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Living Room / Re: You're Only As Young As... Oh... Scratch That...

« Last post by Deozaan on May 06, 2011, 07:34 PM »

So if he's in his 30s, you gotta be close too.

-Stoic Joker (May 06, 2011, 07:00 AM)

I am getting close, but I'm not there yet. Got a couple years left.

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Living Room / Re: After PSN. Who's next?

« Last post by Deozaan on May 06, 2011, 06:41 PM »

But LastPass was supposed to be the last password I'd need to remember.

Ever.

Says so right on their website and Twitter profile.

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Living Room / Re: After PSN. Who's next?

« Last post by Deozaan on May 06, 2011, 05:03 PM »

I'm not happy with LastPass right now.

I just went out of town today to stay at my sister's house for the weekend. I tried to sign into LastPass so I could sign into my other accounts, but due to this recent anomaly they wanted me to verify that I was myself. They did this by sending me an e-mail.

How am I supposed to log into my e-mail account to get the verification e-mail when my 40 character password to my e-mail account is stored away in my LastPass account that I can't log in to until I verify my e-mail?

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Living Room / Re: Tinjaw, gone?

« Last post by Deozaan on May 06, 2011, 03:18 AM »

I pretty much only use the "Unread Posts" page on these forums. All the most recent posts are at the top of the page that way.

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Living Room / Re: Tinjaw, gone?

« Last post by Deozaan on May 06, 2011, 01:52 AM »

Ah. Kind of strange to hide it like that. You'd think Buddy notification would be somewhere more prominent at least.

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Living Room / Re: Tinjaw, gone?

« Last post by Deozaan on May 05, 2011, 11:55 PM »

I've seen him, here, today, in a flash (see attachment in previous post)
Something or someone pulled him over, thanks for that!

-Ath (May 05, 2011, 03:07 PM)

What is that? Is there a link to current members online or something?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Amazon Watcher - Freeware

« Last post by Deozaan on May 05, 2011, 11:52 PM »

Interesting. You'd normally expect to see this kind of thing for eBay. I wouldn't have expected it for Amazon, though.

Thanks masu.

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Living Room / Re: You're Only As Young As... Oh... Scratch That...

« Last post by Deozaan on May 05, 2011, 11:27 PM »

Haha! The last one is awesome.

But seriously, Home Alone and The Little Mermaid? I thought I saw both of those right around the time they came out, but I'm not in my 30s.

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General Software Discussion / Re: A sneaky new attack on privacy

« Last post by Deozaan on May 05, 2011, 11:23 PM »

Weird. Sounds bad.

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Living Room / Re: After PSN. Who's next?

« Last post by Deozaan on May 05, 2011, 10:02 PM »

assuming Sony's IT guys are not complete idiots

-phitsc (May 05, 2011, 05:50 AM)

That's quite an assumption to make. Consider the following evidence:

In congressional testimony this morning, Dr. Gene Spafford of Purdue University said that Sony was using outdated software on its servers — and knew about it months in advance of the recent security breaches that allowed hackers to get private information from over 100 million user accounts.

-http://consumerist.com/2011/05/security-expert-sony-knew-its-software-was-obsolete-months-before-psn-breach.html

Also, I don't know exactly how it works, but the way the PS3 was finally hacked was the master key could be figured out because Sony used a static/constant number in the encryption scheme where there should have been a completely random number.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: PC game launcher/organizer/frontend

« Last post by Deozaan on May 05, 2011, 09:48 PM »

Well, I just use Steam as my game launcher. Even for non-Steam games. But that probably won't be useful for games that require DOSBox.

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Living Room / Re: Post Your Funny Videos Here [NSFW]

« Last post by Deozaan on May 05, 2011, 09:44 PM »

This one was from app103 in the DC channel on IRC.

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Developer's Corner / Re: The Finch - $100 Robot for Teaching Computer Programming

« Last post by Deozaan on May 05, 2011, 08:15 PM »

So... It's a robot you can program, hence the encouragement to learn how to program it?

I wonder if it can interact specifically with other Finch robots.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Question for those of you who use windows-based HTPC PCs with your tv

« Last post by Deozaan on May 04, 2011, 03:03 AM »

Duct tape an iPad to your wall!

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Living Room / Re: Techno Life Skills -- anything you buy, you must maintain

« Last post by Deozaan on May 04, 2011, 02:47 AM »

No. This is what is taught while growing up in a high-tech age.

• Anything you buy, you must upgrade as soon as a new version comes out or the old one breaks.
• If you can't figure it out immediately, the design sucks. Get good products instead of that crap.
• Higher price means better quality. Duh!
• Every new technology is awesome incarnate. Pay no heed to the man behind the curtain.
• Padded walls are for your own safety. Don't try to fix it, modify it, or hack it yourself. It could be dangerous and besides it voids your warranty.
• The older a technology, the more likely it will make you look like an older person trying to be cool with the younger generation. You don't want that, do you?

and so on.

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Living Room / Re: Apple Patent Reveals Extensive Stalking Plans

« Last post by Deozaan on May 03, 2011, 10:50 PM »

Too funny! The above gawker link locked up my iPhone twice when I tried to read it! My client just tried it on her's. Same result.

-40hz (May 03, 2011, 02:04 PM)

I don't know for sure, but I'm guessing because there's a PDF file embedded in the site.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Question for those of you who use windows-based HTPC PCs with your tv

« Last post by Deozaan on May 03, 2011, 10:36 PM »

Run Android on an HTPC!

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Living Room / Re: A question for Google -- why are you so desperate to have me switch to Chrome?

« Last post by Deozaan on May 03, 2011, 08:15 PM »

I'm confused, if you're using FF 99% of the time, what "important" stuff are you doing in IE?

-Stoic Joker (February 11, 2011, 11:17 AM)

A lot of government websites only work properly in IE.

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Living Room / Re: The internet in 1990 -- holy smokes!

« Last post by Deozaan on May 03, 2011, 06:58 PM »

I don't understand your point.  Do you really want to know my degree (engineering) or are you trying to say I'm not qualified to say such things?

I'm asking what qualifies you to say such things with any credibility.

-mrainey (May 03, 2011, 06:41 PM)

You don't need a degree to be educated on a topic. And in my opinion, most of the so-called experts with the "correct" degree(s) who are paraded around on TV aren't very credible.

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Living Room / Re: Sony Playstation Network hacked - All your infos are belong to hackers.

« Last post by Deozaan on May 02, 2011, 06:03 PM »

Sounds just like Sony. Except for the humble apology.

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Living Room / Re: amount of RAM in a netbook

« Last post by Deozaan on May 02, 2011, 05:57 PM »

I had Windows 7 Ultimate on my netbook since shortly after it came out until just a couple months ago. It ran but it was generally sluggish.

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Living Room / Re: Can you read this?

« Last post by Deozaan on April 30, 2011, 03:40 PM »

Now they should make a study about writing in such a way  

-housetier (April 29, 2011, 07:08 PM)

If I remember correctly, this method of writing actually originated from a study done in a university in the UK.


Don't quote me on that, but im pretty sure it did

-Stephen66515 (April 30, 2011, 03:14 PM)

Isn't Cambridge in the UK?

aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy

-kyrathaba (April 29, 2011, 06:09 PM)

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Living Room / Re: Sony Playstation Network hacked - All your infos are belong to hackers.

« Last post by Deozaan on April 30, 2011, 03:38 PM »

Ehm OK, people don't have a problem providing their whole biography to Sony, but they are in panic when hackers get it too?

-Tuxman (April 30, 2011, 03:28 PM)

So by that logic, if you ever purchase anything, EVER, then you shouldn't care if anyone else in the whole world gets your bank info?

And here I thought you said you were an intelligent troll.

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Living Room / Re: Sony Playstation Network hacked - All your infos are belong to hackers.

« Last post by Deozaan on April 30, 2011, 03:13 PM »

I got a phishy sounding voicemail today:

We're calling on behalf of your financial institution concerning your debit or ATM card. Please return this call at 1(800) 830-1925 Again. That number is 1(800) 830-1925. We have representatives available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Thank you, goodbye.

I Googled the number and found a site with a bunch of people saying it was legitimate, but I still didn't trust it so I just called my bank instead. My bank told me about an unauthorized charge to my card from a company in New Jersey (I'm on the other side of the continent, in Idaho). Thankfully my bank was smart enough not to let the charge through, so I don't need to worry about trying to get my money back. My card has been cancelled and a new one is being reissued. Ugh, now I need to update PayPal and Amazon and NewEgg and a whole lot else after I get my new card.

This is the same card I had on my PSN account. If you have or ever had your details on a PSN account, be watchful! This charge didn't show up on my online banking statement at all.

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Living Room / Re: Can you read this?

« Last post by Deozaan on April 30, 2011, 02:43 PM »

Of course this only works on people that are literate.

-housetier (April 29, 2011, 07:08 PM)

Ironically such a text is only likely to come *from* someone who's not.

-JavaJones (April 30, 2011, 02:23 PM)

And I can't even imagine how difficult it might be for someone who has dyslexia.