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  1. Re:Here is my password on Yahoo Confirms Massive Data Breach, 500 Million Users Impacted [Updated] (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    No punctuation allowed in the password...

  2. Re:200 Million Yahoo "Users" on Yahoo Confirms Massive Data Breach, 500 Million Users Impacted [Updated] (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    I tried changing my password. Nope, only 8 - 16 alphanumeric characters allowed. Fucking losers. So, as I don't use the account anyway, how about deleting it? Nope, can't do that either. This is security?

  3. Re:Cart before the horse? on Scientists Discover That Horses Can Use Symbols To Talk To Us (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    Thank you.

  4. Re:Cart before the horse? on Scientists Discover That Horses Can Use Symbols To Talk To Us (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    That's why I queried the phrase as it, on its own, raised doubts. Anybody who has had actual dealings with horses instead of Lazeeboy ACs posting from the all-knowing reclined position in their mother's basement whose closest interaction is watching Champion The Wonder Horse on rerun would have them.

  5. Re:Cart before the horse? on Scientists Discover That Horses Can Use Symbols To Talk To Us (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    "In this study, the trainer was off to the side, out of the field of view of the horse, and they monitored where the horse was looking to ensure it was only looking at the symbols when making its choice"

    Yeah, horses have 350 vision, so "off to the side" means the trainer was still in view...

  6. Re:This the same godaddy on GoDaddy Proposes New DNS Configuration Standard (programmableweb.com) · · Score: 1

    GANDI.net don't. Plus WHOIS masking is free, set by a checkbox (usually already ticked) and they don't charge you through the nose for trendy TLDs such as .io

  7. Re:Suspicious figures on 10 Percent of the World's Wilderness Has Been Lost Since 1990s (livescience.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    "The researchers determined that only 11.6 million square miles (30.1 million square km) of wilderness is left, which equates to just 20 percent of the Earth's total land mass"

    So, not including Antarctica, humans occupy 80% of the total land mass of the planet? Doesn't look like that from the light pollution pictures that were recently released. The taiga (boreal forest) alone is larger than 20% and as they are including other areas like deserts and prairie / veldt in their "calculations" they must have missed some decimal points or the planet would look more like Coruscant.

  8. Re:KEEP CALM on British Airways Passengers Delayed By Computer Glitch (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    One of their pissy little rules is you can take two (yes, 2!) items of hand luggage per person into the cabin like you always used to before the shitty low cost airlines came along and dictated you can only take one and thus have to cram a camera case into your "I'll keep this with me as it has essentials should my baggage get lost" undersized bag. Undersized because they shrank the maximum dimensions with zero publicity so you only found out you've had to pay extra to put your flight bag in the hold when you check in.

    I'd fly BA any day over the likes of EasyJet. You get a snack even on a short flight, like Gatwick to Schiphol, the seats are more comfortable with somehow enough leg room even though there's the same number as a budget airline, the weight maximum for hold baggage is higher and the cabin crew go through one of the most rigourous selection procedures in the world.

    Or I could save fifteen quid and get nickel and dime'd by the Big Lemon bus companies of the sky.

  9. Re:Spaceflight is risky on Satellite Owner Says SpaceX Owes $50 Million Or Free Flight (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    You could even say that they are astronomical.

  10. Re:pr0n forum? Really on Brazzers Porn Site's Forum Hacked, Exposes Data Of 800,000 Users (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Missing the surname Spicyweiner. Maybe the input box wasn't big enough (giggity).

  11. "getting worked up": also known as mither.

  12. Re:No surprise on Android Companies Keep Pretending That Android Doesn't Exist (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Amstrad CPC1512? Mixing your old machines: CPC464 and PC1512...

    Amstrad had their own version of MS-DOS on the system disk, 3.2.0, which no one else had; 3.2.1 was the official release version from Microsoft.

  13. Re:Oh yeah? Then what are you gonna do about it? on Apple CEO Tim Cook on EU Apple Tax Case: 'Total Political Crap' (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    "What we should do is tell the EU that if they don't drop the matter immediately they can kiss the trans atlantic partnership good bye"

    Fine by me. Don't let the door hit your arse on the way out.

  14. Re:The EU needs money desperately on Apple Ordered To Pay Up To $14.5 Billion in EU Tax Crackdown, Cook Refutes EU's Conclusion (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    They've already come for me as I pay 35% tax. Now it's Apple's turn. So I'll fucking high-five if I want to.

  15. EEC rules became EU rules. Ireland was in EEC before Apple was even incorporated.

  16. You try that with your tax office and see how many years in prison they threaten you with.

  17. That's all after the fact. What Apple pays to shareholders and where is immaterial.

    Apple moved earnings to Ireland because of this sweet deal that enabled them to dodge taxes, and Google have done likewise. That deal has been deemed illegal. Now they've been caught out they should be allowed to move it somewhere else and still not pay their taxes? Try that with your earnings and see how far you get.

    The people they employ certainly don't pay that minuscule peppercorn rate. Why should a multi billion company? Fuck them. Fuck them with a rusty shovel.

  18. "... at least she's dead"

    She was cremated, just to make sure.

  19. Re:Maybe Wikileaks is the wrong entity to be angry on WikiLeaks Published Rape Victims' Names, Credit Cards, Medical Data (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    Those particular details were secure until the Guardian decided to print the password to the encrypted files along with a handy link to download them...

  20. Re:BKSP = Back Button is INFURIATING on Google Restores Backspace Functionality To Chrome With an Add-on (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Then I've been a masochist for twenty years and started with Lynx on a dumb terminal.

    That the problem is solved by removing an almost ubiquitous keyboard shortcut across operating systems instead of fucking intercepting it and confirming you wanted to go back and thus lose what you'd entered into form elements shows a distinct lack of the slightest brain power for decades from browser makers. This could have been implemented in the 90s.

    That Google has to rush out an extension to restore the now missing expected behaviour means their statistic that only 0.04% of users actually used the backspace button to go back is bullshit.

  21. Re:No Farks Given on NSA feelings on NSA Worried About Implications of Leaked Toolkits (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    Which type? There's at least five. Only one is comedic and most of the ones in the song are situational, with the song itself possibly dramatic.

  22. Re:They disrupeed our plans! We want blood! on Reddit Tells Label It Won't Cough Up IP Address of Prerelease Music Pirate (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    Posting a link on reddit isn't illegal and as there is absolutely no evidence that whoever posted it has anything to do with whoever uploaded the file to a completely different site, only a supposition, Reddit are right to tell Atlantic to fuck off.

  23. Kirk sucked as an admiral on purpose because he didn't want to be one. He was promoted (probably one of those automatic done X years service type things) out of the job he loved into one where he pushed pens and sent others off have all the fun. That's why he did stupid crap like climbing El Capitan unaided so he could have fun again. It's also why he disobeyed orders: he knew he'd get demoted for it and get the Enterprise back.

  24. L'Oréal Elnette has been the hairspray of choice for decades, and still is. Other brands were crap so contributed to ozone depletion as you needed to use them more for the same effect.

  25. Re:Microsoft Office Plugin / DirectX suport on Ask VideoLAN President and Lead VLC Developer Jean-Baptiste Kempf Your Questions · · Score: 1

    I don't know if it can but IrfanView (with plugins) might work.