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  1. Re:heck of a choice on Donald Trump To Tech Leaders: 'No Formal Chain Of Command' Here (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    How do you know what skills she has?

  2. Re:Thanks, but no thanks on Google May Prevent Samsung From Adding Viv AI Assistant To Galaxy S8 (ibtimes.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    There are other ROMs you could try.

  3. Re:We knew this going in on Weather Channel To Breitbart: Stop Citing Us To Spread Climate Skepticism (weather.com) · · Score: 2

    My own belief is that Trump simply stepped in a pile of shit without malice of forethought or any forethought at all.

    The phrase is actually "malice aforethought".

  4. Not flame bait on Sony Has Sold 50 Million PlayStation 4 Units (gamespot.com) · · Score: 2

    So serious question - why is the PS4 so drastically outselling the XBox One? Performance? Games? Price? Because PSN is free? Are people still gun shy from the red ring of death? Windows 10 hate carrying over? A combination of many factors?

  5. Re: Paranoid much on FBI Director James Comey: Cover Up Your Webcam (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    Wondering if your webcam is secretly an IR camera and the privacy shade is secretly transparent to IR... now THAT'S paranoid. :-)

  6. Re: Paranoid much on FBI Director James Comey: Cover Up Your Webcam (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    My camera has a physical shade that I can slide down to cover the camera. Seems like this should be a common feature.

  7. And that would have been absolutely horrifying. Destroy Europe to keep Russia from taking it over. Again, hard to think of anything worse than that.

  8. I don't think he was talking about Russia.

  9. Re:The last time it was a coffee table on Microsoft's Surface Hub Is a 'Hit', Demand Outstrips Supply (petri.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, I admitted they are speculative, but they are conservative. And yes this would be a tiny portion of their revenue, but this isn't their whole business or their bread and butter, it's a brand new thing they're trying out. And I assume they don't look at revenues and compare them to their $93B total because they wouldn't ever try anything thinking of it that way. "This project will probably only make $250M so why bother, that would only increase our revenues 0.25%." I doubt it.

  10. Re:We're a customer with 1 unit on Microsoft's Surface Hub Is a 'Hit', Demand Outstrips Supply (petri.com) · · Score: 1

    And for that kind of money MS won't send someone to set it up?

  11. Re:Limited demand on Microsoft's Surface Hub Is a 'Hit', Demand Outstrips Supply (petri.com) · · Score: 1

    people cannot work in a close contact with each other for a long time.

    I would be interested if you have anything to support that claim. Certainly introverts cannot comfortably work in close contact for long periods (in general at least), but most people aren't introverts. At any rate, it sounds like this is for meetings, not for people to work on together all day.

  12. Re:The last time it was a coffee table on Microsoft's Surface Hub Is a 'Hit', Demand Outstrips Supply (petri.com) · · Score: 1

    1000 units at an average of $10K each (one is 8K the other 20K, only MS knows the real numbers) is 10 million dollars of revenue, and that would be an average of 2 units per customer. If it was as low as 10 per customer that's $50 million. I don't think anyone would turn their nose up at that, even a Fortune 500 company.

  13. Re:500 UNITS or 500 CUSTOMERS? on Microsoft's Surface Hub Is a 'Hit', Demand Outstrips Supply (petri.com) · · Score: 1

    Of course, five hundred of either is hardly enough business volume to justify being unable to fulfill demand. The thing isn't exactly new and cutting-edge technology

    Just because a product is proven technology doesn't grant unlimited manufacturing capacity.

  14. He also said he wouldn't rule out using nuclear weapons in Europe. Literally hard to imagine anything worse than that. I mean I seriously cannot think of anything a US President could possibly do that would be worse than using nuclear weapons in Europe. Would he actually do it? Probably not, but I don't know that he could say anything worse.

  15. d'oh, I don't pay close enough attention to usernames.

  16. A password should be hard to guess, but not so hard to remember that you start writing it down or use a password store (or SSO).

    I'm not sure how to read that as anything other than a recommendation against using a password store. If not that, what did you mean by it?

  17. Correct, if the system is offline at a time when I need access and don't have my phone with me, I'm in trouble. So far that has never happened. And just because I can remember one secure password doesn't mean I want to try to (or possibly could) remember 50 or 100.

    Just realize that there are plenty of people who aren't you...

    Yes, and you should do the same. You said that people shouldn't use password managers. There are plenty of people for whom they work just fine. Perhaps you are not one of them, but you haven't presented any points that support your blanket assertion that they should not be used, only that they are not suitable for all scenarios. And of course that caveat applies to every tool created in the history of humanity.

  18. Well first, I remember it just fine because I've typed it many many times. And second, when that happens I use the web interface. If an SSL connection isn't secure enough, nothing else matters anyway.

  19. Re:Meh. This is a surprise? on Facebook Says It's Not Secretly Recording You (fb.com) · · Score: 1

    On android previous to version 6 (ie most devices) it is all or nothing unless you jump through some hoops including rooting. So I'd say even on /. probably a lot of people install an app and take the default permissions.

  20. Re:Nobody has the intention to build a wall on Facebook Says It's Not Secretly Recording You (fb.com) · · Score: 1

    There are so many companies more evil than Microsoft...

  21. Re:Complete lie and a distracting story on Facebook Says It's Not Secretly Recording You (fb.com) · · Score: 1

    If you RTFA, you'll notice that she's not sold either.

  22. Re:Password Generator on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Create A Highly-Secure Password? (securitymagazine.com) · · Score: 1

    I almost never run into that issue, but if I do I just check the appropriate boxes and generate another password that follows the rules. It's still way, way easier than trying to remember all my passwords myself (without using the same 2 or 3 passwords for everything).

  23. I don't think so, for several reasons:

    - A password should be hard to guess, but not so hard to remember that you start writing it down or use a password store (or SSO).

    By password store you mean a password manager such as LastPass? What's wrong with that?

  24. And there are some with different data in different databases, such that getting hold of one doesn't grant access to all user information.

  25. Those sorts of things are the most commonly used passwords.

    https://www.skyhighnetworks.co...