"This means you are using a private torrent tracker or, of course, you may not be a torrent user at all! It happens."

Yeah, sometimes people just happen to not pirate movies and things (and, alright, haven't needed an Ubuntu installer in a while)..just how things work out sometimes!

Mostly wanted to see if anybody else around here was up to something.

The long-term residents of Space already view us 'terrestrials' with disdain. To them, Earth has become nothing more than a dump!

That assumes all downloads are played once a day.

Also apparently Angry Birds phones home about your usage habits.

I assume the plans will be for sale in the rear couple pages of Popular Mechanics?

That'll be useful next time I want to visit J.C. Penny! .....Bazinga.

http://www.theonion.com/articles/microsoft-patents-ones-zeroes,599/

Why would the attacks have to look different? Because if somebody wanted to mess with the source, they'd be more sophisticated and use more sophisticated exploits? Like Kaspersky pointed out, if they wanted to mess with the source code, a lot of what they did would have been unnecessary, but whatever initial exploit they used would have still worked! I think the real point is here 'they got in'. Better attackers just mean they wouldn't have discovered the break-in as quickly, and actual damage might have been done. Whether or not the attackers knew what they had is immaterial: the real message here is kernel.org needs to wake up and get serious about security, if any random script kiddie can root them.

What's kind of surprising is the outright hostility to the idea of alternative fuels. You guys have 401(k)s heavily invested in oil or something? Good chunk of this thread just doesn't seem to WANT this to work.

Sanka last seen observing local high school science class Egg Drop day with great interest.

Oh yeah? Well...I declare an Acer Bubble!