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Comment Gotta agree (Score 1) 365

I have some generic passwords that I use for non-critical accounts. For critical accounts, I have some pretty tough password-generated things. I have a list of them encrypted on my hard disk, so that I can throw some away if/when the need arises, and grab another. But - I can't copy paste them everywhere. How the hell am I supposed to EVER memorize those damned passwords? Just let me copy paste them, FFS.

A real "Password Manager" would be even better - if I find one that I trust, and I'm comfortable using. I haven't found it yet . . .

Comment Re:Face palm. (Score 1) 106

Idiot. Alright - WTF is in that suit that people haven't been preserving for hundreds of years already? Seriously - why is the suit so much more complicated and expensive? Half a million dollars. WTF is going on here?

http://www.madehow.com/Volume-...

You tell me - what is in that suit that is so very difficult to preserve? Mostly, it's composed of various kinds of plastic. Preservation for plastic? Avoid direct sunlight - and ???? You might go over them with something like Armorall now and then. The early suits had cotton linings in them - which probably wouldn't like to be Armorall'd very much. Hmmm - zip out the linings, and clean them separately?

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Comment Re: NSA? (Score 1) 114

Agreed. How do you propose that we convince the majority of Americans to agree? I've often said that I'm willing to vote for people of all parties. I'm even willing to see a member of the Communist Party in congress, if it breaks the grip of the two parties who share a chokehold on the US. It was ONE OF the things that made Obama look good, when he crawled out of the woodwork - he APPEARED to be more independent than other candidates.

We need some Libertarians in Washington, along with some Green/Conservative party members, a Worker's or Labor party - in short, we need to borrow from Parliamentary governments. I don't believe that there is another nation on earth that would continue to elect Republicans or Democrats when they continue to relentlessly rape the people.

Comment Gotta wonder (Score 1) 106

Why does it cost half a million to "preserve" a suit? If you were to go looking, you could find suits and dresses well preserved from a hundred years ago. What's so special about these suits? Yeah, they're historical, and you don't want just any idiot fumbling around with them. Still, half a million dollars?

Maybe they should have advertised, and taken bids. These folk look qualified to do the job - http://www.coff.com/home.htm

Comment Re:BBC / other state broadcasters? (Score 5, Interesting) 132

State broadcast means little to nothing. You're paying for it - let other people see it. In return, you get to see all of THEIR stuff. You specifically mention that the BBC is not the only state sponsored broadcast in Europe - you'll get all of their stuff too.

And, I'll point out that despite all the piracy in the world, America's "entertainment" industries continue to post record profits, again and again.

In short - you'll lose nothing. If anything, you stand to gain something. The bigger the audience, the more likely you are to find people WILLING to pay for the content.

The entertainment industries seriously need to change their business models, worldwide. "Entertainement", when done right, makes people WILLING to part with their hard earned money. Sometimes, I see, hear, or watch something that is so good, I actually WANT to give the author a dollar. However, I've never once in my life felt compelled to give some faceless corporation any of my money. Granted, the BBC is somewhat unlike most faceless corporations, but they are still running a scam with their GeoIP blocking.

Not that it's difficult to get around the blocking. There's not a whole lot that I want to see on the BBC entertainment channels, but when something catches my eye, I manage to grab it.

Comment Re: NSA? (Score 1) 114

And, you use the word "conservative" like it's a "bad thing". Apparently, you're one of those divisive liberals, who only sees evil in conservatism, and you want free reign to rebuild the world in some socialistic image.

Sadly - communism doesn't have one single success story to point to. And, we should trust the liberals? They want to take a failed system, and impose it on the United States.

Fuck that - we can fail on our own, and in our own fashion. To hell with modern day American liberalism.

Comment Re: NSA? (Score 2) 114

"You sound like"

Want the truth? I don't fit into any of the labeled boxes. I'm most comfortable with the libertarian label - but I don't agree with all their shit either.

Why don't you take a good, hard look at the two party system? The two are in collusion to prevent any other party from gaining any power. Look at federal funding. The D's and the R's agreed to split all of the money that the fed has available for elections. They gave a little lip service to the concept of democracy, by saying IF any other party gained x% of the vote, THEN that party could gain funding from the fed. And, all the while, the two parties continue to split all the fed's money on campaigns designed to ensure that no third party ever gets x% of the vote.

And, that is one of the Libertarian party's beefs, as well as one of their goals. They are closing in on x. Each and every election cycle, they gain a point.

Watch carefully now - the D's and the R's are about due to move the goalposts. Instead of x% it's going to be changed to 5x% or more.

And - no, a Libertarian is not a Republican. The two share SOME ideas, beliefs, and opinions - but Libertarians have far more in common with liberalism than they do with conservatism.

Comment Re:Why replace it? (Score 2) 114

We know that the developers were pretty sure that the last version of TrueCrypt was still secure. You cannot ever know for certain that a software is really secure. You may convince yourself that it is, or that it isn't, but you never know what the other side has done, or is doing.

The ONLY thing you really know for certain about TrueCrypt, is that the developers felt that their product was being compromised, so they let the world know of their suspicions.

Comment Re:Not that Useful (Score 1) 151

Ehhh - I'm in agreement with your approach - but I don't usually bother. The headphones generally lie at arm's reach. Occasionally, I'll hear the things making odd noises. If the noises from the tabs aren't very loud, they never get my attention. WIth uBlock and NoScript, most pages don't load noise making advertisements anyway.

But, most certainly - if a noisy tab annoys me, it's closed immediately. Although, I have to SEARCH OUT the offending tab. With this addon, I suppose the search is over.

(Imagine one browser on the main monitor with 20, 30, maybe more tabs open. Imagine a VM open on the second monitor, with another browser which often has even more tabs open. Search for the offending tab? TBH, though, that second browser is on I2P where few people try to autoload stupid bullshit.)

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