Comment js1337 (Score 3, Funny) 131
>I'm wondering what they can do if given some extra bytes.
In a few weeks you'll find out at js1337.com
Comment OLD (Score 1) 174
I'm stunned this is still exploitable. This bug is YEARS old.
Comment Re:Not quite that simple (Score 1) 800
Of course, the name does enormous things for your placement in google
Yes, exactly. This, and regular updates, is how I got to number one on google for my search term.
However: Do you think "google.com" would be more sucessful or less sucessful if they'd bought the domain "search.com" instead? I don't think it would matter one little bit. Why aren't "microsoft.com" called "software.com", shouldn't amazon.com have called themselves "books.com"?
My point is that for small search-targetted things, domain names are important. If you're a guy sitting in your underpants trying to get a web shop or a blog going, then buying zibble.com is probably not a better choice than techblogger.com or flowers2yourdoor.com
But for actual medium-to-large companies with a marketing budget, you could pretty much call your site something totally ridiculous like "bing" or "yahoo" or "slashdot" and you'd still get the traffic.
Comment Re:Shouted at the heavens, (Score 1) 221
I believe "Welshy" would be the correct spelling.
get it? Scotty, being a Scot, from Scotland. Welshy, being Welsh, from Wales. I'm amazed you still found that part of WNFHGB funny, given that it evidently swooped over your head.
Submission + - Tim Berners-Lee receives Order of Merit from Queen
nfras writes: Tim Berners-Lee has been awarded the Order of Merit by HM Queen. There are only 24 members of the Order at any time and is a personal award from the Queen. He joins the company of Florence Nightingale, Winston Churchill and Edward Elgar as members of the OM.
Submission + - BlueSecurity - Round Two!
user24 writes: "We all remember the Blue Security DDOS attack, and now it looks like the same group of spammers who took them down are attacking several high-profile anti spam forums in a similar co-ordinated botnet DDOS.
zdnet has the scoop:
"The spammers behind last year's destruction of Blue Security are back with a vengeance, using a variant of the 'Storm Worm' malware to launch a sustained distributed denial-of-service attack against three anti-spam services.
SpamhausThe ongoing attacks, which use botnets of hijacked Windows computers, successfully shut down the Web servers that power the Spamhaus Project, URIBL (Realtime URI Blacklists) and SURBL (Spam URI Realtime Blocklists (SURBL)."
Check out the castlecops forum, where members of these antispam groups are picking over the details of the attack."
zdnet has the scoop:
"The spammers behind last year's destruction of Blue Security are back with a vengeance, using a variant of the 'Storm Worm' malware to launch a sustained distributed denial-of-service attack against three anti-spam services.
SpamhausThe ongoing attacks, which use botnets of hijacked Windows computers, successfully shut down the Web servers that power the Spamhaus Project, URIBL (Realtime URI Blacklists) and SURBL (Spam URI Realtime Blocklists (SURBL)."
Check out the castlecops forum, where members of these antispam groups are picking over the details of the attack."
Submission + - EBay pulls from Google AdWords (infoworld.com)
InfoWorldMike writes: "EBay has pulled all of its paid search ads from Google AdWords network in the U.S in an eyebrow-raising move likely to be interpreted in the industry as a sign of deteriorating relations between the two Internet giants. An eBay spokesman characterized the decision to pull the U.S. Google ads as an instance in a continued experiment eBay does to determine the best allocation of its advertising and marketing budget. But a source familiar with the situation said the move is an angry reaction by eBay's management to Google's decision to hold a protest party concurrent with the start of eBay Live, the company's annual conference for merchants."
Submission + - Lip Reading Surveillance Cameras "To Stop Terr
mrogers writes: Infowars brings us the following news from the UK, which is fast becoming the front line of the war on privacy:
Perhaps the lip-reading cameras and the shouting cameras will find something to talk about."Read my lips...." used to be a figurative saying. Now the British government is considering taking it literally by adding lip reading technology to some of the four million or so surveillance cameras in order identify terrorists and criminals by watching what everyone says.
Submission + - Help Save Net Radio
shdowhawk writes: On March 2, 2007 the Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) set in action a bill which increased Internet radio's royalty burden between 300 and 1200 percent and thereby jeopardized the industry's future. There is an online movement currently set up to help protest this bill. http://www.savenetradio.org/ was established to shed light on the situation, to help the protest to save internet radio, and to promote all the bills that have been set up to try and overturn the March 2 action bill.
Submission + - Partial Hack for Short Key Quantum Cryptography
sarkeizen writes: According to nature.com a team of researchers has, for the first time, hacked into a network protected by quantum encryption. . The MIT group was able to entangle a photons polarization with its momentum. Which allowed them to get up to 40% of the information by measuring the particles momentum without significantly disturbing it's polarization. The researchers agreed that this kind of attack, although interested could be rendered useless by increasing the key length.
Feed Schneier Talk at the British Computer Society (schneier.com)
Journal Journal: Slashdot: The Flowchart 2
This week's miscellanea comic details my experiences on slashdot in flowchart form.
Submission + - PGP for HTTP: The death of phishing and mitm?
Mike Haningth writes: I was reading an
interview
published in the Free Software Magazine about Enigform. Author claims that signed http requests
can stop man in the middle and phishing. So far, it looks to be a firefox extension using gnupg, and
an apache module for the server-side. I think it is quite cool! (resubmitted to Index instead of
Askslashdot)
Submission + - Writing a novel in a wiki?
An anonymous reader writes: Wikis are a great tool for online collaboration. But this guy took it one step further and wrote an entire novel in a wiki, and then got it published. It's possible that this is the first published work of fiction that was written entirely in a wiki.
Submission + - Novablade.com stolen, sold to highest bidder
hidingintheclosetwithaplatypus writes: Damien & Trisha Buchwald (previously) from Novablade.com have loosed the dogs of war after their registrar, Network Solutions, refused to allow them to renew or transfer their domain name and who have now sold it to another company to be auctioned off. Apparently the name's worth around US$16,000, and the Buchwalds are looking for help from anywhere they can get it.
We are infuriated, upset, and feel like we have had our very souls stolen from us and sold. This is a very disgusting, underhanded act that deserves justification.
