My actual password is Herr Gambolputty de von Ausfern- schplenden- schlitter- crasscrenbon- fried- digger- dingle- dangle- dongle- dungle- burstein- von- knacker- thrasher- apple- banger- horowitz- ticolensic- grander- knotty- spelltinkle- grandlich- grumblemeyer- spelterwasser- kurstlich- himbleeisen- bahnwagen- gutenabend- bitte- ein- nürnburger- bratwustle- gerspurten- mitz- weimache- luber- hundsfut- gumberaber- shönedanker- kalbsfleisch- mittler- aucher von Hautkopft of Ulm

But because I can never remember if Ulm is capitalized or not, I just shorten it to p@ssw0rd.

Ha, my college friends and I joked about dongles during our college days even with bananas!

Oh god. Now we're all gonna get fired

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/03/how-dongle-jokes-got-two-people-fired-and-led-to-ddos-attacks/

I'm the only one on my dev team who is using a Windows laptop instead of a MacBook. Every time someone else needs to present, it's a scramble for a dongle, and then their WiFi drops and it takes five minutes to get reconnected.

Yeah, my ThinkPad looks like an industrial accident compared to those admittedly sexy MacBooks, but unlike those, my Windoze machine "just works (TM)."\

There's standard key-chain defense dongles (several variations) that are perfect for shattering safety glass...Some pistol-grips have em as well-

I think it automatically unlocks when it detects transponder or bluetooth dongle nearby.
It' doesn't open just for anybody.

My Christian friends like to say "dongle".

^wormwood:

your wish is granted: http://christwire.org/2011/11/51-christian-friendly-words-for-penis/

Aww thanks. Darn no dongles and bananas. My Christian friend in Christian college/university, called penis dongles and bananas. Haha.

This card is the banks idea

It would be more accurate to say it was not any one person's idea but a convenience that both financial houses AND customers saw as a benefit. When debit cards first started to take off, it was not like the public stood up and started screaming in protest at an unwanted, undesired change. Quite the contrary. Debit cards made transactions far more convenient for EVERYBODY. We could now pay for gas right at the pump. We didn't need to carry a big wad in our pockets, wallets, and purses. We didn't need to sit at the checkout and hold up the line writing checks. We could do transactions on the internet. And now today were at the point where we can even run our OWN cards on smartphones with a simple dongle. It's a wonderful change over the days of cash & carry.

You are talking as if they became ubiquitous as part of some massive, evil conspiracy against the public's will. Such language is idiotic and foolish. It started small, and as technology advanced it just naturally filled a huge public demand for ease and convenience. The only problem is that some folks in their ignorance seem to think that 'convenient' should also mean 'free'. Folks who think that need to slap on a dunce cap and sit in the corner until all the stupid leaks out.

And a 'requirement'? Last time I looked I could get my paycheck in cash, take it home, operate strictly 100% 'off the grid' if I wanted. It isn't anywhere near as convenient, but you can do it. No one is 'requiring' you to have a bank account or a debit card. Such a claim is preposterous.

>> ^deathcow:

> But he could supplement his security with a SecureID dongle from RSA - oh.
Actually they didnt pan down during the scene but he was using his dongle at this point as well.


Anthony Weiner wishes he secured HIS dongle.

> But he could supplement his security with a SecureID dongle from RSA - oh.

Actually they didnt pan down during the scene but he was using his dongle at this point as well.

>> ^jimnms:

>> ^Stingray:
Quoted from http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/Brothers_(episode)
The strength of Data's lockout code would potentially require trying 36⁵² combinations to break it, or 846,700,936,056,091,894,301,310,586,236,842,935,416,138,248,772,949,513,519,821,268,414,868,295,354,679,296 (8.467x1080) combinations – equivalent to cracking a 269-bit key in symmetric cryptography, something that is currently impossible to do.

Maybe not, I just read this the other day: "Cheap GPUs are rendering strong passwords useless."


But he could supplement his security with a SecureID dongle from RSA - oh.

Psst... GLQuake blows. 320x200 for me. Were you addicted to this game like I was?
In reply to this comment by JiggaJonson:
ACTUALLY, Quake was released to the public on June 22, 1996 and the OpenGL version wasn't released for more than six months later on January 22, 1997. While all my gradeschool buddies were focused on their SNES I was tagging along with my dad to computer shows (this was long before newegg) and saving up for my first 3dfx card. That was back in the good old days where you had to use a dongle cable just to run your 2D card to your 3D card and only THEN did it find its way to the monitor. Ahhh good times...

Get ur facts straight son!

I remember the passthrough 3DFX voodoo2 cards. And you could even put 2 of them in SLI- the origination of this acronym is Scan-Line-Interleave, where 1 card rendered the even lines, and 1 card rendered the odd lines. Since nVidia bought the defunct 3DFX's intellectual property, they could use the same acronym, but changed it to mean Scalable-Link-Interface instead.

Speaking of Acronyms and FPS, anyone remember the acronym LPB ?
Low Ping Bastards! These were the elusive few who had dual-ISDN or University network connection to the internet instead of dial-up. I always felt great when I had ping of 200+ and killed a LPB with ping <50 in quakeworld.
>> ^JiggaJonson:

ACTUALLY, Quake was released to the public on June 22, 1996 and the OpenGL version wasn't released for more than six months later on January 22, 1997. While all my gradeschool buddies were focused on their SNES I was tagging along with my dad to computer shows (this was long before newegg) and saving up for my first 3dfx card. That was back in the good old days where you had to use a dongle cable just to run your 2D card to your 3D card and only THEN did it find its way to the monitor. Ahhh good times...
Get ur facts straight son!