This is absolutely fantastic.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimivirus

A fascinating specimen.

Thats not how we do it in the UK mate. Here we make as many laws as possible, criminalizing as many people as we can. This so that when we decide we don't like them anymore there's a quick exit waiting. It also makes it easier for the police to root out the bad guys. When everybody has committed at least one crime, gives them leverage.

This was an embarressing oversight, normal service will be resumed shortly.

...Know your limits!

"The Idea was to save some bandwidth"

No. It wasn't, and that's a really daft suggestion because the short URL redirects you to the target url, so actually you're adding a tiny overhead.

They were created to turn extrmemly long links (eg. google maps with lon+lat+cruft in the querystring) into easy to remember and easy to transfer short links. A job they do very well.

...upgraded a low end netbook from Windows XP to Window 7 the other day.

I'm more than happy with it, you can dial down all the OTT UI stuff and make it look like XP, it runs all my existing programs, and actually gives a really welcome speed increases (no, really, it does, even on a cheap machine).

Time has come to upgrade lads.

"Daddy gave mommy a baby-seed that growed in her tummy until the baby was ready to be born."

This is something I've never understood. Sure, omit unnecessary details, but use real words.

For less than half the price!

http://tlb.org/scooter.html

...and what advantages over the spark plug does this rather expensive sounding method have?

1. Locate wind farm.
2. Fill sack with dead bats from the foot of the turbines.
3. ??????
4. Profit.

FoxIT Reader.
http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/reader/

Cosmos is and will remain timeless.

...the second story in as many minutes stating the fucking obvious.

Did we just change management or something?

I'm sorry. Is this Slashdot? This articles reads like it was written for the idiots, by idiots.

I've only skim read this dross, but it doesn't seem to make any concrete points. It draws attention some stupifyingly obvious security considerations (I wouldn't go as far as to call them bugs), babbles on about Windows spyware and then has a short excerpt from the GoDaddy help (what the fuck?)

What a waste of text, this boils down to 4 things:

1. User chose an easily guessable user/password for FTP.
2. User left user/password for FTP somewhere world readable
3. User got spyware which stole FTP details stored on his machine.
4. MITM attack on FTP session, stealing user/password over the wire. (this one I assumed because it's recommending SFTP without tellings us WHY)

Let me cut this craptastic essay down to size:

Easy to crack passwords get cracked easily.
Spyware steals login credentials.
Hackers can use MITM attacks to intercept data.
People are stupid and sometimes leave login credentials in a public page.

Frankly the editors should be embarrassed.

Guess the OpenSSH bug is real...