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  1. Re:OK, but not sure 123456 is any better than 1234 on It's World Password Day: Change Your Passwords · · Score: 3, Funny

    I don't want to know how those notes got sticky.

  2. Re:OK, but not sure 123456 is any better than 1234 on It's World Password Day: Change Your Passwords · · Score: 3, Funny

    Password.2014

    Upper case, lower case, symbol, digit, more than 12 chars. Check!

  3. Re:Belt and suspenders to whip Bobby Tables on Applying Pavlovian Psychology to Password Management · · Score: 1

    less entropy added > no entropy added.

  4. Re:Preposterous on Applying Pavlovian Psychology to Password Management · · Score: 2

    "highly resistant to bruit forcing"

    Especially if you misspell words!

  5. Why not? on Applying Pavlovian Psychology to Password Management · · Score: 5, Funny

    all passwords in this post don't include the beginning and ending quotation marks

    Include the quotes, and be even more secure!

  6. Re:OK to leave a few bacteria on ISS Studies Show Bacteria From Earth Could Colonize Mars · · Score: 1

    You simply need to put everything through a Transporter, which has a biofilter.

  7. Re:frosty piss on Death Wish Meets GPS: iPhone Theft Victims Confronting Perps · · Score: 1

    You 'win', the thief wins, the cops win, the insurance company wins, and Apple wins.

    Might as well break some windows while you're at it.

  8. Re:This sounds more like incompetence... on Some Users Find Swype Keyboard App Makes 4000+ Location Requests Per Day · · Score: 1

    Swype comes standard with a lot of phones (although not necessarily the default keyboard. For example, many Samsung Galaxy S4s come with it pre-installed. And they've sold 40 million of those.

    Your first try was probably more accurate, even if the math was wrong.

  9. Re:Pretty big differencfe on For the First Time Ever, the FAA Is Trying To Fine a Drone Hobbyist · · Score: 1

    Flying between buildings in NYC is "airspace shared with interstate flights?" Uh, OK.

  10. Re:Pretty big differencfe on For the First Time Ever, the FAA Is Trying To Fine a Drone Hobbyist · · Score: 1

    Technically, the FAA has no jurisdiction. It's not a matter of Interstate Commerce.

  11. Next release... on OpenBSD 5.5 Released · · Score: 4, Funny

    The next release is scheduled for a few years prior to Sunday, 4 December 292,277,026,596.

  12. Re:News helicopters on Drone Camera Tornado Coverage Raises Press Freedom Questions · · Score: 2

    Read Wickard v Filburn, if you really want to see a stretch - the Feds think growing your own food is interstate commerce.

  13. Re:News helicopters on Drone Camera Tornado Coverage Raises Press Freedom Questions · · Score: 1

    Huh? The act of flying was necessary to gather the video in question. But yes, whether obtained by flying an RC plane or taken by hand, selling it out-of-state would be interstate commerce. Of course, any powers the Feds might have to regulate that would be constrained by the 1st A.

  14. Re:Commercial Versus Free on Drone Camera Tornado Coverage Raises Press Freedom Questions · · Score: 1

    So, when a newspaper pays a printer to print their words - that's not protected speech? When CNN pays their anchors for reporting, that's not protected speech?

  15. Re:News helicopters on Drone Camera Tornado Coverage Raises Press Freedom Questions · · Score: 2

    Of course, flying a drone isn't Interstate Commerce, either - even if you sell footage to the local news.

  16. Re:It depends on the hat you're wearing on Drone Camera Tornado Coverage Raises Press Freedom Questions · · Score: 2

    Huh? Jerry Ford was an informant? About what, and who'd he snitch on?

  17. Re:Fucking Casuals. on SEC Chair On HFT: 'The Markets Are Not Rigged' · · Score: 1

    tl;dr

    This is much simpler. HF traders are making money. That money comes out of the pockets of people who aren't doing HFT, and don't have access to the needed resources even if they wanted to. The simple solution is to put a 1 second delay on all orders.

  18. Re:Have you ever heard the phrase "off-site backup on Ask Slashdot: How To Back Up Physical Data? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    There's this marvelous service called a safe deposit box that banks offer...

    Your bank lets people into safe deposit boxes without showing any ID?

  19. Re:Discrimination on White House Worried About Discrimination Through Analytics · · Score: 1

    No, you have it wrong.

    Sharing is based on equality. If there's a disease which costs $1 million to fix, and 1 million people (each with a 1 in 1 million chance of getting the disease in a particular year) want to mitigate that financial risk, they pool together and each pay $1 each per year (this ignores profit and overhead). It's a way of equitably avoiding an un-affordable situation for all.

    Now, someone with a 1 in 10 chance of getting the disease comes along. They can't be allowed in the pool paying the same $1/year, it would quickly go broke. Why should the million participants now have to pay $1.10 because of the high-risk participant who's not paying in proportion to the risk he presents?

  20. Re:Discrimination on White House Worried About Discrimination Through Analytics · · Score: 2

    What's wrong with pricing insurance based on the risk being taken on? Why should I pay higher insurance premiums so higher risk people pay lower ones?

  21. Re:How about they look at themselves? on White House Worried About Discrimination Through Analytics · · Score: 1

    Your race:

    1) NASCAR
    2) Kentucky Derby
    3) Tour de France
    4) Boston Marathon
    5) Indianapolis 500
    6) Other/unknown

  22. Re:Too good to be true? on OnePlus One Revealed: a CyanogenMod Smartphone · · Score: 4, Informative

    "MicroSD uses a cheap n-wire serial interface."

    Uh, no. While it's true that SD cards offer backwards compatibility with MMC, modern cards transfer using a 4 bit wide parallel bus, and it's not nearly as simple as the SPI mode. With regard to your argument, have you ever looked at the flash chips in an SD card? Last I checked, they use the same memory dies as the "embedded" packages, and add the cost of an SD controller and more complex packaging. On the host side, there's the cost of an SD controller (although that's probably "free" with the SoC) and socket.

    More specific to the original point, if a phone already has 16G of flash, the cost of upping it to 64G is minor - the parallel interface you mention is already there, and the difference in packaging costs between 16G and 64G chips is likely zero.

  23. Re:How many? on Aereo To SCOTUS: Shut Us Down and You Shut Down Cloud Storage · · Score: 1

    "Of course the over the air broadcasters are complaining. They actual PAY for the content. Then Aereo comes and leeches off the broadcasters, taking away a source of revenue, without paying anything. "

    Now, turn that around and make a point about how the broadcasters are making a PROFIT off the use of a constrained public resource - the airwaves. It's hard to think of a better example of "placing a work into the public domain" than broadcasting it over the airwaves for anyone to receive.

  24. Re:...er... on Intentional Backdoor In Consumer Routers Found · · Score: 1

    "Unless the router firmware is open source, you have no way of knowing what it is doing, DOCSIS or not."

    RTFA - the author had no trouble viewing the closed source firmware on these routers to find out exactly what the backdoor was doing.

  25. Change. on In a Hole, Golf Courses Experiment With 15-inch Holes · · Score: 1

    If Curtis Strange thinks change cheapens the game, why isn't he hitting feather balls with wooden longnoses?