@JeremytheIndian: if i could promote, i would, jeremytheindian, i would.

@metersonic: totally amazing. god forbid that people without ID should have the ability to... gasp... communicate! ahhhh, States...

any idea how this works internationally? does google voice block the connection, even if you establish the account in the US?

@driven.insane: yeah - it was a little unclear whether your name was in the hash list, or whether your name was in the list of passwords they managed to crack.

@driven.insane: great link, thanks. I'm super curious to know if I was in their 380k of cracked pwd's.

@Palmetto274: Those alpha-numeric strings are DES-encrypted passwords. It will likely be cracked in x days, where x depends on the strength of your password. I imagine folks will be running these things through brute force algorithims and trying to do stuff.

@Palmetto274: go search on a torrent indexer for the gawker hack and i'm sure you'll have no problems finding it.

@UnderLoK: actually, what i'm getting at is, "how much time do i have to change it". A minute, a day, a year... Hard Q to answer, and depends on the strength of my pwd and the dictionary and algorithim of decryptors, but still...

@shkm: the torrent i got didn't have an "unencrypted DB"... hmm...

@metronome49: not to take your tongue-in-cheek too seriously, but folks probably sign up for mickie-d's the same reason i sign up for , say, american airlines. That is, discounts. Ok, in McD's case, it's way to get fat and die soon for less money. But at least you'll have more cash to bequeath to your…

one alternative to Skype-to-Go is localphone.com. I've had good luck with them.

@metersonic: and how much does a new SIM cost? Often, SIMs come with as much "credit" as they actually cost. So if you're just tootling around for a week or two, switching SIMs when it gets blocked isn't a huge deal.

Here's my Q: how crackable is DES? Wikipedia said it took 22 hours to crack a DES key in 1999. I don't know if a key is the same thing as a hash.

@shkm: hmm - the only ones i noticed that were "cracked" were "password" and "qwerty". Were there others I missed? Wanna be sure mine wasn't...

@wanlanguy: yep, you're right about the dd-wrt docs. I would think that, if one is still having VOIP troubles (such as myself) he would have to try "shaping" his download data much lower than 90%. As I understand it, you want to start dropping non-VOIP packets in your local router such that unwanted ACKs don't start…

@wanlanguy: I'll try downgrading my incoming bandwidth a bit more to try out your suggestion. This is all just a way to control the ACKs coming back from the clients. Same can be done for outgoing traffic, if you downgrade it enough, though perhaps not as effective - dunno. In the end, would be much better to…

@Turael: You can prioritize the traffic, but it will only end up prioritizing the upload speeds. As I mentioned, the TCP ACKs will be throttled according to QoS rules, but I'm not confident that will have much of an effect on overall download speeds. Perhaps it will to some extent, but probably not by tons. While…

A big caveat to those who are hoping QoS will solve all problems: QoS on home routers only works for upload speeds. You can't really control the parsing of bandwidth for downloads (that would involve cooperation of your ISP - good luck). QoS ostensibly can control downloads somewhat, since ACK replies from your home…

A big caveat to those who are hoping this will solve all problems: QoS on home routers only works for upload speeds. You can't really control the parsing of bandwidth for downloads (that would involve cooperation of your ISP - good luck). QoS ostensibly can control downloads somewhat, since ACK replies from your…

yeah, it's cool. but you're SOL if you're a thunderbird user. They have outlook plugins (yecch), but nuthin (and no plans apparently) for TB.