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Hal_Porter writes:
Despite turning down a pretrial deal that would have got him a three year sentence and then accepting a later deal where he apologised for the murder and showed the police where he buried the body, Hans Reiser wants another trial.
As wired put it "Now the 44-year-old Reiser says he thinks the latest deal was supposed to have netted three years. And he said his lead attorney, William DuBois, who he often butted heads with during trial, was out to get him.
Reiser wrote that he believed DuBois suffered from an excess of oxytocin."
Dubois said "[Nina Reiser] had an ulterior motive to marry Hans. It couldn't have been out of love that she married Hans Reiser," DuBois said. "I can't see anybody loving Hans Reiser."
"He has to be one of the least attractive people you can imagine," DuBois continued. "And she's a doll."
He faces an uphill battle "Jurors, and even the judge, did a horrible job concealing their amusement when Reiser was on the stand. The often shook their heads in disbelief or openly mocked his ongoing testimony."
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Hal_Porter writes:
Thomas Ptacek writes that Mark Dowd (pdf warning) has found a "weaponized NULL pointer exploit" in Flash. The idea is that you trick Flash into making a failed allocation which returns NULL. But since you control the offset from the NULL pointer you can overwrite an arbitrary memory location. As Thomas puts it in his very readable writeup "If youre not an exploit writer, think of it this way: you know that crazy version of Super Mario Brothers that Japan refused to ship to the US markets because they thought the difficulty would upset and provoke us? This is the exploit equivalent of that guy who played the perfect game of it on YouTube." The exploit works on both Internet Explorer and Firefox. It works on Vista, since Flash doesn't opt in to Vista's Address Space Layout randomisation technology.
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Hal_Porter writes:
Hynix have stacked 24 16 gigabit (2 gigabyte) NAND flash chips in a 1.4mm thick package, giving 48 gigabytes of storage. It's not clear if it's possible to write to them in parallel — if so the device should be pretty damn fast. The usual objection to NAND flash as a hard drive replacement is lifetime. NAND sectors can only be written 100,000 times or so before they wear out, but wear levelling can be done to spread writes evenly over at least each chip. I worked out that the lifetime should be much longer than a typical magnetic hard disk. There's no information on costs yet frankly and it sounds like an expensive proof of concept, but it shows you the sort of device that will take over from small hard disks in the next few years.
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Hal_Porter writes:
Digg is running a story about Linux whines
'Recently on 43folders.com, Merlin Mann asked his predominately Mac crowd for their best Mac whines. He got 191 comments up to now, some very interesting. I thought that was great idea so I decided to expand it to Linux. So what are your best Linux whines?'
The whines Rob got are pretty interesting.
