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    Steam Turns 18 YO Today - Rolled Out: Sept. 12 2003

    Mine is at 16y, 17 end of November. I remember really hating the idea of have some extra useless software running just to play a game I bought.
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    Proton Mail may log IPs if Court Ordered

    If they send you my public key and they send me your public key, we still only have our own private keys, right? Hasn't PGP been doing this for like 30 years? or are we just as the point where the argument is that if you are decrypting the data on a device that isn't offline only then there's...
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    Proton Mail may log IPs if Court Ordered

    Ok, yeah, they'll have your login and password information, you've got to send that to login. My understanding was that the text of the e-mail was encrypted client side and proton never gets the key, keeping the data secure. I've not used their service, but I thought the encryption /...
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    Proton Mail may log IPs if Court Ordered

    Yeah, I mean I guess if you've compromised all end points then what happens in the middle doesn't matter. I was trying to answer the question about what stops them from keeping encryption keys and just decrypting and storing the plain data. At the time I had thought I answered that correctly.
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    Proton Mail may log IPs if Court Ordered

    Maybe I just don't understand, but I thought that if I encrypted something on my end with a private key then logged in and sent the encrypted data that someone couldn't just get my private key because I logged into a website and sent some data that wasn't the private key.
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    Proton Mail may log IPs if Court Ordered

    I'm no expert in data encryption, but my understanding of public/private key & end to end encryption is that the people in the middle (eg. protonmail) never hold the keys to unlock the e-mails. The decryption process should only be possible on the recipients end. If all it took to undo...
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    Proton Mail may log IPs if Court Ordered

    Difference is one that does so when court ordered only has data from that moment forward, no history to provide. Also it's still an encrypted email service, they can't get your emails from the provider.
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    Epic Games Sues Apple

    I thought that was kind of the point cybereality was making, PCs (running windows / linux / macos) are different than iOS and the methods software is available to them. Valve's store is in the PC market and not iOS, and the differences between the two platforms are enough to maybe make...
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    Using Windows 7 Will Get You Hacked?

    Nothing stops 0-day, that's how it's defined, unknown vulnerability that can be exploited. Won't matter how up to date Windows, your router or AV is.
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    Reusing Corsiar HX850 from 2015 due to shortage

    The only time I had a power supply cause damage to anything else was in 2000 or 2001, but back then I bought the cheapest grey box never heard of brands. With good brands the only thing I even hear about now when they start failing is unstable systems, especially when overclocking. I would...
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    Dewalt Xtreme Brushless 1/4 Impact driver combo. $30 off @Lowes=$89

    Is that even an impact? That link keeps taking me to a listing calling it a cordless screwdriver. I think it's just a driver. Am I wrong?
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    IRS quietly deletes guideline that Fortnite virtual currency must be reported on tax returns

    So they argue that if the currency is convertible to USD then it's taxable. I'm thinking World of Warcraft here. Since you can buy and sell gold 3rd party, even if blizzard doesn't like it, then it's a convertible currency. So do you have to file capital gains every time you gain money for...
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    Windows 10 users fume: Microsoft, where's our 'local account' option gone?

    I never said it would get around it, wasn't an idea I had. To clarify: I had meant to quote, in the my original posting one of the people mentioning disconnecting from the internet to get it to install how they wanted. I've heard that is not an uncommon step in various cracks for software...
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    Windows 10 users fume: Microsoft, where's our 'local account' option gone?

    It's a step that sounds like it should only be necessary if you are trying to avoid activation servers for piracy. Shouldn't be a step required to legitimately use software the way people want.
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    do you guys still use air can to spray clean the case or you use compressor?

    I've used an air compressor for this task for probably 15 years has worked fine. I usually held the fans so they wouldn't go spinning crazy when hitting it with the air. I just left it set at 90psi or whatever it was last at, never had anything come unsoldered :rolleyes:. That being said a...
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    eBay luck ran out - fraudulent return

    Wow, I'm surprised that it ended up in your favor! I'm glad it worked out. You mind giving more details on what you said to their twitter account and on the appeal?
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    Harassment in VR Gaming Apparently a Problem

    I think you mistook my point, I was trying to bash that idea of telling everyone to just deal with it. Since so much of this thread and threads like this are full of people acting like people who don't like troublemakers are often regarded as weak and should just learn to deal. The harden up...
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    Harassment in VR Gaming Apparently a Problem

    but isn't that just people creating their own safe space because they think they're special snowflakes? Shouldn't they instead just have to deal with it and [H]arden up? Shouldn't these actions just be expected online and be allowed? ... That survey where people were asked if things like...
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    Harassment in VR Gaming Apparently a Problem

    I feel like there's a lot of hate going on for what basically amounts to people don't like it when others grief in games. I don't play with cheaters, people who spam racist/dumb shit all game or any other people who are there just to grief, I just find another game. I expect plenty of you guys...
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    Chinese Space Station Tiangong-1 Expected to Crash in the Next 24 Hours

    (The joke is in implying it's an April fools joke.) *ahem*, oh yeah right!, like I'm going to fall for that on April 1st, lol.
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    New VR Controller Brings KB+Mouse Accuracy to VR Gaming

    from what it looked like to me your suppose to play with them facing downward, so they'd be on your left hand with your fingers pressing them from the underside, with your thumbs on the topside with the regular controller sticks / buttons. That puts the keyboard buttons right under your left...
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    YouTube and Reddit Banning Firearms Related Content

    and throw out your android phone and start using bing.
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    Ready Player One Sneak Peek at SXSW 2018

    so, just a partial one then? and yes, I know.
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    Ready Player One Sneak Peek at SXSW 2018

    oh god, he reads so slow.... I couldn't stand it.
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    Children Struggle to Hold Pencils Due to Too Much Tech, Doctors Say

    A signature != cursive handwriting Signatures often include, giant embellishments, crazy long tails that circle back, or are just illegible since it's just a personal mark. I'd hardly call what most people use as a signature proper cursive handwriting.
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    “Flippy,” the Fast Food Robot, Turned Off for Being Too Slow

    Right now it's all testbed installs, work out the bugs then just add more. So the robot needs a 2nd arm, got it, next iteration. Line at ordering kiosk, ok just add 6 more, now everyone is ordering at the same time.
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    Hackers Create Prosthetic Nerf Gun

    He's Megaman!
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    Android Tops iOS in Loyalty Survey

    When you choose iOS you've only got two phones to choose from, when you choose from any of the 100s of others phones you get Android. Not sure if bouncing between different brands of phones and custom interfaces is the same thing as loyalty just because there's android in there.
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    Alexa Has Lost Her Voice as Owners Report Outages

    Damnit, now I can't turn my lights off.
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    Bar Receives 500 DMCA Notices Last Week

    I think this is more in line with, someone asked to use your phone, and they called their drug dealer.
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    3D Realms Reveals Old -School Shooter Using Build Engine

    System requirements seem a little high. ;)
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    Data Privacy At The Supreme Court: Can U.S. Seize Emails Stored Abroad?

    What's interesting is if this goes thru it could mean, in the future, a company could be compelled to do something that's illegal in another country. Like if the law in Ireland is that you cannot export that data without some government signoff. You're based in America, so we don't care if our...
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    FCC Broadband Speed Map is Back Online

    Well, it shows my options correctly. AT&T at 6mbps and then some satellite services. I've got the Viasat service now, and well, even though it's advertised at speed tiers up to 30, they are not playing around with those "UP TO" numbers. If it's 4am you'll get that no problem, but a few weeks...
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    Swype+Dragon Keyboard Discontinued

    I stopped liking it once they shoved that dragon dictation in there, the +Dragon part killed it for me
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    YouTubers Survive Break-In by Armed, Deranged Fan

    they were home, hid in a closet, but yeah, could of been bad. I imagine it was quite the weird feeling sitting there waiting for the police to arrive while a crazy armed guy is looking to kill you.
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    Senate Bill Introduced to Create National Broadband Access Standard

    Don't worry the lobbyists will get in there and convince them that if you can buy wireless broadband at $10/gb that counts as broadband, then they'll stop using their existing lines while prohibiting anyone else from offering wired access.
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    Few Americans Reporting Cryptocurrency Gains

    That's the boat I'm in, trying to figure out how to do this correctly. I got a little bit in 2015 a couple of times just to play around with to see what it was all about and how it would work, moved it around to different wallets, bought a t-shirt, made some donations etc, then what was left...
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    Facebook is Not Cool Any More

    It's no surprise to me, who wants to go to the most boring blog ever where your "friends" just repost lame stuff from radio stations and vomit political crap all day. While having ads shoved in everywhere they can be.
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