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Comment: Re:Still abusive (Score 5, Informative) 511

by Zembar (#46275739) Attached to: Gabe Newell Responds: Yes, We're Looking For Cheaters Via DNS

He specifically says that it doesn't care about what web sites you are visiting, it's the adresses to the cheat DRM servers it looks for, to detect if a cheat has dialed home from that computer. It only checked this if the account was already suspected of using the cheat.

So, in an impressive turn of events, many cheats now include DRM and anti-cheat codes. These phone home to a DRM server that confirms whether or not a cheater has paid to use that particular cheat

Also, he says that since the cheats invented countermeasures to this in just 13 days, they already stopped doing it. The summary is quite misleading. (Not necessarily a big surprise on slashdot...)

+ - Dice Holdings, Inc, deleting unflattering stories from Slashdot firehose 4

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes "Stories submitted to the Slashdot firehose that take a negative view on the site's redesign are being deleted. 4 hours ago, it was full of anti-beta posts. Now they are gone. That's right. A forum that usually leaves V14GRA spam in place for posterity is deleting user content."

+ - Official: Microsoft to acquire Nokia Devices and Services->

Submitted by symbolset
symbolset writes "REDMOND, Washington and ESPOO, Finland – Sept. 3, 2013 – Microsoft Corporation and Nokia Corporation today announced that the Boards of Directors for both companies have decided to enter into a transaction whereby Microsoft will purchase substantially all of Nokia’s Devices & Services business, license Nokia’s patents, and license and use Nokia’s mapping services.

Under the terms of the agreement, Microsoft will pay EUR 3.79 billion to purchase substantially all of Nokia’s Devices & Services business, and EUR 1.65 billion to license Nokia’s patents, for a total transaction price of EUR 5.44 billion in cash. Microsoft will draw upon its overseas cash resources to fund the transaction. The transaction is expected to close in the first quarter of 2014, subject to approval by Nokia’s shareholders, regulatory approvals and other closing conditions."
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+ - Bradley Manning Sentenced to 35 Years-> 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes "After a long and protracted trial, Judge Denise Lind has handed down a sentence in the Bradley Manning case: 35 years and a dishonorable discharge. Manning initially faced a maximum sentence of 135 years, which was reduced to 90 years when Manning was found not guilty of Espionage Act offenses and certain other charged were merged. He has already served over 1000 days in prison, and his sentence will be reduced by 1,274 days."
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+ - Manning given 35 years->

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes "he US soldier convicted of handing a trove of secret government documents to anti-secrecy website Wikileaks has been sentenced to 35 years in prison.
Pte First Class Bradley Manning, 25, was convicted in July of 20 charges against him, including espionage.
Last week, he apologised for hurting the US and for "the unexpected results" of his actions.
He will receive credit for three and a half years, but be dishonourably discharged from the US Army.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-23784288"
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+ - Google: Don't Expect Privacy When Sending Emails To Gmail-> 3

Submitted by dryriver
dryriver writes "People sending email to any of Google's 425 million Gmail users have no "reasonable expectation" that their communications are confidential, the internet giant has said in a court filing. Consumer Watchdog, the advocacy group that uncovered the filing, called the revelation a "stunning admission." It comes as Google and its peers are under pressure to explain their role in the National Security Agency's (NSA) mass surveillance of US citizens and foreign nationals. "Google has finally admitted they don't respect privacy," said John Simpson, Consumer Watchdog's privacy project director. "People should take them at their word; if you care about your email correspondents' privacy, don't use Gmail." Google set out its case last month in an attempt to dismiss a class action lawsuit that accuses the tech giant of breaking wire tap laws when it scans emails sent from non-Google accounts in order to target ads to Gmail users. That suit, filed in May, claims Google "unlawfully opens up, reads, and acquires the content of people's private email messages". It quotes Eric Schmidt, Google's executive chairman: "Google policy is to get right up to the creepy line and not cross it." The suit claims: "Unbeknown to millions of people, on a daily basis and for years, Google has systematically and intentionally crossed the 'creepy line' to read private email messages containing information you don't want anyone to know, and to acquire, collect, or mine valuable information from that mail." In its motion to dismiss the case, Google said the plaintiffs were making "an attempt to criminalise ordinary business practices" that have been part of Gmail's service since its introduction. Google said "all users of email must necessarily expect that their emails will be subject to automated processing.""
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+ - Google: Gmail users have no expectation of privacy->

Submitted by PatPending
PatPending writes "FTFA: Google has made it clear that people who send or receive email via Gmail should not expect their messages to remain private.

In a 39-page motion filed in June to have a class-action data-mining lawsuit dismissed, the Web giant cites Smith v. Maryland, a 1979 Supreme Court decision that upheld the collection of electronic communications without a warrant.

"Just as a sender of a letter to a business colleague cannot be surprised that the recipient's assistant opens the letter, people who use web-based email today cannot be surprised if their emails are processed by the recipient's [email provider] in the course of delivery. Indeed, 'a person has no legitimate expectation of privacy in information he voluntarily turns over to third parties.'""
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Comment: Re:Practicality? (Score 1) 230

by Zembar (#44324979) Attached to: Scientists Silence Extra Chromosome In Down Syndrome Cells

That's pretty snarky from someone who either doesn't know what a citation is or hasn't read the articles he's linking to.

I did find the results of a poll on the subject, but that was by looking through the polls "related" by subject matter. If you think that is a citation, I know a lot of authors "citing" each other by virtue of being on the same shelf at my local library.

If you meant *your* citations, neither of those links said anything of the sort. I did both scroll and read all three pages of the linked poll, and the wikipedia article didn't deal with opinion on abortion at all. I suppose the article from the American Journal of Medical Genetics might have some interesting information, but I'm not going to go through a paywall to read a long article just because you say so.

Especially since it won't affect my original point, which was to say that 90% in one poll and 20% in another doesn't mean there's any overlap between those two groups. At all.

Comment: Re:Practicality? (Score 1) 230

by Zembar (#44317743) Attached to: Scientists Silence Extra Chromosome In Down Syndrome Cells

a) The gallup link says nothing about the genders of the people questioned in that poll. they're not citations if you do not provide them.
b) I used only a very extreme example to show a flaw in your reasoning when combining two different statistics
c) There is no limit of one aborted pregnancy due to down's syndrome per woman. There are genetic factors.
d) What's the general fertility rate among people opposed to abortions? I'm willing to bet there's an age component as well.

I could go on listing these for a while, but suffice to say there's no hypocrisy needed to explain the gap, although it's certainly possible(and probable, given that people who are against abortions often support the death penalty as well).

"What I've done, of course, is total garbage." -- R. Willard, Pure Math 430a

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