Tron Legacy already has a \”parody\” – \”Pron xxx\”.

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\"pron-xxx.jpg\" Adult actress Zoe Voss recently posted photos of herself dressed in her costume for Pron, the aptly titled porno parody of Tron. There aren\’t any special effect shots, but the outfit looks like nice burlesque wear.

Pron stars Anthony Rosano and is directed by Sam Hain and Leeroy Myers — the film also features a glow job scene, which I hope is just a sequence of the Pron equivalents of Sam Flynn and Quorra programming at consoles (totally clothed).

Details at Gamma Squad.

The website of Doom?

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You may have been wondering…  Over the last day or two, I\’ve been having quite a few issues with the WordPress software….
Mainly, unexplainable 500 & 404 errors….  I have currently stripped out everything, and I\’m slowly adding components back in, in an effort to isolate the issue.
In the meantime, please be patient…  And if you would be interested in posting here, please let me know…

Google pulls app that revealed Android flaw, issues fix

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Google pulled an app from the Android marketplace that was created to illustrate a flaw in the mobile framework that allowed apps to be installed without a user\’s knowledge. It then issued a fix for bug.
Jon Oberheide, chief technology officer of Scio Security, created a proof-of-concept app disguised as an expansion for the popular Angry Birds game. After the app was downloaded, three additional apps were installed without the user\’s knowledge that had permission to perform malicious activities but were benign, he told CNET in an interview.
Oberheide and Zach Lanier, a senior consultant at Intrepidus Group, were scheduled to present their research on the Android vulnerability at Intel\’s annual internal security conference in Hillsboro, Ore., today.
Before they got a chance to give their presentation, Google pulled the app, according to Oberheide. The company also began rolling out a fix for the issue, which applies to all Android devices, a Google spokesperson said in an e-mail late yesterday.

Read more about it here –  Google pulls app that revealed Android flaw, issues fix

What’s so dubious about my startup applications?

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Ever notice that a program that is supposed to startup at login doesn\’t behave properly? It maybe has a permissions issue.  Take a look at your console.log, and see if you see any launchctl related errors.
For example:

11/11/10 1:20:48 PM com.apple.launchctl.Aqua[316] launchctl: Dubious permissions on file (skipping): /Users/Ben/Library/LaunchAgents
11/11/10 1:20:48 PM com.apple.launchctl.Aqua[316] launchctl: Dubious permissions on file (skipping): /Library/LaunchAgents/com.micromat.TechToolProAgent.plist
11/11/10 1:20:48 PM com.apple.launchctl.Aqua[316] launchctl: Dubious permissions on file (skipping): /Library/LaunchAgents/com.poleposition-sw.LANrevAgentURLHandler.plist
11/11/10 1:20:48 PM com.apple.launchctl.Aqua[316] launchctl: Dubious permissions on file (skipping): /Library/LaunchAgents/com.poleposition-sw.LANrevUIAgent.plist
11/11/10 1:20:48 PM com.apple.launchctl.Aqua[316] launchctl: Dubious permissions on file (skipping): /Library/LaunchAgents/jp.co.canon.UFR2.BG.plist
11/11/10 1:20:48 PM com.apple.launchctl.Aqua[316] launchctl: Dubious permissions on file (skipping): /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.AirPortBaseStationAgent.plist
To solve this, you will need to find out what the proper file permissions & owner are for the plists. Or remove the plist from the folder (eg, move it to the desktop). And then re-install the application, it should recreate the plist for launchd, and set the correct permissions as part of the install.
Have you seen this problem? How did you solve it? Do you have a better suggestion? If so, Leave a comment…