> Multi-button USB mice work perfectly fine with Macs. To right click with touch pad, put
> two fingers down on surface instead of one. There still is the control click, as you said.

Yeah... someone ELSE'S. While this is ultimately useful, it kind of defeats the entire "buy it all here" sort of paradigm that Apple is going for.

Apple's keyboards and mice are atrocious and are only getting worse over time. I really can't see them winning anyone over with the demo units they have out in the stores.

Among other things, I manage public access points for my employer.

If someone wanted to track a poster back to my provider, all the provider would be able to give them is our static ip.

IF I wanted to cooperate, I could give them the time and a non routable ip that was in use at the time.

The mac address isn't logged.

What - someone is going to ask if anyone has seen someone on a laptop at a coffee shop?

But they are ones I'll never forget.

And no one else would ever guess.

One is my uberstrong password, the other is for everything else.

Not having them written down anywhere is a big security plus, which I think makes it stronger than changing them so often that you have to "manage" them.

Flash is "ok" on a windows platform, though it's still too resource intensive.

The biggest issues are on other operating systems.

While *nix implementations have improved, they still bork on a frequent basis.

Availability on OS's designed for smartphones and "net devices" remains a serious issue.

If a company does significant business online, there is a good chance than many of it's customers are early adopters of mobile tech.

My employer had to do a fairly expensive web site redesign to eliminate flash entirely, as the inability of many of our customers to navigate the flash version was depressing our sales.

You're safe - no one wastes mod points on an AC.

they'll be deemed "olfactory cryptology" and will require end user certification before export outside the US.

Since when did slashdotters get concerned about their right to use deodorant?

It shipped with a zenith 286 which was top of the line at the time.

I forget exactly the windows version - .98 or something.

It was useful only for playing Othello.

There was no Solitaire, as I recall.

It came with dbase3 or 4.

And Paradox.

I've never heard of a 2.0 in the wild.

The windows version was pretty useless.
I'd load it every 6 months or so just to see if it was still useless.

It's not that uncommon.

A cell carrier I used to work for accepted obits in lieu of a death certificate when terminating account.

Whether or not my judgment is correct does not negate the fact that my abilities fall somewhere on a spectrum, and my risk will be higher or lower than the average.

It would look like a mandelbrot set

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You're making a common mistake in applying statistics to an individual.

It doesn't really matter to my personal survival what is the death rate per mile for the entire population.

My risk assessment takes into account my own personal driving skills, the vehicle I drive and it's relative merits in it's current operating environment and a multitude of other factors.

My reaction times aren't what they were when I was a teenager, but my ability to detect and avoid dangerous situations is much better than most people. That much is obvious to me when I'm a passenger.

The average driver is only minimally engaged with his vehicle.

So I'd say that generally speaking, my odds are better than most people's are when I'm driving.

OTOH - my odds are probably better than most people in an air crash that's not immediately fatal to all on board, as I'm perfecting willing to claw my way over women and children to get to an egress point.

For pilots to be able to effectively intercede in an autopilot situation, they first have to be awake and paying attention.

For them to only begin situation assessment when alerted would make them nearly useless.

It all depends on what sort of site you're talking about.

I have several apps at work that are only used maybe 3 or 4 days a month.

They could be cloud based and called from an internal portal as needed.

That would make it 0.11*8*6 for me.

$5.28 per month.

To get an annoying app up out of my way.

Gotta think about that

Users with Office installed seem to end up documents infected with a macro virus.

While the Macs are themselves unaffected, they pass along the infection to windows boxes.

That's usually the point where they are found and removed, but the general lack of av for Mac (few choices and most lack functionality/accuracy) along with the perception of macs as immune means that av is rarely installed on macs.

When it is, AV_App_X doesn't detect the malware, whereas AV_App_Y detects, but can't clean, and AV_App_Z has no realtime scanning.