Comment Re:No real reason to switch (Score 0) 1162
That's because -1 Douchebag wasn't an option.
Comment Re:Great. (Score 0) 301
Exactly. My first reaction was, "Sheesh. Get over yourself."
Comment The last part is the kicker (Score 3, Insightful) 97
Everything here could happen to almost any SMB out there. But to keep taking credit cards _after_ knowing you've been hacked?
Comment Re:May he find... (Score 1) 226
Let's hope he finds a nice blue pill then too. The guy is 80 after all.
Comment Democratic != democratic (Score 2) 369
Capitalization is important. Consider the sentence:
i helped my uncle jack off a horse
Comment Re:No, he's not. (Score 1) 75
I must have. I saw some disagreement a few days ago, but no mass debunking. Protection requires 10% of ISP's to adopt a routing policy change. Let me know when that's done, ok?
Comment No, he's not. (Score 0) 75
You can take the internet down with a small botnet (yes 250k zombies is small). http://www.zdnet.com/blog/networking/how-to-crash-the-internet/680
So, when it happens it's just a bad day, right?
Comment Re:Why bother (Score 1) 244
What would be the point. It isn't enforceable and even if laws were passed, you can circumvent it by tracking from an offshore server.
Sure. As long as you don't want to do business in the US.
Mozilla Proposes 'Do Not Track' HTTP Header 244
MozTrack writes "The emergence of data mining by third party advertisers has caused a national debate from privacy experts, lawmakers and browser supporters. Mozilla's Firefox, a popular browser company, has proposed a new feature that will prevent people's personal information from getting mined and sold for advertising. The feature would allow users to set a browser preference that will broadcast their desire to opt-out of third party, advertising-based tracking. It would do this via a 'Do Not Track' HTTP header with every click or page view in Firefox."
Comment No mention of what his girlfriend thought (Score 1) 258
Oh wait
Amazon EC2 Enables Cheap Brute-Force Attacks 212
snydeq writes "German white-hat hacker Thomas Roth claims he can crack WPA-PSK-protected networks in six minutes using Amazon EC2 compute power — an attack that would cost him $1.68. The key? Amazon's new cluster GPU instances. 'GPUs are (depending on the algorithm and the implementation) some hundred times faster compared to standard quad-core CPUs when it comes to brute forcing SHA-1 and MD,' Roth explained. GPU-assisted servers were previously available only in supercomputers and not to the public at large, according to Roth; that's changed with EC2. Among the questions Roth's research raises is, what role should Amazon and other public-cloud service providers play in preventing customers from using their services to commit crimes?"
Comment Slashdotted - mirror (Score 1) 211
Will Facebook Become the Net's SSO? 314
lordDallan writes "Simson Garfinkel at MIT Technology Review muses on the idea of your Facebook account becoming an 'Internet Driver's License', ruminating on the idea of an individual's Facebook login becoming their single sign on for the web. I say NO THANKS!!"
Doctor Marries Doctor's Daughter, TARDIS Explodes 326
techmuse writes "In a veritable Who's Who of Doctor Who, 10th Doctor David Tennant is marrying Georgia Moffett, the daughter of 5th Doctor Peter Davison, who played the Doctor's daughter in an episode of Doctor Who. Except that the Doctor's daughter was a clone of the Doctor, which meant that she really was Who. So a newer Doctor is marrying an older Doctor's daughter, who is a clone of the newer doctor, but only has half the DNA of the older Doctor."
Microsoft Patents Looks-Are-Everything Dating 192
theodp writes "Screw that eHarmony Compatibility Matching System nonsense. 'Physical appearance is generally considered one of the most important search criteria among users of online dating services,' according to a patent granted Tuesday to five Microsoft Research Asia inventors. Its Image-Based Face Search technology not only allows people to specify the 'gender, age, ethnicity, location, height, weight, and the like' of their prey, explains Microsoft, it also allows them to 'provide a query image of a face for which they would like to search for similar faces.' So, even though you can't have the real Angelina Jolie or Natalie Portman, Microsoft will fix you up with a look-alike."
