We should ban it!! It is a major component of another hazardous product
1: More than 98 percent of convicted felons are bread eaters.
2: Fully HALF of all children who grow up in bread-consuming households score below average on standardized tests.
3: In the 18th century, when virtually all bread was baked in the home, the average life expectancy was less than 50 years; infant mortality rates were unacceptably high; many women died in childbirth; and diseases such as typhoid, yellow fever and influenza ravaged whole nations.
4: More than 90 percent of violent crimes are committed within 24 hours of eating bread.
5: Bread is made from a substance called "dough." It has been proven that as little as one pound of dough can be used to suffocate a mouse. The average American eats more bread than that in one month!
6: Primitive tribal societies that have no bread exhibit a low occurrence of cancer, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's disease and osteoporosis.
7: Bread has been proven to be addictive. Subjects deprived of bread and given only water to eat begged for bread after only two days.
8: Bread is often a "gateway" food item, leading the user to "harder" items such as butter, jelly, peanut butter and even cold cuts.
9: Bread has been proven to absorb water. Since the human body is more than 90 percent water, it follows that eating bread could lead to your body being taken over by this absorptive food product, turning you into a soggy, gooey bread-pudding person.
10: Newborn babies can choke on bread.
11: Bread is baked at temperatures as high as 400 degrees Fahrenheit! That kind of heat can kill an adult in less than one minute.
12: Most American bread eaters are utterly unable to distinguish between significant scientific fact and meaningless statistical babbling.
You see the episode of Myth Busters where they investigated the airbourne fecal coliform myth (that a toothbrush anywhere near a toilet has poo on it)?
For 30 days they brushed their teeth with brushes kept on the toilet tank. They also had about 40 brushes kept at various distances from the toilet that they simulated brushing every day. They then had one "control" toothbrush that they kept in another room.
The result? "The poo is everywhere!" They tested positive for fecal coliform on each and every brush, even the control brush that was kept in another room.
Their conclusion? The myth was no myth -- toothbrushes kept in a bathroom had "toilet germs" on them. But, their expert said that these small amounts did not pose a health threat as our bodies were able to deal with it.
Now, if you were to take your laptop into the john and the FC were to lodge under the keycaps where there were nice stocks of dead skin and thin mint crumbs? Ewwww.
"Defenestration" refers to the act of throwing out through, or of being thrown out of, windows. In this case it is used to describe a process I think of as data center defenestration in which people come to understand the technical background, costs, organizational structures, and behavioral imperatives that lead to institutionalized systems failure and then act on that knowledge to throw out the stuff that doesn't work and bring in systems and processes that do.
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happens all the time -- they aren't just "throwing in an extra", they are supplying a different motherboard that happens to be dual-cpu. You run out of stock on the specific component, so you use the next best compatible thing, rather than putting the thing on backorder and having the customer potentially cancel.
I've had something similar a couple times. I bought a barebones kit that was supposed to include a 440LX board with a 333 PII. I discovered later that the machine shipped with a different board than the one I ordered, but it was better (a BX 100mhz bus jumpered down).
I went online again to the place that sold me the kit, and they no longer had the LX kit, but were selling the BX kits for less than I paid for the older board. I assume this meant that they no longer stocked the older boards, but had a glut of the new ones.
I later got hold of a P2/450 and jumpered the board to 100mhz fsb and all worked.
Well, at least this explains what those crawls were about.
I saw these a couple times and was really confused. I have Comcast, so I didn't get why little love letters to DishNetwork subs should appear during DickVanDyke and CrankYankers reruns. Seems like kind of a goofy move.
>The danger is that a local account could be elevated to root.
Right. But his point is you have to have that local account first.
Being able to log into the machine as joe-regular-user and then get root via the passwd command is bad -- but not as bad as a remote vulnerability that lets you get onto the machine in the first place (without having a legit local user account).
Of the nearly $1.2 million in PAC and soft money contributions Microsoft contributed between 1995 and 1998, 72 percent went to Republicans. But during the first 18 months of the 2000 election cycle, Microsoft, aware of the closeness of congressional races this fall, has upped its giving to Democrats. Of the $2.3 million Microsoft has given in PAC and soft money this election cycle, 55 percent has gone to Republicans
Microsoft spokesman Rick Miller told Roll Call that the company largely follows a "very basic business strategy to giving and that's a 60/40 approach - 60 percent to the party in the majority and 40 percent to the minority." Miller added, however, that while two years ago, Republicans were Microsoft's defenders, now the company is also seeing a number of Democrats take up its cause.
I was a Sr. Technical Advisor at AutoZone, where I was an employee for over 10 years. During my tenure, I participated and led in the design, development and maintenance of many of AutoZone's store systems. More importantly, I initiated AutoZone's transition to Linux and I directed the port of their existing store software base to Linux. I personally ported all of AutoZone's internal software libraries for use under Linux. I personally developed the rules by which other AutoZone developers should make changes to their code to support both Linux and SCO's OpenServer product....
I must add that SCO was eventually made aware of AutoZone's transition to Linux. They responded by offering to assist AutoZone in the porting activity. By the time of their offer, AutoZone had already completed the initial porting activity and had already installed a Linux-based version of their store system in several stores.
This is the funniest thing I've seen this week. A slashdotting described as "a slight problem with the database"
Warning: mysql_connect(): Too many connections in/var/www/html/admin/db_mysql.php on line 40
There seems to have been a slight problem with the database.
Please try again by pressing the refresh button in your browser.
An E-Mail has been dispatched to our Technical Staff, who you can
also contact if the problem persists.
Well, the story, as I remember it from the novelizations, has always been that Anakin and Obi-Wan have a battle in which Anakin is defeated and is horribly burned in some lava pit or something (his lungs are scortched and that is why he needs the ventilator).
I bet that's Hayden with all the burn makeup. I don't recall that Obi-Wan suffered any major injuries duing his duel with Anakin.
I don't disagree. I was responding to the parent that said that he looked at porn when he was 4 and it didn't affect him.
What this guy apparently did was despicable -- he set up a scheme where he relied on people typing in domain names for well-known kid-oriented websites and then redirected these typo-squatting domains to pay-per-click porno sites. He ripped off the porno sites since they would not get any paying customers this way and he deliberately targeted kids in his scheme.
Should he get jail time for this? Probably not. Is he being made an example of? Sounds like it. Tough break, but I'm not going to start a "free the kiddy porno webmaster" campaign.
Yeah, I remember seeing porn at an early age as well. My granpa had a stack of playboys hidden in the garage. That was _some_ porn! Nekkid women, posing on a bed, or maybe outside! With no clothes on! Wow!
I discovered my 10 year old had been using my wife's laptop to look for porn when a couple of his neighborhood friends came over. Let me tell you, this was not your granpa's porn. No doubt, he was curious and found a couple of sites and within seconds was clicking links that carried him into brutal domination, shit and piss, fuck me with a crowbar land.
I think the difference is that the net makes it too easy to end up seeing sick, violent, degrading sexual images unintentionally. If you're an adult, and that's what your're into -- fine by me. When I was a kid, the only way I would have been able to get access to that kind of stuff would have been to get on a bus and go across town to where the sex shops and peep shows were.
I don't think seeing those images will scar him for life, but I'd rather he didn't see that kind of stuff until he was a bit older and better equiped to understand what that's all about.
Newer operating systems were also more secure than older programs such as Windows 95 which, when it was first released, had no security features in it at all.
"Almost all attacks against our software are against the legacy systems," he said.
Yep, this had been my experience too. I hardly ever answer the phone unless I've called someone and left a message to call me back (somethings _are_ easier to deal with over the phone, esp if it involves 21 questions to narrow down the actual issue).
By and large, most people I work with seem to be in the same mode -- check the mail every hour or so and respond to what is important. Lets me manage my time much better -- plus I'm one of those people who have a hard time talking to people on the phone sometimes, esp if it is someone I haven't talked to before. It's a lot more comfortable for me to collect my thoughts and edit an email and it the once-over before sending it (plus sometimes I like to save a draft and come back after I've thought about it a bit, usually while sitting in the can).
The exception is one or two people who _refuse_ to do email for whatever reason. These people just seem to be more comfortable talking over the phone that sending notes back and fourth.
I did have one guy that was the exact opposite. He would do anything and everything to avoid a phone conversation or *shudder* a face-to-face meeting. I called him a couple of times and asked to give me a call back (the subject was kind of a 21-questions affair and didn't lend itself to email). He would always email me back instead of calling and ask what I wanted. "I want to talk to you about XYZ - I have these questions and it would be easier to just talk to you for five minutes" I had to do it his way, and it eventually worked out, but I thought it was pretty inefficient.
sounds like the old decision matrix from psych 101 -- (I think my text had a "pronounce dead" example)
two possibilities: earth is doomed, earth is not doomed (actual fact is not 100% certain) two potential actions: announce impending doom, keep silent
1. earth is doomed, announce impending doom : massive panic & looting, everyone dies anyway when asteroid hits.
2. earth is doomed, keep silent : people go about their petty daily existence & everyone dies when asteroid hits.
3. earth is not doomed (asteroid narrowly misses), keep silent (until after it passes) : people go about their lives & nobody dies when asteroid misses earth, a few internet users squawk about how they should have been warned if the govt knew an asteroid might hit.
4. earth is not doomed, annouce impending doom (on the info that there is 99.999....999(whatever)% certainty) : massive panic & looting, nobody dies when asteroid misses, but (m|b)illions in property damage from riots, etc.
One Microsoft Way. That is the address listed on Microsoft's March 31, 1998, donation of $99,316 in computer software to the Republicans. The contribution vaulted Microsoft into the number one spot among computer company campaign contributors so far in the 1997-98 election cycle. The software giant has given more than $298,000 in PAC, soft money, and individual contributions to federal candidates and parties. (This does not include an April $100,000 contribution to the Republican National Committee reported in Roll Call last month, which should show up in the RNC's next monthly filing.) Microsoft's recent contributions places it ahead of Oracle, which has given nearly $218,000, 97 percent to Democrats. Not only has Microsoft dramatically increased its giving over the last several years -- it ranked only 16th among computer companies for the 1991-92 election cycle -- but it has changed its party leanings. In the 1992 cycle, Microsoft gave Democrats 79 percent of its contributions. This figure has dropped to 33 percent for the 1997-98 election cycle. Microsoft's dominance in political contributions comes as the Justice Department may be poised to file an antitrust lawsuit against the company.
Between January 1, 1995 and June 30, 2000, Microsoft contributed nearly $3.5 million in political contributions to the national parties and to federal candidates. Much of this came during the first 18 months of the 2000 election cycle, when the company contributed $2.3 million.
On Monday, February 16, Microsoft began investigating a reported exploit on versions of Internet Explorer allegedly discovered by an individual studying the leaked source code. This exploit is a known issue that Microsoft had discovered internally and addressed with the latest release of Internet Explorer -- Internet Explorer 6.0 Service Pack 1.
Um, don't usually like to argue semantics, but what was discovered was a security vulnerability (bug) in the code, not an "exploit".
Devising and revealing a method to take advantage of this problem (a virus, worm, bitmap) is an "exploit", right?
Screenwriters Josh Oppenheimer and Tom Donnelly ("A Sound of Thunder") have turned in a draft of the script for the big-screen update of Lee Falk's "Mandrake The Magician." Comics2Film/CBR News followed up with the producers at Crusader Entertainment to see how the project was shaping up.
A spokesperson for Crusader told us they are thrilled with the first draft. "It is an incredibly unique action film."
Created in 1934, Falk's Mandrake strip featured a stage magician who used his powers of hypnotism and illusion to fight crime. Crusader tells us that the movie will update the character for the 21st century.
"The Mandrake in the film will not be the 'classic' Mandrake, clad in top hat and tux," our source said. "He will be a contemporary magician in the high concept, David Blaine mold. His skills range from simple illusions to elaborate escapes."
Plans are for Oppenheimer and Donnelly to do a polish on the script before going out to actors and directors. Crusader tells us they've had interest from several parties on the talent front, but so far nobody is attached. However our source tells us the ideal lead for the movie would be, "someone like Colin Farrell, Hugh Jackman, Johnny Depp or Leonardo DiCaprio."
Crusader Entertainment and Hyde Park Entertainment announced that they'd picked up the film rights to the classic comic strip last fall. Around the same timeframe, they also purchased the feature rights to Falk's classic costumed hero "The Phantom."
This makes a _little_ more sense at least if there is a near-future development project in the works.
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah, I noticed that if you use the regular google homepage and try to enter a zipcode, it will only work with one keyword.
e ar=Itasca%2C+IL+60143&btnG=Google+Search
If you format the query manually, you can get it to work:
http://www.google.com/local?sc=1&q=chinese+food&n
It's beta, so I imagine they still need to work out the interface issues.
>It's not like they can just go monitor anyone they want whenever they want.
I thought that's exactly what they could do with the Patriot Act, if it's in the name of "war on terror"?
1: More than 98 percent of convicted felons are bread eaters.
2: Fully HALF of all children who grow up in bread-consuming households score below average on standardized tests.
3: In the 18th century, when virtually all bread was baked in the home, the average life expectancy was less than 50 years; infant mortality rates were unacceptably high; many women died in childbirth; and diseases such as typhoid, yellow fever and influenza ravaged whole nations.
4: More than 90 percent of violent crimes are committed within 24 hours of eating bread.
5: Bread is made from a substance called "dough." It has been proven that as little as one pound of dough can be used to suffocate a mouse. The average American eats more bread than that in one month!
6: Primitive tribal societies that have no bread exhibit a low occurrence of cancer, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's disease and osteoporosis.
7: Bread has been proven to be addictive. Subjects deprived of bread and given only water to eat begged for bread after only two days.
8: Bread is often a "gateway" food item, leading the user to "harder" items such as butter, jelly, peanut butter and even cold cuts.
9: Bread has been proven to absorb water. Since the human body is more than 90 percent water, it follows that eating bread could lead to your body being taken over by this absorptive food product, turning you into a soggy, gooey bread-pudding person.
10: Newborn babies can choke on bread.
11: Bread is baked at temperatures as high as 400 degrees Fahrenheit! That kind of heat can kill an adult in less than one minute.
12: Most American bread eaters are utterly unable to distinguish between significant scientific fact and meaningless statistical babbling.
You see the episode of Myth Busters where they investigated the airbourne fecal coliform myth (that a toothbrush anywhere near a toilet has poo on it)?
For 30 days they brushed their teeth with brushes kept on the toilet tank. They also had about 40 brushes kept at various distances from the toilet that they simulated brushing every day. They then had one "control" toothbrush that they kept in another room.
The result? "The poo is everywhere!" They tested positive for fecal coliform on each and every brush, even the control brush that was kept in another room.
Their conclusion? The myth was no myth -- toothbrushes kept in a bathroom had "toilet germs" on them. But, their expert said that these small amounts did not pose a health threat as our bodies were able to deal with it.
Now, if you were to take your laptop into the john and the FC were to lodge under the keycaps where there were nice stocks of dead skin and thin mint crumbs? Ewwww.
Yup, you're right. I was concentrating on the work defenstration and didn't notice the Guide/Unix substitution.
My bad *goes and stands in corner for 20 minutes*
oops -- didn't notice the difference unix guide vs guide to unix
don't see how that's flamebait, but whatever -- not going to cry over karma: I've got plenty to burn so have at it
at first? It *still* says that.
The linked page links to a definition:
Defenestration Defined
"Defenestration" refers to the act of throwing out through, or of being thrown out of, windows. In this case it is used to describe a process I think of as data center defenestration in which people come to understand the technical background, costs, organizational structures, and behavioral imperatives that lead to institutionalized systems failure and then act on that knowledge to throw out the stuff that doesn't work and bring in systems and processes that do.
happens all the time -- they aren't just "throwing in an extra", they are supplying a different motherboard that happens to be dual-cpu. You run out of stock on the specific component, so you use the next best compatible thing, rather than putting the thing on backorder and having the customer potentially cancel.
I've had something similar a couple times. I bought a barebones kit that was supposed to include a 440LX board with a 333 PII. I discovered later that the machine shipped with a different board than the one I ordered, but it was better (a BX 100mhz bus jumpered down).
I went online again to the place that sold me the kit, and they no longer had the LX kit, but were selling the BX kits for less than I paid for the older board. I assume this meant that they no longer stocked the older boards, but had a glut of the new ones.
I later got hold of a P2/450 and jumpered the board to 100mhz fsb and all worked.
Well, at least this explains what those crawls were about.
I saw these a couple times and was really confused. I have Comcast, so I didn't get why little love letters to DishNetwork subs should appear during DickVanDyke and CrankYankers reruns. Seems like kind of a goofy move.
yah, and I heard that in Paraguay, Kleenex is the generic term for facial tissue.
No shit, sherlock: relax -- geez
just having a little fun. if anyone is so dumb as to take this for anything other than what it is... well... they're just DUMB!!!
hmmm... whenever I forget my password I just hit [esc] and it lets me right in!!!
>The danger is that a local account could be elevated to root.
Right. But his point is you have to have that local account first.
Being able to log into the machine as joe-regular-user and then get root via the passwd command is bad -- but not as bad as a remote vulnerability that lets you get onto the machine in the first place (without having a legit local user account).
>big well funded companies like that tend to cover all their bases.
This is generally true, Microsoft does appear to contribute more to Replublicans, but that has shifted over time:
Of the nearly $1.2 million in PAC and soft money contributions Microsoft contributed between 1995 and 1998, 72 percent went to Republicans. But during the first 18 months of the 2000 election cycle, Microsoft, aware of the closeness of congressional races this fall, has upped its giving to Democrats. Of the $2.3 million Microsoft has given in PAC and soft money this election cycle, 55 percent has gone to Republicans
Microsoft spokesman Rick Miller told Roll Call that the company largely follows a "very basic business strategy to giving and that's a 60/40 approach - 60 percent to the party in the majority and 40 percent to the minority." Miller added, however, that while two years ago, Republicans were Microsoft's defenders, now the company is also seeing a number of Democrats take up its cause.
Maybe they figured it out after they read the RedHat press releases and then when AutoZone stopped sending them checks for OpenServer licenses?
...
AutoZone Chooses Red Hat Services to Support Linux-Based Chain-Wide Intranet Applications
and read this
I was a Sr. Technical Advisor at AutoZone, where I was an employee for over 10 years. During my tenure, I participated and led in the design, development and maintenance of many of AutoZone's store systems. More importantly, I initiated AutoZone's transition to Linux and I directed the port of their existing store software base to Linux. I personally ported all of AutoZone's internal software libraries for use under Linux. I personally developed the rules by which other AutoZone developers should make changes to their code to support both Linux and SCO's OpenServer product.
I must add that SCO was eventually made aware of AutoZone's transition to Linux. They responded by offering to assist AutoZone in the porting activity. By the time of their offer, AutoZone had already completed the initial porting activity and had already installed a Linux-based version of their store system in several stores.
This is the funniest thing I've seen this week. A slashdotting described as "a slight problem with the database"
/var/www/html/admin/db_mysql.php on line 40
Warning: mysql_connect(): Too many connections in
There seems to have been a slight problem with the database.
Please try again by pressing the refresh button in your browser.
An E-Mail has been dispatched to our Technical Staff, who you can
also contact if the problem persists.
We apologise for any inconvenience.
Well, the story, as I remember it from the novelizations, has always been that Anakin and Obi-Wan have a battle in which Anakin is defeated and is horribly burned in some lava pit or something (his lungs are scortched and that is why he needs the ventilator).
I bet that's Hayden with all the burn makeup. I don't recall that Obi-Wan suffered any major injuries duing his duel with Anakin.
I don't disagree. I was responding to the parent that said that he looked at porn when he was 4 and it didn't affect him.
What this guy apparently did was despicable -- he set up a scheme where he relied on people typing in domain names for well-known kid-oriented websites and then redirected these typo-squatting domains to pay-per-click porno sites. He ripped off the porno sites since they would not get any paying customers this way and he deliberately targeted kids in his scheme.
Should he get jail time for this? Probably not. Is he being made an example of? Sounds like it. Tough break, but I'm not going to start a "free the kiddy porno webmaster" campaign.
Yeah, I remember seeing porn at an early age as well. My granpa had a stack of playboys hidden in the garage. That was _some_ porn! Nekkid women, posing on a bed, or maybe outside! With no clothes on! Wow!
I discovered my 10 year old had been using my wife's laptop to look for porn when a couple of his neighborhood friends came over. Let me tell you, this was not your granpa's porn. No doubt, he was curious and found a couple of sites and within seconds was clicking links that carried him into brutal domination, shit and piss, fuck me with a crowbar land.
I think the difference is that the net makes it too easy to end up seeing sick, violent, degrading sexual images unintentionally. If you're an adult, and that's what your're into -- fine by me. When I was a kid, the only way I would have been able to get access to that kind of stuff would have been to get on a bus and go across town to where the sex shops and peep shows were.
I don't think seeing those images will scar him for life, but I'd rather he didn't see that kind of stuff until he was a bit older and better equiped to understand what that's all about.
brass balls:
"If you want more secure software, upgrade."
because
Newer operating systems were also more secure than older programs such as Windows 95 which, when it was first released, had no security features in it at all.
"Almost all attacks against our software are against the legacy systems," he said.
what color is the sky in your world?
Yep, this had been my experience too. I hardly ever answer the phone unless I've called someone and left a message to call me back (somethings _are_ easier to deal with over the phone, esp if it involves 21 questions to narrow down the actual issue).
By and large, most people I work with seem to be in the same mode -- check the mail every hour or so and respond to what is important. Lets me manage my time much better -- plus I'm one of those people who have a hard time talking to people on the phone sometimes, esp if it is someone I haven't talked to before. It's a lot more comfortable for me to collect my thoughts and edit an email and it the once-over before sending it (plus sometimes I like to save a draft and come back after I've thought about it a bit, usually while sitting in the can).
The exception is one or two people who _refuse_ to do email for whatever reason. These people just seem to be more comfortable talking over the phone that sending notes back and fourth.
I did have one guy that was the exact opposite. He would do anything and everything to avoid a phone conversation or *shudder* a face-to-face meeting. I called him a couple of times and asked to give me a call back (the subject was kind of a 21-questions affair and didn't lend itself to email). He would always email me back instead of calling and ask what I wanted. "I want to talk to you about XYZ - I have these questions and it would be easier to just talk to you for five minutes" I had to do it his way, and it eventually worked out, but I thought it was pretty inefficient.
sounds like the old decision matrix from psych 101 -- (I think my text had a "pronounce dead" example)
two possibilities: earth is doomed, earth is not doomed (actual fact is not 100% certain)
two potential actions: announce impending doom, keep silent
1. earth is doomed, announce impending doom : massive panic & looting, everyone dies anyway when asteroid hits.
2. earth is doomed, keep silent : people go about their petty daily existence & everyone dies when asteroid hits.
3. earth is not doomed (asteroid narrowly misses), keep silent (until after it passes) : people go about their lives & nobody dies when asteroid misses earth, a few internet users squawk about how they should have been warned if the govt knew an asteroid might hit.
4. earth is not doomed, annouce impending doom (on the info that there is 99.999....999(whatever)% certainty) : massive panic & looting, nobody dies when asteroid misses, but (m|b)illions in property damage from riots, etc.
uh, since they figured out which palms to grease
One Microsoft Way. That is the address listed on Microsoft's March 31, 1998, donation of $99,316 in computer software to the Republicans. The contribution vaulted Microsoft into the number one spot among computer company campaign contributors so far in the 1997-98 election cycle. The software giant has given more than $298,000 in PAC, soft money, and individual contributions to federal candidates and parties. (This does not include an April $100,000 contribution to the Republican National Committee reported in Roll Call last month, which should show up in the RNC's next monthly filing.) Microsoft's recent contributions places it ahead of Oracle, which has given nearly $218,000, 97 percent to Democrats. Not only has Microsoft dramatically increased its giving over the last several years -- it ranked only 16th among computer companies for the 1991-92 election cycle -- but it has changed its party leanings. In the 1992 cycle, Microsoft gave Democrats 79 percent of its contributions. This figure has dropped to 33 percent for the 1997-98 election cycle. Microsoft's dominance in political contributions comes as the Justice Department may be poised to file an antitrust lawsuit against the company.
also checkout the Microsoft Playbook
Between January 1, 1995 and June 30, 2000, Microsoft contributed nearly $3.5 million in political contributions to the national parties and to federal candidates. Much of this came during the first 18 months of the 2000 election cycle, when the company contributed $2.3 million.
On Monday, February 16, Microsoft began investigating a reported exploit on versions of Internet Explorer allegedly discovered by an individual studying the leaked source code. This exploit is a known issue that Microsoft had discovered internally and addressed with the latest release of Internet Explorer -- Internet Explorer 6.0 Service Pack 1.
Um, don't usually like to argue semantics, but what was discovered was a security vulnerability (bug) in the code, not an "exploit".
Devising and revealing a method to take advantage of this problem (a virus, worm, bitmap) is an "exploit", right?
You are right!
They are planning a contemporary remake:
Screenwriters Josh Oppenheimer and Tom Donnelly ("A Sound of Thunder") have turned in a draft of the script for the big-screen update of Lee Falk's "Mandrake The Magician." Comics2Film/CBR News followed up with the producers at Crusader Entertainment to see how the project was shaping up.
A spokesperson for Crusader told us they are thrilled with the first draft. "It is an incredibly unique action film."
Created in 1934, Falk's Mandrake strip featured a stage magician who used his powers of hypnotism and illusion to fight crime. Crusader tells us that the movie will update the character for the 21st century.
"The Mandrake in the film will not be the 'classic' Mandrake, clad in top hat and tux," our source said. "He will be a contemporary magician in the high concept, David Blaine mold. His skills range from simple illusions to elaborate escapes."
Plans are for Oppenheimer and Donnelly to do a polish on the script before going out to actors and directors. Crusader tells us they've had interest from several parties on the talent front, but so far nobody is attached. However our source tells us the ideal lead for the movie would be, "someone like Colin Farrell, Hugh Jackman, Johnny Depp or Leonardo DiCaprio."
Crusader Entertainment and Hyde Park Entertainment announced that they'd picked up the film rights to the classic comic strip last fall. Around the same timeframe, they also purchased the feature rights to Falk's classic costumed hero "The Phantom."
This makes a _little_ more sense at least if there is a near-future development project in the works.