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Comment Re:What about (Score 1) 638

by ID10T5 (#20176765) Attached to: DUI Defendant Wins Source Code to Breathalyzer

I went to a bar in Windsor, Ontario and was blown away by the greatest invention. They had a freakin 25 cent breathalyzer that told you exactly how drunk you were! That's BRILLIANT!

But what happens when that little machine becomes the newest novelty bar game?

"Hey Joe, betcha I can get wasted before you can..."

Then you end up with someone who would have probably been drinking and driving anyway, but they have now consumed much more than they may have planned, in a much shorted timeframe. That's just asking for problems, and it is actually viewed as a liability by a lot of bars.
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Submission + - VeriSign Increases Domain Name Pricing

Submitted by BillGatesLoveChild
BillGatesLoveChild writes: CNET reports VeriSign has made its move, increasing domain name prices by 7%. From October 15 2007, .com domains will now cost $6.42 (up from $6) and .net domains $3.85 per annum. ICANN had previously voted to support the increase. Despite annual income of $323.4M from .com domain names alone, VeriSign claims it needs the increase to provide "a high level of security and reliability for .com".

This increase comes in the face of complaints by customers, registrars and senators alike that VeriSign is abusing its ICANN monopoly. Yet the furrowed brows and promises of senators of investigations have come to nothing, even though the only people seemingly in favor of the monopoly are ICANN and VeriSign. With complaints about the pair running back to 2002, what can we the public do to get our elected representatives to take the great domain name ripoff seriously?
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Journal Journal: Firefox ANI exploit on the way - no protected mode

Journal by thisispurefud
Determina is previewing a version of the ANI exploit that will hijack Mozilla Firefox 2 as well as Internet Explorer 7 running on Vista. At this time, Alexander Sotirov (chief reverse engineer at Determina) has said that the proof-of-concept exploit code won't be released until there is a patch available in Firefox. What's interesting about this is the fact that Firefox doesn't have the benefit of Protected Mode under Vista, which can somewhat mitigate the damage that can be done if Internet Ex

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