What I find most interesting is that nobody has mentioned Diaspora since Google+ launched. Is it a dead project?
Heh, it's not like the world was all aflutter with Diaspora news before Plus, either. It was a non-starter from the beginning - classic example of "technical solution to a non-technical problem".
Still fails to be a thing in most other parts of the world. I was really mostly disappointed with Slashdot's insistence on furthering this sort of inflammatory bullshit.
I think you're trying too hard: "terrorist" describes the motivation behind an attack, "massacre" describes its scale; a thing can be one, both, or neither.
Am I the only one who thinks that the attempts to manufacture outrage here are pretty half-hearted?
There hasn't actually been any media "hysteria" around video games with this story, but I guess one hard up for ideas editor of - what is it even, an Australian gaming blog? - decides that there's life in the old girl yet.
Slashdot dutifully carries the thing, to stoke the requisite "nerd outrage" side of the story, but even that pretty much sputters out.
Can't we just agree that this one is not going to happen?
Maybe post a couple more BitCoin stories instead, that's sure to get the pageviews flowing.
The only difference I see is that they seek to use the law to enforce their will, and the suspect had no hope of influencing government to act on his behalf and so took matters into his own hands.
You're right - why, that's hardly any difference at all!
It's even more ironic than you realize, all those who want to foist onto others their judgment that murder is wrong also use the law to force people to accept their preconceptions. Just like the shooter!
Probably it means that/. is one of the few places where bitcoins appear many times, while linux appears in a lot more of places. So, in the eyes of Google, "bitcoin" would be more particular to slashdot than "linux", but I am almost sure that linux appears more.
Kind of a long-winded way of rephrasing "overly preoccupied with", isn't it?
And I don't buy stupid stuff like I used to. Turns out, when it's "your money" you think a little more about how you spend it.
Only if you're an idiot. Why do some people think that just because they can't grasp that credit isn't "free money" - or if it takes them a very long time to get there - then the rest of us must have the same problem, too?
He couldn't, because he never made anywhere near that: the card numbers he stole "led to" losses of $36 mil, meaning he sold them to others who actually exploited the stolen identities (hence, 'trafficking').
I doubt he made more than a few million, and really, who could live on that?
Just because two species can interbreed does not mean they are the same species.
That has been a part of the functional definition of "species" for quite some time.
There also significant physiological and genetic differences between different human populations - that's rather the point, you can't just draw a line that says "different enough to be a different species".
What allows for inter breeding is that the entire Homo genus has the same number of chromosomes. That is it.
Well, there's probably a bit more to it than that, or we'd be breeding with black rats and mountain beavers all the time.
Hmm... I had a little problem parsing the original sentence (And isn't `recover your password` questions are common/flawed as having password in place?), you could be right.
Of course if you actually have their Hotmail login and password, chances are they are the same as the bank account.
Email providers often ask for a secondary email when you sign up, just for this purpose, some services allow you to change it "in-place" (ie, answer a few questions, type in the new password - not terribly secure, of course), some use SMS (I quite like that option).
With banks, you typically have to call them, which is fine - it's not something yo have to do all that often.
Speaking of HSBC, they have this gimmick where you have two passwords, and one of them you have to enter by clicking letters on a little javascript keyboard (instead of typing) - I hate that thing, pointless security theater, and I always forget the second password.
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People use Twitter for quick updates and news, not for life stories.
Some people use Twitter for incessant quick updates, which amounts to the same thing (but more annoying).
What I find most interesting is that nobody has mentioned Diaspora since Google+ launched. Is it a dead project?
Heh, it's not like the world was all aflutter with Diaspora news before Plus, either. It was a non-starter from the beginning - classic example of "technical solution to a non-technical problem".
I stand corrected, it's a thing in Australia.
Still fails to be a thing in most other parts of the world. I was really mostly disappointed with Slashdot's insistence on furthering this sort of inflammatory bullshit.
I think you're trying too hard: "terrorist" describes the motivation behind an attack, "massacre" describes its scale; a thing can be one, both, or neither.
One is not inherently juicier than the other.
Am I the only one who thinks that the attempts to manufacture outrage here are pretty half-hearted?
There hasn't actually been any media "hysteria" around video games with this story, but I guess one hard up for ideas editor of - what is it even, an Australian gaming blog? - decides that there's life in the old girl yet.
Slashdot dutifully carries the thing, to stoke the requisite "nerd outrage" side of the story, but even that pretty much sputters out.
Can't we just agree that this one is not going to happen?
Maybe post a couple more BitCoin stories instead, that's sure to get the pageviews flowing.
The only difference I see is that they seek to use the law to enforce their will, and the suspect had no hope of influencing government to act on his behalf and so took matters into his own hands.
You're right - why, that's hardly any difference at all!
It's even more ironic than you realize, all those who want to foist onto others their judgment that murder is wrong also use the law to force people to accept their preconceptions. Just like the shooter!
Probably it means that /. is one of the few places where bitcoins appear many times, while linux appears in a lot more of places. So, in the eyes of Google, "bitcoin" would be more particular to slashdot than "linux", but I am almost sure that linux appears more.
Kind of a long-winded way of rephrasing "overly preoccupied with", isn't it?
I doubt they're getting paid, I think Taco just has a sack of bitcoins stashed somewhere.
Digital crypto currency is about as nerdy as you can get.
It's not that we don't think digital currency isn't nerdy, it's that this particular scam has gotten way more attention than it deserves.
Plus, all the crypto anarchist (or whatever) pipe dreams get tiresome pretty quickly.
Huh, I had no idea there was a debate about whether light travels at the speed of light.
The selection is pretty good, but I've never been able to get the streaming working.
And I don't buy stupid stuff like I used to. Turns out, when it's "your money" you think a little more about how you spend it.
Only if you're an idiot. Why do some people think that just because they can't grasp that credit isn't "free money" - or if it takes them a very long time to get there - then the rest of us must have the same problem, too?
He couldn't, because he never made anywhere near that: the card numbers he stole "led to" losses of $36 mil, meaning he sold them to others who actually exploited the stolen identities (hence, 'trafficking').
I doubt he made more than a few million, and really, who could live on that?
To be honest, anyone who uploads something to this service that they haven't purchased legally is probably being a bit silly.
Yes, that was rather the point.
Last.fm and Facebook know what music I like, whereas these cloud services actually have a copy of the music I have. There's a significant difference.
Pass laws that any creature with human DNA is human and has the same rights as any other human.
So mice with, say, humanized breast tissue used as tumor models have the same rights as humans?
Yeah, makes perfect sense.
What "revolt"?
All I see is a lot of bitching, how many people actually cancelled their Netflix subscriptions?
Wait, you can't buy food and clothing and you're wasting your time on Slashdot instead of looking for a job?
Why the hell are you even paying for an internet connection? That's just messed up.
people might complain but not nearly as much as $6 all at once.
Wait, all this outrage is about $6?
Wow, yeah, the monsters - how dare they!
Just because two species can interbreed does not mean they are the same species.
That has been a part of the functional definition of "species" for quite some time.
There also significant physiological and genetic differences between different human populations - that's rather the point, you can't just draw a line that says "different enough to be a different species".
What allows for inter breeding is that the entire Homo genus has the same number of chromosomes. That is it.
Well, there's probably a bit more to it than that, or we'd be breeding with black rats and mountain beavers all the time.
Well, I guess now we'll have to change it to "GNU/GNU Hurd".
Ooh, you're "ready"? We're all tingly with anticipation to see what you will actually do.
Linux zealots remain convinced than "next year will be the year of Linux on the desktop"
Heck, next year isn't even the year of the desktop anymore.
Hmm... I had a little problem parsing the original sentence (And isn't `recover your password` questions are common/flawed as having password in place?), you could be right.
Of course if you actually have their Hotmail login and password, chances are they are the same as the bank account.
Email providers often ask for a secondary email when you sign up, just for this purpose, some services allow you to change it "in-place" (ie, answer a few questions, type in the new password - not terribly secure, of course), some use SMS (I quite like that option).
With banks, you typically have to call them, which is fine - it's not something yo have to do all that often.
Speaking of HSBC, they have this gimmick where you have two passwords, and one of them you have to enter by clicking letters on a little javascript keyboard (instead of typing) - I hate that thing, pointless security theater, and I always forget the second password.