C'mon, with BUILD just behind us, how did this wall of text make it up here? (It's NOT a slow news day.)

Having lived through the entire lifecycle of "open source," it seems like its place in development communities and businesses is well-established, with a mix of different licensing and deployment models for whatever anyone wants to do.

So...is there really anything interesting left in "open source" to talk about? (Software patents, maybe, but even that's picked up some case law.)

>> Sane people will stay with salting and stretching, ideally with scrypt() to neutralize GPUs.

"Key stretching is orthogonal to PolyPassHash and could be trivially used in conjunction."

Hell, just the bit about bcrypt, etc. using a unique hash per password would have stopped most of these "grab the file then crack the table" hacks; the current focus of developers should probably just be to replace anything still using unsalted (or common salt) MD5/SHA1/SHA256 schemes.

>> some readers may note that with this story we are slowly rolling out one we hope you enjoy -- an audio version of each Slashdot story.

Er...no thanks. There's a reason video tanked on this site too - your readership is too damn busy to wait for the talky-talk. So, we skim (and type) like crazy, and value text-heavy sites like Slashdot and Reddit. (OK, 15 seconds - time up - back to work!)

Early use by a major company of Javascript consuming XML-based web services. Successfully leveraged Google's search engine. Design conflicted with the all-on-one-page "portal" paradigm of the time. Text ads instead of banner ads, and controversial because they were tied to the content of the messages. Original cluster was 300 servers.

...and both KDE users have already shown up to comment. Badabing!

Retailers a Top Target for Attackers in 2012, Trustwave Says
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>> claims that much of the information on Wikipedia relating to (whatever) is "biased, misleading, out of date, or just plain wrong"

Er...no shit? Personally, I subscribe to this view: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W...

>> planning to introduce a legislative package

Since when did Obama think a lawful path through Congress was a good option? Wasn't he the guy who said he'd work around our elected representatives to mandate the important things on his agenda?

Oh...I see. This is just a "planning to" press release. In other words, this is a BS trial balloon designed to get people off his back about the NSA without actually changing anything.

As a security guy who has also been on the short end of legal threats too I feel for this guy. He's burned out and could use a year on the beach. Take a year or two at a cushy corporate security job but please keep the list alive - there are plenty of other moderators who would pick up the slack.

The silliest thing about this press release is that it seems to ignore the fact that most car batteries (and certainly almost all large battery packs) are recycled and scrubbed so their components can be reused in new batteries.

I went to RSA on my company's dime for about five years, but was always asleep on a plane before Bill Clinton, Tony Blair or whoever else was there said their piece and collected their fee.

Now that I'm more selective about which conferences I attend (I've already "seen the show" at the big ones), hitting alternative conferences like DEFCON (instead of BlackHat), and Thotcon (Chicago) and now TrustyCon will continue to be my focus.

>> credible hulk SMASH!

Um...yeah. I'm sure you really have been, uh..."spend(ing) the last 3 months breaking down ACA numbers and running comparative studies on current cost due to ACA"

>> I think your stupid...Post AC becasue (authority) wouldn't be too happy

Are you sure you're not posting this during your fourth period study hall? I kind of feel like I'm talking to my kids' friends right now.

>> both Democrats and Republicans are seriously delusional about how much the free market can magically solve a lot of the problems with our current health care system

One of the key requirements of any free market is free information. If you're familiar with "Medicaid oversampling" I'm guessing you're already affiliated with a health care provider. Are you currently pushing your provider to publish its prices? If not, why not?

>> but for you it's actually a great deal

Now there's the BS - you sound like the people who encourage everyone else to ride public transportation (without riding it themselves) right now.

Trust me - I did the math. ACA's benefits, including access to providers, were well below what I was getting with my expensive individual insurance policy a few years ago. With a couple of kids doing sports and the occasional illness, the difference between paying out of pocket for my own health insurance vs. snuggling back up to a megacorp (and dodging the self-employment tax) made it a no-brainer.

Before we continue, please tell me that you already signed up and paid for your ACA policy, and love what it does for you.