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How does KeePass insert the encrypted passwords into the other apps? It would be trivial to add a clipboard watcher to a keylogger...

And Dominik would like to see his methods challenged. Note that this is for KeePass 2.x, KeePass 1.x lacks any kind of protection against keyloggers if you rely on AutoType.

Personally, I wouldn't use public computers for anything more than casual browsing these days, unless you know the computers are properly maintained and/or configured (public computers shouldn't be running an account with administrator rights by default), or they have some kind of rollback method. Once you log out, everything you've done disappears.

Flash 10.1 out, which is reportedly not affected by this vulnerability. The new version has an unusual number of changes (PDF) for a point release, and among those are a bunch of new features that supposedly will make Flash behave as it should, and make Steve Jobs reconsider including Flash in Apple's iDevices (yeah, sure).

Meanwhile, Adobe Reader is waiting for a patch, so keep those authplay.dll renamed

EDIT: Some Flash animations (for example, the one running in the main Flash Player webpage) when right-clicked won't let the user close its corresponding tab or interact with other GUI elements afterwards. I've only encountered this bug on Opera, but it may affect other browsers as well.

Ooops, there wasn't any plural on the headline

nosh has a bright future ahead as an advisor for big corporations

Heh, never thought I read an article in a newspaper that would call themselves "old" and part of a "fading business model". Then again, we're talking about the newspaper that published legendary headlines like "Headless Bodies in Topless Bars", and looking around their webpage, calling the job they do "journalism" is stretching the concept of it quite a bit.

As I understand it, the FTC is only proposing ideas for discussion that were suggested by interested parties, not making any recommendations. Then again, I don't know why I am discussing something that is completely irrelevant to me :P

The LP and cassette transition to CD all over again. Don't be surprised if the companies continue to rip you off when digital media is widely available.

God dammit, Safari, you were supposed to act as the scapegoat for Opera shortcomings. Who are we going to put the blame on for now on? Lynx?

And what's this, Apple? What happened with your closed ecosystem? Did you crumble under the pressure of the open source commies? You can't trust anybody these days.



So, yeah, as I said before in the thread, the only thing holding Opera Software for implementing an extension system is themselves.

Amazon has Video On Demand, but it's only available in the USA, as well as Netflix. There are rumors the latter ones are planning to expand outside the USA, but who knows to where and when. Living in Australia, it occurs to me that you could use Bigpond, but maybe that would require an ISP change.

And really, subscribing to a pirate video site? I was just thinking in BitTorrent.

I thought Chrome already had replacement extensions for those two

Sure thing

I simply wanted to dispel the assumption the media seems to have created, that just because the incidents happened at "Apple's factory", somehow they are the bad guys, though it could have happened with any other company Foxconn works for.

I wonder what these 3.2 and 3.2.1 versions of OpenOffice I have floating around are

Also, the forks happened way before Oracle bought Sun, and I ignore up to what extent IBM and Novell are improving OpenOffice with their forks, instead of sipping code from the main project and slapping a few key features on top of it.

Unfortunately for you, Foxconn also works for other electronic companies, which you may have bought devices from in the past. And this is not the first time that Foxconn has been involved in investigations regarding how they treat their employees, although it's likely the working conditions aren't as bad as the ones reported on one of KYE Systems (a.k.a. Genius) factories.

EA's own simulation agrees with your initial findings, mouser. My rarely used national pride is betting hard on that outcome as well

I'm really tempted to say the forbidden word, but, first things first, are you still living in Korea? What do you prefer, digital or physical copies?

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Considering the attack in China was made possible by a zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer, one wonders why you have to throw the baby out with the bath water despite you have your own browser, and development of Firefox and the desktop version of Opera rely on Google's financial support, at least try to eat your own dogfood for a while. Besides, switching to Mac or Linux doesn't solve the fundamental problems that allowed the attack to be successful, nor will rule out the possibility of another targeted threat that takes advantage of the 'superior security' offered by OS X.

There are other question as well. Why do you recommend your people to use the OS developed by your brand-new biggest enemy, down there in Cupertino? Why, despite having some of best and brightest engineers and system administrators in the world, you chicken out at the first sign of problems in the horizon? How do you intend to continue to develop Windows-based software without Windows? A virtual machine is not the solution.

I don't know guys, but without an official confirmation from Google, this 'Google ditching Windows' report seems bunk to me. Unless we're talking about ditching Windows for personal use and regular employees, not developers, which would make more sense.

Thanks for reminding me of that thread, app, looks like Ehtyar managed to summarize the most (if not all) important points about Conficker covered by the article.

A really nice writeup on one of the most devilishly designed computer worm ever: Conficker. Its origins, evolution, and how security companies are facing a fight the worm seems to be winning for now.

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For the technical details, I suggest the Wikipedia article on Conficker^w, and, of course, the thread started by Ehtyar in this same forum, which acts as a summary of sorts of both sources, with a healthy discussion as a cool bonus.
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You can actually play Wolfenstein 3D. For the time being you will probably need to grab a Linux build of DOSBox, since the Steam version only includes the Windows build, but I don't see any reason for id/Valve not making it a cross platform game.

Although you could buy Portal separately on Steam (I think it was being sold for $15), most people bought The Orange Box, which apart from Portal, included a few trinkets, like Team Fortress 2 and the entire Half-Life 2 saga.

Also, I fail to see how come Valve deserves to go bankrupt just because they made a "short" (there is more than just one game mode), albeit well done game. Other companies sell you 60 hours of emptiness for $60, and instead of getting a bad rap, they sell millions of copies and get critical acclaim.

If the group still was around, I suppose so

But really, this shows the hypocrisy surrounding game companies, DRM'ing the hell out of games, making things harder to honest gamers, and downplaying the gravity of the matter, while later finding out the same DRM they promoted as a Good Thing is also a pain in the ass for them for various reasons: lack of knowledge on how to decouple the DRM protection from the game, not having access to the source code, or just sheer laziness and the burning desire of making a quick buck. The case of Max Payne 2 is even more egregious, as Rockstar substituted one DRM system for another. Being a 2003 game, you could go and make the game entirely DRM free, eh? But noooo.

I guess we'll keep seeing more cases like this as digital services add more and more old games for which a crack is easily obtainable to their catalogue. Max Payne 2 is the third case this year, the previous ones being Arcanum and FlatOut, sold by GOG, which at least they're entirely DRM-free.

The offer has been extended for another week to celebrate that the total amount of money collected from donators went over $1,000,000. What's more, as promised, all games included except for World of Goo and Samorost 2, will be open sourced under liberal licenses, with Lugaru already available for anyone to grab from a Mercurial repository, and free to do whatever you like with it as long as it's within the terms of the GPL.

But think of all the money you would have saved if you had played what you already own.

Not really, you only delay the inevitable

Thanks for the new wallpaper, ham!

An interesting discussion on URL shorteners on DonationCoder - Bit.ly is Harmful to Your Reputation - http://www.donationcoder....rum/index.php?topic=22478

Clocks in at over 160 by 22 characters.

2 characters, actually. Didn't see the ellipsis.

An interesting discussion on URL shorteners on DonationCoder: Bit.ly is Harmful to Your Reputation

And, hey, look, a mere 98 characters line (170 internally, including BBcode and HTTP link).

I wonder if all this paranoia comes because of the hack done to the Apache issue-tracking server (which used TinyURL to deliver the XSS attack that started everything), because last week a friend sent me a bit.ly URL that redirected to at least one other URL shortener before showing me the true URL, and worked perfectly, without any warning message. Considering how distasteful the content hosted at the site URL was, I wish it worked back then, it would have saved me one more terrible picture ingrained in my brain >_<

For some reason the latest update of Opera insists that it is the default email handler, so it starts every time I click a mailto: link.
How can I keep the present set of newsgroup message without Opera wanting to fetch more?

Settings -> Preferences -> Advanced -> Programs -> Details -> Uncheck "news" and "mailto". That should do the trick, although you'll have to set up another program as the default, dunno if you can set up Chrome as the default handler system-wide.

For the second question, I guess there should be an option for that somewhere, but since I don't use M2 I can't tell, sorry.