Using the special URL, the old password is removed and a new one generated in its place with no confirmation required.

While you're right in saying the attacker can't access the admin's account, the admin themselves also can't access it, because their password has already been reset to something else, and they'll have to get the new one. It seems more like a minor inconvenience to me, then a massive bug which will end the world, but still a flaw.

1) way cheaper (arn't they like 5 cents to make or something like that, being generous maybe even a whole dollar with the case)

You appear to be confusing the cost to produce the disk, and the cost to produce it's contents, and what you're in fact being asked to pay for.

Unless the DVD you buy is completely blank, it cost more then 5 cents to produce.

It seems I jumped to conclusions there, in downloading an ISO only having one purpose. I'm not even sure why, seeing as how I've done exactly the same thing myself, to replace lost games.

However, at the most that makes them equally grey areas.

this is far less of a moral grey area than downloading is.

No, you've got that backwards.

Downloading a game ISO has only one purpose. The playing of that game, without paying for it.

Modding an Xbox, as you say yourself, allows you to run XBMC on it. A legitimate use of the hardware, which harms nobody.

At which point it should have control of everything, and be able to take over.

This isn't really intended for people who want to make SuperAwesomeLinux 17, although it could certainly be used for that. It's target audience is software companies, and open source projects, who want to provide a quick and easy way to create virtual machines to run their software.

It's designed to get around the problem that to get your software into a company at the moment, you need to provide installation instructions, which may or may not work, and could take hours to follow. This is just what's needed to get anyone to *look at* your software. By providing virtual machines it becomes a lot simpler to get people to take a look at your software, because they just need to download it, and fire up VMWare or similar.

And then, when they want to put it into production, they can move the VM to their virtual servers (most large companies have them now, it's our standard method of deployment), and start it up.

That's me paraphrasing badly, if you want it from the horse's mouth, have a read of Nat Friedman's blog entry on the subject.

Because providing internet access there would require you to go to Hull.

That's actually quite a cunning plan - I hadn't thought of doing that before, but will give it a try next time I have to do something that's pulling content from external systems.

So very true, my fiance suffers from manic depression, with occasional paranoia, and it's terrifying when it happens. Obviously not enough to stop me marrying her, but still very scary.

Usually she's absolutely fine, and you wouldn't be able to tell if you didn't know, but every now and then something completely off the wall will happen. Recently I was going to sleep, when I noticed that she was sitting at the end of the bed crying. Turns out she was trying not to go to sleep, because she needed to stand guard in case anything happened in the night. Thankfully it's very rare, and usually there are other things which trigger it (in this case that we've just moved into a new house), but I'm still incredibly happy to see some progress being made to treating it more effectively.

The best way to deal with this sort of thing is to do regular checks as to how long hitting the address that's going to be loaded takes, in a cron job or whatever, and if it goes over a certain threshold, turn off that provider.

Sure, you'll lose a bit of ad revenue, but you won't have pissed off users who think your site is broken.

Yes, that would also be nice, but Mario is a platform game.

The whole principle of that type of game is to give you awkward bits that require a precise combination of movements to get through them.

If this was an RTS, or FPS game, then I'd be less happy about them slapping a band-aid on it.

If you want a challenge, don't use it.

Personally, while I enjoy a challenge, I don't enjoy playing the same level for hours on end, and never getting any further. I'll be using the "I'm bored, please let me play the next bit" button sometimes.

It's times like this I wish I had mod-points.

Sadly though, I doubt the record companies will see things quite the same way when they bust you for using the evil bittorrent.

you get the Queen's birthday off

Which one?

Yes, just imagine.

It would be just like we had a copy of Apache installed on our laptop, but without having to lug a server around with us.

Oh... wait... hang on a minute.