SonicHedgehog
Re:The De-evolution of My Laptop Battery
on Saturday August 17, 2013 @09:12PM (#6231129)
I don’t know if this applies to other notebooks but at least Apple used to recommend that you do not remove the battery [0]. There’s a little more discussion on Super User [1] but there seems to be no definite answer.
[0]: http://web.archive.org/web/20130615084258/http://support.app... [1]: http://superuser.com/a/12842
Re:Chrome's insane password security strategy
on Tuesday August 06, 2013 @06:56PM (#6169754)
May I ask what similar problem Safari has?
As far as I know, Safari uses OS X’s keychain which means you practically have a master password (very likely your user account password, although you could use a different keychain). If I try to retrieve a password (either through Keychain Access or Safari’s Preferences) I get asked for my “master password”.
Re:Chrome's insane password security strategy
on Tuesday August 06, 2013 @06:45PM (#6169710)
However, Pidgin “would encourage integration with keyrings” [0]. At least on OS X Chrome uses the integrated keychain and as Elusive mentioned [1] it apparently does encrypt passwords on Windows too.
So, I think Pidgin’s situation is a bit different and if they would have keychain integration they may solve this differently than Chrome does right now.
[0]: https://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/PlainTextPasswords#Isthatth... [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6168039