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Stranger Hits Man At His Own Funeral 7

Nicole Marie Loretta Leonard, 25, has been charged with disturbing a funeral and disorderly conduct. She danced in front of the service, waved a wand around the casket, opened the lid, laid her hands on the deceased's head and struck the body with a wand. Tammy Fausel said her family were shocked at what happened during her uncle's service. "Everybody was just kind of flabbergasted. They didn't know what was going on," she said. When police asked Nicole why she acted the way she did, she said, "she felt that it was the right thing to do at the time." That's right Nicole, go with your gut.

Comment Re:Three options (Score 1) 1032

You know as pet owner, rat owner.. I know rats as pets are great. But would never cuddle a wild rat!

You won't find many rat owners to disagree with the fact that yes their wild cousins are a plague and a pest. They are really successfull and..destructive.

Hell even as pet they are destructive..oh well.

I would say use steelwoll, yup already mentioned but if I noticed anything is that they don't like things that prick in their noses. Sensitive creatures

Comment Re:A big "duh" to the auto industry (Score 1) 1234

Well yeah I just read somewhere that GM is pumping money into their V6 factories because V8's might go out. Don't get me wrong but you might have noticed that those Japanese models mostly are having 3 or 4 Cylinders. Actually a 3 Cylinder might get you around pretty well, if not a bit on the whiny side motor sound being! A 4 Cylinder pretty much takes the cake! Of course America is different then Europe so there is space for improvements to make the cars more American ready. With that I mean that in Europe we take much more turns! That and in America it is more usual that shopping is done in larger amounts but less times a week!

Combined with the fact that many life in suburbs and for shopping have to drive quite a bit away. The slightly larger European cars will do just fine in America! So prepare to see allot of Four Cylinder cars!

America has allot of work ahead!
Security

Submission + - Critical .mdb flaw Found - Microsoft may Never fix (beskerming.com) 4

SkiifGeek writes: "When independent security researcher cocoruder found a critical bug with the JET engine, via the .mdb (Access) file format, he reported it to Microsoft, but Microsoft's response came as a surprise to him — it appears that Microsoft are not inclined to fix a critical arbitrary code execution vulnerability with a data technology that is at the heart of a large number of essential business and hobby applications.

Where should vendors be required to draw the line when supporting deprecated file formats and technology? In this case, leaving a serious vulnerability active in a deprecated technology could have serious effects if an exploit were to target it, but it is a matter of finding the right balance of security and usability such that Microsoft's users are not exposed to too great a danger for continuing to use Microsoft products."

Internet Explorer

Submission + - AntiVirus Products fail to find Simple IE malware (beskerming.com) 4

SkiifGeek writes: "Didier Stevens recently took a closer look at some Internet Explorer malware that he had uncovered and found that most antivirus products that it was tested against (courtesy of VirusTotals) failed to identify the malware through one of the most basic and straight forward obfuscation techniques — the null-byte. With enough null-bytes between each character of code, it is possible to fool all antivirus products (though additional software will trap it), yet Internet Explorer was quite happy to render the code.

Whose responsibility is it to fix this behaviour? Both the antivirus / antimalware companies and Microsoft's IE team have something to answer for."

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