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  1. password hell on Applying Pavlovian Psychology to Password Management · · Score: 1

    "Your password must contain at least one Eskimo word, one bizarre foreign character, and oh, can't match any of the last 42 passwords you've used."

    "In other news, click here for great partner discounts on Secret Server ... "

    (The above is a joke, not a commercial or referrer link of any kind.)

  2. Re:And the question of the day is... on Could Google's Test of Hiding Complete URLs In Chrome Become a Standard? · · Score: 1

    Oh and I'm not sure why Bank of America, 123/7 Elm Street isn't a trustworthy address (short notation for sub division is a / ), I mean my bank is 881/2 Gympie Rd, is that not trustworthy for some reason?

    I said Bank of America, 123 Elm Street Apt 7. Banks don't operate out of apartments.

  3. Re:Right to a Bank Account on Reason Suggests DoJ Closing Porn Stars' Bank Accounts · · Score: 1

    The first amendment certainly protects pornography. That's why the DOJ lost in Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition.

    That's not even an argument. That's like saying "Crimea should be Russian because Russia seized it."

  4. Re:huh? on Pirate Bay Sports-Content Uploader Faces $32m Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    Nicely done.

  5. Re:And the question of the day is... on Could Google's Test of Hiding Complete URLs In Chrome Become a Standard? · · Score: 1

    So, is this really going to help. Because the person who cannot figure out that "passwordreset.3465.blah.bankofamerica.com/?=customerpasswordreset&34234" is different from "passwordreset.3465.blah.bankofamerica.co/?=customerpasswordreset&34234" is not going to figure out that "bankofamerica.com" is different from "bankofamerica.co" and is likely to overlook that "bankofametica.com" is yet a different site. This is a problem which can only be fixed by training.

    Precisely.

  6. who actually wants these? on Volvo Testing Autonomous Cars On Public Roads · · Score: 1

    Just curious, is there really much demand for self-driving cars?

    Yes, I know who wants to build them, but who (as other than a tech toy) really wants to buy them and, er, not drive them?

  7. Re:Right to a Bank Account on Reason Suggests DoJ Closing Porn Stars' Bank Accounts · · Score: 2, Insightful

    No, but pornography is a first amendment rights, and screw you if it is at the opposite of your morality.

    You don't have to support the actions in the story (and I don't) to argue with what you just wrote.

    Pornography isn't a first amendment right. The actual people who passed the first amendment didn't think it protected pornography. By contrast. they did think that the first amendment protected, say, the Koch brothers buying political ads, because that's exactly what the first amendment was for.

    Wallowing around naked in public (or some commercial version of public) isn't speech. Political communication is speech, the precise speech that those who enacted the first amendment were trying to protect.

    If you want to enact law that protects pornography, then go ahead ... but actually do that, don't try to hijack other law for your purpose.

  8. Re:And the question of the day is... on Could Google's Test of Hiding Complete URLs In Chrome Become a Standard? · · Score: 1

    ht tp://passwordreset.bankofamerica.com.0.34234.com/?=customerpasswordreset&34234

    Now show that to your mother and ask her if this is the correct site to reset her bank of America password. Next try and explain to her why, and then come back and tell us how hard it is to grasp.

    I must have had a strange mother then, because she was capable of having such things explained to her.

    "Mom, the part up to the first slash is like the street address. This is like saying Bank of America, 123 Elm Street Apt 7. Don't trust it."

    She would have totally understood that. She knew that there were many con men in the world. And she was at least as capable of learning minor details as any kid of today.

  9. Ironically ... on Could Google's Test of Hiding Complete URLs In Chrome Become a Standard? · · Score: 1

    ... Internet Explorer does this better - assuming that this is what you want. It highlights or bolds the domain name, but you can still see the rest of the URL.

  10. huh? on Pirate Bay Sports-Content Uploader Faces $32m Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    is the fact that Secludedly allowed people to donate via a PayPal in order to help with the financing of future ripping

    What the heck is "a PayPal"?

    Is it a really cool?

  11. Re:Happy to see it. on Pirate Bay Sports-Content Uploader Faces $32m Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    A "rehabilitation system" is what's needed, and what's always been needed: if someone harms society, do what's needed and humane to discourage them from harming society again. Anything else is primitive, knuggle-dragging moronism.

    You're so right!

    I too, burn with the desire to punish those "tough on crime" knuckle dragging morons!

  12. Re:order of magnitude more on Finding the Next Generation of Teachers With "Innovative Microsoft Ads" · · Score: 1

    the answer is (still) in the subject line:

    "order of magnitude more"

    do you know what "order of magnitude" means?

    just in case: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O...

    Why stop there? Why not some sort of asymptotic curve, since money is apparently no object in your unicorn land?

  13. Re:order of magnitude more on Finding the Next Generation of Teachers With "Innovative Microsoft Ads" · · Score: 1

    you're splitting pennies for one of the essential functions of human existence: teachers to our young...

    Huh, I am? I don't run a school district or levy taxes.

    Growing and selling food are essential to human existence too, and not everyone who works in that field makes upper 80K/year. So are driving ambulances, being a police officer, and countless other occupations. We don't pay all of them based on emotional outbursts either (well, not consistently - sometimes we try for awhile, until the city goes bankrupt).

  14. Re:Gates wants your children on Finding the Next Generation of Teachers With "Innovative Microsoft Ads" · · Score: 1

    Hmm. Well, somebody sounds violent here, but it ain't me ...

    I'm making a reasonable mathematical adjustment to their already nice (though not as nice as mine, if you must make this personal; I wasn't) salary. That's all.

    You can doubt it all you want, but the only summer school I've ever seen around here (major metropolitan area) is maybe two or three weeks, a joke. Maybe one or two teachers stick around even for that. Better not forget anything in the building, because you'll be very lucky even to get a maintenance person to let you in during the summer.

    Sure, maybe they all go work in a secret school district coal mine in the summer, hitting the books between shovels full ... in fantasy land.

  15. But ... but ... on Male Scent Molecules May Be Compromising Biomedical Research · · Score: 0

    ... all gender differences are just social constructs! All the cool people say so!

    I'm sure if the mice had been give female monkeys and legos to play with when they were younger, then ... aw, forget it.

  16. Re:Gates wants your children on Finding the Next Generation of Teachers With "Innovative Microsoft Ads" · · Score: 1

    Mind you, that's three months in the summer ... plus two weeks for Christmas, one week for Spring Break, a four day weekend for "mid-Winter break", oh, and every other conceivable holiday, and some that aren't conceivable.

    My point was that they are well paid. They aren't underpaid. I posted facts - the actual average salary. That's a good salary for twelve months, let alone less than nine (counting all those breaks).

  17. Re:Gates wants your children on Finding the Next Generation of Teachers With "Innovative Microsoft Ads" · · Score: 1

    Ah, /. Where you get modded down for posting facts.

  18. Re:Gates wants your children on Finding the Next Generation of Teachers With "Innovative Microsoft Ads" · · Score: 0

    As a former teacher, the problem is that people want to spend money on ***EVERYTHING*** other than what will help educate children: public schools with the highest-paid, best trained teachers in the world

    How highly do you want them to be paid?

    The average teacher salary in Michigan, for example, is in the 60Ks, for nine months of work (and so really in the upper 80Ks adjusted for working nine months).

    Without the above, no ammount of tech, "social media" or "big data" will ever make even a dent in the problem

    Now tech not being a panacea and often being a waste, I agree with.

  19. Re:The fuck?! on Why Portland Should Have Kept Its Water, Urine and All · · Score: 1

    He worked for the first 25 years in the Bureau of Human Resources

    Since we aren't given much to go on, gotta use what I have. The above doesn't really suggest a conservative.

    Anyway, I was replying to someone who's logic is that since someone doesn't like something, therefore he must like it. Compared to that, my post could be prize-winning in its rigorous logic and sourcing ...

  20. Nobody ... on White House Worried About Discrimination Through Analytics · · Score: 1

    ... collects (or requires the collection of) more race information than the federal government. Physician, heal thyself.

  21. amazing talents on Monty Python To Bid Farewell In a Simulcast Show · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Loved them when I was a kid, and have to watch their stuff from time to time (my wife, of course, finds them mostly unbearable).

    Funny though ... the world that they were spoofing was largely gone (outside of rarefied circles) even in their prime, and now it is really ancient.

    In a turnabout, it is today the hipsters and the snark-meisters who are the establishment at which you must not poke fun.

  22. Re:Just another facet of post 'Citizens United' US on Google and Facebook: Unelected Superpowers? · · Score: 1

    Make that "theirs" :)

    Of course that error makes my thought completely null and void ...

  23. Re:Just another facet of post 'Citizens United' US on Google and Facebook: Unelected Superpowers? · · Score: 1

    Google's owners lean right, but talk left. {...} They are all for big liberal government programs as long as some else pays for them.

    Which makes them different from ... what liberal, anywhere?

    Any liberal who wants to pay more tax can send the extra money right to the feds; they will take it gladly.

    How many do it? Oh that's right, none (statistically, anyway). Because they want the feds to vacuum up someone else's money; not there's.

  24. Re:The fuck?! on Why Portland Should Have Kept Its Water, Urine and All · · Score: 4, Informative

    David Shaff obviously has a thing for watersports. It takes a Republican level of personal denial to drain 38 million gallons just to avoid drinking a little bit of pee.

    Mr. Shaff began working for the City in 1978. He worked for the first 25 years in the Bureau of Human Resources, primarily in Labor Relations. While working in Labor Relations, Mr. Shaff was responsible for negotiating each of the City's collective bargaining agreements multiple times and ended his tenure there as the City's Labor Relations Manager in 2003.

    Funny; sounds more like a "Progressive" ...

  25. Re:yahoo hasnt been yahoo for 10 years. on Investors Value Yahoo's Core Business At Less Than $0 · · Score: 1

    Easy man. Yahoo also made - and released for free - a pretty cool JavaScript library.