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  1. Re:HurrDurr 101? on Skype Disables Password Resets After Huge Security Hole Discovered · · Score: 5, Insightful

    That part actually makes sense. Skype allows you have have multiple accounts tied to the same email (some people might use that to separate contacts but maintain the same email). To make it easy to use, you don't have to verify the email belongs to you, but email is really only for password resets so it's not a big deal if you put a bogus email in.

    Now if you were just signed up with some random guy's email, it wouldn't be such a big deal, but the BIG security issue here is that for whatever reason Skype will send the password reset message to the random guy's email AND any Skype client associated with the email, and then almost worse, let you pick which account on the email to reset.

    If the password reset message was just sent to the email, it would be fine, but sending it to an account that doesn't have a verified email is an issue.

  2. Re:Use a pre-built on Ask Slashdot: What Is the Best Way To Add Forums To a Website? · · Score: 1

    The most work of integrating a forum to an existing website is getting the look and feel to match, which means lots of CSS. Once you get that, it's less of an issue what the back-end uses (though an existing one is a lot less work).

  3. Re:vBulletin on Ask Slashdot: What Is the Best Way To Add Forums To a Website? · · Score: 1

    It WAS legendary for SQL injection, but with the push for greater security in phpBB 3.x, it's a thing of the past.

    Obviously, any user made mod in any system risks opening a security hole, so I recommend checking over the code for anything added.

  4. Touchscreens... on Why Does a Voting Machine Need Calibration? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Anyone that's ever worked with touchscreens before knows that those things need frequent recalibration

  5. Re:Stalking vs Surveillance on Seattle's Creepy Cameraman Pushes Public Surveillance Buttons · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Or more likely, the people that handled the issue gracefully were too boring to upload, so he moved on.

  6. Re:Someone forgot to test on Fisker Hybrids Get Bad Karma From Superstorm Sandy · · Score: 1

    Even burning coal and oil, an EV is better for the environment than a gas-powered car.

  7. Re:Better upgrade on Apple Delays Simpler and Cleaner iTunes 'to Get It Right' · · Score: 1

    It's not a great feature for listening to music on your own, but with friends and at parties, it's great.

    Just hook up your computer to a big TV or projector and you have an instant light show to go along with your music. Great for setting the mood.

  8. Re:Welcome on Stolen Cellphone Databases Switched On In US · · Score: 1

    It cuts down on wear and tear if you don't have to run it through a card reader as much. You also don't have to take it out of your wallet if that's the only NFC card you have - though that works better for other systems.

  9. Re:Probably, but watch out for the Audit. on Ask Slashdot: Is TSA's PreCheck System Easy To Game? · · Score: 2

    There's also nothing forcing you to show the same ticket to the TSA as to the people at the gate. Could have a fake one for the TSA and a real one for the plane to ensure it checks out with the airline.

  10. Re:Economics at work on LG's 84-inch 3840 x 2160 Television Doesn't Come Cheap: $17,000 · · Score: 1

    But if you think about it, you can buy an HD (1080) LG 42 inch TV for around $500. So $2000 gets you the screens, plus we'll add $1000 for the frame, and $2000 for the processing unit, now we have an 84 inch Ultra HD TV for only $5000, There's no real increase in pixel density here, just support for this larger format.

  11. Re:Socialist agenda on full display tonite on Third 2012 US Presidential Debate Tonight: Discuss Here · · Score: 1

    Well his current track is cutting military spending by $1 trillion - not really a big increase

  12. Re:Socialist agenda on full display tonite on Third 2012 US Presidential Debate Tonight: Discuss Here · · Score: 1

    I'm somewhat amazed that you can't see obvious policy differences between the TWO viable candidates. Although both are much more to the right than in the past, there is a clear difference in ideology and plans for the next 4 years.

    I take it you're moving to Canada when RON PAUL doesn't get elected? If you're entirely blind to all policy differences and don't care about which way the country should be going, then sure vote for your no-name candidate with zero chance. If you do care, then the ethical choice would be to cast a vote against the one you dislike most.

  13. Re:PARTIAL presidential candidate debate on Third 2012 US Presidential Debate Tonight: Discuss Here · · Score: 1

    By the number of electoral college votes they're expected to get?
    0%

  14. Re:Did not like set design of TNG on Huston Huddleston Wants You To Help Save the Star Trek TNG Set · · Score: 1

    I have some mixed news for you...

  15. Re:lamest name ever on Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal Out Now; Raring Ringtail In the Works · · Score: 1

    I thought having animal names was suppose to make a version number somewhat easier to remember. Using animals like "Quetzal" which I can barely pronounce doesn't do anything other than make me think of it as that "Q" release.

  16. Re:Church and Einstein on Einstein Letter Critical of Religion To Be Auctioned On EBay · · Score: 1

    I'm sure if you were in the tank building death camp business, you saw great economic times under the Nazis

  17. Re:And? on Amazon Kindle eBook Users To Get Refunds After Settlement · · Score: 1

    Because it's about e-books, and the tech giants Amazon and Apple.

  18. Re:What a Joke on Amazon Kindle eBook Users To Get Refunds After Settlement · · Score: 4, Informative

    In this case, Amazon wasn't the one price fixing e-books, it was the publishers. The money is just being returned via amazon who went with the account credit method. It saves a lot of processing fees, and most people who buy books on Amazon are going to buy other stuff on Amazon anyways. It isn't like Sony giving out $1.00 to be spent on more Sony CDs because of something Sony did. Amazon wanted lower prices just as much as the people buying the books.

  19. Re:"Commission"... right. on US Election's Only VP Debate Tonight: Weigh In With Your Reactions · · Score: 1

    Well in reality, a third party would be very troublesome without first reforming the electoral college and voting system.

    No one wants to "waste" their vote on a candidate that isn't going to be elected when their second favorite could be elected instead.

    Worse, if the third party candidate did get electoral college votes, there'd likely be a tie, so the mostly Republican states would get to pick the president instead.

  20. Easy Distraction on Laser Strikes On Aircraft Becoming Epidemic · · Score: 1

    Seems a little odd that a helicoptor escort can be that easily distracted/disabled. If the guy hasn't kept pointing it at them, they wouldn't have been able to find him either.

  21. Re:Interesting on Boston Airport Replacing X-ray Body Scanners · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I don't think you looked at the website very carefully...

  22. Re:Captain Obvious on Electric Car Environmental Impact: Power Source Matters · · Score: 1

    Diesel-Electric locomotives are 'electric'. They get their electricity from diesel generators, but the motors are still 100% electric.

    That was something that amazed me on a "How it's made". Diesel trains are just a big-ass Diesel motor connected to a big-ass generator that runs the electric motors. It's why it's relatively simple to have hybrid systems where the trains can switch to overhead lines in some areas.

  23. Re:Captain Obvious on Electric Car Environmental Impact: Power Source Matters · · Score: 1

    Smoking however, causes many health issues that end up costing a lot later. I have no idea how much of the money ends up going to treating sick smokers, but since health costs have been rising more than inflation, that could account for the increases.

    Pollution obviously causes health issues as well, but fewer polluters reduces the risk to everyone (including the polluter) as opposed to smoking where the health risks remain the same for the smoker.

  24. Re:Harm to consumers on Advertisers Blast Microsoft Over IE Default Privacy Settings · · Score: 1

    I read that as the user actively making the decision to activate it. I doubt you'll find anyone that chooses IE10 because they know it will send the Do Not Track header.

    Would an ISP automatically adding the header be compliant because users are subscribed to that ISP?

  25. Re:Harm to consumers on Advertisers Blast Microsoft Over IE Default Privacy Settings · · Score: 1

    Because the standard states that the setting must be disabled by default, so Microsoft's implementation is not standards compliant.