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Comment Liability? (Score 1) 271

Not having any idea of the actual reasons behind these decisions, I'm going to pull a possibility out my... out of thin air.

Is it because their liability would increase dramatically if they implemented a more secure system and it still somehow gets compromised?

Comment Re:Troll = Anyone who disagrees with our groupthin (Score 0) 467

In other words, it's working?

I'm sorry, but you picked a shockingly bad example to support your argument. Gamergate IS a problem. If you think women getting flooded with "You should be raped until you die!" messages is acceptable, then you have no business being part of civilized society.

Comment Re:Be careful how you define Troll (Score 3, Insightful) 467

Obviously it hasn't occurred to you that there would be a lot more 'good posts' if there weren't so many trolls around.

The only thing I use twitter for is as an RSS feed for certain companies I want to pay attention to. I sure as hell have no interest in posting random thoughts on there and waiting to become a target.

Comment Cancer? (Score 2) 253

Does this mean Microsoft has developed cancer?

Seriously, while recent moves in this regard have been good, only a fool would ignore history. Microsoft, for as long as it has existed, has done countless morally dubious things in order to maintain control. The history is all right there for the googling. Just because they do a couple Good(tm) things doesn't magically mean they have suddenly realized the errors of their ways and are doing a 180. You can't erase ~40 years of assholry.

Based on the moves Microsoft has done lately, I will move my needle from "completely distrust" to "MAYBE it's not a trap" but still nowhere near the realm of "trustworthy"

Comment Science, or Science *Reporting*? (Score 1) 958

Is it the science, or the science reporting?

It is normal to for scientific results to waffle back and forth, especially when we don't have a complete picture of what's going on.

The real problem is that newspapers report on every single damn study, so you end up with this whole "Eggs are bad! No wait they're good! No wait they're bad again!" thing going.

It's impossible to know what's what when you are bombarded with information, and that information is presented piecemeal and conflicts with previous information.

Comment Re:Anecdotal Example (Score 1) 120

That's bizarre... How in the world does something like that happen?

Of course, as a general rule I don't apply an Apple ID to the initial user of the machine, because I save that to serve as an emergency admin user, so that's probably why I haven't noticed.

You wouldn't happen to know the specific version of yosemite your machine came with? (Guessing 10.10.1?)

Thanks for sharing.

Comment Re:So to cicumvent the screen locker... (Score 4, Funny) 375

Reminds me of my university days...

When someone walked away for an extended period without locking their terminal, one of us would sneak over and do a quick 'xhost +' and then wait for them to come back.

Once they sit down and start working again, we would run 2 dozen copies of neko on their terminal, resulting in a mass of little animated kittens chasing their mouse cursor.

Ah, the lost days of innocent fun.

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