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MattL at Thu, 17 May 2012 23:32:30 -0400

Par. I tried it out. It's totally awesome. The secret is in the shaking of the hands more than the folding of the cloth, but even still, I'm a convert.

Par at Tue, 15 May 2012 15:37:49 -0400

alison at Sat, 12 May 2012 20:07:35 -0400

Lesson learned.

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alison at Sat, 12 May 2012 20:01:21 -0400

I WANT this! And by "this", I mean Cards Against Humanity.

It's like Apples to Apples, but badass.
For instance:

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Beck at Fri, 11 May 2012 23:18:46 -0400

Wow... yeah. I really want to know what the judges thought of that though.

Par at Fri, 11 May 2012 22:25:02 -0400

I lack words:

Par at Thu, 10 May 2012 12:57:08 -0400

Maybe racial profiling has its absurdities too?

An American couple of Middle Eastern descent say they and their 18-month-old daughter were asked to leave a JetBlue plane in Florida because they were told the child is on a no-fly list.

Tonestar Runner at Thu, 10 May 2012 06:54:23 -0400

Alison, that was my thought exactly. You just know that this is the latest scheme by our Percy (aka the Mayor of Auburn Hills).

And this: Neatorama: Trio Performs Songs of Super Mario 3

alison at Tue, 08 May 2012 22:42:28 -0400

Excellent. I love how this place still has as many paranoia-laced posts as it always has had. ... ;)

And speaking of paranoia, which "Percy" is being quoted in that article, Paras? Is there any connection between our mysteriously silent Mr. P and the one talking about the hacking challenges imposed by debit card chips? I call foul. ha!

Par at Tue, 08 May 2012 15:32:04 -0400

Governing by social networks: wave of the future, or desperate pandering?

What day should B.C.’s Family Day be?

Par at Tue, 08 May 2012 12:10:54 -0400

Ah, that's fantastic. Good thing we're going to transition to mobile phone payments soon. I'm sure they will be unbreakable.

Beck at Mon, 07 May 2012 06:58:08 -0400

Sure they can't read the real pin from the chip cards, but why bother when you don't need the real pin anyway?

Par at Sat, 05 May 2012 12:02:19 -0400

Perhaps you shouldn't use your debit card if the business can't handle the chip and still uses the stripe:

“We can’t fuck with the chip yet,” Percy confirms. “I know guys who have put in $150, $200k – more – trying to break this fucking thing. It’s all through the magstripe. They insert the chip – we can’t do it. So we gotta go to places that don’t have the chip shit yet.”

Percy’s revelation comes as no surprise to Interac, Canada’s largest network for point of sale debit. Following the European lead, the company will require chip-enabled cards for all debit PIN pad transactions by the end of 2015. The deadline for bank machines on their network looms at the end of this year.

Beck at Wed, 02 May 2012 17:28:57 -0400

For Viruses:

Primarily I recommend AVG
http://free.avg.com/ca-en/free-antivirus-download

You can also use in conjunction MSE
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/products/security-essentials

For Browser Protection

Spybot S&D - has a useful immunization function
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/mirrors/index.html

alison at Wed, 02 May 2012 09:29:08 -0400

Hey gang, I've got a question for you. Seeing as I'm really useless in the tech space, and so I thought I'd defer to all you experts:

What are your recommendations for free antivirus programs (for windows/firefox)?

I've been doing a little research myself, but I'd definitely appreciate some further suggestions, because I'm still rather clueless. Thanks in advance!