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  1. Deleted the emails on G-Archiver Harvesting Google Mail Passwords · · Score: 4, Insightful
    From the Information Week article:

    Brooks said he then deleted the presumably stolen account information, changed the password on the account, and notified Google.
    [...]
    Google's statement continues. "We are investigating this incident, the underlying activities of which violate Gmail Program Policies. We have suspended the suspect account, and are in the process of notifying the owners of those accounts whose passwords may have been compromised. It's unfortunate that fraudsters continue to use email for these purposes. We have phishing detection capabilities built into Gmail, so we were able to act quickly to limit the impact of this particular attack."
    I have never read Google's Privacy Policy but am slightly concerned that they appear to be able to access emails after their deletion.
  2. Re:NoScript on Firefox Zero-Day Code Execution Hoax? · · Score: 2, Informative
    You obviously don't use GMail, Google Calendar, and the like.
    With NoScript one can designate sites that are allowed to run javascript, it's just that it is disabled by default. I use NoScript and have simply whitelisted google.com and any other trusted sites that require javascript.
  3. Re:P-NP Complexity (Typo) on Ask Futurama Star Billy West About...? · · Score: 1
    Yeah, that's a definite typo. Thank you for catching that and correcting me. I wrote that in haste.

    I was referring to the time when they were in the closet and saw two binders sitting on the shelf. One had 'P' on its spine and the other had 'NP' referring to polynomial and non-polynomial complexity.

    NP is the class of all decision problems that can be solved in non-deterministic polynomial time. NP does not stand for non-polynomial, if it did why would we always ask "is P equal to NP"?
  4. Re:As bad as the HP - Compaq merger... on Microsoft/Yahoo! Merger a Good Idea? · · Score: 1
    Theoretically, the combined user-base would surpass Google. But many users like me, never visit MSN / Yahoo after acquiring a Google identity (gmail).
    I am in the same situation but with the exception of Flickr. I've tried out Google's Picasa Web Albums but was not impressed. No doubt Google will do much to compete with Flickr in the future but for the moment Yahoo has the lead in that sector at least.
  5. Re:Gentoo? on Should You Pre-Compile Binaries or Roll Your Own? · · Score: 4, Informative
    The problem is the USE flags are global.
    Not true, you can put USE flags for specific packages in the /etc/portage/package.use file. You might want to check out the relevant section of the Gentoo handbook for more information.
  6. Re:OT, But... on Novell Acquires SELinux Alternative Immunix · · Score: 1

    Sarge was frozen just over a week ago and slashdot ran the story at the time.

  7. Re:Satellite on Google Maps, Local Expand To UK · · Score: 1

    This only seems to cover England, well at least they don't have areal photos of Scotland anyway.

  8. Re:Infinity plus One on Gmail's Birthday Presents · · Score: 1
    But 1/0 is very close to infinity, because:
    lim |1/x| as x->0 = Infinity
    It's not close to anything, it's undefined (0 is not a unit).
  9. Re:A good solution on Apple Plugs IDN Spoof Bug · · Score: 5, Interesting
    I'm not sure what the right long-term solution is. Its not ideal to have to turn off support for Cherokee, Cyrillic and Greek.
    Perhaps rendering non-ASCII characters in a different colour so the user can tell the difference between a lookalike character and the "real thing" could be an option? Not perfect but it's something that springs to mind which may be better than turning off IDN support completely.
  10. Re:[tt]:Encarta on MSN Search Has Arrived · · Score: 2, Informative
    For one, the use of the online Encarta isn't completely free. If you make an Encarta search, you'll notice a clock ticking in the left side of the screen: you only have two hours of "free" Encarta
    It is not free in any sense of the word, the second article I looked at gave me: "The article is exclusively available for MSN Encarta Premium Subscribers." --- "MSN Encarta Premium: Get this article, plus 35,000 other articles, an interactive atlas, dictionaries, thesaurus, study centre, and more for £19.99/year." I think I'll stick to wikipedia.
  11. Re:B-complex on Why Mosquitoes Bother Some And Not Others · · Score: 1
    I wish the article had provided a bit more info on what the specific chemicals were.
    I saw this story on the Channel 4 News yesterday and at the end of the report the correspondent said something like: "as to what the chemicals are, the scientists won't say as they are seeking a patent".
  12. Re:A helpful holiday reminder... on Stable Linux Kernel 2.6.10 Released · · Score: 1
    Ooops, forgot to edit the config file?
    You edit your config file every time you compile a new kernel!?
    $ make-kpkg --rootcmd=fakeroot clean
    $ make menuconfig
    $ make-kpkg --rootcmd=fakeroot --revision=hostname.1.0 kernel_image
    $ su
    Password:
    # dpkg -i ../kernel-image-version_revision.deb
    Now my kernel is installed and my GRUB config file updated (with my favourite kernel options automatically set).
  13. Re:Slashdotted in the mysterious future? on Thunderbird and Firefox Ported to SkyOS · · Score: 1

    He's trolling, take a look at his post history: he has only posted in this story and all full of obvious spelling mistakes and silly statements about Free/Open Source Software.

  14. Re:Burning, burning, burning... on Linux 2.6 Turns 1 Year Old · · Score: 1

    You can burn on IDE burners without the "ide-scsi trick" on 2.4 too, you just need a new enough version of cdrecord.

  15. Re:frist? on 2004 IOCCC Winners Source Code Released · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Arrggh, main returns an int god dammit!

  16. Sad for democracy on Kerry Blows Red Sox Stats, Again, and Again · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Personally I think it's disgusting that people would change their vote based on how much a candidate knows about a sporting event. Of course it does make Kerry look rather silly if he just pretended to be interested; but on the other hand the fact that candidates feel they must be seen to like baseball is pretty sad (and reflects very badly on the electorate).

  17. Re:Hmm on OpenBSD Now Nine Years Old · · Score: 1
    OpenBSD is a BDS Unix. Debian is a Linux Unix.
    Debian is not just a "Linux Unix", it also runs on the FreeBSD kernel, the NetBSD kernel and let's not forget the HURD.
  18. Re:Don't link to bugzilla!!! on A Security Bug In Mozilla - The Human Perspective · · Score: 1

    Neither did I and I use firefox. Simply go to about:config and set network.http.sendRefererHeader to 0.

  19. Re:Quickie Slashdot Poll... on Ballmer Says iPod Users are Thieves · · Score: 1

    1. 0% - although I have used these things in the past I no longer have any of the files. To be honest I don't have a very high opinion of these illegal sources, I once gave my mate (who is a big "warez d00d") a list of CDs to get for me and he couldn't even find one of them!

    2. 0%

    3. under 5% - from places like UbuWeb

    4. 95% - all ogg vorbis for my Rio Karma :-)

    5. Hmm, now you mention it about half of the aforementioned 95% are from my big brothers CDs although I would never in the past considered buying CDs that there are already copies of in the house; just like I would never buy a book if somebody in my house had a copy, what a rediculous thing to do (although no doubt the music industry thinks we should).

    Back to the point of downloading, I find a much more rewarding way of exploring music is to listen to radio stations like Resonance FM, this also has the added advantage that you are presented with music you had never heard of rather than seeking an mp3 of something you already know a bit about.

  20. Re:Yeah, but... on Order in the e-Court! · · Score: 3, Funny

    So I can look forward to being tried by Microsoft Judge(TM)? That gives a whole new meaning to "Blue Screen of Death".

  21. Re:another word on Tracking The (English) Words We Use · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The post *is* redundant since the fact that "fuck is number 5598" is in the article, which, surprisingly enough, comes before the first post. The post is now at '4, Informative' - just goes to show that the best way to gain karma is to get in quick and state the obvious, or even better: quote the article back at the mods, don't worry they won't have read it.

  22. Re:whats to stop somebody from just on Doom 3 Beta Patch to Address Config File Cheating · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Also on the subject of shaddows, many monitors have a contrast setting that can go pretty damn high. What's to stop me from making my monitor so bright that I won't have shaddows wheather they are on or not in game?

    Also once the Linux version is out there will be nothing to stop us cranking up the gamma by running something like xgamma -gamma 1.7 (and I presume there is an equivalent in Windows) before we launch the game.

  23. Re:garage bands on Longhorn's Copy Protection Standard · · Score: 1

    I think they are more intended as a final destination although it probably would be in their interest to offer previews of music, it's a shame they don't.

    On the other hand you are likely to hear the music they sell on the excellent Resonance FM (very eclectic so consult the listings if you don't like what you hear at first) I personally like "The Wire's Adventures in Modern Music" and "The Bermuda Triangle" on Thursday nights and also "Scratching The Surface" on alternate Tuesdays. Also the listed shop Rough Trade plays the best of their new stock every Thursday at noon (GMT) on Resonance FM.

    As a side note The Wire is a great, independent, guide to new music -- the down side is you have to buy it though ;-).

  24. Re:garage bands on Longhorn's Copy Protection Standard · · Score: 5, Informative
    Places to buy music:
    Radio stations: Please add more suggestions (or point out if any of these outlets suck).
  25. Re:BitTorrent Link on Ubuntu Linux Preview Released · · Score: 2, Informative

    UK Mirror
    US Mirror
    Italy Mirror

    You will find torrents at each of these mirrors. The ones on the US mirror are:
    AMD64 torrent
    i386 torrent
    powerpc torrent