Comment Prime Directive (Score 1) 162
Another example of life imitating art and science-fiction :-)
I already thought Washington, DC was a virtual world anyway.As usual, TV monitors carried the session, but one screen showed the Second Life version streaming in real time, complete with avatars providing some text-chat play by play, such as: 'There's another softball question.' Whimsical musing and theories about the evolution of the Internet and online communication dominated the conversation. Rep. Mike Doyle, D-Pa., proudly showed off the avatar created by his staff, rendered to make him look like a character from 'The Simpsons.' Rep. Cliff Stearns, R-Fla., said he had 'checked out' Chairman Ed Markey's avatar. 'I must say you are younger and in much better shape in your second life than you are in your first,' Stearns chided.
The OpenBSD project has just issued an advisory (and updated its website to reflect the change) that it now has its second remote root vulnerability in more than ten years. The exploit itself is performed with a specially crafted IPv6 ICMP packet, and is caused by a bug in the mbuf chains in the operating system kernel. The OpenBSD team have released a patch. The bug affects all versions of OpenBSD. Since
Hackers of the world, unite!