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  1. Re:Many passwords just don't matter. on Password Security: Why the Horse Battery Staple Is Not Correct · · Score: 2

    Email is important because you use that for password recovery. I have a special email account that use just for password recovery.
    I also use Lastpass to keep passwords but some like Slashdot I use a password I made up that I keep in my head as well as in Lastpass.

  2. Re:Changes. on Raspberry Pi Sales Approach 4 Million · · Score: 1

    HDMI is good enough for my but you may have other needs.

  3. Many passwords just don't matter. on Password Security: Why the Horse Battery Staple Is Not Correct · · Score: 4, Insightful

    For example I am not worried that someone might get my Slashdot password.
    Email, shopping and banking passwords are the ones I worry about.

  4. Re: Agreed on the state of Android on Samsung's Wi-Fi Upgrades Promise Speeds Up to 4.6Gbps · · Score: 1

    That was because Ti stopped competing in the phone market. Google picked Ti for the GNex CPU and that ended up being a problem. Yes I had one and it was a pretty good phone until then. Sprint sucked but the Gnex was okay. I am now waiting for the Nexus 6 and I have moved to T-Mobile.

  5. Changes. on Raspberry Pi Sales Approach 4 Million · · Score: 1

    1. Put all the connectors on one side of the board.
    2. USB 3.0
    3. More ram.
    4 Faster CPU.
    5. Built in Flash.
    6. Fix all known problems.

  6. Re:The Russian space program was amazing on First Man To Walk In Space Reveals How Mission Nearly Ended In Disaster · · Score: 2

    Actually the Apollo could have worked fine for that. A small hab module around the size of the LM and an improved Saturn 1 with a single F1A or F1B and SRBs could have reached the Hubble.
    The Shuttle is frankly a really flexible system but it would have been good if we had kept the Saturns and Apollos for some missions. Face it the Saturn V was the original HLLV.

  7. Re:Why is the paper so important? on Statisticians Uncover What Makes For a Stable Marriage · · Score: 1

    So fire at will, who cares if you attack the innocent.

  8. Re:In the wrong catagory again. on PETA Is Not Happy That Google Used a Camel To Get a Desert "StreetView" · · Score: 1

    I use the feature on Slashdot to exclude the politics category so I do not want to see political posts on Slashdot. Frankly Slashdot is so bad at anything involving poltics that is down at the FOX News and MSNBC level of trash.

  9. Re:Why is the paper so important? on Statisticians Uncover What Makes For a Stable Marriage · · Score: 1

    " and presumably the hospital staff have some bigoted beliefs, and without that 'bit of paper' they can enforce them),"
    It is usually the family of person in the hospital that demands this and not the staff. I have visited many people in the hospital including a few that where terminal. No hospital has a family only visiting rule.
    Do not blame or call the hospital bigoted for following the law. It is the family of the patient that has the power to exclude people.

  10. Re:Why is the paper so important? on Statisticians Uncover What Makes For a Stable Marriage · · Score: 1

    So there's no reason to not get married since legally you already are married since you are in a common law marriage.
    So why not publicly and willing enter into the commitment that is being forced on you by the rule of law.

  11. Re:The Russian space program was amazing on First Man To Walk In Space Reveals How Mission Nearly Ended In Disaster · · Score: 1

    True. I never said that it was not a huge mistake to stop the Saturn V production line, not developing a new Saturn 1 class rocket with maybe a single F1 for the first stage, and or stopping the production and development of the Apollo CSM.

  12. Re:The Russian space program was amazing on First Man To Walk In Space Reveals How Mission Nearly Ended In Disaster · · Score: 1

    The coping part is pretty well documented.

  13. In the wrong catagory again. on PETA Is Not Happy That Google Used a Camel To Get a Desert "StreetView" · · Score: 1

    Put this in Politics where it belongs.

  14. Re:Why is the paper so important? on Statisticians Uncover What Makes For a Stable Marriage · · Score: 1

    So why don't you get married and add the legally binding commitment as well as all the legal protections that marriage offers?
    If it is just a piece of paper "that happens to offer legal bindings and benefits" they why not just get married?

  15. Re:Anonymity == being a schmuck for a good number. on Why the Trolls Will Always Win · · Score: 1

    I am not throwing in with them I am simply saying that they are just using it as a tool.
    As you said it is also the composition fallacy. Which is reality just a form of bigotry. I am also tired of the magnification of the problem. There are millions of people that are "gamers" just as their are millions of people that post on forums. A tiny fraction of a percentage of those people are causing all the problems. The internet acts as a crazy magnifying glass to what is really a very small problem.

  16. Re:The Russian space program was amazing on First Man To Walk In Space Reveals How Mission Nearly Ended In Disaster · · Score: 2

    "Think about it this way: the USA created the space shuttle and sank billions of dollars into it. The Russians kept improving the Soyuz rockets and capsules."
    Hummm
    "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buran_(spacecraft)"
    They spent billions trying to copy the space shuttle.

  17. Re:The monitoring of passengers is a joke on The CDC Is Carefully Controlling How Scared You Are About Ebola · · Score: 1

    And everyone they came in contact with. At everyone that came in contact with the carrier in the airports where he changed planes and....

  18. Re:Awesome on Tesla Announces Dual Motors, 'Autopilot' For the Model S · · Score: 1

    1. You are using before taxes.
    2. A car payment that is one 1/3 of your yearly income is stupid.

  19. Re:Anonymity == being a schmuck for a good number. on Why the Trolls Will Always Win · · Score: 1

    Yet as a married straight male I had someone on slashdot make a threat to lock me a basement and rape me. Of course trolls will use what terrifies and offers some fantasy of control and domination over their victim. You are correct that woman do not call men whores, they call them cheating bastards instead but isn't that the same thing?

    Once you call it sexism then you make it male vs female and I and many other men are sick of this discrimination. I do not abuse women. I do not look down on them. I and the majority of men do not bare any responsibility for trolls any more than any women does. That is the issue with sexism. It simply shifts the burden of responsibility to a gender when it is just a small minority of individuals that are the cause of it.

  20. Re:Anonymity == being a schmuck for a good number. on Why the Trolls Will Always Win · · Score: 1

    Really? I as a straight male had someone on Slashdot say that they wanted to lock me in a basement and sodomize me.

  21. Re:Anonymity == being a schmuck for a good number. on Why the Trolls Will Always Win · · Score: 1

    How?
    The best way is to not do it yourself. What can you do to stop it. I for one never post as an AC on Slashdot for instance. I try to be at least somewhat polite but I do get ticked at times but not so much anymore.
    What action do want people to take?

  22. Re:Awesome on Tesla Announces Dual Motors, 'Autopilot' For the Model S · · Score: 1

    And Supercars are not important as far as environmental impact.

  23. Anonymity == being a schmuck for a good number. on Why the Trolls Will Always Win · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I really wish we could just drop the sexism part of this right now. Both genders get attacked by these people.
    The second issue is if you want Anonymity than you will have this issue a lot.
    Third is the simple fact that it is just a small number of folks causing the issue. The trouble is that it does not take a lot of folks to cause a good amount of harm.
    The issue is that some people make heroes out of the idiots that do this when they do it to someone they do not agree with or like.
    It really needs to be a time where all attacks are looked down on and discussion takes it place.

  24. Re:Awesome on Tesla Announces Dual Motors, 'Autopilot' For the Model S · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It is easy to make cool expensive stuff. Now when they get one down to say 50k loaded we can talk.
    Or to steal an old idea from Jack Tramiel. We need electric cars for the masses not the classes.

  25. Re:Awesome on Tesla Announces Dual Motors, 'Autopilot' For the Model S · · Score: 2

    Only if you are willing to spend more than half your yearly income on a car.
    And 70k is for the short range stripped model. I is is more in the 9k range nicely equipped.