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  1. Re:Here is why pagers are so important on The UK's Health Service Told To Ditch 'Outdated' Pagers (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    25MHz is a too long wavelength, use a 150MHz system - it works better through windows and corridors.

  2. Re:Here is why pagers are so important on The UK's Health Service Told To Ditch 'Outdated' Pagers (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Go back to a paging system with speakers; "Dr. Kervorkian, please call 666" or the number displays on the walls.

  3. Re:Here is why pagers are so important on The UK's Health Service Told To Ditch 'Outdated' Pagers (bbc.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Add to it that a pager also is fine when you have radio-sensitive medical equipment like EEG and EKG measurement equipment.

  4. Re:Cricket is AT&T - locked for 6 months on Verizon Asks FCC To Let It Lock New Smartphones For 60 Days (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    What about just buying the subscription and phone separately - is there a lock imposed then too?

  5. Re:Yea right on a perfect day in controlled on Waymo Self-Driving Cars Can Now Obey Police Hand Signals · · Score: 2

    And how do the car know it's a cop and not someone faking it?

  6. Re:Well yeah... on American Airlines Has Cameras In Their Screens Too (buzzfeednews.com) · · Score: 1

    Probably the way it's introduced - same display as in small laptops.

    At least until the cost of removing chewing gums from the cameras exceeds the gain of using the default display units.

  7. Re:Yes it is. Indirectly. on Goldman Sachs Asks: 'Is Curing Patients a Sustainable Business Model?' (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    There's also always a new disease around the corner, so even if you eradicate one there's always new ones coming.

  8. Only the government can legally F you over whenever it likes, the government don't like competition.

  9. Vaccination is about protecting the many, if there are random individuals that aren't responding well to vaccination then they would probably suffer even worse from the real disease.

    If you don't understand that - then you don't understand how vaccination works.

  10. So you'd rather have Polio then instead of a vaccination against it.

  11. So he could smoke it.

  12. Re:Pro Password Recovery Guy Here on 8-Character Windows NTLM Passwords Can Be Cracked In Under 2.5 Hours (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Smart card tech is what I would look at - so you'd have to use your company ID card to log on to the computer. Remove the card and the computer locks the screen.

  13. Re:Pro Password Recovery Guy Here on 8-Character Windows NTLM Passwords Can Be Cracked In Under 2.5 Hours (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    So the summary is essentially that password rules opens a hole similar to what the Enigma machine had - the encrypted character could never be the same as the original, one of the rules that made it easier to crack instead of harder. There were other flaws as well.

    Personally I would have introduced some added complexity to the Enigma in addition to allowing the encrypted character match the clear text character like space character and a few punctuation characters. Also the ability to select a varying number of wheels.

  14. The problem that would occur with longer passwords is all the mistypings increasing the IT support load. Of course it's outsourced to India where you have to adapt to a strange accent. Even worse when you don't have English as your first language.

  15. TSA has no power here.

  16. Windows 2.0 from some 30 years ago...

  17. Anti-social network?

  18. Re: You on Reddit Users Are the Least Valuable of Any Social Network (cnbc.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Does this mean that 4chan users are more valuable then?

  19. Re: kill them all on 83% Of Consumers Believe Personalized Ads Are Morally Wrong (forbes.com) · · Score: 1

    "Personalized" ads are rarely relevant for me anyway and are just obnoxious, especially if they are for items that I recently purchase.

    Ads served have gotten totally out of the hands of the consumer these days and the only remedy is to protect yourself using adblockers.

    What I worry is that soon we will see a huge backlash where any actor in an ad have to watch their back when they are out and about. But the way around that would be for the ad companies to rely solely on avatars.

    Overall there are way too many ads, which is one reason why people stop watching TV shows. If there's a product placement in a TV show where there could have been one brand or another - like a car - then it doesn't matter for me as a viewer and that has happened since TV started to run series more or less. But when there's a push for that product it's giving me the creeps. Interrupting shows is also a huge annoyance. So overall people do find other avenues of entertainment. Some may even stream filtered versions or purchase the hard media version. But even hard media like DVD and Blu-Ray suffers from the ad disease with unskippable ads that soon are getting irrelevant since they are for a limited time.

    Add to it - ad serving is one of the avenues for malware as well.

  20. Re:Understood on Hundreds Rally For Their Right To Not Vaccinate Their Children (msn.com) · · Score: 1

    If they are against vaccination and believe that it's better with the real disease - give them Polio.

  21. Re:Finally something the FCC should enforce on DuckDuckGo Warns that Google Does Not Respect 'Do Not Track' Browser Setting (spreadprivacy.com) · · Score: 1

    "Do not track" flag is like a sign on a curtain saying "Do not enter" and no other means of preventing entry.

    If I don't want to be tracked, then I close the avenue for the trackers.

  22. Re: The thing is that there's nothing they can do on Highest Court In Indiana Set To Decide If You Can Be Forced To Unlock Your Phone (eff.org) · · Score: 1

    It's GDPR. And I had to close the Drupal server I was running due to security bugs. But that's what you get for trusting that PHP is in any way safe and stable.

  23. Re: "I can't recall my password." on Highest Court In Indiana Set To Decide If You Can Be Forced To Unlock Your Phone (eff.org) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    After a while I can't remember passwords I have used a few months back.

  24. Re: The thing is that there's nothing they can do on Highest Court In Indiana Set To Decide If You Can Be Forced To Unlock Your Phone (eff.org) · · Score: 0

    Her name is already public, so she's now officially toast anyway since calling the 5th means that she has something to hide.

    Good luck for her the next decade to find a decent job.

  25. Re:Lobby hard, Intel on Linux Kernel Gets Another Option To Disable Spectre Mitigations (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I see that there's a difference between the problem and if that is actually a case where it would be a problem in your specific use of the server.