It's only an improvement over F3 to two groups of players:
1. FPS Dudebro shooter gamers who were disappointed by F3 when they went into it thinking it was going to be an FPS and tried playing like one, but didn't like it because it was an RPG and wanted a more shooter-like game. VATS was nerfed to cater to these guys.
2. Old school Fallout Fanboys who think Black Isle could do no wrong and would have preferred another isometric Fallout, but settled for New Vegas. The large difficulty spike (until the game finally got properly balanced in patches), weapons nerfs, hardcore mode and other features were to cater to these guys.
While NV is a good game, it's not as "enjoyable" as F3, the frustration/annoyance/tedium factor is higher even though it has some good ideas like the faction system.
wonder how many dropped emails happen for people who had 'my-deja.com' accounts, etc etc ?
Gods knows how many accounts like that existed. Seemed like every free website host, webchat, or message board community handed out e-mail addresses. You just reminded me of one I was a member of, Talkcity, which merged with Yet another old-time relic of the internet, the DelphiForums. Wonder if my account is still there, yep, turns out they were sending messages to an older non-existing address.
wow, dejanews. been ages since I even thought about that.
Now that brings back some memories. Let me tell you, that I wish google groups would go back to the Deja style interface for USENET searches and I wish you could search USENET by just using "searchterm group:foo.foo.foo" like in the old days.
Thanks for the clarification. I must admit that I didn't start using gpg myself until 2007 because it seemed "intimidatingly complicated".
I'm not sure e-mail encryption can ever be "one button easy", since you have to create keys, edit and manage keys both public and secret, revoke keys, receive pubkeys, upload pubkeys, etc etc.
That said, the GUI's aren't that hard to use.....but.... it is a bit "fiddly" and sometimes the explanations make it seem more complex than it is. I rather like the gpg4win PDF documention:
It's fairly user friendly. Sadly the HTML version could use some work. You're probably thinking that it should be so easy to use it doesn't NEED documentation, but I'm not sure that's possible. It doesn't help that it's not installed and configured by default on Windows.
In addition Facebook sends you an encrypted e-mail to confirm the sending of encrypted notifications. If you don't click a link in that e-mail, thus proving you can decrypt the messages they encrypt to that key, they won't encrypt.
How so? I gave multiple methods, both command line and GUI for Linux and GUI for windows since I don't know what people have installed. I tried to cover the most common ways. People can just stick with the GUI if they want.
I gave the KEYID and Fingerprint (also listed on the Facebook page) so people could get (and double check) that it's the right pubkey.
I could have just said:
"Open up your PGP/GPG GUI and search the keyservers for the Facebook, Inc pubkey."
Do you not know how PGP/GPG works? A key has two parts, a private key that you keep, and a public key which you can distribute how you want. You want EVERYONE to have your public key. That is what lets others encyrpt communications to you. It also lets others "verify" messages "signed" by you.
The link Facebook gives is for a web proxy to the pgp.mit.edu keyserver, which tends to not be all that reliable when accessed directly and may be Slashdotted. So you might want to try doing this instead, on Linux anyway:
gpg --recv-keys DEE958CF
or if you have pgp-tools installed:
keylookup DEE958CF
or: with Seahorse it's Remote>Find Remote Keys
In GPA (Gnu Privacy Assistant) it's Server>Retrieve keys
Or with Kleopatra (the default gpg GUI on Windows), you select "Lookup Certificates on Server"
Facebook is not doing encrypted messaging between users. Did you RTFA at all?
All they are doing is:
1. Letting users upload their public key to their profile 2. Encrypting Facebook notifications sent to those users 3. Serving as another means of distributing public keys, since other users can download your pubkey from your profile. Which they can use in the e-mail client of choice
"gpg --export -a", exports ALL the public keys you have into one file, not just your own. You need to give gpg the ID/name/e-mail associated with the key you want to export.
It worked just fine for me, though might try feeding the output into xclip as follows:
Wonder who will be first to make a "Finger Facebook for my Public Key" joke.
It does serve a purpose in being another means to easily distribute a pubkey, especially to those who might not be familiar enough with pgp/gpg to use keyservers, or prefer not to use them.
After all, we can put our precious pgp pubkeys in our Slashdot profiles as well.
As a PSPlus subscriber and a Steam fanboy, I can tell you they don't even compare.
I find it hard to believe you're a PS+ subscriber because:
Now, I do get occasional "free" casual/sega genesis/old arcade ports for my $5.99 PS+ monthly subscription,
It's much more than that. Either you aren't paying attention, or you are intentionally understating the PS+ freebies because you're a PC Master Race type.
There also serious discounts during the seasonal sales. Some PSone classics have been under a buck.
but it can't even compare to the 2x a year discount salepocalypse that happens on Steam. In summer sale I can get all the AAA titles I missed for 50-75% off, and catch up on DLC for exceptional games for pennies.
But "is pennies" a good thing. If everyone waits till the game is "pennies" that might make developers less likely to favor the PC as a platform...which has already happened. Steam is a race to the bottom. It may feel good to you to pick up AA games for pennies, but it's not entirely a good thing for the PC as a platform. Besides, can you really play them all or are all those cheap games like an "action figure collection", just something to spend money on that you don't really use.
Maybe you should spend full price on games sometimes and perhaps then the PC versions won't be an afterthought. I am not like some cheapskate PC gamer in the UK/Europe who feels entitled to "games for pence" and lots of piracy thanks to his Spectrum/Amiga days.
You do know that PSN and the Xbox Marketplace have sales as well, right?
I'm not personally familiar with the Xbox ecosystem, but PSN has WEEKLY sales/discounts, then there are holiday sales, and themed sales (had a star wars one a few weeks back) and seasonal sales.
This is the first time in nearly a decade that I hope a game is available on optical media, but my gaming PC doesn't even have one. Between Battle.net and Steam, I never had the need for one.
You're remind those guys who said, "PC gamers don't need DVD's" when PS2 games shipped on them. I said, "You'll want them because eventually even PC games are going to use the storage space."
The same goes for Blu-ray. When PC gamers said "We don't need Blu-ray, we have Steam." I said, "you can't beat the bandwidth of a truck full of Blu-rays, especially with bandwidth caps.
That said, I've gone digital with games that aren't too large (Minecraft), ones I know I will play the heck out of, like Diablo UEE. And going digital with MMO's/MMO-ish games makes sense, DCUO and War Thunder are digital only on the PS4.
The fork of sylpheed known as Claws-Mail is more well known. Since the Sylpheed community is Japanese-centric, I recommend Claws-Mail over Sylpheed to anyone who isn't Japanese.
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It's only an improvement over F3 to two groups of players:
1. FPS Dudebro shooter gamers who were disappointed by F3 when they went into it thinking it was going to be an FPS and tried playing like one, but didn't like it because it was an RPG and wanted a more shooter-like game. VATS was nerfed to cater to these guys.
2. Old school Fallout Fanboys who think Black Isle could do no wrong and would have preferred another isometric Fallout, but settled for New Vegas. The large difficulty spike (until the game finally got properly balanced in patches), weapons nerfs, hardcore mode and other features were to cater to these guys.
While NV is a good game, it's not as "enjoyable" as F3, the frustration/annoyance/tedium factor is higher even though it has some good ideas like the faction system.
wonder how many dropped emails happen for people who had 'my-deja.com' accounts, etc etc ?
Gods knows how many accounts like that existed. Seemed like every free website host, webchat, or message board community handed out e-mail addresses. You just reminded me of one I was a member of, Talkcity, which merged with Yet another old-time relic of the internet, the DelphiForums. Wonder if my account is still there, yep, turns out they were sending messages to an older non-existing address.
wow, dejanews. been ages since I even thought about that.
Now that brings back some memories. Let me tell you, that I wish google groups would go back to the Deja style interface for USENET searches and I wish you could search USENET by just using "searchterm group:foo.foo.foo" like in the old days.
Time for a get off my lawn joke.
They'd still have to drug me and hit me with a $5 wrench to get the passphrase to that private key.
Obligatory OTHER encryption related XKCD:
http://xkcd.com/538/
Thanks for the clarification. I must admit that I didn't start using gpg myself until 2007 because it seemed "intimidatingly complicated".
I'm not sure e-mail encryption can ever be "one button easy", since you have to create keys, edit and manage keys both public and secret, revoke keys, receive pubkeys, upload pubkeys, etc etc.
That said, the GUI's aren't that hard to use.....but.... it is a bit "fiddly" and sometimes the explanations make it seem more complex than it is. I rather like the gpg4win PDF documention:
http://wald.intevation.org/frs...
It's fairly user friendly. Sadly the HTML version could use some work. You're probably thinking that it should be so easy to use it doesn't NEED documentation, but I'm not sure that's possible. It doesn't help that it's not installed and configured by default on Windows.
I wonder what your wife would make of this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
According to Facebook's page on gpg:
"Facebook notifications are encrypted with a version of GPG that supports encryption with the RSA or ElGamal algorithms"
Could that be the reason? Is your pubkey DSA?
They don't mention any bit depth limit, people have tested 4096 keys with it and it's working.
I'm running Linux so ordinary GPG with Claws-Mail (which has included gpg and s/mime plugins)
Main reason is that it is easy to copy some stuff, hit a key, instantly sign/encrypt/decrypt/validate it, then read or paste it.
GPA/KGPG/Kleopatra also have similar features.
In addition Facebook sends you an encrypted e-mail to confirm the sending of encrypted notifications. If you don't click a link in that e-mail, thus proving you can decrypt the messages they encrypt to that key, they won't encrypt.
How so? I gave multiple methods, both command line and GUI for Linux and GUI for windows since I don't know what people have installed. I tried to cover the most common ways. People can just stick with the GUI if they want.
I gave the KEYID and Fingerprint (also listed on the Facebook page) so people could get (and double check) that it's the right pubkey.
I could have just said:
"Open up your PGP/GPG GUI and search the keyservers for the Facebook, Inc pubkey."
But I was being more descriptive and thorough.
If someone doesn't regularly fly to key signing parties, how should he get his PGP key signed into the strongly connected subset of the web of trust?
it's a moot point and a distraction. Most users don't focus that much on the WoT.
I could easily download any public key from a keyserver and add it to my account.
You "could", but it wouldn't match the contact info Facebook has for you:
"Hey, this public key is for malda@slashdot.org, not robert.thille@thille.org"
Neither would it do you any good since Facebook would then encrypt e-mail to that pubkey, which you don't have the private key for.
You also could not send an e-mail that could be verified by that public key.
Do you not know how PGP/GPG works? A key has two parts, a private key that you keep, and a public key which you can distribute how you want. You want EVERYONE to have your public key. That is what lets others encyrpt communications to you. It also lets others "verify" messages "signed" by you.
That's it.
I guess facebook is doing this because it doesn't do email. ( haven't seen too many @facebook.com email addresses around.)
Facebook used to do e-mail, every user had a @facebook.com e-mail address, but shut that down last year.
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/...
KEYID: DEE958CF
Fingerprint: 31A7 0953 D8D5 90BA 1FAB 3776 2F38 98CE DEE9 58CF
The link Facebook gives is for a web proxy to the pgp.mit.edu keyserver, which tends to not be all that reliable when accessed directly and may be Slashdotted. So you might want to try doing this instead, on Linux anyway:
gpg --recv-keys DEE958CF
or if you have pgp-tools installed:
keylookup DEE958CF
or: with Seahorse it's Remote>Find Remote Keys
In GPA (Gnu Privacy Assistant) it's Server>Retrieve keys
Or with Kleopatra (the default gpg GUI on Windows), you select "Lookup Certificates on Server"
In KGPG it's "Key Server Dialog"
Facebook is not doing encrypted messaging between users. Did you RTFA at all?
All they are doing is:
1. Letting users upload their public key to their profile
2. Encrypting Facebook notifications sent to those users
3. Serving as another means of distributing public keys, since other users can download your pubkey from your profile. Which they can use in the e-mail client of choice
That's it.
"gpg --export -a", exports ALL the public keys you have into one file, not just your own. You need to give gpg the ID/name/e-mail associated with the key you want to export.
It worked just fine for me, though might try feeding the output into xclip as follows:
gpg --export -a KEYID | xclip -i
Seems like a better technology to me, since you can encrypt entire MIME parts (including attachments and (some) headers) rather than just body text.
Why do you think PGP can't do that, because it can. That's what PGP/MIME is for.
When will /. implement a similar mechanism?
It already did, years ago, there's a field for it in:
https://slashdot.org/users.pl?...
You can then find them at:
Srsly!
Wonder who will be first to make a "Finger Facebook for my Public Key" joke.
It does serve a purpose in being another means to easily distribute a pubkey, especially to those who might not be familiar enough with pgp/gpg to use keyservers, or prefer not to use them.
After all, we can put our precious pgp pubkeys in our Slashdot profiles as well.
https://slashdot.org/users.pl?...
You can find them at:
Apparently you can make the pubkey public so that others can download it too. That makes Facebook another easy way to distribute a pubkey.
As a PSPlus subscriber and a Steam fanboy, I can tell you they don't even compare.
I find it hard to believe you're a PS+ subscriber because:
Now, I do get occasional "free" casual/sega genesis/old arcade ports for my $5.99 PS+ monthly subscription,
It's much more than that. Either you aren't paying attention, or you are intentionally understating the PS+ freebies because you're a PC Master Race type.
This is the master list of ps+ games;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...
There also serious discounts during the seasonal sales. Some PSone classics have been under a buck.
but it can't even compare to the 2x a year discount salepocalypse that happens on Steam.
In summer sale I can get all the AAA titles I missed for 50-75% off, and catch up on DLC for exceptional games for pennies.
But "is pennies" a good thing. If everyone waits till the game is "pennies" that might make developers less likely to favor the PC as a platform...which has already happened. Steam is a race to the bottom. It may feel good to you to pick up AA games for pennies, but it's not entirely a good thing for the PC as a platform. Besides, can you really play them all or are all those cheap games like an "action figure collection", just something to spend money on that you don't really use.
Maybe you should spend full price on games sometimes and perhaps then the PC versions won't be an afterthought. I am not like some cheapskate PC gamer in the UK/Europe who feels entitled to "games for pence" and lots of piracy thanks to his Spectrum/Amiga days.
You do know that PSN and the Xbox Marketplace have sales as well, right?
I'm not personally familiar with the Xbox ecosystem, but PSN has WEEKLY sales/discounts, then there are holiday sales, and themed sales (had a star wars one a few weeks back) and seasonal sales.
https://store.playstation.com/...||price~asc
This is the first time in nearly a decade that I hope a game is available on optical media, but my gaming PC doesn't even have one. Between Battle.net and Steam, I never had the need for one.
You're remind those guys who said, "PC gamers don't need DVD's" when PS2 games shipped on them. I said, "You'll want them because eventually even PC games are going to use the storage space."
The same goes for Blu-ray. When PC gamers said "We don't need Blu-ray, we have Steam." I said, "you can't beat the bandwidth of a truck full of Blu-rays, especially with bandwidth caps.
That said, I've gone digital with games that aren't too large (Minecraft), ones I know I will play the heck out of, like Diablo UEE. And going digital with MMO's/MMO-ish games makes sense, DCUO and War Thunder are digital only on the PS4.
You can buy packages of texts with go phone. 200 for 4.99.
Sylpheed's primary advantage over all other e-mail clients is its inability to send HTML formatted mail.
Not "all other". Claws-Mail, the more well known and more popular fork of Sylpheed has the same feature....and more.
The fork of sylpheed known as Claws-Mail is more well known. Since the Sylpheed community is Japanese-centric, I recommend Claws-Mail over Sylpheed to anyone who isn't Japanese.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...
http://www.claws-mail.org/feat...