Similar to how malware authors use Virustotal.

You're actually typing "http://www."? I don't think redtube's gonna work too well from Mosaic.

POE should be the standard... and that will stop those sneaky bastards from obsoleting ethernet jacks from our new fancy tablets and notebook PCs.

Hey, your network, your rules... EFF is proposing a protocol tweak to use encryption without requiring authentication, for those who want that as an option. I don't think it's a terrible idea. The easiest implementation would just be to have the client software scan for a "password=" or some such in the SSID, and try that automatically. Legally, of course, that would probably be classified as "war driving" or whatever.

This allows your guests to sniff each other's traffic. The only way to prevent this with existing protocols is to use an easy password and name the network in an inviting, password-hinting way.

I prefer the term "free as in for sale".

So real users out there, who happen to have the Bing toolbar installed and opted-in to tracking, searched for "mbzrxpgjys", "hiybbprqag", etc? That seems unlikely. Probably Google let Bing watch by intentionally performing these searches with the toolbar installed, or Bing is in fact googling in the background when can't find any hits on its own.

Good old 1980... what a civilized time to be a young man. In history class we learned about the Scopes Monkey Trial and all had a good laugh at our ancestors' backward ways...

So now, in addition to bearing the useless "story" tag, every story will be tagged "slashdot" as well? That's not good. Kill 'em both. I like the member-supplied hive mind tags, the auto tags are just clutter.

Other than that, I don't see anything to get my panties in a wad about... yet.

(p.s. It still takes way too long to preview a post though, nothing worse than before)

Leap? It's complete BS. Native apps are fine for things that require high-performance graphics (like games) or that need lower level integration with a device's sensors (like a camera app, a paint program, GPS stuff). For displaying text (sorry, "articles") and images, a browser-based experience is very much what I'd prefer, be it playboy or slashdot.

And "less secure"? Good lord what a reservoir of hogwash. I'll tell you what's less secure: Unnecessarily adding an additional piece of software on your machine that processes arbitrary content from the internet.

(okay, it's Friday night, enough slashdot -- I'm heading out to get a lapdance now... not particularly secure, I know, but then it does require low-level integration with my sensors...)

Any extension that's known to be installed on the sly should make the kill list in my opinion, but especially one that's causing crashes.

Well... "c" and "d" imply that he wasn't lying at all, and we know for a fact that all successful politicians lie, so I'll with "b" since the easiest lie to tell is the one that's rooted in truth. For better or worse, nobody keeps all their campaign promises. Though I do think he (and many others) saw the Democratic majority in the house and senate as somewhat of a free pass, underestimating the strength of the obstructors.

Even if "d" could be a little true, it certainly doesn't hold much water in this case. Hard to imagine that unifying media control under a small number of conglomerates is somehow keeping "terror" at bay.

In fact, it's a cracked version of Windows 2000 that Putin found on a torrent site.

Good list -- also needs items 2.5 and 3.5 for the speed and memory requirements of the decompression side.

Visitors being gang-raped by the whole town is extremely inhospitable. Just a stab in the dark, but maybe it's the betrayal of trust (you should be able to visit a town and walk down the street without fear of entitled assholes treating you like chattel) rather than the actual sex acts that ticked off Yahweh.