Embedding a programming language's interpreter in firmware all but assures that someone out there will find ways to abuse it.
Abuse it to the point of rendering the hardware utterly inoperable.
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Last night on Sci Fi was episode eight from season one of The Dresden Files, the long-awaited adaptation of the first novel, Storm Front. This was supposed to be the pilot episode of the series but the Sci-Fi Channel execs decided to change the order that the episodes would be shown in, and instead opened the season with Birds of a Feather some weeks ago.
Beyond this link lie spoilers.... Hasufin and I had a discussion about this last night, and we agree that the network execs made the right choice showing Storm Front when they did. They've built up …
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As I've been talking about lately (probably to the point of annoyance), I underwent my second root canal last Friday, and I've been laying low to give myself a chance to recover. Dental work always knocks me on my six for some reason, probably due to elevated levels of stress hormones and my body trying to deal with all of the unusual chemicals that winds up in it. I've been cutting back on the amount of Motrin I've been taking, in particular - for over a week I'd been taking twelve to sixteen 200mg tablets every day to keep the pain …
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I love my girlfriend.
I love Home on the Strange, too - read this story arc for the explanation.
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Headache. Upset stomach.
Maybe going cold turkey after taking 12-16 tablets of Motrin a day for ten days wasn't such a good idea.
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At 1000 EST5EDT I drove into the endodontist's office for the root canal procedure that I've been dreading for the past week-and-some.
The waiting's always worse than anything else, or at least that's what I've decided now that I've had two such procedures done so far. I showed up a couple of minutes early and was immediate greeted by Dr. Dellork and the attendant. Their manner is quite friendly, and immediately put me at ease, which is something that I very much needed at that point in time. Once room #1 was free, I was lead back to the.. you …
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On 16 June 2007 Mark Nicholas (formerly known as Cosmicity) will be playing the Depot in Baltimore, Maryland with Red This Ever and The Case of Gretta Conners. Tickets will be available at the door for $5us.
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Maybe CERT-FI is following in the footsteps of US-CERT (free tip for you guys: 300 bps is obsolete!), which is why it's taken them eight months to say anything about this, but there is a particularly interesting worm that attacks Windows crawling around on the Net called Allaple-A which is remarkably subtle for an infectious agent. First of all, it's polymorphic, meaning that it rewrites parts of itself whenever it spreads, which makes it difficult for antivirus software to find and kill it. At first, it spread by bruteforcing passwords against the Radmin service and open network shares, but there …
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If you need to generate flash archives of a Solaris 9 or 10 machine but you can't seem to find the flarcreate utility, make sure that you have the following packages installed:
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Last evening television viewers in Arizona were treated to an unexpected bonus cable show: Soundless hardcore porn in lieu of Tom Brokaw. It seems that someone zipped the cable feed of KPPX-TV (carried by Cox Communications' cable net) and replaced it with a pornographic movie.. Cox says that it was a 'source issue'; ION Television (the parent company of KPPX-TV, Mesa, Arizona) says that someone sabotaged their feed, and they've started hunting for the perpetrator.
If nothing else, zipping's come a long way from a guy in a rubber mask being spanked with a flyswatter.
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