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  1. Re:Everyone post your current password on NIST's Draft To Remove Periodic Password Change Requirements Gets Vendors' Approval (csoonline.com) · · Score: 1

    hunter2

  2. Re:Why don't they do what macOS Does? on Opinion: Even if You Hate the Idea, Windows Users Should Want Windows 10 S To Succeed (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    If MS would make it so a "Policy" could force the "Windows Store Only", but if not, then Users could override that restriction

    They did. It's free until December 31, and then it costs $50.

  3. Re:M$ not eating dogfood until VS is on Store on Opinion: Even if You Hate the Idea, Windows Users Should Want Windows 10 S To Succeed (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Which is probably the point where they stop making Windows 10 Home available to OEMs and replace it with this. Give it two more years, and anything other than S is a subscription.

  4. Re:M$ not eating dogfood until VS is on Store on Opinion: Even if You Hate the Idea, Windows Users Should Want Windows 10 S To Succeed (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    complete enough that Microsoft can put Visual Studio on Windows Store

    That would be interesting - to have a compiler that has to submit its results to the Windows Store to even be tested on the development machine.

  5. Re:Jurisdiction issues on Facebook Must Delete Hate Postings Worldwide, Rules Austrian Court (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Then the Austrian court would say that the US has no jurisdiction over Facebook's Austrian servers and subsidiaries. They can fine Facebook Austria all they want anyway. The only (good) solution here is for Facebook to pull out. The other end-game, which is more likely, is that Facebook complies.

  6. Re:120 fps .. someone FINALLY groks UI ! on Google's Upcoming 'Fuchsia' Smartphone OS Dumps Linux, Has a Wild New UI (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Backward compatibility has kept them locked together. There has been a small push by a few for variable frame rate screens (especially byuu of higan), but no wide manufacturing and adoption. Targeting a single monolithic frame rate should be a very intentional process in the meantime.

    I wish I could just buy the PAL version of a few of my favorite British shows - they don't seem to do a great job with the conversion to 60Hz. But unless I have equipment that can handle the frame rate, I'll be no better off.

  7. Re:The Federal Communications Commission on FCC Says It Was Victim of Cyberattack After John Oliver Show (thehill.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Total number of comments (so far) is only 184,650. If you're serving the American people and you can't handle even 1% of the population commenting on something over the course of maybe a week (extrapolated), you have failed. Sure, maybe half of these comments came in the first hour. But does that matter?

  8. Re:120 fps .. someone FINALLY groks UI ! on Google's Upcoming 'Fuchsia' Smartphone OS Dumps Linux, Has a Wild New UI (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Targeting 120fps is also good for media consumption, since it's a least common multiple of 24fps and 60fps. If they want to do more set-top boxes, this might help. Downside is if it's not fully variable and 50Hz countries get left out.

  9. Re:I like it on Inside Germany's Plan To Kill Online Registrations (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    if someone breaks into your car rental shop's online login

    If implemented properly, breaking into that system will get you just the token used to identify the user on that one system. And ideally, the actual authentication to produce that token would only take place on the centralized system's servers. The most breaking in would get you is a chance to create a realistic looking attack to steal credentials later.

  10. It is unethical practice of law for legal professionals to create contract, law, or precedent to the contrary.

    It is less ethical for the federal government to allow it without consent. Whatever could be used to defeat this could be used to defeat the current federal status quo.

  11. Re:Interruptions... on Slashdot Asks: How Do You Handle Interruptions At Work? · · Score: 1

    Doesn't have to be soundproof - just waterproof.

  12. Re:Insert coin. on Slashdot Asks: How Do You Handle Interruptions At Work? · · Score: 1

    Or if you were in a situation where the (repeated) price of admission dropped you below minimum wage for the pay period. Which would more be a failure on the needy person, but still not allowed.

  13. Re:a bunch of things on Slashdot Asks: How Do You Handle Interruptions At Work? · · Score: 1

    what was expected out of them was the ability to judge conflicting workloads and prioritize them yourself.

    So what exactly is the role of the manager, then?

  14. Both sides spread lies left and right through media outlets of their own design. This is not a "better campaign" by any metric. It's pandering without any merit.

  15. Re:We need mind-antivirus on Did A Billionaire Harvest Big Data From Facebook To 'Hijack' Democracy? (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    The fix for viral ideas is not censorship. It's trying to cultivate the idea of questioning everything.

  16. Re: It's not a problem with 2FA on Known Flaws in Mobile Data Backbone Allow Hackers To Trick 2FA (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Or convince someone in customer service to issue a new one to a different address. It really does happen.

  17. Re:Bungalows on Cop Fakes Body Cam Footage, Prosecutors Drop Drug Charges (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Not people like me. People like the kind that can't get out of jury duty.

  18. Re:Bungalows on Cop Fakes Body Cam Footage, Prosecutors Drop Drug Charges (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Different cars, different layout. Explains visibility, etc.

  19. Re:Did the court know it was a reenactment? on Cop Fakes Body Cam Footage, Prosecutors Drop Drug Charges (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    If done properly, it's more descriptive than an oral testimony. Kind of like having an illustration. I can imagine it would be hard to describe a vehicle search in detail.

    Either way, that doesn't seem to be the intent here.

  20. certainly the perception of California, Washington, and Oregon as total Commie-Pinko Hippie territory is wrong.

    Your 3D map of California you link to shows otherwise. The margin of victory for blue in California is not only high, it's high across much of the state. More so than Oregon and Washington.

  21. Illinois isn't a blue state. Illinois is red with two blue spots on it - that happen to have huge populations. And Chicago is just overpopulated and full of crime - leaving is more to do with urbanization than politics. There are a lot of cheap places to live in Illinois and cost of living is generally low.

  22. Facebook only tracks website visits that have Facebook buttons/scripts or are clicked via a link from Facebook itself. Google has their own browser, so...maybe?

  23. Opt-in consent = signing a subscriber agreement.

  24. Re:It's more sinister than that on Over 200 Android Apps Are Currently Using Ultrasonic Beacons To Track Users (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    If you're piggybacking on existing systems that use audio in human hearing range, none of that is relevant.

  25. Re:So in other words... on Microsoft Tests a Secured Edge Browser For Business (techradar.com) · · Score: 1

    Yup. Infecting the VM is just as bad, unless you want to sacrifice having any permanence of anything (settings included) in the browser.