Comment: Hunting Camera (Score 4, Informative) 508
Get a hunting trail camera. Takes pics on an SD card. Not networked, but is designed to be outside and it should get you the information you seek relatively cheaply.
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Comment: Re:IS flamebait because (Score 1) 504
I think 'timothy' needs to read articles before accepting stories.
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+ - Secure Application Password Management
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JPyObjC Dude (772176) writes "When designing any system that requires automated privileged access to databases or services, developers often rely on hard coding (embedding) passwords within the source code. This is obviously a bad practice as the password is then made available to anybody who has access to the source code (eg. software source control). Putting the passwords in configuration files is another practice but it is still quite insecure as cracking hashed passwords from a text file is still a trivial exercise.
[Q] What do you do to manage your application passwords so that your system can stil run completely automated and yet make it as difficult for hackers to get their hands on this precious information?"
[Q] What do you do to manage your application passwords so that your system can stil run completely automated and yet make it as difficult for hackers to get their hands on this precious information?"
+ - Welcome to the controversy - MS wants laptops back
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newscloud writes "Snap. Apparently, after yesterday's Slashdot post on Microsoft giving bloggers $2,200 laptops, the company reversed itself. GeekNews says:
Hey Microsoft, where's my laptop? Could I have one of these? I hear it runs Windows."Someone at Microsoft has lost their minds! Well first Microsoft gives bloggers laptops with Vista loaded on it for review and they are told they can do whatever they want with the laptop as in keep it, give it away when they were done with the review. But shockingly today Microsoft has asked that the laptops be returned after the people get done doing the reviews.
+ - Top 100 Domain Names That Wikipedia Links To
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Imri writes "The Zana Zen has an article about the top 100 domain names that Wikipedia links to. Interesting to note is that the distribution of the number of links obeys Zipf's law. Zipf's law plays a major role in the understanding of interent traffic (pdf)."
