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I've just tried to access my very first GMail account, and can't remember the password. Google's password policies aren't the issue, it's their password reset policies. I see on my current Google Apps mail accounts I can just reset my password my getting a code via SMS, and one of these accounts is still using POP3 to pull mail out of the old GMail account, but I have tried and tried, and there seems to be no way I answer the questions correctly, except the name of my 1st teacher, which myself and a few hundred people I know, know well. But, was it "Mrs", "mrs", "mrs.", etc? As to the dates I created or last used the account, anybodies guess.
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Hmm. Dunno.
Google keeps asking me for my phone number, but I won't give it to them, so the SMS thing wouldn't work for me.
It asks me every time I install or upgrade apps on my three mobile devices, so it's an annoying intrusion that is poisoning the waters of android for me.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Just curious, what is your IP address?
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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Le'ssee...
Ah.
127.0.0.1
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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You know it's bad when a little black book now contains website addresses rather than chick's phone numbers. Glad to see our priorities are in order.
Jeremy Falcon
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: bad when a little black book now contains website addresses rather than chick's phone numbers
LOL! Oh, it's the "modern" life for me!
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: You know it's bad when a little black book now contains website addresses rather than chick's phone numbers.
Not at all.
I need a bigger black book for the chicks.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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How in today's world is it less secure?.....
How are most passwords pwned these days? Via electronic means.....how many burglars will lift a piece of paper from next to a computer in case it has passwords? Next to none.
The prevailing advice is indeed to write them down on a piece of paper - we don't live in the kind of world (despite what Wargames would have us believe) were it's a security risk, and it's a LOT less likely to be "cracked" than even a password manager....
C# has already designed away most of the tedium of C++.
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RichardGrimmer wrote: how many burglars will lift a piece of paper from next to a computer
Right, but a couple of things:
1. If the log book says, "Important passwords" then maybe burglar takes it.
2. Also, for home, maybe...but are people using these at work?
3. This is a perfect gift to give someone at work, then wait a month or two and then wander into his/her office after s/he has left for the day. 
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newton.saber wrote: This is a perfect gift to give someone at work, then wait a month or two and then wander into his/her office after s/he has left for the day.
Yes, but there are quicker ways to get sacked.
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Back in my Silicon Valley days (in the late neolithic, pre-internet), there were definitely people who regularly went rummaging through dumpster bins of high-tech companies looking recyclable gear, trade-secrets, unannounced product details, passwords, credit card numbers, etc., and there was a well-known (text only) BBS for the Mac full of pirated wares using serial numbers found in said dumpsters, stolen by employees of software companies, hacked, etc.
One trash-removal company employee was reported to be one of the unseen-hands behind this BBS, and was a notable "personality" at Mac User Groups.
« I am putting myself to the fullest possible use which is all, I think, that any conscious entity can ever hope to do » HAL (Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer) in "2001, A Space Odyssey"
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I used to always use passwords like "KeithS_19570812!", it meets most requirements of length, mixed case, numeric characters and symbols. I kept the password in my address book with the numeric part as a birthday (or phone number) and the name is optionally completed with surname. "Keith Smith" doesn't exist for me as a person - I know that, but a snooper wouldn't. I can look up the name and construct the password and only have to remember what name is for what system - a lot easier than remembering a bunch of random digits! My real contacts are intermingled with my passwords and only I know which are which. When it comes time to change a password due to compulsory expiry (a practice I personally disagree with) I can just change it to something like "Kenneth_20030613!" which is sufficiently different to pass password similarity checks and yet stays on the same page of my address book as a new name. I might even just list it as "Ken 13-Jun-2003". Effective obfuscation.
PS. I now use a different method that involves having a better memory and not writing anything down - only because I was too lazy to write all of them down.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Forogar wrote: only because I was too lazy to write all of them down
Laziness is a great motivator. 
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I have written some of my best code to get around my personal laziness?
Lazy pedants make the best programmers.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Forogar wrote: I have written some of my best code to get around my personal laziness?
100% agree.
I was serious about laziness being a great motivator.
The best programmers are the lazy ones.
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There is a good post within the comments on the site of someone who suffered a temporary brain injury and could not even remember his name.
Having written down the passwords this helped his family.
It is something I have thought of doing and will probably do, only telling a few people where the information is.
Much of what I have is electronic nowadays, so people would not have a clue that I am in fact a 10pencionnaire if they did not have access to my accounts and shares.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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and if you lose it? if someone steals it? this is Not ok
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Second link is missing 'g' at end so you get a 404 when clicked.
To me it doesn't matter if he could see or not, it was quite a feet (pun intended) as Chicago is known as the windy city so it was pretty dangerous either way.
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.0
There's a fine line between crazy and free spirited and it's usually a prescription.
I'm currently unsupervised, I know it freaks me out too but the possibilities are endless.
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The link is fixed.
As I said, I'm not putting down his bravery or skill - I sure as hell would not attempt it, but I think that having sight of your feat could come in useful while tightrope walking!
The use of such blindfolds in conjuring is a well known way for magicians to see what they are not supposed to see.
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Chris Quinn wrote: I think that having sight of your feat could come in useful while tightrope walking!
I am honestly not sure that it is that useful. On the opposite : At least, you do not see down : it can only help 
Seriously, maybe by eliminating one not so useful sense, you can focus more on the others.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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I have trouble seeing my feet whether I'm blindfolded or not.
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Now, if he rode the great white shark...
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I know a guy in South Africa who does that[^]!
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