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Comment Re:No such thing (Score 1) 153

I would also say that it violates the 6th Amendment. If I refuse to comply with a NSL, they'll probably charge me with something. The NSL would then be evidence. They're not likely to release that in public, which, in my opinion, would violate my right to a public trial. And secret evidence probably flies in the face of the right to a fair trial, again, infringing on the 5th Amendment right to due process.

Comment Re:Are passwords really that hard to remember? (Score 1) 372

I have to change certain passwords every 30 days, and I don't use them enough to commit them to memory. I'm not going through the effort of coming up with a good random password and memorizing it just to throw it away next month.

Before you say "shift a character on the keyboard; now it's new", the pattern detections are getting better and better. I've had proposed passwords rejected because they were too similar to a past password of mine. And when the system can keep track of your old passwords (some systems go back 18 months) you know the password is being stored in plaintext somewhere. At that point, password strength policies are just for show.

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Submission + - Yakov ending his show, starting tour (kansascity.com)

ProZachar writes: "Yakov Smirnoff, inspiration for thousands of Slashdot posts, is ending his show in Branson, MO after the 2012 season to begin a nationwide tour. In America, you drive the tour bus around the country. In Soviet Russia, tour bus drives you!"

Comment You will dislike this, but thats ok (Score 1) 389

Guys has anyone actually given any thought to the amount of work these people are putting into this project? All you can manage to do is rip M$ apart when in reality the IE7 guys are trying to do something about their browser. IE6 got released in what 01? and then afterwards DISBANDED the team. This means that everything that came out in the interviening time didn't even have someone to consider added it to IE. Yes there are other more standards compliant browsers out there, but they all had a constant stream of development whereas IE sat and got stale. Now the IE team is back together and trying its damnedest to get it back up to spec. They have done some unprecedented things with releasing the betas to the public and are doing this to get real CONSTRUCTIVE feedback to improve how the browser operates with the standards. Honestly a lot of you are saying a whole lot of things that really arn't fair to this team and certainly not to Mr. Wilson. You want particular things fixed be polite, be specific, maybe even offer possible solutions. Do not be a jerk to these people they are working hard just as you are and they get to read on these sites the pretty rough things about their company who while not always been the nice guy or been on the up and up has also done a lot of good things. And just remember IE7 is still in beta, betas are buggy, expect it to be so. If it didn't have bugs then it wouldn't be a beta now would it. I know that this is going to stir some of you up, but try for just a minute to think before you post, and at least try to be original in your insults if you feel the need to go that way.

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