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  1. Re:Computer License on Website Peeps Into 73,000 Unsecured Security Cameras Via Default Passwords · · Score: 1

    The correct solution is to build secure computers from the ground up.

    First step?
    Disable anything but an app store/repo unless the user unlocks insecure mode.

  2. Re:Place the blame where it belongs on Website Peeps Into 73,000 Unsecured Security Cameras Via Default Passwords · · Score: 1

    Secure defaults is sane.
    Insecure defaults are insane.

    It's as simple as that.

  3. Re:People buy stuff without understanding is... on Website Peeps Into 73,000 Unsecured Security Cameras Via Default Passwords · · Score: 1

    Give here a chromebook.

    I gave my mother my old laptop with openbox and chrome on it, basically the same thing.

    And she is happy with it.

    Calls me far less than she did with her windows laptop, actually.

    The only time it happens is when she needs the admin password for a new wifi.

  4. Re:When you encrypt everything... on Net Neutrality Alone Won't Solve ISP Throttling Abuse, Here's Why · · Score: 3, Insightful

    So buy dedicated bandwidth then.
    It is fully possible to do it.

    It's just about 40 times more expensive.

  5. Re:Bullshit on Free Broadband For NYC Public Housing? · · Score: 1

    Finland has got lesser population density than the states.

    So, well, that should make it worse.

  6. Re:Good idea beyond the "renewable" fad on Denmark Plans To Be Coal-Free In 10 Years · · Score: 0

    WInd is unreliable and takes up loads of space.

  7. Re:I really don't understand smart watches... on How Apple Watch Is Really a Regression In Watchmaking · · Score: 1

    Yes, they have.
    5.5" inches requires a pretty hefty pocket to be easy to pull forth.

  8. Re:So what? on Tim Cook: "I'm Proud To Be Gay" · · Score: 1, Insightful

    You are wrong, it's telling who you are capable of falling in love with.
    Stop focusing so much on sex, sexual orientation is an emotional and attraction issue, not a sexual perversion.

    Except homosexuals are harassed, discriminated against, bullied, being told that they are sick, abnormal.
    And so forth.
    Just because they are incapable of falling in love with the opposite sex.

  9. Re:So what? on Tim Cook: "I'm Proud To Be Gay" · · Score: 1

    The problem is that obviously something as irrelevant as who somebody is capable of falling in love with is worthy of headlines.

    Therefore it's worth normalizing it.

    Since for some bloody reason it isn't already universally accepted to love each other.

  10. Re:So what? on Tim Cook: "I'm Proud To Be Gay" · · Score: 1

    He isn't talking about his sex life.
    He is telling you that he is incapable of falling in love with women and capable of falling in love with men.

    It's you who have a problem separating love from sex.

  11. Re:Gay? on Tim Cook: "I'm Proud To Be Gay" · · Score: 4, Interesting

    There is nothing wrong with having a sexual orientation, no matter what it is.
    Acting upon it can be bad.

    Btw, Pedophiliacs are the only one of those three which is a sexual orientation, and a very sad one at that.
    You can only romantically love pre-pubescents.
    That is terribly sad.
    Raping children is horrible though and is entirely separate.

    Bestiality is the act of having sex with animals.
    I believe you are looking for the term zoofiliacs, which is, just like Pedophiles, very sad.
    And raping animals is a complex issue, especially since we do it with insemination.
    Defining exactly why it feels worse when we enjoy raping them then when we do it to kill and eat their children is for me impossible, but, hey, not really the topic here?

    Incest is not something which is related to sexual preference.
    It's not like people who have sex with their family have no ability to be attracted or romantically involved with other people.
    The issue is two-folded:
    1: High risk for problematic offpsring, explaining why almost all humans have an aversion to the behaviour.
    2: There is a high risk of problematic situations occuring when children have sex with parents or siblings.

    It's not so much that homosexuality is different from any other sexual orientation, it's just that there is no logical reason to argue against it being a perfectly fine way to live your life.
    Most sexual orientations barring hetero or BTQ are way less easy to incorporate into a decent life.

  12. Re:Time to "stock up" from NewEgg ... on OEM Windows 7 License Sales End This Friday · · Score: 4, Informative

    Actually, it just works in chrome these days.

  13. Re:Fine, if on The Airplane of the Future May Not Have Windows · · Score: 1

    Meals, working on a laptop, more difficult to go to the bathrooms

    Are the first things which goes against this idea in my head.

  14. Re:Fine, if on The Airplane of the Future May Not Have Windows · · Score: 1

    Bloody uncomfortable acceleration though.

  15. Re:So ... on The Classic Control Panel In Windows May Be Gone · · Score: 0

    To the extent that you can run windows servers without a gui.

  16. Re:Just keep it off the servers.... on The Classic Control Panel In Windows May Be Gone · · Score: 1

    The default install in 2012 is without the gui tools.

  17. Re:Please Microsoft... on The Classic Control Panel In Windows May Be Gone · · Score: 1

    Alt+f4 on the desktop.
    This also allows you to shut down the computer.

  18. Re:Wonder what brand is best now... Intel? on Samsung Acknowledges and Fixes Bug On 840 EVO SSDs · · Score: 1

    Usually they have improved firmware and a bit more redundant memory on them.

    Also, it was intel 320, and it lost almost all capacity if it was writing and lost power.

  19. Re:Religion is a weakness. on Are the World's Religions Ready For ET? · · Score: 1

    What makes it not true?

    A god is basically a percieved magical being, capable of doing unexplained things.
    And unwiiling or uncapable of making you comprehend what it does.

  20. Re:Islam and Math / Science on Are the World's Religions Ready For ET? · · Score: 2

    Seriously?
    You consider extremists to be a good example of a religion?

    You consider Ku Kux Klan to be a good representation of Christianity as well?
    They WHERE christian...

  21. Re:Yes multiple desktops! on Microsoft Announces Windows 10 · · Score: 1

    It's been in power tools since XP.
    Has been crap all along though.

  22. Re:Start menu usage dropped in lieu of what? on Microsoft's Asimov System To Monitor Users' Machines In Real Time · · Score: 1

    Except that pinning them allows super+# to launch and switch to programs.

    Almost as good as workspaces in many cases.

  23. Re:It isn't the first time for Blizzard on Blizzard Has Canceled Titan, Its Next-gen MMO · · Score: 2

    And with Lord of the Clans.

    Both those games where outsourced though.
    They were both failed experiments of trying to hire others do stuff under their banner and realizing that they made crappier stuff.

    This is the first in-house game which was canned.
    Well, that have gone far enough to have even rumors about.

  24. Re:What where they copying? on Blizzard Has Canceled Titan, Its Next-gen MMO · · Score: 1

    Never.
    Creation is never taken out of nothing.

    It's always in some way derivative.

    Otherwise it wouldn't be interesting to make or to partake in.

    It would require a crazy person to design something not founded on some principle of entertainment they already knew.
    Incidently, some of the most outrageous entertainment, especially truly random humor, is based on drug experiences.

  25. Re:What where they copying? on Blizzard Has Canceled Titan, Its Next-gen MMO · · Score: 1

    Calling Diablo a roguelike is actually kinda silly.

    Even the first one, which was probably the most roguelike of them (except no permanent death without the ability to load existed) was primarily just an Action RPG with some roguelike elements.

    But, yeah.

    They are more like apple has been since 2000.
    Taking stuff from various sources and refining them until you have a product which has got a neat package och nothing being entirely wrong.