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Comment Re:So let's change the algorithm. (Score 2, Insightful) 170

Correct: the attack here is:

Take big Site with thousands of user, many using thier (sorta) "real names".
Permute these names with some known big email provider hostnames.
Send them all some spam.

It does not really matter if 90% of those emailadresses are incorrect, the rest will hit.

I would not do the MD5 validation thing, why should I?

Comment Re:Get a Mac (Score 1) 932

That's exactly the way I did it, I stopped sopprting windows for _any one_ in 2002. It was way better afterwards.
Questions about windwows only get a "yeah that sure sucks when it happens, doesn't it....." answer.

My wife,her mom and my sister all switched to ubuntu (allthough in 2006), I spezificaly told them only to use software installed with sysnaptic. "You don't want anything else"

Works very good.

Patents

Breakpoints have now been patented 412

An anonymous reader noted that apparently Breakpoints have now been patented. From the link "A method for debugging including the steps of receiving code having a software breakpoint function therein, running the code for the purpose of debugging, monitoring the code to detect the presence of the software breakpoint function, recognizing the software breakpoint function, determining an action to be performed based on the software breakpoint function, and implementing the action. The present invention also includes an apparatus for implementing the method for debugging and a medium embodying a program of instructions for execution by a device to perform the method for debugging."

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