I’m not saying that anger isn’t justified. The things the right wants to do are horrible, and they really are reaching unprecedented new heights of insanity every single day. But that doesn’t mean it isn’t a troubling sign to see people dehumanize their opponents in this way. That kind of talk often precedes violence,…

Uh... look around. You see the same kind of comments about right-wingers on this site every day. I am NOT comparing the ideologies of the two, or doing some “both sides” bullshit. I do believe that the right is far more capable of political violence, as a rule, than the left. But the tendency to paint the other side…

The improvements coming down the pipeline now are much more consequential for enterprise and business use than they are for home setups. I’ve done numerous wireless deployments for hotels and the like, and even with 802.11ac and high numbers of 5GHz clients, it is still extraordinarily difficult to build a wireless…

Neutral: I’ve been debating recently whether my next vehicle purchase should be a truck. I’m lusting over the latest-generation A4 Allroad as well, but those can’t really pull the small Airstream I also want to buy soon, and I don’t have the kind of money to buy all three. After years of driving economy cars and old…

That’s... not how this works. The “nuclear football” is a briefcase filled with communications equipment and codes to authorize a nuclear strike. The Air Force still has to manually execute such a strike, and they can only do so with the approval of the Secretary of Defense. So no, Donny cannot “grab the nuclear…

A nuclear war comes to mind. A similar “presidential alert” system has long existed for radio and television, and was pretty much explicitly designed to warn the country about incoming nukes. As far as I know, the original presidential emergency alert system has never been used for anything but tests. 

As somebody else pointed out.... it’s Chris Wallace. His entire job is to be the “reasonable”, “moderate” foil to their phalanx of bomb-throwing firebrands. He regularly delivers milquetoast criticism of Republican actions to give the network the appearance of fairness. Later tonight and throughout the rest of the…

It is absolutely the latter. She is there at the explicit invitation of the Republicans on the committee. She works for them, not the Senate as a whole—and certainly not the victim. Her job is to present a front of respectability, decency and fairness while doing everything she can to tear down Dr. Ford and discredit…

Wow, that is just unbelievable.

I think that was a reference to the judge’s wife. What in the world she has to do with this, I do not know—but attacking a judge and his family directly seems like a very bad idea.

Are you using Ghostery or another ad/tracker-blocking extension or app? I have this problem all the time if I disable tracking, which means I have to whitelist GMG sites on Ghostery and 1Blocker X. That sucks too, because with ad blocking disabled on mobile, I periodically get redirected to obviously malicious scam…

In America, parents still have the right to direct their child’s education, even if that means telling Ms. Teacher that your child won’t be doing any homework, and she’d better not ding him for it.

I use probiotics... because I like the taste of yogurt and kefir. Fuck that “pill full of bacteria” nonsense, though—I’ve known many people who used them, and while I’ve never seen anyone be harmed by them, pretty much all of the benefits they claim to receive from taking them can be attributed to placebo effects. 

You laugh, but The Verge ran a story a few years ago about a guy who did a black-market fecal transplant on himself by stuffing his friend’s stool into a pill... 🤢

I’m not following you here. Touch ID makes my phone more secure, not less, because it allows me to use a much more complex, multi-character passcode without compromising the everyday usability of the phone. On the latest versions of iOS, Apple has made it easy to disable the fingerprint reader in a matter of seconds…

I saw you say the same thing further up in the comments, and I have to say that I disagree. The nice thing about something like LastPass is that it makes generating and storing random unique passwords so easy that there’s no reason not to do it for every site you use. Most password managers will also auto-fill those…

Again: I’m all for getting rid of passwords. We can put pressure on big tech companies to adopt the latest in password-less authentication, and we should. Of course, not every website has the resources that Google and Facebook do, and for some of them, transitioning away from passwords is going to take a while. But…

Yes, passwords are regularly leaked in bulk. However, even the most insecure websites typically hash their passwords somehow. They might use SHA1, which is extremely easy to un-hash on modern GPUs, but if your password is 15+ alphanumeric characters—as it would be if generated by a proper password manager—then simple…

It’s Tiffany. And yeah... while she has occasionally stood on stage with the family at political events—and she did do a short speech in support of her dad at the GOP convention in 2016–there have been rumors and signs for years that she might privately have something of a liberal bent.

iOS has a “clear all” function now too, and has for years.