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Re:Reminds me of the time... by GameboyRMH · 2014-03-21 03:55 · Score: 1 · on MtGox Finds 200,000 Bitcoins In Old Wallet

Which reminds me of this other time another college kid said he invested $1500 in bitcoin, forgot the password, and when he finally remembered it was worth about $150000, not bad for a college kid.

It might just cover his student debt!

Re:Reminds me of the time... by VortexCortex · 2014-03-21 03:19 · Score: 2 · on MtGox Finds 200,000 Bitcoins In Old Wallet

Reminds me of the time this happened to a Norwegian guy who forgot he had bought $24.00 of bitcoin, after the price shot up he wound up with $850000 worth.

Which reminds me of this other time another college kid said he invested $1500 in bitcoin, forgot the password, and when he finally remembered it was worth about $150000, not bad for a college kid.

Happens more often than you'd think.

I lost some on a flashdrive once. I thought the drive was empty, but I had just formatted it EXT3 and stupidly forgot how inferior MS operating systems are -- "Unformatted", yeah right Windoze. Glad I don't trust MS to format drives, ever, I was one click away from letting evil proprietary software destroy yet another batch of hard earned bits.

Re:8 cores? by Travis+Mansbridge · 2014-03-20 10:17 · Score: 4, Informative · on Intel Announced 8-Core CPUs And Iris Pro Graphics for Desktop Chips

While each 2 cores on the AMDs share resources, this is different from hyperthreading, and there are indeed 8 cores. http://www.reddit.com/r/builda...

Re:Really? by master_kaos · 2014-03-18 01:24 · Score: 1 · on Kaspersky: Mt. Gox Data Archive Contains Bitcoin-Stealing Malware

Um, actually there has been a problem with bitcoin itself with a forked chain causing double spend issues http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoi...

Re:Old news. by Anonymous Coward · 2014-03-17 15:57 · Score: 0 · on Kaspersky: Mt. Gox Data Archive Contains Bitcoin-Stealing Malware

Old news indeed. Mr. Sergey Lozhkin should have checked reddit...

Re:/r/politics by Anonymous Coward · 2014-03-13 03:48 · Score: 0 · on Top U.S. Scientific Misconduct Official Quits In Frustration With Bureaucracy

http://www.reddit.com/r/Politi...

Life might be a box of chocolates, but be careful of what you find.

In the recent past, they even legally defined chocolate so they wouldn't need any in its production.

Archer Has Gags in it's Background Code by terrab0t · 2014-03-12 11:04 · Score: 4, Informative · on Movie and TV GUIs: Cracking the Code

An animator for the TV show Archer popped into Reddit's Linux section to point out an in-joke he'd placed in some code on an extra monitor in a scene. He says he's added many more gags like this.

Re:20TB? At home? by MattGWU · 2014-03-12 08:57 · Score: 1 · on How Do You Backup 20TB of Data?

You don't hang around http://www.reddit.com/r/dataho... much, do you?

Re:Stills seems like it has to be an inside job by Anonymous Coward · 2014-03-10 04:06 · Score: 2, Interesting · on Hackers Allege Mt. Gox Still Controls "Stolen" Bitcoins

The developer of digitalcoin just lost $100k worth of various coins to a keylogger on his machine:

http://www.reddit.com/r/digita...

Yes, you read that right, using a Windows box for his wallets.

And it gets better. His exchange cryptoave.com is built on Windows+PHP. Before you think that's trollish consider this. What's the cost of a zero-day exploit for either IIS or Server? A few thousand dollars?

Arbitraged against how many coins are on the exchange, wouldn't it make you think twice about using a proprietary base? Especially when the fixes for zero days could take months to reach patch Tuesday. What will you do in the meantime?

Again, not trying to be trollish, it's common sense. The crypto world is littered with these amateur "programmers" flinging stuff onto the web. But I guess it's just natural evolution in the wild west until the big boys show up.

Be careful out there...

Re:Beware: Wallet-stealing virus in the dump by Zontar_Thing_From_Ve · 2014-03-10 00:25 · Score: 1 · on Hackers Allege Mt. Gox Still Controls "Stolen" Bitcoins

Reddit users have verified via decompilation that the dump file includes a wallet-stealing executable. The executable attempts to send the wallet to a hard-coded IP address, whose ISP has been notified of this.

I'm sure that the relevant authorities in Russia or China will be all over this. Or not.

The article is full of errors by pantaril · 2014-03-09 23:55 · Score: 4, Interesting · on Hackers Allege Mt. Gox Still Controls "Stolen" Bitcoins

The reporter probably doesn't understand what's going on at all.

1) the leaked data contains not only the mt.gox DB dump (which seems to be legit) but also the TibanneBackOffice.exe binary which is actualy malware which steals bitcoin wallets. So i wouldn't trust the hackers at all, they are scammers. See http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoi... for more details.
2) The article/the hackers claim that the mt.gox database dump shows that mt.gox should be in control of over 900k bitcoins and that it is an evidence that mt.gox is lying. Well it is evidence that the article/hackers don't understand anything. From the start, mt.gox is saying that because of a transaction malevability bug, their ballances in DB and their balances on their actual accounts were ouf of sync. This is the reason they didn't notice sooner. Their DB was showing everything was ok but in reality, their money was silently siphoned out of their accounts.
3) Karpeles (mt.gox owner) is probably staing silent because his lawayers told him so. Nothing unusual here.

Beware: Wallet-stealing virus in the dump by psymastr · 2014-03-09 21:58 · Score: 5, Informative · on Hackers Allege Mt. Gox Still Controls "Stolen" Bitcoins

Reddit users have verified via decompilation that the dump file includes a wallet-stealing executable. The executable attempts to send the wallet to a hard-coded IP address, whose ISP has been notified of this.

Breaking stories on the NSA Files since June .. by DTentilhao · 2014-03-09 01:21 · Score: 0 · on A Dispatch From Outside the Prison Holding Barrett Brown

"Leaks from Edward Snowden earlier this year have lead to hundreds of stories by the Guardian and other news outlets that examine the tension between personal privacy and national security. Our reporting has sparked a global debate about the full extent of the NSA's actions to collect personal data. Our latest story, published Monday, is about MARINA, an NSA application that stores the metadata of millions of web users for up to a year. Read through the full NSA Files archive here." ref

Can you do it with pressure? by GoodNewsJimDotCom · 2014-03-06 14:16 · Score: 1 · on Computer Program Allows the Blind To "See" With Sound

I think wearing laser range finders around, and having pressure around your body depending on how close it is to objects could be more information too. I could be wrong, but I would like some feedback on this reddit post I made a day or two ago. Can't hurt to discuss this stuff.

Re:Outed? by DoctorBit · 2014-03-06 04:37 · Score: 4, Informative · on Bitcoin Inventor Satoshi Nakamoto Outed By Newsweek

OP here - the submitted headline used the verb "doxed" rather than "outed". On a separate note, r/bitcoin has been raising some interesting doubts about the correctness of the article: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoi...

Metro wasn't designed for people who read /. by MyNicknameSucks · 2014-03-05 05:03 · Score: 3, Interesting · on Microsoft's Attempt To Convert Users From Windows XP Backfires

Here's some insight into why Metro is the way it is and why it's the default UI for Win8: http://www.reddit.com/r/techno...

Metro exists, specifically, for the segment of the population that (mostly) single tasks and doesn't want to get bogged down in the nitty gritty of the OS. They don't want multiple desktops or have 10+ windows open; they want to, in the words of pwnies, do nothing more intensive than watch cat videos. It appears to be a deliberate move by MS that most of the included apps suck for "power users" (Mail and Calendar get singled out) and that Office 365 is meant to run in Classic. And, apparently, it's why Metro is Win8's default UI; so-called power users can figure out how to nuke Metro and work more or less solely in classic desktop. Casual users would, apparently, never find Metro if the default UI were classic -- or, at least, they'd never use it since it's unfamiliar. And familiarity's a big deal when it comes to UI design. Think about it for a moment; it's apparently straight-forward make an app that returns the classic UI -- MS must have made it very, very easy to do so from the OS-side of things.

That's why, in large, part MS has been flouting colours! and customization! and Bing integration! in its marketing -- they're trying very, very hard to get media consumers to use Metro and like it.

But there are some very large problems to this. Metro is designed around touch and keyboard shortcuts -- not mouse. If you're using a touch screen, Metro's not bad once you grok that swiping from the edges of the screen makes stuff happen. But, damn, good luck figuring out hot corners with a mouse (switching between open apps is not, in particular, very intuitive). Or alt-tabbing. Or "type to find program" (in Win7 / classic, Windows key then type). But ... how many casual PC users have touch screens? To me, it's the flip side of Kinect; with XBone, you get a piece of hardware that's tightly integrated with the system, but provides comparatively little user benefit. With touch screens, there's a low installed user base among the people who would get the most use out of Metro.

The funny thing is that, by so forcefully going after casual users MS has incurred the wrath of people who need their PCs for work. And those people? If they have to set up a new PC for granny, the first thing they do is install something like Start8. For whatever reason, MS's marketing people have focused on the improved casual user experience for Metro and made it seem like classic is being phased out (apparently, it isn't). And ... Win8 IS a good OS. It was fast and stable out of the box. Driver support is excellent. Security, apparently, is superior to Win7. Unlike Vista, it works well on (comparatively) old hardware.

MS has become a deeply weird and schizo company. They're supporting a handful of separate UIs (Office: ribbons; Win8: classic; Metro). It's been marketing its new OS as being a superior choice for media consumers who have either already switched to smart phones and tablets or, simply, don't want to change from something that works well enough. The only possible way Metro on a desktop makes any sense is if MS is using it as a Trojan horse to get people to consider using Windows phones and tablets. But, damn. That's kinda' crazy.

Re:Government sponsored by squiggleslash · 2014-03-04 05:33 · Score: 2 · on Bitcoin Exchange Flexcoin Wiped Out By Theft

I seriously doubt any governments feel threatened by Bitcoin, also known as a set of securities owned by clueless nerds. Insofar as we've seen negative responses to Bitcoin by governments, its been in relation to their use as systems of money laundering or as systems to transfer money without a paper trail that fits into the government's existing systems (which is generally important, for governments that is, when trying to follow-the-money in investigations of serious crimes.) Yes, China and Russia have "banned" it, but because of that, not due to some concern about it being a competing currency.

I believe, indeed, that Britain actually proposed some pro-Bitcoin rule making earlier this week.

Honestly, this government conspiracy crap more closely represents the neuroses of Bitcoin's advocates than it does reality.

Re: Legitimization by Anonymous Coward · 2014-02-28 04:37 · Score: -1 · on MtGox Files For Bankruptcy Protection

It's just hard to tell with Bitcoin crowd sometimes.

This a satirical novelty account (and people from both sides get Poe'd in by him all the time). This is not

Re: Legitimization by Anonymous Coward · 2014-02-28 04:37 · Score: -1 · on MtGox Files For Bankruptcy Protection

It's just hard to tell with Bitcoin crowd sometimes.

This a satirical novelty account (and people from both sides get Poe'd in by him all the time). This is not

Re: Legitimization by Anonymous Coward · 2014-02-28 04:37 · Score: -1 · on MtGox Files For Bankruptcy Protection

It's just hard to tell with Bitcoin crowd sometimes.

This a satirical novelty account (and people from both sides get Poe'd in by him all the time). This is not

Re:Android is Open? by hi-endian · 2014-02-27 10:14 · Score: 2 · on Sundar Pichai: Android Designed For Openness; Security a Lower Priority

... and in the interest of "balance," (again, as I have little firsthand knowledge, it is difficult for me to ascertain how balanced this actually is) here's a rebuttal from an employee at Google:

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/02/neither-microsoft-nokia-nor-anyone-else-should-fork-android-its-unforkable/?comments=1&post=26199423

(via Reddit)

reddit.com/r/Futurology/ has covered this by ChaseTec · 2014-02-26 03:59 · Score: 1 · on Ask Slashdot: What Essays and Short Stories Should Be In a Course On Futurism?

Go to http://www.reddit.com/r/Futuro...

I tried to post the list here but /. helpfully said "Your comment has too few characters per line (currently 33.9)."

Re:Vive le Galt! by zedrdave · 2014-02-25 16:53 · Score: 1 · on Mt. Gox Gone? Apparent Theft Shakes Bitcoin World

Way ahead of you there

(Spoiler alert: Japanese government responded by "huh, what? yea, whatever...")

Re:Vive le Galt! by mrlibertarian · 2014-02-25 05:18 · Score: 2 · on Mt. Gox Gone? Apparent Theft Shakes Bitcoin World

Actually, there's talk of fixing this problem with more crypto-magic. gmaxwell, a core bitcoin developer, has proposed a way to let individual customers verify that exchanges really hold the Bitcoin funds they claim to hold on on behalf of their customers: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1yk4nv/please_ask_your_favorite_exchange_to_prove_that/

Maybe a bit unclear on security? by seebs · 2014-02-25 01:58 · Score: 4, Insightful · on Mt. Gox Gone? Apparent Theft Shakes Bitcoin World

A programmer who would implement an ssh server in PHP may be part of the problem?

BTW, the article linked from that reddit comments thread really is beautiful. In the absence of the later disasters, I might have speculated that this was parody.

Re:Netflix should get benefit from desirability by lordofthechia · 2014-02-21 10:24 · Score: 1 · on ISP Fights Causing Netflix Packet Drops

I have not seen any data, but my gut feeling is that the number is a fraction of a percentage of people who have high speed connections.

Look at it this way:

* Netflix has over 30 Million subscribers .

* According to the US Census data, 75% of US households have internet.

* 115 Million Households in the US

Some math:

115 Million households * .75 = 86.2 Million households with internet.
31 million Netflix Subscribers / 86.2 Million Internet users = 36% of households with internet in the US use Netflix. Yes, over a third.

Now add the fact that cable companies are losing cable TV customers in the hundreds of thousands *each quarter* and you can see how more and more people are depending on Netflix (and other services) to fill their video entertainment needs. The name for the trend is cord-cutting .

So based on that I would surmise that a substandard Netflix experience would be a dealbreaker for 1/3rd of all internet customers and a larger proportion of *high speed* internet customers (since people who don't need to stream video opt for the cheaper services).

What this is really about by Anonymous Coward · 2014-02-21 06:28 · Score: 2, Interesting · on Google's Project Tango Seeks To Map a 3D World

Stealing a comment from reddit:

Warning: this video is not what it appears. To all of you saying "WHY THE HELL WOULD I WANT A 3D ENVIRONMENT ON MY PHONE?? TO PLAY GAMESS??", you are not the target consumer.

TO you, the average consumer, it may seem like a neat new project with some cool implications like indoor navigation ("I'm inside the mall, how do I get to Macy's?" or "I am at a football game, where is the nearest hot dog stand?").

Now think about what Google is; Google is evolving far past an advertising company and more into a "big data" provider.

Take it a step further. Combine this tech with Google Glass (or some other wearable peripheral we may not know about), and the possibilities expand ("Where is the user looking usually?" "What is the optimal location for this new billboard? Based on Google Glass 3d mapping data, drivers look to the Northwest usually when traveling down Route 33).

Take it even further to Google's long-known project to catalogue everything on the planet. This will expand into their goal to be able to "Google" real-life stuff. Like a real life Control + F. You lost your keys? You don't remember where you put them, but your phone combined with your Google Glass remembers exactly where they are. Even if it doesn't remember, perhaps you can swivel your head around the room, scanning it with a camera until it alerts you that you are looking directly at an object that looks just like a pair of keys.

Now expand that further; big data. Have you been looking at sweaters a lot lately? Tango knows you've been shopping in department stores when you go to the mall. They can feed this data to advertisers, learn your color preferences, learn everything about you and be able to direct you to products.

Google can learn the shopping habits - of EVERY PERSON IN THE WORLD - and relay that information to marketers. Tell them where the best place to organize their products in brick-and-mortar stores, what and when to put items on sale at a specific time.

Google will be able to provide sales data BEFORE the sale is even MADE. Perhaps in early September people start shopping for winter clothes in New York City, but in August they were googling a new jacket, maybe looked around a leather store and looked at some jackets, etc.

This has huge market potential when combined with all of Google's other products. Remember this project isn't just a side project, this is the result of huge acquisitions and a scientific approach to recruiting and retaining top talent (we are talking salaries in excess of 1 million).

Google is moving to be the top "information manufacturer" in this new information age. Amazing! Wish I was a part of it.

Take a look at Reddit by bminuk · 2014-02-20 16:06 · Score: 1 · on Drive-by Android Malware Exploits Unpatchable Vulnerability

This is covered in a Reddit conversation involving a person involved in the exploit here.

It seems that Android 4.0 and 4.1 are affected by the web browser vulnerability, and apparently some OEMs have patched it, but it is still a big deal. A web site is provided to test for the problem, but I can not vouch for it. I can confirm that the site indicates a vulnerability in the browser in the Android 4.0.3 emulator, and that it does not in in a 2.2 emulator.

Wazhack by Pigeon451 · 2014-02-19 03:30 · Score: 1 · on Ask Slashdot: What Games Are You Playing?

Combines Nethack and a 2D platform scroller. Not nearly as complicated as Nethack, but much more fun IMHO. Also has a unique multiplayer component. The developer is active on Reddit, and fixes bugs quickly.

Website: http://www.wazhack.com/
Just released on Steam: http://store.steampowered.com/...
Reddit page: http://www.reddit.com/r/WazHac...

Re:Kerbal Space Program! by dugrrr · 2014-02-19 02:54 · Score: 2 · on Ask Slashdot: What Games Are You Playing?

Can't recommend KSP enough!
I had never played a sandbox game (although now playing in career mode).
This game takes game/simulation into the realm of hobbyist/enthusiast. I've now had a crash-course (pardon pun) in astro-navigation in Newtonian physics.

You will want to install the Scott Manley list of mods to get the full effect- which is beautiful btw.

The community is active, the developers commited and it looks like the push is for deep space.

I also still play Enemy Territory: Wolfenstein, a game now over ten years old(!) still great FPS fun.

Re:Criminals with honour! by Kichigai+Mentat · 2014-02-18 08:33 · Score: 2 · on Silk Road 2.0 Pledges To Compensate Users For Stolen Bitcoins

Are the SR2 operators in it for the con, or are they in it for the future?

I think they're in it for the profit, because I highly doubt they're in it for altruistic purposes. These aren't monks sitting in a monstary, eating only food they grow themselves, running the site off donated servers and bandwidth powered by solar cells and batteries. These are people living in the industrialized world, who buy groceries and pay for electricity and hardware.

Drugs are a high-margin business. If they wanted to prove the economic viability of a marketplace that exists independently of any government, then why weren't they focusing on selling the kinds of things purchased more openly and by a larger segment of the population, like a BTC-powered Etsy or CobornsDelivers, and put it up on the open Internet where anyone could find it, instead of hiding it on the darknet?

I mean, if it was all about proving the viability of such a market, then do your proof-of-concept first, and then start pushing the point once you have some clout. If you're just in it to be a prophet of Bitcoin, then what does it matter if someone else beats you to the punch and sets up their own marketplace of illicit goods?

Besides, the story seems flakey. There have been allegations that this was an inside job from the beginning, where they first claim to have been robbed as a result of transaction malleability, and yet there's a lot of controversy over whether or not transaction malleability can even be exploited at this scale. There's certainly a lot of theory that points to these guys not being entirely on the level, but they sure aren't altruists.

Hard to believe the same person said this ... by daboochmeister · 2014-02-18 06:21 · Score: 2 · on Windows 8 Metro: The Good Kind of Market Segmentation?

Buried in the Reddit thread, pwnies says

Use the best tool for the job. My personal setup is Windows for desktops (I think windows handles multiple monitors better than osx does), OSX for laptops (Apple's hardware is just so much better for portables), and linux for servers. I'm currently typing this on my Macbook Air. Definitely agree with you about dev tools on windows though. If you aren't bought into the .net stack, it's a bitch. For any web dev I'd recommend OSX or Linux. I'm a huge vim guy, so using windows and just ssh'ing into my linux boxes works great for me. (here).

He must have multiple personality disorder. That comment makes so much sense ... and yet his actual Reddit post is so absent of logic ...

Re:Astruturf? by pwnies · 2014-02-18 04:50 · Score: 4, Insightful · on Windows 8 Metro: The Good Kind of Market Segmentation?

If I had been astroturfing, I wouldn't have been using the term Metro. Nor would I have been stating that Apple has better mobile hardware. Nor would I have used that account - have you seen my post history? http://www.reddit.com/user/pwn...

Link to Actual Reddit Thread by Bacon+Bits · 2014-02-18 04:49 · Score: 4, Informative · on Windows 8 Metro: The Good Kind of Market Segmentation?

Because neither Slashdot, nor Neowin, nor PC Pro can apparently do a little goddamn legwork, here's a link to the comment thread on Reddit.

Re:Visiting a Site Isn't Cheating by QuasiSteve · 2014-02-18 03:55 · Score: 1 · on Gabe Newell Responds: Yes, We're Looking For Cheaters Via DNS

The point is that these aren't sites you would normally visit out on the interwebs. It's a bit like saying "oh but what if I somehow stumbled upon udashdiasd.dashbduiqidasdjkasd.dasbdaskd.hdasuida.something.com?" when the only known vector for ever hitting up udashdiasd.dashbduiqidasdjkasd.dasbdaskd.hdasuida.something.com is through a piece of malware, and complaining that your anti-malware package threw up a red flag.

More specifically, your comment's subject:

"So basically it wasn't pulling DNS for the entire machine but only looking for that one particular phone home call the cheat did? So merely looking at a cheat site won't get you banned?" - ava_ati
"Correct." - GabeNewellBellevue

- http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming...

Add to that that this check only occurs if VAC has already detected something fishy going on. So even if you did deliberately hit up these DRM servers (for science / research / because you want to lower the SNR for VAC).. unless you're actually using the cheat, VAC doesn't much care.

At least, them's the claims.

Response from Gabe Newell by gman003 · 2014-02-17 14:54 · Score: 4, Insightful · on Report: Valve Anti-Cheat (VAC) Scans Your DNS History

http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming...

Basically, they're looking only for the DRM servers used by some very specific kernel-level cheats (apparently even cheats have DRM now - and these are not web sites, but DRM servers they're looking for, you won't trigger it by searching for or even buying cheats unless you use them). They do this comparison client-side, transmitting only if there is a match, and only transmitting the hashed value (which is used so the VAC servers can confirm it was a cheat when issuing the ban - otherwise one would be able to forge a "cheat" and get someone else banned). They also only do this scan at all if VAC has detected the cheat in the first place, which they claim has affected less than 0.1% of their users.

Valve is explicitly denying that they are gathering your browser history.

So my overall analysis:
1) If what they say is true, then they're doing everything they can to *not* gather your browsing history, and are only gathering the hashed value to protect users.
2) This should be possible to verify - see if the code doing the checks is triggered at all during normal use, and see what a packet sniffer picks up.
3) Even though I like Valve a lot, after recent events (Snowden, some personal betrayals, etc.) I feel I can't trust anybody. I'll let others do the verification (I'm not technically skilled enough to trust my own work on it), but if it turns out that this is all they are doing, it's a good thing that is very, very close to being a bad thing. If, however, they are not just spying on us but then lying about it, I will be downloading a Steam crack immediately (I spent over $1000 on Steam games, they're mine no matter what the law says) and taking everything into offline mode.

Re:DEBUNKED by makomk · 2014-02-17 06:53 · Score: 2 · on Report: Valve Anti-Cheat (VAC) Scans Your DNS History

For values of "debunked" equal to "people clueless about how VAC works are loudly insisting that it's not true, and being believed because Valve fanbois". (Amongst other issues, you won't find the code of any VAC modules in Steam's or the game's DLLs because they're downloaded from the server at runtime in order to make them harder to reverse-engineer and block.) Someone later in the thread has apparently tested and found that stuffing the DNS cache with bogus entries increases the amount of SSL-encrypted data VAC sends back by almost exactly twice the size of the MD5 hashes of all those entries, and clearing the cache returns the amount of data sent back to what it was. (It may not necessarily be possible for others to replicate this, as I recall one of VAC's anti-reverse-engineering measures is that different people receive a different subset of the payload modules. So far no-one's tried though, they've just said it's not proof enough.)

sensational by SkunkPussy · 2014-02-17 06:24 · Score: 1 · on Report: Valve Anti-Cheat (VAC) Scans Your DNS History

Some guy has decompiled (what he claims to be) a VAC (Valve Anti Cheat) module that seems to be downloaded and executed when you connect to a game server. He has found code that scans the dns cache, hashes the domain name and adds it to an array.

Its not clear what is done with the data - whether it is compared against a blacklist sent by the server, whether it is used as an anti-proxy measure to verify that the VAC module was downloaded from the correct server, or whether this data is indeed sent to Valve. Tellingly, the guy who found the code where Valve scans the dns cache, has not found any code where this data gets sent to Valve.

So until someone actually finds code that sends this data off to Valve, I'm leaving the pitchfork party early.

TDCS by Anonymous Coward · 2014-02-12 14:13 · Score: 1 · on Can Electric Current Make People Better At Math?

TDCS is not a new subject, There's a whole subreddit dedicated to it, not to mention hundreds of studies using TDCS for everything from curing Tinnitus to increasing general memory and cognitive function.

Re:Good, because it's inevitable by Peter+H.S. · 2014-02-09 12:06 · Score: 1 · on Debian Technical Committee Votes For Systemd Over Upstart

Additionally, it seems to be easy to break systemd's boot scripts in a way that prevent systemd from being able to boot the system (it's happened to me over and over again through what seemd like innocuous user actions), and I have never successfully gotten systemd to boot into its recovery shell.

This is most likely because the system is waiting for a disk that actually aren't there or a variant of that. So use "nofail" , "nobootwait" or "x-systemd.automount" if you mess with fstab and aren't sure your changes will actually work on boot, or if it is a removable drive etc.
There is a short discussion of it here:
http://www.reddit.com/r/archli...

IMHO, systemd is doing this the correct way; if a disk is suddenly missing at boot, it is considered a critical failure that must be fixed from eg. the rescue console, before the system continue. That sysvinit would plod along with booting without system critical disks coming online may be convenient for those who makes error in their fstab, but may be a outright disaster for other users.

Re:Stunning. by Tim+the+Gecko · 2014-02-09 03:25 · Score: 2 · on Snowden Used Software Scraper, Say NSA Officials

Here's what the internet has to say ( http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming... )

Yep. 100% sure. I've even researched how so many people can believe this is an actual quote when it isn't (which is a strange phenomenon). I'm also a huge Simpsons geek.

The actual quote is: Wiggum: Well that's some good work, Lou. You'll make sergeant for this.

But almost universally people say and believe it to be "That's some (mighty) fine detective work, Lou"

Did Taco just throw us all under a bus? by ObsessiveMathsFreak · 2014-02-09 03:11 · Score: 0, Offtopic · on On the Practicalities of Counterfeit-Proof Physical Bitcoins

The Washington Post interviewed Taco about the Beta. Apparently he's not very sympathetic.

I posted some more thoughts on this on reddit(I feel funny), but basically I'm getting the impression that neither Taco, the Slashdot editors, or especially Dice every care very much for the Slashdot commenters. It would explain quite a few things over the years I guess. I honestly feel like the (original) Internet is being put back in a box these days. Get off my lawn, etc, etc.

P.S.
Is Slashdot deleting posts about the Beta? Didn't this site used to not delete posts?

reddit how-to by Requiem18th · 2014-02-08 23:35 · Score: 3, Informative · on Is Whitelisting the Answer To the Rise In Data Breaches?

Reddit has a text-based, list-oritented design the way we want it. It suffers from a lack of article summaries though.

How to cuztomize reddit to replace slashdot: