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Re:Main GNU source repository server compromised on Tuesday November 30, 2010 @03:51PM (#1955532)
SQL injection
Re:Main GNU source repository server compromised on Tuesday November 30, 2010 @03:40PM (#1955508)
“But he has nothing on at all,” said a little child at last. “Good heavens! listen to the voice of an innocent child,” said the father, and one whispered to the other what the child had said. “But he has nothing on at all,” cried at last the whole people. That made a deep impression upon the emperor, for it seemed to him that they were right; but he thought to himself, “Now I must bear up to the end.” And the chamberlains walked with still greater dignity, as if they carried the train which did not exist.
Re:Main GNU source repository server compromised on Tuesday November 30, 2010 @03:38PM (#1955501)
lol, pwned twice in 7 years, "incredibly talented hackers" lololololo
Re:Main GNU source repository server compromised on Tuesday November 30, 2010 @02:57PM (#1955360)
Headline missed a word : "again"

Original issue date: August 13, 2003

http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2003-21.html

ftp://ftp.gnu.org/MISSING-FILES.README

                              Moving Forward
All releases after the 2003-08-01 date will have checksums GPG-signed by the GNU maintainer who prepared the release. This assures automatic certification of the integrity of all GNU source from that date onward.
Re:BitTorrent Based DNS To Counter US Domain Seizures on Tuesday November 30, 2010 @01:23PM (#1955026)
I'm not going to be using my CC on a site designated a terrorist organisation by the US Govt. anyway.

Using OpenAuth / OpenID / Facebook login etc. would mitigate the password problem.

Re:BitTorrent Based DNS To Counter US Domain Seizures on Tuesday November 30, 2010 @11:59AM (#1954720)
Isn't that the same problem as downloading a torrent ?
Re:Comparing Digital Video Downloads of Interlaced TV Shows on Tuesday November 30, 2010 @09:23AM (#1954147)
> Unfortunately, interlacing only works with ancient CRT TVs - modern LCD screens

You'll find expensive high end digital projectors such as the ones from Doremi also do interlacing. It's one of the banes of my life as we project lots of user generated content for our film festivals. Lots and lots of people never look at their films with interlacing, even fewer understand it.

I have shown someone their own film with the fields reversed and consequent shimmering and they couldn't identify the problem, some have even not noticed!

Also, NTSC isn't 30fps it is 29.97

I see lots of temporal artifacts on UK TV from NTSC -> PAL conversion. I use the opening credits of Will & Grace as my canonical example, interestingly that have changed (for the better) as the show got more series.

Final Cut's conversion introduces temporal artifacts.

I have been working on an FFT fps transcoder for a while but nothing to show as of yet.

I've spent quite a bit of time in India and if you watch Star TV satellite broadcasts on a CRT you will see lots of footage with reversed fields.

Get LCD panels out of the edit suites!!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STAR_TV_%28Asia%29

Re:SQL injection with raw MD5 hashes on Tuesday November 30, 2010 @09:18AM (#1954135)
I know there was already a shorter solution but

instead of '||'[1-9]

one could have searched for

'!=' or '<>' thus opening up the search space

Re:SQL injection with raw MD5 hashes on Tuesday November 30, 2010 @09:15AM (#1954125)
magic_quotes is turned off by default for a reason too.
Re:Self-hosting Lisp-to-C compiler in 384 lines of Lisp on Tuesday November 30, 2010 @09:03AM (#1954086)
Brucee used to assign "Lisp in C" and "C in Lisp" when he was teaching.

when he wasn't messing with people :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_V_Shaney

Go has users
* Go has 1000s of active programmers
I think the fact that Rust is older and yet Go has 1000s of active programmers is indicative of something. "Ship early, ship often" springs to mind. The Plan9 community has been working like that for years, almost every day an updated version is available (the distro cdrom is rebuilt every night) with bug fixes / improvements / new stuff.
I agree entirely with the sentiment, it would be one of the reasons I don't use Windows if I didn't have better reasons already. However, when you agreed to the EULA you gave permission to Microsoft to make any changes at likes at any time it chooses. I don't have the other two bits of software but I expect you gave them the same permission via the EULA too.
Re:SSH Commands / Tricks on Thursday November 25, 2010 @12:36PM (#1940651)
I know, I'm a long time plan9 user, I know what it could be like.
Re:SSH Commands / Tricks on Wednesday November 24, 2010 @12:16PM (#1937911)
> When ssh is the foundation of your security architecture, you know things aren't working as they should.

Rob Pike

http://interviews.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/10/18/11532...

Re:Intel Launches Atom CPU With Integrated FPGA on Tuesday November 23, 2010 @08:06AM (#1933544)
I can foresee SSL offloading, if it can pump through 10mbps of plain->SSL
Re:Personal Surveillance Drones are here. on Monday November 22, 2010 @06:08AM (#1929402)
Time to build an anti-drone SAM
? Lies

Facebook emails me every comment and notification

SMS backup on my Android phone emails me every Tweet (and SMS)

AOLers, aren't they cute.

Re:Automatic Mechanical Self Replication on Sunday November 21, 2010 @07:38PM (#1928342)
If you uploaded this, please de-interlace it (that's what's causing those horizontal stripes)
Re:Pope says condoms are okay in special cases on Sunday November 21, 2010 @01:22PM (#1927517)
Such as ejaculating sperm up a lady ?

no, oh

Re:Phrases that announce ‘I’m lying‘ on Sunday November 21, 2010 @12:39PM (#1927399)
Only add meaningful words. A "to be honest" or "in fact" can be removed. Brevity!
Re:Phrases that announce ‘I’m lying‘ on Sunday November 21, 2010 @12:38PM (#1927394)
I'm going to start using some of this "inappropriately" and see what happens.

I'm not racist but it's cold in here.

lol, if you tried you could find racism in lots of innocent sentences prefixed with that.

Re:Instapaper's backup method on Sunday November 21, 2010 @10:05AM (#1927150)
I just dump data into Venti and dump my 4gb Venti slices encrypted to DVD and keep an encrypted copy of my vac scores distributed around my systems.

If you're doing full dumps every few days, you're doing it wrong.

Re:Ballmer Throws A Chair At "F*ing Google" on Sunday November 21, 2010 @08:24AM (#1927025)
Why is this 2005, well known story in new links ?
Re:128-bit storage: are you high? on Sunday November 21, 2010 @06:45AM (#1926916)
venti rules hard :)
Re:Is Linux "at the end of its life cycle"? on Saturday November 20, 2010 @01:33PM (#1924981)
Plan9 has a slowly growing community.

One Plan9 product got $35m VC money this year - Coraid

Re:Is Linux "at the end of its life cycle"? on Friday November 19, 2010 @02:59PM (#1922560)
Some of us think it was barely alive

"Not only is UNIX dead, it's starting to smell really bad." - Rob Pike circa 1991

Re:SSH scans - I caught one on Friday November 19, 2010 @11:59AM (#1921897)
plan ahead & run an IDS on it

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