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For a vestige of the past, the password has managed to hold on and remain alive -- even though some of the top people in computing said that it had already died over a decade ago. That's where you threaten to push someone down the stairs if they don't give you their password
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Since it’s reasonable to assume that users protect their devices and close or transfer their accounts when devices are lost or stolen
BS. It's not reasonable to assume that.
But they got one thing right about "push authentication." It just pushes the problem around. So if I lose my device, or it gets stolen, or I just simply think I misplaced it, I need to change all my accounts? Riight. Y'all know how hard that is, trying to get a live person at various institutions.
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: Y'all know how hard that is, trying to get a live person at various institutions
Oh my gosh. I once had a charge on a particular card that I believed wasn't authorized and was fraud so I quickly tried to contact the card people...
"Please push 1 for another set of menus..."
"Please push 3,5,7 or 8 if you would like to select the original menu..."
"Please push 2 to continue pushing buttons..."
I couldn't get through to an actual person or get the fraud people at all.
There was no menu choice for fraud and this was a major credit card company.
It ended up taking 45 minutes to get a real person and this was in the middle of the business day.
I am no longer a customer of that company.
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Eventually, servers are no longer the best solution to their assigned task, but when they keep chugging along, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" often becomes the replacement guideline. I know an AS/400 or two that could do with a nice retirement
With a good 10# sledgehammer
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Hey, now, stay away from my MicroVAX.
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In November there will be three versions of the world's most popular cryptocurrency. It's almost like developers can't come to a consensus or something
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With more than 2 versions I think they'll have to rename it bytecoin.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: It's almost like developers can't come to a consensus or something
Welcome to open source. If you don't like something, f**k it!
This'll become a fiasco in the decentralized digital currency world. Not that it isn't a fiasco already.
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: Welcome to open source. If you don't like something, f**k it!
This'll become a fiasco in the decentralized digital currency world. Not that it isn't a fiasco already.
Monetary theory states that good currencies will drive out bad currencies as soon as the consumer has a choice; and it seems that the prices are still going up.
It is nice to see some panic in the fiasco 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Mandatory xkcd[^]
(I know it is not exactly the same but... you get the point, don't you?)
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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The stable ABI promised for Swift 4 is delayed a year, with string ergonomics also considered for 2018 String Ergonomics? So they don't get word stress issues?
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Story Remix's jawdropping 3D capabilities won't be there on day one. My productivity will now be diminished
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I read it as: Quote: Another feature slips out of the Windows 10 Fail Creators Update
If it were before in the day I would drink another coffee... now I think I will just grab a ![Beer | [beer]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/beer.gif)
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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With virtual workstation software powered by its GPUs, Nvidia is looking to bring thin workstations and high performance computing to more enterprises. Yes boss, I need that high-end video card ... for calculating. Yeah, that's it.
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Security awareness training specialist KnowBe4 has carried out a survey of 2,600 IT professionals to look at how organizations are managing passwords and determine how the proposed passphrase concept stacks up against methods currently in use. For all your correct horse battery staple needs
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Kent Sharkey wrote: has carried out a survey of 2,600 IT professionals to look at how organizations are managing passwords
For that no survey was needed... the answer is "bad"
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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HyperCard brought into one sharp package the ability for a Macintosh to do interactive documents with calculation, sound, music and graphics. It was a popular package, and thousands of HyperCard “stacks” were created using the software. Because VB programmers need people they can mock
Still some of my happiest programming time was creating "stacks"
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I have The Complete Hypercard Handbook. I think that was one of the coolest pieces of software ever written. I had hoped to recreate it at one point with Intertexi, but never got far with it. Wish there were people willing to donate their scarce free time for no compensation to work on a product that may never find a market in a language (C#) that many open source programmers, especially those youngins, disdain.
Imagine a web-based version of Hypercard where you could share cards, decks, etc. If something like that exists, I don't know about it.
Marc
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You may be interested to look at LiveCode [^] : note that it is multi-OS and open-source. Their web-site embodies everything I hate in web-design and marketing They want US$1000 for a single-dev license, and make figuring out what that gives you ... compared to the open-source version impossible.
Other examples of HyperCard functionality still "alive" : [^]
«While I complain of being able to see only a shadow of the past, I may be insensitive to reality as it is now, since I'm not at a stage of development where I'm capable of seeing it. A few hundred years later another traveler despairing as myself, may mourn the disappearance of what I may have seen, but failed to see.» Claude Levi-Strauss (Tristes Tropiques, 1955)
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BillWoodruff wrote: note that it is multi-OS and open-source.
It's open source? Where? Or is what you make open source?
There site, if created with LiveCode, doesn't exactly inspire me. It's rather sluggish. But then again, it may be hosted in Scotland by a slow server. 
LiveCode, published by LiveCode, Ltd., expands greatly on HyperCard's feature set[41] and offers color and a GUI toolkit which can be deployed on many popular platforms (Android, iOS, Classic Macintosh system software, Mac OS X, Windows 98 through 10, and GNU Linux/Unix). LiveCode directly imports extant HyperCard stacks and provides a migration path for stacks still in use.
I'll have to poke at it. Thanks for wiki link!
Of course, my poor CPU (8 cores!) is running at 20%. It seems that a console app sitting at Console.ReadLine() consume a LOT of CPU time! I need to investigate that. It's unacceptable.
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: It's open source? Where?
LiveCode on GitHub: [^].
«While I complain of being able to see only a shadow of the past, I may be insensitive to reality as it is now, since I'm not at a stage of development where I'm capable of seeing it. A few hundred years later another traveler despairing as myself, may mourn the disappearance of what I may have seen, but failed to see.» Claude Levi-Strauss (Tristes Tropiques, 1955)
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BillWoodruff wrote: LiveCode on GitHub: [^].
Ah! Thanks!
Gads, there's so many things I want to take a look it. 
Marc
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One of my early jobs was to port a HyperCard app to Windows. The source code had been lost as had the original copies of the artwork.
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