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  1. Re:I hope it's fast on Microsoft Is Killing Off the Internet Explorer Brand · · Score: 0

    IE11 with EMET is THE MOST SECURE BROWSER ON WINDOWS

    It still freezes up for a few seconds when you start it, ignores the address you just entered and visits the homepage regardless. To this day, IE still has an issue registering clicks on hyperlinks when it doesn't think the window is active (when it is).

    That's just from the top of my head. A secure turd is still a turd.

  2. Re:*facepalm* on Yahoo Debuts End-To-End Encryption Email Plugin, Password-Free Logins · · Score: 1

    Doesn't the google auth app (and other OTP based apps) work that way?

    They don't require an Internet connection, nor SMSes to generate a code, no.

  3. Re: PC gaming is dead on Another Upscaled Console Game: Battlefield Hardline · · Score: 1

    Tell me more. Can PC do cinematic FPS too?

  4. Re: What is systemd exactly? on Ubuntu To Officially Switch To systemd Next Monday · · Score: 1

    On a sysv init system, you can't even be sure you are starting a service the same way the previous admin did

    You can by using the 'service' command and ensuring everyone uses that method with init scripts.

  5. Re:Some do (for sure)... apk on Ask Slashdot: Parental Content Control For Free OSs? · · Score: 1

    Pretty certain the Ask Slashdot article wanted to block adult content first and foremost. Your provided hosts files do not offer those parental controls requested.

  6. Re:"It's hard, so we won't do it" on The Programmers Who Want To Get Rid of Software Estimates · · Score: 1

    Managers who use schedules to push workers harder are shitty managers and will likely end up with a bad product. That is the sort of problem that fixes itself.

    From personal experience, you can have a shitty manager that is overworking your entire team, but the team still makes a quality product and that manager looks good despite being shitty.

  7. Re: Easy of porting over is the key on The State of Linux Gaming In the SteamOS Era · · Score: 1

    You should explain how you had no problems.

    I only had to install some pre-requesits, which is no different from me needing to install the C++ runtime on Windows for games of that era which weren't by the way, included in the installer, nor documented officially by EPIC nor Microsoft.

    Pre-requiests were trivial to install, eiher copy paste a single line and hit enter or use the graphical package mangaer interface.

    I had no other problems at all. If Linux was moving a target, installing a few libraries provided by the system wouldn't be the only issue I would have encountered.

  8. Re: Gaming on Linux will matter... on The State of Linux Gaming In the SteamOS Era · · Score: 3, Informative

    To answer your why. The number one reason for using DirectX APIs is because of the ease of use with Visual Studio, the second reason is that commonly game development courses until recently focused exclusively on Direct (that has changed because of mobile devices).

  9. Re: Easy of porting over is the key on The State of Linux Gaming In the SteamOS Era · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Please explain why I am able to play all the old Linux ports of games like the original unreal tournament (I haven't acquired new ports for a while) with no problem when Linux is a moving target?

  10. Re:How do you confirm somebody's gender online? on An Evidence-Based Approach To Online Dating · · Score: 1

    Sorry, then what should I ask?

    I'm saying asking 'What sex are you?' or 'What gender are you?' won't cover it, not that I'd particularly ask that question either.

  11. Re:How do you confirm somebody's gender online? on An Evidence-Based Approach To Online Dating · · Score: 1

    Sex reveals the information.
    I'm organic appearing as a female: that is his/her sex.

    Not legally, which is all that matters when you identify your sex.

    So, what exactly is your point? That the other person needs to give the additional info, that he changed sex?

    No, that you need to ask something other than sex or gender to get that information.

  12. Re:New version! on Linux Kernel Switching To Linux v4.0, Coming With Many New Addons · · Score: 5, Funny

    If it does, or ever has done, any of these things where is the fucking bug report.

    The server running the bug reporting solution dropped the bug report.

  13. Re:How do you confirm somebody's gender online? on An Evidence-Based Approach To Online Dating · · Score: 1

    I don't care if you call it gender or sex

    Gender is what you think you are, sex is what you physically are. Neither of these identify being once being some other sex and now a different sex.

    read my parent

    I did, and I identified to you that gender (or sex) would not reveal this information to you.

  14. Re:How do you confirm somebody's gender online? on An Evidence-Based Approach To Online Dating · · Score: 1

    Call me what ever you want, but I find the idea to have sex with a 'woman' that was a man before so disgusting I likely would vomit on her bed if she told me.

    Gender wouldn't identify this, so this is an irrelevant argument.

  15. Re:Custom hosts files on Ask Slashdot: Parental Content Control For Free OSs? · · Score: 1

    None of those hosts file block adult content you want to keep from children.

  16. Re:How do you confirm somebody's gender online? on An Evidence-Based Approach To Online Dating · · Score: 1

    What I'm most confused about these days is how, when engaging in online dating, the two people involved determine the actual gender of the other.

    Gender is irrelevant, use 'sex'.

    Me and my wife came from a simpler time, when you could tell somebody's gender based on their genitalia.

    That's their 'sex'.

    So when one engages in online dating, how does one know the actual gender of the people they are dealing with?

    One doesn't need to know. It's irrelevant.

  17. Re:Accusations Akimbo - But No Remedies? on How "Omnipotent" Hackers Tied To NSA Hid For 14 Years and Were Found At Last · · Score: 1

    Why would we need to discuss it when we already know how?

    I guess we all roll over and say "meh, guess I'll just recompile my kernel while the world burns".

    Precisely. If you look at all those attacks, they are targeting Windows specifically.

  18. Re: BitCoin's isn't a mature cryptocurrancy on Alleged Bitcoin Scam Leaves Millions Missing · · Score: 1

    Your complaint is apparently about BitPay

    Not specifically, I have the same problem with other services that accept Bitcoin payments too. I'm just using one common example.

    I have had no issues using Bitcoin for payments

    I haven't had issues using Bitcoin for payments it self. The issues I have been having have been getting the service I paid for.

  19. Re: BitCoin's isn't a mature cryptocurrancy on Alleged Bitcoin Scam Leaves Millions Missing · · Score: 1

    It's there but it isn't. My original point that this is a technology issue remains. Bitcoin is still immature. The fact Bitcoin has a function in the protocol but it isn't even implemented for use doesn't make things better. Nobody should be using Bitcoin right now, it's just a scammers paradise and it undermines Bitcoins use.

  20. Re:BitCoin's isn't a mature cryptocurrancy on Alleged Bitcoin Scam Leaves Millions Missing · · Score: 1

    I'll stick to credit cards and the like.

  21. Re:BitCoin's isn't a mature cryptocurrancy on Alleged Bitcoin Scam Leaves Millions Missing · · Score: 1

    In what way is CHECKMULTISIG in the protocol not supporting escrow?

    In the way that I am now trying to pay for a VPN, the site asks me to use Bitpay and I don't see the escrow button to make it work.

  22. Re:BitCoin's isn't a mature cryptocurrancy on Alleged Bitcoin Scam Leaves Millions Missing · · Score: 1

    Bitcoin is basically digital cash.

    My bank account is digital cash. I can send my cash using bank transactions and debit card transactions digitally much like how Bitcoin can send funds digitally.

    Would you hand that VPN provider cash?

    Normally I wouldn't have an issue using my digital cash for such things. However my digital Bitcoin cash is another story.

    If not, then you probably shouldn't be handing them bitcoins.

    Then you should disagree with the Bitcoin escrow guys and convince them that is the appropriate approach directly instead of trying to convince me who is sold on this escrow system.

    Cash doesn't provide charge-back service either.

    My non-Bitcoin digital cash does.

    Now, back to the real question, I will even drop the word 'shady' since you want to use that as a red herring to escape from the real question.

    I am at a VPN provider website right now, they want me to pay my bitcoins via Bitpay, how do I escrow?

  23. Re:BitCoin's isn't a mature cryptocurrancy on Alleged Bitcoin Scam Leaves Millions Missing · · Score: 1

    I don't see how Bitcoin is different than cash in this regard.

    Bitcoin isn't cash though.

    If you are purchasing something without escrow then you will always run the risk of the other party making off with your money/property.

    Okay, I am at a shady VPN provider website right now, they want me to my bitcoins via Bitpay, how do I escrow?

    If this happens, they still broke the law no matter if you were paying in cash, Bitcoins or Triganic Pu.

    Breaking the law isn't really helpful. Smoking pot is illegal in the Netherlands, but it doesn't do much, does it?

    If you don't trust the party you are doing the deal with you should take steps to protect yourself, no matter the currency.

    I'm protected with my credit cards and bank accounts through the insurance provided on my account (it covers both and is included with my account type) and with the ability to charge back for transactions that are either fraudulent or did not deliver service. But Bitcoin doesn't seem to offer anything like this at all.

  24. Re:BitCoin's isn't a mature cryptocurrancy on Alleged Bitcoin Scam Leaves Millions Missing · · Score: 1

    Have you ever heard of an Escrow?

    Not supported in the Bitcoin protocol.

    Use an escrow and you get your goods, the seller gets there coin, and the escrow provider get a small amount for handling the deal.

    Again, you missed the fact that this is not supported by the Bitcoin protocol.

  25. Re:BitCoin's isn't a mature cryptocurrancy on Alleged Bitcoin Scam Leaves Millions Missing · · Score: 1

    The problem isn't with the technology in general so much as its infancy.

    No, the problem is with the technology, it depends on trusting the person it's sending money to deliver something. That is a flaw quite clearly. Unlike other technologies that depend on other methods to deliver like laws that can be enforced, Bitcoin is designed to make this difficult.