* Posts by Julius Deane

3 publicly visible posts • joined 13 Oct 2010

Sitting down all day is killing you

Julius Deane
Devil

Or you could just

Walk outside for a smoke every hour or so. Bet you'd live longer...

RUSTOCK TAKEDOWN: How the world's worst botnet was KO'd

Julius Deane

Cuz uhh

The servers responsible for controlling the botnet where seized. Gist of it is that them attempting to re-assert control would be incredibly difficult and risky. Them taking the codebase and re-building it again is on of the major dangers the article talked about, but those machines aren't taking commands anymore.

I'm just wondering how the legal precedent they've created is going to be misused.

Sex offender tagging system crashes

Julius Deane
FAIL

Oddly enough

2.1 billion happens to be the upper limit for a signed 4 bit integer (as opposed to 4.2 billion for unsigned).

Negative column id's?

*facepalm*