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Techno-idiots (Part 3)

As some of you may know I do work involving IT Security for a living. To make my life easy I often use BackTrack . BackTrack is a Linux LiveCD that includes a whole load of IT Security tools (nmap, kismet, nikto...100s of tools). As with many online communities these days they offer forums for their users to ask questions etc. What amazes me is the sheer idiocy of some of the people we get on the forums. I can completely understand that lots of people want to been a l33t h4x0rs. But SERIOUSLY...WTF PEOPLE! For every good post (someone with a decent technical question or someone that wants to share something cool) there are 20 posts from truly clueless individuals, like: "If i Don`t have any clients connected to my wep ...." WTF are people doing trying to crack WEP and "test" Wireless Access Points, if they don't even know how the freaking things work.....actually strike that not how they work but just the basics of the terminology surrounding the thing. You d

Soooo many good movies this year...

Note: I've linked to Apple's trailers, the links are likely to become invalid over time. Just google the movie names and you'll find the official sites. * Wanted This one was completely unknown to me until this morning. Angelina Jolie & Morgan Freeman in an awesome Mr. & Mrs. Smith meets Transporter kinda flic. * Mongol . The Genghis Khan story. * Hulk . * Indiana Jones - Kingdom of the Crystal Skull . * Hellboy 2 - The Golden Army . * IronMan . Starts tonight (2 May 2008). * Bangkok Dangerous . Nicholas Cage plays an assassin in Thailand. * Get Smart . Action comedy remake of the classic series with Maxwell Smart and Agent 99. * WALL*E . Pixar's next, about a little lonely robot. * The Spiderwick Chronicles . I just found this on Apple's site, however it says Feb 2008 and I don't recall seeing it in previews or commercials. The official site says DVD June 24. * Batman - The Dark Knight .