Comment Re:"Administrators with fleets of Macs" (Score 1) 70
Hahahahah tell us you're old and out of touch without telling us you're old and out of touch.
[I mean aside from the fact we're having this discussion on Slashdot.]
Comment Re:What surpassed PGP? (Score 3, Informative) 60
Surpassed by encryption that "just works", such as that used in Signal. I can add my friend and text them and I _know_ that only they and I can read it.
It's frictionless, the install of Signal aside. No pissing about with keys, passphrases etc.
GPG is you send me your public key, I send you mine, I mark it as trusted blah blah blah, I copy the secret key around where I need it each time.
I agree, there's no perfect replacement for it in email. But DKIM achieves pretty much the same thing. It doesn't prove the _person_ who sent it, but it proves the domain. That's 99% good enough for almost all commercial/business transactions on the Internet. And it's frictionless, I send the email and it's signed in the background without me having to know what a secret key passphrase is etc etc. It just works. If I get an email from Paypal and it's DKIM/SPF passed, then I'm happy it's really from them, I can trust that.
If that isn't a surpassing of GPG I don't know what is?
Comment Re:Their new policy is the DNS should be correct? (Score 2) 60
DKIM is a form of message signing. Also I love you call PGP simple. Why do you think secure messaging apps have taken off so well, yet PGP is still the realm of, well these days, almost no one? Only a few die hard nerds use it. PGP is terrible, clunky and a giant joke. Sure it was great 30 years when it was invented, but it's been long surpassed.
Suggesting it as a solution to anything in 2025 shows how out of touch you are with reality. The world has _long_ since moved on.
Comment Re:Holy crap! (Score 2, Interesting) 88
Until someone comes along who's running Redhat.
Modern Warfare 2 Surpasses $1 Billion Mark; Dedicated Servers What? 258
The Opposable Thumbs blog is running an interesting article contrasting everything Activision did "wrong" in creating and marketing Modern Warfare 2 with the game's unqualified success. Despite price hikes, somewhat shady review practices, exploit frustrations, and the dedicated server fiasco, the game has raked in over a billion dollars in sales.
"There was only one way to review Modern Warfare 2: on the Xbox 360, in Santa Barbara, under the watchful eye of Activision. Accepting the paid trip, along with room and board, was the only way you were going to get a review before launch. Joystiq noted that this broke their ethics policy, but they went anyway. Who can say no to a review destined to bring in traffic? Shacknews refused to call their coverage a 'review' because of the ethical issues inherent in the situation, but that stance was unique. The vast majority of news outlets didn't disclose how the review was conducted, or added a disclaimer after the nature of the review was made public. This proved to Activision that if you're big enough, you can dictate the exact terms of any review, and no ethics policy will make news outlets turn you down."
Comment Re:use noscript! (Score 1) 495
When did you last use it? I haven't seen any problems such as this while I've been using it.
Do you have a lot of other addons installed, maybe there's a conflict going on.
Comment Re:Can't find My Location (Score 2, Informative) 78
It's just above the zoom in and out slider, a little round circle in a square (with cut off corners). Or just below the hand with the four arrows.
Click that and a bar will appear at the top of firefox and ask if it's ok to share your location.
Hope this helps.
