Avoid custom domains for your login email address
Honestly, I don't think that would have helped. I doubt it's much harder to gain control of someone's gmail, yahoo or hotmail account if they are as motivated as it sounds like his attacker was.
Once you gain control of anyone's email account, even if the attacker doesn't have custom domains to hold for ransom, they could easily threaten bank accounts, etc etc.
The problem with this assumption is that Myspace's fall was a result of Facebook existing as its successor.
This.
I refused to use MySpace mostly due to the terrible "customization" that it allowed. I suspect that was the reason a lot of people switched over.
Considering how quick a misleading study by a top university could totally ruin their stock price, it was be stupid not to respond quickly.
The Starbucks app has much worse security problems; a photo of the 2D barcode cannot be revoked as a valid credential.
In the Starbucks app you can create a new card and then delete the old one. Or just go purchase another card and add it into the Starbucks app.
Considering they've ground-up rewrote Minecraft 3 times for iOS, Android, and XBox, I have a feeling that Minecraft may not always be in Java.
The system requirements of Windows 8.1 are identical to those of Windows 8, and they don't even differ noticeably from those of Windows Vista.
This is not entirely true. I have at least one machine that refuses to install because it's missing an instruction set that was made a requirement in Windows 8.1 (CMPXCHG16b) Link: http://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-confirms-some-older-amd-processors-do-not-support-windows-81
The processor is almost 10 years old which I guess is a good run, however.
Who knows what came before this guy took the stage.
I was at the event and I think the laughter was mostly caused by a dramatic change in tone compared to the previous speakers. He was a lot more intense in a way that at first came off as a joke.
I wonder if you said the same thing about Windows 95 when XP came out
Not to mention Panera internet (at least for me) is very slow compared to Starbucks and Panera also blocks VPN.
Make the comments wider and the stories on the front page a little easier to tell apart.
1) The comments are way too narrow. Look at a place like reddit. I think of slashdot as the more tech-oriented reddit where the empathizes is on commenting and reading the comments. Due to this, many people post long comments, having them all smashed just makes it harder to read. I don't come to Slashdot to read the articles, I come here to read the comments.
2) Right now on the front page it's difficult to glance and see each story because everything is the same color. Take a look at the current page - each story has a bright green line which makes them very easy to quickly scan and figure out which one you want to read.
This sounds interesting. I could see this going poorly depending on the way the company approached It though.
Most of my professors upload all of their slides to the school CMS for all students to download. So if you really need it, you can already do this.
no shit the browsers are not rock solid. They are ungodly complicated, probably 2nd only to games (which crash orders of magnitude more often) and they have to deal with copious amount of shoddy html and javascript all day long.
I understand.
However out of all the browsers I've switched between using on a daily basis Firefox is by far the most crashy. Hell, even IE 10 is more stable.
I have Skype on my 9930. Haven't tried phone calls but the messaging works fine.
Yeah, I don't entirely understand why apple is having such a rough time getting basic time keeping and scheduling working...
I tell them to turn to the study of mathematics, for it is only there that they might escape the lusts of the flesh. -- Thomas Mann, "The Magic Mountain"
