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#796
It'll be my turn to be the one percent soon though, right?
#797
To be fair, I've spent more than my fair share of time automating other people's jobs.
#798
Quote from: Cain on February 19, 2014, 11:49:40 AM
Quote from: Pæs on February 19, 2014, 10:13:59 AM
So it turns out that if I worked, like, ten fewer hours a week and so had time to prepare meals instead of buying easy to make things, I would wind up with about $100 more a week than I have by working full time but not having time to make decent meals, plus I would be better fed. Looks like work might be entirely happy to accommodate that.

That sounds like a win/win/win scenario.  Hot damn.

Yeah, am running budgets and hunting for a downside, but it's looking increasingly viable, which would be amazing.
#799
The explanation by Gabe seemed decent, IMO. People who make hax build in anti-theft systems because those who use hax for games are unlikely to buy them if they're freely available. Those anti-theft systems phone home to say "Hey, am I a registered copy?".

His explanation claimed that only if Valve's anti-cheat systems detects a cheat does it then checks your DNS cache to see if your machine has been contacting those servers. If it finds that your machine has been contacting those cheat servers, it hashes the DNS entry and sends it to Valve.
#800
So it turns out that if I worked, like, ten fewer hours a week and so had time to prepare meals instead of buying easy to make things, I would wind up with about $100 more a week than I have by working full time but not having time to make decent meals, plus I would be better fed. Looks like work might be entirely happy to accommodate that.
#801
Aneristic Illusions / Re: Googleprop
February 18, 2014, 09:38:00 PM
Quote from: Alty on February 18, 2014, 09:18:08 PM
Quote from: Brother Nihil on February 18, 2014, 09:00:42 PM
Quote from: Jet City Hustle on February 18, 2014, 08:43:31 PM
I just noticed that he misspelled "deacon" in his personal title. He can't even get his soapbox decorated correctly. :lulz:

Try to be a little more clever (or at least respect those who are). "Decon" is a word I invented -- it's meaning shouldn't be hard to guess. I don't mispell words, friend; the last time I did was in the 6th grade, when, as the best speller in my school district, I intentionally spelled earth "urth" just to spite my teacher[,] and the whole wretched educational system she represented. Death to spelling bees and liberal indoctrination!

I know the misspelling was intentional, but those commas really bugged, me.

Try to be a little more clever (or at least respect those who are). "mispell" is a word I invented -- it's meaning shouldn't be hard to guess. I don't make mistakes, friend. The last time I did was when I was ten, and I did it on purpose to terrorise, and subvert the expectations of my would-be oppressors, or parents, who were ignorant servants, of progressive Amerikka.
#803
Aneristic Illusions / Re: Googleprop
February 18, 2014, 09:04:08 PM
Quote from: Brother Nihil on February 18, 2014, 09:00:42 PM
Quote from: Jet City Hustle on February 18, 2014, 08:43:31 PM
I just noticed that he misspelled "deacon" in his personal title. He can't even get his soapbox decorated correctly. :lulz:

Try to be a little more clever (or at least respect those who are). "Decon" is a word I invented -- it's meaning shouldn't be hard to guess. I don't mispell words, friend; the last time I did was in the 6th grade, when I intentionally spelled earth "urth" just to spite my teacher, and the whole wretched liberal educational system she represented.
#804
Two vast and trunkless legs of stone / Re: Oh Georgia.
February 18, 2014, 12:04:46 AM
There is so much fucking stupid in that theory IDEK.
#805
Quote from: Bu☆ns on November 29, 2013, 06:34:30 PM
Ghost in the Wires --  My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker by Kevin Mitnick

It's fun--it's kinda of a How-to-Social-Engineer-the-phone-company-in-autobiography form...but it's fun.

I made the mistake of following Mitnick on Twitter, reading GitW, The Art of Deception and The Art of Intrusion all around the same time, the effect of which was that every time I read his words it sounded like "*nudge nudge* hey, remember how I was awesome haxor? Do you remember the whistling down phone lines things? Remember that?".

The moral of the story is not to follow Mitnick on Twitter, or in fact use Twitter at all.
#806
Thanks for clarifications ITT, Cain. Hadn't had a chance to check the full text, so was casually skimming this thread after every update, good to see those quotes.


For a given definition of "good", of course.  :sad:
#807
Quote from: Cain on February 16, 2014, 04:27:16 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on February 16, 2014, 03:51:13 PM
In truth, it's really that I watch the vids at work, and I pause it every now and then. I suppose I could do it during lunch, but I have a feeling that would be at like midnight or something for you.

Nah, you guys are only 5 hours behind.  Though chances are, I wouldn't start until 7pm or so anyway.  Gotta have dinner and stuff, ya know.  Also, I wouldn't be livestreaming anything important.  Just some Mass Effect, or maybe Skyrim.  As a test run.

If you're streaming some Skyrim, my suggestion is to do a run using the Ritual Stone and the Aetherial Crown, so you have unlimited casting of AoE raise dead. Every time an enemy falls, they join my zombie army until my PS3 crashes because it doesn't like figuring out the AI for 150 bandits, rats, wolves, trolls, giants and vampires every time I encounter an enemy.
#808
QuoteShane Warbrooke, who first posed the question via an Official Information Act (OIA) request, said he was happy with (but unsurprised by) the president's response.

Which president?

Key may claim not to be a reptilian but the actual reply to the official information act request neither confirmed nor denied, saying it had no evidence that he was not.
#809
Okay, but it doesn't do that. You seem to be talking about a form of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deniable_encryption

But when you're making a simple cipher, rather than an encryption scheme based on factoring large primes or similarly mathematically complex systems, "bhijadrbo" and "rbxtiavrf" are identical. They look like "123456718", the individual letters don't matter, there are eight unique symbols and one is reused, that's the pattern you're cracking. So your decipherment scheme adds complexity for the intended recipient but doesn't add any for a cracker.
#810
If there's a legend, what is the purpose of the intermediate steps?