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  1. Necessity on Selectively Reusing Bad Passwords Is Not a Bad Idea, Researchers Say · · Score: 1

    Using weak passwords for cases when a password at all is unnecessary should be the norm as a defense against phishing, even by a company you presently trust. Mandatory complexity increases are probably being used already to undermine password variety. When a password has to be one thing different each time (another capital letter, another numeral, another punctuation mark) a service of dubious character could very quickly spot patterns that could be used improperly.

  2. Re:So complex on Selectively Reusing Bad Passwords Is Not a Bad Idea, Researchers Say · · Score: 2

    You could even refer to something low-complexity as a "PIN", and something of high complexity as a "password". I imagine you're already doing that for your bank and game respectively.

  3. Study first, then appeal on Court Rejects Fox's Attempt to Use Aereo Ruling Against Dish's Hopper · · Score: 1

    Essentially the judge points out that a different case requires a different trial. This also means more arguments to study for appealing the Aereo ruling. If Dish's lawyers poke holes in Fox's arguments that led to the Aereo ruling, those arguments are fair game for Aereo's lawyers to use if they're applicable.

  4. Re:Or Change the Theory on Evidence of a Correction To the Speed of Light · · Score: 1

    Or the average IQ would remain 100, since it's a fixed number.

  5. Re:True Costs on Microsoft Cheaper To Use Than Open Source Software, UK CIO Says · · Score: 0, Troll

    I'll see your anecdote and raise you. Microsoft Works is still in use by people. Remind me again the ease of sharing documents between someone using Works and someone with Word, without formatting errors. Your memory is pretty selective if you're only considering Microsoft Office.

  6. Bubble Mammoth on Ask Stewart Brand About Protecting Resources and Reviving Extinct Species · · Score: 2

    How long is a revived creature going to last in an environment full of toxins and biological hazards against which it has dubious amounts of defense?

  7. Re:Comcast and EA on Report: Comcast and EA To Stream Games To TVs · · Score: 2

    When EA and Comcast team up, not even God wins.

  8. Re:We already have digital mail. on How the USPS Killed Digital Mail · · Score: 1

    For the burgeoning market of people with plenty of time to pen a letter, but not enough time to compose an e-mail of course. And no access to a public library or personal computer with internet access as an added hurdle to their business model.

  9. Re:USPS should offer a subscription service on How the USPS Killed Digital Mail · · Score: 1

    The USPS doesn't pay taxes. That means that we are paying their taxes.

    No it still doesn't, You're not paying the Catholic church's taxes in the exactly the same fashion.

  10. Re:Incomplete on How the USPS Killed Digital Mail · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Not entirely true. While they don't collect funds collected via taxes, they also don't PAY taxes on many things, like say property taxes for their offices, sorting facilities, etc. So they indirectly are Government funded, at the state and municipality level.

    So they're funded in the same way religious groups and non-profit organizations are funded by the government.

  11. World's smallest violin on US and UK Governments Advise Avoiding Internet Explorer Until Bug Fixed · · Score: 1

    playing my heart bleeds for you.

  12. Re:Google- on Google Plus Now Minus Chief Vic Gundotra · · Score: 3, Funny

    How could you be any more private than by being the only user of Google+ ?

    Being the first person to like Slashdot Beta.

  13. Re:And when it doesn't fit on Your Next Online Order Could Be Delivered To Your Car's Trunk · · Score: 1

    Just think, this allows an additional way to access your car without you needing to be there. That couldn't possibly be abused by paranoid/corrupt/curious law enforcement/neighbors/competitors.

  14. Re: Slashdot commenter... on High Court Rules Detention of David Miranda Was Lawful · · Score: 1

    Uncle-grandpa seems more fitting in this case.

  15. Re:Sensible, in some utopia on FLOSS Codecs Emerge Victorious In Wikimedia Vote · · Score: 1

    So you're still installing RealPlayer and VivoActive players on all of your machines because they were once the de facto encoding formats? Oh that's right, some people remember the late 90s and the debacle of having to transcode over and over again every time there's a new "best" video or audio format.

  16. Re:Scott Winn said on Facebook .. on 'The Color Run' Violates Agreement With College Photographer, Then Sues Him · · Score: 1
  17. Re:Huh? on The Problem With How We Think Of Surveillance · · Score: 1

    You give them your data the same way you give the road your tires. There's some strange expectation that the rest of your vehicle isn't being consumed / sold / exploited when you do so.

  18. Re:Slashdot BETA Sucks. on Slashdot Tries Something New; Audience Responds! · · Score: 1

    The problem with your math is that 99% of users aren't active contributors when the site works properly. A great deal of them are suddenly up in arms when it's actively broken. People are posting angrily instead of constructively due to the mangling of the site. And it's many of the typical lurkers, AKA the viewership. If people could moderate the beta as -1 off-topic, troll, or flamebait they would all be correct.

  19. Re:Big Bang Theory on Why We Think There's a Multiverse, Not Just Our Universe · · Score: 2

    Or the one about the guy talking to Himself and things started existing.

  20. Re:Coincidentally? on Daily Pot Use Tied To Age of First Psychotic Episode · · Score: 1

    Which is strange since Ohio is a French interpretation of an Iroquois word, and not Spanish.

  21. Re:There must be a very good reason... on Utilities Fight Back Against Solar Energy · · Score: 1

    He's pointed out that there's more energy produced during the artificially expensive peak hours. Supply and demand doesn't bear out their pricing energy higher during the day. If it did, the going rate during the day compared the decreased value at night suggests the 5 stored during the day should net him roughly double what it costs to use it at night. The utility isn't doing him any favors holding onto valuable energy during the day in lieu of him using having his own storage, just based on their own pricing.

  22. Re:Not a Problem on Scientists Extract RSA Key From GnuPG Using Sound of CPU · · Score: 1

    So just play John Cage's 4'33" on repeat, and sue them for pirating music.

  23. Re:---DO YOU WANT TO KNOW MORE?--- on The Case For a Global, Compulsory Bug Bounty · · Score: 1

    or even IMDB

  24. Re:Orson Scott Card on Movie Review: Ender's Game · · Score: 0

    This is the first time I've heard the Book of Mormon referred to as a short story.

  25. Looks familiar on Ars Test Drives the "Netflix For Books" · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's like a library, but we charge money for it.