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  1. Re:Reverse the role on Ask Slashdot: Someone Else Is Using My Email Address · · Score: 1

    When you find you have been signed up for a legit company site. Go to the site using your email and press the forgot password on the site. When you get the email back, log on and maybe you can get the information that you need to track him down.

    Track him down? I would use the forgot password feature to login and delete the account.

  2. TFA also says, in the quotation from the Evernote privacy policy, that customers can turn off the machine learning that is the reason for the employee access by disabling it in the account settings. I just did that with no problem at all.

    If one is serious about security, though, then why would he/she trust any cloud provider's encryption?

  3. I really hate it when the news articles about this kind of crap come out after the request for comment period has expired.

  4. Re:51 is "elderly"? on Elderly Use More Secure Passwords Than Millennials, Says Report (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    That was my reaction, too.

  5. It might not be such a bad thing if Gawker were put out of business. I had never heard of Gawker until I read How Gawker Ripped Off My Newspaper Story seven years ago. Who needs to read the story from its original source when Gawker has published a digest? And this has helped put local newspapers on their back.

    Of course, this isn't a lot different from a SLAPP, so it is troubling. The funny thing is that most litigation is supposedly about "being made whole", and our court system evaluates wholeness in dollars and cents, but Thiel seems to want wholeness in destroying the organization that outed him.

  6. Parking in front of sidewalk ramps? on The NYPD Was Ticketing Legally Parked Cars; Open Data Put an End to It (tumblr.com) · · Score: 1

    Why the hell is NYC allowing people to park in front of sidewalk ramps? I'm not sure how it is in the Big Apple, but most jurisdictions do not mark crosswalks at every crosswalk, even though it's a logical and safe place for a person to cross the street, like a street corner. (This is why one should be suspicious when reading about an accident in which "the victim was not in a crosswalk"; odds are decent that it's because there are insufficient pedestrian accommodations on the road.) If it's OK for an able-bodied pedestrian to cross somewhere, there should be curb cuts so that a person in a wheelchair can do the same, and there shouldn't be a vehicle blocking it.

  7. That depends... on Slashdot Asks: Have You Experienced Ageism? (observer.com) · · Score: 2

    Is it ageism when the interviewer remarks "You're a little old" during the interview? This happened to me when I was 40 and still had hair, none of it gray. No offer was forthcoming, but the place didn't rate very highly from my perspective, either. And then there was the letter I received recently from EEO investigating a complaint about a company that hadn't bothered to have me come in after the phone interview despite my having all of the skills they seemed to be seeking.

    Now I work for a small company where I am probably the oldest employee., but we all get along well, and I'm having the time of my life.

  8. Re:Pi on Ask Slashdot: Alternatives To "Atomic" Clocks? · · Score: 1

    YMMV with the tablet. I own an Asus tablet that consistently loses a lot of time even though NTP is enabled. I know that NTP isn't blocked because unchecking the "Set time automatically" box and then rechecking it brings the thing into synchronization right away.

  9. They did? on Firefox 44 Deletes Fine-Grained Cookie Management (mozilla.org) · · Score: 1

    I haven't tried to use the cookie prompts for quite some time, but the basic functionality still seems to be intact in the preferences under Linux.

  10. Surprised? on Looking Up Symptoms Online? These Companies Are Tracking You · · Score: 1

    Not me. I asked myself why WebMD was being operated, and I figured that anything I searched for was going to end up in Google or somewhere like that.

  11. This ought to be entertaining... on Did the Ignition Key Just Die? · · Score: 1

    We have a Toyota RAV4 with the keyless technology, and it's worked pretty well, but there was one night when I tried to start it while a train was passing about 200 feet away. There must have been some pretty good RFI from the train, because the car would not start until the train was gone. So, I'm wondering if we could find ourselves in a situation in which solar flares or some new use of radio by the military might suddenly render all the motor vehicles inoperable. (It's not like this kind of thing hasn't happened before.) Then, too, there's the problem that these keys seem to be notoriously easy to hack.

  12. Losing money... on Microsoft Continues To Lose Money With Each Surface Tablet It Sells · · Score: 1

    It sounds like Microsoft has already made the tablets, so they've already lost money. Selling them at a loss is just reducing the loss.

  13. Re:Really? on Facebook Being Sued Over Mining of Private Messages · · Score: 1

    I understood this to be what they were going to do from the moment I signed up with Facebook. What is wrong with these people?

  14. Re:Minor problem with aluminum on Ford Rolls the Dice With Breakthrough F-150 Aluminum Pickup Truck · · Score: 1

    I was thinking something along this line, too. It's common knowledge in the bicycling world that aluminum can't return to its original shape, hence aluminum bike frames must be discarded after a crash. For body panels, that's no big deal, since body shops these days generally replace them anyway, but for structural members, aluminum could be a problem. And of course, it's important to remember the lessons from the Chevy Vega, which gave aluminum block engines a bad name in the early 1970s.

  15. Re:Cats, domesticated ?? on First Hard Evidence for the Process of Cat Domestication · · Score: 1

    I was thinking something similar. A friend once said that it's a telling aspect of humans that we keep ruthless predators as pets.

  16. Re:Self destruct cookie on NSA Uses Google Cookies To Pinpoint Targets For Hacking · · Score: 1

    Interestingly, Firefox's private browsing yields the same values for this cookie as in the regular session. I have wondered just how far the "privacy" went.

  17. Re:Fireworks in 3...2...1... on Satanists Propose Monument At Oklahoma State Capitol Next To Ten Commandments · · Score: 1

    The main reason we need marriage to have legal standing is to simplify ... divorce.

    I'm gonna let you think about that for a while.

    Good point, but the lack of a marriage certificate doesn't simplify splitting up.

  18. Re:Not the only state with this law on Driver Arrested In Ohio For Secret Car Compartment Full of Nothing · · Score: 1

    It would not. The compartment is not being used for drugs. That seems to be what everyone is glazing over.

    TFA quoted, but did not link to, an article by WKYC which mentions that the police detected a strong odor of marijuana, which led them to the closer investigation revealing the secret compartment. Still, this seems like a case worthy of appeal. I am suspicious of laws based on intent, as intent is hard to prove.

  19. Re:Really? on Hammerhead System Offers a Better Way To Navigate While Cycling · · Score: 1

    If you have a problem navigating at a cycling pace, you have more serious issues.

    It can be pretty serious, all right. My last crash happened when the pack came to a fork in the road and the guys in the front hadn't been paying attention to the route sheet. FWIW, though, in my cycling club, we print out an easily-readable list of turns and mileages, which riders clip to the handlebar or brake cable, and this has generally worked pretty well for the 30 years I've been riding with bike clubs. And when I'm mapping out a route for myself in unfamiliar territory, I write a similar route sheet.

    One potential problem with the Hammerhead is that bicyclists sometimes ride in places where there is no cell phone service. I've tried using Google Maps on occasion (while stopped on the side of the road), and the map information simply isn't there. The Garmin solutions are far better than the phone.

  20. Re:Some Perspective on Give Your Child the Gift of an Alzheimer's Diagnosis · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The gift to my kid would be for me to get the test, never tell a soul about it, and make plans to deal with Alzheimer's if I'm going to get it.

  21. No on Ask Slashdot: Suitable Phone For a 4-Year Old? · · Score: 1

    A 4-year-old does not need a telephone. If you want to talk to him, arrange to do it on the wall phone at the place where he is being cared for by a responsible adult.

  22. Re:republicans on Obama Asks FCC To Make Carriers Unlock All Mobile Devices · · Score: 1

    Need I point out that most billionaires are democrats or independents?

    Wait, I'm confused. I thought the billionaires were the job creators. Then why are the Republicans fighting so hard to keep them from paying higher taxes?

  23. Re:No utility whatsoever? on Single Developer Responsible For Over 47k Apps In BlackBerry World · · Score: 1

    Search for Amazon: looks like it simply redisplays the Amazon mobile site in an app and adds a few features e.g. writing a review into the native interface. In the absence of an official Amazon app for the Blackberry, it may well be useful for the avid Amazon shopper.

    Given the tortoise-like speed of BlackBerry's web browser, just about anything that could be done on the web is better done in a BlackBerry app. When Google made a search app that ran on my BlackBerry, I used it all the time. Then I lost my copy of that app in a wipe/reload, and the newer version of their app won't install on my device, so now I have to use the web browser. In the time it takes for the search page to load, I can generally get to a computer or Android tablet and enter my query there instead. (Admittedly, I'm using a 3-year-old device on Verizon 3G, but still....)

  24. Re:bumblebees have a Cv of 0.189? on Volkswagen Concept Car Averages 262 MPG · · Score: 1

    That's interesting. Thanks!

  25. Re:bumblebees have a Cv of 0.189? on Volkswagen Concept Car Averages 262 MPG · · Score: 1

    When I was in high school, it was given as fact that the bumblebee is too unstable to fly. Has that changed? (Yeah, I know, stability isn't the same thing as a low drag coefficient, but I still had to ask the question.)