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  1. Re:I fail to see why this is news on Cache On Delivery — Memcached Opens an Accidental Security Hole · · Score: 1

    If you have not specified otherwise (e.g. if /etc/memcached.conf is missing), memcached listens on all interfaces yes. If you install memcached from a Debian-derived distros package repository, then it will create a default /etc/memcached.conf file with the above, default, configuration specified.

  2. Re:I fail to see why this is news on Cache On Delivery — Memcached Opens an Accidental Security Hole · · Score: 2, Informative
    Yes memcached defaults to only accepting connections from the local address. From memcached.conf:

    # Specify which IP address to listen on. The default is to listen on all IP addresses # This parameter is one of the only security measures that memcached has, so make sure # it's listening on a firewalled interface. -l 127.0.0.1

  3. Re:So drop out and there will be one less "tribe" on Tribalism Is the Enemy Within, Says Shuttleworth · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If Wall Street speculators can gamble away the world so badly that it leads to the worlds worst depression ever, then the system already is so rotten from within that bailout money will only prolong the suffering.

  4. Re:This isn't a story about "spying". on Google Nabs Patent To Monitor Your Cursor Movement · · Score: 1

    There is a Swedish startup (forgot their name and it is weird, so I can't link to them) who is currently marketing a service which records how users interacts with your website. Complete with mouse motion and page scrolling. The webmaster can then download the recorded videos and analyse how their visitors interacts with their site. I'm surprised they haven't made it big yet because the feature would be an amazing addition to Google Analytics for example. Anyway, from there on it is a miniscule step from having the webmaster analysing the recorded data, to a program doing it.

  5. Re:Keep your sites from the filter for a day=proff on Porn Sites Still Exposed In China · · Score: 1

    Do you think money grows on trees, or somehow, their clicking mouses transfer money from their bank account to yours? :) No, advertisers pay for ads because the opportunity to gain your visitors attention is worth more than what they pay for the ad. Chinese people doesn't buy anything so no one wants to pay to advertise for them.

  6. Re:Doesn't Matter on Facebook Adds Delete Account Option · · Score: 1

    If the delete option works, great. Personally, the split second another comparable service comes out that catches maybe 5 or so of my closets friends...

    Five friends in your closet eh? Normally, stepping out of the closet is the problematic part but you're just jamming them in there...

  7. Re:Keep your sites from the filter for a day=proff on Porn Sites Still Exposed In China · · Score: 1

    No they won't. You can't be profitable unless people buy your stuff. Chinese people won't buy you porn because they don't have enough disposable income. Even if they had, there are no payment processors willing to work with credit cards from China.

  8. Re:Reimplement the API on WordPress Creator GPL Says WP Template Must Be GPL'd · · Score: 1

    No you haven't. Emulating all the features a Wordpress theme might use means writing Wordpress again from scratch.

  9. Re:And this folks... on WordPress Creator GPL Says WP Template Must Be GPL'd · · Score: 1

    Sorry, that is totally wrong and you have no fucking clue how Wordpress themes work. Wordpress themes are cunks of code that controls how html pages are rendered written by basically replacing the original code. Nowadays, there is a loosely defined api which is usable for cookie cutter change-the-css themes, but to write powerful plugins you still have to resort to hacking into the core of Wordpress. There is no similarity between PhotoShop and PhotoShop plugins, or any other plugin system i know of. A huge theme like Thesis that replaces and extends so many of Wordpress builtin features is, without doubt, a derivate work in every sense of the word.

  10. Re:Playboy w/o nudity? on Playboy Launches Safe For Work Website · · Score: 1

    Yep, it used to feature more than just porn. Back in 1988 they featured an exclusive interview with Yassir Arafat, right at the dawn of the first intifada when everyone else thought he was a terrorist. But those days are gone and I don't belive any publication will be able to mesh pron, politics and technology-related topics ever again.

  11. Re:Read it as "The consumer WILL buy into 3D"... on Sony Developing 3D Screen-Sharing Technology For Two Players · · Score: 1

    I think you forgot to mention that you do not appreciate trespassers on your lawn, especially not if they come in full 3d.

  12. Known google account authentication bug on Google Up Ante For Disclosure Rules, Increases Bug Bounty · · Score: 1
    Google should fix their own account authentication system before they throw the first stone. Internet is full of reports like these about the problem:
    • http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=48382
    • http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2009-05-19-n84.html
    • http://derickng.com/posts/103-google-account-hijacked-or-just-a-bug
    • http://www.google.sh/support/forum/p/youtube/thread?tid=4426cc7a854b727d&hl=en
    • http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100321162016AAZnwCC
    • http://www.google.pl/support/forum/p/gmail/thread?tid=13d02f7a7404e5f6&hl=en
    • http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/youtube/thread?tid=4426cc7a854b727d&hl=en
    • http://www.davidnaylor.co.uk/my-google-account-is-showing-someone-elses-adsense-account.html

    Hopefully google finds the bug before someone publishes an exploit for it and puts everyones gmail accounts at risk.

  13. Re:Please spread to other countries... on Swedish Pirate Party Launches ISP · · Score: 2, Insightful

    God damn. Get off your chair, get the thumb out of your ass and start your own party you lazy fatso. The revolution won't happen all by itself you know.

  14. Re:Does no-one else put a 10-second delay in? on OAuth, OpenID Password Crack Could Affect Millions · · Score: 1

    Yes, but you would need tens thousands of attempts to accurately measure the difference. The OP's solution doesn't make it harder, it just makes the process so slow that it won't be worthwhile because you have to wait so much.

  15. Re:Interview on Measuring LAMP Competency? · · Score: 1

    Generally I would have an interview with the applicants that seemed most qualified. It's the easiest way to see if someone is padding their resume or generally bullshitting. When the vacant look comes into their eyes as they spew forth buzzwords in answer to your technical questions, you know you've got a loser. If you can't separate the liars from the nerds in an interview, you have a real problem.

    That's the thing. All interviewers think that is the key to success and they know how to separate the good from the bad, except most of them are miserable at it. Which is evidenced by the number of incompetent programmers working in the industry. Your "spewing buzzwords" might as well be someone talking about technology way over your head and you're missing out on a great hacker.

  16. Re:Native features in browser on How the Mozilla Sniffer Backdoor Was Discovered · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Well, I like most people, run random executables but only if they are retrieved from trusted sources. Any package I install from my distros repository can potentially contain malicious code but I trust that the distro maintainers keep their stuff clean. I used to trust Firefox extensions downloaded from addons.mozilla.org in the same way, but not so anymore. That's why Chrome's and Opera's software models with built-in features over addons are superior to FF. Because you only have to trust one party instead of dozens of plugin authors.

  17. Re:Rights Holder on UK Royalty Group Wants ISPs To Pay For Pirating Customers · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Um no. It is up to the state to protect and enforce the rights of its citizens. Otherwise we'd had a society where only the rights of the strong is worth anything.

  18. Re:There's a reason they call it extreme on The Search For the Mount Everest of Caves · · Score: 1

    Or, if you can't get any, to at least get to visit some holes in your life. :)

  19. Compare PS3 vs Xbox 360 on Has Any Creative Work Failed Because of Piracy? · · Score: 2

    Those two consoles are more or less even technically. Most titles are released on both consoles with roughly the same price with the difference being that it is quite easy to pirate games on the 360 but impossible (or at least extremely hard) on the ps3. So to figure out if piracy hurt sales, compare how well often pirated titles sell on the 360 vs the ps3, while taking into account market share differences.

    So if it is substanially less profitable to develop titles for the xbox than the ps3, then piracy hurt sales. Otherwise no. Seems simple enough to me?

  20. Re:IQ isn't everything on Chinese Company Seeks US Workers With 125 IQ · · Score: 1
    No really, read the book. Here is a direct quote:

    [page 90]: In a devastating critique [of the study], the sociologist Pitirim Sorokin once showed that if Terman had simply put together a randomly selected group of children from the same kinds of family backgrounds as the Termites - and dispensed with IQs altogether - he would have ended up with a group doing almost as many impressive things as his painstakingly selected group of geniuses.

    The study failed to find a statistically significant correlation between IQ and "real-world" performance. There is your quote for "citation needed," the water is not wet.

  21. Re:IQ isn't everything on Chinese Company Seeks US Workers With 125 IQ · · Score: 1

    Read the book. He actually references a large study in which the careers of children with high iq were tracked. It was found that the high iq children didn't have more success in real-life (personal or professional) than the average person. I have forgotten the details, but you can surely find the study online if you look hard.

  22. Re:IQ isn't everything on Chinese Company Seeks US Workers With 125 IQ · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Basing emplyment on IQ is pointless as it doesn't actually predict "real-world" performance. Citation needed in the same way that citation is needed for water not being wet.

    See Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell. It references several studies and anecdotes in which no connection between high iq and success is found. The smartest man in the world works as a bouncer.

  23. Re:So? on Ban On Photographing Near Gulf Oil Booms · · Score: 1

    That is a lot of very imaginative accident scenarios you got there. Yes, if you are a fucking retard you can get yourself killed in the most creative ways possible. Yes, if you are reckless you should get punished, which is why there already is laws against that. I have only occasionally been driving a motor boat, which you learn to control in less than a day, you do not even need a license for it. It's nowhere near as dangerous as driving a car. There is no 40k fine for tailgating, jaywalking or crossing a red-light, all of which is much more dangerous than crossing a moronic 65 feet limit on open water.

  24. Re:Other countries should start policing Internet on US Pirate Movie Site DNS Seizure Fail · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Don' you in the US have some laws that prevent your authorities from randomly seizing property? The operators of the sites have not been called to any trial, have had no verdict against them and from what has been reported, no investigation has even been opened. It is understandable if they would have seized the servers, as those can be used as evidence in a trial. Domain names on the other hand can not, which makes it plainly obvious that the only reason for their seizure was to disrupt the websites operations.

  25. Re:So? on Ban On Photographing Near Gulf Oil Booms · · Score: 1

    *Groan* Ok, so the safe recommended distance on highways is roughly 100 feet. What is the worst that can happen if you cross that limit, and what will happen if the police catches you? You may get unlucky and end up causing a traffic accident. The police won't bother you because they have more important things to do and people routineously drive much closer than that.

    What is the worst that can happen if you get closer than 65 feet to a boom out on the open sea and what will the authorities do if they catch you? A, I have nfc, but I belive it is pretty fucking hard to cause an accident with an oil boom. B, you will get fined 40k and recieve Class D felony charges.

    Do you see the difference?