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  1. Re:One of the best things they could do is... on Google Announces Open Source Repository · · Score: 2, Informative

    You'd be amazed at the number of link spammers that issue tracking and wikistyle sites attract. Signup raises the bar (they will register and link spam); and then makes it simpler to find all instances of defacement if it occurs.

    Don't blame google; blame the link spammers.

  2. Re:Critical eliment.. on Partial Victory for Perfect 10? · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm looking at the Perfect 10 site and I'm not seeing a whole lot of costumes! :P

  3. Re:SHA-1 is still good for a lot of applications on New, Faster Attack against SHA-1 Revealed · · Score: 1

    As I understand it, there is still an attack where you get Verisign to sign a given CSR - www.foocorp.com, while you have a second CSR for www.megabank.com with the same hash.

    Once Verisign has signed it, you can substitute the contents and have a valid certificate for www.megabank.com - get out your phishing rod and start phishing!

  4. Re:Advantages? on Python Moving into the Enterprise · · Score: 1

    https using client certificates

  5. Re:Profit! on LokiTorrent vs. MPAA · · Score: 1
    Heh, I wasn't overly concerned with accuracy. I wasn't overly concerned with line feeds either it seems! (too much RST)

    Although, the last line of the letter they received, did say that if they wanted to avoid further litigation to contact the MPAA lawyer. Although that's probably just a standard thing...

  6. Profit! on LokiTorrent vs. MPAA · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    1. Create a torrent+tracker site 2. Get a C&D from MPAA 3. Post request for legal aid to slashdot 4. Get far in excess of what you need to settle 5. Settle on the side for far less than you received 6. Profit!!!

  7. Re:So.... on LokiTorrent vs. MPAA · · Score: 1

    Alledgedly.

  8. Re:0.9.3 is *VERY* lame security-wise. on Firefox 0.10.1 Released, Fixes Security Hole · · Score: 1

    Autoupgrading is fraught with danger, so if you put the option where only advanced users will find it, they are able to fix it themselves if it goes wrong. As your auto-update technology gets better / more reliable you move it out where normal users can see it.

  9. Re:this is why extortion never works on A How-Not-To Guide to Cyber-Extortion · · Score: 1
    Babies can acquire HIV through breastmilk due to their undeveloped immune system.

    eg: http://www.phoenixchildrens.com/emily/AI/2249.html

    So it's not completely impossible... just improbable that a baby would get HIV from HIV+ blood in food.

    As previously said, HIV is fairly weak.

  10. Re:I keep hearing about how great spamassasssin is on Spamassassin Beats CRM-114 In Anti-Spam Shootout · · Score: 1

    You really need to make sure Spam Assassin is using DNS RBL and the like. I was seeing the same kind of thing - lots of spam getting through. Once I turned on the RBL checkers, spam levels dropped immediately. The other thing to do is make sure SA is the latest version - the newest spam techniques beat old SA versions.

  11. Re:Just goes to show on JBoss Queries Apache Geronimo Code Similarity · · Score: 1
    The problem with this theory is the following:

    The ASL (Apache Software License) is a mandatory license for all Apache projects. Geronimo MUST use this license. The ASL specifically lets you close source and distribute binaries - whereas the LGPL doesn't.

    So IF Geronimo picked up JBoss code and took it on as their own, they would relicense it under the ASL, which could then be relicensed by someone else into proprietary business code that never again saw the light of day.

    With the LGPL, this isn't supposed to be able to happen.

  12. Perhaps they a working text search first on CNet on WinFS · · Score: 1
    My god!

    How utterly crap is the text search in Windows XP. It doesn't search everything ever, it's an acknowledged feature in the KB, with a workaround.

    The workaround lets you search additional file types, but not everything. Utter braindeadedness.

    It's not hard... well you'd think it wasn't... but apparently it is...