Posts by mrobaer

With net unplugged, Egypt cracks down on journos

indeed

I was watching various news channels Friday night and one said the egyptians were using "old fashioned" techniques to access the internet, then said they were using dial-up. Having finally ditched dial-up myself in 2005, I wondered about their choice of words and my choices of technology.

It certainly is likely that the government there has squashed this as well...

Facebook riddled by 'my first ever status message' scam app

lol

I love reading the comments on facebook articles. If I am to believe the statistics* that about 29% of the people on the internet have facebook, I wonder what the odds are that a facebook hater-troll has a facebook account?

* http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats25.htm

Ubuntu 'more secure' than Windows, says Dell

Re: Bows & Arrows

Interesting logic, but I think you're off a little bit. You are comparing weapons with targets. Nonetheless, I'm sure that should WAL*MART have Ubuntu systems sprouting up on it's shelves and the masses partaking of this trend, that more weapons would be aimed at Ubuntu and probably Linux in general. How much more? Who knows... but it sure would be a breath of fresh air to see Linux systems sold in more stores.

Man accused of DDoSing conservative talking heads

@AC - Defending against DDOS

Clearly this will work against millions of spoofed source ip addresses, will it not? How does this deal with the overwhelming amount of data that would be directed to the target that the target's link to the internet cannot withstand?

MS kernel patch skirts infected machines

or ...

You could do this perhaps:

C:\>tasklist | find "firefox"

firefox.exe 2960 Console 0 78,188 K

C:\>taskkill /pid 2960

SUCCESS: The process with PID 2960 has been terminated.

C:\>

And it dies. Period. I do understand it's a lot different than what you may be used to in *nix systems. Maybe you overlooked this due to being "conversant" or something?

Hacker's record credit card theft fetches 20-year sentence

the devil made me do it

Competent enough to be a snitch for the US Secret Service to a tune of 75k a year, but not enough to know right from wrong? Give me a break!

Nicole Richie turns Twitter hacker on celeb chums

down with slang

There appears to be other definitions of the word rape that may be being used in this manner. For example:

(n) an act of plunder, violent seizure, or abuse; despoliation; violation

(v) to plunder (a place); despoil.

(v) to seize, take, or carry off by force.

I think the word rape used in this context of frape and facerape is along the lines of raping and pillaging, not forced sexual action.

In response to the other response about the use of the word killer, I'm not a fan of slang. It gets out of control to the point where some people appear to be speaking an entirely new language rather than English. Let me know if you find a victim of a killer complaining about the slang use of the word killer then we'll discuss it further.

(You may keep any spelling or grammatical errors you find as I do not want them.)

MS to release emergency IE fix on Tuesday

emergency fix?

Shouldn't all 0day vulnerabilities that allow remote code execution be fixed in an emergency type of attitude? I hope for a day that fixes and patches begin to be developed when their need is made aware, and that once completed* they be released to the public immediately.

* By completed I mean the bugs have been worked out due to proper testing in an expedient manner, not on a set date when all updates are released.

Free anti-virus scanner hits the cloud

Why not?

In the recent article about the Energizer website pimping malware you guys (The Reg) had mentioned Immunet, which seems to incorporate could technology. I'm wondering why it wasn't mentioned here?