User: Firewing1

Re:How could they not progress against a known thr

On: Has Progress Been Made In Fighting DDoS Attacks?

According to the Anonymous press release two days ago, they never launched an attack against Amazon:

After this piece of news circulated, parts of Anonymous on Twitter asked for Amazon.com to betargetted. The attack never occured.

After the attack was so advertised in the media, we felt that it would affect people such as consumers in a negative way and make them feel threatened by Anonymous. Simply put, attacking a major online retailer when people are buying presents for their loved ones, would be in bad taste.

Re:The legal system is unfair

On: How To Judge Legal Risk When Making a Game Clone?

They didn't just mimic a public API... they included a statically linked version of MySQL without releasing their derived code under the GPL as well:

The product contains MySQL[tm] under GPL and Gemini. Gemini is statically linked to the MySQL code. This means that Gemini needs to be under GPL as well, but it is not.

dd + ice cubes?

On: What Data Recovery Tools Do the Pros Use?

You might think it's a bit of an odd combo, but ice cubes and dd has worked multiple times for me when attempting to recover data from a laptop's internal disk. It's a bit trickier with internal disks since you can't get the circuit boards wet, but it's still possible... This is the dd command I use:

dd if=/dev/sda of="/Path/To/Output/Image.img" bs=512 conv=noerror &
pid=$! ; while ps $pid > /dev/null;do kill -SIGUSR1 $pid;sleep 15;done

Gives you a nice status report every 15 seconds. If you're doing this on OS X, use "-s SIGINFO" instead of "-SIGUSR1".

Re:Does this beat Firefox's record

On: OpenOffice.org V3.0 Sets Download Record, 80% Windows

Nope - Firefox had roughly 8 million downloads in a single day, versus the 3 million OO.o 3.0 downloads in the first week.

Erm...

On: Face Recognition Goes Mainstream For Notebooks

Seeing as somebody can just use a picture of me to fool the webcam, I'll stick to passwords.

Yes, but how many exist?

On: Microsoft or Apple - Who Is the Faster Patcher?

I'd be interested in knowing how many total vulnerabilities were discovered for each and how severe they are as well. I read an article comparing Microsoft & Linux and guess what - same result. Microsoft patched vulnerabilities faster than Linux did, but if you ask me I'd rather have fewer vulnerabilities in the first place... And that's were I bet Apple and Linux succeed.

_Third_ time

On: Microchip Powered by Body Heat

Isn't this the third time we see this? [1] [2]

Re:So essentially

On: Fedora 8 Released

They copied a bunch of stuff Windows has had for years (policy) or just got (advanced audio). Do you mean the advanced Windows audio that decreases network performance by up to 90%? Oh wait, that was supposed to be a feature! My bad ;)