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That fails to account for things which everything else is always better, such as Windows ME.

While I agree that they are useless, I don't mind the security questions that are used to reset one's password, provided that proof of email ownership is required. These are just a minor nuisance.

The dangerous ones such as this allow someone to use the security questions in place of your password. These are less secure than if you were to use your place of birth and address as your password.

Their thought process probably goes something like "we can't have users giving us their password over the phone, anyone could overhear that and they would think it is insecure. Lets have them give us something less confidential instead".

Services like this that require verbal authentication via the telephone should generate a passphrase and email it to their uses upon signup.

As long as it matches the name they have on record, why would they care?

Believing that Oracle is a great steward of technologies they acquire.

I can't understand why experienced gamers would buy it at launch if they expect there to be serious technical issues.

Or that the PS4 version is the first variant that has enough functionality built in for it to be playable offline.

In that case the user can type it in themselves. The textfields are fully editable after all. I would expect that it is faster for user to type in the correct city if you get it wrong than for them to have to move their mouse to the keyboard and select it from a drop down list, and if it isn't in the drop down then this method is faster.

Perhaps having the user enter their location information in the order country, zip, city, state, street would provide a better experience. It's not what they would be used to, but it's at least consistant (information is entered from less precise to more precise).

Having to build an additional "let me type it in" option seems like it increases the complexity and confusion. One of the banks I use asks for the zip first and then populates the city and state text fields on the lines below. This also has the benefit of working if Javascript is disabled.

I was thinking the person would click on the mailto link and it would open up in their default email client. From there they could add the contacts from their contact list.

Offtopic: is Medium a curated blogging site or a service that has yet to launch? The articles are great, but their about page[1] is unhelpful.

[1] https://medium.com/about/9e53ca408c48

"There has been some speculation that the name is related to the word smegma; however, this has been denied by the writers"

I was one of the words we had to look up when playing Cards Against Humanity.

At least it will prevent people from spelling Bruce Willis wrong.

I'd imagine people that mass forward an advert they receive are much more trusting.

Could the site just generate a really long mailto:// url?

What if instead one just focused on lowering the amount of times someone forwards an email containing an unsubscribe link.

Perhaps a "send to a friend" link in the email would help?

I see, I knew that the two met on several occasions, so I thought perhaps one may have significantly influenced the other.

How are people viewing this news in Venezuela?

Are you saying that suffering of Cubans under Castro was the fault of Chávez, or that the people of Cuba are suffering as much as those in Venezuela?

Good to know, it's been several years since I used Outlook.

Mine (Gmail) is not, but many (Outlook, OSX Mail) allow this by default. The URL of the tracking image contains a number or hash that is used to uniquely identify the person opening up the email.

By tracking whether or not you read an email via a tracking image I imagine...

Upstart is available in the Debian package repos, and it was used for a while by Red Hat before they switched to Systemd.

It shouldn't, Ubuntu Server doesn't currently include X.

That's uplifting to know! I've had several of those vaccines, but I didn't realize that they were developed so recently.

Being fairly young, I can not remember a time in my life when a disease was cured or a vaccine created that significantly reduced transmission. I keep expecting a grand announcement like "AIDS cured" or "Cancer defeated" but there are always so many caveats that it feels like progress isn't being made. I wonder if it was the same way with other diseases in the past, and I am just being important, or if modern day ones are somehow different.

The caveat to this is that having a CS degree does not guarantee that valuable experience was gained. There were people who stood next to me when I received my CS degree that were unable to craft basic HTML.

On the other hand, I enjoyed my entire time in college, and I feel that I received a great deal of valuable experience, but I also did a great deal of coding outside of school. I think in my case I would have been fine without getting a degree, but it helped to hone some of the areas that I was not very strong in.

One difference between the two: guage.js is pixelated on a retina display, Donuts.css is crisp.

I think they meant that the by the time successor to HDMI is invented today's smartphones will be obsolete.

If that were needed perhaps links.example.com could display an iframe containing the third party site.

I agree that neither approach is ideal, but it would prevent users from receiving third party links in their emails.

In this case one could simply write a script that forwards the request from your own domain to the third party system. It could be done on the server in such a way that the user would never leave your own domain:

1. User clicks http://links.example.com/?redirect=example.com/reset_passwor...

2. The server running on links.example.com makes a request to the third party web server

3. The server redirects the user to http://example.com/reset_password