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Comment Re:RTFS (Score 1) 197

by shvytejimas (#29348745) Attached to: Password Hackers Do Big Business With Ex-Lovers
I think this is the extension you are looking for: PasswordHasher. It creates a hash from your master password and the base domain, has options for excluding special symbols from the hash and integrates nicely with the password fields.

If the guy who wrote is your friend, give him my best. What I like the most about this hasher is that it's also available in a standalone html file, which helps when you need to login from a computer without the extension installed. You can host the file yourself, but since it's written in javascript, there's no need to (hashing is done locally).
Communications

Submission + - Apple kills Google Voice apps on the iPhone 5

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molnarcs
molnarcs writes: "Apple pulls Google Voice-enabled applications from its App Store citing duplication of functionality. This includes both Google's official Google Voice and third party apps like Voice Central. Sean Kovacs, main developer of GV Mobile says that he had personal approval from Phillip Shiller, Apple's senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing last April. TechCrunch's Jason Kincaid suspects AT&T behind the move."
Patents

Submission + - Patents Discourage Innovation, Experiment Finds (ssrn.com) 1

Submitted by Thoughtfire
Thoughtfire writes: An experimental study from the University of California, Irvine and the University of Kansas suggests that patent systems hamper innovation. The researchers created a simulation where players are able to create and implement inventions. In some conditions, participants could acquire and use patents for these inventions. An open-source system was also available in some cases. The researchers found that when a patent system is available, or available in conjunction with an open-source option, innovation and social benefits were reduced compared to a condition that did not use a patent system (only an open-source system).
The Internet

Sony CEO Proposes "Guardrails For the Internet" 708

Posted by timothy from the red-light-cameras-too dept.
testadicazzo writes "Micheal Lynton, the guy who said 'I'm a guy who doesn't see anything good having come from the Internet. Period.' has posted an editorial at the Huffington Post titled Guardrails for the Internet, in which he defends his comment, and suggests that just as the interstate system needs guardrails, so too does the information superhighway. The following is pretty indicative of the article: 'Internet users have become used to getting things when they want it and how they want it, and those of us in the entertainment business want to meet that kind of demand as efficiently and effectively as possible. But what has happened online is that if it is 'beyond store hours' and the shop is closed, a lot of people just smash the window and steal what they want. Freedom without restraint is chaos, and if we don't figure out some way to prevent online chaos, the quantity, quality and availability of the kinds of entertainment, literature, art and scholarship we need to have a healthy, vibrant culture will suffer.'"
Image

Giant Spiders Invade Australian Outback Town Screenshot-sm 373

Posted by samzenpus from the welcome-to-my-sleepout-said-the-spider-to-the-bloke dept.
youth68 writes "Australia is known around the world for its large and deadly creepy crawlies, but even locals have been shocked by the size of the giant venomous spiders that have invaded an Outback town in Queensland. Scores of eastern tarantulas, which are known as 'bird-eating spiders' and can grow larger than the palm of a man's hand, have begun crawling out from gardens and venturing into public spaces in Bowen, a coastal town about 700 miles northwest of Brisbane."
The Courts

Submission + - Pirate Bay Guilty

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Ragein Maniak
Ragein Maniak writes: "Just minutes ago the verdict in the case of The Pirate Bay Four was announced. All four defendants were accused of 'assisting in making copyright content available'. Peter Sunde: Guilty. Fredrik Neij: Guilty. Gottfrid Svartholm: Guilty. Carl Lundström: Guilty. All receive 1 year in jail. Check out Torrent Freak for more info"
Space

NASA Names Space Station Treadmill After Colbert 383

Posted by Soulskill from the running-man dept.
willith writes "The SF Chronicle reports on the results of the International Space Station Node 3 naming contest (which we previously discussed). Comedian and fake-pundit Stephen Colbert conducted a bombastic write-in campaign and repeatedly urged his show's fan base (the 'Colbert Nation') to stuff the ballot box with his name, which resulted in 'Colbert' coming in first in the write-in contest with almost a quarter-million votes. Although the Node 3 component will not be named 'Colbert' — NASA has instead chosen to call it 'Tranquility' — one of the Node 3 components will bear the honor: the second ISS treadmill, which will be installed in Node 3, will be named the Combined Operational Load Bearing External Resistance Treadmill. The formal announcement was made on the air yesterday at 22:30 EDT on the Colbert Report by astronaut Sunita Williams."

Comment Re:It was nice while it lasted (Score 1) 329

by shvytejimas (#27329587) Attached to: Last.fm To Start Charging International Users
Most of Europe, at least. I'm in Lithuania and it is not available. On the other hand, not even Apple bothers to open the iTunes store here, despite successfully selling localized iPhones. And they wonder why piracy is so rampant here..

Anyway, I was actually thinking about buying a subscription with Last.fm. Since they don't put a 30 second limit on tracks in playlists I create as a subscriber, I could probably go listening through their whole library. This seems to be close to an 'all you can eat' model - at least for the tracks that have the preview/play icon next to them. Their music library seems decent, and I think the streaming works over HTTP, so it may be even possible to wget some of the tracks.
Windows

Draconian DRM Revealed In Windows 7 1127

Posted by kdawson from the just-who-did-you-think-owns-your-machine dept.
TechForensics writes "A few days' testing of Windows 7 has already disclosed some draconian DRM, some of it unrelated to media files. A legitimate copy of Photoshop CS4 stopped functioning after we clobbered a nagging registration screen by replacing a DLL with a hacked version. With regard to media files, the days of capturing an audio program on your PC seem to be over (if the program originated on that PC). The inputs of your sound card are severely degraded in software if the card is also playing an audio program (tested here with Grooveshark). This may be the tip of the iceberg. Being in bed with the RIAA is bad enough, but locking your own files away from you is a tactic so outrageous it may kill the OS for many persons. Many users will not want to experiment with a second sound card or computer just to record from online sources, or boot up under a Linux that supports ntfs-3g just to control their files." Read on for more details of this user's findings.

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