I’m speaking to the Girl on the phone, but she’s busy doing some essay or other.
“Stop distracting me, I need to do this essay! The effects of coffee will be wearing off soon!”
“So, we can actually talk for more than five minutes soon?” [I only met her recently]
“Ideally, yes.”
Curious use of language and wants to speak to me again? Sounds like my kind of girl; rock and/or roll, kids.
As far as I can see, the re-election of Bush is a bad thing, both for America and the World. Note this is heavily biased by my views =P
Iraq
Prior to the invasion of Iraq there may have been terrorists in Iraq. Now there most certainly are: they are killing Iraqis nearly every day. There have been far more Iraqi civilians killed in the invasion of Iraq than people killed by terrorists in the USA that wouldn’t be dead if we hadn’t invaded Iraq. Never mind that many have been killed by the terrorists now in Iraq, they would still be alive if we hadn’t invaded their country.
I'd hoped it wouldn't happen; I thought it would happen. It appears it will happen.
A rather severe-looking flaw in Gmail.
This is pretty bad mainly because it allows an attacker to log into your account indefinitely after the account has been hacked.
Usually you are only at risk until you have changed your password in situations like this. For example, in August a brute-force program called Gmail Hack was released that uses a dictionary attack to work out your password. Once cracked, the attacker can access your account until you change the password. With this new attack, you can change your password as often as you like and the attacker can still access your Gmail account.
Mr Thiemann said research by the TowerGroup showed that 70% of new cash machines being installed were Windows based.
So, installing a general-purpose, monolithic, proven insecure OS inside a cash machine that only has fairly minimal and specialised needs is a good idea? Like hell it is: get a small OS core in, add the bits you need, be happy.
I wonder if the UIs are IE based? That would truly take the biscuit… These cash machines have already been affected by viruses, come on people, get some intelligence into your heads!