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  1. Re:Portable one-time key password generator .. on New UK Security Guidelines: Password Re-Use OK, Frequent Changing a Waste · · Score: 2

    that's how really secure systems get hacked, because the generals tend to attach it to the secure laptop case along with the key, making it a one stop security breach waiting to happen.

    "it will never happen to me" - can't tell you how often it happened, walk into the insecure lunch area, grab the case, pop the top, use the hw device, and home free and they haven't even finished their first cup of tea or coffee. return it to them and they assume if you have a valid uniform you must be ok, nobody ever checks.

    ever.

  2. This matches how people function on New UK Security Guidelines: Password Re-Use OK, Frequent Changing a Waste · · Score: 5, Interesting

    If you make it too hard for them, they either use weak passwords or they tape them next to the monitor so that you can human engineer the security with a camera enabled pen or purse or water bottle you "forget". Or they type into the notes feature on their easily guessed cell phone.

    (caveat: I used to be the acting regional security officer for a military region, so I have absolutely no idea what security measures get defeated and will deny knowing such information)

    (extra caveat: facial recognition is pretty useless and easy to defeat, as are most biometrics)

  3. I just buy a new one every two years on Why Apple's iPhone Upgrade Program Is a Bad Deal For Most · · Score: 1

    For cash.

    Cash, it's this great thing, better than credit cards. Everyone takes it. There are no service fees. When you run out, you just get more. If you have no more left, you stop buying things, and you never go into debt!

  4. And last Win boxen convert to Linux in our lab on Microsoft Is Downloading Windows 10 Without Asking · · Score: 1

    Sayonara!

  5. My son makes computers from scratch on WSJ: We Need the Right To Repair Our Gadgets · · Score: 1

    And I used to do the same.

    It's just a device.

    In the old days, you used to be able to get the manuals for free at the public library, or browse through them at most dealers.

  6. MSFT should not have their IP in Ireland then on Microsoft Continues To Resist US Warrant For Irish Data · · Score: 1, Troll

    Either pay your taxes or be treated like a foreign corporation that must be plundered.

    Those are the choices.

  7. Re:Did anyone read the article? on Why Patent Law Shouldn't Block the Sale of Used Tech Products · · Score: 1

    What signature?

    I paid cash.

    No signature.

  8. DRM is code for You Are Serfs on Why Patent Law Shouldn't Block the Sale of Used Tech Products · · Score: 1

    Bow to your corporate tax-avoiding masters who pay less than one percent in taxes, whereas 50 years ago they had record profits and paid 40 percent in taxes (after deductions from 50 percent).

    Got patents?

    Only if you're a Corporation.

    Serfs don't get rights.

  9. Boomers drive the market on Cheap Smartphones Quietly Becoming Popular In the US · · Score: 1

    They have the numbers, they have millions individually in disposable income, and they don't need your stinking apps that younger more gullible cell users get taken in by.

    Adapt. Because the wave is coming, and it cares nothing for your workplace-driven chrome sensibilities. It's all about Tiny Houses, solar/wind off the grid, doing fun things, and not paying The Man for stuff you don't want and don't need.

  10. Re:Barriers to women often subtle or invisible on Survey: More Women Are Going Into Programming · · Score: 1

    (stares at person)

    Right.

    Reread what I posted. Like most inexperienced people, you glommed onto the first term, and did not either RTFA or the actual phrase you are "replying" to.

  11. Re:Barriers to women often subtle or invisible on Survey: More Women Are Going Into Programming · · Score: 1

    Who said it was a free market? The barriers to entry in capital formation are fairly steep for women.

    I see you think you live in a democracy, when you actually live in an oligarchic republic, and that everyone else has ease of access to capital markets.

    How precious.

  12. Barriers to women often subtle or invisible on Survey: More Women Are Going Into Programming · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Here at the UW there are a lot of women engineers, mathematicians, data scientists, biochemists, and computer scientists.

    The main problem is that a lot of firms talk about diversity, but aren't great on actually hiring women in tech. And when they get hired, getting shunted into more "traditional" roles, like being asked to cover the phones or front desk (as a female) when the male interns aren't asked to do that.

    Fix that. Hire first, treat equally, and fix the top levels too. If your board room is male only, or tokenized, you're doing it wrong.

  13. Re:I'll never understand why we privatize on Municipal ISP Makes 10Gbps Available To All Residents · · Score: 2

    Yeah, like Seattle City Light, which sells green power cheaper than the privately owned utility across the lake.

    Damn those public utilities! We want to pay even more for dirty coal electricity!

  14. Wish Seattle would do this on Municipal ISP Makes 10Gbps Available To All Residents · · Score: 1

    Meanwhile there's 40 Gbps ports all throughout campus and 3 100 Gbps ports, while most people rarely get 20 Mbps in the rest of the city.

  15. It's Canadian.

    Tell the anti-Canadian PMO to stop trying to sell Canadians' right to have reasonable length copyright, and stop selling out culture to foreign corporations!

    (yes, in my day I got Canada Council grants, but not for music)

  16. Re:300 GB a month is nothing in the era of HD on Comcast To Charge $30 For Unlimited Data Over 300GB Cap · · Score: 1

    My point is that you're arguing about capacity amounts that are a very small fraction of what we can deliver. All at prices that are 20 to 100 times what other first world nations pay for them.

    Probably because they have competition. You know, capitalism. Oh darn those socialist countries with their capitalist wiles!

  17. Re:300 GB a month is nothing in the era of HD on Comcast To Charge $30 For Unlimited Data Over 300GB Cap · · Score: 1

    Heck, we have 40 Gbps ports campuswide and three 100 Gbps ports. We slurp that much data in one minute.

  18. Did you say 40 Gbps to 100 Gbps? on Comcast To Charge $30 For Unlimited Data Over 300GB Cap · · Score: 1

    Because if it's not Internet3 strong, it's overpriced.

    Had it with living in a third world country.

  19. Re:Define Your Acronyms on Microsoft's Telemetry Additions To Windows 7 and 8 Raise Privacy Concerns · · Score: 1

    Cthulhu Eats Indigent Programmers

  20. Sigh, guess no Win boxes in the lab then on Microsoft's Telemetry Additions To Windows 7 and 8 Raise Privacy Concerns · · Score: 4, Interesting

    There are consequences to every action

  21. If they can call themselves Open but not be, than I can call myself Horde.

  22. Re:What I read: on Windows 10 Grabs 5.21% Market Share, Passing Windows Vista and Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    Heads in the sand?

    I work with massive blade servers that hook up to 100 Gbps Internet3.

    Perhaps you need to realize there are many different ways of doing things. Apple isn't that great either. Or Google.

  23. Re:Just bought my first Windows 10 box on Windows 10 Grabs 5.21% Market Share, Passing Windows Vista and Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    True. Even when you think you turn off "privacy stealing", it still sends your info to the cloud and that is reported automatically to MSFT. It's in the cloud terms, so you can't find it.

    Even Enterprise is leaky. You have to run in private cloud (internal net storage) mode to avoid privacy leakage.

  24. Re:So how bad it is really? on Windows 10 Grabs 5.21% Market Share, Passing Windows Vista and Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    Well, actually, for a laptop, Win 10 is not that bad. It sucks on the desktop and on the server, but it's not a bad laptop OS.

  25. Re:What I read: on Windows 10 Grabs 5.21% Market Share, Passing Windows Vista and Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    Exactly. The only people "adopting" Win10 are the ones who already get it free, or who are forced to accept it due to bundled contracts.

    I'll wait for Windows 11.