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  1. I'm picturing a huge door slamming down right next to his head as the article describes. But then I try to figure out how his leg broke... Where was his leg such that it was broken when the door came down near his head?

  2. Re:Bad idea for the worker on Amazon Is Testing a 30-Hour, 75% Salary Workweek (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    All the reports I've seen suggest employees are no more productive working those extra 10 hours. This is great for amazon if it catches on. Employees will produce the same and amazon will pay them a lot less.

  3. Re: Red Box is Cheap on Ask Slashdot: Do You Still Use Optical Media? · · Score: 1

    If Netflix online has the movies you want to see, it's probably the cheapest option, even with internet access accounted for; although its selection is much worse than Redbox or Netflix disc

  4. Re:Red Box is Cheap on Ask Slashdot: Do You Still Use Optical Media? · · Score: 1

    I agree; shockingly the 'manufacture, stock, and distribute physical plastic disks' is still the cheapest option over the 'basically free digital distribution'. For renting many movies a month, Netflix is even cheaper.

  5. Re:The problem with these meters on Password Strength Meters on Websites Are Doing a Terrible Job (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I think you misunderstand how sophisticated dictionary attacks are these days. Your suggestions would only protect against the most naive of dictionary attacks. Modern dictionary attacks include misspelled words, common character substitutions, numbers, and repeated characters (among many other forms of modification).

    The problem with remembering passwords isn't that one password is hard to remember, it's that 10 (or hundreds) are hard to remember. Different applications have different complexity requirements and, shockingly, some have complexity maximums (for example, password length limits or banned characters).

  6. Re:The problem with these meters on Password Strength Meters on Websites Are Doing a Terrible Job (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I contest that it is easy to remember, easy to type, and safe.

    * Your proposed password is not safe because it is vulnerable to a dictionary attack. Modern dictionary attacks use common substitutions like these.
    * It is not easy to remember because you need to remember the substitution pattern you used
    * It is not easy to type because no one ever types those words except in this password.

    'mets rule yankees drool because I grew up watching the mets with my dad and we had a lot of fun' would be safer, easy to type, but still hard to remember, which is my point.

  7. The problem with these meters on Password Strength Meters on Websites Are Doing a Terrible Job (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    As the 'strength' meter increases, the 'usefulness' decreases. If the password is long and uses a lot of characters, it be harder to remember, which leads to it being written down. If there's some minimum threshold of complexity, which is often tied to the meters, that reduces entropy.

  8. Careful about accusations? on Pokemon Go Was Never Able To Read Your Email (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Perhaps people should be more careful about what they name account permission settings.

  9. Re:Speaking as a chromebook user on First Batch Of Chromebooks Reach End Of Life, To Stop Receiving Support and Updates (betanews.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It's more directly because of people that make laptops that fail after a year or two and that are so expensive to repair that it's cheaper to just buy a new one.

  10. Why limit to optical media? on Ubuntu Quietly Raises Install Image Size to 2GB (omgubuntu.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    The use of optical media is dwindling. If a limit is to be selected, it should be a common flash disk size minus some overhead. Using 4.7GB as the maximum will mean everyone will be buying 8GB disks instead of 4GB disks to put the images on.

  11. Re:This is all kinds of inaccurate on Over 135 Million Routers Vulnerable To Denial-of-service Flaw (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    Disabling access to the modem from outside wont protect you from this exploit. If you stumble upon a website or email that contains any resources (including images) that reference a specific path on your modem, the modem reboots (as far as I understand the exploit).

  12. Did they reconsider the history feature? on Chrome Extension Caught Hijacking Users' Browsers (softpedia.com) · · Score: 2

    Did Google also reconsider the feature that is at the heart of this issue? People only used this extension because of how incomplete the history viewer is in Chrome.

  13. This is legit on "Pixels" DMCA Takedown Even Worse Than We Thought · · Score: 1

    Watch the original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... At the end there's a link to www.patrick-jean.com, where the new movie shows front and center. The wikipedia page for the new film, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/..., credits Patrick Jean. Looks like Columbia Pictures purchase the rights to the original film. Worst case, Columbia Pictures can be seen as jerks for taking content off the internet that people want to see. It's totally legal, however.

  14. Re:Upside Down? on Breakthrough In Face Recognition Software · · Score: 2

    False positives

  15. Compare to... on Bellard Creates New Image Format To Replace JPEG · · Score: 1

    And how does it compare ti JPEG 2000 and JPEG XR? And all the other JPEG alternatives that have been trumpeted but never taken hold? And why should this succeed when those have failed?

  16. Re:The Ribbon is a better cut on Microsoft's Age-Old Image Library 'Clip Art' Is No More · · Score: 1

    I (and almost everyone else) just want what *already existed*

  17. Re:The Ribbon is a better cut on Microsoft's Age-Old Image Library 'Clip Art' Is No More · · Score: 0, Troll

    What you suggest is not the classic office experience. It's an experience that is inferior to WinWord 1 from 1991 out of the box. You're suggesting users spend *hours* reconfiguring the UI to a state worse than a version that shipped 23 years ago. They would have to do this on every computer they use. Assuming a computer at work, a computer at home,a child's computer, a laptop, and a friends computer they are helping them with, that's a week configuring toolbars.

  18. The Ribbon is a better cut on Microsoft's Age-Old Image Library 'Clip Art' Is No More · · Score: 0

    Wouldn't it make more sense to remove 'features' that users complain about, like the ribbon, before removing features that are used by only a few users?

  19. Re:The Fix: Buy good Chocolate! on MARS, Inc: We Are Running Out of Chocolate · · Score: 1

    There's no guarantee that any significant portion of a $5-$15 chocolate bar went to the farmers. Your statements should read "If you pay $5-$15 per bar then there's a chance the farmers were paid fairly". Most american companies would just pocket the difference and continue to screw over the farmers.

  20. Re:Real router hardware is the next step. on Ask Slashdot: Life Beyond the WRT54G Series? · · Score: 1

    The specs show the x700 as having only 10/100mbit ports, comcast offers 105mbit internet access.

  21. If the whole goal is to avoid MS, FileMaker is pretty similar to Access from a feature standpoint.

  22. Re:CSS sucks on Firefox 29 Beta Arrives With UI Overhaul And CSS3 Variables · · Score: 1

    Is what also true? it being a table or a div wont change how a screen reader reads the text.

  23. Re:CSS sucks on Firefox 29 Beta Arrives With UI Overhaul And CSS3 Variables · · Score: 0, Troll

    IE6 is a 10,000 times more valid target browser than lynx.

  24. New UI on Firefox 29 Beta Arrives With UI Overhaul And CSS3 Variables · · Score: 2

    This isn't progress. This is a designer taking over for UX. Bad bad bad.

  25. Re:CSS sucks on Firefox 29 Beta Arrives With UI Overhaul And CSS3 Variables · · Score: 0, Troll

    So you hack elements into a table? How is that not using a table for 3 column layout? Why not just actually use a table? You can hack the elements away from being a table to get a mobile version.