I can't imagine that someone with enough technical ability to create the "mystery" Duqu code isn't already doing their development in a sandboxed VM with no AV apps installed. I doubt it's worth the time on the AV companies' part to attempt to detect the act of malware actually being written.

$6.6 billion in hundred dollar bills literally "fell off a plane" and disappeared in Iraq; and that's something they'll actually admit to. Five trillion dollars is probably a bit much, but really, who knows how many billions have been pumped into the black hole of "anti-terror" technologies?

Is that actually true? From various YouTube DMCA stories, it seems like YouTube just hides the video content and renders an error message when you try to view it. If the takedown is reversed, they re-instate the video at its original URL; the uploader doesn't have to upload it again. Surely Flickr could implement a "hidden" flag as opposed to deleting an image outright?

Authored by the same FAA that's refusing to release information about the operation of drones. FARs are for the little guys.

Absolutely. Joe Sixpack doesn't know what the fuck SOPA is, and couldn't care less how his representatives are voting on it, or who's supporting it. He's never heard of RIAA or MPAA and his idea of a torrent is when the water main bursts down the street. But he has a cell phone, and he's not going to be happy if the government wants to dick around with it.

When stupid laws start interfering with everyone, instead of a few percent of the population, maybe more folks will wake up.

Too bad they didn't demonstrate it at the US Congress instead, I'd love to hear some intercepted conversations between a few Senators and their puppet-masters.

We're talking about Facebook here. The content is never deleted, and that's by design.

I thought the only way to win was not to play at all.

I suppose that might vary by jurisdiction, but in Memphis, it's sure as heck not a requirement. I'm not certain that all of our school board members can even read.

You may not be aware, but this was signed into law in 1994, and was not contested by the previous President. Chances for misuse notwithstanding, it isn't really a partisan issue and it doesn't really matter who the President is.

Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore, Demi Moore, Susan Sarandon, all still working and I could easily go on. Hell, even Cloris Leachman still gets roles. Being over the hill has absolutely nothing to do with casting.

Unless this unnamed actress is involved in the "adult film industry," I don't think she has a point.

The word "hacker" is now so permanently ruined, we ought to just stop using it altogether. These days, leaving your Facebook or Twitter account logged in on a shared machine, and then having someone else notice that fact and make a posting under your account, is what the general population considers "hacking" to be.

Yeah, what we need is more quality submissions by Roland Piquepaille.

I don't think that word means what you think it means...

What AIPAC wants, AIPAC gets.