antant007 - Slashdot User

Comment Re:So were you also one who bitched about Wall Str (Score 2) 259

by antant007 on Wednesday August 14, 2013 @03:31AM (#44562279) Attached to: New York's Financial Regulator Subpoenas Bitcoin Companies

This is a false equivalency. The US government is allowed to regulate it's own money - that is - the sovereign currency that it issues. Bitcoins aren't defined or issued by the US government, so it has as much right to regulate Bitcoins as it has to regulate the Euro.

I believe your argument is flawed here, the US Government does regulate banks trading in the Euro if they reside in the United States. The fact they they are conducting business in the US gives them the right to do so.

Comment Phylogenetic tree (Score 1) 70

by antant007 on Saturday May 25, 2013 @02:59AM (#43819807) Attached to: Scanner Identifies Malware Strains, Could Be Future of AV

It would be interesting to see a Phylogenetic tree of malware built using this software.

Comment Insensitive Clod! (Score 1) 526

by antant007 on Thursday March 14, 2013 @10:22PM (#43178931) Attached to: For 2012's U.S. tax season ...

I filed exempt!

Comment Reverse slashdot effect (Score 1) 87

by antant007 on Sunday February 17, 2013 @05:54PM (#42930857) Attached to: Unigine's Newest Benchmark Features Huge, Open-Space Expanses

When someone posts a torrent on slashdot.

Comment Re:Good news for Linux (Score 3, Insightful) 272

by antant007 on Saturday November 17, 2012 @11:15PM (#42016701) Attached to: Valve's Big Picture Could Be a Linux Game Console

You can thank Microsoft for that. Why would someone buy from a third party when you can buy games from the store built into the operating system? Valve is running scared because they see their biggest revenue stream drying up.

Why? Because the last thing like this (windows live games) was a complete pos.

Comment Hehehe (Score 1) 632

by antant007 on Sunday October 07, 2012 @07:01PM (#41579527) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What Were You Taught About Computers In High School?

I'm graduating this year and so far I've taken ap comp sci (more or less Java with a touch on algorithms) and a computer and network technology course taught by a guy with a unix beard. I'm very lucky to go to the school I do, it's a public non-charter school but it's in a fairly affluent area and we're one of the top schools in my state.

Comment Iama (Score 1) 729

by antant007 on Monday September 03, 2012 @06:47PM (#41217085) Attached to: Do We Need a Longer School Year?

I'm a high school senior and personally I think that summers are a very important thing. I don't have a phd or anything that would make people listen to my opinion, but I think the problem with our education system is that we need to learn more when we're younger.

Comment Obligatory. (Score 1) 381

by antant007 on Tuesday August 14, 2012 @08:33PM (#40991811) Attached to: Could Flying Cars Actually Be On Their Way?

No.

Comment Dis gunna be good. (Score 0) 197

by antant007 on Friday August 03, 2012 @06:35PM (#40873703) Attached to: EA Sues Zynga For Copying <em>Sims</em> Game

I'm going to go grab the popcorn.

Comment Re:Penetration testing (Score 1, Informative) 84

by antant007 on Wednesday April 11, 2012 @08:40PM (#39652115) Attached to: Critical Flaw Found In Backtrack Linux

Ya, I foolishly did. Don't do it.

Comment Missing subjects (Score 1) 204

by antant007 on Friday March 02, 2012 @02:41PM (#39222773) Attached to: Computer Programmers Only the 5th Most Sleep Deprived Profession

High school students

Comment Correct answer: (Score 1) 502

by antant007 on Sunday February 26, 2012 @02:32PM (#39165367) Attached to: The correct number of shoes to own:

However many you need.

Comment Re:This is already secretly used on citizens (Score 1) 147

by antant007 on Tuesday January 31, 2012 @09:54PM (#38885621) Attached to: Computer Program Reconstructs Heard Words From Brain Scans

What was that? I couldn't hear over your foil hat.

Comment You insensitive clod! (Score 1) 216

by antant007 on Saturday December 03, 2011 @12:15PM (#38250242) Attached to: For 1 kWh of electricity, I pay ...

I don't pay, I use cold fusion!

Submission + - Ask Slashdot: How to securely share passwords? 1

Submitted by

THE_WELL_HUNG_OYSTER

on Sunday October 30, 2011 @10:52PM

THE_WELL_HUNG_OYSTER writes: "My tech-savvy father died suddenly and unexpectedly. He did everything online: bill-pay, banking, ebay sales (and other auction sites), paypal, investing, etc. When he died, he still had online auctions up for sale, items I had no idea how to fulfill when sold. He still had unprocessed auction refunds, people claiming they returned items and are waiting for a refund.

Fortunately, he left gmail.com open and logged in when he died. So I was able to configure his account to forward to mine for any future emails he received.

He even had his health insurance automatically debited from his checking account (who needs heath insurance when you're dead?)

I had no way to log into these systems to cancel pending transactions. I called every institution; some were willing to help while others required me to fax/mail death certificates and proof of executorship (which I didn't have yet). Meanwhile, auctions were selling for items I had no idea how to fulfill; debits from his checking account were occurring even though they were irrelevant; etc. You get the idea.

How can I share my login credentials with my siblings so they don't have to go through this when I'm gone? I change my passwords every month and never use the same password on more than one site. I don't want my siblings to be able to impersonate me unless I'm dead, so publishing a monthly list to them won't help and would be insecure."

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