One of my fears was that either Yahoo or Gmail would simply pack up or discontinue their email with no notice. That is why one of my (at least once a month) is to make sure I download all emails/content from Gmail, Yahoo and Facebook (if you are not familiar with Facebooks way to download an archive of your facebook account you may want to look into it).

Its not that there is no interest. Its more probable that because of all the recent CryptoLocker type attacks that seem to always want payment in bitcoin, as well as TV shows such as CSI: Cyber which have tarnished the image of bitcoin making it seem that it is only used by Malicious Hackers or Blackmailers.

The problem is that black hats and the NSA also know this and will be concentrating on wordpress vulnerabilities. Any 0-day vulnerability in wordpress would be devastating.

Sony makes more profit as an insurance company than it does with all its other subsidiaries combined......

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05...
http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/ar...

The first thing I did when I got my PS4 was to take out the measly 500gb drive and replace it with a 2TB7200 rpm drive immediately..... Anyone with a Playstation Plus account would really be advised to do so anyways... [I upgraded my PS3 drive to a 7200rpm 1 tb as well recently also to take advantage of PS+ as well)

The Prime (either the HDHR3-CC or HDHR3-6CC-3x2) ARE supported for the SD DVR.

https://www.kickstarter.com/pr...

From the FAQ:
"Unfortunately the HDHR-US and HDHR3-US models don't support the HTTP and channel management features of the newer models used by the DVR system. The HDHR3-CC, HDHR4, and HDTC models are all supported."

Unfortunately with MS taking WMC out of WIndows 10 it is making it very difficult (ie: not possible) for many to upgrade to windows 10. This is almost as ill-thought of as the PS4 taking out DLNA or Vista UAC. I realize that the article is about the phone OS, but the path they are going with this makes it very difficult to "Trust" the MS eco-system... it would be like if Apple suddenly decided that it would no longer support AirPlay on its next OS release....

Yup... The blockbuster in Amarillo at the time insisted that I did not return the items. They were rude and tried to bill me full price for two DVDs. It was only when I insisted that they watch some security tapes from the night in question that clearly showed me returning the items did they stop harassing me. That was when Netflix was first starting in 1997..It was a no brainer to switch from Blockbuster to Netflix right then and there and I am still with Netflix... And people wonder why Blockbuster went out of business.... :-0

One reason that you may not hear of these breaches in places outside the US is that many use PIN and CHIP cards that make it MUCH more difficult to use or steal the credit card numbers.

Visa and MasterCard and Amex already use these outside the US... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMV and they are supposed to be mandatory for the us in the next couple of years. Maybe the deployment should be expedited? For a standard that has been in wide use for over 15 years elsewhere, its about time that the US finally catches up....

well... at least is not as confusing as having the password be "password"

General:: the deactivation password is "password"
Operator: whats the password...
General: "I Said... the deactivation password is PASSWORD"
Operator: ok but whats the password.......
Genaral: The....."; oops too late

The problem is that the internet has a VERY long memory...not just "nudes", but other items as well. Once its out there.... there really is no way to get it back...

Just a one example.... Many people that used to post on USENET in their "younger" days are now finding that items that they had thought were LONG gone off the USENET "spool" are now coming back to haunt them. This is because when google first started its google groups service, one of the items that they had done was to purchase old backup tapes of USENET posts and indexed all of that into their engines. Google bought Deja-News and other usenet providers to gain access to the data. Suddenly stuff that normally would have been gone in 18months is now available to search/find.

The only way to post nowadays to assume that the information will be seen by the ONE person you may not want to see the info in 5-10-20 years.. So be careful what gets out there...Slashdot included.

Old news. This has been an issue for YEARS.

Microsoft used to use and even advocate .local in many of its articles and educational documentation even after it became used by Multicast DNS / mDNS and other systems (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.local)

It was only recently that they stopped when the SSL registrars will no longer accept .local for certificates.

I have also seen several networks using .int for internal domains even though those were used for international organizations for a LONG time. Same as with .local and SSL is when these companies finally understand that the RFCs are there for a reason... .:-)