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I'm not surprised to be honest. In the city I currently live in, since moving here a year ago, I've never even gotten the bus because an uber is maybe twice the price but 10x more convenient and 5x as fast to get to the local train station... To get to the next city along, it's a 15min uber or >1hr public transport commute... However, if Uber didn't exist here, I don't think I'd be taking taxis because they are far more expensive.

I used to use SuperGenPass[1] to do exactly this, but what you'll soon find is that every website has slightly different password rules, so you'll have to start memorizing unique settings for each site (i.e. website X can't have certain chars, website Y can't be longer than 12 chars, etc...). Then you run into the issue of multiple things you need to remember, such as secret answers for various questions, birthdays that you may lie about, etc...

Much easier to just use a vault to store all this.

[1] https://chriszarate.github.io/supergenpass/mobile/

Except when you're on the home screen; long press will let you wiggle icons and force touch will let you get app shortcuts.

This is what it's like in Scotland!! People here get SO angry, thinking that you have "skipped" all the other patiently waiting people... And then they don't let you merge! And it makes absolutely no sense to me, because they cause one reallllyyyy long traffic jam then...

I always thought of The Verge as Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel, and Paul Miller... It's been kinda of a so-and-so website in the past year, so I'm not surprised he's leaving before the whole site goes downhill..

Good on him though, excited to see what he writes about. Fingers crossed we get some good podcasts though!

I've contacted AirBnB regarding several unprofessional experiences, and I've found that AirBnB themselves were quite amateur. This has changed, and AirBnB are starting to grow up. Hopefully this sort of stuff doesn't happen again...

It's just too much work to type it all in all the time...

(Has nothing to do with spreadsheets etc... I also get fed up of calorie counting apps and fitness apps as entering data isn't fun!)

I once tried to keep a spreadsheet (Apple's Numbers) for fuel cost / consumption / mileage, etc. for my car. I found Numbers to do the job best, but still got fed up of trying to do it all...

I've been looking for a nice Markdown editor on Mac. Hopefully this one will be it.

Are there any others I should look at?

(unfortunately) The more I think about this, the more flaws I find... I looked through pastor.py and essentially you're just creating a different password. There's no difference between using this generated password and another password (you could argue that the generated password is harder to brute force, but that's it really).

But what I don't understand is, if the password is never stored, how can you allow for logins, etc.? I mean, there must be a way of comparison, or something? I think perhaps I'm having a brain melt, or I'm misunderstanding this completely. To me, this looks like it's creating a password from hashing the pass-phrase and doorID, but that just then generates another password...

I'm not sure if I quite understand this - so you're hashing the pass-phrase+doorID, and then storing that? Doesn't that mean that the hashed, well, generated password is always the same, regardless which website you are on?

I like the idea of supergenpass, as it's creating unique passwords on a website basis as it hashing a password+URL to create unique website passwords.

Maybe I've misunderstood this though.

The AirBnB logo is far more triangular, if that makes sense. The lines coming down from the top towards the bottom left/right are very straight (EDIT: essentially it's a fancy "A" with very rigid lines), whereas the fash.io/n logo is just a regular (EDIT: rounded and very much not straight-lined) heart...

Yeah, I get it, you see a similar logo and think "ahh they copied ours", but at the end of the day, what do you expect with a single line, minimal logo? There's only so many ways a single line can loop around...

Although I've never been an active cannabis user as the study describes it, I tried the drug on several occasions in high school and at university. I've always felt paranoid whilst high, and it's always been an unpleasant experience. My mind always goes into "overdrive" and I start to think far more and feel everything around me tightening in on me. To describe the feeling to my friend, I described it as the scene in The Matrix when Neo, just after choosing the red pill, touches the mirror and the mirror starts to cover up his body and go into his mouth. It's a weird feeling to describe, but it makes me super paranoid. On top of that, I always feel like I start to see everything far more white, and become far more light headed, which in turn makes me even more paranoid...

Maybe I'm a light head, but I don't like the drug at all.

I agree with the first part, but I've been pretty impressed by the security used and developed in iOS: http://www.apple.com/ipad/business/docs/iOS_Security_Feb14.p...

At the end of the day, as you said, phones are easier lost and stolen, but there is barely a difference now in the functionality of security between a phone, laptop, and desktop; they're all the same. Now, for convenience, many users don't bother having a password on their phone. That's not functionality though, that's just how a user has decided to protect their phone's content...

You don't actually need a mobile at all. You could have this run as a browser plugin, but the point of having SQRL on a mobile is that it's seperate from what you're trying to log in with, if that makes sense..

A smartphone isn't any less secure than a laptop... I could say "lost your laptop and you give away the keys to everything" just as you said the same for smartphone... It's up to the user to decide what security they put on their devices. On iPhone at least, everything is really well encrypted out of the box. Most people don't put passwords on their laptops either.

I can't wait for Steve Gibon's SQRL [0] to take off... Would hinder keyloggers useless.

[0] https://www.grc.com/sqrl/sqrl.htm

The ONLY reason I've ever put eggs in the fridge is because my fridge has an egg tray...

I tend to put my shopping in similar places as where the supermarket had put them, so things I buy out of the fridge go in the fridge at home, and things I buy at room temperature go into my pantry at home... except for the eggs, they go into the egg tray in the fridge!

BT said the exact same, like really really similar;

Thank you for your email.

It is our understanding that the Data Retention (EC Directive) Regulations 2009 remains in force within the UK even though the European Data Retention Directive has fallen. We refer to an exchange in Parliament on 16 June 2014 in which James Brokenshire, on behalf of the Government, said “At the present time, we consider that the UK Data Retention (EC Directive) Regulations 2009 remain in force. Those in receipt of a notice under the regulations have been informed that they should continue to observe their obligations as outlined in any notice.”

haha, that's a great one, and totally true. "Normal" time won't dissapear, so this is just adding another timezone so to speak. However, I'm actually liking the idea of reviving .beats

Virgin Media have replied to some users already - here's the email (copied from the Open Rights Group blog post[1])

Virgin Media's response says: “...We have also been in contact with government and with the Information Commissioner's Office following the ruling and the UK government's current position is that although the Directive was held to be invalid, our own Data Retention Regulations are still in force and we must comply with them until such time as they are struck down by a UK court.”

[1] https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/2014/data-retention-why...

I did consider switching to them, but the plan I looked at (Fiber to the cabinet and a higher 200GB download cap) comes in at £50 + (as far as I'm aware) BT line rental, so around £66/month... My BT bill for the above is around £40... Do you think it's worth the extra £26 ish for peace and mind? Are they really that much better than other ISPs? Thanks for the info!

EDIT: Ignore my comment, after reading up on them a bit more, they do seem like a pretty amazing ISP. Thanks for reminding me of them :)

I had that idea for a while, but I just keep separate spaces (or whatever OS X's multiple desktops are called now). In the end, I didn't find that there would be any conflicting accounts, etc. so I didn't find a need for it. I do usually use separate browsers though, to keep tabs and history separate for work/personal life.

Wow, I had no idea about any of this... I always thought AA was one of those ethically correct companies, but run by a guy who chokes his staff? Not cool...

Oh dear... Sorry to say, but this'll get you nowhere.

I remember really wanting stickers from Digg, Twitter, etc. back in 2007. I sent out a bunch of emails saying that I was at university and wanted to promote their cool sites with stickers on my laptop (I thought I'd be cool and have a bunch of tech stickers all over my laptop) and I did get a response from them all, most sent me free stuff. T-shirts? Never tried, but that's quite a bit more costly... Really depends I guess, but I wouldn't count on a formula that'll work every time..

I wrote my own little terminal commands back when I had a 5 hour lay-over in Charles de Gaulle Airport (Paris). At the time, they offered 15 minute free wifi, so I just ran my little tool and it worked a treat.

I really don't get this... Maybe I'm just not clever enough, but this is referring to verification of the email address, right?

I wonder how many users don't ever verify their email address though... Couldn't facebook instead just make you verify it? i.e. not allow / limit use of service until you've verified your email address?

This is awful... "Automatically Mark as watched your TV" makes no sense to me, but I get what it's trying to do - automatically mark TV content as watched. But as far as I can tell, this doesn't work with a TV?

They totally lost me at "KNOW YOUR STATS - WASTED WATCHING TV SHOW". Excuse me, but when I'm watching a TV show, I'm not WASTING time. I enjoy my time when watching TV shows. There's a huge difference between watching TV and wasting time...