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  1. Re:Google's rationalizatoin is ridiculous on Chrome's Insane Password Security Strategy · · Score: 1

    The concept is that you should need a Linux boot CD. You should need to do some work. It should take more way more than ten seconds.

  2. Re:Google's rationalizatoin is ridiculous on Chrome's Insane Password Security Strategy · · Score: 1

    You leave your workstation unlocked for 1 minute while you take a piss and I walk over, write down your bank password, and leave. I don't have to sit down, log into your bank account or whatever, figure out how to do what I want, etc. No, I can go home and do it at my leisure. Is this concept so hard to fucking understand?

  3. Re:Disappointed on Chrome's Insane Password Security Strategy · · Score: 1

    If you use Chrome at work, like I do, then this is a real problem. Even some noob can read your passwords if you so much as forget to lock your workstation and are away for 30 seconds. It doesn't need to be so damn easy.

  4. Re:Google's right on this one on Chrome's Insane Password Security Strategy · · Score: 1

    You don't need to be an ATTACKER to do this. Hell, my Mom could figure this one out and read someone's passwords in seconds.

  5. Casual users on Chrome's Insane Password Security Strategy · · Score: 1

    Maybe they can't make it locked down tight enough for a hacker or someone who's determined to get at your passwords, but then they don't need to abandon that effort. They've basically said "We can't make it super secure so we're leaving the door wide open instead". You forget to lock your work machine when you go to the bathroom and the guy in the next cubicle can read all of your passwords in seconds, without any hacker knowledge or skill whatsoever.

  6. Re:Easily gamed? on New Android App Encourages Users To Throw Device As High As Possible · · Score: 2

    When you throw something it experiences momentary very high gs followed by zero gs (except from air resistance). I doubt you can simulate that with a string.

  7. Almost as easy to use? on Apple Isn't the Next Microsoft (and That's a Good Thing) · · Score: 1

    When someone puts a phrase like that into their article without substantiating it or addressing it other than to simply state it then they're just trolling. A pencil is easy to use, but it doesn't mean it's better than iOS or Android. The whole 'so easy a three-year-old' can do it thing has passed. I'm not three. I can handle something that takes some thought, that I may not know all the ins and outs of perfectly on my first day, because the only way to do that is to simplify stuff to the point of not being usable. As a longtime Android user (if that's a thing) I can say that I'm immensely frustrated by having to help people with their iPhones. The lack of options in almost all applications, especially the OS ones, amazes me. No wonder they can't figure it out. There's no two pages of options like you get in Android where you can easily set things up. That would be 'hard to use' because you'd have to read something!

  8. Re: Would you steal a Car? on Backdoor Found In OpenX Ad Platform · · Score: 2

    Demonstrating the Heisenberg joke principle. Explaining or measuring the funniness of a joke instantaneously makes in no longer funny. (Also applies to sarcasm)

  9. I was all ready to come in here and stir things up regarding it being a fox and not a red panda but it's damn near identical to the previous logo. You could get the same change by tweaking the brightness and contrast on your monitor controls.

  10. Re:confirmed on Xerox Photocopiers Randomly Alter Numbers, Says German Researcher · · Score: 1

    I think you mean model 7536. Slashdot tends to change numbers on you every now and again.

  11. Re:Monopole? on NASA Data Suggests Solar Magnetic Field About To Flip · · Score: 1

    That means that somewhere in the middle things are really screwy. You'd probably have to ask Stephen Hawking to know what's really going on in there.

  12. Anyone know anything about SSAC? on Samsung Offered StackOverflow Users $500 For "Organic" Publicity · · Score: 5, Funny

    I am about to enter for the Samsung Smart App Challenge. Anyone know have any experience with this?

  13. Re:Resolution Independent GUIs Needed on Are We At the Limit of Screen Resolution Improvements? · · Score: 1

    I have yet to see any commonly used windows app that's resolution independent. That's because, yes, even in the latest incarnation of windows they haven't even bothered to address the issue in the slightest.

  14. Re:Missing the point. on In UK, Google Glass To Be Banned While Driving · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Anyone looking at their windscreen is blind to what's ahead of them anyways. You need to be focused roughly ten seconds down the road to be able to react properly.

  15. Re:Hasn't stopped manufacturers on Are We At the Limit of Screen Resolution Improvements? · · Score: 1

    The video sensor has nothing to do with it. The size and quality of the lens is what determines image quality and resolution. Image sensors far outdo the lenses they're paired with right now.

  16. Resolution Independent GUIs Needed on Are We At the Limit of Screen Resolution Improvements? · · Score: 1

    Until we move to resolution independent GUIs and software I really don't care about insanely high res screens.

  17. Software is more reliable on Full-Size Remote Control Cars · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I trust software more than I trust most drivers these days.

  18. 600? That's a lot on Liberal Saudi Web Forum Founder Sentenced To 600 Lashes and 7 Years In Prison · · Score: 1

    At least he won't need mascara

  19. Re:A tablet isn't a PC. That's the point. on Asus CEO On Windows RT: "We're Out." · · Score: 0

    The ribbon interface is way better than those crappy menus and toolbars. You're just one of the shmucks who doesn't it like it when something changes, even if it's for the better.

  20. Re: And you think they're the only one why? on Samsung Caught Boosting Galaxy S4 Benchmarks · · Score: 2

    Steroids in sports actually improve your performance. Speeding up benchmarks only affects the benchmark, not actual device performance.

  21. Re:I just say on Ask Slashdot: Should More Math and Equations Be Used In the Popular Press? · · Score: 1

    Because the math you see in sports coverage is excellent already? They abuse statistics like a misbehaving mule.

  22. Re:A tablet isn't a PC. That's the point. on Asus CEO On Windows RT: "We're Out." · · Score: 3

    Office RT was neutered. No macros, no add-ins, no forms, etc. They didn't design it as a productivity tool, they designed it as a direct competitor to what you get on Android and iOS.

  23. Re:A tablet isn't a PC. That's the point. on Asus CEO On Windows RT: "We're Out." · · Score: 1

    If you want something that emulates paper perfectly go buy a pencil and a stack of paper. And a scanner. Done.

  24. Re:ASUS is Out of the RT Market?? on Asus CEO On Windows RT: "We're Out." · · Score: 1

    No idea. Doesn't say in the summary or the article.

  25. Re:Tin-foil... on Moscow Subway To Use Special Devices To Read Data On Passengers' Phones · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I have a steel business card case that I use as a wallet. The readers commonly used on door locks in office buildings have no problem reading my cards through the case.