Monday, 30 November 2015

So I wanted this to be a discussion about a particular viewpoint. I thought this for many years, and it seems to be confirmed more and more each year… Laptops seem to be suffering the hardest out of any technology these days. I don't really know what it is in particular, but they just aren't reliable by any means. The longest time I've ever been able to say that I owned a laptop was three years maximum, and this was a Sony VAIO. It wasn't expensive $1500 laptop, very well-maintained, not left out to the elements, not running overnight or running for days on end…. In the end of it's life it performed like trash, of course I bought it at Best Buy through geek squad so they couldn't do anything more than laugh and recommend a new laptop for me. Next up was Adele, which lasted me two years and had to be replaced twice, thank God I had a warranty. Then I had another Sony, same issues as before this one only lasted two years and I was tired of it so I passed it onto my brother. Now, I've had an MSi since 2012 which is supposed to be a legendary gaming laptop. It performed exceptionally in the first two years, and here we are in 2015. Maintained exceptionally, but the entire system randomly crashes or freezes up sometimes. I've reinstalled the operating system, it doesn't really do anything.

But I'm curious to know what everyone else thinks about this. Is there a general consensus about the quality of laptops decreasing? There seems to also be a very widely shared stigma against them in the gaming community, and I know this because I am a gamer. Everyone prefers to get a custom built gaming rig, I did so myself. But naysayers will indicate that laptops meant for gaming should be avoided like the plague. Not only are they ridiculously expensive, they see an insane amount of problems from overheating to hardware failure and even to being outdated within several months of their release.

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Kept you waiting again, huh?

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TIFU by searching a part-time job

So today I woke up and decided that I will look for a part time job since Christmas is coming soon and I need some cash for my family presents and all.I went to the city and there was a sign that said a new "Thai Chili Street Food" opened,so I decided it would be a great idea to power myself up since it was lunch time anyways.I ordered a chicken breast with lots of spice,vegetables and rice in it and boy,it was so damn good and spicy,but apparently,my tummy somehow reacts wierd to the spicy foods and I started to fart a lot.After that I went down the street and my stomach rumbled a lot,so I had to let out few silent farts,since I am pro at that.I walked into this computer shop that I knew and it was looking for people who are available to work for part time,which was suitable for me.The shop is really small,so I decided I will look into the computers and gadgets first and then slowly walk up to the manager and ask him to give my CV to him.As walk sideways,he comes behind me and I sense it,but I see these awesome phone cases,but they were placed at the bottom,so I was like "I'm just gonna bend down..." and.........I farted so loudly.Like,I've never ever had let such a huge and loud fart before in my entire life.Panic mode activated and I don't know why I did that,but I just said a really loud "WHOOPS!" .The manager behind me went away from me immediately and people in the shop looked at me as I was standing in freeze mode,thinking about meaning of life and what will I do now.I took few small steps to see loud-speakers for 3,5 seconds and quickly exited the shop went fast away,knowing that it's the last time I've stepped into this shop ever.

TL;DR My stomach doesn't like spicy food.Wen't to look for a part time job in a computer shop,manager was behind me,I bended down and farted on him.

R2D2 game console

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Pirates Can Now Rip 4K Content From Netflix and Amazon

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Cards Against Humanity Has Made Over $54K Selling Nothing On Black Friday

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Everything going according to... OH SHIT

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I keep seeing signs. I have to buy fallout 4 already..

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A new tactic for thwarting online tracking: obfuscation.

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Server of Chinese toy maker Vtech breached: data of 4.8M parents and 200K kids exposed

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just cause 3 is self aware

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Just Cows 3

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Hot new girl at work... [X post from r/fo4]

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Google's Balloon Powered Internet for Everyone

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Get down Mr. President!

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NSFW New footage of upcoming first person slasher/sword game alike Chivalry:Medieval Warfare, Mordhau (www.mordhau.net)

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Who put this Fedora th..uh..oh...Hi.

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Google Glass 2; Half Is Sometimes Better Than Whole

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The Collapse of Moore’s Law: Physicist Says It’s Already Happening

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A Haiku About Mario Kart

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This app could completely change how you feel walking alone at night

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“Want to keep using the pacemaker? “ pay us 2 bitcoins - Ransomware will target also Medical Devices

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So is my Halo 5 updated enough ?

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Bill Gates to create multibillion-dollar fund to pay for R&D of new clean-energy technologies. “If we create the right environment for innovation, we can accelerate the pace of progress, develop new solutions, and eventually provide everyone with reliable, affordable energy that is carbon free.”

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10 fun games to play online

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Forget safety, people want self-driving cars for easy parking

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Super Mutant Skeet Shooting

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Out of more than $71,000 recieved from Cards Against Humanity's Black Friday "sale," about $25,000 went to charitable efforts, and the rest was spent on cool stuff.

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Hello Barbie: Wifi-enabled doll labelled a bedroom security risk

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Toymaker VTech says data was stolen from its kiddie app store

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Friday, 27 November 2015

[NSFW] Priorities

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Czech pirate goes viral on YouTube to avoid fine | A Czech software pirate held up his end of an odd court bargain: get 200,000 people to watch him denounce his former ways. Convincing or not, the video got more than enough clicks.

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Musk's Tesla faces German battle over battery-powered homes

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Being a Cop 101

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NSA to shut down bulk phone surveillance program by Sunday

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How Udemy Is Profiting From Piracy

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[FO4] Oh yeah I had a son, right?

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UK ISP boss points out massive technical flaws in Investigatory Powers Bill - Supporters of new Snooper's Charter "do not understand how the Internet works."

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That's a pretty clever disguise

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Literally unplayable

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My cousin turns 17 today, and is hiding upstairs playing Fallout 4

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UK ISP boss points out massive flaws in UK's Snooper's Charter, saying the proponents of it "do not understand how the Internet works"

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Cloud Computing, Retailers And Cyber Monday

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Paris attackers used real names, real IDs, and unencrypted, simple messaging to make plans.

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Cards Against Humanity has made over $40,000 selling nothing for Black Friday

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I think it's bugged.... yep, definitely bugged

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[FO4] Oh Fuck, please don't find me.

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My nephew was wearing an appropriate when I showed up for thanksgiving.

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How did she know? [Fallout 4]

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Raspberry Pi Zero computer has completely sold out, less than a day after it was released.

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Remember the compromised cert Dell put on their new laptops? Windows Defender now detects and removes it (so uninstall whatever preloaded anti-virus you have).

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All hail the almighty.

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"OnePlus admits that it's selling dodgy USB Type-C cables and adapters"

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Astronomers indirectly spot neutrinos released just 1 second after the birth of the universe

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To defend the web we now know, we must save Mozilla! [x-post from r/firefox]

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Consequences: They could be many, but they all lie somewhere between strengthening Google’s position and giving it total dominance:

*Google will be a dominator and gatekeeper to the browser extension market, not only for Chrome but also for Vivaldi and other browsers that implement the Chrome extension system. This means they alone decide which extensions get published. They can start refusing to host extensions that e.g. block advertisements or protect your privacy. They have done similar things before, and Apple, a similar gatekeeper, has a long history of censoring items in their app store.

*Services that compete with Google’s will suddenly not work so well in Chrome.

*Google’s own services will always work best with Chrome. As soon as a critical mass of this is reached, Google can easily pivot the market in their favor.

*Google will ultimately be the one company who tells us how we see the web. And since they make money by learning about you, creating psychological profiles and knowing how you see the web, this is a far too powerful position.

*Google will introduce functions into Chrome that spy on you, since data about you is one of the most valuable commodities in advertising, and Google is an advertisement company.

*Web pages will slowly stop working in Firefox, Konqueror or Microsoft Edge. Tech support departments will then tell people to switch to Chrome instead and Google’s dominance will be complete.

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I want to show you this game I'm making...

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Just Cause 3 Logic

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Guide Dogs Are Trained Not to Complain, So This Health Monitor Does It for Them

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Google gets nearly 350,000 ‘forget’ requests in Europe

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I don't know what I expected

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Freemium

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The best way to reload

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Neil deGrasse Tyson says it’s a ‘delusion’ that SpaceX will ‘lead the space frontier’

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Swedish court: "We cannot ban Pirate Bay." In a landmark decision, a Swedish court on Friday ruled that the country's internet service providers cannot be forced to block controversial Swedish file-sharing site Pirate Bay.

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I'm learning fallout4 doesn't do anything "quick"

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FCC Makes It Clear It Thinks Some Net Neutrality Abuses Are 'Innovative' And 'Pro Competition'

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Thursday, 26 November 2015

"Amazon could be building the cord-cutter's dream streaming service"

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When you level up emphatically [Not Fallout 4]

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MFW Im playing fallout and I suddenly miss my mom.

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Sneaky Microsoft renamed its data slurper before sticking it back in Windows 10

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There's cod2 map "carentan" in bo3

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Russia’s largest data center will be powered by nuclear energy

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Girlfriend and I cosplaying Elizabeth and Booker!

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New battery chip could let phones charge in minutes, avoid explosions

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Huge Security Flaw Can Expose VPN Users' Real IP-Adresses

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Wasteland model kits (Fallout 4 Ps4)

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Looks like someone forgot to tell them...

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Steam has a nice sale going on right now.

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Fallout: The Story Will Let You Play Fallout 1 in Fallout: New Vegas

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I took a trip to Boston in the summer before Fallout 4 was announced and I took this picture. It is so cool to see something that you saw in real life in a game!

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It’s illegal to make private copies of music in the UK—again

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For some reason this rutabaga wants me to talk to some "Meridia" chick

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Had a Fallout 4 marathon, afterwards decided to go do some work in my backyard

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Fallout 4 Click bait

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GTA V - Lightsabers

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Crusader Kings 2 Steam forums are amazing out of context

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Quick, while the mods are eating turkey, post photos of 3D combination puzzles!

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[Fallout 4] One Punch

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128GB RAM modules are going to be introduced by Samsung in the near future

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Why PC Gaming?

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Nevada researchers trying to turn roadside weed into biofuel

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20 years of eBay: Contrary to popular belief, it was never created to sell Pez dispensers. The first sell was a broken laser pointer, simply as an experiment, and sold for $14.88. It was purchased by a guy who collected broken laser pointers. It was a definitive proof-of-concept for eBay.

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Every time I get the Hero Power-Up

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The internet is allowing 1,000 under-privileged girls, in the most remote regions of the planet, to hook up with the world's top scientists, who are mentoring them for a year to help them launch science careers--from the middle of tundras, rain forests, deserts.

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Raspberry Pi Zero $5 computer unveiled: Buying the cheapest computer in the world is now cheaper than buying your lunch.

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Gobble gobble, my brothers

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One upped the guy swimming in Pre-war money. How's 1270 individual stacks?

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Doom alpha code (take mine)

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Thought I'd have an Xbox one by now. Still too rich for my blood. Enjoy the code.

Edit: Gone.

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A convicted software pirate has been handed an unusual punishment. The man, named only as Jakub F, will be spared having to pay hefty damages - as long as a film denouncing piracy he was made to produce gets 200,000 views.

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FCC proposes millions in fines, collects $0: The disconnect is drawing scrutiny from members of Congress

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Airbus proposes new drop-in airplane “cabin modules” to speed up boarding. Take your seat in the departure lounge, then be dropped straight down into the plane.

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"Aw crap" compilation

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Court Tells Pirate to Get 200,000 YouTube Views or Pay $373,000 Fine

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by ufopu55y http://ift.tt/1R8gl0D

The Large Hadron Collider just shattered a new record

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Pi Zero: A full Raspberry Pi for just £4

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This gizmo knows your Amex card number before you've received it

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Cool Star Wars PC Case

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Europe's abandoning internal combustion engines and embracing electricity to help the economy survive

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The $5 Raspberry Pi Zero could be as revolutionary as the original

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Pi Zero – The New Raspberry Pi Board

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Wednesday, 25 November 2015

Raspberry Pi foundation releases a $5 computer

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Raspberry Pi Announces Tiny New $5 Computer, the Pi Zero

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Advanced power armor

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Anonymous 'rickrolls' ISIS, hijacking pro-ISIS hashtags with the 80's music video prank

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[FO4] Harold

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Multi-core processors

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Glenn Greenwald on why the CIA is smearing Edward Snowden after the Paris attacks: "The real objective is to depict Silicon Valley as terrorist-helpers for the crime of offering privacy protections to Internet users and to force them to give the U.S. gov "backdoor" access into communications"

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Fallout 4 Logic

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by CountVulvula http://ift.tt/1T5bgER

App Lets You See the Cell Towers, Wifi Signals, and Satellites Around You

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Pre-war money has no value to most people, but I'm from the year 2077 baby, I'M RICH!

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The Brotherhood's got my back [Fallout 4][NSFW]

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Tried the little planet projection on Just Cause 3's 360 wingsuit vid.

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[Fallout 4] An interesting encounter turned sad.

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Casual conversation in Fallout 4 (x-post /r/fo4)

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Remember a time when copy protection was fun?

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by rykker http://ift.tt/21fFJGo

Busted Pirate Told to Get 200K YouTube Hits or Face Huge Fine

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In the basement tunnel under CERN

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[Fallout 4] Of all the crazy things I've seen in games...

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Girlfriend said I'm getting too old for CoD, so I made an emblem to try to blend in

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by Verko http://ift.tt/1MRv1Mn

Dell computers bundled with backdoor that blurts hardware fingerprint to websites

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According to Tor, its major backers in this year alone have included the US Department of State, Reddit, the National Science Foundation, Radio Free Asia, and what the group only calls "an anonymous North American ISP."

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German Publisher Axel Springer Just Can't Stop Suing Ad Blockers, And Attacking Its Own Readers

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Falllout cosplay

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Finally finished building my first computer. But instead of a case I just bolted everything to a piece of plywood..

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Making a Washing Machine That Wastes Less Water - Three grad students have invented a filter that allows washers to reuse 95 percent of the water from each load.

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by HoosieredBuckeye75 http://ift.tt/1XfsLsC

Comcast is raising rates in 2 markets as it expands data caps to 8 more

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by JackassWhisperer http://ift.tt/1QHTbz2

Second Dell root certificate ('DSDTestProvider') found by LaptopMag - just as bad as 'eDellRoot'. Dell hasn't admitted to it yet

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by johnmountain http://ift.tt/1R6igTz

Hackers replace ISIS dark web propaganda site with advert for Prozac - together with a message to calm down

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by paperplanepoem http://ift.tt/1OrKPIC

Norway just legalized self-driving cars

Was approved in the parliament a few seconds ago. Will add link as soon as some newspaper has written about it!

by nate_rausch http://ift.tt/1PYGGxu

Why People Stick With Outdated Technology

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by riksof http://ift.tt/1P86l8m

I haven't seen my boyfriend for a week.

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by lolrenmoar http://ift.tt/1NOMRzx

Saw a review for Rocket League on Steam. Must be a good game.

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by Slizor659 http://ift.tt/1IeTfOK

Wife really wanted Fallout 4. So I complied..sorta

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by Schnodally http://ift.tt/1Sjd2Ci

11 year old me would have such a boner

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by Domenicoh http://ift.tt/1If9jQB

Second Dell backdoor root cert found

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by Hohoho_Neocon http://ift.tt/1OrmSkA

Warcraft II Tips

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by CANT_TRUST_HILLARY http://ift.tt/1Tds6SA

Tuesday, 24 November 2015

Encryption is not the enemy. Dianne Feinstein is the enemy.

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by sp1kline http://ift.tt/1LyBry8

"You? I was expecting someone a bit more... armed"

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by Namika http://ift.tt/1XplpO3

This mod really puts Fallout 4's dialogue choices into perspective

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by rutterkin http://ift.tt/1Xd930C

Winner Winner Taco Dinner! Never won anything in my life till today.

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by Mnawab http://ift.tt/1Tdng87

Anonymous list of ISIS accounts 'wildly inaccurate' and ignored by Twitter.

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by BenYahoo http://ift.tt/1XoOUiP

Part of Reddit's new privacy policy, effective January 1, 2016, states that they may share your information with 3rd party advertisers after saying before that they wouldn't.

This highlights a major change in Reddit's new privacy policy where they say they may share your information to third parties for advertising purposes, compared to a privacy policy from April, 2015 where they say they won't give your information to any third party, period. They throw in some ambiguous language by using the word "share" instead of "sell" but I think you would have to be naive to think a site like Reddit would hand off data to advertisers for free.

April 2015 policy: http://ift.tt/1PWN6wS

Policy effective January 1, 2016: http://ift.tt/1MOCGuZ

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by USBdancer http://ift.tt/1lguHzw

War, war never changes.

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by CopyRasta http://ift.tt/1TdnfRy

Sandi is serious about wasteland fashion

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by Elazuul http://ift.tt/1NN9TqH

Types of Camping

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by Proxer http://ift.tt/1XchkC2

My favorite Lara cos..

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by Jikayx http://ift.tt/21etjP4

[FO4] Let's put a little smile on that face...

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by codexcdm http://ift.tt/1PXlyrl

Microsoft Makes Windows 10 Automatic Spying Worse

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by ThatInvestorGuy http://ift.tt/1Ie04A9

Walking in FO4 virtual reality.

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by Sippingin http://ift.tt/1MAkmb7

Blue Origin today announced that its New Shepard space vehicle successfully flew to space, reaching its planned test altitude of 329,839 ft. before executing a historic landing back at the launch site in West Texas.

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by Stark_Warg http://ift.tt/1IdIV9z

Love Wins :)

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by xavierdc http://ift.tt/1MORZnv

How TV ads silently ping commands to phones: Sneaky SilverPush code reverse-engineered

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by 3rssi http://ift.tt/1MA8ea5

Legend of Zelda as Ghibli movie

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by SomethingsAwesome http://ift.tt/1MzYqNb

How to destroy an American family. The Straters’ lives have been devastated by relentless cyberattacks. And there’s nothing they can do about it.

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by moooooky http://ift.tt/1R41VyC

600,000 Arris Cable Modems Have Double Back Doors

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by maxwellhill http://ift.tt/1Hk9MWU

So you wanna make 2000 caps a day?

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by bok5566 http://ift.tt/1R47SLW

Barely a foul

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by bok5566 http://ift.tt/1OebTwC

Change your Amazon password: Amazon suffers potential password leak, unknown number of accounts affected

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by redkemper http://ift.tt/1HkeZ0O

Jeff Bezos beats Elon Musk's SpaceX in the reusable rocket race

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by mozumder http://ift.tt/1Lxf9gn

Is this mod the most realistic graphics ever seen?

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by Toddyftw http://ift.tt/1PLQFHK

2004 was a great year in gaming history.

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by Momentanius http://ift.tt/1PWNmfv

A Modern Day Lever Action Cowboy

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by Tricky_Troll http://ift.tt/1LxdB5O

A programmer wrote scripts to secretly automate a lot of his job — and email his wife and make a latte

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by ledgendary http://ift.tt/1lGQL6X

"All images in this paper are generated by a neural network. They are NOT REAL."

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by r-sync http://ift.tt/1IcHBny

Have a nice trip

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by CANT_TRUST_HILLARY http://ift.tt/1Sgrw5P

Monday, 23 November 2015

Li-Fi has just been tested in the real world, and it's 100 times faster than Wi-Fi

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by 09senojyrag http://ift.tt/1XnfpW7

My husband and I bonded over COD Zombies over this year. I love his patience with me starting out, being afraid of zombies, dying at round 1. He was just happy I showed interest in the game. So I put together this ornament for him to showcase our year of becoming video game Bros.

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by lesserley http://ift.tt/1YqJ6rF

Interstate swatting bill would jail swatters for 5 years if there is an emergency response, 20 years if results in serious bodily injury, and life sentence if the call results in a death

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by PrimaxAUS http://ift.tt/1Mz6KNh

Hover Zoom removed from the Chrome Store after reportedly sending 3rd parties "a complete copy of your browsing data, to gain an indirect remuneration". They previously denied collecting personal data stemming from a reddit thread allegation.

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by raywj1993 http://ift.tt/1OoGJ3M

Wah

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by shoneth http://ift.tt/1Ic4LKI

Dell says it will publish a guide to remove the web security backdoor it installed in its Windows laptops and desktop PCs.

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by tehgerbil http://ift.tt/1Hji2pT

2 Spooky 4 Me

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by toptots http://ift.tt/1Sgta7A

MRW fallout tells me "Dogmeat found something"

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by jed5150 http://ift.tt/1TbaMxE

This Fake Bomb Detector Is Blamed for Hundreds of Deaths. It’s Still in Use.

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by TheSpiderMind http://ift.tt/1P4oeF6

My friend's first time playing as Boba Fett...

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by amazedave http://ift.tt/1SXqpYU

Fallout 4 Body Disposal

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by essaylt http://ift.tt/1No8TPk

The only reboot I'll ever need.

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by InvictusProsper http://ift.tt/1XlUHpz

Cops like these don't fuck around

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by Futureops http://ift.tt/1N46z9T

Catmeat

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by CANT_TRUST_HILLARY http://ift.tt/1YpCSbl

Dell does a Superfish, ships PCs with self-signed root certificates. Root certificate debacle that hit Lenovo now visits the House of Dell.

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by speckz http://ift.tt/1SfyurX

one man spent four years and $35,000 to unmask his internet troll

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by hanchienleow http://ift.tt/1R1eeM8

How to break into a house.....

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by rutare http://ift.tt/1ObOMTn

Comcast injects copyright warnings into browsers, raising privacy concerns

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by moooooky http://ift.tt/1I6vqhc

Google unveils Android Studio 2.0 with Instant Run, faster Android emulator, and new GPU profiler

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by ThatInvestorGuy http://ift.tt/1SWpMyE

Deathclaws and you.

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by Arooshy123 http://ift.tt/1lEQiCe

Lead singer of Breaking Benjamin didn't like Battlefront

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by warmapplejuice http://ift.tt/1P3DlhO

Sen. Ron Wyden: Security experts have shown again and again that weakening encryption will make it easier for foreign hackers, criminals and spies to break into Americans’ bank accounts, health records and phones, without preventing terrorists from “going dark.”

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by johnmountain http://ift.tt/1kQ7Ew7

Encryption is Not the Enemy

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by Harry_Bergeron http://ift.tt/1NLujAm

I couldn't afford the Pip-Boy Edition so I made my own.

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by 3dbdotcom http://ift.tt/1N46z9R

Stop the anti-encryption propaganda now

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by plato_thyself http://ift.tt/1HipEcr

The Real Issue With Beef Grown In A Lab: How Do You Get People To Eat It?

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by runnerdood http://ift.tt/1lEX0rT

How mobile tech has launched a healthcare revolution

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by tontosser http://ift.tt/1Xly8kF

That hurts really BAD

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by himugamer http://ift.tt/1N46z9X

Wheatley is awesome

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by Lobo2ffs http://ift.tt/1N90r4s

Google, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft and other large tech companies all warn that weaker encryption makes the bad guys stronger

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by JackassWhisperer http://ift.tt/1LvznHg

Jimmy Wales: "All major internet traffic is going to be encrypted very, very soon"

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by johnmountain http://ift.tt/1OnJqTk

Richard Stallman, Founder of GNU Project and Free Software Foundation, Endorsed Bernie Sanders for President

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by johnmountain http://ift.tt/1QZUFE7

Fish's Guide to Caesar's Legion

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by MojaveWalker http://ift.tt/1LuPzIM

Inside the Sony Hack: What it was like to be a rank-and-file Sony employee as the unprecedented cyberattack tore the company apart.

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by running_over_rivers http://ift.tt/1MLPAKn

The Only Way to play Fallout 4

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by 8100 http://ift.tt/1PIXFoK

Sunday, 22 November 2015

Charlie Sheen Spotted in Fallout 4.

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by AresWarGod http://ift.tt/1T98f7j

Stormtroopers never learn. (x-post)

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by teh_bakedpotato http://ift.tt/1HgOpWf

Fallout 3 displayed on a vintage 1950's era Philco Predicta TV set

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by reefguy007 http://ift.tt/1QZc3Zo

Dell ships laptops with rogue root CA, exactly like what happened with Lenovo and Superfish

I got a shiny new XPS 15 laptop from Dell, and while attempting to troubleshoot a problem, I discovered that it came pre-loaded with a self-signed root CA by the name of eDellRoot. With it came its private key, marked as non-exportable. However, it is still possible to obtain a raw copy of the private key by using several tools available (I used NCC Group's Jailbreak tool). After briefly discussing this with someone else who had discovered this too, we determined that they are shipping every laptop they distribute with the exact same root certificate and private key, very similar to what Superfish did on Lenovo computers. For those that aren't familiar, this is a major security vulnerability that endangers all recent Dell customers.

Surely Dell had to have seen what kind of bad press Lenovo got when people discovered what Superfish was up to. Yet, they decided to do the same thing but worse. This isn't even a third-party application that placed it there; it's from Dell's very own bloatware. To add insult to injury, it's not even apparent what purpose the certificate serves. At least with Superfish we knew that their rogue root CA was needed to inject ads into your web pages; the reason Dell's is there is unclear.

If you have recently bought a Dell computer and want to see if you are affected by this, go to Start -> type "certmgr.msc" -> (accept on UAC prompt) -> Trusted Root Certification Authorities -> Certificates and check if you have an entry with the name "eDellRoot". If so, congratulations, you've been pwned by Dell, the very company you paid for your computer!

Here is a link to the certificate, private key, and PFX file for the certificate I found on my machine. The password for the PFX file is "dell". (The certificate itself is in the eDellRoot.crt file. Do NOT import the PFX file unless you know what you're doing. I just included it for convenience.) If yours came with the eDellRoot certificate, its thumbprint will probably be:

98:A0:4E:41:63:35:77:90:C4:A7:9E:6D:71:3F:F0:AF:51:FE:69:27

And its serial number:

6b:c5:7b:95:18:93:aa:97:4b:62:4a:c0:88:fc:3b:b6

It's upsetting that Dell would do this despite the backlash Lenovo experienced from its customers and the US Department of Homeland Security, and I really hope they quickly do something to correct this. The more people that know and speak up, the faster it will happen.

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SpaceX will fly astronauts to the Space Station in 2017

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by Daeveed http://ift.tt/1kPfLc9

Shit posting til the day I die

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by unicorv http://ift.tt/1QCPZop

FYI: Verizon increased your Unlimited Data plan's fee by $20 this month and they didn't bother to warn you.

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by skepticalspectacle1 http://ift.tt/1QZ2VE5

My niece mispronounced Pikachu, and I had to draw what she said.

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by mrmadmoose http://ift.tt/1OaDS05

Homeland Security chair: ‘Biggest threat today’ is terrorists using encryption

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by skoalbrother http://ift.tt/1T8ZbPL

[FALLOUT 4] Bethesda, please let me add locks to my doors, so Preston will stop sleeping in my FUCKING bed and leaving the doors to my house wide open.

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by AHarmlessFly http://ift.tt/1NKtR5j

Apple is attempting to keep f.lux, a blue-light eliminator, from being used on their iPhones. Click here to view the issue and send Apple a message.

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by ChallengerC4 http://ift.tt/1NKuImo

What are the worst trends in technology right now?

I was just watching a video review of the iPad Pro, and they had the gold version. Something that's aiming to be a professional tool comes in gold, let that sink in. I felt like I was watching someone using a gold hammer.

My vote goes to using a gold color option to make tech tools and gadgets (that are inherently disposable) seem more luxurious and high end. It's the tackiest thing for me.

So anything from hardware to software, from shallow to serious, from consumer to prosumer technology, what do you think are the worst trends at the moment?

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So...I think i am done with Gamestop

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by jaiona http://ift.tt/1X788yM

[Fallout 4] The most eastern bloc thing you can get

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by Mezriss http://ift.tt/1MLhjuB

Yahoo Blocking Ad Block Users From Checking Yahoo Mail

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by -Gavin- http://ift.tt/1T8z4s8

Why Halo 1 remains as one of my all time favorite games

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by LiQuiD0v3rkiLL http://ift.tt/1HgzbR6

And they said creating mass couldn't be done.

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by Lustikurre86 http://ift.tt/1QCgPgr

[Fallout 4] Some how I don't think so.

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by monkling http://ift.tt/1PTQE33

Zombies in GTA IV

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by cheekyprick http://ift.tt/1MvKGDk

My love life summed up in 15 seconds from Fallout 4

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by comradepartypanda http://ift.tt/1HfQORe

The invention of the world’s first white laser, which could revolutionize communications, lighting and displays, is being recognized as one of the top 100 breakthroughs of the year by Popular Science magazine

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by mememeeeeee http://ift.tt/1XjdZvw

Chrome has a serious security flaw.

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by gatoraidab http://ift.tt/1NK6Pvb

Playing Fallout 4 after months immersed in Skyrim

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by Aquape http://ift.tt/1QCgPgh

Many of your Android apps send unnecessary hidden data

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by moriarty826 http://ift.tt/1QXWqBG

When loading screens get too real

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by DX115FALCON http://ift.tt/1XiKWrX

The dangers of going too far to curb online harassment

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by Sybles http://ift.tt/1QC1iwV

"Google can reset the passcodes when served with a search warrant and an order instructing them to assist law enforcement to extract data from the device. This process can be done by Google remotely and allows forensic examiners to view the contents of a device."-Manhattan District Attorney's Office

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by doug3465 http://ift.tt/1N61UbP

Apple is capturing 94% of the profits in the entire smartphone industry

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by jonfla http://ift.tt/1lcl44Q

Blizzard Entertainment has obtained the source code of the popular Heroes of Storm cheating bot Stormbuddy. Facing a million dollar copyright infringement lawsuit, a freelance developer reportedly struck a deal with Blizzard.

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by toomanyairmiles http://ift.tt/1lCh7XS

How to beat a Scorpion with just intimidation.

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by LTAmbrose26 http://ift.tt/1YnqFnI

nononoyes

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by bafl55 http://ift.tt/1QXgX9h

You can hijack cows in Just Cause 3

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by lesi20 http://ift.tt/1QXgWSX

Nothing gets past grandma on GTA5

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by Turkeypro http://ift.tt/1Hg0XNz

Even after setting a trap, I was still soiling my long johns

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by bafl55 http://ift.tt/1lC4ax3

[Fallout 4] I fell into a vat of molten lava and now...

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by Mythikos http://ift.tt/1LtvXVm

I broke a gameboy trying to fix the vertical line problem. Made this instead.

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by nvchad2 http://ift.tt/1LsRXj9

Apple's CEO On Encryption: "You Can't Have A Back Door That's Only For The Good Guys"

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by mellowmonk http://ift.tt/1ScmjMw

New report indicates that the NSA has found a loophole that allows them to spy on your email even though they're not allowed to anymore.

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by ItchyPickle http://ift.tt/1MJY7NI

"I need only your strongest potions" [Fallout 4]

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by kloopy007 http://ift.tt/1N0NDIZ

Trying to be a pro gamer is hard

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by z_42 http://ift.tt/1XhPA9Q

Saturday, 21 November 2015

Wrong floor Mother Fucker!

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by fryest http://ift.tt/1OZofde

Microsoft yanks latest Windows 10 release from its download server.

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by spsheridan http://ift.tt/1Hf6JPx

[NSFW] The REAL reason to own a Kinect

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by Ubiquitous_Cacophony http://ift.tt/1Scbytr

Local Library will start lending mobile hotspots soon - with unlimited data, 2 weeks at a time, free of charge.

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by sasquatch606 http://ift.tt/1lbVA7J

Use AdBlock And Yahoo May Block You From Reading Your E-Mail: The on-screen message makes it clear in no uncertain terms that “We are unable to display Yahoo Mail. Please disable Ad Blocker to continue using Yahoo Mail.”

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by maxwellhill http://ift.tt/1QBaamt

kids playing new Bethesda games will never know the true struggle.

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by linkerman300 http://ift.tt/1N48dg6

The one true god of the wasteland

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by Tristanus http://ift.tt/1I3E2VQ

I know they had to nerf the anti-material rifle, but this is getting ridiculous.

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by Snoopislurking http://ift.tt/1Njrc8i

My wife thinks she's clever.

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by Malcolm_Ten http://ift.tt/1N48cZm

Comcast VP Met With, Held Fundraiser for Hillary Clinton in Own Home

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by ma582 http://ift.tt/1O9jixb

My favorite quote from fallout 4

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by wolf120 http://ift.tt/1N0rtGK

Comcast says its streaming TV service won't count against data caps because it doesn't use the internet

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by speckz http://ift.tt/1NJ7rBk

Jinx cosplay by Shlachina Polina

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by 1Voice1Life http://ift.tt/1SbsU9O

URGENT: Imprisoned Free Software/Creative Commons lead receives death sentence in Syria- Please write!

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by freelyread http://ift.tt/1N0xjrD

PS2 Emulation confirmed on PS4 with stable 60FPS

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by killer95k http://ift.tt/1SbsUqq

Grandpa plays GTA

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by sloveniaa http://ift.tt/1N0b8BU

New Docs Reveal NSA Never Ended Bulk Email Collection, Just Hid It Better: Agency shut down email surveillance in 2011, only to relaunch it under different intelligence laws

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by maxwellhill http://ift.tt/1QVA3wB

This gun makes me feel like an asshole

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by faixii http://ift.tt/1N2Szl6

Happy 14th birthday to my childhood argument settler

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by WalkwithPeace http://ift.tt/1lb3wpW

I thought I had huge hair. Turns out its a huge head.

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by Turk645 http://ift.tt/1N05DTU

Whistleblowers say NSA traded security for money, creating "largest failure" in its history. Former NSA officials said one discontinued program could have "absolutely prevented" some of the worst terror attacks in living memory.

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by moooooky http://ift.tt/1T69eoD

[Fallout 4] Supermutant's Orders

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by Melephant13 http://ift.tt/1NiB9TD

My favorite fallout logic from the new game

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by AmateurZombie http://ift.tt/1I6fK8w

Popular Google Chrome extensions are constantly tracking you per default, making it very difficult or impossible for you to opt-out. They will receive your browsing history, all your cookies, your secret access-tokens used for authentication and shared links from Dropbox and Google Drive.

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by johnmountain http://ift.tt/1PFXryR

Hillary Clinton hints that she supports backdoors in encryption: ...condemned tech companies' staunch refusal to weaken their encryption to make law-enforcement and counterterrorism investigations easier for the government

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by maxwellhill http://ift.tt/1NiJ2Z3

My experience with Black Ops 3

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by ZeroImCoobal http://ift.tt/1Mtvdn7

Chipotle Exposes Private Data By Sending HR E-mails Via Unowned Domain, Doesn't See The Problem

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by Sybles http://ift.tt/1PG1NWF

We were watching a movie when I got this note from my SO via paper airplane.

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by calibluebird http://ift.tt/219ChNg

France moves to tighten security at the expense of freedom: New law extends powers to conduct warrantless searches and block websites in wake of Paris attacks

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by Sybles http://ift.tt/1PG1D1n

Found a familiar sight in the Wasteland... Everyone knew my name.

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by Ron_Swanson12 http://ift.tt/1PFAfRj

Date night with my love

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by ImmenseGirth http://ift.tt/1X3TMz1

2015 was the year of the dog!

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by zach2thefuture http://ift.tt/1Ok8D0I

Making a Bar in Fallout 4, this is my billboard so far.

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by -twk- http://ift.tt/1I2k4Lc

Friday, 20 November 2015

Anonymous takes down the main messaging forum used by ISIS

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by MeowMixSong http://ift.tt/1O8thD2

Sweet sweet chocolate...

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by SgtDingleberry http://ift.tt/1Ok3aqV

Yes I am sure that's your 100% unbiased opinion

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by paul1574 http://ift.tt/1kM2vVB

TrueCrypt is safer than previously reported - after detailed analysis Fraunhofer Institute gives clean bill of health to crypto tool used by millions

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by toomanyairmiles http://ift.tt/1lzJ4zz

Appeals court awards Newegg $15k after patent troll’s “frivolous” appeal

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by erier2003 http://ift.tt/1QUhWHu

He just wanted to steal a car in GTA V...

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by ohBrox http://ift.tt/1Hd39pc

It’s official—NSA did keep its e-mail metadata program after it “ended” in 2011

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by mepper http://ift.tt/1Mt9f3J

You ever wonder why we're here?

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by ArkonOridan http://ift.tt/1QTcdl7

Sneaking up on a Deathclaw and one punching it (done on a level 49 char at normal difficulty)

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by GallowBoob http://ift.tt/1PR3q2l

Poor, dumb Wilhelm.

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by SmokeyBare http://ift.tt/1Hd9y3B

Got a tech question or want to discuss tech? /r/Technology Weekend Tech Support / General Discussion Thread

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Guy spent 20 hours to build a giant animated tower in Fallout 4

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by acpl774 http://ift.tt/1OVp0E9

This is how Microsoft is getting around Sony's Battlefront marketing agreement:

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by oisin1001 http://ift.tt/1jbtBE2

Scruffy's gonna die the way he lived.

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by abbcccddddd http://ift.tt/1NgZmJN

Carnegie-Mellon University has fired back in the TOR war, saying that it wasn't paid by the FBI to reveal its de-anonymisation research outputs, rather they came with a warrant.

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by pirates-running-amok http://ift.tt/1NHwUeA

Yahoo is locking down Mail access for some people with ad blockers

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by leamdav http://ift.tt/1QTyvmL

GTA V on a motion platform

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by lionhearth21 http://ift.tt/1N0g4Lq

Found an interesting reference in Fallout 4

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by SirMrDrPotatoJr http://ift.tt/1X2MTy3

So this is how net neutrality dies. Not with court battles, but with "free" data.

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by maxwellhill http://ift.tt/1MZgZHE

ITS EATING HIM

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by shoneth http://ift.tt/1MZXW4z

Tesla is recalling the entire Model S fleet because a seat belt could fail

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by -dudeomfgstfux- http://ift.tt/1T4bEUR

Finally got the game, and I am never going to stop playing.

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by Conyeah http://ift.tt/1X2rnta

Stop resisting!

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by GrandTheftTernheim http://ift.tt/1l9lFUY

Hillary Clinton Joins The 'Make Silicon Valley Break Encryption' Bandwagon

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by speckz http://ift.tt/1PEniHe

All employees must wash hands

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by acpl774 http://ift.tt/1MYtgRd

[FALLOUT 4] 40 hours of gameplay finally found a fat man.

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by AHarmlessFly http://ift.tt/1Lqnsuj

Are Comcast and T-Mobile ruining the Internet? We must endeavor to protect the open Internet, and this new crop of schemes like Binge On and Comcast’s new web TV plan do the opposite, pushing us further toward a closed Internet that impedes innovation.

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by Arquette http://ift.tt/1l9gSmz

Judge: stingrays are “simply too powerful” without adequate oversight

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by speckz http://ift.tt/1OiIQ9p

E.U. look to ban Bitcoin after Paris attacks

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by frustratedmac http://ift.tt/1ly7wkK

Cosplay level: Wizard

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by Noerdy http://ift.tt/1l8IoAx

Today in Technology History: On November 20th, 1985 Microsoft released Windows 1.0. Here is an emulated version for your Browser running on IBM PC XT 5160.

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by -varg http://ift.tt/1I328e6

13MP Pepsi P1S smartphone launched with fingerprint scanner

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by Ticker777 http://ift.tt/1YjQPaR

A Botnet Has Been Stealing Billions Through Digital Ads Aimed at Fake Audiences

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by acacia-club-road http://ift.tt/1Nfp6pZ

Why isn't it melting?

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by Belkon http://ift.tt/1Xd7F8N

Am I playing this game right?

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by Hencley http://ift.tt/1SJRsXr

Thursday, 19 November 2015

If government surveillance expands after Paris, the media will be partly to blame

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by johnmountain http://ift.tt/1MXT7IZ

who I believe would be a perfect addition to Titanfall 2

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by Toonsxo http://ift.tt/1O7ixov

Last year my best friend quit his full time job to chase his dream and make a fully fledged video game. Today he just released a trailer and it looks beyond amazing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GXyV9EvB_g

by crazy_loop http://ift.tt/1l8ImZB

Tesla is looking for “hardcore” software engineers to bring the Autopilot to full autonomy

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by FredTesla http://ift.tt/1lxNUxf

Over 100 Million iPhones Now in Use in U.S., Nearly Two-Thirds Are iPhone 6 or Later

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by grohl http://ift.tt/1MqCtjM

Science says that technology is speeding up our brains’ perception of time

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by INSANElooker http://ift.tt/1l8C2B6

Why has WhatsApp accessed my contacts 23,709 times in the last 7 days?

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by grohl http://ift.tt/1YjnaP1

The Manhattan DA recently said that Apple "removed" the law enforcement access capability from iOS, when in fact Apple merely fixed a bad security design

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by johnmountain http://ift.tt/1I07v39

I made a Rick and Morty /Fallout Mash up.

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by philtomato http://ift.tt/1OToE0P

Never tell me the odds

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by lionhearth21 http://ift.tt/1SJ9glJ

The Paris Attacks Were An Intelligence Community Failure, Not An 'Encryption' Problem

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by nxthompson_tny http://ift.tt/1Yj4gYC

A Timeline of How Comcast is Ruining the Internet - They just announced an IPTV service that doesn't count towards Newly Release Data Cap

A Timeline of How Comcast is Ruining the Internet

November 2013 – Comcast imposes 300GB data limit in certain test markets, Atlanta among them. Source: http://ift.tt/1gwZxPA

May 2014 – Comcast hints at bringing data caps to all of their markets over the next five years. Source: http://ift.tt/QKJMtI

March 2015 – The FCC announces its order for net neutrality or forcing ISPs to treat all data equally – Source: http://ift.tt/1b4uJ8V

August 2015 – Comcast admits that their data caps are a “business decision” and not part of any engineering limitation. Source: http://ift.tt/1WBS6Ku

November 5, 2015 – Comcast announces it will bring their data caps to an additional 8 markets, totally 27. Source: http://ift.tt/1Mm9y1r

November 19, 2015 – Comcast announces a IPTV based streaming service that does not count towards their data caps. Source: http://ift.tt/1l7ABTu

Can you do me a favor Comcast and not be blatant greedy boomer bastards who ruin the internet for years to come?

by boppop http://ift.tt/1X1ck39

2015 and still being sold at Walmart

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by aliphe http://ift.tt/1lxl0xl

My roommates have different priorities

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by Sandwich_Crust http://ift.tt/1MEOdNx

I retireved my stolen xbox back with virtually no help from the police. Heres how:

So I posted this in /r/xboxone[1] , but one of the mods there (/u/delicious_cheese [2] ) removed it, and will not give me a reason why. (Maybe the mods it that sub reddit work for Microsoft and filter messages? I am not sure) I reposted to talesoftechsupport and it was removed without a mod saying anything at all.

Anyways, I apologize if this is the wrong sub-Reddit, but I cant think of another one, and people seemed to like the story, so I am re-posting here.

Let me start off by saying my house was broken into just over a month ago. They stole my xbox one and my roommates mac laptop and his Ipad. My roommate just assumed they were gone for good the second he lost those. I went on to my windows 10 PC and looked if they were using my Xbox live account. They were. I called Microsoft several times trying to get their Ip address. The first call I was elevated to a manager and they told me they did not believe I was me and I was just trying to maliciously steal this account over because my xbox live was linked to an aol account that was like 20 years old and I did not have access to anymore. This manager hung up on me even after I told her I remembered how to log into it. I even recorded this phone call. I talked to a few more people and they either gave me wrong instructions or told me there was nothing they can do. Fine. I log into netflix and called their support. I got the IP from them. TL:DR: Microsoft customer support is 100 times worse than Netflix.

So I have the IP. I took that to the police in a nice vanilla envelope with the approximate location of the IP address and steps they could do to get the address from their ISP provider. The detective was supposed to call me back, but its a month later now and I am still waiting on that phone call. Shout out to the Roxbury Police Department: You suck. ISP's can only release this stuff to law enforcement, and they told me they probably would never get to doing this. I was too far down the totem pole. I'm thinking in the time it took to explain that, he could have picked up the phone and gotten an address. So what can I do? I posted all over my Xbox gamertag. I messaged myself "hey this is a stolen Xbox. Your IP address has been logged as .... Your internet service provider is .... Please give me a call at ... and return the xbox and I will not file charges. He called me. The kid offered to sell it to me for 200 because that's what he said he paid. He would not give me any information about where he bought it. I called the cops and set up a sting. They told me they would arrest him on the spot for possession of stolen property. While I am on the phone with the police I get three texts from this kid. I call him back and end up talking to his mother. She said he bought it off some kid on the street. She freaked out at me for giving the cops her sons number. Said they had nothing to do with it. She said he was perfectly willing to give it back so why would I do that. I then realized her son never told her he was selling it back. Once I told her, she started reaming out her son (who i just discovered was also on the line). I told her not to worry about it as long as I got it back.

I met up with her son at a train station with a lot of cameras without bringing the cops and he gave me the xbox back. I also bought nba 2k16 from him, which I wont even play, I just felt bad for him if he did buy it for 200 and he lost out on that because him mom wanted to teach him to "not buy things off kids from the streets". My friends will play it. I don't think hell ever realize how close he came to being arrested.

EDIT: I recorded all these conversations too, I can upload them later when not on data if people really want. The conversations with Microsoft were like 1-2 hours long because of the wait time. If any journalists want them, Ill edit the good parts out. The supervisor CS agent was a real dick and I was actually trying to be nice.

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The hero Battlefront forgot!

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by ILoveDRM http://ift.tt/1HZU43e

Critics Knock FBI and CIA Directors for Encryption-Busting ‘Agenda’ - “You had Comey and Brennan running around assuming that these guys had used encryption without any evidence that they had.”

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When you're tryna boost the word count in an essay

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by Throbbz http://ift.tt/1YiFQP3

Apple Pencil packs in the smallest logic board iFixit has ever seen

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by golden430 http://ift.tt/1HZLDES

Could not have picked a better week to break my leg.

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by solid_oakes http://ift.tt/1S6p5Ts

Comcast is Exempting its New Streaming Service From Its Usage Caps

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by Astroturfer http://ift.tt/1S6KCvh

i bought 15000 games in an auction!

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by hempernest http://ift.tt/1OhchbH

Charizard made from autumn leaves [x-post /r/pokemon]

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by iBleeedorange http://ift.tt/1S6J04w

TAG Sleep 'The Drift TV' Box Gradually Removes Blue Light From Television To Help People Fall Asleep Easier

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by toomanyairmiles http://ift.tt/1T1ofZ1

Microsoft's OneDrive Bait-and-Switch

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by wewewawa http://ift.tt/1PC6cd6

"Fair use: YouTube protects creators against questionable DMCA takedowns by paying up to $1M legal costs"

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by Vostradamus http://ift.tt/1I1nUit

Snowden Leak Reveals Obama Government Ordered NSA, CIA to Spy on Venezuela Oil Firm: U.S. intelligence agents posing as diplomats in Caracas helped an NSA analyst try to crack open PDVSA’s computer network.

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by User_Name13 http://ift.tt/1kHzSZI

Why Does The Press Have To Keep Fixing All Of Comcast's Screw Ups?

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by speckz http://ift.tt/1SHOLWh

Founder of messaging app used by ISIS once said ‘We shouldn’t feel guilty.’ On Wednesday he banned their accounts.

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by ledgendary http://ift.tt/1lwxXap

Manhattan DA's Office Serves Up Craptastic White Paper Asking For A Ban On Encryption

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by Sybles http://ift.tt/1OSqyyQ

My German Shepherd loves Dogmeat, and now sits on the ottoman waiting until I go get him.

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by loona_lovebad http://ift.tt/1lwv0Xn

Killed a legendary alpha deathclaw and all I got was this lousy stick

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by ncontorno http://ift.tt/1l7is8s

Normal reaction to a catastrophic accident.

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by xeeros http://ift.tt/1OSjqT6

Comcast’s data caps aren’t just bad for subscribers, they’re bad for us all

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by JackassWhisperer http://ift.tt/1S6mBEo

Reuters bans submission of RAW photos: “Our photos must reflect reality.” - "freelance contributors must now only submit photos that were processed and stored as JPEG inside the camera."

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by Sybles http://ift.tt/1lwxGEq

Was told this copy of Fallout 4 was rare, can anyone confirm?

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by swingingfloob http://ift.tt/1O4lUfI

Don’t Fall For It: “Free Phones” Cost $360, and “$199 Phones” Cost $1040

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by wewewawa http://ift.tt/1T06Uj0

China is running into trouble with its version of 'too big to fail'

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by moriarty826 http://ift.tt/1MVhcA6

Google play will start labeling ad supported apps

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by spaceion http://ift.tt/1Haki2R

With all the uproar about Star Wars, people are forgetting about the good guy developers of TitanFall

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by definitelynotthe-NSA http://ift.tt/1PB0OqL

Comcast injects this into webpages to show copyright notices

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by Bizilica http://ift.tt/1MUSuQg

What’s the Evidence Mass Surveillance Works? Not Much

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by TheSpiderMind http://ift.tt/1MUh43O

My biggest problem with Dogmeat in Fallout 4

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by Dandaman184 http://ift.tt/1QOb5PR

Wednesday, 18 November 2015

Allow me to deal with this scoundrel sir!

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by askmeaboutmyfootlong http://ift.tt/1Qv13Ul

Encrypted messaging app Telegram shuts down 78 ISIS channels

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by JerkBreaker http://ift.tt/1kFZaYm

On a billboard at Cogswell Polytechnical College

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by Tostecles http://ift.tt/1MU2rgV

It has arrived!

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by Hynds_Ketchup http://ift.tt/1HZsI7P

Movie Studio Will Interrogate Suspected Popcorn Time Users

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by thecodingdude http://ift.tt/1QuRqVL

Watching an old firearms training video when suddenly I noticed....

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by StalwartStud http://ift.tt/1MSEZ3F

In Fallout 4, was there some kind of radiation from the bombs that affected people's brains so that they became allergic to cleaning up?

I mean seriously. They've had like 200 years and almost nobody has lifted a fucking finger to do like 10 minutes of housework. Every goddamn house has broken shelves full of litter and 200 year old cleaning supplies.

Like, I see your abroxo cleaner box right there on the shelf. It's 200 years old and you haven't fucking used it once. There are literally LEAVES all over the place INSIDE buildings.

It's not like they don't have the resources, I find fucking brooms everywhere. Unused fucking brooms. Not a single person on earth can even fathom the idea of actually using one for like 20 minutes to sweep away the disgusting piles of filth and debris all over the floor. Or how about just put all your empty cardboard boxes neatly in one room. Is that REALLY to much to ask!? You've had 200 years to put away your goddamn cardboard boxes, but noooo you're too busy standing around talking shit in the middle of the street all damn day.

Like is it really so exhausting standing in different spots and maybe doing some gardening, that you can't even put away the goddamn human skeleton corpse remains in your goddamn living room!?

I mean I can be sloppy sometimes but Jesus Christ what's wrong with these people.

by Soutine http://ift.tt/1MUHJZU

My new favorite Skyrim mod.

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by ketchupkelly http://ift.tt/1MmIkXa

Soylent 2.0 contains oil extracted from algae. A high-quality oil with low carbon, water and land use impacts.

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by Th3Ph1l0s0ph3r http://ift.tt/1SZ0H6P

TigerDirect sold to PCM this morning for $14 Million cash deal.

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by Parzival_Player_1 http://ift.tt/1SZbKgq

Mama Murphey is always high AF.

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by moose1c http://ift.tt/1HYGJ5L

Dogmeat was his slave name.

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by TheMadShatter http://ift.tt/1PAw0Gx

After Endless Demonization Of Encryption, Police Find Paris Attackers Coordinated Via Unencrypted SMS

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by johnmountain http://ift.tt/1QNxqwX

Senator McCain Promises To Introduce Legislation To Backdoor Encryption, Make Everyone Less Safe

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by johnmountain http://ift.tt/1HXtGqJ

A glitch made out of nightmares

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by lionhearth21 http://ift.tt/1MBFrQ5

Beyond Skyrim: Hammerfell, this is the project of Beyond Skyrim, it's ultimate goal is to make the whole continent of Tamriel playable in Skyrim

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by ShahRKhan http://ift.tt/1NbKAUD

U.S. mass surveillance has NO record of thwarting large terror attacks, regardless of Snowden leaks.

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by hazysummersky http://ift.tt/1SE1dX8

Woman named Isis banned from Facebook

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by statelessnfaithless http://ift.tt/1O2fmhH

I decided to play as Louis C.K. in fallout 4

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by fryedfish86 http://ift.tt/1MmlYoM

If the terrorists actually used PS4s to communicate, I think we know what their favorite game to play was:

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by fantoman http://ift.tt/1MUNQgR

[Politics] U.S. Mass Surveillance Has No Record of Thwarting Large Terror Attacks, Regardless of Snowden Leaks

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by Katastic_Voyage http://ift.tt/1Nbs3aY

NYT Editorial: Mass Surveillance Isn’t the Answer to Fighting Terrorism - "It is hard to believe anything Mr. Brennan says."

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by johnmountain http://ift.tt/1l5TGFN

My son asked for COD Black Ops 3 for this bday. I’m wrapping this up for him. *EvilGamerDad ;)

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by bluehand70 http://ift.tt/1NbtMgz

Star Wars Battlefront Tauntaun comparison.

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by dinosaurgamer http://ift.tt/1lu9FOy

Dont fall down

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by Wilnyl http://ift.tt/1NDiFHu

Why you shouldn't buy Battlefront

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OT7eHT9yuGE

by TunaCheese http://ift.tt/1SCNcJf

When you realize companions can pick up weapons off the ground

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by bgld5556 http://ift.tt/1Yg9RyO

I Turned Off JavaScript in My Web Browser for a Whole Week and It Was Glorious

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by Sariel007 http://ift.tt/1OQd32w

UK police force accused of abusing anti-terror laws to hunt whistleblower

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by twistedLucidity http://ift.tt/1MB2sTt

Nothing you do can ever make people happy

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by Kromgar http://ift.tt/1j6I1oK

The company Bosch is developing a farming robot the size of a small car that can distinguish crops from weeds by looking at the shape of leaves, and this robot then can fish out weeds mechanically & ram any unwanted plants into the ground with a rod. Potentially, no herbicides will be needed anymore

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by involvrnet http://ift.tt/1SCRIro

My Heisenberg Build [Fallout 4]

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by -Traybair- http://ift.tt/1PzeOkT

Anonymous Takes Down 5500 ISIS Twitter Accounts, Begins Leaking Personal Info

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by mememejustme http://ift.tt/1MUmAPs

Anonymous is crowdsourcing #OpParis, publishes ‘noob guide’ to hacking

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by Procrasturbator11235 http://ift.tt/1HVCugF

Tuesday, 17 November 2015

Wife thinks I'm taking Battlefront too seriously

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by HeliHaole http://ift.tt/1Pzg5Iz

LEGO, LEGO never changes

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by CANT_TRUST_HILLARY http://ift.tt/1MAuWwq

Edward Snowden: Everyone should be using ad-block software

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by iprashantsharma http://ift.tt/1MAIWGH

This is the coolest thing I have ever bought with 5 dollars

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by nerdycuso http://ift.tt/1QL2woK

Propane Salesman Build [Fallout 4]

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by deanerbeano http://ift.tt/1Qtjd9d

Encryption Is Being Scapegoated To Mask The Failures Of Mass Surveillance

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by TheSpiderMind http://ift.tt/1MkHCtv

Break up material

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by web45689 http://ift.tt/1QtlyRn

EA really spared no expense with the Battlefront physical PC release...

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by theexterminat http://ift.tt/1MTypFy

[Fallout4] Meet Freckles: The Friendly Deathclaw

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by fakerchaos http://ift.tt/1NByGhf

[Fallout 4] Rambo Style

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by fakerchaos http://ift.tt/1MA86Fh

My reaction when I installed my new graphic card and Fallout 4 runs at 60fps without hiccups

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by calculatingmachine http://ift.tt/1Yfi1Ye

In August, my PSN account was hacked and I found $500 in charges made on my card. Sony strings me along for a month, promising a full refund, but ultimately tells me that my only recourse is a chargeback. I issue the chargeback, but Sony disputes and inexplicably wins. Details inside.

I hope I'm not violating any rules of this subreddit by posting this here. I think I'm okay, based on previous posts such as this and this.

Introduction

For the past three months, I have been embroiled in a struggle with Sony customer support trying to resolve an issue with an attacker who gained access to my PSN account and used it, along with the stored card information associated therewith, to purchase $499.91 in PlayStation 3 games and PlayStation services. I have attempted to resolve this issue with Sony for several months, but it has reached the point where I feel that public airing is my only recourse.

Summary

For those of you who don't want to read the entire thing, here's a brief summary:

An unknown attacker gains access to my PSN account and makes approximately $500 in charges to my debit card. Sony has a history of security breaches.
Because of Sony's policy of banning accounts from which chargebacks arise, I try to get my money back from Sony without resorting to a chargeback, a process where a bank officially files fraudulent charges against a merchant.
Every step of the way, Sony's representatives promise me my $500 back, yet I only ever see $230 of it.
Eventually, Sony tells me that the remaining money cannot be refunded due to a ridiculous technicality. (They apparently cannot process refunds for banned accounts, and the attacker created a sub-account that they suggested I request be banned.)
Sony's representative tells me that "literally" the only way to get my money back is a chargeback. I tell my bank to issue the chargeback.
Sony disputes the chargeback using extremely questionable logic that doesn't even address the fraudulent nature of the original charges, and somehow wins.
Currently, I am in the process of re-filing the claim, this time trying to make it very clear that it is a case of fraud, not whatever Sony claims it is.

That's just the short of it. I encourage you to read on. It's quite the riveting tale.

Background

I own one PlayStation console, a PlayStation Vita that I purchased in 2012. My only interaction with the PlayStation Network is that I occasionally buy games from the PSN Store (no online play, etc.), and I have several games in my digital library, such as New Little King's Story and Atelier Totori Plus, which were only available through the PSN Store. Were my account to be banned, I would lose access to these games that I purchased.

Part 1: Discovery

One day, I received a spate of emails from PlayStation Network along the lines of "Thank you for your purchase". This alarmed me, because I hadn't made any purchases on the PSN recently. I also noticed four charges on my debit card, totaling $499.91. When I signed in to the PSN to see what was going on, I saw that a PS3 I did not own had been registered with my account, and that my account now had a new "sub-account" under it. The $499.91 in charges on my card were spent on a combination of PS3 games, subscriptions to PlayStation services, and a $150 charge to my "PlayStation wallet" which lay unspent.

I immediately changed my password, revoked all the permissions I could from the sub-account, removed my card information, etc. Under normal circumstances, I would have also contacted my bank to report a case of fraud, but I had purchased several games on the PSN in the past, and I knew that it was Sony's policy to ban any account that initiated a chargeback, so I tried to resolve the issue with Sony first.

I contacted PlayStation support as soon as I could. (As a side note, if you try to access PlayStation Live Support Chat outside of the hours it is available, like I did, you get this, an error page that suggests that this fabled Live Chat either doesn't exist or is currently technologically broken, not that you are trying to access it outside operating hours. You get the same page if you try to visit a bunch of other pages, too. But I should stop talking about that, since confusing web service is the least of their problems.)

The next morning, when it was available, I got on Live Chat with a Sony customer service representative and brought the problem up.

Live Chat with Evelyn
August 19, 2015
Transcript

The response:

Evelyn: PlayStation takes all security matters seriously. Your case will be passed on to our Trust and Safety team for investigation and you will hear back from us within 5 business days.

Looks like they'll look into it. Cool. So far so good.

A few days pass, and I receive an email from Sony stating that a refund of $499.91 has been approved. Great! I do notice that they are quick not to admit any fault, instead calling this refund a "one-time gesture of goodwill", essentially stating that it was my fault that someone got access to my password. There's no way Sony's robust security systems could have been breached, right? That's definitely never happened before! But whatever. If it's a one-time gesture of goodwill, I just have to deactivate my debit card, never do business with Sony in the future, and this kind of thing will never happen again. They also say that it could take 1-2 billing cycles (i.e. 1-2 months) before I see the funds, which is a pretty long time. I'm not happy about that, but what can you do?

A couple more days pass, and I see that two of the four charges to my card had been reversed. Awesome! Just two more to go! At this point, $229.97 of the total $499.91 has been returned to me. I also notice that there is $55 sitting in my PlayStation wallet (down from the $150 that was there after the fraudulent charges, but up from the $0 that was there prior to this whole mess). Anyway, any day now, the other two charges will be reversed and this will all be over with. Any day now.

Any day now...

Well, after another week of waiting, I started to grow worried. It was one thing if all four reversals took a while to post, but two of them had been reversed relatively quickly, so it seemed odd that the other two were taking so long. I contacted Sony customer support once again, and this time, I was redirected to the phone lines by the Live Chat agent.

Part 2: Investigation

When I called Sony's customer support line, my call was answered by a friendly gentleman named... actually, I don't know what his name was, because I couldn't make it out properly. It originally sounded vaguely like "Jordan" to me, but listening to it again, it was definitely not Jordan. Unfortunately for him, he's Jordan now, because I don't know his actual name and I need something to call him.

Phone Call with Jordan (Customer Support)
September 1st, 2015
Audio (11:08)
Full Text Transcript

After explaining the situation to Jordan, I ask him if there's a reason why two of the charges had been reversed, while the other two had not been. The initial response:

Jordan: Oh, okay, I'm able to see right now on your refund request, that says the [unintelligible] has been approved. Your refund has been approved and was, um, refunded to the wallet of your PlayStation account.

That's not good. First of all, part of the refund had already been credited to my card. Second of all, why would they think refunding to my PlayStation wallet would be acceptable?

Me: The wallet of my PlayStation account?
Jordan: Correct.
Me: That is not acceptable.
Jordan: Hmm?
Me: Um, so for some background, several purchases for my PlayStation account were made fraudulently, and I want to have the money back into my card because I never intended to make any of these purchases.
Jordan: Okay, I see. (pause) Okay, let me see what I can do.

So Jordan does a little more research, and here's what he finds:

Jordan: Okay, Mr. *******, I am able to see that your refund has been complete. I will [unintelligible] the department in charge where we're processing the refund keys, and the money went to the card. To your credit card. To your actual credit card.
Me: Sorry, can you repeat the whole thing?
Jordan: Yes. I was investigating this for you, and I was told that when the billing department, when they were processing your refund request, the amount was refunded to the credit card where the money was taken.
Me: Okay.
Jordan: Okay, so in that case, my best suggestion would be the next, try to contact your [unintelligible], and ask them how much they will be taking to process, completing the refund for you.
Me: Wait, sorry, who am I contacting?
Jordan: Your bank.
Me: Uh huh.
Jordan: So if you can ask them what would be the timeframe that would be refunded the money to your credit card, okay?
Me: Wait, hold on. The problem is that, so there were four charges made on my card originally, and I see, from my bank, that two of them have been refunded, and two of them have not. Should I expect the other two to both...
Jordan: Correct. Sure.
Me: Okay.
Jordan: In case you don't have any update from your bank statement, give us a call back so we can give you more information.
Me: Okay.

Okay, so the thing about it being sent to my PlayStation wallet was a false alarm. Good, good. Still, I am a little worried about this taking too long, since I want to file for a chargeback with my bank if this doesn't work out, and there's usually a 1-2 month time limit for that.

I call up my bank and they say that any credits should be posted more or less immediately on their online banking service, but I'll give everyone the benefit of the doubt and be patient for a little longer.

I have two more things to address on this call with Jordan. First, I ask him about the suspicious $55 in my account:

Me: Yeah, um, I'm also seeing that my wallet balance is at $55, and I believe, before any of these charges, it was at zero. Is this uh, does it have to do with this whole thing, with the refund?
Jordan: Correct. Sure. So, all of that will be refunded.

I'm not sure what he means, but as long as I get all my money back, it's not a big deal, I guess.

Second, I ask if he can remove this foreign sub-account made by the attacker.

Me: Alright. And another question is that as part of this break-in, someone created a "sub-account" to my account and, if possible, I would like to delete this sub-account. Is that something you guys can do?
Jordan: Um, to delete it completely, deleting the account, it is not possible to do it.
Me: Okay.

Looks like the answer is no. But he has an alternative:

Jordan: Uh, what we can do is to escalate the case for you and ban that account. The account will be severe, so they could be the uh, when you request to ban an account, nobody else will be getting access to that account anymore. But it's up to you if you want to ban the account, so you can think very well if you want to ban it so we can do the process for you.
Me: Yeah, I would like to ban this sub-account. It's called bomamamitachinga10@gmail.com. This sub-account was created without my permission.
Jordan: And the Online ID?
Me: Uh... hold on. (pause) Just give me like, thirty seconds.
Jordan: Alright.
...
Me: The Online ID is boamama10.
Jordan: Thank you. (pause) Okay, got it. Found it. So you want to unban this account. No, to ban this account.
Me: Yes.
Jordan: Alright. Just one second. (pause) Okay, so let me do this for you... (pause)
Jordan: Okay, so let me see, I will be creating a case for you, for this account, so the account will be unbanned. Banned, sorry. Just another couple of seconds.
Me: Okay.
Jordan: Thank you. (pause)
Jordan: Okay, great. So I have already escalated the case, so the account will be banned.
Me: Okay.
Jordan: Nobody else will be getting access to this account.
Me: Alright.

Well, second-best thing. If I can't have it removed, might as well get it banned. There's absolutely zero chance this could have ramifications down the line. None. Zilch. Nada.

The phone call ends with a reassurance that the money is on the way, and that I should talk to my bank to know how long it will take.

Jordan: Okay, Mr. *******? Do you have any other questions I can assist you with?
Me: Um, just to summarize, I should expect the charges to my card to be undone?
Jordan: Correct.
Me: For the full amount of $499.91?
Jordan: If you don't get an update from your bank account, give us a call back so we can investigate more for you.

I call my bank, and they repeat that they see no credit to my card and that any transactions should show up in one day, at the slowest. Well, maybe they're wrong or something. Who knows? I can wait.

Part 3: Befuddlement

After waiting two more weeks, still with the money not having been refunded, I call my bank again and ask them to check into the MasterCard system to see if there were any pending transactions. They answer that, no, there weren't. The refund that Sony promised had never been sent.

So, I call Sony customer support again to figure out what the heck was going on. After some frustrating conversations, they tell me that they can't help me and send me to the billing department. I call the billing department number they give me and explain the situation to a Sony representative named Victor, who goes to contact a supervisor and puts me on hold. After 15 minutes of being on hold, the call disconnects.

I redial the number and get a fellow named Warren.

Phone Call with Warren (Billing)
September 14th, 2015
Audio Part 1 (9:59) | Audio Part 2 (10:23)
Full Text Transcript

I describe the situation to Warren and ask about the yet-unrefunded $269.94:

Warren: So you said you only got back $229.97?
Me: That is correct. So there were four charges originally, and the ones that were refunded were one that was for $150, and one for $79.97. The remaining two charges, which were both for $134.97, have not been refunded.
Warren: Give me one moment here.
Me: Sure.
<some time passes>
Warren: Give me one moment here while I go ahead and get a hold of a supervisor here for you. Give me one moment.
Me: Sure.

And so, Warren puts me on hold as he contacts a supervisor. He comes back with an answer, and boy, is it not one I expected:

Warren: Hello?
Me: Hello.
Warren: Okay, so I found out what the issue is here. The amount that you got refunded back was based off of what was submitted for the master account, but according to your accounts here, you also have a sub-account.
Me: Yes, that was created—
Warren: And...
Me: Yeah, sorry.
Warren: And that specific sub-account is technically on a ban right now.
Me: Yes, I requested that ban because I didn't create that account.
Warren: Okay. So purchases that were made from that account is what you are submitting the refund from, but they cannot process the rest of those purchases for the refund while the account is currently banned, so what would need to be done is...

Wait, what? They can't refund the charges because the attacker's sub-account is banned? How does that make sense? And the sub-account wasn't banned until my chat with Jordan. The first two charges were reversed way before that. None of this makes sense.

Me: Wait, hold on. I requested that account to be banned on September 1st. However, these refunds were on August 24th, so that shouldn't have had anything to do with it.
Warren: When the account is banned, they cannot touch anything from the account and the refund submission for everything was based off of a call that you made on August 19th. These charges were all made prior to that, so what you're looking at here is that they can't touch anything on that account until the account is unbanned. Which is this case um, basically means that we need to go ahead and rectify this account getting unbanned first so that we can go ahead and get the rest of the submission of that refund done for you.

Way to dodge my point. Also, thanks for raising my hopes that I can get this sub-account unbanned.

Me: Okay. Is that something you can do?
Warren: Well, right now what we would need to do is we would need to go ahead and get you to basically change the uh, information on the account. Do you know what the Online ID and Sign-in ID for that account is?
Me: Yes, give me a couple of seconds.
Me: Alright, the Online ID is boamama10, and the Sign-in ID, well the last time I looked at it, it was boamamamitachinga10@gmail.com. I'm looking at it now and I see it's prefixed by "cnotes_". That might be an internal thing you guys use?
Warren: Okay, give me one moment here.
Warren: You said that you didn't create this account, right?
Me: I did not.
Warren: Okay.
Me: My account was compromised, which led to the fraudulent charges, and part of that was the creation of this account.
Warren: Okay, give me one moment here.

Cool! So I'm gonna get this stupid sub-account unbanned, get my refund, and peace out of this mess.

After spending a long time being on hold:

Warren: Hello?
Me: Hello.
Warren: Okay, so this is what I found out here with this information. Basically, you will only have pretty much just one option at this point of what you can do, which in this case, if you want to be able to get all your money back, you're gonna need to file for fraudulent charges through your bank.

what

Me: Yep. Yeah, that's what I was going to do if nothing else worked. Do you mind explaining why the refund can't go through?
Warren: Because the part that you did have go through was based off the purchases from your master account, from your account there, but the other charges came from that sub-account.
Me: Okay...
Warren: And because that sub-account was closed and you don't have access to that sub-account, correct?
Me: I mean, I can have access to that sub-account if it were unbanned.
Warren: So you have access to the email is what you're saying?
Me: No no, what I'm saying is... wait, let me see if I have you correctly. You're saying that because the fraudulent charges were made using this sub-account, which I did not create, those funds cannot be refunded. Is that correct?
Warren: Well, yes, because that's the question, why I was asking is you didn't create it, so I'm assuming you don't have access to that email, correct?
Me: I do not have access to that email.
Warren: So because you would need to have access to that email in order for them to go ahead and help you change the information on this account...
Me: What do you mean by "change the information"?
Warren: Change... so that we can get the account unbanned, basically.

This still doesn't make sense. In order to get the sub-account unbanned, I need to have access to this random guy's email? Just so they can process the refund, which everyone agrees is valid?

Me: I don't understand. I was the one who requested the account be banned. How was I allowed to do that, and now I can't request it be unbanned?
Warren: Anybody can request for the account to be banned because you're saying that you didn't create the account information, but if it was someone else's account and they actually have access to it, they could contact us if they actually have access to that email and everything that was used to create the account with and such, they can provide all the information that would be completely needed for them to get that unbanned. And in this case, right now what we're looking at here is that no one has disputed that information, so this account is still currently on a ban, and right now because of those refund requests that was made, you're basically looking at the fact that because we cannot refund the charges from a banned account, the only solution or option that you have at this point would be to dispute the charges with a bank by following up, filing for fraudulent charges.

The fact that whoever this attacker was could contact Sony and get their account unbanned is wholly unhelpful for reasons I hope I don't need to explain. This goes on for a while (you can read the whole conversation in the linked transcript, or listen to it with the audio provided). Eventually, I just resign myself to filing for the chargeback, but I want to make one thing clear first:

Me: Okay. And I have a question about that. So when I do file for fraudulent charges, I have heard that that would lead to the closing of my account. Is that correct?
Warren: It would lead to the closing or the banning of that specific account. In this case...
Me: Which would be the sub-account.
Warren: Correct, because that's where the money that you are expecting the rest, or the balance of, to come from, because that's the money they cannot submit the refund for on that, so that's the charges you would be disputing with the bank to have them take back from Sony for you so that you can get that money back.
Me: So it would apply to the account whose Online ID is boamama10?
Warren: Correct, just that sub-account, yes.
Me: And it wouldn't affect that main account that the sub-account is under.
Warren: Not unless you're gonna end up disputing any charges that are a part of that master account.

Well, okay. This can still work out. I'll file for fraudulent charges through my bank, and after a couple of months, the money will be back in my bank account, this attacker's account will stay banned, and my main account and the games on it will remain untouched. So I go ahead and start filling out digital paperwork with my bank.

Part 4: Mindboggle

Several days later, I officially file for a chargeback against Sony with my bank, citing the initial approval of the refund and the vacuous reasoning given to skirt payment multiple times as supporting evidence. It was a slam-dunk case, I thought. In order for the chargeback not to go through, Sony would have to file a rebuttal in which they show that the transactions were not made fraudulently, which they obviously can't do, because they were 100% fraudulent.

Imagine my surprise when I get a letter from my bank notifying me that my claim had been rejected, following a rebuttal by Sony.

I had to see this rebuttal for myself.

Chargeback Adjustment Reversal Request from Sony
Filed October 30, 2015
Document (PDF)

Let's take a look. Specifically, at the second page, where their entire argument is. This is the information they collected at the time these charges were made:

IP address: 201.229.62.112

Customer used the following contact information:
Name: ******* *******
Email address and Sign-in ID: *******@*******
Address: ******* ******* Cambridge, MA 02141

Okay, they know they were supposed to offer evidence to support their case, right? I typed that IP address into iplocation.net and guess where it's from? Oranjestad, Aruba. The address that's partially starred out was my billing address on file. Last I checked, Aruba and Massachusetts were two very different places. In fact, this looks like a pretty solid case of fraud. Geolocation services aren't 100% accurate, but they're all at least above 90%, and all the geolocation services listed on iplocation.net agree on this one. The conclusion should be that some charlatan in Aruba (or using an Aruban VPN) got their hands on my account information and used it to buy a bunch of games (which they no longer have access to). Not whatever they concluded.

I should also mention that I moved residences at the end of June and updated my bank information (but not my PSN billing information) to reflect my new address well before these charges to my debit card were made. Had Sony checked that the billing address they had on file matched the one on the card, they would have been able to reject the transaction.

Sony tracks all log in and usage activity, and their records show the cardholder has continued to access their account and utilize services through 09/14/2015.

So accessing my account is proof that I made those transactions? 09/14/2015 is the day I had those lovely conversations with Victor and Warren, by the way. I was logged into my PSN account in case I had to provide them with information about my account. And unless they're counting my chats with Jordan, Warren, and Victor as "using their services", that's a patently false statement. I didn't so much as touch a PlayStation console since finding out about the charges. Well, I might have touched my Vita when I was trying to deactivate the PS3 that the attacker had registered with my account, but that should hardly count.

During the checkout process, customers are required to select a "click-to-accept" button to fund the Wallet. This action signifies the customer's agreement to the attached Terms of Service and User Agreement, which state that all purchases are non-refundable.

Except the part where I didn't agree to those conditions, because I never selected that button, because I didn't make the purchase! Someone else did!

Somehow, whoever arbitrates these things decided that yes, Sony's case is watertight. Someone who is paid to decide things decided that I was some scoundrel trying to swindle Sony out of their hard-earned money, or something.

Anyway, I decided to log in to my PSN account to see how things were faring on that front, and lo and behold, I couldn't log in because my account had been banned. Despite Warren's assurance that the chargeback banning would only apply to the sub-account. Despite Sony having disputed the chargeback and mindbogglingly succeeding. That wasn't enough, so they closed my PSN account, which had tangible value in the form of previously purchased games.

Part 5: Current Situation

Steaming, I call up my bank and explained the situation. My bank's representative theorizes that the chargeback had been treated as "unauthorized charges" instead of "fraud". I wasn't sure what the difference was, but apparently unauthorized charges are when, say, a company overcharges for a service, or when you cancel a monthly subscription but they keep billing you. Fraud is when someone pretends to be you and uses that info to charge your card. This seems like clear-cut fraud to me.

As it stands now, I'm waiting for my bank to get back to me on re-filing the chargeback. All logic dictates that I should win, but if there's anything I've learned, it's that logic doesn't matter.

Conclusion

Let's recap some of the absurdity in this situation.

they cannot process the rest of those purchases for the refund while the account is currently banned

Why was the account banned? Because one of your associates suggested that I request for it to be banned! And why does it matter whether it's banned or not? Some bit in your system doesn't stop you from pressing the couple of buttons (or triggering an automated system to virtually press those couple of buttons for you) that initiates the reversal. And there was nothing stopping you from unbanning the account in the first place! You could have unbanned it for ten seconds, processed the refund, and re-banned it again, if it was so against your policy.

"We're incompetent" is not an excuse for phenotypically malevolent behavior. A Sony representative suggests that I request the attacker's sub-account be banned, so I do. Then Sony turns around and says that the refund can't be processed because that account is banned. It's actually kind of brilliant.

Further, look at this:

if you want to be able to get all your money back, you're gonna need to file for fraudulent charges through your bank.

When I filed those charges, I thought I was just jumping through some wacky bureaucratic hoops and this was the way to get my money back. I mean, how could PlayStation dispute these fraudulent charges (successfully, I might add) if one of their agents specifically suggests I file a chargeback? How could Sony have the temerity to dispute the fraudulent nature of those transactions when every step along the way, it was not the validity, but the logistics of the refund that was debated? How could Sony so brazenly present evidence in their case that blatantly refutes their argument and act as though it supports it?

"The check is in the mail" is an old cliché that died out because no one sends checks in the mail anymore. I think I found the modern equivalent.

Miscellaneous

Why didn't you change your password after the news broke on Sony's security breach?

First, I changed my password in May, and this attack happened in August. I'm sure some security experts would recommend a more frequent changing, but I don't use my PSN account very often (which means I don't think about it much) and I think three months should count as decently recent.

Second, Sony has had multiple security breaches, and it's hard to keep track of them all. It's hard to react to a headline saying that the PSN has been compromised when it seems like you see them every few months. Maybe some of them are rehashes of old news, maybe they're not.

Why did you store your debit card information on Sony's servers if you knew their security was questionable?

I don't know, I guess I never thought it would happen to me. It was definitely stupid of me, and I won't do it again.

But it's not like dressing sluttily gives people the right to rape me.

Well, now I'm outraged. Is there anything I can do to relieve my outrage?

If you're really feeling riled up, I guess you can direct your outrage at Sony's Twitter accounts, referencing this post. That's probably the only way Sony will take notice and maybe fix their broken customer interaction model. You can also spam their other social media pages if you want, I guess. Or if you want to be really serious about it, you could go the legally binding route and change your Facebook status to something like "I swear never to buy anything related to the PlayStation brand ever again". I know I will.

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