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Comment The cause, and a fix (Score 5, Informative) 425

by rsteele19 on Saturday February 02, 2013 @07:29PM (#42774157) Attached to: Typing These 8 Characters Will Crash Almost Any App On Your Mountain Lion Mac

Landon Fuller has posted a gist on GitHub with an explanation of the bug and a binary patch to the affected library.

Comment Don't touch my packet! (Score 2, Funny) 125

by rsteele19 on Friday November 26, 2010 @06:58PM (#34353722) Attached to: Deep Packet Inspection Set To Return

I read the headline and assumed this would be another story about the TSA's screening procedures...

Comment "Web bugs"? (Score 5, Informative) 88

by rsteele19 on Friday November 12, 2010 @03:29PM (#34209860) Attached to: Google Says No More Cash For Trash Web Bugs

I hate to be the guy who complains about the headline of a story... but a "web bug" is an image in a web page or HTML email that allows the site owner to track who has visited the page or read the email. This story has absolutely nothing to do with "web bugs". How about "browser bug" instead?

Comment Re:Not the first and not the last (Score 4, Interesting) 315

by rsteele19 on Monday June 21, 2010 @05:38PM (#32646446) Attached to: VLC 1.1 Forced To Drop Shoutcast Due To AOL Anti-OSS Provision

I hate to interrupt a good old-fashioned witch-hunt, but AOL was instrumental in the creation of a little group called the Mozilla Foundation, transferring hardware and intellectual property to them and donating $2 million.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Foundation#History

So maybe they're not all bad.

Submission + - Inside the Rise of the Domain Name System

Submitted by

Greg Huang

on Wednesday July 29, 2009 @02:45PM

Greg Huang writes: "Looking back, it's almost impossible to believe that for most of the 1990s, a single company, Network Solutions, had a government-issued monopoly on registering domain names on the Internet. And considering how central the company was to the growth of the Web, it's surprising how little of the company's back story — how it got into the domain name business, or who owned it — has been told. Xconomy has an in-depth interview with two former executives from SAIC, the secretive San Diego defense contractor that bought Network Solutions in 1995 for $5 million and sold off the domain registration business in 2000 for billions of dollars."

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