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Comment · 10 years ago
There are browser extensions that interface with KeePass to do what you are asking.

I don't use them, I simply use KeePass' autotype feature.

Comment · 10 years ago
You won't find any, there isn't any. The basic idea is people from different backgrounds will have different views on things and this is a good thing. The concept itself does make sense, but I can't imagine any type of study actually being possible to back it up.
Comment · 11 years ago
This whole thing makes no sense for me. I go through Cricket Wireless, which is $40/mo for unlimited minutes and 2.5GB of high-speed data (then throttled to pretty much useless). I would say is equal to their plan that has 2GB. I actually only pay $35/mo due to auto-pay, so even cheaper than their $40 and I get more data.

I don't see their offering as competitive at all.

edit: just saw the "plus taxes and fees" of which there is none for me. So, I pay even less now.

Comment · 11 years ago
apparently you've never heard of people guessing passwords...
Comment · 12 years ago
it's a minor URL change, not some major habit change.
Comment · 12 years ago
"live like a homeless man" is going to the extreme. But it's either retire in 10 years, or 30.

You need sacrifices to get a reward.

Comment · 12 years ago
This right here is the real lesson. Comcast is not going to lower rates for everyone else because of this.
Comment · 12 years ago
The road my Dad lives on has no cable lines because it would apparently be unprofitable for Comcast to run them. This was told to me by a manager I somehow was able to get on the phone more than 10 years ago, and it is still that way out there. Comcast has an exclusive monopoly to service that road but choose not to. All roads connected to it have Comcast lines and the nearest line is less than a half mile away. He is too far away for DSL and other such options. His only choices are Dial-up and unreliable satellite (trees around yard).

I understand he is an exception, but it is not nearly as uncommon as you are implying.

Comment · 12 years ago
"Choose to" is a very interesting choice of words seeing how the vast majority of their market is that they are they only option and people have no choice.
Comment · 12 years ago
King will more than likely sue anyone making a Bejeweled clone for copying their game.
Comment · 12 years ago
It could very well be WPF using XAML
Comment · 12 years ago
> I challenge you to go explain to anyone you know who does not identify as a 'computer person' how email routing works

I usually use the "It's like mailing a postcard" comparison.

Comment · 12 years ago
seems that how they generate the keys, it's basically the same. The same password would generate the same keys. Anyone who uses the same password would be able to decrypt data sent to anyone else using the same password.

Am I understanding this correctly?

Comment · 12 years ago
If I write it down, I will lose it. I do have some passwords that follow a specific pattern that I can remember easily for sites I might need to access outside of having KeePass on a machine (haven't put it on my phone).

I love this idea, I hate having to have a actual database to keep after and secure, and I wish it could be done in a way that wouldn't require that, but sites have too many variables for passwords that for me, literally, this wouldn't work on sites I use every day.

Comment · 12 years ago
I used to use something like this, then you realize, it won't work for 50% of the sites out there as you can't customize how the passwords are generated.

Can't use special characters? Must use a special character? Can use $%^& but not * ?

Amex has a limit of 8 characters, how many does this generate? I want to use more than 8 for most sites, how do I do that? etc.

The Javascript bookmarklet let me change these settings, but then I had to remember them for each site that had custom settings.

I just switched to KeePass, fixed all of that.

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