Yes people will go back and fourth on password managers. They are not idiot proof, and take skill to use, but for those of us who use them properly they are very convenient. No security system is going to be perfect so one just has to do a risk management analysis for themselves.

Personally, if I was forced to use an unsecured computer (a public terminal) to log in to a website I would look up the password on my cellphone and physically type it in. I would not log in to my password service on an unsecured computer, ever.

Not an accountant, but I believe IRA earnings withdrawn are taxed as regular income today, regardless of how those gains were realized in the IRA. Getting rid of the special treatment of long term capital gains wouldn't have any impact on your IRA.

A little background research show lawsuits were filed on Jan 10, one day after the event, Freedom Industries did not file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy until Jan 17. Really it is more about the limited liability of the company stake holders and officers than bankruptcy law that is upsetting.

People need to realize that post-paid contract cell phone accounts are *unlimited liability* credit accounts and that you have agreed to pay whatever roaming charges are forwarded to ATT from other carriers that ATT agreed to. There is no incentive to change this practice absent regulation. This kind of stuff on post-paid is why I'm switching to prepaid when my contract is up, as I can control what I spend and what features I want to pay for. I will not be back on post-paid until they allow setting a spending limit like most other forms of credit accounts.

I have serious doubts as to whether a source file for printing a 3D weapon can be regulated. Forgetting the 2nd amendment issues I doubt it would stand up to 1st amendment scrutiny (source files are speech). Possession of the output (the gun) is already regulated under existing laws anyway, I'm not sure what the big deal is.

You sort of proved the GP's point. Only if you choose to use written offer must the offer be good for any third party. If, instead, one distributes binaries with source, there is no obligation to third parties as they should have received source from their distributor.

All they have to do is set up an SMS service to get out of iMessage. "Text STOP to XXXXXX and Apple will remove the sending number from any iMessage accounts". It is a really god damn easy solution.

Forgot to mention, sort the comments to show Oldest posts first, those are the best.

It does lead to hilarious results sometimes. I recall a ReadWriteWeb article that BREIFLY became the top search result for "facebook login" on google. The chaos was amazing.

http://readwrite.com/2010/02/10/facebook_wants_to_be_your_one_true_login

The comment section is riddled with people asking how to get to facebook, or why did facebook change their login, asking help with logging in on this "new" login page. It was epic. The comments are still up if you want to read them

They had to put a notice near the top of the article explaining that it was not a facebook page. Eventually google fixed it. I guess the point is, that yes these people need to be considered when designing UIs.

Just because it has always been done that way, doesn't mean it still works in the current industry environment. Netflix only sends data to a host that requests it. if netflix is sending your network data it is because someone paying to use your network has asked them to that bandwidth is paid for already. I guess netflix could code the client to send back equal amounts of data as a workaround, then it would be even.

I can't comment on the reactivate every boot, OEM's do strange things with preinstall images so I guess it is possible. Personally, I'd just reinstall Windows in a VM, it be easier than trying to put an existing install in a VM. Install .iso's are not difficult to come by and MD5/SHA1 can be verified against TechNet's published values.

Agree with everything you said. My first encounter with screen I first installed Linux to run a headless Counter-Strike server. It is a great solution to being able to ssh in to a box, start the server and log off. It also allowed other admins to log in and assume the screen if they needed to.

Microsoft, however, is subject to the jurisdiction of the U.S. Federal Court system, and when a Magistrate Judge orders them to produce something, they are compelled to produce it. It doesn't really matter where the something is. Basically the court is saying the search warrant can be executed like a subpoena.

From the linked article:
A search warrant for email information, he said, is a "hybrid" order: obtained like a search warrant but executed like a subpoena for documents. Longstanding U.S. law holds that the recipient of a subpoena must provide the information sought, no matter where it is held, he said.

Indeed. Diablo 2 had locked chests. My bad!

Original Diablo circa 1996: I can vanquish the Lord of Terror, but I am defeated by a locked chest. Damnit!