In the office

I laughed out loud.

Oh man

You have no idea how stupid you just made yourself look.

"OpenSUSE does include the gnome-tweak-tool, which can help change some of the GNOME Shell settings"

Tepest

They are probably referring to the technology that is used to reduce the effectiveness of the tempest attack - it's really advanced, I think it's called 'low contrst colors' or something like that.

They might also be referring to something along the lines of obscuring window figerprints to stop screen scrapers detecting when a 'secure' window is open (IE I have an application that looks for the spotify window to send it a message to play/pause when I hit the blue thinkpad button on my laptop) and capturing its contents.

Ken

I would have punch Ken Livingstone in the face if I were near him for doing that last night. Utter Idiots.

Not that simple

Unfortunatly it's not that simple. The OS has nothing to do with how a website stores its usernames and passwords, the code for the website does that, and while there are libraries to help you do hashing etc, there is no 'make me a ultra secure, scalable website' library you can just plug into a webserver and it 'just works'.

You do get things like dotNetNuke and other CMS solutions which come with secure login bundled in but they have a learning curve that most people don't bother with.

Lastly there is the .NET framework's FormsAuth (lastly that I am aware of, I'm a .NET developer so have no insight over PHP or Java's offerings) which kinda gives people the ability to custom roll a secure area and make it not suck but that is more like a really gentle push in the right direction, it's no way pretty to use if you want to get really custom on it.

So in short, unfortunatly there isn't, and the quickest (IE cheapest) and easiet way to create a website login is just to roll it yourself.

The excuse I usually hear for not hasing passwords is that if a user forgets the password, or the 'business' want to be able to log into customer's area's for testing purposes, it is easier if the password can be extracted from the database. "And no encrytion is not enough because then I might actually have to use some quick and easy to use tool to read the password as opposed to SQL Server Manager."

I wrote it already

......but it only works on a mac

*ducks*

Bush

George.....You silly old goat.

Bin Laden

You raise a good point. If we follow terrorist trends (IE how Bin Laden evaded capture) shouldn't we be trying to make some x-ray specs so we can arrest anyone carrying a USB Key?

*evil grin*

France thinking they are the whole of Europe again.

(Hey cmon, it's usually the Brits fighting the Americans here, may as well get a bit of French bashing in!)

Don't sweat it

They would never read The Register aways, it's run by infidels.

GCHQ

My money would be on it still taking them months to do, so for your average porn hiding requirements (which 99% of El Reg readers will be needing it for I bet) they probably wouldn't bother :D

um

Reactors 1 and 2 have the external power line, 5 and 6 have generators - in the big wide scheme of things does it really matter which way round it is?

So in a two page article you find one, inconsequential mistake and take a stab at the authors integrity over it.....

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Did it

Ya, it works quite well:

http://v3ga.net/YouTubeMixer/

then mix up

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2efhrCxI4J0

and

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kffacxfA7G4

and you must watch it through to the end as punishment for being such a tool.

proof

Unless you have proof that Anon hackers are related to 419s stfu. gtfo and diaf kthnx bai (and other such 4 letter words).

Saying that, you do get points for giving me a nice mental image of Dade Murphey (ask your nerdy parents kids) sitting in his shades listening to Justin Bieber while he hacks.

Thread?

Your generosity is without limits oh Moderatrix - throwing him off of the interwebs would have been much more fitting.

Downvote?

To the person who downvoted a Monty Python quote:

Do you want to come back to my place, bouncy bouncy? You great poof.

London

1) Move to London - solves the transport problem quite nicly (and the nightlife rocks.)

2) I'm sure Google will re-work their business model for your lordship, I'll send em an email.

3) You are a stereotype and complaining about the transport in England - please do stop.

Probably

The same people that play Farmvill.

Youuuuuuu

Trollin!

failure?

I'd LOVE to see you figure a way to put crew + cargo on a giant firecracker, shoot it miles up into space, without any kind of pre-existing implementation to work from, have it withstand the massive force it undergoes, pull off a 100% sucess rate and make it reusable and not have a few issues along the way, like fixing a couple of faulty brackets.