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Comment Not surprised in the least. (Score 1) 214

In my one experience with Tiger Direct, the following occurred:
- 1 year warranty on the product they were offering, only for me to discover once it broke that they were just reselling the manufacturer's 90-day warranty. Of course, they changed their website prior to me realizing this and I didn't get a screenshot so I couldn't report them.
- Claiming to be without duties (even at the .ca domain, with big Canadian flags saying "NO DUTY"), and when the product arrived at my door it had a $150 COD for... dum dum DAAAAAAA... duty, as they shipped from PA.
- A toll free number advertised on their CANADIAN site that only worked from the states, forcing me to call long distance to get their customer service who were essentially inept and couldn't answer any of my questions shy of "talk to the manufacturer."

Never again.

Comment If he was smart... (Score 1) 461

he kept /home on a separate partition and the upgrade is a moot process. Provided your /home drive isn't reformatted, you should feasibly be able to completely overhaul your whole system and have it look exactly as it was just before you reinstalled it. Then it's just a matter of having your local linux geek over to your house once every six months. I know a fair number of people that would do this service for friends for payment of beer.

Comment My experience.... (Score 4, Interesting) 64

Last year I DJ'd for the CanSecWest dinner party, and I was kinda amused to see that a lot of the people who were at the conference were ex-blackhats anyway. A good number of them had criminal records and were now raking in hella money working on the legit side (a shitload more than they made during their blackhat careers). I even met a couple of them at a 2600 meeting once.

Hackers are hackers, regardless of which side of the legal coin they fall on. The exploits used are known to anybody with the resources to find them. In fact, last year nobody took home the Linux box not because they couldn't find any exploits, but because there was so much more effort and time involved in breaking the linux systems that everybody just went for the OSX or Windows machines. Versions of this contest probably exist in the blackhat world, but are a lot less publicized because they don't have industry heavyweights like Cisco or Microsoft sponsoring it.

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