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  1. Re:Good reason to not have a Slashdot account. on AI Just Made Guessing Your Password a Whole Lot Easier (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 2

    The fact that you can identify bad posters and filter them out is reason enough to have an account IMO.

  2. Re: Thanks EU on Google Offers To Treat Rivals Equally Via Auction (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I have bing at work, I try to use it (to support Firefox), and it sucks.

    I'll type a medium sized business name, the business is the fifth result.

    I'll type local business name, zipcode, no map.

    I go to the map and type the same it centers me on the zip code.

    I switch to google, the first search gives me the business, the second brings up a map showing the business.

    About 50% of the time I search I end up changing to google results to get what I want.

    Perhaps Bing is as good when I'm not looking for a specific thing from my memory but most of my searches are trying to find things I know about, and bing sucks for it.

  3. Re: There was nothing about auctions in the link on Google Offers To Treat Rivals Equally Via Auction (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm confused though, does google sell anything in the shopping?

    It's usually eBay, some chains, and such not when I use it, and it seems to sort on price.

    What exactly do they want?

  4. Re: No, Standing Next To It on 'Bodega' CEO Apologizes, Insists They'll Create More Jobs (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Fried spaghetti! That's what I'd do mostly.

    Make a huge pot, and after day one use the slightly dry pasta in eggs like that.

    Could eat not too terribly for very little money.

  5. Re: No, Standing Next To It on 'Bodega' CEO Apologizes, Insists They'll Create More Jobs (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Eggs on pasta sustained me when I needed to save money.

    Quite delicious.

  6. Nylon isn't uncommon, lots of women's clothing has a mix to give it some stretch.

  7. Re:Who do you trust more - Facebook, or the govern on Facebook Essentially Has Been Telling Advertisers It Can Reach More People Than Actually Exist, Analyst Finds (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 1

    I personally am more comfortable with facebook having access to my data than the government because facebook has no motivation to go on a fishing expedition and try and take away my liberty (to be fair, I don't think the government does either, but it's more likely).

    A bank has access to my finances, but I wouldn't want to put them in a black box government bank. The bank has a motive to protect my money.

    If it came out facebook was doing something truly nefarious with our data, they cease to exist, the government, not so much.

    In theory the facebook data is protected by judicial oversight, the NSA data not as much (the part that is upsetting).

    National Security Letters (part of what we freak out about) make the difference somewhat without meaning.

  8. I'm pretty sure the point was that it means affordable custom made is coming.

  9. Yes, the fact that the router requires a chore to prevent bricking is annoying, thus the one star.

    If they want security, don't route to a gateway until it's been setup, and force passwords and wireless security then.

  10. Re:good luck hacking in to mine on Someone Published a List of Telnet Credentials For Thousands of IoT Devices (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    But what's the point if you can't set your heat A/C on your way home from vacation, or check that everything is going fine remotely?

    I mean, control of devices from my phone while on the couch has some value, but it's the jnternet connection that's even more important.

  11. Re: good luck hacking in to mine on Someone Published a List of Telnet Credentials For Thousands of IoT Devices (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    But then they're not on a LAN only network anymore.

  12. Any router I've purchased that resets to a custom password I give a one star review to.

    The numbers always wear down and I'm left with a brick (little USB powered travel ones, so they get more motion than a typical router).

  13. Re:Just loss leaders? on Amazon Just Made Shopping at Whole Foods Cheaper (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    I suspect they'll flatten the gross margins and try to cut overhead with efficiency.

    I'm not sure, but I'm guessing these were high margin items.

    They'll go for a more Trader Joe's like model of narrower selection, but make sure it moves (reducing spoilage).

    They'll work on sell through per linear foot, and leverage Prime to really make sure to sell everything. They'll likely take the opposite approach of loss leaders, instead selling everything at reasonable mark-up.

  14. Re:New Android on Android O Is Officially Launching August 21 (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Or people like me that are in capable of keeping them intact.

    I've even lost a phone once.

  15. I personally use revision control to fill the gap with the external i remove and store at work.

  16. I consider it with raid a decent solution.

    Call it 1.5 places not two

  17. I thought you could pick the old state of folders too.

  18. Doesn't NTFS allow for file history ?

    I don't understand how anybody could have an important drive without that turned on.

  19. Re: what I'd like to see on iOS 11 Has a Feature To Temporarily Disable Touch ID (cultofmac.com) · · Score: 1

    Effectively, PIN and pattern are useless for boot security as I understand it.

  20. Re: what I'd like to see on iOS 11 Has a Feature To Temporarily Disable Touch ID (cultofmac.com) · · Score: 1

    OK, I just checked.

    I can do PIN, Password, Swipe to boot, and then pair either of them with fingerprint optionally for unlocking.

    I'd like to do Password to boot, then PIN, or Finger to unlock.

    Finger print fails to work often enough that it's pretty useful as an only unlock method (and if my password is a long password entered rarely, it effectively is not an option for normal use).

  21. Re: what I'd like to see on iOS 11 Has a Feature To Temporarily Disable Touch ID (cultofmac.com) · · Score: 1

    Do they allow password boot and pin unlock?

    Every android device post encryption I've used couldn't do that (pretty encryption it's irrelevant, I don't recall).

  22. what I'd like to see on iOS 11 Has a Feature To Temporarily Disable Touch ID (cultofmac.com) · · Score: 2

    Simple PIN unlock (not just finger print as an easy option, something that works right out of the shower) and long password to unencrypt for booting.

    I have android, but the if I want a secure phone (long boot password), my only easy unlock option is the fingerprint, which doesn't work with touch screen gloves, and doesn't work with post shower fingers.

    Then, make the five button click reboot rather than disable touch.

  23. Usually these type of things (overall cost for minor safety reduction across large population) use a number based on human behavior.

    Does someone pay $100 to avoid a one in 100,000 risk?

    I'm not saying that's a valid way to do this or not, and the number seems a touch high (I've heard 6 million), but it's not total BS either.

  24. Re:I took the bus once on A 2:15 Alarm, 2 Trains and a Bus Get Her To Work by 7 AM (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    extra shower each evening.

    I imagine bike to work, shower that side of commute, work, bike home, shower to be clean in the evening.

    An extra shower.

  25. Re:4K UHD? Not on my DSL on Samsung Pushes Its 4K/HDR TV Service in Europe (4k.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm in the US, a wasteland for broadband, even my smallish city has a regional wireless (ground based directional) at over 100mbps.

    When there is content that needs, or even benefits from, more than 25-50mbps, it'll come.