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Comment two screens front and back (Score 2) 132

two screens front and back, second screen being an e ink, why not? you can better read text, and when you're note reading it can show notifications at little energy expense, for more fancy stuff like videos and web you use the other normal screen

(maybe this is not what's asked here, you want to know what you want on current existing phones)

Comment killing the habit of going to cinema is killing it (Score 1) 249

movies are declining for the same reason music declined,

before we had vinyl, you would make / find the time and predisposition to listen to music, you would have to turn the record to carry on listening

same with films, you would have to find time and predisposition to go watch a film,

now it's all consumption and disposable

compact disc killed the music industry, not the internet
killing the habit of going to cinema is killing movies

Comment Re:Prepended or Appended Passphrase (Score 1) 1007

i do something similar:

i have a 3 level password list,

1st (xxxxxxxxxx) for most purposes like sites that require login, where they collect non personal compromising information
2nd (yyyyyyyyyy) sites that collect personal information, email, home banking
3rd (zzzzzzzzzz) my home server

(you could get a forth for home banking or use the 3rd for such matter)

i only need to remember these 3 passwords (i make new password regularly),
so far not completely bad but not really good either

then, i add to the password a combination that varies with the hosting site, like this:

service: gmail
user: someUser
password combination:
        - 1st non vocal on service: g
        - last vocal on user: e
        - last non vocal on user: r
        - 1st vocal on service: a
        - then i concatenate one of my three passwords according with the service

        my password for this service would be: gerayyyyyyyyyy or: gyeyyyyyyyyrya if you prefer to scramble it more

you could make your own combination algorithm,
mine's not exactly this either ;)

you only need to know:
        - 3 passwords,
        - one simple algorithm (keep it simple, it's human power that will run the algorithm)
        - the service and user, which you needed any way

Comment Re:End? (Score 1) 430

> some nothing company sues Microsoft over some
> ridiculous patent having to do with hyperlinks
> in a browser, for example. The best defense is
> offense in this case

So these companies are patenting just to protect themselves, not necessarily to sue other companies?

If so, why are such companies trying to push for software patents in the European Union? There's no such threat here...
(don't know about Amazon, but since you've mentioned Microsoft is)

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