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Comment Re:I hope... (Score 1) 213

The problem is that the browser+javascript is the most ubiquitous platform around. It is also FAR more convenient to use.

It may be ubiquitous, but for security purposes it doesn't work as well as a real client.

I'd love to see a decent FOSS webmail application that supports encryption. The only options that exist right now are pretty weak compared to something like GMail.

Then use Gmail over IMAP with a proper e-mail client that does support encryption. GMail has had IMAP support for over 7 years.

Comment Re:I hope... (Score 3, Informative) 213

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Hash: SHA256

The real problem is that people are using web browsers to read their e-mail instead of a proper e-mail client that already supports the existing standards of pgp and s/mime This yahoo plugin is actually based on google's code for an end to end plugin. It implents pgp.

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CmCJXa9pHY9+fkIwJeHCbIEPumC5wMcUJcnvOupRbodEFI10oad0Hs0ZJXVwZec=
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Comment Re:I hope... (Score 2) 213

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA256

Considering that very few slashdotters in this discussion have PGP keys posted to slashdot..... I don't think that's too likely.
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Version: GnuPG v1

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Comment Re:This is likely bad news.... (Score 2) 213

I checked out the link, there was no mention of what kind of encryption they will be implementing.

Actually, one link directly says what kind of encryption:
https://github.com/yahoo/end-t...

Use OpenPGP encryption in Yahoo mail.

Yahoo End-To-End
A fork of Google's End-to-End for Yahoo mail.

and the other link shows it in action:
http://yahoo.tumblr.com/post/1...

If you watch the gif, you can see a PGP code block

Comment Re:Fix gameplay related issues first (Score 1) 225

The only people who claim they fear that are people who still haven't gotten over the fact that AAA attention was primarily switched to consoles about 10 years ago now and think that by spreading such falsehoods the AAA world will suddenly jump up and switch their allegiance to PC and only PC making it the one true master race gaming platform.

And haven't you noticed that it's the European game sites that run articles like these? Whether Eurogamer and their PC vs console comparisons, or Romania based Softpedia with this one. Europe has always been more PC partisan, partly because of all the @#$@# pirates in eastern Europe. They really don't "understand" "why consoles exist"

I once communicated with a Hungarian online. We talked a bit about gaming. He was a fervent PC Master race sort of guy. He said consoles were for rich kids and said the games cost too much. I couldn't get him to understand how American PC Master Race gamers sometimes call console gamers "welfare gamers" and that games cost the same price on various platforms here in the US. He said the PC was better because piracy was easier and that he pirated games mostly, because he had no money.

And then this fellow told me wanted to be a game developer, but complained that pretty much required a move to the UK or the States, because that was where the money is. To me, that made him a hypocrite. I was thinking "Of course that's where the money is, because Anglophones actually pay for games."

Comment Re:completely irrelevant (Score 1) 116

There were games on terminal before there was even the first console or gaming computer or arcade games.

Yes, yes, because they didh't HAVE any other option. Besides the number of people who played games on terminals before things like the Coleco Telstar and Atari pong became mainstream was miniscule. Bunch of bearded unix-heads.

So keyboards came first.

Yes yes, but they're not designed for games, they're designed for text input.

Comment Re:completely irrelevant (Score 1) 116

but then you're stuck with a godawful controller that's utterly useless for gaming compared to keyboard and mouse.

You do know that back in the early days of PC gaming, games were often configured to use joysticks? But then the masses started buying C64's and PC clones and they were too cheap to buy cards with "game ports" and they complained about not being able to control to play the ports of NES games they bought. So then PC devs added keyboard controls...for action games....which sucked then and sucked now.

The mouse is a fine pointing device, it makes pointing easy. Too easy in my opinion. You probably knew about how the hardcore DOOM players thought about the "easy-mode mouse aiming for casuals" FPS's that came after DOOM

And now PC gamers are stuck with using mice and keyboards for EVERY game. It's not optimal. Keyboards suck for game control. If your'e going to game on a PC at least buy one of those those nostromo speedpads or razr tarterus things and bind movement to an analog stick. Yeah if you're playing some turn based hex game a mouse is fine, but you really shouldn't be playing something like War Thunder or Lego "whatever" or an action RPG with WASD.

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