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Comment: Re:If it is platform independent (Score 1) 288

by Thorwak (#32561898) Attached to: Mass SQL Injection Attack Hits Sites Running IIS
Any particular reason you linked to an older version of the documentation? :D

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/c-api-multiple-queries.html

" As of MySQL 5.5.3, CLIENT_MULTI_RESULTS is enabled by default."

Anyway, there are a million reasons to sanitize input before doing ANYTHING with it, SQL injection is only one of them. Ppl blaming the DBs for these kinds of things probably had a server or 50 FUBARed and really want to be somewhere else right now.

Comment: Re:My Mom Liked Clippy (Score 2, Insightful) 191

by Thorwak (#31658132) Attached to: 15 Years of Microsoft Bob
It could tell you answers to really basic things (How do I print a document?), but more advanced questions usually gave an amusing answer at best. Still, I agree with the GP Clippy could be useful for the complete novice.

The problem, if you ask me, was that the average PC was too slow at the time so the computer would almost freeze for several seconds and perhaps even swap parts of Office to disk. The frustration of this happening whenever "It looks like you're writing a letter" of course made most ppl hate the whole thing.

Oh that reminds me :)
Helpful Clippy

Comment: Re:Is there the checklist for why this won't succe (Score 1) 353

by Thorwak (#30901028) Attached to: Researchers Claim "Effectively Perfect" Spam Blocking Discovery

...then compute every possible message that the template can produce, then MD5 hash them....

I was with you up until this point. Just consider a line of, I don't know, say 64 random characters. A complete MD5 DB just of this alone would make existing MD5 rainbow tables look tiny.

The idea of "moles" it not bad though (nor new). It would be possible for the SMTP server to look at a message and ask itself (or, more likely, an external filter) "Could this message have been constructed from this template?". As notes elsewhere though, it would be just another arms race.

Comment: Re:Qqest GoldSuite Timeclock Software ... (Score 1) 655

by Thorwak (#28092613) Attached to: Ridiculous Software Bug Workarounds?
Reminds me of the problem with Windows Terminal Services licensing where the licenses (tscal) would keep running out when running windows 2000 TS servers even if you had more than enough. The (unofficial) advice from MS back then was to turn off the TS license service... Anyone knows if that works better these days?
Games

Originality Vs. Established IP In Games 71

Posted by Soulskill
from the where's-my-known-space-mmo dept.
Ten Ton Hammer has an article about the differences between developing a game based upon existing intellectual property and the creation of an entirely new story and setting. They make the point that while doing the former may result in an easier time building a fan base, those same fans will often be the hardest to please. "By creating a game based on a popular IP, the company in question has a huge responsibility to 'do it right.' Unfortunately, not everyone realizes the reality of one little secret — every single fan out there has a different idea of what 'right' is. ... Lord of the Rings is a perfect example. For a person that may be familiar with the movies and little else, it's a great game with an impressive amount of depth and attention to detail. For the mass of fanatical fans that have spent more time poring over every book Tolkien ever wrote than even Tolkien himself, any deviation from the lore of his world is paramount to sacrilege on the most horrific scale."
Privacy

Judge in TPB trial challenged 1

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boaworm writes "As it turns out, the Judge in the much-debated The PirateBay trial, Tomas Norström, happens to be a member of several organisations working to strengthen and uphold copyright. He shares this membership with Henrik Pontén, head of the AntiPiracy Bureay, Peter Danowsky, prosecutor in the trial, and Monique Wadsted, the lawyer representing the media industry in the trial. The news is available in several major Swedish newspapers this morning, although it has not yet reached international (translated) media."

After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations. -- H.L. Mencken, on Shakespeare

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