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  1. Re:Security! on Asterisk Vishing Attacks "Endemic" · · Score: 1

    If you RTFA, it's not referring to the actual banks PBX getting hijacked. Regardless, yes there appears to have been an exploit due to a bug and should be fixed now, but the many businesses that use Asterisk and haven't applied patches are those affected.

  2. Re:_All_ prerecorded calls are spam. on Asterisk Vishing Attacks "Endemic" · · Score: 1

    I actually think I got one of these calls sometime last week. The recording left a message and is still in my box, well half of it. Apparently their dialer script doesn't have that great of, if any, PAMD. The audio is what sounds like a native English speaker, speaking very fast but sometimes stumbling, likely reading from a written script asking for account numbers and ATM codes. I immediately knew it was a scam but I am sure others receiving the call might have not have been so lucky to recognize that.

  3. Re:This happens a lot on Man Accuses Cat of Downloading Child Porn · · Score: 2, Funny

    Catz0r3d

  4. Re:The really important question on Star Trek's Warp Drive Not Impossible · · Score: 1

    And the answer is that commercials actually skip you since time around "you" being inside the "bubble" moves and time essentially stands still to you. So in other words, you don't age when commercials skip you. Imagine if you actually could do this for things like commercials or hey even sleep. You could like live 1/3 longer "in time" but you'd still croak at the same physical age, but your relative age would be more like 100+.

  5. Re:Hope it handles Search/Replace better on An Early Look At What's Coming In PHP V6 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Like any other computer science problem, break it into pieces (think Divide and Conquer). Loading 88MB file into memory is not going to work by default anyhow, unless you set the memory limit in PHP from the default you will get out of memory errors every time. I think even a find/replace in a Windows app like Notepad or Notepad++ will "work" but it will definitely be slow. When I used to search large logs I would use some sort of file splitter and search each file itself.

  6. Re:Business Plan on Apple Rumored To Want To Buy Twitter · · Score: 1

    Are we talking tweets or twits here?

  7. Re:not surprising on Is It Windows 7, Or KDE 4? · · Score: 1

    While you're right it doesn't "protect" anything, but most amateurs don't know how to view hidden files or folders anyhow. I had a friend who once did the same thing on Windows so his alleged gf never found his stash. I am sure the people above know the difference between hidden files and permissions, at least I hope so.

  8. Re:Inaccurate? on Apps That Officially Support Wine · · Score: 2, Funny

    Duh, we speak American and Mexican. /rolleyes

  9. Re:Colored Pie Charts on RITI Printer Uses Your Coffee Grounds For Eco Ink · · Score: 1

    No, but you get 256 shades of poo!

  10. Re:Supply on RITI Printer Uses Your Coffee Grounds For Eco Ink · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Would this ink be able to be used for tattoos and would you get a permanent buzz if your tattoo was made of it? I am sure I already know the answer, but wouldn't that be just cool?

  11. Appropo Timing on When To Consider Taking Shares In an IT Company? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I have actually just recently taken an offer with a substantial pay increase of around 20K. I start in a week. I asked myself similar questions that the posters are suggesting the past few months. I have been at the current job for around 3 years. We get good benefits, the environment is nice, and profit sharing (compared to shares since the company is privately held). Each year you get 20% more vested into what ever profit sharing has been put into your 401K account. The past 10 months though we have been on a 10% salary cut (which wasn't the end of the world at first, but now there seems to be no end in sight), and now having had multiple job offers the past 10 months I have decided to leave. It's uncertain times, and I chose new beginnings over somewhat unstable comfort.

  12. Re:not news on Scientists "Teleport" Quantum Information One Meter · · Score: 3, Funny

    I think someone needs to read the definitions of Teleporting and Transmitting a little closer.

  13. Re:Rational on Marijuana Could Prevent Alzheimer's, New Study · · Score: 1

    Easy to grow, possibly, easy to grow "good quality", not so much. It's more work than people think. Errr ahhh so I have heard!

  14. Re:First post on Global Warming Irreversible, NOAA Scientist Finds · · Score: 1

    To all the nay sayers, you have just under 4 years to have your first post and be modded funny too. Dec 2012 FTW^HL

  15. Re:Let's land on it. on Small Asteroid Making 400,000 Mile Pass By Earth · · Score: 1

    With nanobots DUH!

  16. Re:c-derived languages? on Survey Says C Dominated New '08 Open-Source Projects · · Score: 4, Funny

    Now that's just being subjective!

  17. Re:Virtual Machine on How To Diagnose a Suddenly Slow Windows Computer? · · Score: 1

    No, No, No. All of the above. Watching virtual porn on a virtual machine!

  18. Re:They can't control external websites on White House Exempts YouTube From Web Privacy Rules · · Score: 1

    I'll take a dozen. kk thx

  19. Re:Lack of Hacker Ethics on Twitter Hack Details Revealed · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Don't get me wrong, calling him gay is a good laugh, I can't stand the guy in all his omnipotent arrogance, but there are a lot more negative impacting points about the guy that would have been better to point out. That said, those who actually read his Tweets probably either wouldn't understand the truth, or opposing opinions if it smacked them in their face.

  20. Obligatory E.T. ..... on Injectable Artificial Bone Developed · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    E.T. BONE Home !!!! the artificially intelligent bone!

  21. Re:Vs. Mootools? on jQuery in Action · · Score: 2, Informative

    I recently just added the intellisense for my ASP.NET MVC project I am working on. My only question is the some what (IMHO) hackish way to have to include a vsdoc.js file in the project, or adding some if(false) {} ASP logic to get the intellisense to work thinking it included the javascript file for view pages if your actual jquery javascript src is in the site.master. Not to mention if you have prototype used in your project as well it will not work as expected. You end up not being able to use the shortcut $() nor if you make a noConflict alias $j(). But if you do something like $j = jQuery; then it will start to work again. Oh and you must be using the NON-minified version to get any sort of details of the parameters. I know it's minified and that the reason why, but if anyone else has that problem just thought I'd point that out.

  22. Re:Yeah but it costs how much? on Samsung Mass Produces Fast 256GB SSDs · · Score: 0, Troll

    My left nut is reserved for a hot female if that is what it costs to court her. So the question is ...

    A) my right nut has plenty of semen to procreate and force her to be a part of my life for at least 18 years.
    B) my right nut can be used to buy the SSD.

    Shit... decisions decisions! What happens whent he next fastest SSD comes out, I have no nuts left. FUCK!

  23. Re:Where oh where? on Spider Missing After Trip To Space Station · · Score: 3, Informative

    Starbucks was actually founded in Seattle.

  24. Re:What mistakes have you made? on Interviewing Experienced IT People? · · Score: 1

    I just hope you did more than stick your head in the book to get those grades. From my experience as an undergrad and now as a grad student, a large number of those getting good grades look good on paper, but couldn't program their way out of an infinite loop if they had to. It's the curiosity and love to code that makes me a better developer now in school and in work. My grad professors actually have made some comments on to how quite a bit of the grad students who get really good grades on tests, are turning out some extremely crappy code. The problem is as I see it, similar to the differences between book smart and street smart in a lot of ways.

  25. Re:Why Does every OS article end up basing Windows on Why Developers Are Switching To Macs · · Score: 1

    It always amazes me to see an OS article turn into a M$ Bashing ground.

    You must be new here.
    The rest of your post is in fact insightful though I must add.