Re: [FRIAM] Why I was wrong about the nuclear option

2013-12-05 Thread Steve Smith
Nick - Arlo, You are bit by bit dragging me out on thin ice here (statistics and probability) which is fine, so long as you are prepared to rescue me. Grin... this is what we keep youth around for... first we pretend to teach them how to stay only on thick ice whilst trusting that at some

[FRIAM] linux and winderz

2013-12-05 Thread Gillian Densmore
Greetings fellow technomancers, I don't know if it's a trojan, spyware, worm or other. As per normal with windows some VEQ thought it may be funny to attempt to infect a picture of Warf the famous klingon(ST:TNG). Nothing new for the..unique. elk..of vandles in winderz land: Thus leading to

Re: [FRIAM] Managing large numbers of passwords

2013-12-05 Thread Owen Densmore
Just out of curiosity, how many of us have a reasonable idea of the number of logins we have? At a guess, I'd say I have over 200 simply because over the last year I have logged 150+ in 1Password. One good source, btw, is the monthly mail-list reminders. -- Owen On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 9:37

Re: [FRIAM] Managing large numbers of passwords

2013-12-05 Thread Roger Critchlow
~240 accounts stored in keepass. -- rec -- On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 10:03 AM, Owen Densmore o...@backspaces.net wrote: Just out of curiosity, how many of us have a reasonable idea of the number of logins we have? At a guess, I'd say I have over 200 simply because over the last year I have

Re: [FRIAM] Managing large numbers of passwords

2013-12-05 Thread Joseph Spinden
About 900, but not all are active. On 12/5/13, 10:08 AM, Roger Critchlow wrote: ~240 accounts stored in keepass. -- rec -- On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 10:03 AM, Owen Densmore o...@backspaces.net mailto:o...@backspaces.net wrote: Just out of curiosity, how many of us have a reasonable idea

Re: [FRIAM] Why I was wrong about the nuclear option

2013-12-05 Thread glen e. p. ropella
On 12/04/2013 07:39 PM, Nick Thompson wrote: Yes (he would say), assuming that you were chosen at random from the population of humans, it is a VALID inference from the fact that you can break concrete that humans can break concrete. It is valid because we would, if we continued to pick

[FRIAM] Fwd: Bank's Research Report on Bitcoin

2013-12-05 Thread Owen Densmore
Hope this isn't a repeat, but yet another interesting bitcoin report, this time from Bank of America Merrill Lynch https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/885843-banks-research-report-on-bitcoin.html -- Owen FRIAM Applied

Re: [FRIAM] Git/GitHub Question

2013-12-05 Thread Barry MacKichan
I recommend Sourcetree for looking at these things more visually. (Google it or go to atlassian.com). It’s free and works with Git and Mercurial. I use it with Mercurial. I think you can do this with a ‘master’ branch, an ‘extras’ branch, and a ‘release’ branch. What you are doing is close to

Re: [FRIAM] Managing large numbers of passwords

2013-12-05 Thread Steve Smith
150, 240, 900 !? ?!What!? are you guys addicted to? Including PINs for bank-cards (not used online) I can't estimate over a dozen or two myself. OK maybe hundreds over decades, but ... current? Admittedly, I have probably cranked through a similar number of throwaways where I've signed up

[FRIAM] Twitter Wisdom

2013-12-05 Thread Owen Densmore
https://twitter.com/i/redirect?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%3Frefsrc%3Demailsig=76add118f9dfd33f63864ce34d9372e483cfba4auid=15752750iid=da5a996ed4104d98bf61eb503954fba5nid=151+21t=1

Re: [FRIAM] Managing large numbers of passwords

2013-12-05 Thread Joseph Spinden
My spreadsheet is password protected. But you're right. One of the systems I use employs a Verisign token system. It would be useful to have something like that generally available to protect spreadsheets, files, etc. Joe On 12/5/13, 11:20 AM, Steve Smith wrote: 150, 240, 900 !?

Re: [FRIAM] Managing large numbers of passwords

2013-12-05 Thread Owen Densmore
On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 11:20 AM, Steve Smith sasm...@swcp.com wrote: 150, 240, 900 !? ?!What!? are you guys addicted to? Including PINs for bank-cards (not used online) I can't estimate over a dozen or two myself. Exactly! But you do have 100 and you know it! How many on-line gifts?

Re: [FRIAM] Managing large numbers of passwords

2013-12-05 Thread Gillian Densmore
I see steves side of things. I have I think 3 user names I might use. One password I vary. The one I'm most concerned about is the seemingly low grade of security Del Norte. On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 12:08 PM, Owen Densmore o...@backspaces.net wrote: On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 11:20 AM, Steve Smith

Re: [FRIAM] Managing large numbers of passwords

2013-12-05 Thread glen e. p. ropella
Well, I have a 50k ascii file with all my passwords and security questions in it. It's ~800 lines long, but that doesn't mean 800 accounts, since some accounts require lots of security questions. Plus, I keep track of some old passwords after I change them and such. I keep this file encrypted

Re: [FRIAM] Managing large numbers of passwords

2013-12-05 Thread Carl Tollander
Yeah, I'm about at 5-10 in regular use.Stuff I don't use much if at all, maybe 20. Moderation in all things. On 12/5/13, 11:20 AM, Steve Smith wrote: 150, 240, 900 !? ?!What!? are you guys addicted to? Including PINs for bank-cards (not used online) I can't estimate over a dozen or

Re: [FRIAM] Git/GitHub Question

2013-12-05 Thread Joshua Thorp
Owen, Looks like you have things working just how you want them to. You can keep working in your master branch and whenever you want to update gh-pages, git checkout gh-pages git merge master done. So long as you never merge gh-pages into master you are golden. —joshua On Dec 4, 2013, at

Re: [FRIAM] Managing large numbers of passwords

2013-12-05 Thread Roger Critchlow
I agree, I considered a subpoena for the browser password management page to see how many accounts are being hidden by these scoundrels. -- rec -- On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 2:21 PM, Owen Densmore o...@backspaces.net wrote: On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 1:40 PM, Carl Tollander c...@plektyx.com wrote:

Re: [FRIAM] Managing large numbers of passwords

2013-12-05 Thread Gillian Densmore
I don't see storing your varius personas in one location helps. Surely you see the irony ^_^ . On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 2:21 PM, Owen Densmore o...@backspaces.net wrote: On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 1:40 PM, Carl Tollander c...@plektyx.com wrote: Yeah, I'm about at 5-10 in regular use.Stuff I

Re: [FRIAM] Git/GitHub Question

2013-12-05 Thread Owen Densmore
I thought so too. But here's an experiment. master dir has this (Attic is in .gitignore and just has stuff removed): *Home|~/src/cs/test3[649]: ls* *Attic README.md junk.txt* while gh-pages has: *Home|~/src/cs/test3[653]: ls* *Attic images javascripts stylesheets* *README.md index.html

Re: [FRIAM] Git/GitHub Question

2013-12-05 Thread Joshua Thorp
This looks to me like at some point gh-pages was merged to master. So that when you deleted “stylesheets in master, merging to gh-pages also included this delete action… My guess is that if you added the stylesheets directory back into gh-pages you wouldn’t ever experience this problem

[FRIAM] King James Programming

2013-12-05 Thread glen
Given our ongoing discussion of nonsense and verbosity: Posts generated by a Markov chain trained on the King James Bible and Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs. Run by Michael Walker (barrucadu). http://kingjamesprogramming.tumblr.com/ -- ⇒⇐ glen

Re: [FRIAM] Managing large numbers of passwords

2013-12-05 Thread Steve Smith
On 12/5/13 12:08 PM, Owen Densmore wrote: On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 11:20 AM, Steve Smith sasm...@swcp.com mailto:sasm...@swcp.comwrote: 150, 240, 900 !? ?!What!? are you guys addicted to? Including PINs for bank-cards (not used online) I can't estimate over a dozen or two

Re: [FRIAM] King James Programming

2013-12-05 Thread Roger Critchlow
Charles Stross (twitter @cstross) trained up his own off the KJV and the compete works of H P Lovecraft: the strangely open doorway with the generation of poets is enormous. -- rec -- On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 5:15 PM, glen g...@ropella.name wrote: Given our ongoing discussion of nonsense and

Re: [FRIAM] Git/GitHub Question

2013-12-05 Thread Joshua Thorp
One last thing: I use gitx http://gitx.frim.nl/ a simple little OSX app that has a nice graphical display of your history. Helps to see where you are, when you have multiple branches in the picture. —joshua On Dec 5, 2013, at 6:51 PM, Owen Densmore o...@backspaces.net wrote: Wow, sounds

Re: [FRIAM] Git/GitHub Question

2013-12-05 Thread Owen Densmore
Just looked at it, I like it! BTW: http://oli.jp/2011/github-pages-workflow/ is a post on gh-pages and various ways to manage it. It in turn was one of several responses from this: http://lea.verou.me/ which discussed the mirroring approach. What I REALLY want is a bit further down the

Re: [FRIAM] Friday's Friam

2013-12-05 Thread Carl Tollander
Where? On 11/28/13, 7:40 PM, Owen Densmore wrote: I'll try to get there too .. latish. On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 6:04 PM, Frank Wimberly wimber...@earthlink.net mailto:wimber...@earthlink.net wrote: So, Nick and I plan to arrive at the Capitol Cafe at the usual time (9ish) tomorrow

Re: [FRIAM] Friday's Friam

2013-12-05 Thread jtjohnson555
I'd go for the Capital cafe, but I'm flexible TJ Sent from my T-Mobile 4G LTE Device Original message From: Carl Tollander c...@plektyx.com Date:12/05/2013 10:21 PM (GMT-07:00) To: friam@redfish.com Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Friday's Friam Where? On 11/28/13, 7:40 PM, Owen

Re: [FRIAM] Friday's Friam

2013-12-05 Thread Nick Thompson
Hi, Carl, and all, We are back at St. Johns for the next two weeks. After that we will have to be more resourceful. I am away for the next two Fridays, the one before, and the one after X-mas, and so will not be available for cat-herding. Some thought Capitol was cozy (acoustics, good,

Re: [FRIAM] Friday's Friam

2013-12-05 Thread Nick Thompson
Tom, St. Johns, this time. After that we can make plans. N Nicholas S. Thompson Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology Clark University http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ From: Friam

[FRIAM] Corporate responsibility wrt health insurance

2013-12-05 Thread Russ Abbott
As you know a couple of corporations are objecting the the requirement that they provide health insurance that includes contraceptive options to their employees. The argument is that doing so forces the owners of the corporation to violate their religions beliefs. There are a number of problems