Other benefits:
Downside:
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That’s because the shift between the V sound and the S sound is very awkward. When that kind of shift is awkward, dropping one of the sounds entirely (usually the first one) is common.
There’s plenty of common English words that have also changed spelling to go along with that pronunciation, though I can’t recall any at the moment.
Edit: Thought of one: Donut. Yes, the “old-timey” spelling was “doughnut,” and is still found in relatively common use. Long ago that “gh” in there was pronounced like a “phlegmmy ‘h’.” As that sound fell out of use, it eventually fell completely out of the word “donut.”
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If they took it out, it would leave a big cavity that they would have to fill with beans.
While “Cisco Duo” is not listed here:
The following is a list of Cisco’s trademarks and registered trademarks in the United States and certain other countries. Please note, however, that this listing is not all-inclusive and the absence of any mark from this list does not mean that it is not a Cisco trademark.
Trademarks are exactly how rules for naming things works.
I’m sure the ancient Greeks said similar things about their steam pinwheels.
Each is a technology with unique features for its time, and where there aren’t any practical applications initially.
Expect this name to change when Cisco comes at them for being too close to Cisco Duo.
The ancient Greeks invented steam power, but didn’t take it any further than a novelty. That doesn’t make steam power a “scam.”
The technology isn’t, but it can be easily abused by malicious actors, using the exact same methods as shown in Wolf of Wall Street.
Trump pump and dump.
I was always called by the “shortened, nickname” version of my actual first name, in Catholic school, starting in 1975. Plenty of other kids where, too: Richard, Rich; Robert, Bob; Jennifer, Jenny; Elizabeth, Beth. There is no problem referring to someone with their preferred name.
I will confirm that it requires real conscious effort to use someone’s preferred pronouns, when you have been referring to them with different pronouns all their lives, as well as having the deep inertia of the English language set like concrete in your brain – especially when they themselves are navigating the minefield of gender identity as a teenager right along with you. I do tend to rankle a bit at “constructed” pronouns (think “xe”), because I feel that insisting that everyone immediately use placeholder words that have not firmly made their way into the lexicon is asking a bit too much. I will happily use the singular they/them; that’s something which has been in common usage that way for a very long time, and is not gender specific.
Maybe something like “xe” will end up as common usage, and I’m fine with that, too. Being old, it would certainly take me more time and effort to adopt that than younger people would have to expend, and I’ll cross that bridge when I come to it.
To address the “why”:
A user account, as defined by a username/password combination, can be used to access resources on the machine without logging in interactively on that machine. In a perfect world, you would only ever log in interactively on the machine using an account with restricted permissions, and when you needed to do “administraty” things, you would provide separate admin credentials at that time (sudo, runas, whatever your OS of choice supports).
Bonus question - what are the risks of having a weak password on a root user on a spare laptop on the same network as my main device that is used exclusively for web browsing?
If someone is able to compromise that root user on Machine A, then they may be able to leverage Machine A as a platform to attack any other devices on your network, or make Machine A into a zombie in their bot army to attack other targets anywhere, send spam, whatever malicious shenanigans they desire. (I know that’s pretty simplistic, there’s a whole lot of details left out, but that’s the gist of it.)
Also, nobody has yet mentioned the PIN option. I know that Windows machines (at least some of them, depending on configuration) allow you to configure a PIN for logon for local accounts. This PIN is only stored locally on the machine, and is not transmitted anywhere else. It’s basically a “shortcut” to the full password, and I think it can only be used for interactive logon.
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I think “scary weird” is an excellent clarification.
Odds are fairly high that your local newspaper is printing mainly wire stories anyway, from AP, Reuters, whatnot.
And “WE BUY GOLD!!!*”
*for a fraction of its actual value