ALSO, if you create a 3-digit shortcut that auto-expands to your password, effectively what you've done is change your password to a 3-digit one rather than an 8+ digit one. Not the best for security reasons, or you'd just have a 3-digit password to begin with.

The original post is from 3.5 years ago, BUT — there's a lot of problems with having your password be text expandable in this way, not the least of which being that it would be shown in plain text on the settings screen.

Exactly the same. I'll eat the first, then half the second, and inevitably come back for the second half and feel gross. If I had a third? I honestly might throw up.

I had a '93 Passat with a VR6 that is absolutley my entry onto this list. I remember bringing it to the smae mechanic for the third or fourth time and him just doing work for free because he felt bad that i kept coming back and he was so bewildered by the various problems that stupid engine had.

Re: the donuts thing.... I mean... you really can eat that many donuts? We also do donuts every Friday, and it's a small company so there's plenty for everyone to have one, and two if you're so inclined. I'm always good for one, and on the occasions wehre I throw caution to the wind I'll have two and feel like shit…

Word. I hate these situations, cuz, like.... outside of the filming thing, the woman wasn't really WRONG, but still the best way to handle a psychopath like that on the road is to just do what it takes to get them away from you as fast as possible.

IF she had time to take out her phone and film, she could have much more easily just pulled to the right and let someone pass her. When you're a 17-year old dipshit, you get pissed when you're doing 80 and someone is trying to get you out of the left lane by tailgating. By the time you're an adult you should just…

Now, if you're still worried about your plate number, allow me to offer one other nugget of information that may help you sleep a little better — just in case your finger doesn't quite cover it in all your Craigslist photos. And that nugget is: EVERYONE ALREADY SEES YOUR LICENSE PLATE NUMBER EVERY TIME YOU DRIVE DOWN…

I originally said "I was concerned." I expressed concern. No factual statement other than feelings over what MIGHT happen. Die.

Yeah I remember your name. Not gonna engage with this nonsense again. Amazing how everyone else around here has something constructive to say. Trolololol

Re : The killing yourself question, I think your best bet is to somehow cut yourself so that you bleed out. If you were really determined I feel like you could probably tear out your own throat, but at the very least if you had enough fingernails you could probalby cut your wrists enough to slowly bleed out.

Indeed they did, and it's a great start. Open Source doesn't necessarily mean what people think it means in these instances, but I still hold out a lot of hope. I just have concerns, that's all. I hope they are unfounded.

I'm not worried about them "controlling the data" so much as controlling how the data is available; as you say, via iPhones. And if we're simply talking about research, that's fine; research platforms are always closed. If we're talking about personal data, it concerns me — there are pieces in this and other…

Eh, it's the Internet, every day is one of those days. ;) Thanks for the response. I hold out hope. Someone needs to kickstart a revolution in the medical industry with making personal information easy to get digitally, and Apple does a FANTASTIC job of kickstarting those types of revolutions.

THere is an aspect of yesterday's Apple health services announcement, and it's unclear to me if it's under the "ResearchKit" umbrella or under some other HealthKit umbrella, that allows for the opportunity of patients accessing their records and speaking with their physicians via this service.

That's good to know, and I hope it bears out in the execution. I very much expect us to see a world where providers only support people using the Health app and are clueless about other methods of accessing the information. THat's not Apple's fault, per se, it's just a side effect of this kind of implementation that…

There's no reason for you to be condescending to me. I'm not defending MS or Google or anyone else, so you don't have to lecture me on their business practices. Whether they release their code or not, they still allow their services to be used outside of their hardware ecosystem, which Apple more often than not does…

THat's promising but I'm not convinced that means anything as far as Apple exclusivity goes. It's open source to their library, they're still potentitally the gatekeepers of who can use the service and how. But I do hope you're right.

Stop being a defensive baby. It concerns me, as a consumer, that a company might assume a monopoly on health records and interactions with health professionals. To help your completely-missing-the-point attempt at an analogy, no BMW should not fix Fords, but it would concern me if BMW started building roads and…

My big, BIG problem with Apple spearheading something like this is that Apple has a long, LONG history of keeping their services VERY locked to Apple devices. That's fine when you're talking about consumer electronics and stuff that doesn't REALLY matter — I can't send and receive an iMessage on my PC, fine. But…