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Submission + - Linode hacked, CCs and passwords leaked 6

An anonymous reader writes: On Friday Linode announced a precautionary password reset due to an attack despite claiming that they were not compromised. The attacker has claimed otherwise, claiming to have obtained card numbers and password hashes. Password hashes, source code fragments and directory listings have been released as proof. Linode has yet to comment on or deny these claims.
Businesses

Apple, RIM, Google All Bid On Palm 117

imamac writes "It seems HP was only one of many bidders for the struggling Palm. The others included Apple, RIM and even Google. You may now commence speculation on why the various companies wanted Palm."

Comment Re:I think Google is being reactionary here (Score 2, Informative) 272

I know why there are so many businesses that won't upgrade from IE6, with their legacy web apps that they refuse to upgrade, but for God's sake, IE8 has compatibility mode. For the good of humanity, upgrade!

If by compatibibility mode, you mean compatibility view, according to Microsoft it will "display the website as viewed in Internet Explorer 7", not ie6.

Security

New PHP Interpreter Finds XSS, Injection Holes 66

rkrishardy writes "A group of researchers from MIT, Stanford, and Syracuse has developed a new program, named 'Ardilla,' which can analyze PHP code for cross-site scripting (XSS) and SQL injection attack vulnerabilities. (Here is the paper, in PDF, and a table of results from scanning six PHP applications.) Ardilla uses a modified Zend interpreter to analyze the code, trace the data, and determine whether the threat is real or not, significantly decreasing false positives." Unfortunately, license issues prevent the tool in its current form from being released as open source.

Comment Re:You know... (Score 1) 254

Yes, I used soulseek for some time. I've found there very interesting stuff, though not always with the expected quality. I still come back once in a while (at the old server), specially to find old stuff I cannot find in the scene -in both places I use another nick, just FYI.
I've also found and bought some vinyls in gemm, ebay, musicstack, cdandlp, at record fairs, music stores... I buy new music on a weekly basis, mainly at cdbaby, interpunk and straight from the labels/artists. And, finally, I dl on average 4500 mp3s per month.
To keep track of this huge amount of music I've made an application to rate, query and organize my own music.
All in all, there's still music I cannot obtain. But not only me: every person passionate about music I know has his own wanted list. As a slsk user, you should know it. And the records exists, and we have the technical means to make them available to everybody. If it's not happening it's because an obsolete industry it's keeping us from achieving it. They are not stopping people to share music, this is a fact. Instead, as a collateral damage, they are preventing the possibility to preserve and organize forever our musical heritage. The scene is doing an excellent job in that way, but, as long as it remains in the clandestine underground, very few people have access to it and, at the end, the rarest music get poorly disseminated and is not taking in any hard drive connected to a given network.
Maybe it's about time to start talking about the quality (tags, encoding...) of the music is circulating in the p2p networks, and not about the cds the major labels are not supposedly selling because of them. By the way, you don't measure the health of the actual music panorama on cds sales. Perhaps you could do it on musical instruments sales, but on cds sales? It's plain ridiculous.
Anyway... thanks for your reply, mate. :)

Comment Re:You know... (Score 4, Insightful) 254

Obtaining and storing the data is trivial.

Not for me. Despite the 210k mp3s I have in my hard drives, the p2p networks, music streaming sites and online and traditional music stores, I have lists of hundreds of albums I cannot find anywhere.
Not only that, part of the music I own* doesn't meet what I consider a minimum of quality. But I cannot obtain it with a better encoding.
Music is a form of art and, as such, it should be considered, if not a patrimony of the humanity, at least something culturally valuable.
So it is significant how you store the data, how you rip, encode, tag and sort the music, in order to make it accessible and preserve its quality.

* I can manipulate it, delete it and listen to it whenever and wherever I want.

Comment you don't have to log out (Score 1) 757

On pre-Vista Windows boxes, most people ran their default account with godlike administrator privileges. It's either that or:

Run a restricted account
Any time you want to install software
DO:
log out of your restricted account
log into the admin account
install the software
then go back to your restricted account.
REPEAT

At least in w2k and xp, you have a run as... in your context menue

Image

Farmer Builds Robot Army 106

46-year-old Wu Yulu has only a basic school education but has managed to build himself 26 robots from scrap materials over the past 30 years. At first his creations were simple and could barely shuffle along by themselves. The robots got more complex as time passed, and eventually he built ones capable of climbing walls, serving water, lighting cigarettes, playing musical instruments and writing calligraphy. "When I was 11, one day I was sitting on the doorstep, and while watching villagers passing by I suddenly came up with the idea of building a machine that walks like a man," he told the Beijing Times.
Programming

A Look At Successful Game Mods 287

Parz writes "Mods have been an important part of gaming for well over 15 years. Not only have they provided plenty of additional free gaming to players, but they've acted as a launch pad for independent and amateur programmers to show off their skills to potential employers. This Gameplayer article highlights the programmers who are doing it best, and what mods have made biggest and most enjoyable impact on gaming. The article not only provides details for each game, but also links to the downloads, and is a great resource for those interesting in getting up-to-date with this exciting scene." Obviously, this list will seem incomplete to anyone whose favorite mod was omitted. What mods contributed most to your enjoyment?

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