That or there's just nothing to say since it's not real news.

I love that Slashdot has been doing this for years and wish more news sites did the same. (Ideally The Onion would report actual news today only.)

To follow that, the security problems we're discussing might not even be on the end user's devices themselves.

The biggest holes seem to be with the corporations data security (or lack thereof) and willing sharing of personal information to even less secure third parties.

If you're worried about identity theft, malware from some shady website may not be as big of a concern as a data breach involving thousands of customers.

I've always wanted something like this projector + camera shining down on a pool table.

It could record all of the shots, and easily show you a prior table position so you could "un-do" a shot as well as re-play slow motion video of a "break" or other action. Based on varying games, it could count and keep score (cutthroat, multiple iterations of "4 ball run", etc etc) by just displaying the scores somewhere on the table.

For interactivity, it could "visualize" the line of an intended ball strike by viewing your cue stick and anticipating the output (it wouldn't be perfect with only a top-view camera, but good enough). Once you find your desired "line" a voice or other gesture control could "freeze" the drawn lines, allowing you to more easily aim.

Fun stuff, and I didn't even watch the video (:

Do you have an API to fetch the hosts file directly without using the windows software? I don't run any windows...

I'm thinking about taking your hosts file and running it through a script to create a dnsmasq or bind config so then I can run it as a local resolver for my home network (consisting of non-changeable devices like a Wii).

If you copy/paste some code from another class, all the dependencies are added automatically to the new class.

Even adding a new library to a Maven project is trivial in IntelliJ. You just start typing the name in the pom and a list of libraries and versions pop up, defaulting to the most recent stable release.

Getter/Setter/Constructor/toString/equals/hashcode -- they're all auto-generated for you as needed.

It is annoying that all this "fluff" exists in the language, but a good IDE hides it; getters/setters are collapsed to a single line; import statements hidden by default, endless customization in how your code looks so you can ignore the fluff and focus on the important stuff.

Try FoolDNS or others on this page:

http://alternativeto.net/softw...

If only APK would spend his time developing a DNS service we could all use for free instead of client software. (Push the hosts file to the DNS resolver that ALL devices use.)

If the "smart TV" uses it's own DNS, simply block all outbound port 53 traffic other than your router itself.