The DNS is slowly rolling over. For example:

- Each of the GTLD servers ([a-m].gtld-servers.net) are delegating to ns[12].seizedservers.com

- Comcast's national opt-out DNS (75.75.75.75) has changed the delegation.

- OpenDNS.com's free filtering DNS (208.67.222.123) still delegates to ns5[12].domaincontrol.com, for about the next 3200 seconds (53 minutes) when its cache of the NS records expires.

I anticipate reading this exact same story, except with less details, yet again in a year. I coin this the secondary Slashdot effect.

Really? I don't see that in the questions being answered by the supreme court.

Excellent question. Did you? :)

My employer (a public company in the $5-10B market cap range) is most definitely increasing earnings, and hiring more workers. Oh, they also are debt-free, profitable and "(a)" sitting on a pile of cash, but that happens to work as protection against "(b)" being bought out and thus losing the workers they currently have.

No, I didn't expect you to research my particular employer, but, the grandness of your assertions aren't protected simply by accusing G.P. of lack of research.

On the flip side:

A. This is results in very asymmetric lawyer costs. The recipient is going to have to spend lawyer time to defend against it that the sender didn't just to send it.

B. By not spending time on a decent lawyer to ensure the takedown is unique and covers the case law for their own jurisdiction, Commodore may have unwittingly given up any legitimate rights they might have had in this dispute.

C. Lawyers are truly valuable at convincing clients to not start legal disputes. By not vetting this by a lawyer, they may started a snowball of subsequent legal costs that could've been avoided entirely if/when they lose. A neat trick used by some defendants, when they're sure to recover most of their defense costs in the end, is to drag out the legal dispute just to teach the other side a lesson.

Do I detect a non-user of AdBlock Plus? It's been featured on the Privacy & Security page of addons.mozilla.org for ages now, and occasionally featured on the front-page as well.

Yes, it works just fine with Google text-based ads, too. I haven't seen them in months.

The hardware behind Apertus is actually Elphel. They make "open source" cameras based on existing chips. The video codec is performed by an FPGA (loaded with GPL-licensed firmware made by Elphel).

Here is more about the hardware.

Additionally, Silverlight is plain broke in some aspects that make it less useful for developers, not just users.

This week I learned Silverlight on IE8 (remember, that's its same-vendor browser), after receiving cookies from a webserver, completely fails to include those cookies in an HTTP POST request. What... the... <expletitive>?

I also noticed this, shortly after I got the idea to use an unlock pattern. Once you noticed those two aspects (ability to draw between buttons, and harmlessly slide over already-activated buttons), the permutations multiply.

With those in mind, here is how unique a randomized unlock pattern can be:
4 dots = 1624 permutations (as weak as a 3 number password!)
5 dots = 7152 permutations (much better, but not by far)
6 dots = 26016 permutations (at least as strong as a 4-digit bank card PIN)
7 dots = 140704 permutations (about as strong as a 5-digit bank card PIN)

As a bonus, choosing more dots reduces the ability for a smudge attack to succeed. But only if you choose a pseudo-random one. Don't kid yourself, one that you come up on your own is biased in favor of a like-minded (i.e. homo sapien) attacker.

To help, here's a quick bit of shell code to easily generate a strong unlock code for an Android phone. It numbers the dots like a telephone: top-left button is 1, top-middle is 2, top-right is 3, ...etc. Just draw the dots in the pattern indicated.

rand -N 9 -M 9 -u | perl -ane '%seen=();%bad=qw(13 2 17 4 19 5 28 5 31 2 37 5 39 6 46 5 64 5 71 4 73 5 79 8 82 5 91 5 93 6 97 8);$last=0;print map {$next=$_+1;$combo=$last.$next;if ($bad{$combo} and not $seen{$bad{$combo}}) {()} else {$seen{$next}=1;$last=$next;$next,"\n"}} @F'

This is just grandstanding by a politician running for office. Neither Amazon nor Apple are headquartered in Connecticut, which makes the appropriate action for this state AG to make a filing to the FTC.

Except, of course, filing with the FTC just doesn't sound as exciting to voters.

Bullshit. I bought a house without a credit history, without a cosigner, with lower interest rate than anyone else I know. I merely had to prove my identity, my steady income, my steady bill-paying history, and have a 20% down payment documented in a bank account.

While my loan broker had a smaller choice of banks to choose from, the ones available were falling over themselves to offer me a 15-year loan. (This is no fault of the banks, but a no-credit 30 year loan according to Fannie Mae's post-bubble rules would've been unfeasible. I didn't want a 30-year anyways.)

It's DefCon weekend.

Welcome to law enforcement procedures. Of course you're allowed to have an opinion. But, say, your legally allowable opinion on your neighbor's yard maintenance might be a motive for why your neighbor is dead, for example. And 12 hour interviews are completely allowed. You just need to know your rights and how to use them; for instance, explicitly saying you invoke your right to remain silent until you have a lawyer present.

Now, is it reasonable for the FBI to suspect Jacob Appelbaum is involved in the wikileak and put him in the box for 3 hours? THAT's another question...

There, fixed it for you.

No, I'm not kidding. Remember brewing is the alcohol-creation step before distillation.

The fact that this is freeze-distilled still makes it beer: unlike normal (boiling) distillation, you keep the wash, not the distillate. (How they avoid making it taste like ass is another question.)