Word: password
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...turn of events. The monkeys were able to identify the numbers on a touch-sensitive computer screen; press one banana followed by two trees and three triangles, for example, and the almighty unseen hand delivers a special reward. It was, said Columbia psychology professor Herbert Terrace, "like using your password to get money from a cash machine." So if an infinite number of monkeys are given an infinite number of ATMs, presumably one of them will eventually withdraw a hundred bucks and remember to get a receipt...
...over that hurdle, setup is pretty straightforward. You plug a standard phone line into one hole in the back of the box and a standard telephone receiver into the other. You use the telephone to dial your Internet provider and to punch in your log-in and password. Then the Aplio--with its built-in modem--takes over, connecting you to the party you are trying to speak to. It connects you, that is, if the party has an Aplio synched to yours, which probably requires enough prearrangement by telephone to eat up most of that 95% saving...
...process required the residents to provide their Harvard ID number and their birthdate and then change their password...
...just glad that they caught it quickly.Changing your password it is a lot better thanhaving someone use your account maliciously," saidGabrielle B. Dreyfus...
...This isn't any more of a concern than somebodygetting the password for the site and putting anobscene article on there," he said...