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Comment Re:What I get from this (Score 1) 328

On the other hand, if you have to flee an emergency that isn't quite so highly publicized, anyone with an EV will be on their own.

Sitting in traffic with an EV is probably MUCH more efficient than sitting in traffic with an IC powered vehicle.

EV will have an entirely different set of problems of course, lack of power grid being the major one.

Comment Re:Horribly inefficient (Score 2) 167

Video works if what is spoken is also available as text. Either on the sidebar with timecode (which I'd prefer) or at least as subtitles. That way you can fast forward through the video to get to the part that interests you.

Anyone not providing either needn't apply.

There are a whole army of ADA Compliance lawyers out there eagerly awaiting for the organization that tries to put out video without exact description and dialogue in text as well.

I am not at all worried about "videoonlyclpyse" happening.

Comment Re:HTTPS is stupid (Score -1) 94

Well, except that encrypting everything uses up an IP address for every stinking little site out there, when hundreds of HTTP-only sites work just fine on one.

Blocks of IP addresses are going for thousands or tens of thousands of dollars now. There isn't room in IP space for every domain name to have SSL on it.

Comment Re:May never be found (Score 1) 88

It is possible there is evidence that won't be released. Military / intelligence assets that saw it before, or parts of it after it crashed. Or maybe sonar or something.

The people's lives and knowing what happened to the plane aren't worth revealing the capabilities so nothing will be released.

Comment Re: Never going to happen (Score 1) 308

Show me a continuous, buildable line between those three cities...

It's under ground - no need to have a right of way in the conventional above-ground manner.

I can't imagine any actual civic leader giving a "verbal" green light to a project and having it mean ANYTHING.

No problem! They are just going deep enough that they have two city officials in China who have approved* it!

* as long as the bribes keep coming.

Comment Re:Are Passwords on their way out? (Score 1) 234

Biometrics are things you can't change at all. So when somebody cracks yours you are fucked.

And they don't provide 5th Amendment protection. Biometrics is "who" you are. Not "what you know". You can be forced to put your finger on something by a court and a couple of goons, but the court will be violating constitutional rights by forcing you to testify against yourself.

Comment Re: (Score 1) 234

Are we talking about web sites that use type="text" rather than type="password"? If so, then no, never ever ever is that appropriate for a password of any kind.

If we're talking about the UI of an app (either the browser or otherwise) giving the user an option for whether or not to mask, then that's a different discussion.

Now this makes me wonder if I could change the style properties of HTML locally in my browser to turn off the masking on type="password".

Comment Re:what else do you think it does? (Score 1) 234

"does password masking do anything beyond preventing the casual shoulder-surfer?"

Erm...that is precisely ALL it has ever done?! What else do you think it does?

Back in the good ol days of Back Orifice and fast and wild rootkits and viruses there were a bunch of them that would take screen shots.

Most also did keylogging. So there were probably a few cases where unmasking a password put the user at worse risk, but throughout 99% of use over time, the casual shoulder surfer is the only real threat. (Hey, if you get infected, you got all sorts of problems and that little dot over your password isn't significant.)

Comment Re:so frustrating would it be (Score 3, Informative) 316

All (most?) doctors [like me] are well aware that the expiry date for most drugs is notional rather than real. If I or my family get sick I use expired drugs that I have, or have scrounged from the pharmacy.

Not just doctors, the government as well. Our military stockpiles drugs and medication for emergencies, and keeps stuff for a minimum of ten years, often longer. They run extensive tests on it and it's still at 95-100% effectiveness after that time.

Yes, these results are public somewhere. (I forgot where I read them.)

There are a _few_ cases where something went wrong with some of them. And there were studies of public "drug went bad" stories in media. One woman did have kidney damage from Tetracycline (I think), exposed and stored in a damp environment. So even the cases where something happened, the situation was an outlier.

Older drugs are quite safe for the most part and it's hard to pin down reasons why they are not. There COULD be a small risk, but probably isn't. I still wouldn't store medications in a hot car, a pocket, purse, or backpack, or in a garage. But any house or office would be fine and low risk to use after the expiration date.

Comment Unnamed Sources, no actions... (Score 1) 302

Sooo... unnamed sources say "might" and "could" and "maybe" and some person with a persecution complex (who's actually stomping on citizens right to free speech) complains that his multi-100's of billion merger might not work if someone else interferes... maybe?

WTF. This isn't fucking news. Call me when they actually DO something against the merger.

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