Comments for Paco Hope

Comment on Security Questions. Are You Kidding!? by paco

paco — Tue, 04 Jun 2013 13:42:29 +0000

I don’t know it. I’ve been using my PasswordWallet for years and years. LastPass looks solid though. If you like it, there’s no reason not to use it.

Comment on Security Questions. Are You Kidding!? by Jess

Jess — Tue, 04 Jun 2013 12:55:51 +0000

Great advice but still cracked me up:
“what is your mother’s maiden name?” and I say “hang on while I look that up… Ok, it’s XWAQJFF”.

Are you familiar with LastPass? If so, what do you think?

Comment on Woes Of An American Immigrant In The UK by jonathan

jonathan — Tue, 28 May 2013 14:51:04 +0000

I would like to see a world where everyone can move where they like. However, right now, as it stands the UK has an unfair deal with the USA. The USA, a country that supposedly prides itself on being fair an just, happily signed a treaty the was partly non-reciprocal. This one act alone proves they are not fair or just or in pursuit of liberty. Until America is prepared to A) apologise B) rewrite the treaty I think we should expel the Americas to make a point. well now that you have run out of money it’ll be interesting to see what happens anyway. Going of Britian’s traditional actions they’re due to start brown-nosing china any minute now. (as for voting/SS, if someone is legally in a country then they should be able to contribute and receive from the state.)

Comment on Writing Good Exam Questions by Allison shubert

Allison shubert — Fri, 24 May 2013 22:45:14 +0000

Nice article on exam creation. Very logical flow. On a plus side working with exam creation has led to better interview questions. I highly recommend people volunteer at least once for this type of activity, especially if they ever do any interviewing.

Comment on Writing Good Exam Questions by paco

paco — Fri, 24 May 2013 14:28:39 +0000

I like helping OWASP where I can, but my agreements with (ISC)2 would preclude me from writing for OWASP. I can critique and offer advice (like I did in this blog), but I couldn’t author items.

Comment on Writing Good Exam Questions by Dinis Cruz

Dinis Cruz — Fri, 24 May 2013 13:24:58 +0000

Hi Paco,

Great article and it would be great if we could use some of your expertise at the OWASP Exams project.

see https://www.owasp.org/index.php/OWASP_Exams_Project and http://blog.diniscruz.com/2013/05/pdf-with-draft-exam-of-owasp-top10.html

Comment on 6 Reasons Why I Hate Lego by Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 18:25:05 +0000

I do tend to miss the point a lot. What I think they’re doing, though, is running a company that makes money. I bought my kids a couple of those “Cars” sets. Tiny pieces. One is lost and eventually becomes a victim of the vacuum (as is almost always the case) and now the toy is next to useless. We as consumers then say “well, better buy another one, and this time we’ll take care of it”. It never happens. All I was really saying was that perhaps your expectations of the company as providing anything more than a product are misplaced. The company began with a product that encouraged creativity and imagination. Now they’re just making money.

Comment on 6 Reasons Why I Hate Lego by paco

paco — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 11:06:57 +0000

You miss the point. I am not relying on the company to encourage creativity. I am mad that they DIScourage creativity. That is, I am happy to encourage it, and I do. The inherently anti-creative design of the toys, though, makes that an uphill battle. They're not working with me, they're working against me. I'm not asking them to do the parenting for me. I'm just wishing they didn't make it harder.

Comment on 6 Reasons Why I Hate Lego by Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 16:38:59 +0000

Why don’t you just encourage creativity yourself, instead of relying on the company to do so? It’s still a universal system.

Comment on 6 Reasons Why I Hate Lego by Gabriele Giuseppini

Gabriele Giuseppini — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 07:26:03 +0000

I totally agree with you, Paco. I hate it when my boy gets a set as a present, whenever I try to show him how to use it to build something else, I miserably fail. Thankfully, there are still general-purpose sets for sale…