Of course, the comic is meant to be a joke, people are taking it far too seriously. It underestimates the entropy of the shorter password and overestimates the entropy of the longer password - it allows intelligent brute forcing on the shorter one, but doesn't allow it on the longer one. It's funny, but deeply flawed…

But it isn't, it's the equivalent of hiding things under the rug, they're not protected at all, so what's the point?

Hang on, they want me to spend money on what is essentially a fancy animation on a hotkey, to provide a false sense of security, when the ability to create and mount encrypted images is built in to the OS?

Yes, Vim supports both, and I was still talking about vim for autocompletion, too. And yeah, working with Vim is an entirely different mindset which may or may not be worth learning.

With the "surroundings" plugin, tag management becomes trivial, and enabling auto completion can give the obvious benefits to productivity. If you use vim like any other text editor then you're right, it won't be any more efficient.

No, the preference of vim comes from that once you "get" vim, nothing else will ever be as flexible or powerful. There's certainly a learning curve, but once you have that "a-ha!" moment where you finally get WHY that command does that thing, you'll never go back. Ever.

I like Vim. Even on windows.

For the love of god, please no. A touch-centric UI is the best option for a smartphone, where you have highly limited input, but keep it the heck away from my PC. I have proper input devices here. They're called a mouse and keyboard. My mouse is more accurate and less likely to be misinterpreted, and certain not to…

And this is exactly how you should handle it! There's even a possibility of data release, and everybody has to change their passwords and re-encrypt all their stuff. Sony could learn a thing or two!

Okay? Was anybody under the impression that the publicly accessible folders weren't publicly accessible? Hell, I even have an index in mine, their publicly accessibleness is the point.

Is this actually permanently deleted, though? Or is it simply completely disconnected from your account? As far as I know, dropbox do a lot of fancy things to make uploads faster, and at least one of these is not storing duplicate files where possible - "permanently delete" may not do what it says on the tin.

The eternal gap between XP and Vista was the exception, not the rule. It was released almost two years ago, and Win8 isn't even in beta yet. That seems perfectly reasonable.

I currently use Vimperator, so have actually been running without a URL bar for quite some time. I find it much more usable, a url bar on a hotkey is no less easy to use and saves valuable screenspace.

As far as I can tell, there's only one build of Tomato that supports IPv6, and even that's experimental. Of course, it's somewhat academic, as my ISP still doesn't support IPv6, and hopefully by the time they do (June 29th, 2011, probably) there'll be some IPv6-enabled stable tomato builds.

Wait, what.

@berribrand: Not "likely", that's exactly what they did, intentionally polluted search terms that it's highly unlikely anybody would ever search for with nonsense results, then searched for them. Bing copied a few of the nonsensical results. There are only two explanations: One, Bing is tracking, storing, and…

Uh, does the very idea of a third party locking application not scare anyone else?

@Lyokowarirtitan: It's also a correct one. If something is running on /my/ processor, residing in /my/ RAM and storing its data on /my/ storage, it's /mine/. Completely so, and given enough time it can dance to any tune. Local DRM and encryption is a terrible security system, at least partially because it has to be…

@secgeek: Of course I do, I also know that it's completely worthless having the most complicated password in the world when it can be reset without needing it, and none of your data is encrypted anyway so reading it is a snap.

If you're seriously concerned about people typing in your password at random until they get it right, your password is either insecure enough that adding spaces won't help, or you're way too worried. Never mind that windows starts slowing down password checks after the first few failures, the 'security' just a windows…