Slashdot's ten millionth comment sums up the whole thing very well.

• Post 1M on Jun 15, ????
• Post 2M on Mar 1, ????
• Post 3M on Feb 13, ????
• Post 4M on Aug 2, 2001
• Post 5M on Jan 2, 2002
• Post 6M on May 20, 2003
• Post 7M on Sep 18, 2003
• Post 8M on Jan 16, 2004
• Post 9M on Apr 28, 2004
• Post 10M on Aug 18, 2004

• Post 4M to 5M: 153 days
• 5M to 6M: 138 days
• 6M to 7M: 121 days
• 7M to 8M: 120 days
• 8M to 9M: 102 days
• 9M to 10M: 112 days

At a roughly constant rate of posting, it will take 3 years to post 10 million more comments, or about 27 years to get to 100 million.

I love Wikipedia. It’s a bit scary to think that all of their hosting is done in a single place, which is in the path of Hurricane Charley. Update, 08-16: Looks like they did fine, since Charley turned northeast away from the Tampa area.

A lot of people use it, so here’s the heads-up: All versions of Putty have a serious security vulnerability that could allow the server to execute arbitrary code. The worst part is that it can be done before authentication, i.e. before your machine could know that there’s a man-in-the-middle attack going on. Download version 0.55 for the fix.

Google News has a little tiny section labelled “in the news” where it picks what are usually names that are popular (on the right, just above the “U.S” section). Two capitalized words in a row usually equals a name or a place, especially when they’re popular in the online news media. Since (Senator) John Kerry has picked (Senator) John Edwards as his running mate, Google News now thinks “Senator John” is the best thing since sliced bread.