"Yes of course we have a firewall installed on the server"
"Err but is it actually enabled?"
"Nope, this security checklist just said it needed to be installed"

Doing something for no particular reason is really really stupid.
Firewalls aren't magical bits of software that block security threats with zero configuration you know.

Any hey presto the problem has been isolated.

People will take financial advice from a talk show. And they think the lottery is a good investment. Etc...

Is there no other way for it to be exploited? Is that contrived example the easiest way to demonstrate it, or is it provably the ONLY way to exploit it?

Sssh! Don't give them ideas!

"Your monthly fee is $1000 cents."

That is kinda the point.....

The latency isn't a by product of DSL technologies. It is caused by Interleaving.
If you are happy with a slightly slower connection, you can get lower latency but it must go slower to prevent errors.
Its usually a setting on your router, with Interleaving always enabled by default.

http://whirlpool.net.au/wiki/a...

http://sickbeard.com/

Why go to TPB daily? Why not just use Sickbeard which will get your shows for you automatically?

"I believe" at the start of your sentence? Slashdot doesn't generally tolerate religion very well you know.

Thats strange. The appearance of facts generally doesn't stop Fox at all.

So....the US is even more oppressive against it's citizens than Soviet Russia?

Good work guys. How is that revolution going?

What part of the story used ANY precomputed rainbow tables? None.

salt + "1234", if you know the "1234" then its a tiny brute force to get the salt.

Add an extra atom. Pretty simple. No reason why it has to be 3 atoms thick.

In fact I hear that a few years ago the smallest features were hundreds of atoms! Who knows how they managed to deal with this tricky issue of higher voltages.

Didn't you know? Looking like a damned fool is compulsory for 'green' modes of transport.

There is no such thing as fragmentation with Unicode. Most fonts only implement a small portion of it however.

If Microsoft and Apple both decide to implement 'Linear A' for example, they will do it with different fonts but using the same codepoints.