If you pay any attention to computer security news, you’ve almost certainly heard of the recently-discovered PDF hack that allows an attacker to embed arbitrary commands in a PDF file. Well, it’s worse than you thought — another researcher has a proof-of-concept hack that allows an infected PDF to infect every PDF file on the …
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Beautiful. I want one!
Oh great, even more things that science finds are bad for you. 😉 But this list might be useful, since the thoughts and personality traits mentioned in it can be changed. (I know, most of them were my constant companions in my younger years.)
Poor Microsoft… they’ve lost yet another crown. 😉 (And yet another good reason to avoid the PDF format entirely.)
Yet another (probably Photoshopped) strange Hello Kitty object. Amusing, but I really prefer the assault rifle. (Yeah, I’m getting to this a couple months late, I’m catching up on old posts.) Most amusing comment: That’s what I’m talkin’ about. Just because a girl wants to kill zombies in a gruesome, effective manner doesn’t mean she …
“I’ll be back soon dear, I’ve just got to go pick up some money.” 😉
I’m not sure why, I think it’s perfectly fair, myself.
I haven’t seen the new ads that this piece mentions,* but I can attest to the (lack of) quality of Domino’s Pizza in the Newport News, Virginia, area in the eighties. We called it “cheese on cardboard,” and it lived up to the name. I’ll have to try the new recipe and see just how …
How do you find good software? Industry veteran John Dvorak (no relation to the keyboard layout of the same name 😉 ) says you can’t, barring personal recommendations from other users. There are too many scammers out there. I’m sorry to say that I have to agree. I haven’t gone looking for much software by …