> Don't think for a second that something similar wouldn't happen in the United States or Europe
It already did:
"Two Florida men are in trouble with the law after being arrested last week for agreeing to sell thousands of dollars’ worth of bitcoins to undercover agents."
Because 4 digit personal identification PIN numbers cannot start with a 0, presumably?
People who live in math challenged houses shouldn't throw math challenged accusations.
I keep forgetting that Slashdot exists. It's only when you post that I get reminded about it. For some reason I get an email every time you post, even though I've no idea who you are and have no recollection of asking for it.
The hacker runs Firefox with the Firesheep extension, not you.
It doesn't matter what you run, you're still vulnerable if you're sending cookies in the clear.
From TFA:
> [...] SuperSpeed USB, has throughput of up to 5 gigabits per second.
> it would take 14 minutes to transfer 25GB of data over USB 2.0,
> but just four minutes with USB SuperSpeed.
5 gigabits per second
25 gigabits per 5 seconds
25 gigabytes per 5*8 = 40 seconds
no?
Also, I guess it's more a GTK feature than GNOME. I use XFCE4 instead of GNOME and see the same crap.
Type something into a single line field, leave the mouse in the middle somewhere. Hit control-a to select all the text, then hit the left cursor key. The text cursor is at the end of the field, not the beginning! This is infuriating. When moving left, the cursor should just to the start of the selection, not the end.
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