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  1. Quite right, the two situations aren't even remotely comparable.

  2. You mean those highly secure 4 digit codes?

    The reason banks don't care about your security is because that's your problem. You can bet their internal requirements are much more strict, because internal secure is their problem.

  3. Re:It's the story stupid. on Pixels Are Driving Out Reality (vice.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    I blame piracy.

  4. Re:Diversity in other labor markets? on Facebook Makes Little Progress in Race and Gender Diversity (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Those are Hispanic people doing those hard jobs, not black people.

  5. Re:Diversity in other labor markets? on Facebook Makes Little Progress in Race and Gender Diversity (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    No, just the cushy well-paying ones. Women and black people don't have any interest in ensuring shitty or dangerous jobs are equal.

  6. Re:The DNC overlords always get their way on Bernie Sanders Endorses Hillary Clinton (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Bu-bu-bu-but Bush did it first!

    What a weakass response. I thought Democrats hated Bush? Now they want to emulate him?

    What a bunch of hypocrites.

  7. Re:The DNC overlords always get their way on Bernie Sanders Endorses Hillary Clinton (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    And a strategy of voting for the lesser evil* isn't slowly killing us?

    * The lesser evil of a particular eleciton, the level of lesser evil continues to grow with each eleciton

  8. Re:The DNC overlords always get their way on Bernie Sanders Endorses Hillary Clinton (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    No, Obama and Hillary took what Bush started and destabilized the Muslim world to the point that it's causing a refugee crisis which has the potential to take down Europe. Not to mention using drones more than Bush, and locking up more whistleblowers than all previous administrations combined.

    But you're right, it has to be racism...

    You're an easily led buffoon.

  9. Fuck Hillary Clinton on Clinton: It's 'Heartbreaking' When IT Workers Must Train H-1B Replacements (computerworld.com) · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Fuck that piece of shit. Seriously. Fuck her right in her stupid fucking ass.

    http://www.dailykos.com/story/...

    How does anyone believe a word out of her mouth, much less support her being our president? Those lying sacks of shits we call the Clintons are terrible for this country.

  10. Re:It's Dotcom Bubble 2.0, everyone's ignoring it on Tech Workers Think Silicon Valley and Startups Are Losing Their Luster (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh, and in this part of the country, I can live better on my salary than someone making half again as much or more in Silicon Valley because home prices aren't absurd.

  11. Re:It's Dotcom Bubble 2.0, everyone's ignoring it on Tech Workers Think Silicon Valley and Startups Are Losing Their Luster (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm glad those kids go for "glamorous" startups and big name Silicon Valley stalwarts. That leaves the good tech jobs for me, working in technology but not in the tech industry. I develop boring old line of business applications (technically not a developer anymore, moved into management, but the same applies), collect a good paycheck, and go home at a decent time.

    Those kids can have the "cool" jobs. I don't want them.

  12. Re:They deserve profit on 180 Artists, Labels Including Taylor Swift Take On YouTube, Join Copyright Plea (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, because at an estimated net worth of $200 MILLION, Taylor Swift is not being rewarded...

    These wealthy artists can fuck right off. Keep touring if they want to keep getting paid. That's how the rest of the world works. You get paid for what you do, not for what you did. These scammers who want to skate by their entire lives getting paid over and over again until the end of time for the same work are parasites.

  13. If I recall, it was Monitcello, MN.

  14. Re:Everything has an "app" on Slashdot Asks: Is the App Boom Over? · · Score: 1

    I've used apps that had decent UIs compared to the mobile version of the website, but the app still pulled all the data from the website. Then the site failed to update their app after redesigning their site, breaking the app entirely. Waited months for the app to get updated until deleting it entirely because I figured they were never going to fix it.

    Unless there's some significant need for local processing power, I'd prefer sites spend their resources on a decent website. I'm tired of apps as half-assed gateways to web pages. Just make a decent mobile/responsive site.

  15. Re: Of course the guy selling the cars... on Norway Agrees On Banning New Sales Of Gas-Powered Cars By 2025: Report (electrek.co) · · Score: 1

    Used EVs will have their own problem, whether real or perceived, that a person is buying a vehicle that will soon need a massive expense in the form of a new battery. People who buy used cars accept that part of the life of the vehicle is gone, but usually those things come in form of a few hundred dollars here and a few hundreds dollars there when repairs pop up. An EV however has the looming several thousand dollar battery replacement in its future. That's going to be a problem for used EV sales.

  16. I'm partial to PassPack because it's fully web based and easy to use for sharing passwords between team members at work.

  17. So insert punctuation instead of just spaces.

    correct,horse2battery.staple

    Now it's a completely different password.

  18. Your post is generally correct, but 2 words isn't Dictionary x 2, it's Dictionary ^ 2.

    Passphrases with unpredictable punctuation or capitalization are a very good balance between memorability and complexity against brute forcing.

  19. Re: Of course the guy selling the cars... on Norway Agrees On Banning New Sales Of Gas-Powered Cars By 2025: Report (electrek.co) · · Score: 1

    So what you're saying is that they're NOT good enough to stand on their own. If they were, you wouldn't need to force people to buy them.

    You do realize that cost is a consideration for most people, right?

  20. Re: Of course the guy selling the cars... on Norway Agrees On Banning New Sales Of Gas-Powered Cars By 2025: Report (electrek.co) · · Score: 1

    If they're good enough to stand on their own, then why do they need legislation? Your post makes no sense.

  21. Re:Eric? Can you come out of the ivory tower a sec on It's Time To Ignore Petty Politics and Focus On 'Transformative' Tech: Eric Schmidt (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    That's short sighted. Technology is democratizing and breaks down more barriers than political bickering ever will.

    Books and literacy were the province of the wealthy and the high priests who could afford scribes to duplicate texts. Modern literacy rates would not be possible without movable type and the printing press.

    Even once those technologies existed the spread of information was limited by gatekeepers who had the ability to publish using expensive machinery until things like Xerox machines and later the internet made publishing cheap or even free.

    Even in your own example, isn't one of the largest reasons that people go bankrupt is because of medical issues? Instead of arguing about Obamacare, how about we just cure cancer and then we don't have to worry about going bankrupt and lose your home because you got cancer.

    For a technology focused site, this place really has some myopic contributors.

  22. Re:who decides what is "hate speech"??? on Microsoft, Facebook, YouTube and Others Agree To Remove Hate Speech Across the EU · · Score: 2

    People love to fall back on the "It's a private service" argument, but that's nonsense. These companies aren't agreeing to spend their money on policing speech because they're caring corporations who want to help people. They're doing it because governments are pressuring them to do it. Governments are using corporations to get around the rules and do things governments aren't supposed to be able to do.

    We call that fascism.

  23. Re:Hardly suprising on Nearly 1 In 4 People Abandon Mobile Apps After Only One Use (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    Ouch, my ass hurts just looking at those numbers. $.35/message? In this day and age? I'm not saying I don't believe you, just shocked that kind of things still exists.

  24. Re:Why not get a warrant? on US Court Says No Warrant Needed For Cellphone Location Data (reuters.com) · · Score: 0

    Why are Democrats fucking children now? :(

  25. Re:Hardly suprising on Nearly 1 In 4 People Abandon Mobile Apps After Only One Use (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    OK, you just listed about ten uses for your phone, and several of them probably came preloaded on your phone, with no need to download them from whatever app store you use. Various App stores claim to have more than one million apps. What that tells me is that 1 in 4 is way too low, I wouldn't be surprised if 99 out of 100 apps are deleted within on use.