And that is exactly what you do in the real world.

e.g., pam_unix allows you to set the 'rounds' parameter to slow the calculations, in case the increased default is not paranoid enough for you.

The original article simply gives us a bunch of SHA1 hashes, unmodified, unsalted. Far too weak for real-world use, yes.

Reinstall.

I refer you to "Interesting times for Linux Flash support" at http://lwn.net/Articles/389266/. I don't know why more (any) LWN articles aren't linked to from Slashdot.

Pfft. It says, right there, "on Linux". What else could that possibly mean? :)

A standard that Microsoft, Apple and Google would have ignored.

Jobs does not spread make these comments out of spite.

Apple have put a tremendous effort into developing a closed platform where they vet every application that their users run. It is not in their interest to allow this to be bypassed by making Flash available on the iPhone and the iPad; therefore they discourage its use on their desktop platform by ensuring that the resulting user experience is unpleasant (that is, buggy and slow).

The public comments from Jobs about Flash is another prong of this stragegy: Apple is leveraging their fanatical fanbase to spread anti-flash propoganda.

I swear that the 1984 commercial is growing more and more ironic every day...

Cite please?

Did Unisys ever persue Mozilla (or a downstream recipient) for patent infringement?

You'll only have to experience the media plugin hell if you insist on using Firefox. Everyone else will have h.264 video that just works.

Ogg theora is no longer the same as VP 3. It has had many years of improvements!

Are there any decent comparisons of the two?

You are expecting logical arguments to work... :)

Your statement about the use of medial resources comes across as both glib and selfish.

If the tax paid by smokers went into a fund that could only be used to treat smokers, and the only source of publicly funded medical care for smokers was that fund, then you would have a point.

Does smoking near the device damage it in the same way that heat or humidity do?

Good luck getting Outlook to open \\pipe\whatever :)

Hm, can you seek on a file descriptor opened from a pipe?