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[Flying Dice]

Obama and Samus Aran Fight the Fascists.

That's it, I'm done for the night.

[Xantalos]

'Bama

[ChairmanPoo]

For the last 24 hours I've had "Die wacht am rhein" stuck as an earworm

[Helgoland]

Have someting less reactionary. Google the lyrics, they're awesome!

[pisskop]

Obama and Samus Aran Fight the Fascists.

That's it, I'm done for the night.

are those gags?  please tell me its a gag.  its written like gags.  that made my morning.

[Flying Dice]

Obama and Samus Aran Fight the Fascists.

That's it, I'm done for the night.

are those gags?  please tell me its a gag.  its written like gags.  that made my morning.

Not certain. But looking at the comments, it was apparently stolen and reposted without permission. I'm sure there's a joke in there somewhere, but I can't be arsed to find it.

[TamerVirus]

Body under parking lot turns out to be King Richard III

[Dutchling]

I remember that happening ages ago.

Now I could actually follow the link to see if that is related to an excavation from a while ago but I am obviously not going to do that.

[Flying Dice]

Why is the WP making a deal in the headline about him being under a parking lot? It's much cooler how they proved that he did have back problems.

Besides, based on statistics I just made up, something like 43% of all historical artifacts and sites are or will be beneath a parking lot.

[Arx]

I remember that happening ages ago.

Now I could actually follow the link to see if that is related to an excavation from a while ago but I am obviously not going to do that.

They've fairly conclusively proved it now, though. It was still in a bit of doubt last time I saw.

[Graknorke]

EDIT:
Japan.
Japan what the fuck.
What were you thinking?

I don't know what I'm watching but it had me at the arm wrestling.

The gorilla one really got me, at the end. The jingling tho. The jingling.

[Karkov]

Mother clicked an unverified link that was sent via SMS to her, installed the app, then ran it.

The app proceeded to hijack her kakao talk messenger app (which is used by nearly all people in Korea), change the password and email, then sent messages to her friends and relatives talking about how she urgently needed $1000 or so, would you please send it to <bank account provided>. She didn't know until a friend asked her why she needed $1000 by phone; if the friend had asked by Kakaotalk, she might have been swindled by the conman sitting on the other side.

@.@ I never knew you could hijack another app...

So continues the trend of technologically impaired old people mucking up their devices with something that could have easily been avoided.

Nah, there's a bunch of apps out there right now that, once you download them, will just wreak havoc with your phone.  People hide tons of code in those things because no one ever bothers to open them up and find out what makes them tick.  This one that Skyrunner's mom downloaded was just slightly more malicious than others.

On the American app market alone there's like 4 "flashlight" apps that send off data about you back to their creators.  It only takes a couple of kilobytes (90 KB from what I heard) to make a flashlight app, and a couple of those are around 2-3 MBs.  Data about consumers is currently the best product that app producers can generate, some people like to skip the middleman though and try to extort their customer database.  It usually lands them behind bars somewhere.

FAKEEDIT:  WHY AM I ALWAYS THE FIRST POST ON A PAGE!?  AGH.

[Levi]

On the American app market alone there's like 4 "flashlight" apps that send off data about you back to their creators.

See stuff like this here is why I'm scared of my phone.

[Karkov]

On the American app market alone there's like 4 "flashlight" apps that send off data about you back to their creators.

See stuff like this here is why I'm scared of my phone.

Just treat it like you would a computer (because it is).  Get anti-virus, encryption, don't download crap that you don't need, and just generally be safe with it.  Use common sense whilst browsing the internet; if something seems fishy, it probably is.

[Levi]

Yeah, but every app I've tried to download always says "Gives access to phone functions", "Has network capabilities", "May damn soul", 'can access database'.  So it tends to be I don't really use my phone as anything other than an actual phone+mp3 player.