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Comment Mouse issues (Score 1) 823

"For old people, it is difficult to click button on mouse but do not move it." It took me a while to notice this when my mom uses her computer. I had been supporting her remotely using VNC, and couldn't figure out why her windows were resized to be small. When I visited her in person, I saw that she was trying to close a window, but when she click the mouse button, she also move the mouse over to a border, held the mouse down, and ended up reszing the window. Solution: - configure larger window decorations (scroll bars, close buttons.) - configure larger window borders.
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Submission + - Smart parking spaces in San Francisco

2centplain writes: The New York Times reports: Can't Find a Parking Spot? Check Smartphone

This fall, San Francisco will test 6,000 of its 24,000 metered parking spaces in the nation's most ambitious trial of a wireless sensor network that will announce which of the spaces are free at any moment. Drivers will be alerted to empty parking places either by displays on street signs, or by looking at maps on screens of their smartphones. They may even be able to pay for parking by cellphone, and add to the parking meter from their phones without returning to the car.

Any guesses on the when this will be hacked?

Like, "reserving" an empty spot by convincing a sensor that a car is actually parked there. Of course, in San Francisco, this will be for naught, since spaces don't stay empty for any longer.

Or, perhaps using the wireless mesh network for some other purpose?

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