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…someone’s playing tricks with my referers. I have an entry with no link, consisting of XXXX: followed by 160 plus characters (+). It pushed the right column of the table out past the page border and made me think there was something wrong with my site (which, in fact, there may be). Is something like [...]

…what are the Userland folks doing to ensure the security of root updates for Radio and Frontier? Seems to me it would be possible, as long as those updates aren’t signed, to masquerade as the update server and download some bogus stuff. I don’t know enough about the products or the scripting language to [...]

Slashdot: OpenSSH Package Trojaned. OpenSSH, for the Windows audience out there, is a secure connection package that allows encrypted connections over which users can use a shell on a remote machine or transfer files. (Grossly simplified, but that’s what I use it for.) It’s pretty essential, to the point that it’s become the [...]

CNET reported that AT&T plans to roll out higher speed cable modem connections (3Mbps down/384k up), but at something like $82 a month I wonder if it’s the best bandwidth for the buck solution. What are other people out there doing for big pipes?
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George Chang: Taxachusetts… legislating companies out of business. Mass governor Jane Swift just signed a bill legislating cutting the Medicare reimbursement rate to 2% less than the wholesale cost of drugs. George argues this is a pretty quick way to cause a meltdown:
Let’s think about this: First, regulate the reimbursement rate of a [...]