Yeah, sure as hell police knows that you can't trust DNA samples right? Which is why dozens of police officers searched for the phantom for years despite these obvious contradictions. Even a 100.000 Euro bounty was offered...

It turned out to be some DNA pollution on the q-tips the police used: the DNA came from an employee of the cotton-wool tip manufacturer the police used. By the way, the q-tips (which are German polices standard DNA evidence seizure tips) were never supposed to be used for collecting DNA evidence by the manufacturer.

Uuuwww, yikes, why whould anybody do that?

Last time I was in the US I saw a tooth painkiller in a store (some *caine), bought it and when the time came that I had a toothache and later when my girlfriend got her braces it got us some serious pain reliev.

This time I'd like to buy some melatonin. What else can you recommend?

So, you say, 12% lower risk of dying at all? Since everybody dies from some cause, there really is no such thing as 'natural death' - this just means that the coroner was too lazy to ascertain the cause of death (like a stroke or a heart attack).

Back when I was in the european equivalent of high school I used to drink lots of milk with cocoa. Then some day they switched to environment friendly glass packings and of course I was to lazy to clean them and turn them in again, so the empty glass bottles started getting sour in the back of my class. My classmates started to complain and so I switched to Coke. From then on I drank about 2-3 liters of Coke a day, later I substituted some of the coke for coffee and added some red bull.

Then I got problems with my stomach. So I had to stop drinking coke and red bull and coffee and so I had to abandon it all. I just switched to black tea since then (earl grey, hot, of course) and I do not miss the coffee or the coke at all. But now I drink about 4 liters of early grey a day, each cup (1/4 liter) with two sugar cubes.

I am quite confident that I am much more addicted to the constant supply of sugar than the caffein and actually worried about that one a bit.

And don't try to recommend me sweeteners as if I only drink a bit of diet coke or anything other containing saccharine (and I swear I can tell in an instant although it has been scientifically proven that the sense of taste can not distinguish them), my body craves for sugar and I need to compensate it with dozens the time of sweetener.

• It exploits the MS08-067 vulnerability to infect via the network.

• It uses the Autostart mechanisms for spreading via network shares and removable devices (except for media that identify themselves as removable media such as USB sticks on WindowsXP and later)

• It tries to bruteforce shares as user Administrator and with a known precompiled list of quite trivial passwords.

Of course this could all get changed or enhanced with an update that could occur on April 1st.

Now, what I want to point out with this comment is that you can end up with a complete infected LAN by only having overlooked or spared out just one system that remained unpatched and here is why:

If you happen to end up with an infection of a system and you log in as domain admin to it the virus has got everything it needs to spread to every system, particularly to the central file server. And if you do not happen to run an AV client for real-time monitoring there or if an updated version is not detected by the systems AV client signatures, you can get infected pretty badly.

When Conficker has domain admin privileges, it creates scheduled processes to execute a copy of itself on remote systems. In order to prevent this, you can either disable the scheduling process or you can write-protect the Root folder on your central file server.

So you might want to CYA and make sure that:

• Every Windows box is patched

• Autostart from anything but CDs is disabled

• No system has admin accounts with trivial passwords

• The systems which host mapped SMB shares have local AV real-time scans and the Root folders of these shares are write protected.

• On Vista systems programs should not be started from removable drives: Confickers USB social engineering trick on Vista

Okaaay, first I laughted at this part: WTF, an ape alpha male is upset when he can not control every bit of his sourrundings! ... Do I realy need to say it?

Okaaay, first I laughted at the post: WTF, an ape alpha male is upset when he can not control every bit of his sourrundings! ... Do I really need to say it?

PRIVACY IS DEAD - GET OVER IT Pt 01, with Steve Rambam. on the last Hope conference.

Yup, idiots are kind of protected here. We have comparable strong laws protecting the privacy of the workplace, especially when it could be used against a worker. Like, video surveillance is not allowed to be used for evaluating things like when a worker makes a break or similar. Therefore, if the employer wants to access their own video surveillance tapes, he has to specify the exact reason, exact camera and a narrow timeframe and the "Betriebsrat" (workers' council) has to be involved in order to protect the privacy of individual workers shown and in order to oversee the employers actions.