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Someone else already posted it, but Neal Stephenson wrote a great article on just that subject a few years back (okay, over a decade ago - but still very good and interesting). You can find it here.

...but I recall Neal Stephenson's article on undersea cables was very interesting.

$8 for streaming only. I don't think it's a bad deal. I might even get a 3DS to watch it on:

http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2011/07/nintendo-3ds-netflix-app/

Actually, there's something else you can buy : http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/06/silkroad/

And the big advantages of bitcoins? Let's go over the advantages, shall we :
(advantages list taken from another post)
You can send them in any amount to anyone on the internet, and with almost no fees.
  - International drug lords can be paid from anywhere

Your customer base is therefore the entire world not just people with your "coin of the realm"
-makes it easy to launder that drug money

If a customer pays you the money it's yours they can petition or sue you for a refund, but they can not issue an automatic charge back.
-very helpful for someone selling illegal goods

No third parties are involved, there is no one else to trust or pay fees too.
-a HUGE advantage for illegal goods transactions

You needn't hold bitcoins, there are a number of markets, as well as real world people who can change your bitcoins to cash in moments.
-Can cash out that money the moment it is convenient

Transactions happen very quickly compared to wire transfers, checks, paypal and credit cards.
-great for street corner dealing!

It is as easy to accept bitcoins as it is to spend them, unlike credit cards.
-ditto

They are very portable. While it would be difficult to travel with more then 10 thousands dollars of anything, you could easily hold millions of dollars on a micro SD.
-This is HUGE. The current drug currency of choice, the $20 and $100 bill have a massive problem : over the years, as deflation has occurred, you need more and more of it to represent a significant amount of money. A large drug business needs to move huge amounts of currency around, and micro SDs (that can be BACKED UP) are perfect. Even better, you can send huge sums of money around the world just by

Downsides : transactions are not anonymous, even though the identities of the parties are. A large drug business would be forced to use cutouts - people who act like hubs, conducting large numbers of transactions between bitcoins and real world currency (it need not be physical) and then back again. These people would not keep records of their transactions and would be based in 'liberal' jurisdictions in the world where the authorities don't give a shit.

All the arguments above also apply perfectly to the other 2 major vices - gambling and hookers. Bitcoins are a perfect way to do internet gambling, secure from the moralizing of the big credit card processors. You could do transactions with your bookie safely and securely. Hookers, same thing.

This part bugs me. I'm considering mining for a little coin, hoping I can at least pay back the cost of the hardware. But the big reason to go to BTs for people is to do transactions that can't be reversed and have no fees.

please tell me there is a better source for this story than boingboing?

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/11/tsa-investigating-passenger/

Pretty sure they would not have fined a calm lady with two kids who refused the pat-down and x-ray machine.

You give them more credit than I would.

To do so only download from your operating systems repository or app store. If you OS doesn't have one, find one that does.

...because there has never been malware on the Android Market.

and the Amazon App Store has an inherent risk

"perceived sleights turned into byzantine obsession is a sign of a person who will do nothing but bring grief to anyone who ever touches his or her life"

Have you never see the Cable Guy or One Hour Photo. I guess the lesson to be learned here is don't piss off technical support .. :)

"Up until his termination in June of 2010, Ardolf worked at Medtronic as a neuromodulation device repair technician" link

"Searching through the activity surrounding the day the threat email was sent to the Vice President, Ardolf’s name and Comcast account were
visible on the data pulled from the Kostolniks’ router" link

Such wording may or may not prevent Patriot Act requests, but it'll certainly keep the *IAAs and fueding spouses from subpoenaing records.

What if *AAs claim that pirates of their products fund terrorists?

Well, here's where I got my figures. It assumes 100% efficiency. So let's knock that down to 1%. That would be 3.2x10^9 joules or $100 per kilogram to Low Earth Orbit. This site quotes a value of 6.3x10^7 joules to loft a kilogram of mass to infinity, which is about double what it takes to get to LEO. This is likely the source of the saying "Once you get to earth orbit, you're halfway to anywhere in the solar system.". Again, lets overestimate and say it takes 100 times that much energy to get to Mars. That's 6.3x10^11 joules or about 175,000 kilowatt hours. per kilogram of payload.

You did talk of 20 years worth of space shuttle sized payloads, but you didn't specify a launch frequency. So let's go with the intended 50 launches per year. The shuttle has a payload capacity of 23,000 kg, so that's 23 million kilograms. That will require 4*10^12 kilowatt hours of electricity, or the combined output of all of the planet's power generators (20,261terawatts) running for about 12 minutes.

That's why I say nonsense to your statement.

How Digital Detectives Deciphered Stuxnet, the Most Menacing Malware in History link

"Months earlier, in June 2009, someone had silently unleashed a sophisticated and destructive digital worm that had been slithering its way through computers in Iran with just one aim"

Is there some kind of directive in place that doesn't allow for the mention of MIcrosoft Windows and who in their right mind would be using Windows to control hardware? And that entire report coming from the style of bad journalism, ie. a very bad imitation of Tom Wolf.

"In this case, the exploit allowed the virus to cleverly spread from one computer to another via infected USB sticks. The vulnerability was in the LNK file of Windows Explorer"

Finally, we get to a mention of Windows and what's a browser even doing on a 'computer' controlling a centrefuge? So to recapp, Insert USB device->Windows attempts to to open an icon from a LNK shortcut, the loads a malicious DLL into memory, the DLL is in actuality a rootkit disguised as a digitally signed device driver that gets loaded and run with 'root' privileges, the perps now have full control of your 'computer'.

"When an infected USB stick was inserted into a computer, as Explorer automatically scanned the contents of the stick, the exploit code awakened and surreptitiously dropped a large, partially encrypted file onto the computer, like a military transport plane dropping camouflaged soldiers into target territory"

Ohh for fucks sake !!!

This is on the front page of wired.com right now:
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/07/how-digital-detectives-deciphered-stuxnet/all/1.

And it's all on 1 page!

Eventually, with in vitro fertilization, we can selectively choose the ones we like best, which is getting close to genetically engineering our kids.

Already possible, but it is being held back by morality. Why am I not surprised?

Edison helped electrocute Topsy the Elephant (text plus horrific video link) to show how dangerous Tesla's AC was. He was promoting 'safe' DC at the time.

But I thought we were still using Intel 80386SX chips in NASA cause apparently radiation hardening takes decades, but yet a consumer grade phone is fine?

The jury is still out but the devices are being looked at for non-critical tasks - the shuttle mission that just went up includes two iPhones that have been certified to go into space, and will be tested there to see how they hold out against the radiation:

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/06/iphone-space-shuttle/

I bet this is all part of some secret agreement over the use of the i in iSS.

But I thought we were still using Intel 80386SX chips in NASA cause apparently radiation hardening takes decades, but yet a consumer grade phone is fine?

The jury is still out but the devices are being looked at for non-critical tasks - the shuttle mission that just went up includes two iPhones that have been certified to go into space, and will be tested there to see how they hold out against the radiation:

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/06/iphone-space-shuttle/

Since components are similar across many devices, I'm sure if the iPhone can hold out the Android devices will be OK too.

Article does mention Karl Deisseroth, just mainly by first name. But yes, Deisseroth's research group pioneered most of this research, which truly is spectacularly cool.

Here's a Wired article from last year that explains optogenetics in prose more familiar to the average Slashdot user. And a YouTube video of Deisseroth giving an overview of his work.

I've been lucky enough to see Deisseroth speak a couple of times (always in a packed auditorium). The pace at which he displays his results and the value of the results themselves is almost mind-boggling. He'll talk about a really great result they got with an experiment inhibiting fear in mice (if I recall, they targeted the amygdala and then showed the animal hiding in corners of the cage until they turn on the laser and he runs across the open space) and then before you can wrap your brain around it he's already moved on to talking about revolutionizing Parkinson's research by selectively inhibiting dopaminergic neurons.

As if inventing a groundbreaking technique and using it to solve all kinds of interesting problems isn't enough, Deisseroth has also been very proactive about sharing his techniques and methods, to the point that his lab actually holds workshops for other neuroscientists to learn how to do similar work. A pretty awesome guy all around, and I suspect he'll be the recipient of a Nobel Prize before too long.

http://www.wired.com/entertainment/music/magazine/16-01/ff_byrne?currentPage=all

Very interesting stuff. David is a very smart guy and has been there and done that in the music biz, from all sides of the equation. He interviews several folks in the industry as well.

"There’s this company, TerraPower, which former Microsoft CTO Nathan Myrhvold and I have spun out of his invention group, Intellectual Ventures. We’ve got a new nuclear design, a generation four. On paper it’s quite amazing." link

Has this ' invention group ` ever actually built a nuclear reacter or built anything else for that matter. So down the road we can see some third world country paying IV intellctual property licenses to build their own reactors.

"The Reg wrote about just this Wednesday in conjunction with its TerraPower division's work on small-scale nuclear reactors. Those reactors may be small-scale, but IV certainly isn't. According to a 1,989-page report published by the "Strategic IP Counseling" group Avancept LLC in January of this year, IV has a patent portfolio that could include as many as 25,000 to 50,000 patents squirreled away in around 1,100 shell companies" link

It's fine on your phone, but you DARE try it on your PS3 and Sony will kill you and your children, rape your dog, and piss on your grave. then they'll track all your supporters down and do the same to them. And if you think the courts will stop them, think again.

How's that abuse ? The newspapers could choose to go web-app instead, which exactly what some have done. It also seems like the whole thing was more like a (very public) negotiation since Apple has since relented on some points.

OK: Microsoft has* spent MUCH more than that on Windows for Workgroups and it's upgrades: NT3.1, NT4, NT2K, NT2K3, NT2K8. (I'll be charitable and not count SPs or the R2's, never mind the desktops.) It took 6 releases to finally get that right. DCGS-A has only been thru 2 -- only 4 more to go, if it's of the same complexity.

On a side note, does this not provide aid (if not comfort) to the enemy? If so, isn't that literally treasonous**?

I'm sure it was just a miscommunications in the specs somewhere, though. Those guys that actually died -- I'm sure they wouldn't have minded.
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* And by Microsoft, I mean we the public, since we literally paid for it over time. Where do you think Microsoft's profits come from, the casinos?
** I'm a programmer too. My, talk about bad reviews on your resume^W tombstone ....

all kinds of dirty tricks on competitors

Did you read Edelman's bio? The guy is a paid whore:

• Ben's consulting practice focuses on preventing and detecting online fraud (especially advertising fraud). Representative clients include the ACLU, AOL, the City of Los Angeles, the National Association of Broadcasters, Microsoft, the National Football League, the New York Times, Universal Music Group, the Washington Post, and Wells Fargo.

Wait, we are talking about the same Google whose former CEO said "If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place"

Thanks for assuming that I'm a Fox News-watching idiot and intentionally leaving out the remainder of his quote: "but if you really need that kind of privacy, the reality is that search engines including Google do retain this information for some time, and it’s important to remember, for example, that we are all subject in the United States to the Patriot Act. It is possible that that information could be made available to the authorities."

CSEs

Foundem had appeared to be mimicing an affiliate spammer (note: which Foundem later corrected). Foundem's story is little more than a moron's outrage over his own incomprehension, expecting others to capitulate when the failures are his own making. The disappointing fact at the time was that Bing & Yahoo hadn't been penalizing Foundem, naively believing it to be an authentic site, as mentioned in the earlier link:

• "The last word on this goes to Ciaran Norris, who says: “I have to wonder whether the fact that Foundem apparently continues to rank well in Bing and Yahoo isn't in fact a perfect example of why those sites currently struggle to manage 10% market share between them.”"

unsuspecting WLAN owners

If Google wanted this data to begin with -- which doesn't align with their business model of negotiating and retaining information -- why would they be using a 5-minute-setup of Kismet dumped in total to an unencrypted and non-hidden drive? When large companies plan malicious deeds it's usually a lot more thought out.

The guys who have been tracking your every movement on the web through Analytics and their search engine for years

Great, you picked something we both agree on :). Analytics is reprehensible (tho quite easily blocked). I don't place the blame for it entirely on Google though -- even though they deserve the criticism for buying out DoubleClick -- but also on the website owners who endorse it. IMO the advertisement industry should be regulated, because unlike search engines, earning a monopoly by being better than the competition is a dangerous accomplishment. Computer users can't simply switch to an Analytics competitor.

Wait, we are talking about the same Google whose former CEO said "If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place" and who have, among other things, been caught pulling all kinds of dirty tricks on competitors, trademark owners, CSEs, unsuspecting WLAN owners? The guys who have been tracking your every movement on the web through Analytics and their search engine for years and have departments full of people just working on novel ways of using all that data to their advantage and in particular not public (or your own) benefit?

In 2008 it was revealed that The Great Firewall of China was just a huge opportunity to them to sell more routers. In May, Falun Gong sued them. Even shareholders have been uneasy with Cisco's fervent complacency and complete lack of human rights doctrine. I think as far back as 2004 we've discussed the Amnesty report naming Cisco.

I think this is just more of the same. They sold China the equipment for the great firewall and you are surprised that Cisco is chomping at the bit for the next big project? The only headline newsworthy enough would be if Cisco refused to make a buck on the grounds that their product will obviously be used to repress peaceful foreign citizens or keep 1/6 of the world's population censored.

The army has a civil case against him? I thought he was facing court martial.

He is facing court martial for a variety of criminal acts.

Bradley Manning Charged With 22 New Counts, Including Capital Offense

The Army has filed 22 new counts against suspected WikiLeaks source Bradley Manning, among them a capital offense for which the government said it would not seek the death penalty.

The charges, filed Tuesday but not disclosed until Wednesday, are one count of aiding the enemy, five counts of theft of public property or records, two counts of computer fraud, eight counts of transmitting defense information in violation of the Espionage Act, and one count of wrongfully causing intelligence to be published on the internet knowing it would be accessible to the enemy. The aiding-the-enemy charge is a capital offense, potentially carrying the death penalty. Five additional charges are for violating Army computer-security regulations.

The Shuttle program set back access to space and kept it from recovering. It's been a decades-long effort to get NASA out of the space transportation business but it may finally be happening due in no small part to the fact that NASA is perceived by the Obama administration, however inaccurately, as competing for minority preference civil service jobs.

I've posted this before, but what the hell. Everyone with common sense can see Samsung was imitating the iPhone was recent releases. It was so blatant that reviewers couldn't fail to mention it. It doesn't matter where you fall on the issue, who you think should win or if there should even be a lawsuit at all, that much should be clear.

First Look: Samsung Vibrant Rips Off iPhone 3G Design
Review: The IPhone Look Alike Samsung Eternity SGH-A867 (AT&T)
Samsung Galaxy S Review : "In the time we’ve been carrying the Galaxy S, more than a few people – geeks included – have mistaken it for an iPhone 3GS. The glossy black plastic and metal-effect bezel both echo Apple’s second/third-gen smartphone"

Check out the comparison shot in the first link and tell me that isn't of a whole different order than your comparison picture.

You mean like this? Or maybe even like this?

Since when is it an ISP mandate to deal with real life criminal?

Since the government couldn't figure out a way to build a censorship framework without getting into trouble because of their eagerness to use it to block opposing political agendas or groups they disagree with, and the occasional dentist.

So they decided to sneak it in the backdoor by having the ISPs build something to "stop pedophiles" who mostly don't use the blocked communications channels anyway. That way they could claim they have nothing to do with it, despite the list of banned sites coming from the Australian Communications and Media Authority, a government organization. (Didn't you know? Apparently if you murder someone with a gun, it's not your fault unless you built the gun yourself. The guy who's firing it into the crowd isn't to blame!)

Some researchers did a survey to find out what elements people like and dislike in music. They then combined them to produce the most wanted and most unwanted songs.

http://www.wired.com/listening_post/2008/05/survey-produced/
http://www.wired.com/listening_post/2008/04/a-scientific-at/

The most wanted song is bland and annoying. The most unwanted song is *hilarious*.

IIRC, they also did the same thing with visual art using survey data from different countries.

Some researchers did a survey to find out what elements people like and dislike in music. They then combined them to produce the most wanted and most unwanted songs.

http://www.wired.com/listening_post/2008/05/survey-produced/
http://www.wired.com/listening_post/2008/04/a-scientific-at/

The most wanted song is bland and annoying. The most unwanted song is *hilarious*.

IIRC, they also did the same thing with visual art using survey data from different countries.

And wasn't there a wave of murders in the former Soviet Union

You may be thinking about this guy. Though if it was the start of a trend, well, the only good spammer...

We can only hope, both for good and evil (but vastly entertaining) purposes.

If Nintendo really want to increase appeal to hardcore gamers - they can start by putting a stop to crap like this ...

http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2011/06/resident-evil-mercenaries/

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Dropbox is probably bigger and better engineered than anything the NHS could whip up

Riiiiiiiight

Not to mention, Skype already has interception in China, and probably in other countries with governments that require it.

You maybe able to get around this by getting the full ( not the stub ) international installer and using that. But the Chinese Skype definitely has censoring and interception built-in.

Here's an article, but there are lots of references to this on the web...

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2008/10/chinese-skype-s/

So I have read through a lot of the decision, and I have come out of it with some video game "recommendations" from the Supreme Court:

Not Safe For Work, most likely:

15 Lah, “RapeLay” Video Game Goes Viral Amid Outrage, CNN (Mar. 30, 2010), http://articles.cnn.com/2010-03-30/world/japan.video. game.rape_1_game-teenage-girl-japanese-government?_s=PM:WORLD.
16 Graham, Custer May be Shot Down Again in a Battle of the Sexes Over X-Rated Video Games, People, Nov. 15, 1982, pp. 110, 115.
17 Scheeres, Games Elevate Hate to Next Level, Wired (Feb. 20, 2002), http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/2002/02/50523.
18 Thompson, A View to a Kill: JFK Reloaded is Just Plain Creepy, Slate (Nov. 22, 2004), http://www.slate.com/id/2110034

Have fun!

because there's a proper legal framework of warrants and whatnot to determine who can spy on your phone calls.

There used to be. Then the Bush administration threw out the warrant requirement (and of course Mr. "Change" hasn't given up that power).

I don't see any mention of the Wired article "Downgrading Skype and Silver Lake to ‘Evil’" in the comments, so here it is.

The Kosher Phone: Does Nothing, Especially on Saturday

...to generally solicit. What else do you expect from our leadership?

Vote accordingly.

I said it made the prediction meaningless.

Sure, I don't dispute that. Meaningless or not though, he's still right, even if a prediction like that doesn't make him a useful futurist.

Even so, technologies do get abandoned. In this particular case, the technology for head-mounted displays was relatively rare (labs + military) at the time, and now is available commercially in a much cheaper & more developed form, making it a lot closer to the sort of mainstream usage Kurzweil likely envisaged. Though I guess you wanted you could argue that he was wrong nonetheless, since it's still a pretty niche technology, not mainstream.

Regarding #5, I wasn't referring to text-only translation, but to real-time, speech-to-speech translation. You speak into the phone in English, it speaks back in Spanish, and vice versa. I'd argue that this would satisfy a '98 perspective (even though it only takes place while talking to someone locally, not remotely, though that's just a matter of coupling it to a voip app).

Boeing still gets a $163M contract while the DOE's FEL in Newport News gets cut?

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/06/power-down-senate-zaps-navys-superlaser-railgun/

So much for science ...

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/06/power-down-senate-zaps-navys-superlaser-railgun/

Cool concept, but looks like it had a lot of issues...

Too bad they aren't working on it anymore! http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/06/power-down-senate-zaps-navys-superlaser-railgun/ "The Senate just drove a stake into the Navy’s high-tech heart. The directed energy and electromagnetic weapons intended to protect the surface ships of the future? Terminated. The Free Electron Laser and the Electromagnetic Rail Gun are experimental weapons that the Navy hope will one day burn missiles careening toward their ships out of the sky and fire bullets at hypersonic speeds at targets thousands of miles away. Neither will be ready until at least the 2020s, the Navy estimates. But the Senate Armed Services Committee has a better delivery date in mind: never. The committee approved its version of the fiscal 2012 defense authorization bill on Friday, priced to move at $664.5 billion, some $6.4 billion less than what the Obama administration wanted. The bill “terminates” the Free Electron Laser and the rail gun, a summary released by the committee gleefully reports."

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/06/power-down-senate-zaps-navys-superlaser-railgun/

The Senate just drove a stake into the Navy’s high-tech heart. The directed energy and electromagnetic weapons intended to protect the surface ships of the future? Terminated.

The Free Electron Laser and the Electromagnetic Rail Gun are experimental weapons that the Navy hope will one day burn missiles careening toward their ships out of the sky and fire bullets at hypersonic speeds at targets thousands of miles away. Neither will be ready until at least the 2020s, the Navy estimates. But the Senate Armed Services Committee has a better delivery date in mind: never.

The committee approved its version of the fiscal 2012 defense authorization bill on Friday, priced to move at $664.5 billion, some $6.4 billion less than what the Obama administration wanted. The bill “terminates” the Free Electron Laser and the rail gun, a summary released by the committee gleefully reports.

“The determination was that the Free Electron Laser has the highest technical risk in terms of being ultimately able to field on a ship, so we thought the Navy could better concentrate on other laser programs,” explains Rick DeBobes, the chief of staff for the committee. “With the Electromagnetic Rail Gun, the committee felt the technical challenges to developing and fielding the weapon would be daunting, particularly [related to] the power required and the barrel of the gun having limited life.”

What privacy? http://www.wired.com/politics/law/news/1999/01/17538

conserve bandwidth, easily, and can help get you back SOME of what you spend your hard-earned dollars for, easing this and off-setting your concerns, & to a decent degree, with quoted proofs below and in terms of online security also - read on:

Far better than not doing it at all.

Hey, listen:

If "the man" wants to start burning you for the monies you spend to be online, burn him back by stalling yourself spending time hauling in his advertisements & processing their contents ( adbanners are just designed to psychologically make you spend your money too anyhow ).

Speaking of "processing adbanner content"?

Blocking banners not only gets you speed, noticeable speed (per Mr. Oliver Day of SECURITYFOCUS.COM, who read my articles on them in the mid to late 90's in forums and now wrote about them in 2009) but, also more "layered security" too vs. malware poisoned adbanners (evidences below):

A RETURN TO THE KILLFILE: from the yr. 2009

http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/491

Some "PERTINENT QUOTES/EXCERPTS" to back up my points with (for starters):

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"The host file on my day-to-day laptop is now over 16,000 lines long. Accessing the Internet -- particularly browsing the Web -- is actually faster now."

and

"From what I have seen in my research, major efforts to share lists of unwanted hosts began gaining serious momentum earlier this decade. The most popular appear to have started as a means to block advertising and as a way to avoid being tracked by sites that use cookies to gather data on the user across Web properties. More recently, projects like Spybot Search and Destroy offer lists of known malicious servers to add a layer of defense against trojans and other forms of malware."

Per my points exactly, no less... & guess who was posting about HOSTS files a 14++ yrs. or more back & Mr. Day was reading & now using? Yours truly (& this is one of the later ones, from 2001 http://www.furtherleft.net/computer.htm (but the example HOSTS file with my initials in it is FAR older, circa 1998 or so) or thereabouts, and referred to later by a pal of mine who moderates NTCompatible.com (where I posted on HOSTS for YEARS (1997 onwards)) -> http://www.ntcompatible.com/thread28597-1.html !

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ADBANNERS HAVE ALSO BEEN SEEN MANY TIMES SINCE 2003 WITH MALICIOUSLY SCRIPTED CONTENT IN THEM AS WELL:

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Ad networks owned by Google, Microsoft serve malware:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/12/13/doubleclick_msn_malware_attacks/

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Attacks Targeting Classified Ad Sites Surge:

http://it.slashdot.org/story/11/02/02/1433210/Attacks-Targeting-Classified-Ad-Sites-Surge

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Hackers Respond To Help Wanted Ads With Malware:

http://it.slashdot.org/story/11/01/20/0228258/Hackers-Respond-To-Help-Wanted-Ads-With-Malware

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Hackers Use Banner Ads on Major Sites to Hijack Your PC:

http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/news/2007/11/doubleclick

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Ruskie gang hijacks Microsoft network to push penis pills:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/10/12/microsoft_ips_hijacked/

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Major ISPs Injecting Ads, Vulnerabilities Into Web:

http://it.slashdot.org/it/08/04/19/21

Speaking of innumeracy. You have a kid who is running amok with your credit card to the tune of $650 a year. To make a point about how bad this is, you confiscate the funds for his ongoing science fair project, into which he has been putting $0.08 a year.