[lbo-talk] Internet accounts

[shag carpet bomb]

yup. they all know that it's impossible to keep that many different really 
complex passwords to mind. but they make money getting people to pay them 
to write articles and training collateral for tips and tricks to do so. 
that's the cynical approach. the other is sort of like health professionals 
and exercise recommendations. they tell you that, ideally, you ought to 
exercise 1 hour a day, 7 days a week. Which is true for women in sedentary 
jobs. that amount of high intensity exercise each day is necessary to 
prevent weight gain. in a study that spanned 12 years and followed over 5k 
women, all but 13% of the women gained weight eating a normal diet. The 
only ones who didn't were women who worked out 1 hr per day, 7 days a week. 
Alas, most health pros know that people won't and can't exercise that much 
due to other obligations in their lives, weather, etc. Still, they tell 
them that they need a lot of exercise anyway, on the hopes that they will 
just to it three times a week, which is better than nothing and is more 
than enough of what you need to maintain cardio health. (although there is 
another whole school that is just all about getting people to do anything 
to move more such as park your car far away from the store door, etc.)

speaking of the latter, read a book over the weekend about the science 
behind common exercise issues (e.g., cardio or weights first at the gym? 
more protein to prevent lean body mass? etc.) fascinating stuff. there's a 
really interesting section on the fact that our biggest enemy these days is 
the sedentary lifestyle at work. if we could also just work in a job where 
we regularly strolled or even engaged in repetitive tasks such as a factory 
line, we'd do better. what's killing us is the work that we do that usually 
involves a 9 hour stretch of our lives on our ass. apparently, some 
research has shown that light activity all through the day, even if it only 
burns 4 more calories per hour is actually better than spending one hour on 
the hamster wheel at the gym every single day. no shit.

go fucking figure.
At 08:09 PM 3/21/2012, Gar Lipow wrote:
>Yeah
>security people will hate me for suggesting this. security people also
>admit that having more than five passwords is absurd.  And yeah the
>incrementing thing is risky too because hackers know most people do
>this. But human memory has limits so I see the need to do this as
>screwup by security system designers, not the users who want security
>that lets them get their work done.

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