Q: What flights are available from Vizag on 14th October? Thanks & Regards.

Flights departing Vizag (VZG) on October 14:

• Svenborgia ($@©) - departs 10:23 GMT, and
• Grenarnia (£°ß) - departs 14:40 GMT.

Please note that, in order to book either of these flights, you need a credit check demonstrating a net worth of at least 2.5 million krugels†, knowledge of the secret handshake that only rich people know, and a time machine since those flights took off 12 days ago.

† Don't know what a Krugel is? Then you're obviously not rich enough to enter Svenborgia, let alone Grenarnia.

Farhad, you might try doing a little digging before succumbing to the "security" industry hype.

1. This isn't the first trojan to target OS X, LEAP-A claimed that distinction back in February of 2006,
2. This would be much more noteworthy, if it didn't rely on user authentication granting the installer access to the hosts file and crontab,
3. Any user who downloads the file, but doesn't authenticate the installer is safe, which wouldn't be the case with 90% of similar trojans on Windows
4. The file doesn't rely on any loopholes or vulnerabilities within OS X -- instead, it plays by the rules and relies on its victims' gullibility. The lesson: don't run/authorize installers of unknown origin.

I also take umbridge at the fact that this seems to elicit a sort of schadenfreude from you, Farhad, which I infer from your little jabs at "smugness." There's 140,000+ Windows viruses in the wild; there are two Trojans on OS X, both of which require user authentication. I think that's good reason to feel a little more secure about using OS X than Microsoft's latest offering.

On a final note, I'd take whatever Symantec and their competitors say with a grain of salt -- they've been known to outright lie in the past regarding Mac OS X security, and with good reason -- their installed user base is less than 5% of the Mac market. They're hoping a good scare will drive millions of Mac users to purchase their products during a panic.

...I was part of the people who didn't approve of Iraq.

It's good to know that George W. Bush is amongst the 55+ percentage of Americans who disapprove of George W. Bush's Iraq strategy.

Normally, the conundrum of someone vehemently disagreeing with himself would give me a migraine, but for Bush, it seems par for the course.

"When I was mayor of New York City, the Yankees won four World Championships," Giuliani says. "Since I've left being mayor of New York City, the Yankees have won none." Presumably, this means that if Giuliani is in the White House, the Red Sox are finished.

Given Guiliani's stance on "enhanced interrogation," I think it means that any known members of the Red Sox organization, their financial backers, those who publicly support them and their affiliates (Red Sox in Maryland, Red Sox in Chicago -- aka the 'White' Sox) and the government of Florida, which knowingly permits a Red Sox training camp every year are due for an up-close and personal demonstration of waterboarding and stress positions.

You see, it's vital that we learn of their dastardly pitching rotation and you're either with the Yankees or against them.

@ arcangelica:

Nigerian letter scams (also known as 419 fraud) predate the internet and are surprisingly sucessful for the scammers. It's nearly impossible to "unsubscribe" since you're dealing with unscrupulous people to begin with and sending them an email asking them to stop only confirms that your address is real (and therefore valuable, even if only for its spam list value). The easy way to avoid them is to use a decent spam filter on your personal computer and/or contact your ISP's abuse department and provide them with a copy of the email, including the full header (which usually isn't visible by default).

The only other option is to burn your old email account and start over with a new address, but even that isn't so successful -- I run my own mail server and created private and public email addresses; all it took was one of my friends uploading her Yahoo address book to a social networking site and my private email started getting more spam than my public one.

The safest answer to avoiding phising and identity theft attempts is to never click on a link in an email, even if it looks like it actually came from from your bank, eBay, PayPal, the phone company, etc. If the info is legit, you'll be able to navigate to the appropriate area on their website by manually entering the address. (It also helps to turn off HTML email, but fewer and fewer mail clients give you that option these days.) The same advice holds for phone calls from your bank or credit card company, etc -- if it's legit, you should be able to call a published number and reach the person via an extension.

...which takes him to a Web page that requires a member's username and password, which the iPhone has fortunately remembered -- so the cop presses "submit,"...

The specific hypothetical is moot -- unlike the desktop OS, the iPhone's Mobile Safari doesn't store site usernames or passwords, because the device is not considered secure. Sure, they could, theoretically, look at your browser history or browse through your bookmarks (since there's no search, name the "naughty" ones creatively).

Besides, who views porn on the iPhone -- aside from the whole things you shouldn't do in public issue, the screen is tiny, and the interface requires both hands to zoom.