Comment Time to disable root (Score 3, Funny) 82
user@freedoms:~$ su
Password: childporn
user@freedoms:~#
Password: childporn
user@freedoms:~#
Comment Do what you want to the start menu (Score 4, Insightful) 100
I gave up on Windows start menu since windows 8. I make a folder on the desktop called "Shortcuts" and then I copy links into it. My most often used shortcuts stay on the desktop.
Comment Old days (Score 5, Insightful) 148
This takes me back to the old days of Slashdot. I really wish that we could ban politics and just talk about nerd stuff.
Comment Karine Jean-Pierre (Score 1) 76
It's just a picture of Karine Jean-Pierre right?
Comment Re:Whining (Score 2) 341
That's funny, we keep offering solutions, and denialists keep saying "we can't do that".
Where? What should I do? Vagueness here is exactly what I'm talking about. Surely some compromises could be made. Discussions could be had. But right now, you're pushing people away from that. You just want to stand on your soap box and say that your side is right and the other side is wrong. That is getting us nowhere. We need to move on from freaking out.
Comment Whining (Score 1) 341
Do you know what it's called when someone keeps pointing out a problem without offering a solution? Whining.
Can you understand why people get so annoyed when you bring this subject up? All you do is sit there and scream "You need to do something!"
So what do you want people to do? People can then talk about what could be done. Can we move past this already?
Can you understand why people get so annoyed when you bring this subject up? All you do is sit there and scream "You need to do something!"
So what do you want people to do? People can then talk about what could be done. Can we move past this already?
Comment Re:Tip for old-school web searchers (Score 1) 80
"dumb search engines which were nothing more than simple pattern matchers. "
This is what I want. Google's algorithm or AI or whatever will always suck because it can't know if people found what they were looking for. Can't there be just one search engine that doesn't copy Google's frustrating word salad results? Just one? Please???
Comment Re:Should be simple. (Score 3, Insightful) 203
Most people in meatspace are reasonable. If you look to the internet to gauge the state of things, you're gonna have a bad time.
Comment Re:not supposed to be on the web! (Score 2) 329
I'm not sure bash was ever intended to be involved in web facing applications. That's not what it's for! Once you go down that road, even indirectly, there's a lot that can go wrong.
Maybe next someone will run arbitrary user input from the web through g++, execute it in ring 0, and call it a security hole?
Ah. So you've heard of systemd?
Dun, dun, dun, tsss. Is it getting hot in here?
Comment RFID chips (Score 3, Funny) 191
How To Keep Student's Passwords Secure?
How about we do away with passwords and have the kids get mandatory, government issued, RFID chips imbedded under their skin. Problem solved!
Comment Re: Customers for Wi-Fi enabled thermostats (Score 1) 103
Hmmm, practicing standup on
At least he had the guts to log in.
Comment Dongs (Score 1) 105
The new 3D printer has a 9-in. x 5.9-in. x 5.5-in
You could make a wide variety of big colorful dongs with this thing! For... educational uses of course.
Comment Third-Party Doctrine (Score 0) 126
it leaves unresolved the tension between security and convenience when both companies' devices are configured to upload user content to iCloud and Google+ servers for backup and synchronization across devices
The existence of the Third-Party Doctrine makes the decision simple for me.
Comment Re:This is offtopic, I know (Score 1) 70
Thanks. I really just wanted to make sure I wasn't the only one. I spent the bulk of the last 15 modding APK's posts as troll. :)
Comment This is offtopic, I know (Score 1) 70
I keep getting 15 moderator points regularly. This is the 4th or 5th time in a row. How could that be?
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