(29-11-2010 23:29 )RCTV Wrote: [ -> ]Kids are far more clever than any of us ever where as kids, they can guess the pin if they really want to...
How? How can they guess it? If the parents are dim-witted enough to use birthdays, etc as the PIN, then sure the kids might guess it, but why should every adult in the country have to go without because of a few brainless parents who can't control their kids?
A PIN is perfectly adequate. There are 10,000 different permitations for a four-digit PIN, so as long as it's random it's virtually impossible to guess.
Tell you what, RCTV, if it's so easy to guess a four-digit PIN, I'll give you as long as you like to guess mine.
(30-11-2010 19:03 )StanTheMan Wrote: [ -> ]~~~~
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A PIN is perfectly adequate. There are 10,000 different permitations for a four-digit PIN, so as long as it's random it's virtually impossible to guess.
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If one million kids each had 10 random attempts at guessing a 4 digit pin, about 1000 of them would obtain access.
I find it very difficult to feel any sympathy towards Bang Media. If their licenses had been pulled after one infraction then I'd feel differently. They knew what they should stop doing, but they kept doing it anyway and were 100% aware of what the consequences could be. They could've made the girls tone it down on the day shows, wear more clothes and play it safe until the heat died down. They could've worked on making it look like the day shows were promoting the chance to 'talk' to a beautiful girl as opposed to the blatant suggestion of phoning a girl to see her mimic sexual positions while telling you how much she likes it up the ass then in her mouth. They could've done something that might have actually safeguarded the jobs of the girls on screen. I hope I'm wrong and that the girls haven't been forced to lose a chunk of their income due to poor management decisions.
it looks like freeview ch 98's off air screen has now been taken off .
(30-11-2010 20:17 )TheWatcher Wrote: [ -> ] (30-11-2010 19:03 )StanTheMan Wrote: [ -> ]~~~~
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A PIN is perfectly adequate. There are 10,000 different permitations for a four-digit PIN, so as long as it's random it's virtually impossible to guess.
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If one million kids each had 10 random attempts at guessing a 4 digit pin, about 1000 of them would obtain access.
They could adopt the Virgin system with a lock-out after three unsuccessful pin attempts
^^^^sky already do that, I've fell victim to it many of times
banks generate their pins at random by using computers. my pin is almost like my mums pin even though i join the bank she uses years after she joined. it will work if sky gives each customer a random pin when they sign up.
(30-11-2010 23:35 )bigguy01 Wrote: [ -> ]banks generate their pins at random by using computers. my pin is almost like my mums pin even though i join the bank she uses years after she joined. it will work if sky gives each customer a random pin when they sign up.
Ohhh, please don't tell me your dear ol mam does like mine and tells you her PIN so you can use her card for her - d'oh!
I have never been convinced by PINs... their onyl advantage in the first place was the relatively 'hands-off' approach that a service provider could adopt IRO customer identification. That may have worked fine at c/p's in the old days, but I'm sure that more secure systems could be put in place for various applications such as Sky parental control.
No, I don't know what, but then I'm such a technophobe that I feel quite certain that the world has many more answers than I could possibly imagine.
But PIN; seriously, four 'random' numbers that most of us would forget unless we
wrote them down... kinda defeating the object? Still, if it's good enough for Evil Rupe, then the world had better goldarn accept it. I guess.
all the babechannels go webstream only no sky no ofcom, good old fashioned organised chaos which i love.