Prices are dictated by publishers, with some games they differ, yadda yadda yadda.

IANAGeneticist/Biologist, but... wouldn't evolution favor mosquitoes with longer lifespans? After a couple of generations, the weakened gene will get excised and the bugs will go back to the way they were.

Pinging is all fine and good, but try to transfer a, lets say, 1920x1080, 24bit color frame over WiFi, first with then without compression, then measure how long did that take. Now do 60 frames consecutively. If you can fit it in 1ms, without encryption and even with some form of compression, I'll be very, very impressed, then ask how long since you came from the future.

Oh, right. Forgot about that one, sorry.

*holds up geek card* So where do I turn in this thing?

This is, of course, if the vulnerabilities found can be accurately reproduced at an acceptable success rate. The original message on the mailing list mentions multiple times that software vendors found the bugs to be very hard to reproduce. It may be that the conditions needed for the bug to present itself are scarce enough that no malware programmer will opt to take that path, but, of course, now I've entered a realm of maybes and whatifs, so anything goes.

Chrome wasn't tested by the researcher, so no mention is made as to whether it is affected or not. Safari figures under "All WebKit browsers" in the message and some bugs were found.

And what if we put the VM... into ANOTHER VM? :O

It comes preinstalled with the OS, it doesn't need any configuring (or, if needed, it syncs automatically with settings on a domain controller) and, for tasks actually needed in an office setting, it works.

No, it isn't "good" by any stretch of the word, but switching to a different browser is definitely not high up on the list of needed IT changes.

If I understand correctly, these are worse, since they affect browsers automatically while loading a badly corrupt (fuzzed) page - no user activity is needed other than being pointed to the site. So, post a malicious address to an URL shortening service, spread to twitter/facebook/whathaveyou and you could do some - maybe not very serious, nothing a program restart wouldn't fix, but still - damage.

It's just me then probably ;) . I'd rather trust my memory jello than a scrap of paper or an electronic device to keep my most important information both accessible to me and private. Sometimes there are situations where you must leave your phone or wallet somewhere and I'd rather part with them and their contents than my most secure passwords. Of course, given a drug-and-five-dollar-wrench situation, i'm screwed either way, but up until now, I could always remember every one of my passes - and some of them are very long and very random. If i change a high-security password, i perform a series of test logins from a secure and trusted terminal until I can log in correctly ten times in succession without any delays on my part. I've been doing this for up to six years now, so I suppose it comes with practice, but it makes some pretty big assumptions on the security of the password. This method, for instance, surely wouldn't work in an office high-security environment, where passwords are changed pretty often.

> Obviously, it goes without saying that you shouldn't ever write these down anywhere - and I mean everywhere.

And this, dear Slashdotters, is why you should drink coffee before posting. Or just think before posting. ;]

If you don't trust automated password keeper software and don't want to clutter your brain too much, just tier your passwords. Seriously. Have a set of five, maybe six levels of passwords with different levels of length and complexity. Lev1 on throwaway accounts you won't miss, Lev2 for accounts you don't use often but return once in a while, Lev3 for untrusted websites you need to use regularly, Lev4 for trusted sites containing no specific data, Lev5 for trusted domains with your private information, Lev6 for the holy-fucking-shit-if-this-were-ever-hacked-i'd-lose-everything-and-kill-myself places. Obviously, it goes without saying that you shouldn't ever write these down anywhere - and I mean everywhere.

This is a pretty good compromise between different passwords on every site and using just one everywhere. It's not a security measure good enough for the 3l33t and/or paranoid, but it should be enough for the average internet-enabled Joe.

Bonus points if you change your passwords once in a while.

Correction: not Activision, but Infogrames, which is now Atari. It went something like this:

With CKeen, episode 6 (Aliens Ate My Babysitter), the game was published by FormGen, and Apogee was only a retailer. In 1996, FormGen was sold to GT Interactive, along with the rights to Commander Keen. In 1999, Infogrames Entertainment SA took a controlling stake in GT and renamed the whole company Infogrames, Inc. Then, in 2003, Infogrames Inc. changed their name to Atari Inc. and it sits like that up until now. Formally, Atari is the owner of all the IP surrounding Commander Keen.

I mistook Atari for Activision since it was Activision who published the GameBoy Color version in 2001 (leading to much Fanon Discontinuity).

They don't have them anymore. They were sold to FormGen by Apogee, who in turn sold them to Activision, so we can safely assume they're down the bit bucket.

You missed PC and handheld gamers, but good effort nonetheless! 7/10