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Submission + - Wikipedians want Spoiler Warnings Gone - Do You? (wikipedia.org)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 15, 2007 @02:48PM

An anonymous reader writes: Tensions are always high in Wikipedia, but this time it's serious. Many Wikipedians want all spoiler warnings on Wikipedia gone. Real encyclopaedias don't have spoiler warnings. Then again, real encyclopaedias don't have articles about anything recent enough to warrant them.

Should Wikipedia remove its spoiler warnings? Are spoiler warnings a violation of the no censorship policy? Is Wikipedia bound by netiquette?

I know you care about this.

Submission + - Sam and Max Episodes On Steam

Submitted by Dr. Eggman on Friday June 15, 2007 @02:05PM

Dr. Eggman writes: News comes from Valve today that Telltale's episodic series Sam & Max: Season 1 is coming to steam. Available in 3-episode bundles for $20 or individualy for $8.95 (with a 10% discount through June 22.) Episode trailers have also been placed on steam for download.

Submission + - Should We SEO Our Children?

Submitted by

gbulmash

on Tuesday May 08, 2007 @10:59PM

gbulmash writes: ""Freakonomics" turned a lot of people on to how your name can affect your career prospects. Now a Wall Street Journal article is discussing parents who are considering how well their children will rank in Google searches when they pick the child's name. With everyone "googling" each other, common names make pages related to you harder to find. Is this the future of baby naming: search engine optimizing our children?"

Submission + - A Step Backwards in Online Banking Security

Submitted by Gates82 on Monday May 07, 2007 @04:22PM

Gates82 writes: I have recently been frustrated by "added security" questions on banking and credit card websites. It seems that all of these institutions are heading towards a regular login and a second (3rd or 4th) security question to be used as a second authentication or as verification to reset your primary password. These questions seem a step backwards in security; now all that it is required to reset my password on these sites is to know my user ID and then answer a simple question (ie. place of birth, date of birth, pets names, etc) with most of the answers being quite publicly available. Personally, I normally bash on the keyboard and click continue not caring what the answer is; assuming that it will be more difficult to crack then guessing fluffy as a pet name. But to make matters more unbearable I attempted to login to a credit card website and was greeted with a second login and it was requesting an answer to one of these (hit-head-on-keyboard) questions. It took two calls to get logged in and I am now forced to use a password for each security question in place of the real answer.

This process seems like a way for companies to deal with joe blow who forgets his password every month when he goes to make a payment. But how insecure is this for the rest of us who are comfortable with our password making/remembering capabilities?

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