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Right. The notion that aging is natures way of fighting cancer is quite interesting. I've heard it suggested that curing cancer is probably a necessary step on the road to stopping…

That was great, thanks for posting it. However, I think these kinds of shock headlines are still somewhat useful. They help remind me that money doesn't really work the way I imagi…

GNU/Windows would be an entertaining prospect. I'd be amazed if they ever make it available under anything like a GPL or BSD style license.

Most dns servers don't allow zone transfers, so I don't believe you'll be able to enumerate domains like this. In general enumerating domains is not really possible (you can't just…

Some banks do this too. They store the password in the clear then at login ask for the Nth character of your password (rather than the whole password). That obviously means that th…

The list of banned books seems pretty arbitrary... I assume any guidelines are very vague. I'd love to know why they chose to ban a Shakespeare play...