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  1. Re:Dont use lastpass on Ask Slashdot: Should You Use Password Managers? · · Score: 1

    Or 3. You lie. Source?

  2. Missing the forest for a tree? on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Best Protect Client Files From Wireless Hacking? · · Score: 1

    If turning off wifi in the system is not secure enough for you (that is, if you are afraid of a targetted attack), don't ask here, but go to some security consultant. There are other attack vectors that you might forget, like a good telescope and a camera in the building over the street. Hint: goverment contracts in one company I know are handled in a windowless, steel lined room without any network access on a certified HW.

  3. Web apps on Ask Slashdot: What Would Happen If All Software Ran On All Platforms? · · Score: 1

    We are getting there...

  4. The article is FUD. If any of you really read the change directly from Evernote... "If you want to opt out, you can do so in your account settings, and our engineers won't look at your data to improve the service." Evernote clearly states you CAN OPT OUT and the only thing you loose is the machine learning thing. So everything is going to be like now for you.

  5. Re: Google beat you to it on There May Be A Fifth Force of Nature, Study Suggests (space.com) · · Score: 1

    More likely a difference between your Google profiles. When two are searching the same, they won't find the same... (Pro tip: disable personalization every time you want to show that something is the first entry. And tell the other one to do it too.)

  6. Re:A priori analysis on There May Be A Fifth Force of Nature, Study Suggests (space.com) · · Score: 1

    At first, I read "secular Light" and thought it a nice joke. The real version of the statement sounds much worse.

  7. Done it all the time at my university on Is The Future Of Television Watching on Fast-Forward? (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    No, thank you. I have enough of double-speed from watching courses records before exams. True, it made many of the lecturers to finally speak like a normal human, but still...

  8. Autonomous Turrets on Ask Slashdot: Can Technology Prevent Shootings? · · Score: 1

    Stop all shooting? Not possible. But shooting by Evil Guys (tm)? Well, that's simple... Ban all guns and then put these cuties on every corner with a program to shoot everyone who pulls out a gun, a knife, a bomb, smelly socks, is ill (clearly spreading biological weapons), or, to sum all the reasons, is a human: http://www.thinkgeek.com/image...

  9. Re:Cloud is a great way .. on Kobo Customers Losing Books From Their Libraries After Software Upgrade (teleread.com) · · Score: 1

    Still better love story than not having a backup at all (or having the only backup of two months before on the clumsy, battered, five years old 4GB USB2 stick which can fail at any time), as your mom/aunt/grandpa... Seriously, why all you cloud-haters have to shout about cloud everywhere? Just don't use it. I don't like ermine cheese, but I'm not telling it to everyone under every article which is remotely touching food.

  10. --no-preserve-root on Man Deletes His Entire Company With One Line of Bad Code (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Does he use --no-preserve-root by default? I think that it is there for many years. Of course, if his servers are running on something from 2004, then his rm might be without this safeguard...

  11. So instead of people, into whom you invested a lot right now (fixing the shit), and who will be much more careful next time, you hire a bunch of new people who will do a similar mistake in few years... Everyone can make a mistake. Good employees will learn from it.

  12. Re:How the fuck did this slowness even happen?! on APT Speed For Incremental Updates Gets a Massive Performance Boost · · Score: 3, Interesting

    IMO, this originates in early days of APT. And because it worked, nobody wanted to touch it later when the speed become an issue, because nobody wanted to risk breaking it, because, as you said, it is a critical part of the infrastructure.

    And now, though, when you explained us how BSD is better, go back and pretend there are no such old lines hacked together long time ago, with nobody dusting them in years. (By the way, how long there was, for example, HeartBleed in BSD? Until discovered and fixed also on every other platform? Wow, they do really great job with the reviews!)

  13. Re:Instead should have HANGED the prevert! on Court: 'Repugnant' Online Discussions Aren't Thoughtcrime (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The man hanged for politically incorrect thoughts? Well, what we know, maybe stole some sweet in a shop when he was a kid, then he would not be innocent, but still, hanging for a stolen lollipop seems too strict to me.

  14. Re: illegal autonomous cars? on Elon Musk Predicts 1,000km EV Range In Two Years, Autonomous Cars In Three · · Score: 1

    The thing with average is, you can't look on the tables and say 50 miles is enough for most. Because 36 miles a day can be also 252 miles in a one day in a week. Or 500 miles in a weekend if the driver is commuting from home to university once in two weeks... Averages are realy ugly, nothing-saying (and most frequently misused) numbers. Use quartiles if you really want something remotely useful.

  15. Re:Card skimmers on Hacks To Be Truly Paranoid About · · Score: 2

    Or have an email/sms notice after every card transaction. My bank sends the notices immediately, and as email they are for free. Here and there I get a little scared by some unexpected payment from auto-billing (like to Spotify), but in such case, I can check the transactions using e-banking or mobile app. Though it may be that US banks are not offering such services...

  16. Re:That way of thinking is wrong... on Ask Slashdot: How Serious Is Hacking In Mobile Games? · · Score: 1

    I totally agree. Making a hack-proof client app is (almost) impossible (don't forget that rooted device gives full control of OS to user), and any attempt costs too much in terms of user experience. But still, all the time we see again and again how developers tries "new" ways of DRM and other stuff, and customers can't use their bought apps, because the verification servers came down...

  17. Re:Roadside assistance on Popular Android Package Uses Just XOR -- and That's Not the Worst Part · · Score: 1

    It is simple. You don't. It is like setting a higher difficulty for your life.

  18. Re:EA killed bioware years ago on BioWare Announces Open-Source Orbit Project · · Score: 1

    Honestly, ME2 is the worst one. ME3 was a great deal better, although still not as good as ME1 (mostly because the ending...) And the current Dragon Age: Inquisition is the best DA so far. I don't remember any of their games before ME1, so I can't talk with regards to this, but I wouldn't say they are killed.

  19. Re:is this good? on Many Password Strength Meters Are Downright Weak, Researchers Say · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't that imply equal entropy?

    No. Without this limitation, a user could have all small or a capital. With this, you removed all combinations with "only small", so you have less options to seek through. A bit less from a-crazy-high-number is still a-crazy-high-number, so no big deal, but technically, the entropy is really lower.