Aaah.. the good old days of freedom under Bush...

Or Jamaica ;-)

I don't know where the Nobel prize lost it's integrity, but both it and the Nobel Peace prize have become a joke. They're not worth the paper the certificate is printed on, anymore.

Who is "they" ? .. And incidentally, the submitter appears to have changed the post title at the last minute. In the list of previous posts it lists this submission as "Submission: Carl Sagan Smoked Cannabis"!

I think the west's saturday morning cartoons were simply a make-work program for the sound effects crew. Boy were they noisy. You KNEW it was saturday morning lomng before you smelled the french toast because of the road runner and sylvester and elmer fudd episode crashes and explosions etc. And yeah, OK, I'm a little older than GenX, but that's what I remember ;-)

I am always amazed that anyone wouyld use a testbed version as their main OS. NAturally it's on a seperate partition, and only use it in ordser to allow improvements to be made, KNOWING that the data is being collected. So, no, of COURSE you wouldn't do your banking, or torrent all your movies and pxxn, or use something like a darknet, or.. the list is endless. Because it's a BETA..doh?

Actually, I remember the original promise of the internet, or better yet, of the WWW, wherein vast amounts of quality information would be accessible to raise the general I.Q. of the masses. Alas, it does seem that much of the "vast storehouse" resides behind a brick "paywall", leaving the easily accessible info more about twerks than quarks...

When's the last time anyone ever saw an FBI or CIA, DHS, y'know, whatever, recieve a conviction for perjury? Ever? Even once? MAybe in political witchunts, yeah, like say, Ollie North, who was just acting under orders anyways, and I don't think he got convicted of perjury anyway,Sadly, it's just all the higher ups who were involved that shoulda got it but didn't. Lower level agents, though, routinely seem to be able to perjure themselves with impunity in order to obtain a conviction. Just ask any one of a thousand prisoners that got put behind bars up with "cooked up" testimony. Sad.

Am I the first to say that this story , well.stinks? ;-) Incidentally, I've had anosmia for 30 years. Not dead. Yet. Or, I couldn't have made a /. comment. Assuming, that is, that making a comment here requires some form of life in the first place.

I mean, WTF?This is ane of the nastiest pieces opf malware I've seen in a while, and since all the macs are almost guaranteed to be unprotectyed, it's a problem. And why absolutely no mention of a cure> ALl the article says is the"botnet is currently dormant" Cold comfort for us Mac users. I havbe my firewall up and running, and run ClamXav because I pick up the latest TV episodes as I have no TV (I've got free Cable TV tho.. go figure). I always scan everything And all I ever get is some ancient HYML-CVE on a curry recipe I copy/pasted 5 years ago, that keeps showing up, but is entirely innocuous anyways. CAnb any program detect it.. Apparently it's a Java trojan

"Unfortunately, the researchers didn't mention how the malware spreads, but they shared that it is unpacked into the /Library/Application Support/JavaW directory, poses as the application com.JavaW, and sets itself to autostart."

and

"UPDATE, 3 October, 15:00 PM CET According to Dr. Web researchers, the malware's propagation method is unknown. They received the sample from VirusTotal, and the code does not contain any indication that it's self-replicating.

The botnet is currently dormant, as all the Reddit comments containing the C&C servers' IP addresses have been deleted."

Both sources = (http://www.net-security.org/malware_news.php?id=2875)

How long before they rewrite more reddit commands? And how to wipe it out wouldfd be, er, helpful, too... :-(

It's no joke to the Emperor penguins, you know.. ;-)

Yahoo was, if I remember correctly, my earliest search homepage.. I remember it being much better than Google at the time in finding certain things. Same with Altavista, "Ask Jeeves", and that one that Netscape always wanted you to sign up with (or was that Yahoo?). All are gone now. Awallowed up by that big beast Google. AOLand Geocities too, although they're perfectly preserved in the wayback machine. A directory is sometimes much easier to work with.. for me..and, re this directory, isn't there an application that can copy the entire directory and pages, with correctly resolved links and all? I know there used to be, for Apple OSX (or maybe it was an OS9xx classic app). If anyone knows please comment here.

Don't think it was a "publicity stunt", rather, I think our gov't spooks thought 4chan was a threat to the spy bizness..

Well, all the free publicity as of late....

Usually treat religion as science. Seriously. all the folks who call science a religion somehow tend to be fundamentalists that use observation and conclusions towards religion.. they treat the Bible like a scientific manual, even though they poo poo science. And all science is, is conclusions based on observation and repeatable experiments.