An online manifestation of Mohamad Monibi. var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www."); document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E")); try { var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-8648428-1"); pageTracker._trackPageview(); } catch(err) {}Tumblr (3.0; @danglingeye)http://danglingeye.com/<p>Almost every website with a user registration process requires that you provide answers to some “security questions” for use in situations where you forget your password. I’m sure everyone has come across at least one of the following examples:</p> <ul><li>What is your mother’s maiden name?</li> <li>What was the name of your elementary school?</li> <li>What is your paternal grandfather’s first name?</li> </ul><p>These examples are reasonably simple and unambiguous and most importantly, have stable answers that don’t change over time. This isn’t always the case; a lot of questions used for this purpose do not have these properties:</p> <ul><li>What is your favorite movie?</li> <li>Who is your favorite athlete?</li> <li>What is your pet’s name?</li> <li>What is the middle name of your youngest child?</li> </ul><p>The obvious (and most serious) problem with these questions is that they lack stable answers. My favorite anything can change from one day to the next. I can get a new pet. And so on. You think you’ll be able to remember what your favorite movie was at that particular time you first signed up for a website?</p> <p>These questions, especially the “favorite” variety, also create a major problem for the user experience: They may require thought and reflection before settling on an answer. The registration process needs to be as fast and easy as possible (perhaps even transparent) and questions like these are like a brick wall.</p> <p>Most websites provide the option to select what questions you want to use from a list. In the past, I would simply chose the ones that weren’t too problematic. What triggered this rant though, was Time Warner Cable’s online registration:</p> <p><img height="183" width="437" src="http://i54.tinypic.com/2rwuib6.png" align="middle"/></p> <p>ಠ_ಠ</p> <p>To quote Charles Babbage, “… I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such <strike>a question</strike>” questions. (shout-out to Ben K)</p> <p>Of course there’s an even bigger problem at hand. These traditional questions need to be discarded if only for the security implications. In a post-Facebook world, there’s an ever-increasing percentage of users that publicly share the answers to all the example questions above and probably aren’t even aware of it. </p>http://danglingeye.com/post/1124750468http://danglingeye.com/post/1124750468Tue, 14 Sep 2010 21:17:26 -0700rant<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kusdyd8Mxe1qzxjodo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>one last test for tonight, before this happens to me</p>http://danglingeye.com/post/287250920http://danglingeye.com/post/287250920Wed, 16 Dec 2009 23:54:16 -0800<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kusdq7swTK1qzxjodo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>sharing from within camera app on actual phone</p>http://danglingeye.com/post/287246735http://danglingeye.com/post/287246735Wed, 16 Dec 2009 23:49:26 -0800<img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kusdizFQ0A1qzxjodo1_250.png"/><br/><br/><p>more testing…</p>http://danglingeye.com/post/287243019http://danglingeye.com/post/287243019Wed, 16 Dec 2009 23:45:00 -0800<img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kurx473dvr1qzxjodo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>testing photo upload feature of android app. image is a result of a google image search for “debugging”</p>http://danglingeye.com/post/286825037http://danglingeye.com/post/286825037Wed, 16 Dec 2009 17:50:36 -0800<p>I’m developing a tumblr client for Android. This is the first test post using my new app. :)</p>http://danglingeye.com/post/286728608http://danglingeye.com/post/286728608Wed, 16 Dec 2009 16:30:35 -0800<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kqiw03rGWj1qzxjodo1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://danglingeye.com/post/196529104http://danglingeye.com/post/196529104Fri, 25 Sep 2009 03:33:39 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kq2g18r7Ku1qzxjodo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://danglingeye.com/post/190819821http://danglingeye.com/post/190819821Fri, 18 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700<img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kpp7e0RtfL1qzxjodo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://danglingeye.com/post/185141654http://danglingeye.com/post/185141654Fri, 11 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700<img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kpf4ohcgyr1qzxjodo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://danglingeye.com/post/179455738http://danglingeye.com/post/179455738Fri, 04 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kp2ryzfcwO1qzxjodo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://danglingeye.com/post/173677950http://danglingeye.com/post/173677950Fri, 28 Aug 2009 00:11:23 -0700<iframe width="400" height="300" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/z4obTZV2QEM?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>3d modelling to blow your mind: part two</p>http://danglingeye.com/post/169631258http://danglingeye.com/post/169631258Sun, 23 Aug 2009 05:52:12 -0700<iframe width="400" height="299" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/nice6NYb_WA?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>3d modelling to blow your mind: part one</p>http://danglingeye.com/post/169631059http://danglingeye.com/post/169631059Sun, 23 Aug 2009 05:51:42 -0700<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kopt7j7Rbk1qzxjodo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://danglingeye.com/post/167995047http://danglingeye.com/post/167995047Fri, 21 Aug 2009 00:09:19 -0700<img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_koku2e9E2B1qzxjodo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>(screenshot of my Yahoo mail inbox this morning)</p> <p>Are you kidding me? This is insulting. Yahoo’s become so irrelevant, yet it has the audacity to ask me what I’m doing? In my MAIL INBOX?!?!?! Eff off.</p>http://danglingeye.com/post/165715353http://danglingeye.com/post/165715353Tue, 18 Aug 2009 07:39:00 -0700<a href="http://www.offworld.com/2009/08/offworld-gallery-the-games-fac.html">The Games Factory</a>: <p>This blew my mind. I couldn’t stop smiling for at least 10 minutes. Beyond brilliance…</p>http://danglingeye.com/post/165463336http://danglingeye.com/post/165463336Mon, 17 Aug 2009 22:13:44 -0700<img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/WMiP7DbKDr37ibdgCoPG0lO2o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://danglingeye.com/post/162653617http://danglingeye.com/post/162653617Fri, 14 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/WMiP7DbKDqt3zg1waQUur3K6o1_r1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://danglingeye.com/post/157749544http://danglingeye.com/post/157749544Fri, 07 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700<a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=recursion">recursion</a>: <p>Tops my list of cool <a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_egg_(media)">easter eggs</a>.</p>http://danglingeye.com/post/157352127http://danglingeye.com/post/157352127Thu, 06 Aug 2009 12:34:07 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/WMiP7DbKDqiz6t6rlJeOt4Tyo1_r1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://danglingeye.com/post/152797677http://danglingeye.com/post/152797677Fri, 31 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700