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Comment Re:Taxes? Spring is Great for Taxes! (Score 1) 374

by ztuni2007 on Saturday April 12, 2008 @10:48PM (#23051190) Attached to: Worst Part of Spring

There's one problem with that. If you are getting a couple of thousand dollars back, you should adjust your W-4 so they don't take that much out at a time. I know I personally would rather be earning interest on as much of that couple thousand dollars as possible, rather than letting the government earn interest on it. If 12,000,000 people each got just 1 dollar back from the government, that's a lot of interest. And the government doesn't pay income tax

Submission + - Benefits of Windows User Access Control

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Abtin Forouzandeh

on Monday February 26, 2007 @04:20PM

Abtin Forouzandeh writes: "Having used Vista for a few months, something keeps nagging me about windows user account control. For UAC to be useful, the user needs to have a fair amount of knowledge about a) what UAC is, b) what application its blocking, c) the consequences of blocking the action, and d) an alternate approach if the blocked action did something useful. Anyone who has ever worked with end-users can tell you that they are generally disinterested in learning anything about computer usage beyond how to use word and make a spreadsheet. Frankly, even as a highly technical user, I nearly always approve the UAC dialog even if I don't know the consequences. Since users lack knowledge, and Vista keeps asking esoteric/ambiguous questions, then users will always approve UAC dialogs.

So my question is, since UAC so clearly fails in its goal of making computing more secure, and substantially increases complexity, why is it common wisdom that turning off UAC is "not recommended"? For 99% of users, is there any true downside? Or has the community come up with ways to make UAC useful?"

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