Posts by iEgoPad

Hackers thrash Bash Shellshock bug: World races to cover hole

Re: Bash Vulnerability?

"Write this down: You can't inject anything into machine code, which is what your CGI should be made of."

What?

You've never debugged machine code that has splatted bytes at the wrong address, maybe over the top of other machine code? Sometimes bytes that it might have read from a data file? You've never got your hands dirty finding the cause of the splatter?

Kids of today. See a byte of hexadecimal and get all excited. Read some Fry-like article about what can't go wrong with machine code. Don't even know they're born.

Re: OpenBSD for the win

"I note too that the article keeps talking about UNIX as if it is the same as Linux"

They'll be calling vacuum cleaners Hoovers next!

Re: It's getting worse

"No doubt that the editorial team consultated Stephen Fry for technical guidance..."

And he gave the all-clear...

Every time someone visits a web page, a new web server is created. And because it's new, it's immune. So over time this virus heals itself and we won't run out of safe web.

Apple 'Genius': iPhone 6? We've had NO COMPLAINTS about our BENDY iThing

Re: However, being transported in a user's pocket is a normal use-case for a phone

"It could be a bad batch with a common fault, even."

A batch of 10,000,000.

Hmmm. You were talking about the iBuyers, weren't you?

Re: So what's the actual problem?

"So what you're saying is that Apple should have made it explicit in their documentation that having a round ass bending a straight phone is probably not a good idea?"

They're iUsers. Not the brightest stars in the firmament. You have to spell it out.

Re: So what's the actual problem?

"I do hope no uncharitable type will suggest that 'apple user' and 'dickhead' go hand in hand.

I certainly wouldn't try and draw any inference like that."

Inference superfluous: observation suffices.

Re: So what's the actual problem?

"2. Dick-heads putting a large phone in their back pocket, sitting down, and wondering where all the consequences are coming from?"

Only iDick-head Minis.

Full iDick-heads force whole IPads in their pockets.

Re: The REAL problem

Does not compute.

Lots of padding absorbs pressue / avoids odeformation.

Lean and muscley holds it against hard surfaces.

Maybe that explains so few...?

Re: Genius?

"It's a handful of fuckwits putting their new bling in their back pockets and sitting on them all afternoon"

Yes, but pales into insignificance compared with 10,000,000 fuckwits in one weekend.

But, hey, great entertainment for un-fuckwits.

Have a pint.

Have 10,000,000.

Because you're worth it.

FBI boss: Apple's iPhone, iPad encryption puts people 'ABOVE THE LAW'

Prat

Illiterate prat.

Never read Brave New World, 1984, Animal Farm.

Farm-hand prat, serving the farmer.

Let it go, Steve: Ballmer bans iPads from his LA Clippers b-ball team

Re: Same old...

1 x prick, but

10,000,000 iPricks in one w/e.

They win.