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Topic: Fire Eagle Beta (Read 2476 times)
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NiX
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Locomotive Pandamonium
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Don't know if anyone is using the Fire Eagle Beta, but if you are, invite? Side note: They keep giving these new web apps stupid names. |
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Engels
Terracotta Army
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inflicts shingles.
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What the hell does this app do? Share your location? What does that even mean?
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I should get back to nature, too. You know, like going to a shop for groceries instead of the computer. Maybe a condo in the woods that doesn't even have a health club or restaurant attached. Buy a car with only two cup holders or something. -Signe
I LIKE being bounced around by Tonkors. - Lantyssa
Babies shooting themselves in the head is the state bird of West Virginia. - schild
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LC
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Help advertisers blast you with area specific ads.
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schild
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This is a good idea for a thread. Making a new one.
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CharlieMopps
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I could imagine certain software requiring that you have this sort of thing installed. Sort of like a "Punkbuster" for webapps.
i.e. you bank requires that you have it to log into your account. Making sure you aren't logging in from China or something.
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Strazos
Greetings from the Slave Coast
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The World's Worst Game: Curry or Covid
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I log into my bank from a lot of places, so...not sure I would like that.
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Fear the Backstab!
"Plato said the virtuous man is at all times ready for a grammar snake attack." - we are lesion
"Hell is other people." -Sartre
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NiX
Wiki Admin
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Locomotive Pandamonium
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I log into my bank from a lot of places, so...not sure I would like that.
Think of it more like credit card security. It's impossible for you to make a purchase in L.A. and then 10 minutes later make one in N.Y. |
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CharlieMopps
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For example: My bank requires that each time I log on from a new IP, I have to go through this psychotically complicated process that involves me identifying pictograms, answering a phone call and then dialing in a security code. But, once I do that, the IP is authorized and I can just log in via username and password. So, every 30 days, my IP refreshes and I have to do it again.
This would be a little less of a pain in the ass... and also, a totally awesome way for them to spam me with targeted adds as mentioned above.
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HaemishM
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the Confederate flag underneath the stone in my class ring
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It's called Passmark (or at least one company that does that type of stuff uses the name Passmark). It's a good idea, but yeah, I don't find it that hard to imagine blipverts in the pictograms.  |
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