Do you have a link to the presentation? The linked article doesn't really get into any technical details and the language made me think that what you said was the case.

The whole point of TFA is that if even one computer gets infected on the network then it can be used to infect other machines without requiring the admin password on the remote machine. All it would take is one malicious person with physical access to one mac, or one careless click from someone who does has admin access to their own mac in the building.

Academic libraries frequently already have a big portion of their catalogue in digital form: mostly theses and journals. So my guess would be that someone starting out with a goal of digitizing all books would naturally start with the academic libraries.

The only person quoted in TFA, Katie Moussouris is a senior security strategist in Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing Group. So I'd say that you might not be way off the mark here.

Even if this competition was about developing secure operating systems - which it is not - there are operating systems out there (though not in popular use) that are way more secure that Linux in implementation, design, or both.

Hey Bob, no talk of subluxation this time? Getting subtler in your trolling, eh?

Your email address is not worth even a full dollar, let alone 600.

Really? Someone believing that god created us in our present form is not a religious nutjob? That's the majority right there.

Yes. Someone mod the GGP up!

We all fucked up at one point or the other, or will :)

Couldn't have said it better. I wish I had mod points.

Climate change - real or not - is a global issue, not just one relevant to US. Europeans are not as obsessed with god and religion as americans are; Muslims don't follow the ten commandments; and the rest of the world is too busy making more money.

If yes, please tell me where in the article does it say that whatever LG did had anything to do with getting sick while watching 3D movies. The article is a bit too technical for me and I don't really see the connections. Any geeks to my rescue?

Yes alright, I meant believe exactly in the sense you believe in evolution. The point was that a big chunk of americans still think that god created humans in their present form. That level of ignorance in a big chunk of population is worrying.

Losses incurred probably include things like time lost in canceling a card and issuing new one. The wordings of TFA don't make it clear whether he used all those cards or he just sold it to other criminals, so I have no idea how much this guy directly made.