If you create a webmaster account with Google and register your site, Google will tell you how many people they send to you. They'll also give you a lot of other information like where in the list of search results was your website when it was clicked on.

A penny here and a penny there adds up to real money. Just ask the guy who who wrote the hack to transfer pennies from transactions to his bank account.

I realize that BP is not a US company... but is it "too big to fail"? What if the cleanup expenses are so great BP goes bankrupt. Will government agencies then provide them handouts?

Was it really a NASA balloon? What about the bodies witnesses claimed to see around the crash site? Those were just anthropomorphic dummies, eh? Video of the crash you say? Well, they have video of Apollo landing on the moon too and that didn't happen! *Wonders how long until someone says this in a non-joking manner*

Sounds a lot like "Stealthy IP Prefix Hijacking". Advertise a BGP route that will be accepted by some people to attract their traffic. Do it correctly, it may be less noticeable than a full prefix hijacking (though it was obviously noticed in this case). You can also attempt to moderate the amount of traffic you receive so that you don't DOS yourself with the incoming flow and you can analyze the traffic easier. BGP is a pretty insecure protocol and depends a lot upon the upstream providers filtering announcements properly.

What's worse is when student #2 makes no modifications to student #1's work.... including changing the name at the top of the code. Student #2 hand wrote their name at the top of the printout though.

"it is projected to increase internet traffic capacity between the two regions by over 20%, a wonderful boast to transpacific relations!"

That is until a ship drops anchor on top of it.

Ah, but here lies the problem. Schools are no longer teaching COBOL. They are teaching Windows and Linux, C++ and JAVA, and distributed/clustered computing. They, apparently, could care less about COBOL and mainframes.

"which would potentially allow criminals to clone the card in order to withdraw cash. "

Heh... the joke is on the hacker. I have no money in my bank account to withdraw!

Check out the FF add-on PDF Download. When you click on a link that goes to a PDF it prompts you and asks if you want to open it in the browser, save it to disk, or open in with Adobe Reader (outside the browser). No more FF lockups on PDFs for me.

Will the ASCAP be targeting Weird Al now?

I leave my computer on 24/7. It doesn't idle when I'm not using it. Instead it is trying to save humanity.

You work in a federal court? Where's your ID that lets you walk by the US Marshall without going through security procedure? You shouldn't have to worry about cameras on your laptop or your cell phone. Even if you don't "Work in a federal court" it is as simple as answering the US Marshall's responding to the question, "Do you have a camera on that thing?", "No Sir." I've passed by a US Marshall manning a metal detector too many times to know this should work.