> My concern is dumb admins and people falling for social-engineering.

It's as soon as we stop claiming that it's just stupid people who fall for social-engineering that we'll finally get better at avoiding it.

Of course the cynics will jump on this story and say "I told you so" like they do for everything. I'm starting to think that there are mostly only cynics left on Slashdot : /

But it's more sober to assess the value by looking at the long term impact. The technology will change as they become more popular and advancing battery technology will make batteries more efficient to produce. The *concept* of electric vehicles can produce a society that has less energy waste, and less pollution, even if the first generation of vehicles do not meet the goal.

With the understanding that electric vehicles will eventually (fairly quickly actually) have a positive impact, we can ignore the short term impact so that:
* Charging standards can be matured
* Charging stations can proliferate
* Battery technology can mature
* Motor technology can mature
* Laws can mature

Thank god the same group of cynics didn't get to have an effect on computer technology in it's infancy.

I think the text message is not supposed to be 100% secure, but another obstacle to put in the way of attackers. It's an 80% solution.

I'd imagine a big part of that is that there aren't any standard compression schemes available for the format so it probably has to store them raw or close to it. If you were storing 11MP pictures in raw format, you'd have approximately the same capacity.

The front page story style gave no hint that the video was to embedded and that users need to click through to see the video. I checked all three links assuming one of them would link to the video and figured that the posting editor had accidentally omitted it. It was only when I clicked through to see if anyone else was as confused as I was that I saw it was an embedded video.

The front page style should be changed to allow viewing embedded video from the front page, or at the very least the fact that there is an embedded video to be clicked through should be overtly indicated.

Are you implying that the parent's post was intended to ridicule misogyny? I wholeheartedly disagree that this is a case of satire/irony.

In the case that it was, it's not how many women will take it. It produces a hostile environment for women who we already have too few of in our community, and it makes the younger guys in the crowd think that that's what we find to be "cool" and will do the same to fit in.

You may disagree, but I don't deserve your rebuke.

And why is that may I ask?

I really don't understand why this has been moderated as funny. I was under the impression that the Slashdot crowd was more high brow than angsty teen woman bashing.

Apparently not? At least the fool was wise enough to do it anonymously.