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Personalized Spam Rising Sharply, Study Finds 142

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday December 18, 2008 @11:16AM from the no-i-don't-want-a-yearbook dept.

designperfection9 writes "A new study by Cisco Systems Inc. found an alarming increase in the amount of personalized spam, which online identity thieves create using stolen lists of e-mail addresses or other poached data about their victims, such as where they went to school or which bank they use."

Comment Re:This is probably been asked before BUT.... (Score 1) 541

by Grr on Tuesday July 15, 2008 @10:52AM (#24196341) Attached to: Final Fantasy XIII Is Coming To Xbox 360

Time to correct it a little bit then ;)

Final Fantasy was developed during Square's brush with bankruptcy in 1987. In a display of gallows humor, director Hironobu Sakaguchi declared that his "final" game would be a "fantasy" role-playing game, hence the title.[5]

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Submission + - Circumvention of torrent blocking proxies (dwerg.net)

Submitted by on Thursday September 27, 2007 @05:36AM

An anonymous reader writes: It seems to get more mainstream for some ISPs and campus networks to block the downloading of torrent files, in order to try to prevent the illegal data traffic. This should no longer be a problem, as txtor (http://txtor.dwerg.net) offers you the possibility of downloading the torrent file for you and providing you with a text version of it. That is, modified extension and mime type. Seems to fool most transparent (and normal) filtering proxies.

Comment User stories (Score 4, Informative) 147

by dwerg on Wednesday March 07, 2007 @07:31AM (#18260420) Attached to: Getting Accurate Specifications for Software?

We've found that writing User Stories together with the 'client' is the only sensible way to gather requirements. Make sure you develop in short iterations, that way people can change their mind about the software and you don't loose a lot of time.

Map of the Internet 186

Posted by Hemos on Monday December 11, 2006 @10:12AM from the truly-impressive dept.

Wellington Grey writes "Author of the popular webcomic xkcd has put up a hand made map of the internet as today's comic. He also has an interesting blog entry detailing some of the work that went into it, such a pinging servers and creating a method of fractal mapping to display related regions as contiguous sections on the grid." The drawing is pretty damn impressive; somebody get on making that thing a giant wall poster so I can paper over Taco's office door.

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