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  1. Re:What benefit to announcing it? on 'Stagefright' Flaw: Compromise Android With Just a Text · · Score: 1

    If you have a speech impediment then do not use speech-to-text or do make an effort to preview your posts. You were looking for "otherwise" and "at least."

  2. Re:What benefit to announcing it? on 'Stagefright' Flaw: Compromise Android With Just a Text · · Score: 1

    I just splice into the wires when you are not home and install a recording device. Exploit done. Alternatively, I whack you in the head with a hammer and steal it then I have all the data (none) that was on the phone.

  3. Re: How to Disable Stagefright? on 'Stagefright' Flaw: Compromise Android With Just a Text · · Score: 1

    Stop going through your mom's sent messages. I took them for sentimental reasons you insensitive clod!

  4. In my country we call those politicians.

  5. Re:Under what authority? on Police Shut Down Anti-Violence Fundraiser Over Rapper's Hologram · · Score: 1

    I got arrested for drinking in public. The state that I was in has no specific law against it UNLESS there are signs (there were none) or you have been told to stop by a police officer. The officer had told my friend to stop - he had not gotten to me. He got to me so I started swilling my beer. (I was distracting him for a different reason, it was logical at the time.) He arrested me. I paid my 60 PR bail and stumbled out in the morning. The case was dropped. But yes, cops can and do arrest when they think you have broken the law. Sometimes you can use that to your advantage. (Nobody got an OUI that night.)

  6. Re: Under what authority? on Police Shut Down Anti-Violence Fundraiser Over Rapper's Hologram · · Score: 1

    What would you call a gag order? Look carefully at the definition of warrant before answering.

  7. Re:Under what authority? on Police Shut Down Anti-Violence Fundraiser Over Rapper's Hologram · · Score: 1

    You are mistaken. DNC, yes the Democrats, used it first in the 1980s.

  8. Re:Under what authority? on Police Shut Down Anti-Violence Fundraiser Over Rapper's Hologram · · Score: 1

    Free speech zones were first used by the Democrats at a DNC convention in NY in the 1980s. Not that it makes it right.

  9. Re:Why do browsers allow websites to do this? on A Plea For Websites To Stop Blocking Password Managers · · Score: 1

    I like it best when they have a cryptic CAPCHA that is impossible to be certain about and then they wipe the whole form (and all the many data points) and give you a trivial reply as to what *could* have been the problem instead of saying which, of those things, was the problem.

  10. Re:Why do browsers allow websites to do this? on A Plea For Websites To Stop Blocking Password Managers · · Score: 1

    Alternatively, you could just not copy something and respect the wishes of the site creator. I know... I know... But you *could* do that.

  11. Re:Why do browsers allow websites to do this? on A Plea For Websites To Stop Blocking Password Managers · · Score: 1

    I really do not want my browser to interfere with code. That is up to me to decide. It should not even present me with options unless I have specifically asked it to. It should render and send all information I tell it to.

  12. Re:Scripts that interact with passwords fields aws on A Plea For Websites To Stop Blocking Password Managers · · Score: 1

    You might be able to win $500 in an ADA case. It is even tax-free money I understand. Screen readers have issues with some radio buttons last I knew. Things may have improved I suppose.

  13. Re:NVidea's problem, not Microsoft's on Windows 10's Automatic Updates For NVidia Drivers Causing Trouble · · Score: 1

    Now that came out a bit garbled. I will leave it to you to fill in the details. Hopefully you can still parse it.

  14. Re:NVidea's problem, not Microsoft's on Windows 10's Automatic Updates For NVidia Drivers Causing Trouble · · Score: 1

    I have actually contacted hardware drivers (and even Microsoft) to complain and have had them reply quite nicely. Microsoft released a hotfix for us (we were not the only ones to complain) and a plotter company (whose name I have forgotten) updated a driver for us. We had less than 200 employees at the time. I did the initial contact with both companies. We may have done more that I am simply unaware of.

  15. Re:The Price is Right! on Smithsonian Increases Goal For Spacesuit Crowdfunding Effort · · Score: 1

    To be fair, I can not think of any that have been universally fixed. Even polio is still around in pockets. We have made vast improvements in first world countries but, really, what have we actually fixed? By fixed I mean completely... I honestly can not think of any problems that have been fixed completely. Not a single one that I can not find a case where it is there is still a problem for some portion of the population. Maybe fire but, then again, we can not effectively control it in all instances.

    I know I am being pedantic but, frankly, this is one of those subjects where we should be pedantic. Niggling details that affect others besides ourselves are still niggling details with great importance to others, maybe.

  16. Re:The Price is Right! on Smithsonian Increases Goal For Spacesuit Crowdfunding Effort · · Score: 1

    It will be nice to tweet that the Sun is expanding and that the Earth's certain, nonnegotiable, doom is immanent. I am fine with letting our species die out and the planet disappear as a hunk of ash because I am an asshole that does not care about four billion years from now. Are you?

  17. Re:I like this on Smithsonian Increases Goal For Spacesuit Crowdfunding Effort · · Score: 1

    That is NASA's job and not the job of The Smithsonian. We can do both, trivially, and this is not something you are forced to participate in. As such, you really do not get a say in the matter other than to whine online about it. You can send your few dollar donation to NASA if you want. You can not tell them that the condition for your donation is specifically for a space suit, however. More information can be found in a number of links from this page:

    https://www.google.com/search?...

  18. Re:I like this on Smithsonian Increases Goal For Spacesuit Crowdfunding Effort · · Score: 1

    I pay far less in taxes than I should. I pay a smaller percentage now, it is all capital gains as I live entirely off interest and (I suppose, technically) dividends. I fully acknowledge and accept that I am able to do so because I can hire a lawyer and an accountant and they ensure I pay the exact minimal amount to the penny. I never pay more, I never pay less.

    Instead, I take the amount of money I should have paid (and then some) and donate it to causes I agree with. I donate more than I can write off (which further reduces my tax burden to a point). I like being able to decide how much I spend on what and to be able to support things I agree with. I think that this could be done at the federal level and could even be an incentive to actually get to pay a higher total than they now pay. While it is true that I pay less in taxes it is also true that I pay much more into the social contract than I ever have.

  19. Re:No kidding. on Google Studies How Bad Interstitials Are On Mobile · · Score: 1

    D'oh! I must learn to scroll down before posting. Unfortunately it is difficult as there are often many replies. But, yes... It is called a browser. You can even customize this newly created interface by adding favorites which make it a trivial task to navigate to sites. We should call them bookmarks, or favorites, and promote such an idea. Maybe a standard display language, let's call it markup, will be beneficial.

    I have not looked and would not know but it seems that there should be a potential for a miniature device markup language. Sort of like HTML but for mobiles and other small-screen devices. The blink tag should be part of that ratified standard, of course. (The blink element was never depreciated because it was never actually a part of the standard. Browser vendors opted to include it.) Anyhow, the miniature device markup has potential for resizing and can be extended to make an app like the one the OP was talking about more easily. I have my own personal issues with W3C but they are probably the best tool for the job should this ever be considered.

  20. Re:No kidding. on Google Studies How Bad Interstitials Are On Mobile · · Score: 1

    Of course, the real train wreck is that there's no standard for making websites' contents available for app use, which would allow a user to install one reader that can read content on any of the dozen sites that he or she might be interested in.

    I believe they call that a browser.

  21. Re:BS on Google Studies How Bad Interstitials Are On Mobile · · Score: 1

    If the latter part is true then you would not need to post it. The reality is that people do not care - some even profess to like ads. I, personally, have enough compute power to block them and many interests so I needn't deal with obtrusive sites. Most people just do not care. The minority does not rule the masses and this, the internet, is one place where that holds true.

  22. Re:JS-only sites on Google Studies How Bad Interstitials Are On Mobile · · Score: 1

    Ghostery is your friend. Disconnect is also good. Both is better. Both can be done with uMatrix but that is a bit harder to configure and use (it takes a while to get things whitelisted). I prefer the uMatrix route personally.

  23. Re:Won't allow forwarding? on Gmail Messages Can Now Self-Destruct · · Score: 1

    I think they were pretty clear and reasonable. I have similar/same complaints and am an avid Linux user.

  24. Re:Won't allow forwarding? on Gmail Messages Can Now Self-Destruct · · Score: 1

    Where did they place blame on anyone but the OEMs? Your rant makes no sense when I read the post you are replying to.

  25. Re: Won't allow forwarding? on Gmail Messages Can Now Self-Destruct · · Score: 1

    I, for one, do not welcome these overlords. I have ample hardware to survive an apocalypse. If things should drastically change then I have many computers that will last the rest of my life. As it is, I really do not see any reason to upgrade to new hardware. I upgrade because I like it. The added speed is trivial these days. The new features are seldom used. Now they may be able to keep me off the 'net (sort of) but I would just build an extension to my home network and allow access from others.

    I also have radios and nohow. I even have power in a variety of ways. I can even fix my devices. If SHTF I will still be amusing myself for the rest of my life with nary a blink. I do not even have to shop for most food stuffs I suppose. I seldom do as it is. I grow an hunt much of my food. I have firearms and friends and lots of land in the middle of nowhere. I suppose I will by alright.