177250779 comment Comment Re: 32% password success rate? (Score 1) 139 by linear a on Thursday May 01, 2025 @11:21PM (#65346329) Attached to: Microsoft Makes New Accounts Passwordless by Default Oops, 32% as stated in the post.
177250759 comment Comment 32% password success rate? (Score 1) 139 by linear a on Thursday May 01, 2025 @11:20PM (#65346325) Attached to: Microsoft Makes New Accounts Passwordless by Default 42% password success rate sounds like bullcrap to me.
177250707 comment Comment Re: what dummies lmao (Score 3, Informative) 139 by linear a on Thursday May 01, 2025 @11:18PM (#65346321) Attached to: Microsoft Makes New Accounts Passwordless by Default I suspect they mean"pin and something else", e.g. a device such as a phone.
175701047 comment Comment Re: The strange thing (Score 1) 16 by linear a on Thursday December 19, 2024 @09:42AM (#65024879) Attached to: Murder Mystery Solved By Google Street View Even stranger if murderers picked a place without cameras to drag a corpse around. Probably a big "oh sh*t" moment when you see the Google camera bot drive by.
175284473 comment Comment Re: This is a delusion (Score 1) 183 by linear a on Saturday October 19, 2024 @09:50AM (#64877085) Attached to: West Virginia Town of Green Bank Has Become a Refuge For Electrosensitive People Didn't SURVIVE the testing?
175150567 comment Comment So, the answer to global warming is... (Score 1) 143 by linear a on Saturday September 28, 2024 @01:45PM (#64824115) Attached to: A Cheap, Low-Tech Solution For Storing Carbon? Researchers Suggest Burying Wood ...to cut down trees. And then bury them?
174855772 comment Comment Re: Grindr? (Score 3, Funny) 54 by linear a on Tuesday August 27, 2024 @07:04PM (#64741546) Attached to: The US Military's Latest Psyop? Advertising on Tinder Dang! Michigan is so upright?
174583226 comment Comment Probably a waiver (Score 5, Interesting) 120 by linear a on Wednesday July 24, 2024 @12:10PM (#64652156) Attached to: CrowdStrike Offers a $10 Apology Gift Card To Say Sorry For Outage Probably a waiver of rights to sue for damages in the fine print.
174563970 comment Comment Ironic (Score 1) 60 by linear a on Monday July 22, 2024 @11:42AM (#64645940) Attached to: US Wins Math Olympiad For First Time In 21 Years 1994 to 2024 isn't "21 years".
174509195 comment Comment Re: Excels at? (Score 1) 38 by linear a on Monday July 15, 2024 @09:36PM (#64628513) Attached to: Microsoft Unveils a Large Language Model That Excels At Encoding Spreadsheets #rim shot#
174383697 comment Comment You had me at... (Score 2) 138 by linear a on Wednesday July 03, 2024 @10:27PM (#64599645) Attached to: Spain Introduces 'Porn Passport' To Stop Kids From Watching Porn You had me at "Spain Introduces 'Porn Passport'".
174149011 comment Comment Re: Missing answer: Stupidly overvalued (Score 1) 39 by linear a on Friday June 14, 2024 @07:26PM (#64550271) Attached to: Is NVIDIA: Woefully undervalued!
173882801 comment Comment Re: Prosecuting a company makes no sense (Score 1) 62 by linear a on Wednesday May 15, 2024 @08:33PM (#64475657) Attached to: Boeing May Face Criminal Prosecution Over 737 Max Crashes, US Says Actually, I think many Airbus employees told family members to not fly 737 Max...
173882719 comment Comment Good against pacemakers too (Score 3, Insightful) 98 by linear a on Wednesday May 15, 2024 @08:17PM (#64475637) Attached to: UK Police Could Get Ghostbusters-style Backpack Devices To Halt Ebike Getaways Or other onboard electronic medical devices.
173594444 comment Comment Re: Recent studies... (Score 3, Insightful) 170 by linear a on Saturday April 20, 2024 @08:58PM (#64411214) Attached to: Could the Earth's Record Hot Streak Signal a New Climate Era? I don't think 'order of magnitude' means what you think it means.