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Comment Depressing (Score 1) 226

It's really easy to imagine just going to a community box if you are an able bodied person with a vehicle but if you're elderly or otherwise have mobility issues ... well let's just say with the lengthy winters and poor snow clearing I foresee two outcomes:

-People not picking up mail for months at a time
-Old people breakin' hips

Ugh...

Comment Why Upgrade? (Score 1) 393

I have tons of storage, good AV playback, lots of apps that do what I want, games still play pretty well (or are a video card update away)

I have two machines currently, the newest one is reaching the 4 and half year mark and it's still fast / reliable. The other has been kicking around for 7+ and even that still runs all my productivity software / backup storage.

I mean a decade ago I was cycling about every 2 years but there were a lot of leaps between those generations usually.

I mean I've thought about building a whole new machine again but I can't justify it when I have existing stuff doing everything I want right here.

So...?

Comment All about the results (Score 1) 274

Google could find what I was looking for, it could understood context between terms, pages, it just seemed to hit the result bang on every time (compared to other searches where I would go 10 pages before refining search terms again or start playing with arcane operators).

The fact that it was an ultra-simplistic design with non-invasive (and sometimes actually functional) advertising was GREATLY appreciated, but not necessary.

The last search engine I used prior to Google was MetaCrawler, mostly because I could get aggregate results from different search engines and pick through that mess to try to find what I was looking for. (But also to snoop on peoples' search terms, which in 1999 were hilarious)

Submission + - Adobe hijacked, user information compromised (extremeta.com)

sfcrazy writes: Adobe switched its business model from license to subscription base, which wile make it more affordable for user also required access to critical information such as credit card which was not needed earlier. This critical user information has now fallen in the hands of cyber criminals (cracker and not hackers) who hijacked Adobe leaving behind 2.9 million affected customers.

Submission + - Adobe Compromised; All Your Codes Belong to Us (krebsonsecurity.com)

sl4shd0rk writes: Adobe Systems Inc. is expected to announce today that hackers broke into its network and stole source code for an as-yet undetermined number of software titles, including its ColdFusion Web application platform, and possibly its Acrobat family of products. The company said hackers also accessed nearly three million customer credit card records, and stole login data for an undetermined number of Adobe user accounts.

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