Comment Distributing Spyware? (Score 1) 72
Sounds like someone should go to jail.
Right?
Comment Re:Nathan Fillion is speechless.gif (Score 1) 286
Comment Re:Great step! (Score 1) 148
ISP like to cite the fact that so few sites support IPv6 as a reason to not bother rolling it out themselves [citation needed]. If Google can encourage sites to support IPv6, ISPs have one less reason to not give it to their customers.
Comment Re: Great step! (Score 3, Informative) 148
CloudFlare has also announced that they're planning to roll out free SSL to customers in the coming months.
Comment "we have lots and lots of open source around here" (Score 5, Interesting) 101
...and yet, all of Microsoft's flagship products, AFAIK, are the polar opposite of open source. If Microsoft truly thought anything of open source, this should not be the case.
Comment Re:What the hell is going on down there? (Score 1) 24
That's it! Australia's government has been taken over by a giant rabid man-eating Wallaby.
Submission + - Google Announces "End-To-End" Encryption Extension for Chrome
Nexus Unplugged writes: On their security blog today, Google announced a new Chrome extension called "End-To-End" intended to make browser-based encryption of messages easier for users. The extension, which was rumored to be "underway" a couple months ago, is currently in an "alpha" version and is not yet available pre-packaged or in the Chrome Web Store. It utilizes a Javascript implementation of OpenPGP, meaning that your private keys are never sent to Google. However, if you'd like to use the extension on multiple machines, its keyring is saved in localStorage, which can be encrypted with a passphrase before being synced. The extension still qualifies for Google's Vulnerability Reward Program, and joins a host of PGP-related extensions already available for Chrome.
Submission + - Google Launches 64-bit Version Of Chrome For Windows
An anonymous reader writes: Google today announced the debut of a 64-bit version of Chrome for Windows, starting with the introduction of 64-bit Dev and Canary channels for Windows 7 and Windows 8 users. You can download both now from their respective pages: Dev and Canary. It's worth noting that in both cases the 64-bit version is offered by default if you are running a 64-bit flavor of Windows, though the 32-bit version is still available. This would suggest Google eventually plans to serve up the 64-bit version of Chrome as the default version for 64-bit Windows users.
Submission + - Bittorrent will release AppSync alpha at the end of April (bittorrent.com)
roidelapluie writes: Bittorent has sent a mail to the people who registered to their private alpha program for SyncApp — a decentralized bittorent-based solution for file-syncing across many computers. The mail announced that they "have made some great progress with SyncApp" and they "will be opening the Alpha version of SyncApp for anyone o download by the end of April".
Submission + - CloudFlare DNS goes down, takes nearly a million websites with it
Nexus Unplugged writes: Content Delivery Network and DNS provider CloudFlare was unavailable for about an hour early this morning, affecting the likes of Wikileaks, 4chan, Cydia, some Philippine government sites, and their own site. A TechCrunch article discussing the outage points out that "CloudFlare generates so many pageviews that it would be the tenth [largest] website in the world." The problem was quickly confirmed on Twitter, and service was restored shortly thereafter.
Comment Re:WorldEdit did it first... (Score 2) 149
That would be CraftScript, which yes, has been around for quite a while. It also uses Rhino.
Submission + - IPv6 deployment picking up speed (caida.org)
An anonymous reader writes: The Internet's addressing authority (IANA) ran out of IPv4 Internet addresses in early 2011. The IPv6 protocol (now 15 years old) was designed exactly for this scenario, as it provides many more addresses than our foreseeable addressing needs. However, IPv6 deployment has so far been dismal, accounting for 1% of total traffic (the high-end of estimates). A recent paper by researchers at the Cooperative Association for Internet Data analysis (CAIDA) indicates that IPv6 deployment may be picking up at last. The paper, published at the Internet Measurement Conference (IMC) shows that the IPv6 network shows signs of maturing, with its properties starting to resemble the deployed IPv4 network. Deployment appears to be non-uniform, however; while the "core" of the network appears to be ready, networks at the "edges" are lacking. There are geographical differences too — Europe and the Asia Pacific region are ahead of North America.
Submission + - co.cc goes the way of the Dodo
Nexus Unplugged writes: Free domain provider co.cc seems to have quietly and mysteriously disappeared. No official explanation has yet been provided, but a cached copy suggest that they stopped accepting new registrations some time ago. Speculation, however, seems to come to a single conclusion. From the article:
Due to its free nature (and it’s $10 for as many as you want), Co.CC was abused and used for scams and spamming and was even de-listed by Google at one point although they did re-enable it. Getting back to the article on hand a few days ago Co.CC seems to have removed its DNS records which ultimately has stops its own site from working and every sub domain it provided.
It's worth noting that free domains are still easily obtainable from places like DotTK.
Submission + - CyanogenMod Domain Stolen (cyanogenmod.org)
An anonymous reader writes: The team behind CyanogenMod, one of the most popular community-driven, Android-based operating systems for phones and tablets, has announced that they're moving to Cyanogenmod.org after their .com domain was held ransom by a community member. He had been in control of the .com domain name for some time, but the team found out he was impersonating Cyanogen to make deals with community sites. When they removed his access to other parts of the CM infrastructure, he demanded $10,000 to relinquish control of the domain and threatened to change the DNS entries. When they refused to pay, he went through with it. The team is now disputing control of the domain with ICANN. They said, 'We will continue to be open about the what, when, how, but unfortunately, we may never know the "why" – though greed comes to mind. The team itself has not made a profit off of CM and that is not our goal. But to have one of our own betray the community like this is beyond our comprehension.'
Submission + - Cyanogenmod.com domain hijacked by a former developer (cyanogenmod.org)
fiji writes: The cyanogenmod.com domain has been taken over by a former developer. After making referral deals that he was not authorized to make, the developer was confronted by other members of the team. The fallout is that the main cyanogenmod domain has fallen off the net. For the time being, see cyanogenmod.org.
