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Comment Re:Ridiculous (Score 4, Insightful) 475

I'm confused about one thing, though.
How can you reliably determine the age of a cartoon character? I mean, they're cartoons, you could say "this girl-like-looking drawing is actually an 1000-year old witch". Furthermore, I found difficult to reliably determine whether some manga characters were of lawful age, because most look like they're not, I assume this is intentional but can't be sure.

In the absence of a well-designed "lawful age" metric, one should either ban all manga or ban none.

Comment Re:I installed it (Score 1) 147

I installed it in a VM as well. The Start Menu was small, I mean really small, and although the mouse pointer showed I could resize it, it wouldn't resize at all. I restarted it and the Start Menu was bigger this time, but I still couldn't resize it. After several restarts I came to realize that if I tried to drag it to a new size, I had to restart for that change to apply, but then I couldn't resize it again unless I restarted the OS after that.

That was as far as I went. I still have it installed in a VM but I'm not firing it up again.

Comment Re:symbols, caps, numbers (Score 3, Interesting) 549

One of my older passwords for important stuff was an Office 2000 key I learned by heart. 25 characters, letters mixed with numbers, not including dashes. If special characters were required, then I'd use dashes, otherwise not.
Save for VL keys, they were unique so the chances of someone guessing that were very, very slim.

And just for kicks I wrote a password manager which allowed you to use any key on the keyboard, including ctrl, shift, alt, caps lock, Win key, you name it. How about using ctrl, shift+num*, backspace, backspace, F1, Esc, Scroll Lock, Winkey as a password? :)
(the only problem was that if you fatfingered a key you would have to wait for the 10 second cool off and try again when prompted)
The application could also be configured to give you a "wrong password" result if you entered the right password, with a configurable delay during which you were expected to do nothing to go through. There was no visual feedback when pressing the keys, only sound.
But a regular user would be driven mad by such a login method, heh-heh.

There are many ways to make an environment secure password-wise. But Average Joe wants it quick and easy, so as long as people aren't educated, nothing would really be secure enough.

Comment Re:Art? (Score 1) 77

The GP question was whether they can do it, not whether they could do it by themselves. My response wasn't denying the importance of the discovery, merly was pointing out that a broad statement (can an animal draw?) can be easily proved wrong.

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