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Comment Re:First fucking flag for anyone with a clue (Score 1) 294

I think the point that's being made is that people need to be a little more educated on shit like this (or, alternately, that people aren't paying attention to or are too dumb to comprehend the reliable information out there).

I think most of us understand that this is meant to prey on those who are a little less wise with their systems. Any good scam targets the idiots, because a successful scam generally depends on the target not seeing that 1 and 1 aren't making 2 any longer.

Comment Re:Hey buddy! (Score 1) 294

Did this on HS with an admin account I found perusing the Active Directory. Except, instead of moving the icons, I used a VBScript-created error box that looked real bad, and wouldn't go away when clicked on (it was there in the screencap).

The freshmen and teachers panicked for a few minutes, and a day or two later, that admin account was gone. But not the other two, named Test2 and Test3.

Comment Re:"mining" for bitcoin (Score 1) 490

Cash: paper lasts a few years at best, coins are worth less than the metal they're minted from, armored vans for transport and entire law enforcement departments dedicated to counterfeiting

I've handled plenty of bills that are as old, or older, than I am. Paper currency gets a little more than a 'few years'. You don't see a big recovery effort until the denomination gets redesigned to be harder to forge (making the older bills less desirable, though equal in value in commerce), so many of the older bills remain in circulation. Not everyone beats up their money in the literal sense.

Comment Re:Dare I say it? (Score 1) 198

I'd rather have a phone that has a software-swappable identifier that handshakes with the tower, but I suppose that is just dreaming.

Similar to the good old days of the ESN (think Analog, TDMA, CDMA)? Granted, the ESN was printed right in the back of the thing, and all someone needed was a few minutes to get that (at most) and cloning isn't far behind--not that the GSM method is unclonable, but really, it's more often going to be easier to just yoink someone's SIM and use it while you can.

You also lose the benefit of being able to just switch to a different phone on your own if the identifier is a value stored in the phone--every phone would have to have it's own identifier on the network (letting multiple phones share the same would make it hard to claim cloning with your provider, should it happen--it's built in for multiple phones to say they're the same person at that point), so if you wanted or needed to change handsets, it's another call to your provider.

Comment Re:Yo dawg, (Score 2) 393

less to do with each other than an Orthodox rabbi and a porkchop.

This will now replace 'What does X have to do with the price of tea in China' in my daily conversation. You almost got a beverage spray from me because this bit of wit.

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