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    Reclaiming a Hijacked Steam Account.

    in Tech and Computers

    Posted

    I'm guessing that the ticket number is number of your open support ticket with steam? (Though I dunno how you'd get that before you submitted the ticket :-s )

     

     

     

    It also looks like you could just write the steam name under the CD key instead of the ticket number.

     

     

     

    https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=2347-QDFN-4366#submit - "If retail software is registered to the account, attach a digital photo or scan of the CD Key registered to the account. Write the Steam account username on the quick reference card or CD Key sticker below the code in permanent ink."

    Firefox 3.5 remote exploit

    in Tech and Computers

    Posted

    Stop being a [rooster].

     

     

     

    Plain and simple, you posted telling people to turn off javascript to protect themselves from a firefox vulnerability you couldn't tell them about. No sources, no other information. It's nice that you're trying to warn people, but please don't pretend you're someone special because of it, and then don't get so frelling defensive when people point that out to you.

    Firefox 3.5 remote exploit

    in Tech and Computers

    Posted

    The least you could do is not be a [rooster] about it and provide some actual detail and sources that don't rest on faith in your own authority. Please get off your high-horse, you can contribute to the community without it.

     

    Disabling javascript in it's entirely is overkill.

     

     

     

    http://voices.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2009/07/stopgap_fix_for_critical_firef.html is a temporary fix for anyone who cares.

     

    http://secunia.com/advisories/35798/ is information on the vulnerability.

    Imageshack gone paranoid

    in Off-Topic

    Posted

    i don't understand why they did this without first more widely publishing more information about themselves. i'm sure tons of people are trying to find out about them now, but they don't seem to have a site, and their name isn't unique enough to easily google

     

     

     

    interested though.

     

     

     

    They do have a website. http://romeo.copyandpaste.info/ (link contains language and stupidity).

     

     

     

    These mouth-breathers are pretty much against the disclosure of software security exploits; they want to keep all their hacks to themselves and go around looking cool by messing with people's stuff and contributing absolutely nothing to improving security of software. Why they went after imageshack to spread their (stupid) message is beyond me. Most people aren't going to know what they're even talking about because of how esoteric the subject is and how poorly written their "message" is.

     

     

     

    And to the poster two above, the picture that images were replaced with was http://imgur.com/wCaS0.jpg

    Google Chrome OS

    in Tech and Computers

    Posted

    It's marketed at netbooks, where linux already has a significant market share and one doesn't need DX.

     

     

     

    Though as someone who does a bit more on his netbook than just web apps, I don't think it's for me. :|

    [TF2] It's MANN Vs. Machine!

    in Off-Topic

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    Not to be rude (it's a nice score) but orange maps are so [bleep] terrible. Like, it's so easy to get a good score on them because it seems like the people that play on those maps (and that server especially) are pretty terrible. I dunno, I played on it the other day with Errdoth for like half an hour. I was playing as engineer and half of the time I didn't even get a decent sentry spot, yet I had a pretty damn good KDR just running around with shotgun :/.

     

     

     

    Hell, I almost made a positive kdr running around batting heavies as scout :P

    Wow Microsoft is getting desperate for people to use IE8

    in Tech and Computers

    Posted

    Could the number be a youtube video ID?

     

     

     

    Ebay ID is what I found.

     

    http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... tsupported

     

     

     

    Fitting, too. (as well as with "You are now watching")

     

    Unix time comes to Wed, 20 Jul 13701 07:34:59 GMT, so that's not very useful.

     

     

     

    3000 Upside down could be a page number. I'll have to get a hand on a copy of the book :P

     

    Not sure about how clue two fits in, though.

     

     

     

    And "New clue: a predatory fish being earnest"

     

    Hmm

    Pirated movies: Why?

    in Off-Topic

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    Look at the demographics of the people who pirate stuff. The majority of them are going to be students who wouldn't be able to afford to legally purchase artist's entire discographies or complete box sets of TV shows anyway.
    So they should obtain it for free anyways, regardless of whether or not it hurts sales?

     

     

     

    The graph leaves too many variables by nature. As a technology becomes more develops, more people being to use it.

     

     

     

    I wasn't arguing whether or not it was moral, I was just stating that the majority of people who pirate media wouldn't be buying it if piracy didn't exist, contrary to you buying a TV if you couldn't get news online.

     

     

     

    And I'm not sure what you meant about the variables, since the number of people using peer to peer services has greatly increased over the past few years while (as the graph I linked shows) sales have actually improved (though correlation =/= causation and all that). And the number of new users is exactly why you have the RIAA milking ridiculous amounts of money from moms and teenagers for only downloading a few songs, as opposed to the people that download terabytes of media. It's just a scare tactic to discourage the "Well, it's only one album" mindset.

    Wow Microsoft is getting desperate for people to use IE8

    in Tech and Computers

    Posted

    Interestingly if you flip the entire phrase (3000 upside down) upside down, the only character that isn't kept the same or transformed into another recognizable one is the e (and maybe the i).

     

     

     

    hmmckh.png

     

     

     

    Not sure if it's significant, there isn't much to go by.

     

     

     

    Edit: New clue is FbWiFnRg. Lowercase letters spell bing, however I haven't been able to formulate a search query that does anything (bing.fr doesn't seem to be it either).

    Pirated movies: Why?

    in Off-Topic

    Posted

    Exactly, I download episodes of House after they air in the US because I don't want to wait about 6 months for them to be aired in the UK or almost 12 months for the DVD came out. If I didn't get to watch them sooner I might lose interest in the franchise. I have almost all the 5th Season but I fully intend on buying the DVD when it comes out because I know it's worth it.

     

    Same here. If BBC America actually kept the same airing dates for Doctor Who and the other UK shows I watch (hell, I'm not even sure they've finished airing the fourth season of Dr. Who over here) I'd gladly watch them on TV, but having to wait months to watch something just sort of kills the excitement that comes from watching it when it airs originally and bothering friends with what you think will happen :P

     

     

     

    Probably wouldn't? That's not a safe assumption to make. For instance, I do not have a television in my household and the only way I am able to view the news or television shows is through legal websites such as Hulu. Now, what if these websites did not exist? I'd probably buy a T.V. at least to watch the news. When something is free for a user, there's no point in paying to buy the same thing.

     

    Look at the demographics of the people who pirate stuff. The majority of them are going to be students who wouldn't be able to afford to legally purchase artist's entire discographies or complete box sets of TV shows anyway.

     

     

     

    Oh, and graphs: http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2009/jun/09/games-dvd-music-downloads-piracy

    Millions of Iranians erupt into riot- UPDATE: Its spreading

    in Off-Topic

    Posted

    I really don't want to comment on it because I haven't really been following all that well and my sources are primarily blogs and social news sites. :|

     

    Mousavi (opposition) lost in his home town, and according to an Iranian's comment, "[that] is like Obama losing in a city where 80%+ are black and 99% are democrats. It's not strange, it's impossible."

     

     

     

    But here's a yahoo link: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090614/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_us_iran

    Clan Chronicle issue #7- JC finals, TT, Tip.It ML, changes++

    in Clan Discussions

    Posted

    K, since you want some feedback, I took the time to read it more thoroughly and formulate my remarks/ideas on what is said about the memberlists.

     

     

     

    This has basically led me to register a new forum account for the sole purpose of having it publicly available to fellow officials. So my question in this case would be:

     

    - By add and delete users you mean add and delete "managers" or add and delete people from the member's list. If it's the latter, then my registering an account idea was justified, as well as it sounding a rather odd choice on your side. What exactly can these managers do then? Change ranks? Change lay out? It sounds rather unclear. In my eyes, a manager should be able to:

     

    a. add members

     

    b. delete members

     

    c. update the list

     

    d. change clanranks (leader, member, pk leader, w/e...)

     

    e. Not be allowed to fiddle with lay out and the likes.

     

     

     

     

    Yeah, that was a bit confusing the way it was worded. Basically what I intended by it was that the head clan guy/whatever (the one who creates the memberlist account) has the ability to add and remove other Tip.it forum accounts as "managers" of the clan. These "managers" can do everything with the clan administration that the "founder" can, aside from managing the "managers". (If that makes any sense). Eventually when this is integrated with the TWR there could be specific "managers" added with the ability to only manage TWR stuff. We added this in solely to discourage the sharing of forum accounts and the creation of a dedicated "clan account". The "founder" can transfer his foundership to any of the managers if there is a change in clan leadership or something like that.

     

     

     

     

     

    (I hope that made sense :P)

     

     

     

     

    What exactly is sheet specific stat tracking?

     

    Will global tracking keep the xp per member or only keep track of the averages?

     

    Will it be left to the user which intervals of the tracking he wants to check or only predetermined ranges?

     

     

    Sheet specific stat tracking is tracking the XP of the members on each individual memberlist, as opposed to global stat tracking, which will track the XP of every member on every sheet and lump it into one big graph. Sheet-specific tracking will create a different graph for each sheet. It won't track individual members, no.

     

     

     

     

    Am curious how you plan on implementing that efficiently when (going by current pics) you allow text as the input there. Wrong wording would put many clans out, not to mention when a DB becomes huge you'll end up with a very CPU-intensive searches for just one user.

     

    Don't get me wrong, it seems like a nice idea in se, I just wonder how you'll implement that efficiently without heavily restricting what can be picked as requirements.

     

     

    Actually, the applications on the Clan Information page is more of a general thing (i.e. "A positive attitude", "able to make events" that kind of stuff). The image here shows the fields that will be searched for an application. I haven't written that bit yet, let alone profiled it, but I'm sure we'll be able to thin things out to where it's not too much on the server.

     

     

     

     

    http://img32.imageshack.us/img32/6757/clansmockup.png

     

     

     

    The stats part seems placed rather low, especially if a list gets bigger and you have to end up scrolling a few pages down just to quickly check an average or the amount of members

     

    That's still a bit of a tentative arrangement. I originally had stats and stat tracking above the memberlists, but then we moved it down so the memberlists would be easier to see. Maybe just having the stats and stat tracking boxes only show the header and then open up when they're clicked on and then placing them above memberlists would work. Dunno though, it's still tentative.

     

     

     

     

    The whole "apply from tip.it site" idea seems to me as a waste of expensive developer time. Only clans where you basically get auto accepted would, in my eyes, use this system since most, if not all, self-respecting clans tend to have some sort of process you need to go through and most likely will need a forum account of some sorts for. So basically only useful for big useless lists the likes of "Belgian players", etc..

     

     

    That was me having a block with writing the regular code, actually :P

     

    I just wrote the applications stuff out of boredom and thought it would be nice to add. So meh if it gets used or not, but it's there if it is.

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Is there any estimate on when this will be released? Personally I was planning on writing up a quick clan tracker for my clan but if this comes out soon (and fulfills my desires), then I won't bother.

     

     

    Probably (hopefully) July. Was originally going to be June, but things came up for me and it had to go on hold for a bit.

     

     

     

    Thanks for the feedback.

     

    --Errdoth

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