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[mojoey]

 

[Fabri91]

I'm slowly getting the hang of X-Plane 10, and thanks to the vast repository of free photorealistic scenery I've made my first trye VFR flight in ages: Link to album.
Here's our (very approximate) route:

Granted, the AI is horrid, so I've turned it off, but runways that aren't completely flat and good scenery, which enables true VFR flying have their advantages.

 

[Matias Saibene]

Einstein before physics.

...
Einstein after quantum mechanics.

 

[mojoey]

Got my ticket for the Amon Amarth/Sabaton Show tomorrow in Riverside. If I was any more pumped they'd install me in a hydraulic system.

 

[Codz]

The Dodgers won the division in a blowout over the Giants! 2014 NL West champions!

 

[MaverickSawyer]

The Dodgers won the division in a blowout over the Giants! 2014 NL West champions!

I hate you. :dry:


:j/k:

 

[Codz]

I hate you. :dry:


:j/k:

You guys are more than likely going to get a post-season berth. Here's hoping we get a Dodgers-Giants NLCS.

 

[mojoey]

Sweet Porsche getting some air

 

[Urwumpe]

Sweet Porsche getting some air

That's no Porsche.

V-Dub :thumbup:

Volkswagen Beetle R-Line (at least with R-Line front skirt) ... heavily modified.

 

[Fabri91]

Sweet Porsche getting some air

:idk:

EDIT: :ninja:

 

[Quick_Nick]

Anyone know if this is really as bad (or worse) than Heartbleed like media is saying?

http://www.engadget.com/2014/09/24/bash-shell-security-flaw/

The various patches are suggested to be urgent by their descriptions.

 

[MattBaker]

Obligatory "OSX is safe and I can never run into trouble with it"-fallacy mention.

 

[Urwumpe]

Anyone know if this is really as bad (or worse) than Heartbleed like media is saying?

http://www.engadget.com/2014/09/24/bash-shell-security-flaw/

The various patches are suggested to be urgent by their descriptions.

Very likely not as bad. "Shellshock" is a bad flaw, but unless you have a terribly botched Linux system, it should work fine. The worst scenario that I can find there is sneaking some code into all shell scripts executed by root.

 

[mojoey]

That's no Porsche.

V-Dub :thumbup:

Volkswagen Beetle R-Line (at least with R-Line front skirt) ... heavily modified.

Oh but it is.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porsche#Relationship_with_Volkswagen

 

[Urwumpe]

Oh but it is.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porsche#Relationship_with_Volkswagen

No Porsche. Porsche is now a part of the Volkswagen company, but a Volkswagen is no Porsche and a Porsche no Volkswagen in disguise (eg, using a Volkswagen platform and Volkswagen engines under a Porsche body).

Only the Type 1 of Volkswagen, the car called Beetle by the public, was designed by Ferdinand Porsche.

The later New Beetle and the current Volkswagen Beetle are pure Volkswagen cars, currently using the PQ35 (A5) platform.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_Group_A_platform#A5_.28PQ35.29

The only Porsche model that will have a common platform with a current Volkswagen will be the Porsche Macan, based on the MLB platform.

[ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_Group_MLB_platform"]Volkswagen Group MLB platform - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/ame]

 

[MattBaker]

Oh but it is.

You can't call a Proton-M a "lovely Angara" just because both are made by Krunichev...

 

[BruceJohnJennerLawso]

Very likely not as bad. "Shellshock" is a bad flaw, but unless you have a terribly botched Linux system, it should work fine. The worst scenario that I can find there is sneaking some code into all shell scripts executed by root.

As best I understand, it allows statements after a bash environment variable declaration to be executed as root, without superuser access?

Maybe something like installing a package from an unchecked repo, which contains a shell script that runs something nasty like rm -rf /* (or something more subtle if the hacker isnt just an annoying troll).

Im not sure how this could affect a server, since I dont know much about how networking works, but wouldnt a potential hacker need login info to even start communicating remotely with a server through ssh or the like?

Rather disturbing news though.

 

[Quick_Nick]

 

[SolarLiner]

Was about to watch if Tom Scott had a video about it ... you beat me to it!

 

[Cosmic Penguin]