luckyno13

My favorite thing about smokers is when it gets cold outside and I get to watch as they squirm making the decision as to whether its worth freezing just to have a smoke.

I have been using this for right at 2 years now and I like it. I havent tried others but it serves my needs and satisfies whatever attributes I need to feel safe.

At times, it contributes to what I call "log in anxiety" in that it necessitates opening the program, and inputting a password to get my other password. But no one ever said the extra security was synonymous with convenience.

And I dont leave it open, nor do I allow it to store any information in browser plugins as this seems counter productive to the sensitive passwords I use in this program.

I have made an effort in the recent weeks to try to explore the popular titles, and even some obscure ones and I have to agree. I have always said that gaming on the go is not really anything I care about, as my PC is where I want to game. But with some life shifts I have found myself on the go a little bit more with some spare time and honestly, the Play marketplace offers a bunch of half assed efforts imo.

There are games that are free, but pay to win. There are games that cost, but no way to know if they are worth a damn other than buying and going after your refund quickly. We wont even go into totally free stuff.

So while you obviously arent on par with popular opinion, I agree with you. I for one am hoping that the shift to PC architecture in the new consoles will speed up our renaissance ultimately. Ive been having the most fun gaming single player lately than I have in a long time.

Haha you aren't alone on that one.

I purchase whatever I like on Steam and still hate DRM. They make it worth while with the sales and convenience.

My theory is that if Steam goes belly up, I can do a backup of my games, and use the same avenues pirates use to circumvent Steam. Hopefully they would release control of their games though if they went belly up.

As far as poor customer service, I suppose I have been lucky so far.

AC is a Ubisoft product and BF4 has been so screwed up that investors are exhibiting enough concerns that the team for BF has moved from working on ANY dlc, to fixing the immediate issues that BF4 shipped with. Not to mention they trashed the most recent C&C because it was terrible.

This is impressive. They may want to work on being a little more secretive about it. Or else we will hear of a group of extremist Norwegian terrorists forming a scary group that will kill Americans, hate god, hurt children, etc etc. which will of coarse force the US to invade.

I kid, I kid, but no really, I am glad someone is getting it right.

Interesting read but my knowledge of what I am going to call "advanced banking" kind of leaves me wanting to do some sidebar research.

Can anyone suggest any accessible literature for learning the more complex areas of banking/finance?

To address the dilly dally issue you would more than likely have to only give the transitional aid to someone involved in Science, Engineering, and Math fields, much like current STEM¹ scholarships.

¹https://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5257

So I am assuming this means a boxspring would be optional as well?

I wish I could check this out but for some reason Websense thinks this is social networking. Ill save it for home =/

I think its worth noting that this isn't just prevalent in the workforce, but before many individuals get to the workforce, the cram and jam lifestyle of college student start carving this rut long before they are employed. I have to assume after anywhere between 4-8 years (sometimes more) of late night, caffeinated (sometimes worse substances) cram sessions this type of mentality and habitually terrible sleeping would be difficult to get out of.

My thoughts exactly. I went to vote in their poll, it told me I had to have one of those, so screw it, they dont want my vote.

Well you dont have to fight that battle anymore in the US due to ACA.

The market is lucrative for those in the Rose Tinted Glasses business.

The type of person that supports these sorts of activities is the sort of person I would also expect to delete their message instead of standing their ground regardless of adversarial opinions.

Seems like they could have used some of the DS4's new functionality to retain some of the touchscreen capabilities from the Vita as well.

The way I see it, we have two core issues at hand with email and privacy. 1) The NSA is intercepting email in transit and/or 2) They are obtaining access to where ever the email records are stored via legal or non legal means.

My solution is a local application installed on the computer itself used for email functions, similar to that of Outlook or Thunderbird. Except with no centralized server for transmitting or storage. Instead store all communication logs and copies locally on the clients computer. Along with encryption certs unique to each persons computer. When generating your certs, you would generate with a specific person in mind, so that when you put in parameters for generating a new, unique key, the other person that you are wanting to communicate with can create a corresponding cert that will decrypt the message upon arrival.

One problem I have already is to have keys that reflect the ability for each persons client to read each persons emails. How do you share something you want to keep secret, to keep things secret, without exposing the keys to flaws.

Anyway, moving on, the actual trick I have come up with though is splitting. I want to send an email to person B, so I type it up, I hit a button that says "prepare to send" which sets into action a few steps. One, it fills the email with random crap that doesnt matter to make it larger. Two, it splits this new, larger email, into say, 20 smaller files, but in random splits that will have to be remerged once it has been received. Because it has been split into pieces, we will also want to send each piece through a different transit server before it hits its destination. In this way, even if the emails get caught in a dragnet, or are even targeted, they would have to be lucky enough to get all 20 pieces, know how to decrypt them, put them back together, and get rid of the BS that was filled into them. With them split and going in different ways before going to the same place, and the gov entity not knowing how many pieces there were, they wont even know how many they are looking for.

So

Message - process - FILL with random (Im thinking this is more like salting if im not mistaken). Split into x number of emails Send through multiple servers so not as easily obtained, tracked, or pieced together. Received by the recipient software that can reassemble, take out the BS, and decypher the encryption locally. None of it ever stored anywhere but the 2 persons computers.

When I say fill with bs, I mean like you typed-

Dear John,

Marry had a little lamb. Daddy killed it dead. Marry took it to school next day between two pieces of bread.

Love Bob

You take this and add characters all throughout the email, jumbling the sentences before the messages themselves are even encrypted by some other standard means. And before that standard method is used, the email has been shattered into many many emails of random number before you even wrap it up to be used for transit.

Sorry for the wall of text and probably repeating myself, but I am trying to be thorough in my explanation so as to prevent misunderstandings. I am also typing in a hurry because I have to leave the lab and wont be on for a little while.

Anyway, Im just throwing it out there. Thanks.

The problem with my ideas usually isnt that they are bad, its that they wont work or they have been done in some way without my knowledge. But Im fine with presenting it here, but I will do so in a non responded thread above.

Well I have a very basic understanding of the methods I would think to employ, but I appreciate the info. I will look into it. Truth be told, I just happen to try to approach all problems with a fresh mind. Poke around and see if it has been done. I am under no illusion that its the grand fix all, but I always hope when I sit down with someone that they can help me flesh it out, or it at least puts their gears in motion. My limitation is actually going and doing it myself with my shallow knowledge pool. The pitfalls of tryin to dabble in everything and gaining expertise in nothing ;)

Thanks again though!

I have been a lurker for quite a long time on HC now and I created an account just to give you very heavy kudos. Ive been through some serious times in my life and this service would have been a godsend. Thank you and I will spreading the word about your site.

Good luck.