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  1. Re:Really? on Death Hovers Politely For Americans' Swipe-and-Sign Credit Cards · · Score: 1

    Most credit cards in the US are free if you pay them off every month. Plus you get the added advantage of if your card is compromised your bank account is never drained and you don't have to fight to get your money back.

    Debit cards are nothing but a major inconvenience waiting to happen.

  2. Re:Really? on Death Hovers Politely For Americans' Swipe-and-Sign Credit Cards · · Score: 1

    For credit cards?

  3. Re:Really? on Death Hovers Politely For Americans' Swipe-and-Sign Credit Cards · · Score: 2

    The topic is credit cards.

    You use a credit card at a cash machine and you are charged a cash advance interest rate immediately.

  4. Re:Really? on Death Hovers Politely For Americans' Swipe-and-Sign Credit Cards · · Score: 1

    Why uses a credit card at a cash machine? The fees are outrageous.
    Payment terminals yes, to get cash, hell to the no

  5. Re: IIS better in almost every way. on Will Microsoft IIS Overtake Apache? · · Score: 1

    Not create certificates, import them and deploy in load balanced environments.

  6. Re:3 Day Old News on Audience Jeers Contestant Who Uses Game Theory To Win At 'Jeopardy' · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I thought it was that people were being AC instead of a real username.

  7. Re:IIS better in almost every way. on Will Microsoft IIS Overtake Apache? · · Score: 1

    How does it work with Tomcat and websphere?

  8. Re:IIS better in almost every way. on Will Microsoft IIS Overtake Apache? · · Score: 2, Informative

    I use both, EVERY SINGLE DAY

    IIS changes how it's managed with every single point release, and nothing is obvious about it.

    Just to use SSL you need to use multiple administration interfaces to import the cert and then assign that to a specific server

    If you know what you are doing, and you should, you can much more easily navigate a text file with all the options than you can clicking around in a dozen places to work on IIS configs.
    Then there's all the issues with file permissions

  9. Re:IIS better in almost every way. on Will Microsoft IIS Overtake Apache? · · Score: 1, Troll

    you're high

  10. Re:the moral of the story on Developer Loses Single-Letter Twitter Handle Through Extortion · · Score: 1

    Two factor authentication is useless unless people are held to those two factors.
    It's a balance between convenience, customer service and security, but if you can bypass the second factor then it's all for show and just an inconvenience.

    There may be a better solution, like emailing and calling on the phone and asking specific information, but I'm sure more experienced people have thought longer and harder about it.

  11. Re:the moral of the story on Developer Loses Single-Letter Twitter Handle Through Extortion · · Score: 1

    Does your browser not offer a spell check? Or if using a mobile device they often "helpfully" correct words, too.

  12. Re:I must be missing something. on Developer Loses Single-Letter Twitter Handle Through Extortion · · Score: 1

    The attacker changed all the godaddy customer information, Godaddy doesn't believe he's the owner of the domains.

  13. Re:Two-factor on GoDaddy? on Developer Loses Single-Letter Twitter Handle Through Extortion · · Score: 5, Interesting

    the godaddy person let him keep trying various numbers until it worked. How can you trust them when it comes to security at all.

    These companies need to be held accountable for their actions.

  14. Re:Isn't just the keyboards on Stop Trying To 'Innovate' Keyboards, You're Just Making Them Worse · · Score: 1

    I hazard a guess that most people don't type *a lot* of numbers.

  15. Re:screw you Brite on Stop Trying To 'Innovate' Keyboards, You're Just Making Them Worse · · Score: 1

    Since when is it feasible to use a laptop with a USB keyboard not at a desk?

  16. Re:screw you Brite on Stop Trying To 'Innovate' Keyboards, You're Just Making Them Worse · · Score: 1

    I believe the topic is laptop keyboards, no? So if you're stuck on a laptop with a weird layout, even adjusting back to a standard keyboard can be a problem.

    Just moving between a standard keyboard and a microsoft curve (with only a slight curved layout) can be challenging

  17. Re:Isn't just the keyboards on Stop Trying To 'Innovate' Keyboards, You're Just Making Them Worse · · Score: 1

    That, and I like my keyboard centrally located, the wider 15" laptops have the stupid number pad, so it offsets the keyboard.

  18. Re:bad bad idea on Google Begins To Merge Google+, Gmail Contacts · · Score: 1

    If you are using G+, it allows ANYONE on G+ to email you by default

  19. Re:Does it matter? on Many Mac OS Users Not Getting Security Updates · · Score: 2

    Fine, Saint Steve

  20. Re:Does it matter? on Many Mac OS Users Not Getting Security Updates · · Score: 1

    Uh, no. Some hardware had driver issues, but that's all on the vendors

  21. Re:Does it matter? on Many Mac OS Users Not Getting Security Updates · · Score: 1

    This!

    The "free OS upgrades" are such a freaking lie.

  22. Does it matter? on Many Mac OS Users Not Getting Security Updates · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Since you know, the switch ads told me Macs don't get viruses or other bad stuff

  23. Re:bad bad idea on Google Begins To Merge Google+, Gmail Contacts · · Score: 1

    There are more than privacy concerns with G+

    G+ requires that you use your real name, your first and last real name
    Will people who don't use their real name on the gmail account be screwed because they've been integrated with the G+ system?

    This is all very anti-user

    I just received the email about the update

    Receiving email from people outside your circles
    If you receive an email from someone outside your circles, it will be filtered into the Social category of the inbox (if enabled) and only after you respond or add them to your circles, can they start another conversation with you.

    So it looks like there is a setting, that can only be modified via web browser on a desktop, so people who only use tablets are kinda SOL, that disables this

  24. bad bad idea on Google Begins To Merge Google+, Gmail Contacts · · Score: 2, Insightful

    When will they force everyone using any google service to use G+?

    What about all these people that have problems having G+? This could well be the real beginning of the end

  25. Re:Honor your screwups. on Website Checkout Glitches: Two Very Different Corporate Responses · · Score: 2

    Good Faith? Really?

    There are many people who find these "good deals" and abuse them. Airfares are one thing, where you can't really buy a dozen of them and resell them on ebay, but physical goods like whatever the Brick sells, some "enterprising" individuals can take advantage of.

    No, I am not making excuses for anyone, but there's always more than one side to any story like this.

    They should have offered to pick up and refund the purchase price, not ask for more money.