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It is true that vendors are going more propietary - just see the article by this cowboy: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/5745

For Linux and Macintosh, there are ways you can get at least the proprietary Garmin GPS's to work. See http://lancej.blogspot.com/2005/10/using-garmin-et rex-vistac-with.html

I've had no problems using GPS with Linux, but I bet it'll get worse over time, as I believe the vendors will continue to try harder to lock customers into their own software packages.

America spent its formative years (1615-1850) as a slave colony for white and black slaves . Ever hear the saying, "The fruit don't fall too far from the tree"?
Well, both white and black slaves were often flogged (sometimes to death) for crimes such as insubordination or sneaking some extra food. Just as you are a product of your childhood formative years, so too is America. And until we realize that, we make no progress.

That is why America has so many prisoners. And why our nation is so rightwing. American culture is a slave colony culture yet. And it has been molded by our masters to suit their needs. So keep your neoslave mitts off off Massa's property...boy.

Forget about 'Open-Source' (or 'Open-Sores', as my coworkers like to call it) DVR implementations.

They are unstable, difficult to install, and just a plain waste of time.

Read why "Windows XP Mediac Center Edition is King."

I am not a paid Micro$oft Spokesperson...but I know I will get flamed anyway for my Micro$oft slant...

The biggest surprise for me was the quality of the video I downloaded. It was horrible and nothing like the teaser video. I even posted screen captures at http://billpstudios.blogspot.com/2006/01/google-vi deo.html

better documentation, easier MythTV integration, better hardware support. Had a great time putting together a Myth box with very modern hardware. Blogged about it too.

Not to repeat myself: http://mark-watson.blogspot.com/

I am used to seeing Google's beta release systems reasonably polished and almost always useful, so their video store is a real disappointment. But, wait 6 months and it might be awesome.

This was a very interesting article. It explains the trends that I am seeing. In April of last year, I started a math-focused blog: http://fermatslasttheorem.blogspot.com/ To be honest, I thought that no one would be interested. Instead, I am seeing the number of unique visitor rise by 10-20% each month. I think that the bar is rising on the amount of mathematics that each of us are expected to know. It will be very interesting to see what happens with Google Analytics, Omniture, and other web-based analytical engines. Cheers, -Larry

So if you want a visual of what they're actually talking about, look here because that damned patent site refers to images that are nowhere to be found. I think that linked diagram refers to the numbers that the patent information initially state about the design of it.

Obviously, something will need to be present in order to emulate the rest of the system. What I do hope VT (and AMD's Pacifica) will improve is the CPU virtualization subsystems within VMware and friends, that currently need to provide equivalent mechanisms by various software techniques. Your point froim your blog that just because VT/Pacifica provides hardware mechanisms, doesn't mean they'll be any faster than existing software techniques is entirely valid, of course. I trust VMware developers to benchmark all the options and use VT, software, or some hybrid blend as appropriate. Also, I don't overestimate the overall effect VT/Pacifica will have on complete system virtualization; I'm well aware that VMware's CPU virtualization is already very efficient.

Yep. It came out 6 months after Windows 2003 and it has had 250 advisories (vs 76 for Windows 2003).

31% system access bugs, versus 55% for Windows 2003.

Ah, but raw percentages can be so delightfully misleading. Let's attach some real numbers to that:

RHEL3 has had 78 "system access bugs" in the past ~25 months, Windows 2003 has had 42 in the past ~31 months.

And notice the nature of the vulnerabilities? Things like cups, or curl. Or Realplayer (wtf?).

And on Windows 2003 we have bugs in similarly irrelevant things like Hyperterminal, Client Service for Netware and the commandline FTP Client.

Why aren't realplayer vulnerabilities included for 2003?

Because it doesn't ship with it.

The problem is that bug counting gets you no where.

An excellent point that so few seem to grasp.

Far more useful is number of compromised installations over time.

Only if examined relative to the total number of installations.

This a metric that reflects administrator competance as well of 'ease of lockdown'. As far as I know, the Unix or Unix-like platform has greater deployment as a server than Windows 2003, or other Windows platforms.

Why on Earth would you limit yourself to only servers ? Is there some magic aura around desktop machines that makes them invulnerable ?

Exactly how many of those secunia vulnerabilities is a "Linux Kernel" vulnerability?

No idea, but if you're going to try and compare numbers, make sure you only compare against "Windows kernel" vulnerabilities to make the comparison relevant.

So lemme use the famous MS marketshare argument.

It's pretty clear you don't understand "the marketshare argument". It's a tad more complicated than "more machines -> more bugs".

If Microsoft servers had greater marketshare than Unix or Unix-like platforms, than perhaps Microsoft Windows would have a greater number of vulnerabilities discovered. Sadly, even though Microsoft has LESS marketshare than Unix or Unix-like platforms, the number of critical vulnerabilities, remote vulnerabilities, and unpatched vulnerabilities are greater.

Firstly, Windows (in general) has around an order of magnitude more marketshare than all the other platforms combined.

Secondly, Windows 2003 probably has - at worst - similar marketshare to RHEL.

Thirdly - according to the web pages you linked to - Windows 2003 has had less than 1/3 the vulnerabilities of RHEL3, despite being on the market for approximately 15% longer (about 6 months). It does, however, have more unpatched vulnerabilities. Certainly, not all vulnerabilities are equal, or equally as likely to be exploited. But I strongly suspect we would never be able to reach an agreement as what should and should not be included, so right now it's the best we can do (FWIW, I think that including Realplayer and OO is dumb, but I can see a strong argument for including things like curl and cups).

Windows 2003 is no security nirvana.

No OS is.

Better than XP? Perhaps.

The majority of security "problems" that afflict XP have little to do with OS vulnerabilities.

But not by much, and only by exclusion of certain software and disabled services.

Disabling services *is* one of those ways most people consider important for improving security.

Grand. I don't care that they recompiled most of the system. Vulnerabilities continue to abound.

As they do in Linux.

Step one, don't release Vista in the same state that the latest Visual Studio was released in. http://minimsft.blogspot.com/2005/11/hey-sharehold ers-vs-2005-is-fantastic.html

I'm sure we can both find partisan blogs to support any argument we want.

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Poppycock.

http://x86vmm.blogspot.com/2005/11/vt-coverage-pre dictable-and-complete_21.html

Wow, all of those cases were huge. My preference has always been to put the minimal possible system connected to my display device, and put all the storage and other backend hardware in a cheap beige-box somewhere else.

With MythTV, this works great. The backend houses the disks & receiver cards, the frontend just does display output, and they talk over the network.

Some people have set up cool mini-itx type systems for the frontend, using either flash storage or network boot, to get the MythTV front end in a small quiet form. A really cool project is MythRoku, which runs the MythTV frontend on the Roku HD Media Player (Linux based, embedded MIPS platform with hardware HD decoder). It's small and silent, and fits in well with home entertainment devices.

My Mac Mini would also make an excellent MythTV frontend.. If Apple would get a fucking clue and enable an API to the MPEG2 acceleration hardware on the GPU. Without that, it doesn't have the horsepower to do HD display/decoding.

All the problems with windows on a really expensive machine. Great! I'm failing to see the benefit here.

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If you ask me it represents perfectly the typical hypocracy of current day right-wing America.

I'm no right winger, I'm just offering my point of view. I would never force my point of view on you through law, but that is what you want to do to me -- force your point of view by making a law. Left wing, right wing, they're both part of the same side of the coin actually: the authoritarian side. I'm an anarchocapitalist, I'm on the other side of that coin.

For starters, how is a child meant to learn how to live a full independant life if (especially when they reach their teens) they have to first check off with their parents everywhere they go and everyone they speak to. Doesn't sound like the raising of a very 'free' generation.

Freedom does not mean freedom from your parents -- it means freedom from tyranny. Or did you forget that the Constitution just tells government what rights they can't take away from the governed? A child does not have a freedom of speech to say anything to their parents, they aren't free from search (and seizure) that their parents determine is correct. Children who learn that their parents must PARENT will be the same children who end up being good parents.

Also, you state that one parent should always be at home so that you don't have to subsidise other peoples child care, but having a prent at home to supervise children IS highly subsidised individual child care. Half the pricey sick-pay laws in this country centre around the case that if the primary income earner is off-work the household has no incomings.

I don't believe in sick-pay laws or any regulations forcing businesses to give employees anything. This is part of the problem -- people feel they can push the risk in life off to others, and the costs rise for everyone.

We pay 50% of our household incomes to government. This has doubled in 25 years. 25 years ago one parent could afford to stay home, but Nixon to Bush2 and everyone in between continually find ways to provide less risk for the household at significantly more cost than doing it alone.

Oh please, like some parent stands a chance against all those marketers sloshing their emails, and their kids email boxes full of porn and other adult-only products.

WHITE LIST. How hard is it? I help parents at my church set up e-mail accounts for the kids, and there are numerous services that let you set a white list and then lock it out completely. If you want to go further, you can set up white lists for browsing, or join an ISP that white lists content for your kids.

Yea, but accidents do happen as well as unexpected financial difficulties like being laid off from your job due to catastrophic events like 911, Katrina, .com bubble, etc.

Those are not accidents, those are irresponsibilities. Trust me, I am no saint, but I was always safe. If you make an irresponsible decision, you have to live with it by cutting back on your spending, and focusing on your child. I know many irresponsible parents who still buy themselves toys and TVs and movies and CDs and all the junk -- while their kid is basically raised by the State.

Thanks - now I need to join a church to have a family. Thanks for pushing your religious republican views on me

I'm anarchocapitalist and not republican. I'm not a Christian either, so I don't push my views on people. I said church OR community group. If you aren't religious, you can join a community group to help raise your children together, without the teacher's unions or the No Child Left Behind act getting in your way (or taxing me).

No, raising a child - at no point - means having one parent at home. That is a luxary some families have, but many do not. Also, you cannot assume each family is frivolously spending money on toys, cars, vacations, etc before spending money on their childrens clothing, food and education.

Come on, every family COULD have a parent home. Want to know why 2 parents have to work? Tax burden. In 20 years our household tax burden has gone from 30% to 50%! When the household pays 30% in tax burden, one parent can afford to stay home. With all the new nanny programs, we pay 50% of our income to government, so both parents have to work. What a nice conundru,. Also, most families on welfare have excess. I know, I help at my church's monthly "help the poor" weekend. I can't believe the things I see poor people owning -- cars, new clothes, cell phones, even new PSPs. And they're there to get freebies to compensate for their inability to stop spending and start saving.

Duh we know that, but life is life and sometimes kids will slip away. Also, you need to be able to let your kids wander on their own at times so they learn on their own.

Where did you get that from? Kids don't have to be free to wander, that's a myth. Kids wander freely in public school, and look how they turn out. If you're part of a community group focused on raising kids, your kids will have all the freedom they need. Nonetheless, you should know where they are and who they are with. This is a job of a parent, not the police or the justice system or the public nanny/education system.

AK-47, fully auto, with laser sight and sniper scope so they can go kill obliterate a herd of pigeons off their back yard.

Hey, I shot an AK-47 in Vegas a few weeks ago. I can completely see it being used for defense (especially when tyranny comes to take our rights away completely).

How many security problems has Windows 2003 had ?

http://secunia.com/product/1174/#advisories lists 8 out of 76 vulnerabilites as 'unpatached'. I have a feeling that Windows 2003 is also vulnerable to the new, critical WMF problems (yes, the ones discovered AFTER the previous one was patched last week.) XP complaint is here: http://secunia.com/advisories/10968/

Either way, the answer is 'a lot'.

Why not compare Redhat ES 3.0 with Windows 2003?
http://secunia.com/product/1174/#advisories_2003
http://secunia.com/product/2535/#statistics_soluti on

Notice something interesting with Redhat ES 3.0? 0 unpatched. 31% system access bugs, versus 55% for Windows 2003. And notice the nature of the vulnerabilities? Things like cups, or curl. Or Realplayer (wtf?). Why aren't realplayer vulnerabilities included for 2003? Surely the vast majority of ES 3.0 installs do NOT include realplayer. *shrug*.

Is 2003 doing better than XP? Yes, perhaps. Then again, NT is doing better than 2003. So that's not "technically" improvement.

The problem is that bug counting gets you no where. Far more useful is number of compromised installations over time. This a metric that reflects administrator competance as well of 'ease of lockdown'. As far as I know, the Unix or Unix-like platform has greater deployment as a server than Windows 2003, or other Windows platforms.

Why is this a fair comparison? Why is it fair to group Linux with Unix?

Exactly how many of those secunia vulnerabilities is a "Linux Kernel" vulnerability? On Redhat ES 3.0, 13. The rest exist in GNU/Unix platform utilies, or utterly weird stuff that _shouldn't_ be included like OpenOffice.org.

I mean, what the hell: http://secunia.com/advisories/12546/

OpenOffice.org is going to be exploited on a Solaris server as much as it will be on a Redhat server. Either not at all (not installed), or in exactly the same fashion (installed).

So lemme use the famous MS marketshare argument. If Microsoft servers had greater marketshare than Unix or Unix-like platforms, than perhaps Microsoft Windows would have a greater number of vulnerabilities discovered. Sadly, even though Microsoft has LESS marketshare than Unix or Unix-like platforms, the number of critical vulnerabilities, remote vulnerabilities, and unpatched vulnerabilities are greater.

Windows 2003 is no security nirvana. Better than XP? Perhaps. But not by much, and only by exclusion of certain software and disabled services.

Most of the system has been recompiled to thwart buffer-overflow style attacks.
Still, just what do you propose they do to "fix" all the Windows XP machines out there ?
Grand. I don't care that they recompiled most of the system. Vulnerabilities continue to abound.

What do I propose? Fucked if I know. If I had a good security solution for MS, I'd sell it to them for billions.

Step one, don't release Vista in the same state that the latest Visual Studio was released in. http://minimsft.blogspot.com/2005/11/hey-sharehold ers-vs-2005-is-fantastic.html

Yes, Vista is really, really late. No, I haven't been following Vista's development very closely, because I find MS's press releases as having far too much marketspeak for the average human, and all the Vista "previews" are fluff pieces.

If Vista is released in a state similar to Visual Studio 2005, which is MS's latest "major" (and rushed) release, Vista will be a security disaster.

Ah. While I was searching, I found this about it. So I guess it was proven as just another hoax. Probably should have looked it up before posting. Oh well. :)

>>What happens if a black hole eats another black hole? Well. I'm pretty sure if they do it in Alabama they get arrested, but there's probably not much chance of that... Larry Wright =Standing on the brink of anonymity since 1954= http://sitka.blogspot.com/

http://pixelantes.blogspot.com/2005/11/who-are-the se-video-gamers-anyway.html

ESA does a study on gamers every year. Last one showed that the average age of gamers is 30. That was kinda surprising to me. I knew it was going up, but at 30 already?

What is not surprising to me is to see /. discussion on this topic get completely sidetracked by the kind of people adult gaming communities such as 2old2play were formed to avoid.

2old2play is not the only adult gaming community. I believe geezergamers.com is older and bigger. seasonedgamers.com is one that I belong to, and it does a GREAT job at making the online gaming experience enjoyable. XBox Live is filled with jerks, griefers, cheaters, homophobes, racists and other miscreants. The adult gaming communities form to avoid the negative aspects. It works great.

Stanford is also the home of the Meta-level Compilation (MC) project, a useful auditing tool for trusted build agents.

Now that Microsoft is getting into the signiture and behavour based antivirus industry, maybe Symantic could turn its patten matching technology to checking source code instead of binaries.

I bought a 17" mac 2 weeks ago, not knowing that the conference was on and not being told by the store I bought it from so I am fuming. I am interesting to see if I should expect some kind of service from the apple store that I bought my mac from.

See blog: Blog.

WTF? Since when is anyone over the age of 25 an "old gamer?" Now, Old Grandma Hardcore is an old gamer.

China's government is as unobtrusive and minimalist as they get. It like all governments is in the business of staying in power. Unlike the US government, the Chinese government is very direct about this. If you don't threaten their power, they don't mess with you.

The US government is different. Of course it's still in the business of maintaining its own power, but it isn't very upfront about it. As a result, it uses a vast assortment of hand-waving and various levels of bullshit along with excessive taxes to accomplish the same result.

I find the US media in absolute denial about this though. There are constant stories about this or that bad thing going on in China. If more Americans actually lived here, they wouldn't buy that load of crap. People don't have to "keep their heads down" and live in fear of the government at all times. Yes, there is capital punishment in China, but the Chinese government kills far fewer people than the US government does. Yes, there are people who have difficulties getting represented in court, but at least China doesn't openly flaunt international law by throwing people in jail indefinitely without trial and then claiming that international law doesn't apply to them. China doesn't go rampaging around the globe invading countries, or bombing embassies either.

In terms of propaganda, France, the US, China, Japan, and all the other powerful countries soak their populace in it constantly. In Japan, nationalist comics portray Koreans and Chinese and filthy barbarians; in Canada one of the most popular TV shows is dedicated to nationalistic prejudice; in China, people call Zhang Zi Yi a race traitor for starring accross from a Japanese man in a romantic role. Propagana, restriction of the truth, and disinformation are out in full force everywhere. It's just a pity that people are usually so unaware of the propaganda coming from their own countries.

And, of course, this story has nothing to do with ID despite what the article suggests.

The Cabbage Fart Crisis of 1996 really did happen! Here are some of the victims it claimed!

It would be a good start if the USPTO could start by not issuing invalid patents. For example, patents which are patently obvious, or patents with well-known but not published prior art, or patents for devices that don't work, or patents which rely on techniques that haven't been invented yet -- but when they are, this patent will have priority.

For example, you could require that a functioning device which implements the claims of the patent must be sold within a year of the granting of the patent.

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Try Tiki Bar TV

http://tikibartv.blogspot.com/

I think eventually the backlash against DRM, combined with cheap tools that allow individuals to create content, will result in an upheaval of content freedom, where producers want as many copies of their stuff out there as possible, and get paid various ways, like "tip jars" or holding back content until a certain amount of money is collected.

Let's face it, U2 doesn't need a record company. They could just run their own website and say, "We'll release our next album - FREE TO THE WORLD - as soon as we get $3 million in PayPal donations.

Business models that depend on artificial scarcity are doomed. There's no reason not to have a billion copies of a song out there. If only 1 person in 1000 donated a dollar to the artist, he'd make $1 million for writing a song!

I had a lot of time off between Christmas and New Year's. So I got out that vinyl and gave it a listen. Heh, it DOES sound pretty darn good... shocking, in fact. Good vinyl has very little "pops and hiss".

I'm now in the process of ripping all of my vinyl (as much of it isn't available on CD or on-line). It's a great way to listen to all of my old music. I wrote about it here.

Is this an article or an opinion piece (ie. Slashdot via FoxNews)?
Yes. It's by Declan McCullagh. Declan is an advocacy journalist. A traditional journalist would have been less likely to know about annoy.com and Thomas's concurrence in McIntyre v Ohio Elections Commission.
Declan runs the politech list, and writes for Cnet.
If I recall correctly, he was a student government leader at Carnegie-Mellon when a free-speech controvery happened there, and parlayed that into a job with Time magazine.
Slashdot readers may remember his interview with FEC commissioner Brad Smith, which set off a firestorm of bloggers versus the FEC.
He's also a photojournalist, visit his web page for photos of geeks.

His coverage suggests that Spectre, and the congress, have once again violated their oaths of office. That annoys me.
At majors.blogspot.com I have links to the 4 major cases that uphold the right to be anonymous and annoying. I litigate in this area, but not very effectively. I'd be willing to work with people who want to challenge this statute. - arbitrary aardvark.

Before I got my iPod I came across a good site, http://ipodminiinfo.blogspot.com/, that had some pretty good info. It looks like a compilation of info from different sources. That's just if anyone wants to seriously look for some info on them.

I actually ended up picking up the mini just because it's easier to pop into my back pocket or a jacket pocket. Seems ok, it plays music, good 'nuff. I'm not into podcasting or any of the likes so I guess it's overkill, but I like gadgets to play with.

Branson's endeavour is Virgin Galactic and it will be using Spaceship Two. Spaceship One has been moth-balled, next to the Spirit of St. Louis.

Analysis of Flash memory, market, price point decline, flash capacity increase and companies are analyzed at: http://finnews.blogspot.com/2006/01/flash-memory-a nd-investing-in-flash.html

Install the latest firmware to start. Following that, consider setting up a swap :)

My experience with upgrading:
http://thoughtfix.blogspot.com/2006/01/update-and- upgrade-plus-gps-wishes.html

A link to setting up a swap (not for noobs)
http://www.internettablettalk.com/forums/showpost. php?p=4013&postcount=13

Hope that helps.

RIGHT BEHIND YOU on that one. I made two posts on http://thoughtfix.blogspot.com/ (one of which with a link to TomTom's "contact us" page) on how I am BEGGING TomTom to release a bluetooth GPS, software, and map package for the 770. Between it's adequate CPU, a 800x480 screen, a speaker, Bluetooth, and memory card support, it has all it needs. Now we just wait for developers developers developers developers!

Thanks! I am flattered that I got moderated up for "informative" but I was hoping to get at least one "funny" too!

Do you realize how much the environment is choking on throw-away tech every year? I covered this very topic http://techn0manc3r.blogspot.com/2005/12/linux-and -environment.html with links. Yes, it's a huge deal. Count me in with the other who recycles old Windows boxes I find and gets year's further use out of them. More money to donate to FOSS, less waste to the environment.

By the way, when I worked for no less an enterprise than Citigroup incorporated, you couldn't walk two feet in the processing center without tripping over a 486. This was only two years ago.

I've been blogging my experience with this one like mad:
http://thoughtfix.blogspot.com/

Posts today:
- Using the device's USB host mode without soldering a special cable
- Using an iPod nano as external storage

Lots of other things too, like enabling sshd and other thoughts and wishes.

Bill Harris over at Dubious Quality has been talking some about Take 2. He pointed out, a few days ago, that they're using an old trick.... reserves.

When something bad happens, you 'set aside' an obscenely large amount of money to 'deal with the problem'. You announce, loudly, that you WOULD have made money ('beat the Street') if only the terrible thing hadn't happened. Investors sigh, and your stock gets hit, but usually not that badly. Then, later on, you take some of the money out of the Rainy Day Fund to make a quarter that's not doing so well.

That's exactly what they did here. They set aside THIRTY MILLION DOLLARS to take care of the 'Hot Coffee' problem. This quarter, they announced that the problem wasn't as bad as they thought, so they 'unreserved' eight million dollars...enough to mitigate the damage, so they don't look quite so much like a sucking chest wound.

This is totally an accounting game. By now, they know how much damage Hot Coffee did. They could unreserve all but a million or so... that should be more than enough to handle any additional returns and/or pay for any lawsuits. They didn't do that, because they want to be able to 'beat the Street' in some later quarter, and artificially drive up the stock price.

Investing is EXTREMELY risky if you don't know accounting. Accounting is the language of business, and companies are very good at whitewashing a rotten infrastructure.... only if you 'speak' accounting (or pay someone who does), can you be sure they're on the level.

There are very, very few trustworthy, accurate analysts. When was the last time you saw a 'sell' on ANYTHING?

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Actually, Google wasn't paid by any of the companies, you can find that out by reading their blog. http://googleblog.blogspot.com/

blkros, don't make comments like that without knowing what's going on. I suggest you read this page and this GoogleBlog post and then you'll understand what's going on. The "pack"'s goal is to provide an easy way to set up new PC's for people who don't fancy lavish and exquisite (like "Foxit", mentioned by an earlier reader) but just want the basic thing. You can also install as little/much as you want. Furthermore, Google has a small process that keeps everything in those packs updated. Finally, if it detects one of those is already installed, it won't install it. In my opinion, the Google Pack is a great way to save time installing all these things, when you could do it all in five minutes.

I'm not sure why google are doing this, unless they're getting paid (in money or some other way) by the producers of the software...

according to the google blog they are not getting paid:

We worked with a number of technology companies to identify products that are the best of their type to create this suite. (We didn't pay them, and they aren't paying us.)

Or their website.

My thanks to Trip-Master Monkey and 28481k for ferreting out the links.

Info here: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/

Can people please stop linking to the front page of weblogs? It makes the link useless after a day or two, when the next article is posted on the weblog. See that link that says "Permalink"? It's a fundamental part of weblogs. That's what you link to. It stops linkrot.

Info here: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/

Can people please stop linking to the front page of weblogs? It makes the link useless after a day or two, when the next article is posted on the weblog. See that link that says "Permalink"? It's a fundamental part of weblogs. That's what you link to. It stops linkrot.

Have you seen this?

http://pack.google.com/

Info here: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/

Busy day for Google.

I can understand why you'd be concerned about the possiblity of your website serving exploit code to unsuspecting users. However, I'd like to point out that the problem is not unique to your site, nor does it only affect sites that allow users to post images. I've posted a writeup about a security incident I investigated that involved a malicious WMF being distributed through syndicated advertisements, and I know the same thing happened when the GDI vulnerability was discovered. The bottom line is that it's very difficult to lock down all the attack vectors for something like this, and your website is probably no worse than anyone else's at this.