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xtdxon New Metasploit 0-day exploit for IE 7, 8 & 9 on Windows XP, Vista, and 7

Is your point that local user access is valuable? Was that ever in doubt?

xtdxon New Metasploit 0-day exploit for IE 7, 8 & 9 on Windows XP, Vista, and 7

Are you asking if anybody has a 0day windows kernel exploit? Or if lots of users are going to click okie dokie when the uac prompt comes up?

I'd say yes and yes.

xtdxon SubtlePatterns.com has been hijacked.

Well, an update was today. Perhaps another transfer? We don't quite have all the facts.

xtdxon New Metasploit 0-day exploit for IE 7, 8 & 9 on Windows XP, Vista, and 7

It's not root access. It's access as whatever user was running the browser.

xtdxon SubtlePatterns.com has been hijacked.

Nothing requires the new owner to immediately change DNS...

xtdxon Red Hat's new patent counterclaim: GPL violation

"Each kernel release is a different work; the chances that any given piece of code has been modified in a new release are pretty high. One could argue that each kernel release comes with its own license; the termination of one does not necessarily affect rights to other releases."

That is the argument I am making.

xtdxon Self-referential URL

I believe we agree.

xtdxon Red Hat's new patent counterclaim: GPL violation

Read right over that. But I suspect they can still just download another copy, as the second download would be a new offer, and they can then agree and comply with that one.

xtdxon Self-referential URL

You could also align the pointer over the button, shine a laser pointer on your mouse button, and have your cat click it for you. Since you didn't click the button, you didn't accept the license. Arguably.

xtdxon Red Hat's new patent counterclaim: GPL violation

Term 5? All that says is if you don't accept the terms, you don't get to use the software. There's no irrevocable termination of rights.

At worst, all they have to do is download a new copy of mount and presto, they have a new license.

[err, that's for gpl2. gpl3 has a more complicated termination procedure.]

ok, so in light of gpl3, they just need to go back and get a gpl2 copy of mount. It's not like mount has changed all that much, I'm sure the 2007 version will suffice. Or they could just write their own. How many lines of code are we talking about here?

xtdxon IPhone 5: Customers in the Big Apple camp out 8 days early

yikes, did someone not read the article?

xtdxon Aaron Swartz Legal Defense Fund

One of the causes of the Revolution was lack of representation and a means to change the law. Now that we have a representative government as a result of that war, one might hope we would use it.

xtdxon Aaron Swartz Legal Defense Fund

Just like everybody pays for all the movies and music they torrent after they decide which ones they're keeping.

xtdxon The iPhone 5's A6 SoC: Not A15 or A9, a Custom Apple Core Instead

This is the first time he's claimed confirmation from people who are supposed to know.

xtdxon Intel says Clover Trail will not work with Linux

Why do people keep saying this? The x86 devices are required to allow loading other OS.

xtdxon Microsoft employees getting free Surface tablets, new work PCs, Windows Phone 8

Fixing some of the bugs you find internally doesn't mean you need to fix all of the bugs you find internally.

xtdxon Will Go be the new go-to programming language?

And that's why the link goes to an article discussing usage of Go instead of the golang homepage.

xtdxon Steve Wozniak on Samsung patent verdict: ‘I hate it and I don’t agree with it’

Did any of those people disagree with him before? Has he changed anyone's opinion? If he had said the opposite, that the verdict was correct, would anyone here say "hmmm, he's given me a lot to think about."? Or would they just say, "it's so sad to see a legend lose touch."?

xtdxon Steve Wozniak on Samsung patent verdict: ‘I hate it and I don’t agree with it’

I think that's it. The phrase "the famous, or even infamous, ..." is fairly common. Monkey see, monkey do.

xtdxon Obama Admin Pursuing Executive Order to Enact CISPA-Like Cybersecurity Language

In the US, it's hovered right around 50% for a while, though it's climbed up between 55-60% for the past couple elections. More people don't vote than vote for any candidate. I would agree less than 30% isn't default, but 45% isn't less than 30.

And non presidential election turnout is abysmal.

xtdxon The XX shared their new album with only 1 fan to see how it goes viral.

If I don't like how a plugin works, I can uninstall the plugin. If I don't like how the browser works, I can... oh, I guess I can uninstall that too.

xtdxon MIT overtakes Cambridge and Harvard to top spot in QS world university rankings

Is it possible to reject just the interpretation of the data?

xtdxon Free Google-Sponsored Boingo WiFi for 4k Locations (But Not For iOS Users)

Is it time for Senate hearings about hotspot neutrality?

xtdxon GoDaddy outage caused by corrupted router tables

Not a good week for claiming credit...

xtdxon Obama Admin Pursuing Executive Order to Enact CISPA-Like Cybersecurity Language

Not voting is what people do by default. It's not an interesting choice.

xtdxon Avoiding game crashes related to linked lists

Indeed, I may have read the code wrong. But look at line 188.

    m_prevLink->m_nextNode = m_nextNode;

I don't see where m_prevLink is changed. If the previous link has gone away, and you call RemoveFromList on this node a second time, it's going to chase that pointer.

xtdxon Avoiding game crashes related to linked lists

One thing about intrusive lists, you have to know and specify every list the item may be on. Maybe you like that, maybe you don't.

Also, it doesn't appear the provided code gracefully handles removing an item from a list twice.

xtdxon Should Bogus Copyright Takedown Senders Be Punished?

So if gmail's spam filter isn't perfect, it's better to have no spam filter?

xtdxon The Tiniest GIF Ever

All a color table is is a series of integers. Any random byte, or two, or four, is a valid integer.

xtdxon Tell HN: Login to unsubscribe is against Federal Law

http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/pubs/consumer/alerts/alt063.shtm

For the most part, since it costs real money to send real mail, many of the people behind it are inclined to honor unsubscribe requests.