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  1. Re:FB browser add-on with simple encryption on Facebook May Dislike the Social Fixer Extension, but Many Users Love It (Video) · · Score: 1

    I've been thinking that would be good as a generic browser extension. It should be trivial to encrypt text boxes and should be available anywhere. Maybe there is already one out there.

  2. Civilization has its dividends.

  3. Re:Every now and then... on Elevated Radiation Claimed At Tokyo 2020 Olympic Venues · · Score: 1

    What? RSVP is an abbreviation of the French for "Respond, if you please" (répondez s'il vous plaît). It is not the response itself.

  4. Re:2020 on Elevated Radiation Claimed At Tokyo 2020 Olympic Venues · · Score: 1

    And it was a crappy sequel too.

  5. Re:Maybe not on Oil Traders Misread Tweet, Oil Prices Spike · · Score: 1

    Yeah. Try investing in Bitcoin. It's not unusual to see a 1% shift not only before breakfast but also during and after. Heck, it can shift 2% just while you're getting the milk from the fridge.

  6. Re:Proof on Some Bing Ads Redirecting To Malware · · Score: 1

    I'll take 10 if I can get a discount for buying in bulk.

  7. Re:Rather early to call the site a failure, isn't on Cost of Healthcare.gov: $634 Million — So Far · · Score: 1

    A fair point. But they are also the barriers most likely to be the differentiator to young white males who tend to predominate in the US and UK it industries.

  8. Re:still... on Most Cave Paintings Were Painted By Women, Says Penn State Researcher · · Score: 1

    There are chores to be done and children to raise. But when the chores are done and the children are asleep, she is at home where it is easy to switch to doing something more creative, particularly if it is something like making wall paintings in the home. If a person is away from the home and their tasks are done, they are limited to the materials at hand.

    Your failure to dig into the deeper implications of simplistic responses is your own problem. If you dismiss them out of hand, you are missing out on the subtle implications.

    As to the entirety of human art and structure, that's a more complex issue. Are we talking only of the great works of art and grand structures or are we including when a mother paints a scene on the nursery wall? And for what purposes are we considering them? It makes a difference. Though the question is likely irrelevant.

  9. Re:I know it's another stereotypical diss on Bing on Some Bing Ads Redirecting To Malware · · Score: 1

    That's typically fairly trivial though.

    Now, if packet compression is occurring and you're sending highly compressible files...

  10. Re:Absolutely no bitching about the NSA on PengPod Crowdfunding a Tablet Made With OS-Switching In Mind · · Score: 1

    Step 1 in being point-to-point secure is to have secure points. It's well known that once you have access to the hardware, it's game over.

  11. Re:Absolutely no bitching about the NSA on PengPod Crowdfunding a Tablet Made With OS-Switching In Mind · · Score: 1

    Do you think the hippies just woke up one day and spontaneously converged on Wall St like some "Close Encounters" thing? Or did they bitch about it a bit first before it coalesced into action?

    You can't have snow without moist air.

  12. Re:still... on Most Cave Paintings Were Painted By Women, Says Penn State Researcher · · Score: 1

    Or for those with more traditional families, the men are out working all day and women spend more time in the home and have the time to engage in that sort of pursuit. It may not be PC but it's observable.

  13. Re:$500/year; front-facing camera; VGA out on Lenovo Shows Android Laptop In Leaked User Manuals · · Score: 1

    Yes. It's the Chromebook that leans towards always-online.

  14. Re:Rather early to call the site a failure, isn't on Cost of Healthcare.gov: $634 Million — So Far · · Score: 1

    Possibly it is not directly that women and minorities are not competent for the job, merely that such requirements tend to attract companies that are more focused on ticking boxes than providing quality service (as suggested by your second paragraph).

  15. Re:XT was a mistake on Bill Gates Acknowledges Ctrl+Alt+Del Was a Mistake · · Score: 1

    Yeah, because people really spend a lot of time expanding their modern PC's. Those days are dead. It was also only necessary because the PC sucked out of the box and had to be expanded to have any respectable sound, networking or graphics capabilities... or a real HDD interface in the early days.

    The lesson has been learned and we currently have easy-to-use interfaces in the form of USB and PCIe and others. Sure, these are more complex than ISA and simple buses but they are standards and the state-of-the-art has advanced to where these are fairly trivial to implement with off-the-shelf parts.

  16. Re:Proof that Obama is corrupt on Obama Administration Refuses To Overturn Import Ban On Samsung Products · · Score: 1

    It usually means Part A (made in China) was taken from one box, placed on Part B (made in China) and Bolt C (made in China) used to join the parts. You don't see it as much any more partly because people got wise to it and partly because nobody cares.

  17. Re:Proof that Obama is corrupt on Obama Administration Refuses To Overturn Import Ban On Samsung Products · · Score: 1

    Never seen "Assembled in the USA"?

  18. Re:Sorry, no respect on Francois Englert and Peter W. Higgs Awarded Nobel Prize For Boson Discovery · · Score: 1

    To be fair, he didn't start out wanting to launch a pointless unprovoked attack, he just stupidly blundered into it.

  19. Re:The Goddamn Particle... on Francois Englert and Peter W. Higgs Awarded Nobel Prize For Boson Discovery · · Score: 1

    Which in the US will briefly enjoy fame as the "French particle" before rapidly being renamed the "Freedom particle".

  20. Re:So why is it used in Windows? on Bill Gates Acknowledges Ctrl+Alt+Del Was a Mistake · · Score: 1

    How early are you talking? As far back as I started using it, ctrl-alt-delete would start an orderly shutdown.

  21. Re:So why continue it... on Bill Gates Acknowledges Ctrl+Alt+Del Was a Mistake · · Score: 1

    I pressed that and now the passenger seat is missing from my car.

  22. Re:So why continue it... on Bill Gates Acknowledges Ctrl+Alt+Del Was a Mistake · · Score: 1

    It emulates tapping the windows key. You can't chord it though. Ctrl-esc-L does not lock the screen, for example.

  23. Re:XT was a mistake on Bill Gates Acknowledges Ctrl+Alt+Del Was a Mistake · · Score: 1

    My recollection of the whole Amiga/ST scene was that accessories tended to be expensive, had complex interfaces and tended to be only available from the original manufacturer. The PC came along with it's ISA and that was that. It was all foreseeable if you knew where to look. Part of the reason for the success of the Spectrum (and before it the ZX81) in the UK was its cheap and easy-to-interface-with accessory port.

    Spiritually, the Amiga was the successor to the C64 and the Atari ST to the Spectrum (shame that Sinclair self-imploded, really) and should have blazed into the future. I remember when all the shelves were Amiga and Atari games with maybe a few PC games hidden away in a dark corner. Locking down your hardware, ultimately, is self-destructive.

  24. Re:Cruel on Cyborg Cockroach Sparks Ethics Debate · · Score: 5, Funny

    Forget psychopaths. It might turn them into... hipsters.

  25. Re:Rent-a-Cop on Sick of Your Local Police Force? Crowdfund Your Own · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Hanging around neighborhoods deterring bad guys is boring, doesn't make good numbers on the conviction rate and brings in no cash. Far better to wait at the bottom of the hill near that partially obscured speed limit sign with a radar gun.