(06-18-2017, 10:42 PM)panamaniac Wrote:

(06-18-2017, 10:30 PM)danbrotherston Wrote: So, think of the average user, the average user doesn't even know what a password manager is, let alone how to use one.  But also, this entirely defeats the purpose of the security questions, the purpose being that in the event you lose your password (for example, if your password manager database is lost), you are able to securely identify yourself another way by knowing this information about yourself independently from your password.

Not that it's a great system anyway, these questions are both guessable and also hard to remember.  Security questions should be a relic of the past.

Leading many to use a single password for all purposes.  Terrible practice, but what can they do?

(06-19-2017, 07:13 PM)isUsername Wrote: Good news! A Google-derived anti-bot system has been added to their security!

(06-21-2017, 02:34 PM)danbrotherston Wrote: Anyone else find it ironic that the iXpress 200 takes about 50% longer to go from Conestoga Mall to DTK than the #7 milk-run.  Now, yes, the 7 is a much more direct route, but it's also the same time as the #6 which also goes far out of the way.

(06-21-2017, 02:52 PM)Markster Wrote:

(06-21-2017, 02:34 PM)danbrotherston Wrote: Anyone else find it ironic that the iXpress 200 takes about 50% longer to go from Conestoga Mall to DTK than the #7 milk-run.  Now, yes, the 7 is a much more direct route, but it's also the same time as the #6 which also goes far out of the way.

Yeah, the construction detours really killed the 200s schedule. It's always been faster to take the 7C from downtown than the 200, but it's gotten much worse.

Route 6 has always been a bit of a secret.  It's not excessively out of the way, and it runs on much faster roads, and makes fewer stops due to fewer passengers.  If you're going between downtown and Conestoga mall, it's actually a very sane choice!  If it's bad weather, it's almost certainly going to be more reliable than the 7.

(06-28-2017, 10:32 PM)KevinL Wrote: So there's been a change to the design of paper schedules (again!) - Last year they changed from having a flush-to-the-corners design to one with a bit more free space, presumably to improve readability, but they still maintained an 'abstracted' map design - a thematic map with just the roads relevant to the route, rectified and straightened, as they've had fro the last 5-7 years or so.

But now they've started to introduce accurate maps - actual geographically correct route maps, no abstraction allowed.

And the absurd part is, all of these designs are currently in use to some degree or another, depending on the specific route - I pulled these fresh off the rack at Charles Street. Yikes.

(06-28-2017, 11:51 PM)D40LF Wrote: Good.

The simplified maps are atrocious and in a number of instances, inaccurate. The route 22 map for instance suggests that Activa becomes David Bergey, and Rittenhouse is nonexistent.