It gets really scary when the ransomeware's makers require their victims to login to some MMORPG and paid in virtual gold.

Malware makers have gone offensive. One of the new tactics is to push fake data to antivirus vendors' servers.

http://securitywatch.pcmag.com/hacking/317184-weaponized-ant...

Ridiculous. Why would the Chinese want to destabilize their biggest debtor?

Agreed. China is flush with dollar-denominated assets. Besides, if the dollar weakens it will make Chinese goods more expensive in the US and cause labor unrest in China.

On the contrary, the massive debt owed to China is one of the few things that makes me confident about USD.

Rest In Peace

Mixed Active Content is now blocked by default in Firefox >= 23

https://blog.mozilla.org/tanvi/2013/04/10/mixed-content-bloc...

Meh. I've been using their 4.1 RC. CSV filtering / sorting / manipulation is still dog-slow for large files (>10MBytes).

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$20M a year, what a bargain!