So that's only my experience then?

And we wonder why software fails so often... You get the munchies, forget what you were doing, assume it must have been good because it seems to work!

Because we've seen from history that most companies won't patch an exploit unless it's screaming at them, and that most exploits are picked up by people who wish actual harm on you before security researchers find them.

Hopefully this will force some device manufacturers to release 2.2 updates for their devices, and with any luck it'll teach them to stick with stock android rather than loading crapware.

We give time to someone who isn't even smart enough to rip a DVD?

they'd probably sell more. After my first semester I stopped buying textbooks and just photocopied the exercises as needed. Most textbooks were rubbish compared to the lectures and resources on the internet, so I didn't see the point.

I was also helped by most of my lecturers who thought the whole textbook market was a scam and just assigned their own exercises. We need more lecturers and professors like that.

Did you even read the summary? This isn't a patent case, and you can't patent words. This is a trademark case, and you are obliged to sue anyone who might infringe and let the courts decide if they do.

Wait, did that sign say _don't_ feed the trolls? Whoops.

Well that'll teach me for not reading the minutiae of hardware revisions :P

The GPU, as it's normally on PCIe these days, has DMA capabilities. On most (all?) x86 systems DMA isn't restricted through an MMU, unlike CPU memory access. This means that by sending the correct commands to the GPU you can access any part of the system memory.

If this is possible in reality I have no idea, but that's the concept.

As this is an issue in Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader and you don't have either of them installed, you're not affected by this bug. It's very hard for software you don't have installed to cause problems.

There are other bugs in Flash though, they may cause problems, but this isn't one of them.