Joel Bennett

"PowerShell's just a handy tool -- if it had failed to execute the Powershell, that C&C server probably had a .vbs script as a backup option ;)" - Joel Bennett

"I believe that what you are calling a "target" is just a "domain" (not an "active directory domain" but as in the definition of the word: "a sphere of activity, concern, or function") ... so I use the domain parameter to tell them apart." - Joel Bennett

"Very nice. You should definitely change the if() test though: what you really want to check for is whether it's .StatusCode is a 3xx Redirect code, because "Found" isn't the only one that this would work for (at a minimum 303, 302, 304, I think). I'd just go for: if($request.StatusCode -ge 300 -and $request.StatusCode -lt 400) { $request.Headers.Location }" - Joel Bennett

"So, if you're citing the National Institute on Drug Abuse, an article published last year in the journal Neuropsychopharmacology, "clinical studies" and that "one study" and "some marijuana users" and "science" ... maybe somewhere in there you could have spared the time to actually link to some of these compelling studies? Frankly, I want to believe all that, but in the absence of specific citations, mentioning the fact that it's called "weed" as evidence that it's bad for you makes you come off as having invented the rest of your evidence." - Joel Bennett

"Seriously? Do we not have enough of a nanny-state already? Now you want to force parents (of SIXTH GRADERS!?) to go to parenting classes? Don't you think if their kids have survived through sixth grade it's a bit late for you to start trying to force your opinions about child-rearing on their parents?" - Joel Bennett

"Just listen to the recording. It's $500,000 as in five-hundred thousand dollars, as in half-a-million per-year." - Joel Bennett