The most valuable supply of worthlessness on the web
While I’m on a image kick, here’s a news-clipping a former cow-orker shared with me recently. I think the headline completely conveys the enormity of the situation and the risk this hunger strike brings.
Hopefully she’ll pull through this all right.
[tags]Hunger strike, Newspaper, News clippings, News, Hunger, immigration, vigilantes[/tags]
Without notifying Apple of his intent to do so, security researcher Luigi Auriemma has released an exploit that will allow attackers to take control of computers running the latest version of Apple Quicktime.
“The bug is a buffer-overflow and the return address can be fully overwritten so a malicious attacker could use it for executing malicious code on the victim,” Auriemma said in an e-mail.
. . .
Auriemma said that Apple was not been notified of the flaw in advance of its publication.
When Apple updated QuickTime to version 7.3.1 on December 13, 2007, it fixed an RTSP buffer overflow bug (CVE-ID: CVE-2007-6166) related to the content-type/content-base header. The vulnerability Auriemma has identified relates to error message handling and remains unpatched.
I’m guessing Apple will get a patch out quite quickly for this one, but in the meantime, practice safe browsing and consider disabling Quicktime until a patch is available.
Boo-hoo. Cry me a river. Some Hannah Montana fans are apparently upset that for approximately 120 seconds during the Hannah Montana tour appearance, Miley Cyrus is off-stage and a body double plays the part so Ms. Cyrus can change from character Hannah Montana into real-sefl Miley Cyrus.
“Then they covered her with a black sheet and she went through a secret door. Within a second, a new ‘Hannah’ came out of a different door wearing oversized white glasses. The whole time this was happening Miley’s vocals were still playing. The new imposter had her back turned while she danced, trying to hide that fact that she was not Miley Cyrus. At this instant I became very suspicious.” (See video of the switcheroo.)
“Needless to say I was furious!” the irate fan added. “I paid good money to see the concert. I was disappointed and I felt like I was played for a fool.”
No comment shows in the story about what fools such fans are for paying as much as $2565 per ticket for the concert. Perhaps those fans should see their scalpers about a refund for the 1% of the concert that was “disappointing” due to a human-being needing to change clothes/costume.
Clearly the people complaining have no idea what real concert rip-offs are. Anyone remember the pure lip-sync concerts of the 70s and 80s? Milli-Vanilli? Probably still going on, but I haven’t been to a concert in almost 20 years (yes, I’m that old, folks), so I don’t know what they are like now. I was initially going to say I can’t believe anyone could get upset over something like this, but then I remembered that fans and needs of reality don’t have anything in common in general.
[tags]Fools, Idiots, Imbeciles, Miley Cyrus, Hannah Montanna, Lip sync, Concert, Stupid[/tags]
The ice-cream headache explained. A cure is available, too
News of Sir Edmund Hillary’s death due to heart attack is plastered all over the web now.
Reuters has a brief video with more information about Hillary’s life and Mt. Everest accomplishments.
Like many others on t3h intarp!pes, I’ve been caught by an interest in this new band/album meme that’s hitting the bit-ways. Looks like I got lucky with my hits, as I’m apparently forming a New Age band paying tribute to a favored actor with a relaxation and self-realization album/CD.
- The first article title on the Wikipedia Random Articles page is the name of your band.
- The last four words of the very last quotation on the Random Quotations page is the title of your album.
- The third picture in Flickr’s Interesting Photos From The Last 7 Days is your album cover.
Some quick page hits and 10 minutes in GIMP finding the fonts that catch my fancy and I present for you:
I just received this picture and accompanying text in an email from my brother:
These men are concreting solid steel pillars to stop vehicles from parking on the pavement outside a sports bar downtown. They are cleaning up at the end of the day.
I don’t know where he got the image, but it is inspiring enough to share.
[tags]Genius, Men at work, Funny[/tags]
I love LineRider, even though I lack the talent to make something useful and good with it. Here’s the latest I’ve found that really tickled my Rider-urge:
[collegehumor 1735162]
And my apologies for all the embedded-video posts of late. I’ve just been on a bit of a playback kick, I suppose.
[tags]LineRider[/tags]
Fancast – watch streaming video of recent television programs (US only) (via LifeHacker)
Cracked.com routinely cranks out great articles, and their recent “8 Celebrities You Didn’t Know Were Geeks” is no exception. I first opened this up (courtesy digg) figuring it would just be of interest to me. But since the first celeb listed is the uber-sexay and even smarter Natalie Portman, I figured I could post here just so I could post an eye-candy pic of Ms. Portman.
When Golden Globe winner Natalie Portman was 10 years old, a representative of Revlon found her at a pizza parlor and asked her if she wanted to model. Portman turned her down and said that, all things considered, she would much rather act.
. . .
By the time she got her bachelor’s, she had studied four languages in addition to Hebrew, the language of her birth, had been published in professional science journals twice, killed an ass-load of aliens, and generally made us look like big human-shaped piles of poo. Seriously, when we were 10 years old, we wanted to be doctors or space cowboys or, at the very least, fire fighters. The closest we’ve gotten so far is one of those little shiny red fireman helmets.
I’ve been a fan of hers since watching Léon (aka The Professional for us in the US – which, BTW, is when I became a fan of Jean Reno as well). And I’ve long know she was intelligent. But I had no idea just how brainy she was. Smart, way damn sexy, so, so, so very pretty, and she can deal an alien ass-kicking to make your eyes pop out. And have I mentioned she super hot?
[tags]Natalie Portman, geeks, Stuff I want, Eye Candy[/tags]
Shelley recently posted this snip about the removal of a parasitic cyst from a young girl’s brain. She even included a video (which I’m not embedding due to my recent climax-like explosion of video posts) plus a bit of information on the nature of the cyst, the danger of removing, and just what happens to the brain around the cyst after it is removed.
The cyst is a hydatid cyst, which is the result of a parasitic infection by tapeworm larvae(Echinococcus). Generally speaking, it does not occur in the USA, but rather occurs in Mediterranean countries, the Middle East, the southern part of South America, Iceland, Australia, New Zealand, and southern parts of Africa. The cysts, which are initiated by one larvae, eventually come to house thousands of tapeworm larvae. So it is very important not to rupture the cyst during its removal, else the host could easily die.
I’m normally squeemish in regards to video of medical procedures, but this is just such an interesting procedure. ScienceBlogs rock.
Now I’m hungry. Be back after I fix a bite of early lunch.
[tags]Cyst, Parasite, Brain surgery, Hydatid cyst, Shelley, Retrospectacle, ScienceBlogs[/tags]
Here is a fellow who understands the importance of seat belts – headline: “Driver found unbuckled in crash, but beer 12-pack safely belted in“