If you log into steam you're greeted with "Your shit's been jacked" splash page instead.

I absolutely agree! Losing the password to your Steam forum account is definitely equal to the trauma experienced by those who had loved ones die in the 9/11 attacks.



Tell me you were being sarcastic and are not actually that stupid. Or that disconnected from reality.

Is that a cute joke(hi origin) or did you confuse Valve with EA

lol Dave, I was going to say the same thing

Probably just a hat

Hat would be nice :)

According to the IRS, to be in the top 1% of American earners as far as income goes you need 159,900 per year (roughly). So steam qualifies under that, as do many of its employees and users.



To be in the top 1% of the world, you need about $24,000 per year. That qualifies nearly all of steam users over 25.



Im going to school full time, buried in Student Loans, hold an internship with a small indie company, work as a server in a restaurant on the weekends to pay the bills, and am not even in the 1% of the world that I mentioned, though I work like a dog and am lucky to get 5 hours of games in a week anymore. Im tired of people complaining how much the 1% have when they can earn it just like I plan to.



Quit whining that the kid next door has a shinier toy and go earn it. Nearly all 1% earned their way into that category like Steve Jobs and Herman Cain, and so can we. Taxing them more or hacking them or camping on their front lawn isnt going to help you buddy.

Oh look, another kid who thinks he's gonna be rich some day, so starts his "pick yourself up by your own boot straps" rich white male routine early.

I like your racist and sexist comment (with out even knowing my race. Double points!) that doesnt even address the issue of what is being discussed. Im interested to hearing your alternative to my plan to work hard and achieve success, and am sure it will be enlightening.



Or you can throw out another useless quip about a random sterotype that doesnt even address my comment at all. Classic troll.

I'm just going to post quotes and sources if that is ok.



"The actual threshold is $343,927, according to IRS statistics for the calendar year 2009, the latest available."

"Households making at least $154,643 made it into the top 5 percent of earners, while it took a minimum of $112,124 to get into the top 10 percent and at least $66,193 to place in the top 25 percent."

"Total income for the top 1 percent fell 21 percent (to $1.3 trillion in 2009 from $1.7 trillion in 2008), while the average tax rate rose to 24 percent from 23.3 percent, the IRS data showed."

http://www.abcactionnews.com/dpp/news/national/who-are-the-1-percent% 3F-the-answ
er-may-surprise-you...



"For the 1 percent of the population with the highest income, average real after-tax household income grew by 275 percent between 1979 and 2007," said the report from the CBO, a nonpartisan budget and tax analysis arm of Congress.

The next-highest 19 percent of earners saw their income grow by 65 percent over the same period. Income grew by just under 40 percent for the 60 percent of the population in the middle, while the 20 percent at the bottom of the scale saw income growth of only about 18 percent, the report said."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45044618/ns/business-personal_finance/t/i ncome-top-p
ercent-far-outgrew-others-report/#.TsHhKkNut6A







And some animated food for thought...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOP2V_np2c0

Philosophically, Bitcoin is fatally flawed. Its value creation cycle is just as arbitrary as current fiat currencies, but unlike those fiat currencies it won't keep you out of jail when the taxman comes looking for his cut.



So, it is basically crowd sourced online currency R&D powered by a speculative bubble. Luckily, we don't seem to be actively devaluing anything to create Bitcoins, they are just using up computer cycles.

Forums and Steam accounts use different user name/log-in... provided the person was intelligent enough to actually use different ones for each. Of course 3/4 of the users out there use the same infos for every-frickin'-thing they sign up for. And that's a bad idea.

I think this is a case of better safe than sorry, might as well change both.



Also: free TF2 Hats coming, I hope.

"We learned that intruders obtained access to a Steam database in addition to the forums. This database contained information including user names, hashed and salted passwords, game purchases, email addresses, billing addresses and encrypted credit card information. We do not have evidence that encrypted credit card numbers or personally identifying information were taken by the intruders, or that the protection on credit card numbers or passwords was cracked. We are still investigating."



This is from the notice you see the first time you log in after November 10th. Which is also in the Valve News feed.



Likely, Valve found out that their network was compromised following a security audit after the forum hack.