User: pahoran

Doh! Forgot one line in my botnet program.

On: Botnet Brain Pleads Guilty

He'd be rich now if he hadn't forgotten this little snippet:

if (hostname == chinalake.mil ||
        hostname == disa.mil ||
        hostname == *.mil) { /* don't try to exploit this network */

}

The emotional experience of war.

On: Videogames Are Far More Than Play

"... will be used to 'train soldiers for the emotional experience' of war."

Really? Are they going to kill your friends off and tell you to suck it up and keep fighting? Are they going to separate you from your family for months/years at a time?

Re:Possible uses?

On: WMF Vulnerability is an Intentional Backdoor?

Looking for terrorists? You don't necessarily know where they are.

Looking for people who have bad things to say about the gov't on their computer? You don't necessarily know where they are.

And let your imagination continue the list ...

OS not social change? Tell that to gnu.org

On: There is No Open Source Community

"Really, open source is much more about supply and demand than it is about an activist community or individual drivers (individuals or individual companies) affecting change on society."

Somebody better tell Stallman this.

My wife has this problem

On: Study: Waking Up Like Being Drunk

When my wife wakes up she is neither the coherent nor the pleasant person that I married.

Maybe I should stop having her drive me to work in the morning.

Cloaked Directory = Windows Registry

On: Rootkit-like Feature Found in Norton Systemworks

"The cloaked directory is intended to prevent users from accidentally deleting important files, but could compromise a system by serving as a hiding place for malware..."

Is it just me, or does that sound like the Windows Registry?

Re: Not inventions.

On: Google Talk Targeted In Patent Lawsuit

What? RTFA:

"The two patents in question are not for inventions, but processes relating to using a regular telephone to make long distance calls."

Stapler

On: The Funniest Places for Hardware Stickers?

I have a "Designed for Windows 2000" sticker on my stapler.

Coincidence?

On: Windows 95 Turns 10

According to wikipedia:

On Aug 24 in the year 79:

Mount Vesuvius erupted, burying the cities of Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Stabiae with volcanic ash.