What I remember is 95% of all radio show, newspaper, etc contests having iPods as the prize. We used to joke that more people won iPods than actually bought them.

FreeBSD 9.0 uses OpenSSL 0.9.8q by default (though 1.0.1 is optionally available in the ports tree), which according the summary should be safe (from this attack at least).

That's not a warning. A warning is supposed to come before something bad happens.
- Leela

Yes, sellers usually do check the addresses (though this may not be required depending on their CC handler). The reason they do that is because they don't want the bank to go after them later if the purchase was fraudulent. Any merchant that gets a high quantity of fraudulent traffic is most likely going to have to the CC handling privileges revoked, so the chances of getting away with it for long are slim. The notable exception is places like E-Bay that have a fair bit of financial baking to them and enough presence to keep the banks at bay. I know very well (having caught a credit card thief in-the-act) that stolen credit cards are fairly easy to use on E-Bay to order expensive items to shady destinations for extended periods of time.

And none of that is prevented by AT&T telling your bank where your phone is.

The thought of a bit-torrent client written in Javascript makes my stomach hurt.

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1) Steal credit card
2) Use stolen credit card to buy new phone
3) Take/sell phone and credit card to Russia
4) ???
5) Profit!

Usually the credit card companies compares your address to the shipping address of the order, not the seller's address. This is why you'll often have problems buying something online as a gift and trying to have it shipped to them directly.

Cool, so now people with multiple credit cards (personal & business, etc) need to either carry multiple phones or fumble around swapping sim cards in the grocery store line-up.

Policy? The government put in a law REQUIRING them to do it. They had no choice. You'll notice they are still charging you $50 to *undo* a restriction *they* put on your phone.

I know a family that lives next to the US-Canada border (their driveway is less than 500 meters from 0 ave.) they had to call their cell-phone provider so often to reverse the charges that the provider started just automatically waiving any roaming charges on their phone because they were sick of getting the phone calls! (Note: They live on the Canadian side).

Right, because everyone loves having to maintain *multiple* phone contracts, phone numbers and voicemails, not to mention how freaking tiny and easy-to-drop sim cards have become. We should not have to put up with this crap when we all know they're routing the data between each other using the same technology as a free voip call.

Though not particularly unusual, I once received a bug report by email and proceeded to debug, fix, deploy (to test server), test and deploy (to production server) a fix for a non-profit group on the train on my way to work.

Are you talking about pipelight (which runs silverlight in wine and pipes it to your native browser) or running the entire browser in wine?

Pipelight uses the silverlight plugin which Netflix currently only keeps working for the Mac users (at least, until now apparently...), so if Mac users switch to HTML5 who knows how long that will keep working.

Running the entire browser under wine has always been even more difficult, usually resorting to using the silverlight plugin inside wine as well (see paragraph 2). So unless someone actually gets HTML5 Netflix running under wine, we are basically boned.