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Since the release of FireSheep, it's trivial to sniff a cookie based connection on an open WIFI.  It doesn't tell you a persons' password, but it allows you to login as them.  It was always possible before, it's just a lot easier now.  And SSL certs are getting cheaper all the time.  Supporting SSL is definitely an important feature for a forum.

You guys are all off base!  Didn't you know?  Arantor is a bot.  An AI that monitors the forums.  I can't believe you guys didn't know that!   :angel:

I can't resist showing off one more Tommy Emmanuel number.  It'll mean more to you if you're familiar with Nat King Cole's rendition of "Mona Lisa."  I'm not sure how popular that song ever got outside of the USA.


Tommy Emmanuel (2001): 15.MonaLisa

The Original Video! Tommy Emmanuel - Guitar Boogie & Stevie's Blues - July 2006

I tend to go for the acoustic style of string shredding...

Exactly my thoughts.  If the calendar were on the developers radar, being improved and having functionality added, I'd be more interested in it.  Or if I ran a forum that, like some, relied on scheduling, I'd be more up on it.  And to tell the truth, I'd be happy to see development be directed towards the calendar.  Things like being able to go to a particular day in the calendar and see various forum activity that occurred on that day.  Those types of things would make it useful to people individually, instead of being a global date book.

But, the way the calendar is now, it's not really functional enough.

From SANS NewsBites Vol. 13 Num. 77,

 --MySQL Website Compromised; Serves Malware to Visitors (September 26, 2011)

On Monday, September 26, the MySQL website was compromised and was being
used to serve malware. The attack was discovered about 5 AM PDT; the
site was cleaned up several hours later. The JavaScript code known as
the Black Hole exploit kit attempts to launch a series of known browser
attacks against site visitors. Security journalist Brian Krebs noted
that administrative access to the site was being offered last week on
the hacker underground for US $3,000.

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9220295/MySQL.com_hacked_to_serve_malware?taxonomyId=17

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/26/mysql_hacked/

http://krebsonsecurity.com/2011/09/mysql-com-sold-for-3k-serves-malware/

[Editor's Note (Liston): This is the second time in a year that the
MySQL site has been compromised. The first compromise pegged the
ol' irony-meter by reportedly being the result of SQL-injection.  No
definitive word yet on the root cause of this latest attack.]

The only game on my machine is a port of Doom2 called Zdoom, which I play about once every couple of months.  I get bored with it and then I go look and there's thousands of WAD files out there, some of which are true labors of love.  For some reason I keep going back when I need a game fix.

I'm from the Wolfenstein generation.   :niark:

I've been on the top of the World Trade Center.  It was a beautiful view.  While standing there looking out upon the curvature of the Earth, I never dreamed I might be making THIS decision...