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  1. Re:Unnecessary on The Best Way To Protect Real Passwords: Create Fake Ones · · Score: 1

    I juggle around a half dozen or so strong passwords on a yearly basis in the same way you do. I also was wary of trusting my passwords with some sort of password manager, then I started using pass. If you trust gpg and can do a 600 line audit of a bash script (which is feasible for one person to do by themselves), you get a really nice and simple cli password manager. Oh an no cloud stuff, you can use git to make backups however to other machines or just tar up the password directory every now and again.

  2. Cloud to Butt on Ask Slashdot: Most Useful Browser Extensions? · · Score: 2

    I find cloud to butt very useful in terms of maintaining my sanity, YMMV. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-...

  3. Re:THIS is the kind of thing that GamerGate is abo on Assassin's Creed: Unity Launch Debacle Pulls Spotlight Onto Game Review Embargos · · Score: 1

    Any game journalist who signs a review embargo agreement is a part of the problem.

    So all of them? You do realize that embargos are an industry wide practice. They also serve a pretty useful function when used normally and appropriately. Also please point out who has ever in gamergate talked about review embargo policy.

  4. My Experience on Worrying Aspects of Linux Gaming · · Score: 3, Informative

    It is kind of weird reading all of the negative comments about the steam Linux experience because mine has been largely positive. After spending about a decade screwing around with wine to get various games to play often with limited functionality or weird graphics bugs, playing natively through steam has been amazing. I don't know what the Civ V experience was like on windows I guess but it looks great even on my 2 year old laptop. Beyond the indie stuff, I find it absolutely amazing that any AAA titles are getting ported to linux *at all*. Could it be better? Probably. Seems to me that is going to take time as the Linux gaming user base needs to expand to the point where it makes financial sense to go that extra mile. I'm willing to be patient and buy the ports as they come in, because that's likely the only way it is going to get better.

  5. What's in a name on CNN Anchors Caught On Camera Using Microsoft Surface As an iPad Stand · · Score: 1

    The NFL anchors are using them however the seem to have a problem remembering the name and keep defaulting back to calling it an "Ipad". At least on one occasion I heard someone call it an "Ipad like device" which is better I guess but not by much. Could be worse I suppose, I have people in my office who still refer to $SMARTPHONE as their 'Treo'.

  6. Global Frequency on Interviews: Ask Warren Ellis a Question · · Score: 2

    Any plans on doing more Global Frequency? Loving Trees by the way.

  7. Re:Who cares? on Goodbye, World? 5 Languages That Might Not Be Long For This World · · Score: 1

    If there is a just and loving god, MUMPS should be dead by now. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M...

  8. Re:the real question is... on Nathan Myhrvold's Recipe For a Better Oven · · Score: 1

    800 is a bit much but I tend to do most of my bread baking at 500F (260C). If I could get it hotter I would so that I could do other things like pizza and breads.

  9. Re:I just dont get it on Washington Redskins Stripped of Trademarks · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry what? I'm pretty sure that is exactly what I said.

  10. Re:I just dont get it on Washington Redskins Stripped of Trademarks · · Score: 1

    Good luck getting to the bottom of it but as far as theories go i gotta say that is a bit hard to take. Most of the groups you describe, (except PETA, also as aside, fuck PETA), have enough money to start a strongly worded letter writing campaign and not much more. The Soros and Koch types don't really seem to be doing much that isn't also benefiting themselves. I mean what you are describing isn't Sheldon Adelson levels of funding here but stills sounds like more than seems likely for a group that is willing to not get credit or the limelight.

  11. Re:I just dont get it on Washington Redskins Stripped of Trademarks · · Score: 1

    Not saying I don't believe you but i'm not seeing what the upside would be for whatever group doing this. If as you say it was 'liberals white guys' you'd think that they would be all out there making sure they get the public adulation so they can feel all warm and fuzzy on the inside. Or I suppose it could be someone is out to try and destroy the team for rivalry reasons except the owner Dan Snyder is doing a pretty good job of destroying the team all by his lonesome.

  12. Re:I just dont get it on Washington Redskins Stripped of Trademarks · · Score: 1

    Okay I will. Who are the people behind it them? There isn't a monetary pay out for this so it can't be trail lawyers. I'm not getting any luck with the google-fu.

  13. Re:I just dont get it on Washington Redskins Stripped of Trademarks · · Score: 1

    I would suggest you look at the plaintiffs in the case before you start arguing that these were 'liberal white men' pretending to be offended.

  14. Re:Good on Map of Publicly-Funded Creationism Teaching · · Score: 5, Funny

    does the Anti-Christ turn wine into water?

    No but my liver does. Always knew the damn thing was evil.

  15. What's in a name on New Approach To Immersion Cooling Powers HPC In a High Rise · · Score: 1

    Other players in immersion cooling include Iceotope and Hardcore (now LiquidCool).

    Who's principle leads are AcidBurn and CrashOverride respectively, no doubt.

  16. Re:OTOH on Transport Expert Insists 'Don't Dismiss Wacky Hyperloop' · · Score: 1

    Sort of. The DC metro only shuts down above ground stations due to weather and usually it has to be more than a half a foot. The whole system shutdowns periodically due to a variety of other factors because it is in fact run by bozos. The roads shutdown because people here are bad drivers and have zero ability to deal with snow despite it being a roughly annual occurrence. The whole fucking city shuts down because congress doesn't like to do work and act like if you gave 5th graders the power to decide when the school gets to take snow days.

  17. Re:Oh please on Telescopic Contact Lens With Switchable Magnification To Help AMD Patients · · Score: 1

    Boomerang arrow. Boomerang, respect it.

  18. Re:Whiny little bitch on Ask Slashdot: Does LED Backlight PWM Drive You Crazy? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Am I the only one who has an issue with this definition?

    Yes, you are literally the only one.

  19. Re:Or on Uptick In Whooping Cough Linked To Subpar Vaccines · · Score: 1

    During the 1980s, U.S. parents successfully sued manufacturers, alleging that the whole-cell vaccine also caused long-term brain damage. A 1991 Institute of Medicine report concluded that this was unproven, but by then many pertussis vaccine manufacturers had withdrawn from the market, leading Congress to create a federal vaccine injury compensation program for families who could show a strong case for vaccine damage.

    They don't even really need to make a 'strong' case. All that is required is a doctor's certification that X occurred before time T after Y vaccine's administration and the family is awarded Z in compensation. The key here is that families do not need to prove a causal link between the vaccine and the harm just that it happened. In theory this is the balance for congress making it very difficult for citizens to sue vaccine manufacturers. http://www.hrsa.gov/vaccinecompensation/vaccinetable.html

  20. Re:I don't understand all the anger over Google on Google Keep End-of-Life Date Forecasted · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Conversely there is no obligation to use their services either, which I think is the larger point. Their "responsibility" is to not pissing off a sufficiently large portion of their user base such that they have no interest in trying their new products.

  21. Re:I believe Reuters is fudging on Study Finds Universe Is 100 Million Years Older Than Previously Thought · · Score: 1

    More importantly the Planck reevaluation was still in WMAP error range. WMAP calculation was 13.73 +/- 0.12 billion years old. The new age, while in the upper part of the that range is still in there. As far as discover goes this refinement to me to be the least important thing in the paper. The analysis of the composition and distribution of matter/energy of the universe is far more interesting.

  22. Re:FU Trekkie geeks on Trekkies Vote 'Vulcan' Into the Solar System · · Score: 1

    I didn't realize there was a rule associated with dwarf planets naming. And like I said the moon names were only traditionally Greek to their Roman counterparts. Uranus is the biggest exception to that tradition but the others largely follow it including Pluto. All that being said, I agree that its a pretty long stretch to get from Vulcan to Pluto. There are plenty of other Greek names one could use. Nerdom aside Cerberus should have won, or Persephone or Lethe for that matter (though it would likely be the easiest one to forget.)

  23. Re:FU Trekkie geeks on Trekkies Vote 'Vulcan' Into the Solar System · · Score: 2

    Traditionally its Roman for the planet name and Greek for the moons (Mars w/ Phobos and Deimos for example), so it should really be Hephaestus. The "rules" are some what flexible since Makemake and Haumea are neither Roman nor Greek.

  24. Re:I don't understand the "high cap" magazine ban on 3D Printable Ammo Clip Skirts New Proposed Gun Laws · · Score: 1

    Fascism? Really? Fascism didn't exist as an ideology until arguably the late 19th century at the earliest so its difficult to imagine the founding fathers putting the second amendment in there to protect us from that. I know its a lot of fun these days to use 'Fascism' or 'Fascist' (or append them to other words to make even more meaningless word) but how about we stop. It just makes people look like you haven't a clue. Stick with 'tyranny', we all get what you are trying to say.

  25. Re:Don't get it on Connecticut Group Wants Your Violent Videogames — To Destroy Them · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The obsession isn't anything new, the target is just different now. Used to be that comic books were the cause of all moral decay in america's youth. Go far enough back and i'd put good money that someone thought opera was the reason for violent crime. So just remember that you don't understand this obsession when holographic vid novels are dragged through the mud as being responsible for all of societies woes and maybe we can break this stupid cycle.