Bill Gates's book "The Road Ahead", is, in its first 1995 edition, focused on how the CD-ROM was going to change everything about computers. Remember Encarta? They were really focused on that -- multimedia on discs, that was going to be the future.

But then, for the 1996 printing, the whole thing was re-written and suddenly CD-ROMs weren't the hot thing. It was all about the Internet.

Troll? C'mon, seriously. Slashdot was here when this story happened. It's interesting to look at the historical comments. Sorry I didn't spell that out.

Old news, slashdot. Very old news!

"Blades on a ceiling fan" do not open. So, if the satellite is trying to open "like" that, no wonder there's problems.

HTH. HAND.

Also, it comes with a copy of the GPL and an offer for source code.

Presumably, the success of FreeNX and the advent of OpenNX is what pushed them over the edge -- the "code dump that no one can use hahaha" model wasn't working for them.

(Pay no attention to the "PHP is no'" part of the above post. Awesome cut-paste-fail.)

The function predates PHP 1.0 by about 20 years. :) PHP is no'

I'm not sure if you're being pedantic, or obtuse, or whether you just don't know this, but generally, when someone talks about the crypt method of password encoding, they mean "the standard Unix DES-based algorithm" talked about in your link.

Many people (not necessarily us super-smart slashdotters, but in the media and in general) appear to be taking the wrong lesson from this. This data breech shows that it doesn't really matter how good your password is if the list is not stored securely.

In this case, they were encoded with the flawed and ancient "crypt" method, which allowed the weakest passwords to be brute-forced very quickly. But there's plenty of CPU power out there, and rest assured that any stronger passwords wouldn't stand up to further scrutiny, no matter how many squiggly characters are included.

Because of this, people using weak passwords that they didn't use elsewhere ("lifehack" is a prime example) are certainly better off than someone who had a "strong" password used on multiple sites.

Amazing how that works.

You're misunderstanding. Alternate ports shouldn't be inherently penalized. They just shouldn't get a pagerank bump by being on the same hostname as something else. If your content is legit, there really shouldn't be any worry.

If the page-rank algorithm is currently automatically counting different web servers at the same address but on a different port as the same site, stop that.

The article says "... Tony Rosario, was an undercover agent with the Entertainment Software Association ...". I'm gonna call O RLY on that one.

Even though not surprising that the entertainment industry lives in such a fantasy world, private corporate organizations do not get undercover agents. This was some random guy playing at cloak and dagger cops under the label of "private investigator".

As I understand it, Chris Mason brought his btrfs work with him when he started at Oracle, or at least the ideas for it. A kernel hacker of his caliber probably started the job with an agreement of exactly how that was going to go.

Oracle is a big organization; it's not surprising they act in apparently contradictory ways. They've done a reasonable amount of good open source work and made community contributions. But I stand by the statement that it's impossible to make a good prediction as to what Oracle is going to do with anything that comes from the Sun acquisition -- but you certainly don't need to take my word for it that most of the behavior so far seems to be aimed at short-term monetization rather than long-term community growth.