Pocahontas *IN SPACE*

I think the real problem is that all the kids that watched star wars when they were little grew up to be cynical assholes. Yes, every movie sucks, except the ones you watched when you were a kid, I get it.

If you look at it with fresh eyes, the original three had a weaker plot line, worse acting, worse special effects, and significantly worse choreography. C3PO and R2D2 were still there, as the robotic comic relief (to sell toys), and they were still annoying as hell. Maybe it's cool that Lucas originally did so much with such a small budget, and you somehow expect quality to scale linearly as budget increases, but it didn't turn out that way, and saying a movie is better because it is older and had a smaller budget is a pretty weak argument.

Keep in mind that every star wars movie was a kids movie. Kids were the target audience. If you were a kid when you watch one of the movies, you probably liked it, if you were not a kid, it was probably boring and predictable.

So after the hobbit, Tolkien should not have been allowed to write the lord of the rings books?

Wouldn't this be something like Yeti@Home?

Why do they need to share it with agencies? Try to make a search query over SSL, no major search engine supports it. That means numerous parties in between you and the search engines are easily able to track your searches. The only search engine I know of that will let you do an ssl search is scroogle.

The crazy thing is that you can surf google via SSL all you want, but the moment you try to make send a query, it will downgrade your connection to HTTP.

No, phish kits are pretty simple, and can be bought pretty cheaply. This isn't really about "hacking" anyone, it's more about knowing the most common places that phish kits keep their passwords.txt or whatever. AutoWhaler is like nikto for phishing websites :-)

Seriously though, I doubt it will get much use beyond academic, since I doubt there are many hackers out there that want to share their findings with whoever it is that runs that site.

Would be nice wouldn't it? Unfortunately the only way I have seen multiple monitor setups working is each workspace just gets much bigger, and shares all the monitors. For example, I start playing a movie in workspace 3, then drag the movie to the top of my workspace to where my tv is, then full screen. Then, when I flip to workspace 2 to check my email, my movie gets flipped away from also, until I move back to workspace 3 again. Not the way I would have expected it to work, but I have just been getting used to it.

jeff321:
Blah, try naming a single person who got in legal hot water by releasing code.

johannes:
The name of the game is PoC or GTFO. Don't be another one of those useless researchers who talks about how they can own everything, but if they release code, somehow that will help the bad guys. Those researchers often don't know what they are talking about , and even if they do, 10 years later and people still aren't protected. Dump it to full disclosure, release it on your website, or hold it for shmoocon or something. Do it however you want, but you should release it. If it really is as awesome as you say it is, it will make the world a better and safer place, if not, it may inspire someone else to go the next step.

It still confuses me why their "psytrance radio" keeps pulling in Britney Spears.

Firefox, adblock, and noscript will keep you about as safe as you're going to get while browsing the web.

Also, you might try playing around with some of the https enforcement features in adblock. It's flaky with some sites (no one does ssl correctly), but I was able to set it up for twitter and facebook without too much hassle. You also want to make sure you have "always use https" checked in gmail.

Also, if you don't want others in the coffee shop to know what you are searching for, https://ssl.scroogle.org/ is a good bookmark to have.

Exactly. I'm pretty sure the ubuntu build engineers know a bit more about optimizing their builds than most gentoo users. The ubuntu security team also reevaluates security trade-offs for every release, and adjusts which security flags they compile with accordingly. Not sure if other distros have caught up, but for a while ubuntu was the only distro that gave users a hardened and optimized build environment by default.

Reversed on what now? I followed he policies and ideals throughout the campaign, and while I do not agree with all of them, he has been doing pretty much exactly what he said he would be doing. For example, he was never an advocate of gay marriage, and has always said that we should be increasing troop levels in Afghanistan. But still, I hear over and over again about how he is breaking his promises.

Thank you. It takes maybe 3 seconds of glancing at that article to see how much sensationalist bullshit the headline is. I spoke with Obama personally about privacy, net neutrality, and telecom immunity last August. He may not know the field as deep as people like us do, but he really does understand the core issues. Just look at how straightforward he was with Hu Jintao last week, telling him directly that China should stop filtering their Internet, and announcing in his live speech that free expression of dissidence is a critical part of a successful nation.

I really don't agree with many of the things he has done while in office, but I do think he is doing exactly what he said he would be doing from the day he started running.

They aren't "dissing" political opponents, they are correcting lies. The whole "obama vs fox" drama is a complete fabrication of fox news designed to drum up ratings, so stop acting like they are some sort of victim in all this.

A couple weeks ago, Glenn Beck said that if net neutrality passes (as if it wasn't the status quo), then it will allow the government to censor conservative websites. It's all a complete farce, how can you possibly listen to a self purported news source that is so throughly bought and paid for by corporate lobbyists?

Meh, most superhero powers derive from some sort of telekinesis, and bank on the idea that some day, people are going to evolve fancy telekinesis neurons that are able to interact with remote particles.

Bullshit? Of course! But never impossible.

There have been reports of telekineses since the dawn of man, and while I don't have those particular powers, and I doubt anyone I know has those powers, you show a distinct lack of imagination by saying that it's impossible. Telekinetic neurons are no less realistic than tractor beams or warp speed, so quit pretending that your make believe fantasy world is any more "realistic" than anyone else's.

Also, in heroes in particular, overuse of powers does exhaust the person, so they aren't drawing from some zero point energy vortex etc.