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  1. Re:Password in plaintext email on PlentyofFish Hacked, Founder Emails Hacker's Mom · · Score: 1

    But sending it every week, unsolicited?

    POF actually emails you DAILY with list of matches. Yeah, the latest email (sent on Jan 30) still includes password in plain text.

  2. Re:and why not ? on China Moving To Restrict Neodymium Supply · · Score: 2, Funny

    oh, and Neodymium to Unobtainium.....

  3. Re:and why not ? on China Moving To Restrict Neodymium Supply · · Score: 1

    Maybe we should rename China as Pandora and Chinese as Na'vi?

    Just saying.....

  4. Re:Gentlemen, check your Webmaster tools on Google To Send Detailed Info About Hacked Web Sites · · Score: 2, Informative

    I dont know why the summary did not link to the official google blog. Here is the link: http:http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/10/fetch-as-googlebot-and-malware-details.html/

  5. Re:Not really on Microsoft Leaks Details of 128-bit Windows 8 · · Score: 1
  6. Re:Where was this class for me? on What Belongs In a High School Sci-Fi/Fantasy Lit Class? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Try Hitchhiker's guide to galaxy. Great read.

  7. Re:Printing on RIP the Campus Computer Lab, 1960-2009 · · Score: 1

    Not only that, but there are many intranet sites (My UNI, etc) accessible only when you are within the campus. For students who do not lug around their laptop (or are currently having some problems with their laptop), they would have no way to even get online. Having a tech lab eliminates these issues.

  8. Re:Well that... on Cox Communications and "Congestion Management" · · Score: 1

    Sounds to me like they are doing traffic shaping.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_shaping/

  9. Re:This is more or less what I do on How To Track the Bug-Trackers? · · Score: 1

    (Mods, if you're too young to remember this, then DON'T MOD)

    Allright, you convinced me!!

  10. Re:Lack of Hacker Ethics on Twitter Hack Details Revealed · · Score: 1

    To add to this, a system is only as secure as its weakest point. In this case, it happened to be the admin password. So even if the user (say Barack Obama) had a very strong (cryptic) password, his account could still be accessed by password resets by an admin.

  11. Re:Lack of Hacker Ethics on Twitter Hack Details Revealed · · Score: 1

    He decided not to use other hacked accounts personally. Instead he posted a message to Digital Gangster offering access to any Twitter account by request.

    That's where the 18-year old kid is at fault. He showed a lack of hacker ethics. Good hackers may discover an exploit, but they don't do harm.


    I think its more serious than "lack of hacker ethics". A cracker with an admin access can potentially delete and wipe out entire twitter accounts of not only the high profile celebrities, but also any other accounts they can find, probably including other (twitter) admins.

  12. Re:Is this troublesome to anyone else? on 400,000 PCs Infected With Fake "Antivirus 2009" · · Score: 2, Informative

    I think they quarantine it (by default) instead of completely deleting it. Unless they have changed this recently.

  13. Re:When will the Malcious software removal tool... on 400,000 PCs Infected With Fake "Antivirus 2009" · · Score: 1

    Boot into dos and try "rmdir /windows" :)

  14. Re:Doesn't really matter what *WE* think, does it? on Wikipedia Almost Reaches $6 Million Target · · Score: 2, Informative

    Its completely arbitrary as to what the mod of the day thinks is 'notable' or not.

    just like slashdot :)

  15. Study Abroad Program on Study Abroad For Computer Science Majors? · · Score: 1

    You should talk with your study abroad program counselor. They will have a list of all international universities they do an exchange program with. If you go through them, you wont even have to pay for either tutions or lodging (staying). They can even provide you with list of students who went to other countries and you can talk to them for more details (culture, studies, etc).

  16. Re:AKA on EA Is Now Officially On Steam, Spore Loses SecuROM · · Score: 5, Funny

    all it needed was a valve!!

  17. Re:Wow on Scaling Facebook To 140 Million Users · · Score: 5, Informative

    And they also use about 200 memcached servers to speed things up.

    Source: http://frro.net/blog/2008/04/26/just-how-big-is-facebooks-infrastructure/

  18. Re:Impressive on Scaling Facebook To 140 Million Users · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Here is a presentation which discusses how Facebook handles billions of photos. That should give an idea about how they handle massive load in other areas: http://www.flowgram.com/f/p.html#2qi3k8eicrfgkv

  19. Re:Wow on Scaling Facebook To 140 Million Users · · Score: 5, Informative

    From hardware perspective, Facebook uses 10,000 web servers and 1800 database servers to handle the massive traffic.

  20. Re:Developers section red now ? on 64-Bit Java For Linux · · Score: 1

    I guess you are not new here.

  21. College Projects on Cornell University FPGA Class Projects for 2008 · · Score: 2, Insightful
  22. Re:Seasoned Programmers? on How Do I Manage Seasoned Programmers? · · Score: 5, Funny
  23. Re:Not how reporting works on Followup To "When Teachers Are Obstacles To Linux" · · Score: 2, Funny

    Do you mean like, Fox News?

  24. Re:Would that include getting the free copy? on Apple's New MacBooks Have Built-In Copy Protection · · Score: 1

    Who do you think passed the DMCA in the first place? Fairies

    No, dust bunnies.

  25. Re:Ummm... on Internal Emails Released In Vista Capable Debacle · · Score: 1

    I am curious. Does Linux also do all these things?