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That's what I thought at first, but I am not so sure now. What if the person receiving the offer is very well off and doesn't need the money, while the one making the offer needs it badly? The receiver could state they won't accept any offer less than x, which may be more than 50% in their...

I hate those for two reasons. (minor) It's the only functionality which I have seen broken by enabling lockdown mode on my iPhone. (more serious) Those menus tend to be big pdfs of the original paper menu which can be difficult to navigate on a phone and whose text has to be shrunk so small it...

Running servers isn't free. Applying updates isn't free, unless your time is free. Sure, using docker makes updates relatively painless, but you still need to make tests before pushing new versions to production even if the configuration is the same. Also, an unplanned outage of authentication...

To me this looks like a case of confusing cause and effect. Sure, there are extremists playing Call of Duty and Roblox, but most people who go play a game are there to play a game, and the guy yelling he hates minorities is an annoyance, not someone most players want to listen to. There are...

No no no no no, you got this all wrong. He wasn't fired because he reported the breach, he was fired because he was a poor performer who slept and drank on the job and harassed his female subordinates (coming from Uber, this last accusation would be sadly amusing). Oh, and we also contacted all...

I apologize for this completely off-topic comment. With that out of the way, why is the Mozilla Foundation investigating this? It really seems out of scope with their mission. Disclaimer: I don't like the Mozilla Foundation. More generally, I don't like nonprofits which seems to grow in scope...

LastPass supports OTPs generated by Yubikeys, not FIDO, so it's far less secure than the 2FA from Facebook and Google. (OTPs are just long string of characters which can be phished, while FIDO trades certificates). Disclaimer: I support LastPass professionally and dislike the product.

I came here to say I think the notion of even trying to force a sexual harassment case through arbitration is appalling. I can see situations where arbitration could be appropriate (for instances, contracts between corporations), but this isn't one of them. Sexual harassment, assault, murder...

I haven't played public multiplayer games for a long time, but I remember playing Counter-Strike When you get beaten repeatedly, the thought that my opponents may be cheating would take away most of the fun, especially when it was always the same person who would beat me. I'm certain there were...

Many people mention they don't like how Firefox apes Chrome. I think it's inevitable in this case; the early successes of Firefox came from copying features from Opera, which had to be purchased at the time, and releasing them for free. They haven't had success in any other way. My opinion is...

Thank you. This is why I keep reading the comments sections when I read articles on Ars. Sometimes you find a gem if you look long enough.

- This company will sell 100 lidars in 2020. That might be enough lidar devices to equip all the cars in the parking lot of a big McDonald's. It also shows they have no manufacturing capabilities. How accurate can their cost estimates for manufacturing be when they're not doing any mass...

I wish I had seen this discussion sooner. I think the idea of tripling the number of satellites in flight around the earth is complete folly. Defending it is much the same as defending the right of Starbucks to offer drinks in cups that take centuries to decompose and will be discarded within...

Seeing Ars recommend Razer mice every chance they get is like watching a respectable and otherwise intelligent men who has the habit of wearing a two-piece bikini every time he goes to the beach. I may know the man and respect him, but this is embarrassing (and setting it as the first...

It's funny to read how much flak Microsoft gets because there were rumors that they might end up giving less support than promised on a few tablets. Some people will make arrows out of any wood when its time to bash Microsoft. Instead, I'd like to suggest a little thought experiment of what...

Scumbag company hires scumbags, has trouble with them after treating them poorly. News at 11. Zynga Leans On Some Workers to Surrender Pre-IPO Shares (paywalled article, sorry) http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB100014240 ... 3223480802 Mark Pincus, former CEO of Zynga: "I don't fucking want...