This exactly. Even if they didn't correct their clocks through NTP or other means, their clocks would only be slow by about 10 seconds or so over the course of 50 years. The servers/desktop PCs are likely to have been rebooted a few times in those 50 years, so they can correct the clocks in that downtine if they really must. As you mentioned, clock drift and corrections via NTP make thinking about implementations of 'leap seconds' for end user software a waste of time.

No the OP is pretty much right. 4chan has now implemented reCaptcha, yet is still getting hammered with spam. Thus some spammer using 4chan has managed to find a way around it with a pretty good success rate.

And on the same day is this story about IE share going up, and firefox down:

http://www.neowin.net/news/ie-usage-grows-in-july-firefox-share-declines

Goes to show you really can't take any of these findings seriously.

Because it costs nothing to archive it, and it saves you from having to make the decision of whether to save or delete it. (and the added steps to delete vs archive in gmail). It also saves you the pain of accidentally deleting something you meant to keep. You often don't realise you need something until you go to find it years from now.

Your inbox can still remain clean and you can still use "folders" to organise your mail.

Why would the spammers only copy trending topics? Why not just screen scrape everything from cnn.com and add ads? They do.

It just looks like they are only targeting trends because Google picks up on that stuff and aggregates it when it is a hot topic, so you see more of it.

Spammers don't need the trends, they are screen scraping everything, or just the headlines. This has been going on forever, long before "trends" existed. There are just more of them, and they are getting better at making their spam farms and increasing their page-rank, such that their screen scraped content is actually beating the site they copied from in the results.

Sadly it's only going to get worse, as it's too easy for even a single person to create many terabytes of auto-generated spam. Multiply that by the thousands of spammers doing it every minute.

The spammers would just get the trending topics from twitter or a news search or even just watching the news on TV. This is all much ado about nothing, the author just sees the spam and the trending topics and has jumped to a conclusion.

You sir, need to look at the "archive" button.

77% of iPhone users are fan boys/girls
80% of Android users value freedom of choice

Seriously, no 3D? How are they expected to use these things without 3D?

If they really want to add something of value, add 3D and include a set of 3D glasses, it's clear this is where the future is headed. The writing is on the wall for 2D, OLPC needs to get with the times.

Other than 'audio only stuff', there is also net access. On 2G/3G net access can be quite slow. So slow in fact, that it makes sense to background the task and do something else while you wait. It needs to continue downloading in the background and cannot be 'paused'. No idea whether the older iPhones do this, but my old Sony E certainly can.

I had a similar experience reporting this advisory years ago about this same hcp protocol: http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2002/Aug/225

From the text: "Microsoft have noted they intend to roll the fix into SP1 for XP. I informed
Microsoft I would be publishing this advisory in mid August during
correspondance (late June) and received no objections."

For some reason they only put it into a service pack and didn't want to release a hot-fix. After people got wind of what happened they back dated a hot-fix for it, as described here: http://technet.microsoft.com/library/cc750540.aspx

I'm surprised this has taken as long as it has. I wrote an advisory many years ago about this handler (he references it in his advisory).

I described that it is essentially a way to run elevated script (back then there wasn't even a prompt). All that was required was to find a CSS bug and you have full control. There was heaps of code there could have been a bug in, I didn't actually look through everything. I just found a small CSS bug and left it at that. MS obviously found a lot more as their patch changed plenty of code. Had he dug through the code back when I wrote the initial advisory he wouldn't have even needed the loophole to avoid the prompt.

Adding the prompt is a good move I guess (when it works), but I can't imagine too many users paying any attention to it. The idea that you can arbitrarily open a higher elevated browser that can perform any system operation with user passed parameters seems broken by design rather than just a bug.

Only if they have something worth showing off in the background. Plenty of people write witty remarks on facebook acting cool, while sitting at home in their PJs with their cat. The image you want to portray of yourself on facebook - "this my trip to paris, my night out at a club, when I met the hoff etc" only represent 1% of your daily life. The other 99% of your daily life is pretty "pathetic" for most people and not what they would want their friends to think of them, even though they are just the same.

Perhaps when you have the eiffel tower in the background you might video call your friend, but don't expect them to return the video feed if they are sitting at home with their mum.

I see Dranzer is an older ActiveX fuzzing tool, somewhat unrelated to the "BFF". I didn't really read the article properly. :P

I was just referring to this technical document: http://www.cert.org/archive/pdf/dranzer.pdf [pdf]

referenced from: http://threatpost.com/archive/blogs/dranzer-fuzzing-activex-vulnerabilities which is linked to from TFA.