Harry Potter -> homosexual propaganda

http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2007/7/16/162353/730 - credit for link goes to Karen-senpai.

( archived, because it amuses me so, so much )

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Also, slashdot comment that sums up the problems with harry potter: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=253847&cid=19950819

Although, personally, I didn't care all that much. Give me a decent story, and I'll be happy.

Hacking: Dangling Pointers a security vulnerabliity?

http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid14_gci1265116,00.html?track=NL-102&ad=594850&asrc=EM_NLN_1844405&uid=608727

...
"The common thought is that this kind of problem isn't exploitable. But we looked at this and thought, wouldn't it be neat if we could implement our own code on this server?" said Danny Allan, research director at Watchfire, based in Waltham, Mass. "The problem before was, you had to override the exact location that the pointer was pointing to. It was considered impossible. But we discovered a way to do this with generic dangling pointers and run our own shell code."
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So it'll work for languages that don't do any garbage collection automagically. So C/++... not Java, probably not Perl or PHP... Mmm...

By way of the LJ God, brad

"ICANN HAS .TLDS?"

XD ::groan, indeed. With much laughing.::

(TLDs = Top Level Domains, like .com, .edu, .net. ICANN = Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers is the organization that controls domain names. And if you're really unaware of what it's making fun of, or it's been six months and this fad has been forgotten, it's off the lolcats (wikipedia / cat macro internet... thing. See http://www.dropline.net/cats/ or http://icanhascheezburger.com/ or http://lolcats.com/.)

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O.O Someone made it into a programming language. Called LOLCode http://lolcode.com/
HAI
CAN HAS STDIO?
VISIBLE "HAI WORLD!"
KTHXBYE