That's your opinion. I always found it to be incredibly annoying, as it launches that shitty app every time you plug it in. You can't charge your Ipad without firing off ITunes.

Yet another example of Apple's holier than thou concept of design: "We know better than you do, about how you want to use our products."

And how are you going to implement password resets in any sort of timely fashion on this magic one-way ultra-secure box? I can pretty much respond to any answer you will give me with either a) won't scale or b) new security vulnerability.

Ok, for those who didn't RTFA, or don't know anything about security, you have a list of users and encrypted passwords in a DB. They log on and their password is checked against the DB. The problem is how do you know if someone has stolen your DB so they can crack it offline? (Offline brute force attacks are much more effective since they are thousands of times faster) So the author proposes that you give each user several possible passwords in the DB, only one of which is the correct one. If other passwords are used to logon, a danger alarm goes off, and you know someone has stolen your DB.

There are several problems with this idea. To make it work, you have to have a second DB listing all the passwords, and some sort of marker indicating which ones are real and which are fakes. You can't put this in the main DB, because then the hackers would have stolen this info too, and can tell which passwords are real. So you have a second, more secure system for this. Aside from the problems in maintaining a separate parallel system, one might ask the question, "why isn't your primary DB as secure as the secondary DB?". If attackers can breach your main defenses how do you know they cannot breach your backup network? What happens if your secondary system goes down?

More insidious, there is the recursive security problem. The point of doing this is for the assurance that your password DB is secure. How will you know if an attacker has gained access to your secondary password DB? Well, that would require a third password DB.......

Another similarity with roaches: hitting them with a hammer results in a satisfying crunching sound....

Are they really 'free', or are they actually subsidized via licencing agreements between the school and the publisher, and just being included in the tuition costs as a result of being part of the school's general budget expenses? I'd bet the latter, and they are just then charging you more if you want a permanent copy.

Actually, he took a look at them and said, "Invade our bankers and money launderers? Why would we do that? They are helping to fund us when half the world won't trade with us!"

Also, they were neutral and basically German anyway. You know, the whole Aryan thing?

More to the poin, fuck whatever they mainstream likes or doesn't like. I have been a self identified as a nerd for 30 years, and I have seen many of my hobbies and interests become mainstream in that time. I know what I like and I don't need validation from anyone. Society can either like tech like this or get run over by it when they don't embrace it, and I do.

Anyone have a link to a hacked .exe that fixes this behavior?

I will be more than happy to show them any of the number of fake e-mail accounts that I maintain for spam. How exactly are they going to be able to tell that they aren't legitimate? Oh, they aren't. They want to go through my email, they will have to spend all afternoon picking through idiotic threads of forwarded cute cat pictures....

Hey Israel, fuck you for being stupid.

Well then, since you are using generic, cookie cutter building projects as supporting evidence for your argument, wouldn't it be an accurate comparison to look at how often web design firms go over budget when building generic 5 page websites for small businesses? I suspect that the numbers will be roughly equal, and the type of work would be similar. In contrast, an unusual project like the big dig would probably be comparable with someone like Microsoft writing a new OS from scratch.

My point is that software development isn't really that different than a lot of other engineering projects. Building things is hard.

I'm going to stop you there, because civil engineering projects are NOTORIOUS for going over budget. You might have heard of projects like the big dig. Less well know, is that going over budget in less spectacular ways is apparently a fairly common occurrence. I was looking around for a report to link for you that I read awhile back talking about why civil construction projects so frequently go over budget, but alas, I cannot locate it.

Alas!

I am hard already....

"THERE SHOULD HAVE BEEN ONLY ONE"

Also, typing more crap to lower the caps count. Fuck you, Slashdot, don't tell me how to post. Of course typing in all caps looks like yelling, that is the whole point you rucking retreads....

Saying they 'will make it' kid friendly saccharin sweet crap, implys a change of direction. Anyone else here old enough to remember the ewok made for tv movies? If you think that uncle George started shoveling out cutsy crap in episode 1, you are sadly mistaken...

Or Schindler's list so you could smell the burning bodies? Yeah, I am pretty sure there are a lot of movies that introducing smell-o-vision would be a bad idea for....