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Submission + - How to Disable Gmail's Annoying New "Smart Compose" Predictive Typing Feature (vortex.com) 1

Submitted by Lauren Weinstein on Saturday October 06, 2018 @12:44PM

Lauren Weinstein writes: My foundational complaint here isn’t that Google deployed Smart Compose, but rather that they enabled it by default without providing users even basic related information, including the all important “How the hell do I turn this damned thing off?” — the very question filling my inbox of late!

So here’s how you turn it off. It’s easy, IF you know how.

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by manann on Tuesday June 27, 2000 @01:21PM (#973951) Attached to: Digital Signatures and Citizen's Initiatives?

Not to get too picky, but "census" is a Latin 4th declension noun whose plural in the mother tongue is still... "census." I know it's sounds dopey. It ain't "censi." We would most likely be forgiven by the word naziis if we used "censuses."

I have a Ph.D. in Engineering, an MBA, a MS in Math and I don't pretend to really understand what happens under the hood of my car. This digital signature stuff is important -- and for that reason I am reading everything I can about it. People should learn that crypto today is a far cry from the Enigma days. Read up on Diffie/Hellman and R,S and A.

Today's crypto is heavy duty stuff. The greatest weaknesses of digital signatures will not be from the hard crypto itself, but from shoddy protocols and weak implementations.

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