Comment Re:Banking Reform (Score 1) 509
"As of July 2007, across Europe, PayPal also operates as a Luxembourg-based bank." (wikipedia)
Comment Re:Bullshit (Score 1) 342
He is talking about this vulnerability: http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2010-0249
Which works up to win7 with ie8.
Looking Back At Dungeons & Dragons 189
An anonymous reader sends in a nostalgic piece about Dungeons & Dragons and the influence it's had on games and gamers for the past 36 years. Quoting:
"Maybe there was something in the air during the early '70s. Maybe it was historically inevitable. But it seems way more than convenient coincidence that Gygax and Arneson got their first packet of rules for D&D out the door in 1974, the same year Nolan Bushnell managed to cobble together a little arcade machine called Pong. We've never had fun quite the same way since. Looking back, these two events set today's world of gaming into motion — the Romulus and Remus of modern game civilization. For the rest of forever, we would sit around and argue whether games should let us do more or tell us better stories."
Comment about the google (Score 1) 533
Well, we don't know which data of your requests they really use. Of course there is googles own privacy information, then there is the stuff they may not tell you about. And finally there is stuff third parties might do with your google data, these may include your provider, using traffic inspection and your government using the patriot act or something.
Third parties usually know even more about you than google, your real name, banking informaiton and such.
About your privacy regarding google itself:
I'd advise on using multiple browsers, or profiles, so you can divide your gmail stuff from the search cookies. Firefox has an option to keep cookies until closed, you'll get a fresh cookie from google on every browser start.
In firefox there are also seach suggestion and 'safebrowsing' queries to google.
But to be honest I don't expect google to keep an (ip, cookie, account) database and I don't expect them to cross relate too much data between their services. Adwords aren't that complicated, you don't need that much information to target ads.
Comment Re:Not more safe (Score 1) 611
Traditionally linux also an multiuser system and imho has a more secure architecture.
But yeah, desktop linux is executing way to much foreign, unsigned, unchecked code nowadays.
Comment Re:Commendable... (Score 1) 621
Yeah. I heard this NEZ guy, he's like Godzilla.
Comment Re:DDoS attacks (Score 1) 540
Bind is a dns server, the dns protocol is not so difficult. Take a look at the smaller servers, like tinydns. Then look at the bind sourcecode: the library to parse the zone files already 2mb.
Comment Re:Commendable... (Score 1) 621
The problems include a network system not designed to handle the district's growth, a system in need of substantial repair and a building needed to securely house the network. There are also cabling problems and a lack of tracking inventory for technology equipment that is three years out of date. It will take at least a year to fix all of the issues, Birdwell said.
No wonder this will cost $1.6 million dollars. They're not just removing seti.
Comment Re:Sarcastic question, answered honestly (Score 1) 160
At least sociology is on there.. speaks for itself that economics, history and educational science are not even mentioned.
Ignoring philosophy however is just ignorant.
Comment Re:My first question would be... (Score 1) 320
Well it's either Microsoft
Comment Are you *really* sure about this? (Score 1) 1006
You know software like Adobe Acrobat has licenses where you can use the key multiple times? Are you really sure there isn't an invoice about 20 office licenses somewhere in a file?
Because If you decide to take this to the law and you're wrong.. you are the offender.
Comment Re:NEWS FLASH: Web sites need to screen uploads (Score 1) 355
This is ridiculous. If a web site lets you upload a JavaScript file and then serves it back to you as part of a request, it would be crazy. All that has happened here is that people have worked out that doing the same thing with a Flash file is equally bad.
1. You upload the javascript after the binary of a gif file and it gets executed anyways?
2. You create a special link to do that on your attackers page and the javascript executes within the targeted sites domain of origin?
No, javascript doesn't do either, but Flash/Actionscript does:
A Flash object can only access content from the domain it originated from. [...] A flash object does not need to be injected into a web page to execute- simply loading the content is enough. [...] If I can get a Flash object onto your server, I can execute scripts in the context of your domain
Comment Re:Release cycles? (Score 1) 1231
[...] but upgrade killed my sound. Note that I did have OSS4 configured on 9.04 before the upgrade.
"but upgrade killed my sound. Note that I did have OSS4 configured on 9.04 before the upgrade."
Well, maybe you should configure OSS4 after the upgrade as well? I mean with OSS4 not officially supported by Ubuntu and all... the updater has no crystal ball.
Comment Best Ubuntu Ever (Score 1) 1231
Very smooth upgrade, very little problems on multiple computers.
From the article:
"Still, that proves that Ubuntu has a long road to haul before installing even this popular Linux distro is the no-brainer that helps makes
Windows the success it is among regular PC users."
That's really not how I remember it...
Comment Re:Fine line between security and paranoia (Score 1) 376
Oh and Bob has the customers database right there on his laptop as an excel spreadsheet.
