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Comment Re:No I haven't, and here is why: (Score 1) 349

Luxury. I have my screen, with an atomic random pulse generator, rotating my screen in a random direction every 2 seconds. They not only have to guess the correct orientation, but they have to continue guessing it right. Also, I limit my novel series writing to 5 words per minute to enhance this level of security even further.

On a serious note, I help run an old 'MUCK' style game. We get about 5 bots an hour hit up EVERY open port with attempts to login with 'admin' 'password' or 'root' 'password'. Do router/system makers really suck that badly that this is worth doing?

Comment Re:You can still make your purchase count for Linu (Score 1) 553

Geek card hand-in time!

Pulling up firebug, we can see the stats update is a constant swarm of data in the form: [[{"product": "thqbundle", "_timestamp": 1354300639, "stats": {"rawtotal": 2367272.1873848438, "goodwill": null, "numberofcontributions": {"windows": 370102, "mac": 30179, "total": 416354.0, "android": 0, "linux": 10563}, "rawplatformtotals": {"windows": 2076567.8200000001, "mac": 188377.39999999999, "android": 0.0, "linux": 72808.139999999999}}}],"13543006391584274"]

Now, on this we can see: "numberofcontributions": {"windows": 370102, "mac": 30179, "total": 416354.0, "android": 0, "linux": 10563}

But also: "rawplatformtotals": {"windows": 2076567.8200000001, "mac": 188377.39999999999, "android": 0.0, "linux": 72808.139999999999}

An educated guess takes the latter as the actual cash amounts, so the number of Linux-credited payments is 10563, 2.53% of the total.

We see that on average windows-based people spend $5.61 on the game but linux people $6.89. Of course these 'linux people' like yourself can only use the game on a windows box, but still, always good to see the numbers behind what is going on. (Also had some interesting looks at the PubNub system that is the backend for these stats. Very interesting system)

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