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  1. Re:The malware is injected into Web sites .. on Linux Ransomware Has Predictable Key, Automated Decryption Tool Released (csoonline.com) · · Score: 1

    So basically linux is completely secure from this. The ONLY time I use root to install something is when it comes out of a repository and is intended to be system wide. If anything is ever downloaded it gets installed at a user level. Seriously who the fuck would give admin rights to a random piece of software in Linux? There simply isn't any need.

    It's not like windows where you get a pop-up asking for admin rights press ok and that appears for every bloody damn piece of software under the sun.

  2. Re:This would have never happened. on Badly-Coded Ransomware Locks User Files and Throws Away Encryption Key (softpedia.com) · · Score: 2

    No this is the same as pointing out the the guillotine operator the the blade is going to hit the trigger of the big ass pile of tnt that is under the platform and it is going to kill him and everyone around him. And suggesting that perhaps you move it to the right a little.

  3. Re:revolutionary technology on "Unsecured Memory Card" Prompts Election Fraud Investigation In Georgia (ajc.com) · · Score: 1

    That isn't terribly different to most other places. For example in Australia you vote for the person who is in your electorate, they then go on to become a member of the House of Representatives, the US House, and each State has a certain number of Senators (12 each for the States and 2 each for the territories). The big difference is we don't vote on a president, the party with the most seats in the House of Reps chooses who the Prime Minister will be so there is no equivalent to the Electoral College.

    So when you come to vote for who you want to be in the House of Representatives / Congress that is what I would call a Federal election. I just find it surprising that it is run at a county level rather than run at a Federal level. I would have thought that you would want exactly the same methodology, ballot papers, scrutineering etc right across the country.

  4. Re:revolutionary technology on "Unsecured Memory Card" Prompts Election Fraud Investigation In Georgia (ajc.com) · · Score: 1

    I agree completely. Aus uses paper ballots and has mandatory voting so while the relative workload is higher than the US.

    The other thing that I couldn't find with google is how elections are managed in the US. In Australia Federal level elections are handled by the Australian Electoral Commission and then State and below levels are handled by the "State" Electoral Commission. They all seem to run the exact same processes. But when I read about the US elections it seems like every state, town and council has a completely different system even in the same election.

     

  5. Re:How is a fax machine analog? on Analog Still Big In Japan (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    My exposure to faxing for records in australia was electronic to electronic. So while the document passed through fax it was soft sent, and then received in electronic format. It never got printed out at the recipients end.

  6. Re:Holy shit... on Activision Buys Candy Crush Developer For $5.9B (inquisitr.com) · · Score: 1

    My co-workers at that time were all relatively young 20-25 but with a very diverse level of incomes. Some of them were earning huge amounts, others were barely scraping by (sales environment with commissions). That said a lot had reckless personalities and would, in my opinion, just waste their money on shit and hope to sort it out next pay day.

  7. Re:Problem with Artifical Stupidity: discriminatio on Saying "Wasted" On Facebook Can Affect Your Credit Score (ajc.com) · · Score: 1

    Agreed. Income is probably a factor, but net debt, and leverage are probably better indicators.

  8. Re:Holy shit... on Activision Buys Candy Crush Developer For $5.9B (inquisitr.com) · · Score: 1

    Name of the clan is Brisbane Clash. Code #PQ29YJ00. Shield is a white Y shape on Black. Clan is predominately farmers who try hard at war. War is optional but if you opt in you must attack. As a general rule we are Aussies only but your welcome to hop in, I'll let the guys know. I go by Harlequin there as well so stick that in the request if you are going to come over.

  9. Re:Productivity of office workers? on Analog Still Big In Japan (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I wasn't referring to US participation rate. Japanese participation rate is climbing. Not quite back to it's 2007 levels but a long way up from the trough.

    http://www.tradingeconomics.co...

  10. Re:Holy shit... on Activision Buys Candy Crush Developer For $5.9B (inquisitr.com) · · Score: 1

    Find a new clan. My experience is clans based on location work the best. My clan is a Brisbane clan and it means everyone is on at the same time, same language and same culture. It's important to find a clan that donates lots and will get involved in wars. The war bonuses are too huge to ignore.

    As a general rule I will do 4-5 attacks a day currently. Some of my clan mates are way way more serious than me. But at that level my builders have been busy constantly. Once you reach late TH9 the limiting thing is actually how long things take to upgrade, not having enough resources. When you consider that Air Defs will take 10 days to upgrade it's not hard to have full gold.

    The only exception that that is walls but the new update of earthquake has made walls way less important.

    Discounting walls I am 7 upgrades short of max th10. Still got a heap of King & queens upgrades to go but they just take sooooooo long.

  11. Re:Holy shit... on Activision Buys Candy Crush Developer For $5.9B (inquisitr.com) · · Score: 1

    No question that this would be true. However in the case of King their install base is so huge that even .15% would be a large number of people.

    Anecdotally I was stunned once to find out that over half the people I worked with were all sinking money into Candy Crush at the same time (mid 2013). What really scared me was that they were talking about having spent over $100 each over the course of a weekend. Given my total app spend has been equal to the amount of credit I got with my original Nexus 7 I was floored.

  12. Re:Holy shit... on Activision Buys Candy Crush Developer For $5.9B (inquisitr.com) · · Score: 1

    Yep, currently COC + fallout shelter + One Piece Treasure Cruise and I don't have enough free time to use all my lives...

    Don't really care about hitting the leader boards.... I've been grinding COC for so long now that I am close to maxed out anyway and I haven't spent a cent. Being in a really good local clan helped a lot to keep the interest high.

  13. Re:Holy shit... on Activision Buys Candy Crush Developer For $5.9B (inquisitr.com) · · Score: 1

    The first Candy Crush was well written and very pretty, relative to its competitors. It then managed to get a good enough install based to get the "trending app" in the google store. From there it simply held top spot for ages, steadily increasing its install base. From there they have just get pushing out the games. Some have been crap, others well done. They are all pretty much derivative works but because they have gagillions of people in their captive audience they capture the market share really really quickly.

    On top of that their games are well polished. They are pretty, sound good, have good characterisations and have good animations. There isn't anything about them that makes you want to find an alternative.

  14. Re:Productivity of office workers? on Analog Still Big In Japan (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh I get that part of it. But even your left wing party is more right than the right wing party here. It also appears that wedge issues like guns and abortions make up a crazy amount of the political discourse and then you throw in the tea party which just makes my head hurt.

    I like visiting the US but every time I do I come back a little more left wing then when I went there. There are some truly amazing opportunities there but the number of people that just seem discarded by US society is scary. I think that unless something is done to improve the lot of the people at the bottom of the pile the US will start seeing more and more major social clashes like Ferguson and it will really start to damage the country as a whole.

    If you compare it to Japan, they are a society first, individual second country and while individuals may not have the same scope to be mega rich like they do in the US you can walk anywhere in their cities and feel completely safe. Go to the US and you want to make sure you stay in the right areas otherwise you are in real trouble. You can make it big in the US like nowhere else but that has its costs.

  15. Re:Holy shit... on Activision Buys Candy Crush Developer For $5.9B (inquisitr.com) · · Score: 1

    All good. All that has happened is she has added enough games that she can rotate through them. I quite like that she is also a fan of Clash of Clans and that game you can easily lose all your time to without spending money.

  16. Re:Productivity of office workers? on Analog Still Big In Japan (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    All good. I'm not American so I don't get the whole Democrat vs Republican crazy thing. I just like to sit back and eat my popcorn.

    I have to say though, from the outside looking in, American politics is fucking insane!

  17. Re:Holy shit... on Activision Buys Candy Crush Developer For $5.9B (inquisitr.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    My wife is addicted to them. Fortunately though she is a complete miser when it comes to spending money on things like this so she hasn't spent a cent. But the level of competition between her and my mum for top spot in candy crush, and Alpha Betty (another one by King) is terrifying.

  18. Re:How is a fax machine analog? on Analog Still Big In Japan (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    This is a big difference between the US and Australia.

  19. Re:How is a fax machine analog? on Analog Still Big In Japan (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Law office, no. Hospital, yes. In the hospital I worked at all faxes are automatically converted to pdf on arrival and are delivered to the relevant person via a specific piece of software which centralises all documentation. If the documentation is testing results these are attached the the relevant patients file and other relevant doctors are copied in (ie specialists).

    While there is a shit tonne of paper records generated in a hospital faxes definitely are not one of them. Of courses this will totally vary on where you live in the world.

  20. Re:Productivity of office workers? on Analog Still Big In Japan (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Nothing partisan.

    To go with the unemployment rate the participation rate, which is the base for the unemployment rate, has also been climbing. So a greater % of the population are seeking work and a smaller % of those people seeking work are unable to find it.

  21. Re:I think they overpaid on Activision Buys Candy Crush Developer For $5.9B (inquisitr.com) · · Score: 2

    True - But candy crush has a crazy install base. Lots of their other games have sucked but they got into the top 10 of games installed every time because of the ads that are inserted into candy crush. Make a slightly non-shit game and the same will happen. Make a good game and you have made a killing.

  22. Re:Holy shit... on Activision Buys Candy Crush Developer For $5.9B (inquisitr.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Candy Crush is about as addictive as poker machines except instead of cash you get flashing lights and sounds. Basically you have an amount of in game currency that you can trade in for extra moves, special items (which let you complete levels easier), or more lives. You can play it heaps without paying a cent, but you might have to wait 4 hours to get more lives.

    I think one of the biggest hooks is it integrates with facebook and you can see where your friends are relative to you in the level count. It then makes a big deal of you overtaking your friends.

    The reason they make such a killing is a massive install base that can play at any time. It takes no effort to play, you have the device with you always, and the individual cost per item is quite low. So you're on the train and you almost did that level, well $1 for 5 extra moves and I can overtake my mate - done.

  23. Re:My Trip to Japan on Analog Still Big In Japan (bbc.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Japan has changed dramatically over the last 10 years (the gap between my first and most recent trips there) and they are hugely more accommodating of foreigners then they used to be. Back 10 years ago there were signs in Kyoto saying "No Gaijin" on restaurants. Now the buses around Kyoto have english commentary as you come up to each stop.

    The same changes have occured to their banking system. 10 years ago 7-11s were the only place in Kyoto that would accept non Japanese bank cards. Now everywhere does.

    Also if you live there you tend to sign up for things like pasmo and have an app on your phone. Pasmo is like an oyster travel card but it works in loads of places from vending machines to restaurants. That is kind like the future, tap your phone on the reader and away you go.

  24. Re:Productivity of office workers? on Analog Still Big In Japan (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Suicide rates in Japan have not changed dramatically over the past 50 years. There is some linking of movements to their economic prosperity but it has always been higher than the US. I don't believe it has anything to do with make work and more to do with face saving and their perceptions of honour.

    As for other indicators, unemployment has been decreasing in Japan steadily since a peak in 2009. I'm sure that doing crappy jobs is demoralising, but I would argue doing no job and hence not being able to afford to live would be worse.

  25. Re:The land of ATMs on holiday on Analog Still Big In Japan (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    Rubbish. You may find one or two atms that are in a building that closes after hours but I have been there many many times and the ATMs work fine at 2 in the morning.