Wait. Doesn't that imply your bank is storing your password in plaintext, or at best salted and hashed each individual character of your password? (Which is still horrible, because it now takes O(n) instead of O(n^8) to crack stolen hashes)
I believe they have some legitimate reasons for doing that (like the example quotes)
Another reason for specifying a length/limits is that you may need to type it using another device (like an ATM) and keeping it apart from other passwords (if you allow everything, you'll just use your gmail password or something)
Now, to be honest, if you break into a bank db, why are you going to bother with passwords?
The author did a talk at VanJS today, and he compared LucidJS with other events library[1]. From what I got out of it, besides the nice features it offers (set/pipe/etc), this is probably most useful for people who would like to release a library/JS API without depending on one of the "heavier" frameworks - for example, libraries like History.js would be able to use LucidJS as the events library instead of coupling with something like jQuery or rolling their own.
I did something almost exactly the same[1] for a design project at school a while back, where I explained why current infinite scrolling UX is not great and how something like this could help[2]. I'm glad someone made this into a library!
I am really skeptical (though I'd be more than happy to see someone prove me wrong) about these "framework" apps, that doesn't actualy do anything by itself, except to provide an API of some sort for others to take advantage of. They reminds me of those obscure ActiveX plugins (3D model viewers, etc) that sites make you install. I am usually somewhat hesitant about getting them on my computer unless a see great value (eg growl), but I suppose I'll be even less willing to have these on my iPhone, as an app that sits somewhere on my home screen. My users might feel differently about this, but it certainly would be very difficult for me to explain to them what is it that they are installing and the experience could become quite confusing.
I would really like to send mobile push notifications to users of my service. (I send emails and/or SMS right now.)
Developing an iPhone & Android app - even a simple one that simply lets me alert users - is beyond my mobile dev abilities, and (I assume) would cost tens of thousands of dollars for someone to build.
Airgram might be the answer for me to let users get push notifications as an alternate alerting mechanism.
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The Olympics, while wonderful, are nothing more than entertainment, so the ethical considerations of "should we or should we not do X" are typically pretty much inconsequential. The ramifications of a runner setting a new record are, in the grand scheme of things, pretty much null.
The ramifications of the average human being able to learn more in less time are relatively gigantic. So gigantic, in fact, that I think they dwarf what small social-inequity considerations are raised (if it can really be done for a $90 kit right off the bat, then just wait until economies of scale kick in).
Given that the Olympics is ostensibly rooted in long tradition, I would say no, enhancements should not be allowed.
I'm all for allowing drug use of any kind into professional sports. I think it's silly that we watch rather grotesque caricatures of humans swinging bats or tackling people, then pretend to be shocked and admonish them when we find out they're "cheating" by using chemicals. As if the health risks associated with steroids and HGH somehow outweigh the simple risks of broken bones and mutilated joints that are a direct consequence of pushing a body to its limits and beyond on a daily basis.
They put sprinters in vats of water and ice cubes after running to freeze their muscle so that they perform better, and they put thermometers deep in their butts to check for the exact point until which they can be frozen before they get hypothermia. I think if that's allowed then zapping yourself with 9V is definitely in.
I find this theory by a commenter on the original Kaspersky blog post very interesting. I certainly don't really have the knowledge to judge if it has any merits, but I still find it amusing nonetheless.
The text-shadow trick is really clever. I think a "progressive" version could be pretty cool. Just tried throwing that together real quick by changing the blur radius in 0.5px increment. Needs some fine tuning (shadow color perhaps), but you get the idea: https://img.skitch.com/20120309-c323134j8wm7nc34pudf9r2nri.p...
