I wonder how many megatons of CO2 will be put into the atmostphere due to people mining bitcoins by the time it's no longer profitable.

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Because you don't know how to use Linux or Mac OS?

Or because your mother's need to look at seasonal wallpaper and screensavers is more important than tens of hours of your time every year and more important than keeping her e-mail and other credentials secure?

Assumes facts not in evidence, or in newspeak, citation needed.

Ada's defense piece states:

(Emphasis mine.)

That's certainly more ambiguous than "By coincidence a co-founder of the BSides conferences had contacted the Ada Initiative a few weeks previously," which, if true, would cast the Ada Initiative in a better light in this matter. The fact that they chose to use the more ambiguous "put in contact with" suggests this is not the case.

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For what it's worth: Even if BSides did truly initiate their interaction with the Ada Initiative, that doesn't excuse their behavior.

If it was never their intention to allow presentations about sexuality, they should have documented that somehow and made that documentation available to potential presenters.

If, prior to their interaction with Ms. Aurora, the topic of sexuality was permissible, why did BSides reject the presenter's offer to move the talk to a small venue with no sound leakage and ample warnings about the content, thus presumably ensuring no one was exposed to content they wished to avoid?

I happen to agree that the content appears to have zero relevance to information security (the nominal purpose of BSides, not "hacking") and had I been in charge of booking presenters I would have rejected this presentation in favor of someone with more relevant material.

Actually, per the link in the fine summary (emphasis mine):

Later on the same page:

Right. BSides initiated this exchange... so long as you ignore the fact that Valerie Aurora initiated it.

Thanks for that.

I thought one of the complaints about the e-mail was that the password reset link was to a third-party site... ?

So... this story is about an e-mail which allegedly resembled a phishing attempt.

Yet TFA doesn't include the text of the e-mail...

BRILLIANT!

From the fine article:
"Because there is blood and guns, we’ve marked the download with an adult content sticker."

It's not the ESRB's AO rating.

I'd chastise the editor for failing to edit but at slashdot that would be a pretty empty gesture.

Indeed, and people are working on that.

Steambox won't support the oculus rift? Has netcraft confirmed this?

Have you ever seen a film in a theater?

Try it and you'll see you've been misled.

24 fps is ass.

2x slower?

Is that the same thing as being "twice as cold" or "twice as thin"?

You don't measure slowness, you measure speed.

You don't measure coldness, you measure temperature.

You don't measure thinness, you measure thickness.

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Man, I'm really going to have to really evaluate my life after you put in my place like that.

I really wish there was a law about saying "100 times as thin" or "100 times colder" or "100 times slower"...