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Did Russian Hackers Crash Skype?
An anonymous reader sends us to the www.xakep.ru forum where a poster claims that the worldwide Skype crash was caused by Russian hackers (in Russian). The claim is that they found a local buffer overflow vulnerability caused by sending a long string to the Skype authorization server. You can try Google's beta Russian-to-English translation, but the interesting part is the exploit code, and that's more readable in the original. The Washington Post reports that Skype has denied this rumor.
Because they use Skype.
being afraid of fags is fag
Speak for yourself! I hate the (cigarette dropping) sinners. I worked one summer at a small general store, and I hated the days I had to spend in the sun out front picking up people's dropped cigarette butts, pulling them out of mulch and bushes and from between the sidewalk cracks. Just to make the place look good. We did have ashtrays specifically for tossing them, but no, the smokers just dropped them wherever.
Gravity Sucks
That's funny. I know way too many highly-educated Russians to believe that. Nice try though.
The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.
I don't know why I'm replying to someone completely OT who was replying to two trolling Anonymous cowards...
Firstly, don't feed the trolls.
Secondly, people who just drop cigarette butts sometimes have nowhere else to put them. I know that when I smoked, I didn't just drop them - I looked for a bin, or one of those smoking things, and would actively search out somewhere to get rid of my cigarette butt. Others thought me stupid, but I find littering in all it's forms offensive. I often ended up with butts in pockets so that I could throw them away later. More bins are very useful for people who just drop otherwise. Some people will be inconsiderate with litter whether they are smokers or not, it's just easy to blame smokers and categorise them all for their obvious debris, whereas it's not as easy to pinpoint the general litterer.