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Comment Fuck Microsoft (Score 1) 115

I had thought I disabled automatic updates by following a guide online. I was giving a presentation in front of over 100 people on my laptop, which because it is a laptop mostly used in the field is not on my domain. You can guess what happened when I booted up.
Luckily I was able to borrow someone else's laptop and they had Powerpoint installed and I had the presentation on a thumbdrive.

Fuck Microsoft. I complained to them but they said it was my fault for wearing slutty clothes.

Comment They are wrong - it doesn't matter which (Score 5, Informative) 93

It is very important not to reuse the same password on multiple sites. Therefore it is impossible to memorize all of your passwords and you must use a password manager. Once you use a password manager you should go all in on using completely random passwords or passphrases - it doesn't matter which as long as there is enough entropy. So pick 16 character random letters numbers and punctuation or pick 6 word random passphrases from large dictionaries. Since more current websites accept 16 characters than 30+ characters the password choice makes more sense.

Comment Thank god another social app (Score 1) 20

I can't count how many times I've saved my photos on Google Photos and thought, 'If only there were a way to initiate a chat with someone right now to talk about this photo I just uploaded.'. I healed my misery by going into my PDF viewer and making a connection over my PDF viewer's built in social app -- this is not a joke, my PDF viewer has a F*!^@#^ social sharing feature with a separate social media network for sharing PDFs... wtf?

Comment Re:The implications are more interesting (Score 3, Insightful) 350

You don't grasp the immense size of China's population. 23 million is a rounding error.

Even worse will be the chilling effect on the billions who must exhibit important behaviors such as 'paying off protection money to officials', 'allowing some sleazy shit local official to sleep with your wife or else', 'not being deferential enough to "important" people'

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