climate and comms

The world is in a very weird place.  After having read some research ( http://divinecosmos.com/start-here/davids-blog/1023-financial-tyranny ) about how we have all been hoodwinked by the US Fed to the tune of $26trn ( yes  -  that is trillion not billion ) I am beginning to wonder whether we aren’t all on the set of some giant Truman Show (without the great weather and white picket fences !)  So according to this research,  which I would have dismissed as some kind of latter day Zeitgeist conspiracy theory if I had not clicked through some of the links and seen an article written by a US Senator ( not that that should somehow give it legitimacy given the intimate role of members of the US Govt in this tragedy),  economic power globally rests in the hands of a very tightly knit group of corporations and institutions – mainly banks.   Hence the bailouts.    Believe me TARP was a tip of the ice-berg.  That was like Sunday School collection money.   So in brief the Federal Reserve

Finally it seems … the penny has dropped.   Passwords are a poor substitute for real online security.   There is more and more ‘chatter’ about it.    Robin Henry writing in the Sunday Times on New Years Day talks of the end of ‘password hell’ invoking solutions in the pipeline from the Web Gods – Apple and Google.  The talk is of new biometric solutions such as facial and hand movement recognition.  Even IBM is talking this way.  ( http://www.forbes.com/sites/thestreet/2011/12/20/ibms-tech-predictions-for-the-next-5-years/ )  I agree with the notion that passwords are a dying breed but not that biometrics will become vogue.   They are fraught with problems of their own such as reliability, accuracy and the need for referencing of data-bases ( fail !) .    Why are passwords defunct?   Basically they are difficult to remember and they are easy to steal.    The solutions needed are those that require no cognitive load for the user ( the most unreliable participant in this enterprise