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Special Friend, of course. For more than just one reason.

a) Title.
b) It's community made.
c) It's completely obscure and for good reason, because it is also boring as hell and tells a story nobody wants to hear.
d) And a-c combined are enough to make it a meme that could surpass All your base.

http://thcorg.blogspot.com/2011/07/vodafone-hacked-root-password-published.html

"What we have seen is that Vodafone fixed the way THC gained administrator access to the femto.

This of course does not fix the core of the problem: The femto transfers key material from the core network right down to the femto."

I did a blog post on this very topic last year.

http://johnsokol.blogspot.com/2010/11/increasing-internet-reliablity-dual-wan.html

Use a cable modem and DSL at the same time.
Xincom XC-DPG502
TP-Link TL-R480T+

Make your existing Linux server into a Time Machine backup server.

Nearly two months ago I was subject to a similar abuse of power, by Dutch police: http://mayaposch.blogspot.com/2011/05/taking-nightmare-notch-further.html

Basically I had done nothing but suffer a dissociative episode at my family doctor's office, for which I had warned them, but which they had dutifully ignored. I knocked over some glass items, they called the cops, and despite not resisting I was forced against the ground, the cuffs forced on so tight that they had trouble removing them, and I will suffer from nerve damage in my wrists for a long time.

I was locked in a jail cell for nearly 24 hours, only allowed to leave it to visit the hospital for some glass cuts I had suffered. I was crying and screaming and basically breaking down the whole time while I was in the cell. The feeling of powerlessness was just beyond any words. I have been persecuted for my IS and denied medical help for years already, but at least then I still had the choice to walk away. When I begged some cops to let me out, they just laughed at me and threw me against the nearest wall.

Abuse of power is very real. And it's everywhere.

sure.. you COULD take a train or a bus... oh wait, there is this http://szaboservices.blogspot.com/2011/06/tsa-plans-8000-screenings-on-trains.html

You think people do this on purpose?

Why, yes, I do.
http://californiabicycleracing.blogspot.com/2008/07/this-is-what-doctor-christopher.html (warning, NSFW).

And the verdict:
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2010/01/cyclist-sentenced.html

You don't understand, and most people don't.

In Texas, 99.5% of all cases are resolved by plea bargain. Its all for the same reason, and innocence or guilt doesn't factor in: The prosecutor will offer a deal that you'd be a fool to reject unless you were certain you could win your trial.

If you happen to be poor, and in the right area, the court might be one that appoints public defenders without any fuss (that isn't a good assumption to make, though) or maybe you've got lucky and the area you are in has an actual public defenders office, in which each attorney is assigned a mere 200 cases at a time.

Its easy to say he was stupid for not taking the plea bargain, but innocent people take these plea bargains too, for the same reasons - felony record and probation or 5 years in prison? Sure you can win? Want to take the gamble?

Not my site, but one of a few that really covers this subject: http://gritsforbreakfast.blogspot.com/

The cloud has always been this: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_K52n2Jkv5-I/SYbEngJYXbI/AAAAAAAABVU/C_Wd8gyjaK4/s400/CLOUD.GIF

And that is still what marketers are selling the cloud as, even today. It is an abstract place where things just magically work, nothing more.

The Cloud is not the same as Cloud Computing. The Cloud is this (Special note: Image is dated 1998). Somewhere in the fog is your service. You, the end user, don't care about how it works, it just does – always.

14 years: http://freebeattychadwick.blogspot.com/

Your plan would fail at this point:
"1. Multiple levels of undetected low-profile unix breakins to start off a botnet."

Two years ago it took some bad guys 6 months to hack into only 700 Linux boxes because they had to do it manually. Just sending an email with an infected packet won't work on Linux the way it worked to create the most recently discovered Windows botfarm, which contained over 4,500,000 Windows zombies.

... and naming it after what is apparently a child famous for pantyshots...

Just to be clear: characters in a comic are not actually real people. Thus, it was not the name of a "child famous for pantyshots", it was the name of a fictional character, who is eleven years old in the context of the fiction, and whose underwear is frequently depicted. I'm not saying that this isn't perverted (there's a reason why it's called "hentai"), but it is worlds apart from an actual child in the same situation.

Furthermore, the way you wrote your post makes it seem like the entire community is being antisocial jerks, when in fact what the community said was "well, we don't like it either, but we're not going to censor it". I mean, just look at this quote from the chairman of the Python Software Foundation:

But even though we agree so much with free speech that we will fight for your right to call your pissy little parser pantyshot or upskirt, we really would rather you grew up and called it something else.

That doesn't sound like the response of a community of anti-social jerks, now does it?

What's going on here is that there is one idiot named Frank Smit who is obsessed with naming projects after things associated with panty shots. He's the guy who originally suggested the "libupskirt" name to someone who didn't understand the connotations, and he's the guy who created the Pantyshot package, and is being a douchebag about it. That's it. That's pretty much all there is to this story.

There are very few areas of this country where you can live without a car. You can make laws that say people can't drive, but they'll do it anyway. What you DO accomplish is that you criminalize a large portion of the population, while expanding and taxing the underclass. If you'd like proof this is the case look well.. anywhere in the US. Uninsured drivers are illegal in most places.. but they drive. 10% of Texans have active warrants for arrests , mostly for unpaid traffic fines. Not legal to drive. I'm all for responsibility, but if you expect people to lay down and die because they broke laws before.. its just not going to happen. http://gritsforbreakfast.blogspot.com/2007/07/more-than-10-of-texans-currently-wanted.html

This has been measured, and it's not quite as high as 40% -- the one large study, gave 27%. Unless perhaps, some fraction of the population is so stupid that they vote randomly, thus skewing the measurements. See http://kfmonkey.blogspot.com/2005/10/lunch-discussions-145-crazification.html

Yes it does:

http://webshop.ffii.org/
http://fosspatents.blogspot.com/2011/05/what-app-developers-need-to-know-about.html#jurisdiction

nope the original story is on google's blog: http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2011/06/protecting-users-from-malware-hosted-on.html

Google's blog would technically qualify as a "press release", the original news article is from The Register.

nope the original story is on google's blog: http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2011/06/protecting-users-from-malware-hosted-on.html

So, how do you feel about Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada and California all going back to Mexico? How about the European invasion of the North and South American continents?

At some point, things become "inevitable", and you can't fix the problem without making a new problem.

Oh, and Israel came into being by international convention, not of its own accord, and as a result of near extinction of the race. Nobody cared about "Palestine" until the Jews started to move back, and then it has been cause celeb for all the Nazi sympathizers, who are still trying to exterminate the "Zionist Pigs" from off the face of the planet by proxy war.

Nor do people realize that the same international mandate that created Israel for the Jews to have a land for themselves, also created a state for the Palestinians as well. That state, Jordan, exists today, and is largely Palestinian population. Does the world really need TWO Palestinian states?

The sad thing is, nobody cares about plight of the Palestinians still. The Arabs, Persians and other Muslims of the world aren't doing anything to really help Palestinians build a civilization, because it doesn't support their goals of exterminating the Jews. The fact is, many Palestinians don't want to be productive, they have an image to uphold. Giving them another state isn't going to fix this problem.

http://digitalirony.blogspot.com/2007/02/like-foxes-through-ruins-rockets-from.html

http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2011/06/protecting-users-from-malware-hosted-on.html

My mistake.

Here are the URLs.

http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message1029116/pg1
http://restoreamericaplan.blogspot.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clkRYkIx4Ks
http://nesaranews.blogspot.com/

It's the Tea Party behind this budget nonsense not the banks, not Obama.

My mistake.

Here are the URLs.

http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message1029116/pg1
http://restoreamericaplan.blogspot.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clkRYkIx4Ks
http://nesaranews.blogspot.com/

It's the Tea Party behind this budget nonsense not the banks, not Obama.

It's not so much an outrage of the theft of items from baggage, it happens from time to time and sometimes it's the handlers. It's clearly wrong and clearly theft.

What's really interesting is all the stuff being confiscated, like this politician's bottle of tequila. OK, he shouldn't have brought it on board the plane, but what's really telling is that they take it and noone knows what happens with it afterwards. Sure they will have plenty of pictures of the cheap stuff getting destroyed. But who's going to miss the small percentage actual good stuff that gets taken home and sold/given/traded with friends or acquaintances?

It was a mistake to save any of them. Why?
Because it rewarded bad business practices.

Capitalism is a very Darwinian economic system. Only the fittest survive.

We managed to fuck that right up, and now we're wondering why we don't seem to be able to build a strong recovery.

also we're still manufacturing quite a bit: http://mjperry.blogspot.com/2009/12/us-remains-largest-manufacturer-in.html

This is offtopic but do I believe that we're in this war to support the rebels? It can't possibly be for something we want. It has happened once, it will happen again.

Watson used voice recognition.

No it didn't: "At exactly the moment that the clue is revealed on the game board, a text is sent electronically to Watson’s
POWER7 chips. So, Watson receives the clue text at the same time it hits Brad Rutter’s and Ken Jennings’ retinas."
[source: IBM research blog]

http://fosspatents.blogspot.com/2011/04/barnes-nobles-answer-to-microsofts.html

Nothing, as do their patents. Whether you like it or not, they have peices of paper staking claim to generic functionality. The point is that if you were the holder of that paper, people would be all for you winning, but since it's a large company, people cry foul.

Been done before. http://shopriffraff.blogspot.com/

Huh? What? Here's a hint.

... or Brick Top

Google pull out of China because censorship is evil, so in steps m$, the outfit Google coined their motto from originally. But wait ... m$ don't have a search engine of their own, so can the Google servers take the load from them merely throwing up a wrapper round theirs?

http://fosspatents.blogspot.com/2011/06/uspto-invalidates-entire-oracle-java.html

Months ago Google released a library that can be included in your app for compatibility with Fragments down to Android 1.6, no need to wait for Ice Cream.

If this was Canonical or Oracle, would it be newsworthy? As another poster mentioned, we're talking about possibly the most influential site on the Internet. Moreover, there's plenty of geek cred with FB. Look at what they're doing with Hadoop, some of their open source contributions, or their code deployment process.

Personally, I feel you on wasting space on non-technical articles. However, it's no different than reading what Bill Gates has to say about vaccines or reading about a Steve Jobs comic book.

As opposed to DC's high and evolutionary Snowflame.

Incidentally, I Installed Windows 7 recently and was asked to choose between Google, Yahoo and Bing as a search engine. No wonder Google wins everything when it gets listed twice like that.

...I'd be surprised if they don't want to expand their coverage to trans and buses as soon as it's feasible.

Have you been living under a rock the last six months? They are already moving that direction. Here's a short list of links, for your reading/viewing pleasure:

In train stations.
...and again.
In a bus station.
Video of the Savannah, GA train station search.
TSA's spin^Wresponse to the Savannah, GA search.
What a VIPR operation is.
Napolitano musing about expanding the scope of TSA's operations before the above searches happened.

HTH!

Funny, Greenpeace doesn’t talk about that. Nor does it mention:

        that BP is funding research into “ways of tackling the world’s climate problem” at Princeton University to the tune of $2 million per year for 15 years
        that BP is funding an energy research institute involving two other US universities to the tune of $500 million – the aim of which is “to develop new sources of energy and reduce the impact of energy consumption on the environment”
        that ExxonMobil itself has donated $100 million to Stanford university so that researchers there can find “ways to meet growing energy needs without worsening global warming”
BP, Greenpeace & the Big Oil Jackpot

It's very naive to think that being in the employ of a non-profit some how anoints the typical Narcissistic CEO; in fact non-profits are becoming the new feeding grounds for preditory business types. It's not like there aren't boat-loads of cash waiting for looting in them.

Wikipedia says it's up to the IOMMU to enforce this. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderbolt_(interface)#Security

The only other discussion Google turned up was either http://erratasec.blogspot.com/2011/02/thunderbolt-introducing-new-way-to-hack.html or people republishing, reprinting or rephrasing that post.

Maybe Amazon should resort to their "Mechanical Turk". It would be a better use than the 40% of all Mechanical Turk jobs that are devoted to spamming.

Or maybe they can go to the cloud! "Yay, cloud!" :-(

The truth: Amazon could figure it out - they just can't be bothered. They WANT to drop their affiliates, since they no longer need them to "get the Amazon name out." If you're an Amazon affiliate, your days are numbered - Amazon just wants to be able to blame someone else when they dump you.

It's no secret, AT&T already does it.

You could follow the standards and dumb race conditions would make certain elements load at different times and cause it to create a mess.

Not to mention crashes and security vulnerabilities too. For example, as I mentioned in another thread, IE's parsing of plain HTML tag soup is robust, but as soon as you add some CSS, even something as simple as <table style=position:absolute;clip:rect(0)> would result in an exploitable crash that had to be fixed in a security update. Not to mention this and this example, and there are probably more.

People still do that. However, for boards where you can have relatively thick traces (25 mils trace and space, say), I have heard good things about the laser-printer toner transfer method.

We ARE talking servers from 2005-2007 here.

The V490, V890, E6900, E20000, E25000 stopped shipping in April 2009. The V445 is Ultrasparc IIIi, was announced in 2007, I think first shipped in 2008, with Solaris 10. So it won't even make *one* OS upgrade?

Looks like a good attempt on programming, but if I am starting on Python today, I'd prefer using the current version.

This is a good price-point; yet, if you want to do anything more than an evening with Python, try...

http://diveintopython3.org/ or
Computer Programming for Kids http://cp4k.blogspot.com/

The difference you are looking for is legacy costs for UAW retirees. Note that this was largely made solvent when the government took over GM and Chrysler and took equity from bond holders, non-union retirees, and stockholders and transferred it to the union. 20,000 non-union retirees had their pension taken over by the government at a massive loss to them in benefits. So, it is possible that the legacy price of UAW labor has been transferred to non-union workers, equity holders and tax payers. It didn't go away.

Having taken seconds to do a Google lookup, here are a couple of articles that explain the situation up to the government seizure. http://mjperry.blogspot.com/2007/07/uaw-pricing-themselves-out-of-market.html offers a decent explanation about the "legacy" costs of union workers that have to be factored in to the purchase of a UAW car. http://livingeconomics.org/article.asp?docId=107 points to an article that describes how union legacy costs American car buyers for charges that Japanese car manufactures do not (as of yet) have to consider. The costs haven't gone away. There wasn't a UAW "haircut" in the takeover of GM and Chrysler.

Are you happy now? You made me use Google today.

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Here's an image I took, using the 0.61-meter F/10 Cassegrain of Sierra Stars Obs. in California:

http://sattrackcam.blogspot.com/2011/06/ot-close-encounters-of-rocky-kind-2011.html

The only reason I'm wary of just calling Verizon and talking to customer care is that there are a number of anecdotes floating around about how customer care people are mostly clueless about international issues or (worse) will tell you what you want to hear, rather than the real truth, and then can't help you when you get the $1k bill a month later.

The only bit I can find on Verizon's site is $30 for 75 megabytes. It's not quite highway robbery, but it's a pretty bum deal. I'd be really hesitant to agree to take any deal they offered me verbally, over the phone, without any printed guarantee anywhere.

Yeah, exactly! Fortunately, TSA only conducts searches at airports before you board the airplane and they never, ever, direct train passengers to a secure area (where it wasn't otherwise necessary for them to go) at the END of a trip BY TRAIN. Because that would just be absurd. How soon will the government apologists be arguing that if you leave your house, you are giving implied consent to be searched?

How about the government goes back to respecting the spirit of the 4th Amendment? You don't have the right to conduct an invasive pat-down or electronic strip search until and unless you have a bona fide reason to suspect that I might be a danger to other airline passengers, and no, buying a ticket is not a "reasonable suspicion."