Unfortunately, paper checks don't travel well outside the country. This is because they generally clear through the nation's central bank. International wire transfers are expensive and troublesome, so much so that 99% of potential donors will change their minds about donating.

When Visa, MC, and PayPal block you, moving money internationally becomes reeeealy hard.

Fascinating! Which plan/provider and phone did you get to do this so cheap?

I do online backups through Mozy.com, and I found that to be ideal. They keep everything for 60 days (including versions for files that change) so if my hard drive fails, I won't lose anything. This means I can just keep my photo library in a folder on my PC and know for sure that it'll be safe.

You could do the same thing with a Dropbox account.

The dropbox home page has a huge, prominent video right in the middle of the page. Did you try watching that? It explains pretty well what it does.

I'm not sure what the hell you want.. do you want them to give away products that cost millions in R&D to produce, just because some of the games will bear titles similar to ones you already own?

I mean, this isn't EA cranking out pretty much the same Madden game every year. It's a truly innovative 3D gaming system, something we've never seen before and that probably cost Nintendo a buttload of cash to develop. In my opinion, it's well worth paying for.

Those programmers gotta eat, too, and I'd rather support innovations like this one, rather than what Sony and Microsoft are doing.

I'd love to try this, too.. Where do I go to get really good commentaries on Starcraft games?

So you run a non-standard configuration, and then you complain when you run into bugs that no one else is encountering (and thus, software developers have no incentive to fix)? You really shouldn't be surprised: when you put yourself in a superminority with respect to your computer's configuration, you're going to break shit and no one's going to give a damn about your problems.

Because most web publishers are deployers, rather than developers, of web software. The overwhelming majority of this software is written in PHP and assumes the presence of MySQL. Even those packages that support other databases often treat them as second-class citizens; they tend to be much less developed and tested.

I am a sane person, and I care more about using the database that'll work best with the apps I want to use (such as phpBB), than I do about promoting tech for its own sake.

Larger private servers (250+ simultaneous players) generally have no choice but to disable vmaps. I'm the owner of www.itrwow.com, and we have long since discovered that both trinity and mangos suffer from *serious* stability issues when vmaps are enabled. Most of the time, it's impossible to keep it running for more than a few minutes without some kind of segfault if you have hundreds of people online at once.

And, no, this has nothing to do with hardware -- our machine has more than enough RAM and CPU capacity to handle it. The software just sucks.

Correct.. browsers use the MIME type sent by the server, rather than the file extension, to decide which parser to invoke.

So if you have an upload facility, all you have to do is be sure that you're using the jpeg MIME type for jpegs and the gif MIME types for gifs.. it shouldn't matter if the actual bits of the file are an image, an SWF, or even an EXE.. the browser should be invoking the handler that corresponds to the MIME type, not examining the bits of the file to try to guess what it is.

It really looks like the article is overstating things when it claims that forged files can be used with this flash vulnerability.

There's one thing I don't understand from the article.. how can this be triggered through files with other extensions that are served with a proper content type? I mean, let's say you have a phpBB3 (with attachments enabled) forum and some guy uploads a jpg. It's actually a swf in disguise, but phpBB's own checks miss that. Then it's served back to a user with a jpg extension and a jpeg content-type.

According to the article, the SWF can still be executed under these circumstances, but that seems implausible to me. I would think that the browser would simply invoke the jpeg handler, fail to parse the image data, and throw an error.

This actually isn't quite true. If you become a com/net registrar, most of the money goes to VeriSign (who controls the com/net registry). The registrar has to pay VeriSign roughly $7 per domain per year that they register. The 20 cents per domain you're thinking of is the ICANN fee, which definitely exists, but isn't the biggest cost. org/info is similar, but the money goes to PIR instead of VeriSign.

The registrars' profit margin is quite thin.

Source: http://www.verisign.com/domain-name-services/become-registrar/com-net-registrar/index.html