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Comment Re:Football Piracy? (Score 2) 48

football is the name of the game. every single country except one calls it football.

what you call football is what every single country except one calls it american football.

Australia and the Republic of Ireland also use soccer to differentiate it from the various other forms of football that exist there, not too different from America.
Fwiw, the word soccer was created at Oxford and still appears occasionally over there, i.e. the TV show SoccerAM

Submission + - Teens Hacked Boston Subway Cards to Get Infinite Free Ridesâ"and This Time, (wired.com)

UnCivil Liberty writes: Following in the footsteps of three MIT students who were previously gagged from presenting their findings at Defcon 2008 (previous Slashdot coverage here: https://yro.slashdot.org/story... here: https://hardware.slashdot.org/... and here: https://it.slashdot.org/story/... ), two Bay State teens built on their work in hacking Boston's MBTA CharlieCard system, reverse engineering them and presenting at this year's Defcon without interference.
'the four teens extended other research done by the 2008 hacker team to fully reverse engineer the CharlieCard, the RFID touchless smart cards the MBTA uses today. The hackers can now add any amount of money to one of these cards or invisibly designate it a discounted student card, a senior card, or even an MBTA employee card that gives unlimited free rides. âoeYou name it, we can make it,â says Campbell.'

Comment Re:Where were you....? (Score 1) 126

Where were you when this saga started? I was with a different wife in a different state in a different job in a different religion... basically I was a different person. What about you?

High school, under a different Slashdot UID that I lost the password to and now can't even remember what the username was.
I literally just messaged a friend from high school the link to this story as it was something we used to talk about back when we were teenagers, we are now both almost 40...

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