Please expand on how you set up virtual-hosting-by-name to support SSL properly - i.e. all the sites on the same IP being able to do SSL with their own domains.

An alternative would be an Eye-Fi card and a MiFi 3g-to-wifi pocket router.

I have that pairing, they work very well - although you might want to cut back on image resolution or JPG quality to get a smaller file so it uploads faster.

I fully expect, within 14 days of now (if that), for people to be using this in busy locations to send links out to victims friends telling them to "click here to browse my holiday photos with this cool FakePhotosRealMalware tool!".

Not that I'm going to do it, just that it's really obvious and I want to feel smug for totally calling it.

*Switched* network. Read smarter, not harder.

See the BBC's recent requests to OFCOM to be allowed to DRM the FreeviewHD EPG data and require Feature Breakification of receiver hardware in order to be given a license to unlock it.

That's pro-rightsholder and anti-consumer.

QED.

I don't *think* it's "the ability to connect to shoutcast media streams" that's going away - just the ShoutCAST-branded radio stream directory side of things. (I wouldn't mind know for sure, though.)

It would seem to be the same sort of thing that CDDB pulled once it got commercialized - "our servers are only for the use of Officially Blessed clients".

Create a variant install disc with the drivers slipstreamed in. In fact, the odds are pretty good you can get away with just slipstreaming Service Pack 3 (assuming you mean Windows XP).

http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/xpsp3_slipstream.asp has full walkthrough.

If it doesn't stop projectiles, but stops the enemy seeing you, the term is "concealment", not "cover".

If you hit a DUCK with an Echo, would it make a sound, surely?

In some parts of the world, PO Boxes are not particularly cheap and are absolutely not anonymous. In the UK they cost a bunch (I forget specifics, but it's waaay more than an extra $9 per year for each of the few domains I have set up with DBProxy), and ANYBODY can obtain the name and real-address of the owner simply by writing and asking the Royal Mail.

That's right - no court order, no lawyer intervention, just ask. (There are some specific cases where that doesn't apply, but the general "there are dickheads on the internet" isn't one of them.)

You ultimately run the risk of Valve shitcanning your entire Steam account. If you can't sign in to Steam, you can't play online - and even if you worked around that somehow, you couldn't get updates.

Isn't it a little disingenuous to say "finally" when the bug was discovered last month?

That it was introduced 17 years ago doesn't mean that Microsoft has been tardy about fixing it...

Many guns don't have safeties: neither of my wife's guns do.

I moved from the UK to the US about 5 years ago. I feel perfectly safe at home with a gun. Objectively, subjectively, and statistically, I am safer here with a gun, and I'd like to keep it that way.