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  1. "No warrant required." on Careful What You Post, the FBI Has More of These · · Score: 1

    In some jurisdictions. "Surveillance requires warrant"

  2. Re:Why the paywall won't work on NY Times Confident of 'First Click Free' Paywalls · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    > ...and, on rare occasion, from no side....

    In other words, biased to your "side".

  3. I quit following NYT links years ago. on NY Times Confident of 'First Click Free' Paywalls · · Score: 1

    I tried to register once but it went haywire somehow. I didn't care enough to try again. I just ignore them.

  4. Re:Perfect Application on Erasing Objects From Video In Real Time · · Score: 4, Interesting

    A simpler version of this has already been used to edit billboards visible in broadcasts of baseball games.

  5. Re:Names? on Canon Blocks Copy Jobs Using Banned Keywords · · Score: 1

    However, marketing now can't photocopy their own copyrighted creations for "creative meetings" or whatever they do.

    So some organizations will screw up the first time they try to use this and have to change their policies. I don't see how that qualifies as "terrible".

  6. Re:I'm not convinced this is as bad as described. on Survey Shows How Stupid People Are With Passwords · · Score: 1

    You mean 60% of people actually have a different password for all 150 sites that want you to make an account and give them login information?

    I suspect that most people have never found it necessary to have accounts on 150 different sites.

  7. Re:Myth of stupid people... on Survey Shows How Stupid People Are With Passwords · · Score: 1

    > Then, when I lose my wallet... ...you promptly change all your passwords. And notify your bank of the theft.

  8. Re:anthropomorphic drivel on Gambling On Bacteria · · Score: 1

    > ...except that you know from your first-person experience that we do.

    But we only know that he makes noises that we interpret as signifying that he asserts that he has this experience. We have no objective knowledge of his internal state.

  9. Re:How Long... on Canon Blocks Copy Jobs Using Banned Keywords · · Score: 4, Funny

    Attention! There will be butt lineup in the cafeteria at 2PM! Be ready to drop your trousers! We are going to find the miscreant who has been mooning the copier!

  10. Re:Stupidity on Canon Blocks Copy Jobs Using Banned Keywords · · Score: 1

    It obviously isn't intended to block spies: just the usual oblivious doofus.

  11. Re:Names? on Canon Blocks Copy Jobs Using Banned Keywords · · Score: 1

    The "banned words" are installed by the business.

  12. Re:How Long... on Canon Blocks Copy Jobs Using Banned Keywords · · Score: 4, Funny

    They can buy the requisite genital recognition software from Chatroulette.

  13. Re: /. now a Microsoft PR drone? on Cybercriminals Shifting To Bugat · · Score: 1

    It's nice to see that even /. will not clearly specify that this is a Microsoft Windows-only problem.

    On /. it is taken for granted that malware is a Microsoft-only problem.

  14. Re:Can anyone tell me.. on Cybercriminals Shifting To Bugat · · Score: 1

    > Whether this also affects Linux users...

    It doesn't.

    > ...how does one configure java/flash/their browser etc, to prevent this happening?

    NoScript.

  15. Re:And those who onlyTHINK they would be superhero on Study Finds Most Would Become Supervillians If Given Powers · · Score: 1

    Psychopaths make poor soldiers. They often kill the wrong people. Much better are highly moral patriotic citizens who truly believe that they are defending their home and country.

  16. Re:I don't believe it... on Study Finds Most Would Become Supervillians If Given Powers · · Score: 1

    > If feeling good is one's primary concern...

    It is everyone's primary concern.

  17. Re:Hmm on Pope Says Technology Causes Confusion Between Reality and Fiction · · Score: 1

    A god with limitless power would never need to test anything.

  18. Re:I don't believe it... on Study Finds Most Would Become Supervillians If Given Powers · · Score: 1

    People will do that of which their social reference group approves. This is not news.

  19. Re:I don't believe it... on Study Finds Most Would Become Supervillians If Given Powers · · Score: 1

    By understanding what the word actually means.

  20. Re:I don't believe it... on Study Finds Most Would Become Supervillians If Given Powers · · Score: 1

    > ...I have a feeling most people aren't sociopaths.

    Of course not: they seek the approval of their social reference group. And when they accquire sufficient power they also acquire a social reference group that approves of everything they do.

  21. Re:evenn worse is assigning complex passwords on Survey Shows How Stupid People Are With Passwords · · Score: 1

    > people just wrote it down and had the paper with them all the time.

    And how many breakins resulted from that practice?

  22. Re:It's Not Carelessness on Survey Shows How Stupid People Are With Passwords · · Score: 1

    > Who can remember "aL8+4#ys!Gk=^" ? Should I write it down somewhere?

    Yes.

    > And I should use a different password for each of the 50 sites I use?

    No. You should use the same password for all the unimportant ones (or use a password manager).

    > And I should change my password in each site every month?

    You should change the important ones from time to time. How often depends on the importance and the threat model.

    > And never repeat a password?

    What would be the point in repeating a random string?

  23. Re:30% remember their passwords by writing them do on Survey Shows How Stupid People Are With Passwords · · Score: 1

    I might put stocks and gold bars in my safe, but I'll leave my dirty socks on the floor.

    But then "they" might get a DNA sample from the socks to create clone and then train it to feign amnesia and authenticate itself as you via biometrics.

    Be sure and burn all your toenail clippings too.

  24. Re:Myth of stupid people... on Survey Shows How Stupid People Are With Passwords · · Score: 1

    This is precisely the problem. I don't want my passwords only stored locally.

    So write them down in a little black book and keep it in your wallet, as Bruce Schneier recommends. "Never write the password down" is for the root password for the mainframe, not your numerous personal accounts.

  25. Re:Hmm on Pope Says Technology Causes Confusion Between Reality and Fiction · · Score: 1

    So the infinitely loving, infinitely kind, infinitely good God is all about self-glorification.