It leaves Windows 7. Just because they've made a newer one doesn't mean the existing one will suddenly stop working...? (Well, at least it didn't used to mean that; no guarantees going forward...)

Finally a thread where his gibberish is absolutely 100% relevant, and there *isn't* a post about how app appers app apps yet? Come on! It's practically *begging* you to write about apping apps so you can app apps while you app, or whatever the crap. That'd be like a thread that's actually about using hosts file with no hosts file gibberish guy.

Seriously, though, this is dumb. Why the heck would google want to stop writing apps for their own ecosystem, and why would we want them to? I mean, we want them to stop *sucking*, like maps totally does and always has, and it would also be nice if we could uninstall the ones we don't ever feel we'll use, but that doesn't mean Google shouldn't make them...

The best password: ********

"How frequently have people run into companies sending sensitive information (like passwords) in cleartext via e-mail?"

Not *that* often, but more often than you would think. (See plaintextoffenders.com - they've got hundreds of examples.)

"What would you do if this type of situation happened to you?"
What I do when this happens:
1. Take a screencap of the email, black out the username and password, and send it to plaintextoffenders.com
2. Contact the site admin, let them know that you just did that, and why it's such a bad idea. Link them to http://plaintextoffenders.com/...
3. Immediately change your password on the site to something stupid that would definitely not even *remotely* help an attacker guess what sort of passwords you might use on other sites, since if their password security is that awful, chances are their security is awful in other ways too.

Agree complete: I *would* agree with the phrasing "The earth is getting warmer because of human activity" (i.e. it's a contributing factor). I would even agree with the phrasing "The earth is getting warmer primarily because of human activity" (i.e. it's the *biggest* factor). Saying it's getting warmer "mostly" because of human activity means there's very little *else* contributing to the trend, which I'm not at all sure we have proof of, nor is it even particularly relevant. I caught that right away. I'm surprised that high a percentage of liberals/democrats agreed anyway, given it's not really true as stated.

Presumably because they need the money, and as was pointed out by the OP, it's easier to break back into a field you were already in, than a new one. Breaking into a totally new field not right out of college *is* kind of difficult, after all, especially if you've been totally out of the workforce for 3 years (but even if you haven't).

My wife is also looking towards completely changing career paths entirely out of IT (where she's been for a few years). I totally wish her luck, but it's not the easiest thing to do, and she knows it.

That said, yes, it is kind of silly that it was the husband posting this to /., and not the person who is actually looking for advice.

Then somebody hacks into a thermostat, uses it to burn somebody's house down for luls. The couple whose house was burned down tries to sue, loses due to the contract that says their only recourse is a refund of the 50$ even though WTF, it makes all the news everywhere, and the device is forever known as "that device that burned some guy's house down and they gave him a whopping 50 bucks". They're now out 50 bucks in direct cost, and a jillion dollars in lost sales.

We sometimes forget the economics side of things, but companies *often* forget the social side of things (i.e. if you treat people like crap, they'll tell their friends, who will tell their friends, and eventually you'll be "that company that treats people like crap". Unless, of course, you're a monopoly, or if all your competition is equally terrible, in which case do what you like.)

Except in this particular case, it sounds like the reviews are super fake. Not just super fake, but also insulting (to and at least borderline offensive. *Either* of those would be enough to get the reviews pulled completely (not just hidden). So it's strange they'd go straight to the courthouse, instead of just flagging the reviews for deletion? I flag reviews all the time (usually by people who don't know how to use yelp and have posted reviews to the wrong place, but occasionally also for other reasons), then they get deleted.

I would have a huge problem with requiring reviewers to check in at the business, because a. not everyone always has a smartphone, b. not everyone always has their smartphone *with* them and charged, and c. even when I do, I'd say my rate of actually being allowed to check in is about 50% (the other half the time, it says the GPS couldn't get an exact enough fix on my location).

SpaceX Breaks Down... (crap, what happened now?)

its rocket landing attempts. Ah, alright then, never mind. Got me worried for nothing.

4:3 really wouldn't be that much of an improvement, either. A small one, but I remember the jump from 4:3 to 16:10 *very* fondly. I'm not against change, just against *stupid* change. 16:10 is optimal for just about everything. (Yes, even playing 16:9 media: in that specific use case, it leaves just enough space for controls. ;))

16:10 again? Yes please very much.

None of those things sound like 1992... I don't think there even *were* widescreen laptops in 1992? I certainly never saw them, at least - was all 4:3 back then. I don't remember seeing too many 16:10 laptop screens until the mid-2000s?

16:10 is definitely my preferred aspect ratio, so if this were to happen, and I could get it with everything else I would want in a laptop (17" screen, decent graphics card, SSD primary and large HDD secondary drive) for a reasonable price, I would absolutely jump on that. My laptop is getting kinda old, but I haven't upgraded in years because we're stuck on 16:9.

Title: "Put Your Enterprise Financial Data In my Butt? Sure, Why Not"

The tag-line to the dullest porn *ever*.

I agree, the HP machine I had years back was decent. Their tech support, on the other hand, is hilariously incompetent to the point of negligence, by which I mean, something broke under warranty, I called them, they insisted not only that I didn't have a warranty, but that the machine (which I purchased directly from them not a year earlier) didn't exist and never had. Took hours on calls (mostly on hold) to get them to admit otherwise. Never buying an HP consumer machine ever again. (And the machine wasn't even amazing, just decent, given as mentioned, something broke and required repair about a year in, and it finally died permanently after about 4 years. My new machine, an MSI, is going strong almost 5 years after purchase; the only thing I've had to replace was a keyboard, which was a 10 buck self-install.)

Check how long your warranty is good for. It'll fail about a week after that.

I read the title, I imagined them doing experiments where they had bowls of cereal lined up, then they took various artificial ingredients and dropped them into the bowls to see what would happen. So basically, research for their next cereal, what additional artificial crap can we add that we haven't already tried?

I'm glad to see exactly the opposite was actually the case (supposedly. I'll believe it when it actually happens.)