After a brief googling, the internets (who have been known to lie) seem to indicate that they will claim that if somebody managed to preform a fraudulent PIN transaction, that you were negligent (by allowing your PIN to become known).

Since this exploit seems to allow you to preform fraudulent PIN transactions without actually knowing the PIN, it really does kind of seem like in the case of fraud with this system and this exploit, the system is designed to place liability on the consumer. And if liability is being placed on the consumer, you might as well just use a debit card...

And to elaborate: if you don't think linux is a large enough market to warrant the (non-trivial) effort it takes to release on, then just don't do it. I'm used to games not releasing on linux, you won't hurt my feelings. Just don't get my hopes up and encourage me to spend money for something you didn't bother to test.

This. For instance, CortexCommand on linux segfaults whenever I kill crabs. This isn't exactly the sort of thing that would make me happy I spent money on software.

About 5 minutes of playtesting on linux would have caught this, I guess having major industry backing for your game really is worth something after all.

And what about the liability for PIN transactions?

Not trolling here, I actually don't know.

It's pretty rare that an organization will refuse to correspond with you with snail-mail instead of email.

What to you propose they use for formal correspondence? Snail-mail? Faxes?

Email is very simply the best system we currently have.

Despite your average patient knowing next to nothing about medicine, you can be sure that the vast majority of them know that patients are not supposed to be told that they are taking a placebo. Being otherwise unfamiliar with testing procedure, it is quite likely that patients who were truthfully told they were taking a placebo suspected deception nevertheless. Basically, being told you are taking a placebo is different from 'knowing' you are taking a placebo.

But hell, maybe I'm wrong and the next time you get sick you should spin in a circle three times instead of going to the doctor. After all, even though you know it's bullshit it should still be just as effective, right? Right?

Laws like the US Patriot Act, organizations like the TSA, and wars like Iraq are ill-conceived and ineffective; they are not part of an evil master plan to subjugate Americans or take over the world.

Don't be a fool. Apparent intent is meaningless, effect is all that matters.

"Sufficiently advanced stupidity is indistinguishable from malice."

Do you realize how much money we currently spend per solider? We might as well be giving them an extra ration of dental floss for how much this is actually going to add in the grand scheme of things.

Don't undermine the good arguments for cutting military spending by focusing on trivial crap like this.

If there's one thing Tron Paul gets it's the Constitution.

How about a Daft Punk soundtrack too? I think that'd work pretty well...

I'm not really sure what to make of this comment. You are aware that the Apollo missions used extraordinary advanced integrated circuit computers, right? The Apollo Guidance Computer was no analog computer...

Bitcoins is an attempt at that, and seems to actually be getting off the ground.

What we need is for it to be embraced and adopted.

Nice save attempt, but you're not that smooth. :P

he's not the dictatorial leader of wikileaks that everyone imagines. I wish there was both a way to verify this and a way to disseminate the info so that everybody else would realise

While true, it is not in wikileaks interest for this to become commonly known. Assange's job is to be the shit-shield for wikileaks, while everybody wastes their time hurling smear campaigns and arrest warrants against him, wikileaks is able to continue it's mission as before.

Do you notice the dozens and dozens of replies to every wikileaks article that follow the general form: "I wouldn't be opposed to wikileaks, but Assange is a [tool/jerk/douche/rapist/spy/...]"? That is wikileaks strategy in action. Since you are in on the truth, feel free to laugh at them :)

Correction: By releasing them in small batches, they are ensuring that each story gets the attention it deserves .

Any shitstorm that results from this isn't at the hands of wikileaks, but at the hands of those who actually caused the shitstorm. The people the cables are about.