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Security questions are questions about personal details (like, “What was your first car you drove?” and, “What was the first concert you attended?”) that are meant to help recover your account in case something happens like you forgot your password.
As Wired writes, security questions are insecure. Why? It boils down to two things:
I was reading about words in English with a double soft G (“suggest,” “exaggerate,” and “Reggie”) and apparently the “American” pronunciation of “suggest” is something like “sug-JEST” with a hard G sound in the middle, which is blowing my mind right now.
The FDA recently authorized the use of a COVID-19 vaccine in the United States. Here are some of my thoughts on what this means for the pandemic and the future.
I logged into my MySpace account yesterday and pretty much everything was gone. It’s surreal to think that a significant aspect of several years of my life that I entrusted to this site has just disappeared.
I’m still amazed at how Google Chrome’s rise seems to have just passed me by. I remember thinking when it first came out, “What’s the big deal? Firefox works just fine.” And now it seems I’m in a vanishingly small minority.
Open data is data (like statistical and scientific data) that is free to use by anyone. During the COVID-19 pandemic, new data is coming from all directions on a daily basis.
One important aspect of open data is making sure that it can be used by computers. Computers make it much easier to collect and analyze data in order to find trends and make predictions, which is crucial in responding to a crisis.
Ten years ago today, I was helping my parents clean out the garage of our new house.
This bothers me on several levels.
E-mail may not be as prevalent as it was in the last millennium, but it still has its place, especially in professional settings. Here are some tips on formatting, based on my own experience dealing with e-mail.
Found this while reviewing dashcam footage coming home from San Diego. Google Street View from 2014 shows it wasn’t always spelled that way.
