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Comment Re:"Proper" certificates to the wrong people? (Score 1) 212

I think they might do something like this: You run a program on your server. That program establishes an encrypted connection to the Let's Encrypt server (using normal SSL). The Let's Encrypt server sends a secret message over the encrypted channel. The program on your server sets up a web page with that secret on it and sends the URL back to over the encrypted connection. The Let's Encrypt server then accesses the given URL normally, and checks whether it contains the correct secret. If so, it issues a certificate for the host name contained in that URL, since you have proved that you were in control of that server.

This is immune to man-in-the-middle attacks on your side, but it would still be vulnerable to somebody who can intercept all of the traffic to the Let's Encrypt server. But perhaps they're doing something cleverer than what I describe here. (If you had multiple Let's Encrypt servers spread across the internet, then you could have multiple ones participate in the handshake. That would mean that somebody would have to intercept the traffic of all those servers in order to fool them.)

Comment Re:Slashdot (Score 1) 62

There are still a few of us left ... ... although with that the shitty UI Beta I wonder how long before it drives the rest of us away for good.

Reddit? Please. While it has some fantastic sub-reddits, Reddit is the Dig of Slashdot. The majority is full of whiny emo teens who down vote anything "Just Because". It's moderation system sucks -- it provides no context for why something was up/down voted.

Submission + - Microsoft: "Nobody loves developers more than us" 1

Gamoid writes: Microsoft's Developer Evangelist has his work cut out for him as he tries to prove to startups, students, and independent developers that the Microsoft platform is better for them than the competition's.
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Sweden Considers Adding "Sexism" Ratings To Video Games 642

An anonymous reader writes A government-funded agency in Sweden is considering creating special labels for video games based on whether or not the games' portrayals of women are sexist. From the article: "Avoiding sexism and gender stereotypes in video games produced in Sweden will become a key goal for the association, which has been given a 272,000 kronor ($36,672) grant by Sweden's government-funded innovation agency, Vinnova. Inspired by the Bechdel test, which looks at whether fictional films or books feature at least two women talking about a topic other than men, Dataspelsbranchen will work with several game developers to analyze how Swedish video games portray female characters and gender issues.

Comment Re:Stupid, trucks cause the problem (Score 1) 554

To add to the parent, austerity helps the rich and hurts the poor. How? By driving inflation so far into the dirt that we have deflation. Deflation makes debt more burdensome. If you have debt, and your income gets cut thanks to deflation, it's now harder to pay off your debt. Your material assets also go down in value, so selling to pay off your debt isn't as effective. You may be underwater, your house now worth less than the amount you still owe on the mortgage, and it may be impossible to pay off your debt. Meanwhile, piles of money are worth even more. And it becomes a better idea to sit on piles of money, rather than invest it in business ventures. Trickle down economics is completely backwards. Give the rich more money, through tax breaks and austerity, and they won't respond by creating more jobs. Instead they'll hoard. You have to have some inflation to keep the economy moving. Just how much inflation is the question, but 2% is thought to be too low.

What's so crazy is that we really do have a lot of work to do. We have crumbling infrastructure that's been neglected for years thanks to relentless budget slashing. We also have a big problem with Climate Change. The work is not getting done. In times like these, workers are dirt cheap, but even now employers still want wages pushed further down, and refuse to let the government compete for workers. It's nuts. We may have to see some more bridge collapses, like in Minneapolis, to get some attitudes changed. If the elite aren't careful, we will have riots, like what happened in Greece.

Comment Re:Sorry, this is bullshit photoshopped "art". (Score 1) 35

The size of the images also doesn't mesh with the size described in the article text. The figurines in the images are actually quite large, and should be clearly visible even with much less than 400x magnification. For example, the head of a small ant might be 0.5 mm wide. That would make the figurine about 0.1 mm long. With 400x magnification it would be like looking at an object 4 cm long, which would be quite visible. Yet the text claims these were only visible with electron microscopes.

But of course, none of that is as strong evidence as the parent's damning link to a the pre-photoshopped picture of the needle head, with all the little dust motes and imperfections in exactly the same location, but missing the figurine.

Comment Re:Oh yeah? (Score 1) 178

Because you missed the point about _good_ UI.

*Good* UI doesn't conflate the issue between Signal and Noise.

if your brain wastes time trying to figure out WHAT you can and can't click on the UI designer has fucked up.

We use color, textures, drop-shadows, and skeuomorphism to all help provide _visual clues_ for the user.

Comment Re:Don’t really get it (Score 1) 474

/sarcasm But, but, but, then I can't brag to my online gamer friends about how I'm stupid enough to spent $60 for the ePenis bragging rights of owning the latest Ubisuck's game.

A sudden outbreak of common sense? Color me shocked ! :-)

As an ex hard core gamer, I now wait a ~year for when the game is discounted for < $10. That way I get all the patches and know I'm buying a game that doesn't suck.

i.e.
After pre-ordering Tomb Raider for full price in Feb last year, only to have it be available for $5 on Steam's sales in December, I swore I'll never pay full price again.

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