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Comment Re:WTF?! (Score 1) 98

You do know that the majority of small planes still use leaded fuel right? We CBA to even do anything about that.

Under the last president we were desperately trying to find new uses for asbestos.

Comment Never understood why they hid it. (Score 1) 32

That's going to be annoying i've used that a lot over the years.
It was always annoying that it wouldn't show the button on mobile and they've refused to show it on mobile AFAIK ever since they added a mobile version.

These days, things have greatly improved. So, it was decided to retire it.

Has it? Has it really? Stuff seems to poof out of existence as regularly now as it ever did, probably even more so now as though it's probably happening about the same rate there's so much more stuff today than there was a decade ago.

Comment Re: Ditch the password (Score 1) 242

But... that person does know the password. So why are they being asked to recover the account?

Security lock out? Some sites will require a password reset if anyone tried to log into your account too many times with the wrong password. (bad policy as it makes it easy to easily deny service to anyone you know the account name of)

Also common in the case of a site breach.
I've seen sites have breaches and then just reset everyone's passwords forcing everyone to go through the recovery process. Realistically a reasonable response although results in a lot of people being locked out of their accounts due to forgotten or broken recovery procedures.

Comment Re:It's SO HOT in Arizona... (Score 1) 142

by the same reason you cannot get out in Minnesota in winter, take a handful of snow and shout, "Climate change is lie, there is snow everywhere!"

Oh but they can and have. https://www.motherjones.com/en... Well not Minnesota specifically but there's nothing stopping them from doing the same.

Comment Seems stupid. (Score 1) 40

It costs a lot more to transfer and store data than it does some encryption keys, that's just the problems on the attackers side.

On the victims side they still have to deal with people having shitty asynchronous internet connections.

Like if you wanted to run off with the data from my machine at work over the shitty 10Mbps upload it'd take over 23 days.

Meanwhile you could encrypt the whole thing in a matter of hours.

Comment Re:stupid (Score 5, Insightful) 54

Because they did it without telling anyone.

That way you would assume your phone was an old slow piece of shit and buy a new one instead of having the battery replaced.

If the phone had displayed a message anywhere with something like "battery capacity low, system will run at reduced speeds to compensate".

No one would have had a problem with it.

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