Might be of interest for artists even if you can't help the guy out.

An artist has been making a living of using recycled propane tanks to make fire bowl sculptures when someone else started mass producing his designs. Now the thief is suing him in federal court and hoping to outlast the artist financially. If that happens the court will nullify the artist's registered copyright in favor of a guy who's apparently never made any work of his own.

Detailed information here: [link]

For the few people who haven't caught on yet, no I don't upload here anymore.
Just the odd "humorous" tidbit, and sometimes I use my account to comment or +watch/+fav interesting artists and their work.

I've also snagged some PS brushes here and there and I have a comment to the people who made them.
First of all thank you for making and sharing them, I really appreciate it.
Second of all, don't forget to mention your name in the name of the brush set or make an individual brush with your name/url in it, that makes it easier to credit your hard work!

I might add a URL to my new homepage later when it's on-line, just saying that my current uploads aren't representative of my work

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There's a bunch of people copying Ahkahna's copyrighted species. Yes copyrighted, you can have a copyright registered for characters and the like and Ahkahna did as much.
Unfortunately it doesn't stop a number of immature and woefully uncreative bints from yoinking her designs.

An obvious distraction!

Lookie lookie at what was found on BinRev, a hacker community:

*LOL*
Alright, so I might sound a little ranty here but I'm sure you would too... So last night I decided I would poke around deviantart, I get to the message center and notice in the url ?to=<who> where <who> is a username. Deviantart is nice enough to fill that in for you. Guess what? They don't parse that, so then I proceed to craft my special url. That url is:

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Alright I figure, neat they suck at programming and I'll be nice and fill them in on this oftenly overlooked hole. I proceed to go into the chatroom they have set up called #seniors, and ask if any developers are around. A fellow by the name of Blue-Six responds stating he's a developer. I then tell him I've discovered an XSS vulnerability and posted the URL to him. Guess what then proceeded to happen? Yep, I get kicked from the chatroom with a message stating I fail. I fail at what? Your shitty coding fails. So I figure alright, maybe I can submit it under the help/site bugs. I proceed to do that, send them a message stating it would be possible to take over users sessions with javascript and this XSS vulnerability. What response do I get? None, I wake up this morning browse on over to deviantart.com and what is it I see? Site not found. I forget about it for awhile and come back, launch tor and whala! Site loads, vulnerabilities and all. Why are people such idiots? I'm trying to help you out, and you ban me from your crappy service? Well screw you, I'm not trying to be nice anymore, and I'm releasing your mistakes.

Back to the vulnerability and enough ranting... I'm pretty sure you can do the usual passing users cookies to off site script. So uhm, enjoy?

In English, hackers will make you click on a link that looks like it's a DA-link and harvest your cookie, then be able to log in as you. And DA doesn't only refuse to fix it, they BAN the person who was trying to make them aware of this serious security problem.
This was in Oktober and nothing has been done.

More info here: [link]

Don't shoot the messenger btw, this information was already released in a hacker community last month.
Hopefully DA will be unable to ignore it any longer if it gets some publicity.

Though I won't be surprised if I get banned for pointing out not only their flaws but unwillingness to do anything about it.