left these days). That's because the mainland switched to Pinyin in the 50s. That being said, Taiwan has now also officially switched to Pinyin so use may increase. Edit: Another interesting, and old, system to write Mandarin using the Arabic alpha…
As a resident here, I know for a fact that Taiwan did not replace bopomofo with pinyin.
You see bopomofu is to denote pronunciation not to romanticize characters. If you are talking about how location/street names are spelled, some form of pinyin (literally means spelling) had always been used for romanticization.
Well they don't change the signs in Tainan or Taipei, only exists in 1 or 2 county's. Hopefully they don't switch to pinyin, and I especially hope they don't switch to Simplified.
It had always been some form of romanticization for street names. Pronunciation has always been bopomofo.
I once used a password which our IT department gave me and it was !'a;@,oq and at least for me it looked random enough. I had it as a root password on a server and I enabled password login for about 2 minutes because I wanted to resize some virtual hard drive or something and couldn't be logged in as a normal user and then switching with su to root because then the normal user would have open files on the file system…
> So actually it was !qaz@wsx (I just put the Dvorak version on top of the comment to give you the same unknown feeling for the password which I had back then.)