I dont see any changes. It looks just like the original.

Wait...

The attack was in the form of a mass spamming of SEO related products, and download links for recently aired TV episodes.

Source is obvious.

From what I have seen, Windows 8 might cure me of Windows.

I find the Windows key annoying, even in Windows. Model M forever!
Not going to modify my NeXT keyboards... they are still connected to their lovely black hardware.

... will there be Tux based swag in the MANN store?

But he recanted... so all is well...

It shouldn't matter a wit, what Linus' political opinion is, any more than the brand of car he drives. But for some, it will.

Its not like the community condones murder just because some people like/use ReiserFS... But some refuse to use the fs for that reason alone.

In the end, his comments, or anyone else's for that matter, reflect upon the community only as much as the reader thinks they do. You cant change that.

I SO wanted that to work...

Aha! So the 'CRT tan' was not a myth!!

Good luck paying customer service to handle requests to reset these blocks once your customers forget their passwords

Typically there is an account 'lock' mechanism in place before the IP block. Something along the lines of answering 5 personal questions to unlock the account for n-more attempts, But guess who still gets to handle issues of not remembering 'Your favorite TV show ?' Especially when its been years since you answered that question last...

once an attacker gets hold of a particular customer's username and intentionally fails to block the legitimate user.

Not an issue, unless the attacker is at the same IP as the legit user.

just make sure all access is denied from that IP or IP range

Which is exactly what denyhosts and fail2ban do.
On failure, echo $IP:ALL >> /etc/hosts.deny

Additionally... automatically block any single attempt to login as root, admin, www, ftp, etc..

5 fails in a row...ever.

No kidding. For example, high ozone concentrations in forests is decades old news.

I think the only thing keeping Yahoo in the Search market are the various software packages that try to push the Yahoo Toolbar during install, and ISPs that use it as the their default Homepage during setup.

Because the real problem is in fact employee turnover.

Exactly. I have a small stash of engineering design models and proto-boards which I saved from the scrap heap. I cant count the number of new engineers whom I have rescued from reinventing the wheel, by showing them our previous versions of it.