This can also cause DansGuardian to break if you use ClamAV on your web proxy. As others have said, for Debian, etc. the fix is in the volatile repos. Ubuntu 8.04 LTS on the other hand...
To be fair, the ClamAV authors have been pushing the upgrade for months...
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Ubuntu: An African word meaning "Crippled Debian".
Have you ever been tempted to press the Jolly candy-like button?
Have any of you ever actually pushed one? There is a surreal reverse-woosh as everything shuts down simultaneously, followed by an eerie pin-drop silence...
It also makes it harder to view the articles at work, especially when you have to explain why the word shows up in your proxy logs...
Woo! We get to run the intergalactic casinos!
Until the Commonwealth of Kentucky take over the domains because gambling is illegal so it's their God-given duty to protect y'all from Satan...
Battery drain DOS can be a real problem, but that is pretty much solved if you close your browser and your data channel is closed. If you do not have active data connections, nobody can sen you packets.
Which is fine unless you're using a BlackBerry...
"The fundamental principle of science, the definition almost, is this: the sole test of the validity of any idea is experiment." -- Richard P. Feynman
