Comment Re:Deleting account in 5...4...3... (Score 0) 25
This is not true, It also connects to Epic Games store, as well as other game companies directly.
Submission + - 1.2 Billion Records Found Exposed Online in a Single Server (wired.com)
JustAnotherOldGuy writes: or well over a decade, identity thieves, phishers, and other online scammers have created a black market of stolen and aggregated consumer data that they used to break into people's accounts, steal their money, or impersonate them. In October, dark web researcher Vinny Troia found one such trove sitting exposed and easily accessible on an unsecured server, comprising 4 terabytes of personal information—about 1.2 billion records in all. While the collection is impressive for its sheer volume, the data doesn't include sensitive information like passwords, credit card numbers, or Social Security numbers. It does, though, contain profiles of hundreds of millions of people that include home and cell phone numbers, associated social media profiles like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Github, work histories seemingly scraped from LinkedIn, almost 50 million unique phone numbers, and 622 million unique email addresses.
Submission + - How Amazon Helped Cops Set Up a Package Theft Sting Operation (vice.com) 1
An anonymous reader writes: "In response to Amazon packages being stolen from people's doorsteps, police departments around the country have set up sting operations that use fake packages bugged with GPS trackers to find and arrest people who steal packages. Internal emails and documents obtained by Motherboard via a public records request show how Amazon and one police department partnered to set up one of these operations."
Comment Re:The Twilight Series on Steam!? (Score 1) 117
commenting to remove wrong moderation...this was funny, but I mis-clicked.
Comment Re:A spokesman for Uber said (Score 1) 302
comment to remove incorrect mis-moderation
Comment Re:Age of Slashdot Accounts (Score 1) 146
5!
Submission + - Kazakhstan Disables the Internet (activepolitic.com)
bs0d3 writes: In the face of oil protests on their 20'th independence day, Kazakhstan has blocked the internet and disabled cellphone towers in the city of Zhanaozen. As with previous internet blackouts, hactivist group telecomix is putting together free dial up servers for people blacked out in this region.
Submission + - Leanord Nimoy turns 80! (startrek.com)
Submission + - SPAM: Pixar's next three films to be sequels?
brumgrunt writes: "Should we be worried? As Pixar proves itself once more to be home to some of the most original and daring blockbusters on the planet with Up, does the news that its next three films are likely to be sequels — with the confirmation of Monsters, Inc 2 — give cause for concern? Den Of Geek wonders if commercial pressures are catching up with one of the finest movie companies on the planet... [spam URL stripped]"
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Submission + - Evidence found for Earliest Modern Humans
Hugh Pickens writes: "Researchers at Arizona State University report that they have pushed back the date for the earliest modern humans to 164,000 years ago, far earlier than previously documented. Paleoanthropologists now say that genetic and fossil evidence suggests that modern human species — Homo sapiens — evolved in Africa between 100,000 and 200,000 years ago and in seeking the "perfect site" to explore for remains of the earliest populations, researchers analyzed ocean currents, climate data, geological formations and other data to pin down a location. "The world was in a glacial stage 125,000 to 195,000 years ago, and much of Africa was dry to mostly desert; in many areas food would have been difficult to acquire. The paleoenvironmental data indicate there are only five or six places in all of Africa where humans could have survived these harsh conditions," said Curtis Marean, a professor in ASU's School of Human Evolution and Social Change. Photos from the cave at Pinnacle Point in South Africa show where the team found ochre, bladelets and evidence of shellfish — findings that reveal the earliest dated evidence of modern humans."
Top U.S. Tech Cities 269
srizah writes "Wired.com claims to have used a 'scientific methodology' to rate the top 10 tech towns in the US. They use some very reliable indexes, like 'Craigslist postings per capita' or 'Number of attendees at local meetings of dorkbot'. The usual suspects (Seattle, San Francisco) show up on the list, but some might surprise you. From the article: 'Raleigh-Duram - The jocks here may get worked up about college hoops, but the tech set is passionate about Linux distros and Mac-PC holy wars. North Carolina's Triangle is ground zero for Red Hat, SAS Institute, and an IBM center. Bonus: The area hosts two World Beer Festivals a year.'"
Which Text-Based UI Do You Code With? 211
JHWH asks: "I've been asked to design and implement a management software system with text based user interface as the replacement of an older one running on AS/400. Despite my attempts towards a web UI, the customer is actually willing to have a text based UI. The main reasons are the need for a very low bandwidth and the ability to run on serial terminals. All this in the 21st century! Host systems will be Linux, the language will be C or C++. I already thought about the use of text based browsers like lynx or links. So now I have to wipe the dust away from my ncurses manual, or can Slashdot suggest something more effective?"
