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  1. "Monday"... you mean, "today"? on Windows 10 Will Soon Let You Opt-Out of Automatic Driver Updates (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Ha! Shows what you know, there was no beta release on Monday. Oh, wait, today is Monday. Well, let me check the Feedback Hub. Well, what do you know, there is a new release. It wasn't there earlier today.

  2. Re:Inoculation on A Federal Judge's Decision Could End Patent Trolling (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Inoculation is very cheap in comparison to all the other health care products out there and while I'm not sure how much it costs for people with a deductable, if you can't afford to pay for it, there are programs to pay for most of the cost for such people.
    https://www.bing.com/search?q=...

  3. Re:Saved passwords on Browser Autofill Profiles Can Be Abused For Phishing Attacks (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    My typing isn't perfect and it would be frustrating attempting to type the password in over and over again for one.

  4. Re:Saved passwords on Browser Autofill Profiles Can Be Abused For Phishing Attacks (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, Ideally you would have a different password for every site you log into. Some sites store the password or some way the current password can be recovered, so that if they get hacked or something the attacker will try it on other sites. You can try to remember them all, but I prefer to keep them in a password protected cache that I remember the password to and don't save.

  5. I am one user who uses autofill and would glance over such a thing to make sure I am sending what I think I am sending. Recently the autofill has been appending the day of my birth to my address. I even saw it append it twice! I would really welcome such a feature for reasons in addition to accidental overshare.

  6. Re:Proof of concept demo on Browser Autofill Profiles Can Be Abused For Phishing Attacks (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    a patch for FreeBSD 7 is available and is kept up-to-date

    Clearly, if this was implemented on every router, they could scan packets and set the evil bit and propagate it back to the originators. This could put a stop to DDOSs.

  7. Re:Inaccurate on A Federal Judge's Decision Could End Patent Trolling (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Read my words more carefully. I am not making an argument for or against socialized medicine. From my perspective, they've been asking the wrong questions when examining the world health situation, and one issue around that is calling socialized medicine "free", assuming equal or better outcomes with either socialized medicine or the US hybrid system and assuming everything gets treated in socialized medicine and if you can't pay out of your own pocket you can't get treated in the US system. Until people do studies that quantifies the realities no one can make a good argument one way or the other. So I am not just making the statement that it is not actually free, but that any statement that does not acknowledge that it isn't actually free and all those other caveats.is counterproductive.

  8. Re:Actual invention on A Federal Judge's Decision Could End Patent Trolling (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Funny, I thought it was invented by the entertainment industry. Do you have a citation for your claim?

  9. Re:Inaccurate on A Federal Judge's Decision Could End Patent Trolling (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    What about a person who has worked hard all their life, gets sick, and then loses their employer sponsored health care?

    Medicaid.

    This is not an argument I'd want to take your side on.

    The argument that the meme, "Only one rich nation pays for healthcare." needs to die? Why not?

    Medicare is not free, you pay a premium and then you pay coinsurance.

    Well, actually, I have Medicaid and Medicare and I pay nothing, but no matter what country you live in, health care is paid for.

    The most frequent criticism of the French system is that everyone gets everything that they want.

    Citation needed. Is it the most frequent criticism? Do the French get everything that they want?

  10. Your sig on Ask Slashdot: What's The Most Useful 'Nerd Watch' Today? · · Score: 1

    Is that an Undertale joke? LV in Undertale was initially said to mean "love" but later is said to mean "Level of violence".

  11. Nerd Watch on Ask Slashdot: What's The Most Useful 'Nerd Watch' Today? · · Score: 1

    I was thinking that once upon a time, Slashdot was my favorite "Nerd Watch", and what might be a good place to go to watch stuff for "Nerds". The appropriate term is wrist device, I also liked the term used in Crest of the Stars, the correct spelling of which escapes me. Searching for my best guess turned up no hits.

  12. based on centuries of collective experience
    Citation needed. What people perceive as dangerous seems to be rather shifting over time.

  13. You measure life in a strange way on A Federal Judge's Decision Could End Patent Trolling (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Exchange for allocation of life is nowhere near the same as being unable to continue your life. And if you weren't spending your life doing something you enjoy for the duration you were also getting remunerated for doing, it, that's totally on you.

  14. No, we need to change the rules of the game to not reward such behavior.

  15. That's not how this works. on A Federal Judge's Decision Could End Patent Trolling (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't know how this in fact works, and apparently zero research is being done on the subject, but that's not how this works.

  16. Re:Actual invention on A Federal Judge's Decision Could End Patent Trolling (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Actual invention like all of intellectual property is not what it is made out to be. Discovery.

  17. Inaccurate on A Federal Judge's Decision Could End Patent Trolling (computerworld.com) · · Score: 2

    There is only one country where the costs of medical care are generally accrued to the individual as opposed to spread out across society in general. But then there is health insurance, Medicare, and Medicaid which changes things, so I don't know what the best balance of conciseness and accuracy is. But your meme needs to die.

  18. What is clickbait, that thou art mindful? on A Federal Judge's Decision Could End Patent Trolling (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Rephrasing the headline slightly does not necessarily make it not clickbait. What about making it a question supposedly makes it less resistable to click? The sentiment is still there, and that sentiment does not need to be in the headline. The idea that one decision alone would end patent trolling rather than send it to a different jurisdiction or some other outcome is the idea that needs to be excised here, not just that it is a question.

  19. It depends on Is The C Programming Language Declining In Popularity? (dice.com) · · Score: 1

    It depends. Are we talking in absolute terms or per capita. C is still the best tool for the things it has always been used for but as programming becomes more mainstream, the percentage of people who are interested in such tasks is going to shrink.

  20. Re:Everything I didn't see on TV News Broadcast Accidentally Activates Alexa, Initiates Orders (cw6sandiego.com) · · Score: 1

    If it isn't let's play footage on YouTube, it's fake, and even some of that stuff is fake... ever hear of tool assist? But seriously, I don't trust any news source and most of it just isn't that relevant to me... but people take this stuff oh so seriously when it isn't anything that might keep the sun from rising the next day.

  21. I wasn't a danger to anyone. They still locked me up till I stopped making with the crazy talk.

  22. The answer is We don't know. Trump's a fantastic liar and we have no idea what his scruples actually are. As for defending a Russian hack, we don't know the facts on that one either or even if the Russians played the role it is said they did. Do they have capabilities similar to this? Most likely, but we don't know how many other people, including those doing things like this just for kicks have done the same thing and could be the culprits.

  23. Re:What a coincidence on TV News Broadcast Accidentally Activates Alexa, Initiates Orders (cw6sandiego.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    I was in a mental ward quite some time ago, (yes as a patient. I wanted to insist that I had a contract with Microsoft that did not exist and other bizarre things. I did not actually believe I had a contract with Microsoft, that would be crazy) where one of the other patients said "I am Napoleon." and the doc said, "How do you know you're Napoleon?" and the patient replied, "God told me." and another patient piped up, "I did not!"

  24. Re:Things that are easy to get familiar with on TV News Broadcast Accidentally Activates Alexa, Initiates Orders (cw6sandiego.com) · · Score: 1

    http:://tvtropes.com
    Well that's several moments of their life some people aren't getting back!

  25. Re:How does this thing normally work? on TV News Broadcast Accidentally Activates Alexa, Initiates Orders (cw6sandiego.com) · · Score: 1

    The question is whether or not Amazon said that they were offering refunds in connection with this specific incident or it so happens to be their policy that when anything is ordered by accident using this system, a refund is made. For that matter, the story writer could have just made up the refund bit. But there's no such thing as fake news... right?