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FBI Arrests NYPD Detective On Hacking Charges   Washington, DC Radio Station Web Site Compromises

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OtterBox acquires rival LifeProof   More than half of Windows 8 users just treat it like Windows 7

Twitter locks down logins by adding two-factor authentication   Dropbox Adopts Single Sign-On Technology

Dev writes comments as limericks and other coding secrets   Ethernet celebrates 40 years

Strictly speaking that would be ‘Problem deferred’   Reminds me of the time my little brother bought a new video card and he was in such a rush to see better graphics that he jammed the monitor plug into the card before I could finish putting the case back together again.  He bent several pins[...]

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If you’ve bought DRM’d film files from Acetrax, here’s the bad news

http://goo.gl/yDhAQ   Earth did have rings before you people came along.  I gave them to that bit** and then she broke off the engagement and kept them.  When I sued she said she’d give me “a” rock back.  I thought she meant “the” rings but apparently she had a different rock in mind.

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From Mt.Gox Web Site:  https://mtgox.com/press_release_20130515.html alan

Another thing to consider would be to roll your own Apache/MySql/phpMyAdmin/php and then just run it all locally.  Shouldn't have ...

Looking over the comments for the just released update to WordFence: 3.6.1 Major new release that includes the much asked for IP ...

I'm told the mouse was released unharmed into a field.

Rabbits, Otters, Cheetahs, Owls

In case of online forex transactions, a small bug in the software can transform into a huge security threat ...

Still More Feedback:network.http.max-connections-per-server;15 <-- Will bump this up  network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server;6 <-- This as well. "A single-user client SHOULD NOT maintain more than 2 ...

Got some feedback.Setting these in Firefox's about:config greatly alleviated the issue:network.http.pipelining.ssl;truenetwork.http.proxy.pipelining;truenetwork.http.pipelining.maxrequests;64 network.http.pipelining.max-optimistic-requests;20network.http.pipelining.aggressive;truenetwork.http.pipelining;truenetwork.http.max-connections-per-server;64network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server;64.I'm also now seeing connections coming from:static.twtelecom.netWhich is different ...

Got some more feedback.Specifically:Setting in Firefox about:confignetwork.http.pipelining.ssl;truenetwork.http.proxy.pipelining;truenetwork.http.pipelining.maxrequests;64network.http.pipelining.max-optimistic-requests;20network.http.pipelining.aggressive;truenetwork.http.pipelining;truenetwork.http.max-connections-per-server;64network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server;64Has greatly reduced the issue.  I'm also seeing connections from: static.twtelecom.netWhich I wasn't seeing yesterday ...

Like anyone else RIM will probably go wherever they can as long as revenue greater than expenses.