1265? That's the combination on my bank vault!

I'm not surprised security isn't strong - given the Virgin Media (ISP) account puts a 10 character limit on your password. Seriously. 10 is woefully short as a maximum.

You think that's sad? Go to their mobile phone account site. You know how you log in? Enter your phone number (public information), followed by a FOUR DIGIT PIN . Yes, I used bold, italic, and underlined for that. The ONLY thing standing between you and someone with your phone number being an asshole is, at most, 10,000 possible numbers. Surely no one could brute force 10,000 numbers!!!!

1) raprep plate from same/similar make model color vehicle (I've seen a very convincing copy already)
try telling the police you weren't at the crime scene
criminals will always have the upper hand in a Big Brother/Nanny state

Devil's advocate: Wouldn't this be a good argument FOR plate tracking? Sure, the plates were at the crime scene. But if they start tracing the vehicle back on its journey, they'll find it came out of 123 Seedy Garage Lane. They'll also have a record of your car pulling into 1701 Enterprise Blvd., parking, and never leaving.

Curious (and too lazy to google)-- At 5.5 trillion K, they aren't going to just stick a thermometer in there. How do they measure how hot the plasma was?

You charge $50/hour to rent a testing room where you can try any electronics that you like, and a means to easily order from Amazon on the spot.

Close. You charge the electronic manufactures to have their items displayed (or charge them more to have them displayed at a premium location). Consumers can come in for free and test anything they want in any way. Maybe still sell a "premium" membership fee that get them access to a special lounge with coffee, but that's just a bonus.

Set up links to Amazon, newegg, etc-- or directly to the electronics manufacture themselves. Take a cut of each sale, roughly the same amount as Amazon offers anyways in their "referral links".

Done.

Did they not read the warning message? "Please click this button only once! Do not use the Back button on your browser!"

I bet they also ignored "Works best with Internet Explorer 7, 1024x768 resolution."

That explains why, about a month ago, I got a whole rash of "omg funy click here" spam mails for friends with yahoo email addresses (and only yahoo email addresses). I wonder how recent this password dump is. I might have to recommend another round of reset-to-something-complex. My first recommendation was STOP USING YAHOO FFS!, but no one does that =(

If they're doing this because of that Flame thingy, how is this going to affect how I play Angry Birds?!?!?!

Are people around the world basing their IT decisions on what the City of San Francisco does?

Absolutely. Once SF switches from iPads to PADDs, and from Siri to Majel, there will be a whole FEDERATION of people following their lead...

First post says: This is a dupe!

"I think it was Newton..."

...but checking up before posting would be too much trouble, right?

Why look it up? Everyone knows that was Dr. Ian Malcolm.

I'm sorry, I didn't even realize he had lifted off the ground. Awe-inspiring isn't exactly the word I'd use.

I was more in awe of the interns whose job is to stand right next to the GYMNASIUM-LONG SPINNING BLADES!

Boy, that sucks. If only there were developers working on cure this ill. Perhaps users of this very site. Maybe they could solve the problem with a firefox extension?

Too bad. Because I would have totally loved that to be a real thing.

Protip: It is, and I'm being cagey.

f you want to try a new great browser from Mozilla, try the Firefox Mobile Nightly for Android: http://nightly.mozilla.org/

Does it support the Trinity of plugins? (Adblock, Noscript, Ghostery)

What a-- bad-- article. Blogger blogs about his own opinion, cites other bloggers as "proof". Also, Blogger doesn't know how the Internet works. FTFA:

Even Eric Schmidt has confirmed this in interviews, easily verified via his Wikipedia page. Also note the quote on there by him about...

Let's put aside that you're using Wikipedia as a primary source. The bigger wtf is-- do you even know what a hyperlink is? Apparently not. You should educate yourself. The information is easily findable if you Google for "list of html tags", click on the w3schools blue thing, then scroll down to the section called "a".