The Spinning Cube of Potential Doom

An anonymous reader writes "This month's Communications of the ACM (does not seem to have a link to online text) has an article about The Spinning Cube of Potential Doom, a security visualization tool that I first saw at SC2003. The cube displays data from Bro along 3 axes and creates interesting visual results (port scans, barber poles, lawnmower). This definitely makes patterns in all that 'boring log data' jump out. This is a very interesting development, the ability to monitor in real time and replay historical security related information. Definitely a step towards the new types of tools we will need to secure hosts and networks."

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The Modern Liberal

[Anonymous Coward]

What It Means to be a Liberal.

The other day I found myself very puzzled.

I know what I believe, why I believe it, the philosophical foundations of my beliefs. I've studied everything from Karl Marx to Ludwig von Mises, from Friedrich Hayek to FDR, from Edmund Burke to Bertrand Russell, from Aristotle to Ayn Rand.

I understand modern conservative thought. I understand libertarian thought. I understand classical liberalism. What I can't begin to comprehend is modern liberalism. Maybe you can help me. As near as I can tell, to be a liberal:

You have to believe the AIDS virus is spread by a lack of funding.

IF there is a church that is valid, it has been pre-approved by the government.

You have to be against capital punishment but for abortion on demand ... in short, you support protecting the guilty and killing the innocent.

You have to believe that the same public school idiot who can't teach 4th graders how to read is qualified to teach those same kids about sex.

You have to believe that trial lawyers are selfless heroes and doctors are overpaid.

You have to believe that guns in the hands of law-abiding Americans are more of a threat than nuclear weapons in the hands of the Red Chinese.

You have to believe that global temperatures are less affected by cyclical, documented changes in the brilliance of the Sun, and more affected by yuppies driving SUVs.

You have to believe that gender roles are artificial but being gay is natural.

You have to believe that businesses create oppression and governments create prosperity.

You have to believe that hunters don't care about nature but pasty, fey activists who've never been outside Seattle do.

You have to believe that self-esteem is more important than actually doing something to earn it.

You have to believe there was no art before federal funding.

You have to believe the military, not corrupt politicians, start wars.

You have to believe the free market that gives us 500+ channels can't deliver the quality that PBS does.

You have to believe the NRA is bad, because they stand up for certain parts of the Constitution, while the ACLU is good, because they stand up for certain parts of the Constitution.

You have to believe that taxes are too low but ATM fees are too high.

You have to believe that Harriet Tubman, Cesar Chavez and Gloria Steinem are more important to American history than Thomas Jefferson, General Robert E. Lee or Thomas Edison.

You have to believe that standardized tests are racist, but racial quotas and set-asides aren't.

You have to believe second-hand smoke is more dangerous than HIV.

You have to believe Hillary Clinton is really a lady and Rosie O'Donnell is not really a man who is jealous of Tom Selleck.

You have to believe conservatives are racists but that black people couldn't make it without your help.

You have to believe that the only reason socialism hasn't worked anywhere it's been tried is because the right people haven't been in charge.

Looking back on my list, it seems shallow, muddled, contradictory, divorced of logic and a bit sadistic.

Well, then. If that doesn't describe the modern liberal, I don't know what does.

Re:The Modern Liberal

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah, I'll stick with everything on that list aside from the criticism of "Being gay is natural." It's still a mystery, but it does happen in animals (i.e. penguins, certain primates, dolphins), and it's supposed by some researchers that it's approximately 10% triggered by genetics and 90% by choice. Of course, there are those that just can't get aroused by the opposite sex, but can with the same sex, so maybe it's floating.

In other words, I'm pretty much conservative; but I still prefer to keep an open mind. Things like HIV and solar brilliance we can understand, but things like sexuality are beyond our current comprehension.

Also, "gender roles" are whatever a couple chooses them to be. If the woman wants to work, fine. If she wants to be a housewife, that's fine too. Nobody needs someone jumping up and yelling about how their "role" is a form of oppression, but they do need to choose what their role will be.

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[Anonymous Coward]

here you go.

You have to believe the AIDS virus is spread by a lack of funding.
-This is true. Look at Africa's rate of infection. Now search for all the United States drug companies who refuse to lower the 400% American markup for the entire African continent.
We have the drugs, but Africa can't have them. Patents, you know.

IF there is a church that is valid, it has been pre-approved by the government.
-?

You have to be against capital punishment but for abortion on demand ... in short, you support protecting the guilty and killing the innocent.
-being against the death penalty is usually because the evidence is poor, many innocent people have been murdered by the state. DNA testing is changing this.

You have to believe that the same public school idiot who can't teach 4th graders how to read is qualified to teach those same kids about sex.
-you really shoud rephrase this into "idiots should not teach 4th graders about sex" in which most would agree.

You have to believe that trial lawyers are selfless heroes and doctors are overpaid.
-stupid

You have to believe that guns in the hands of law-abiding Americans are more of a threat than nuclear weapons in the hands of the Red Chinese.
-this is a stupid, false analogy.

You have to believe that global temperatures are less affected by cyclical, documented changes in the brilliance of the Sun, and more affected by yuppies driving SUVs.
-read the data.

You have to believe that gender roles are artificial but being gay is natural.
-post feminism has answered this critique, you arr a little late.

You have to believe that businesses create oppression and governments create prosperity.
-more free market versus socialism nonsense. Liberal is synonomous with progressive, not socialist.

You have to believe that hunters don't care about nature but pasty, fey activists who've never been outside Seattle do.
-you have a point, although Seattle is very near many large swaths of pristine wilderness. I have a feeling most people in Saettle are familiar with the nastural environment, first hand.

You have to believe that self-esteem is more important than actually doing something to earn it.
-this is to vague to reposnd to.

You have to believe there was no art before federal funding.
-stupid

You have to believe the military, not corrupt politicians, start wars.
-does not make sense. Politicians always start the wars.

You have to believe the free market that gives us 500+ channels can't deliver the quality that PBS does.
-1 to 5 major media monopolies is not the free market.

You have to believe the NRA is bad, because they stand up for certain parts of the Constitution, while the ACLU is good, because they stand up for certain parts of the Constitution.
-you have a point also.

You have to believe that taxes are too low but ATM fees are too high.
-Corporations pay only %10 of the federal tax in America. In 1955, they paid more than %50. Do you think a 10% tax rate is too low for corporations, while your white lower middle class ass is paying 35%?

You have to believe that Harriet Tubman, Cesar Chavez and Gloria Steinem are more important to American history than Thomas Jefferson, General Robert E. Lee or Thomas Edison.
-stupid

You have to believe that standardized tests are racist, but racial quotas and set-asides aren't.
-racial quotas are related to race, and you have a point here.

You have to believe second-hand smoke is more dangerous than HIV.
-Conservative insurance companies are the strong hand behind the smoking bans.

You have to believe Hillary Clinton is really a lady and Rosie O'Donnell is not really a man who is jealous of Tom Selleck.
-stupid.

You have to believe conservatives are racists but that black people couldn't make it without your help.
-Strom Thurmond was a rascist. Google Dixiecrat sometime. Many black people still dont make it.

You have to believe that the only reason socialism hasn't worked anywhere it's been tried is because the right people haven't been in charge.
-liberals aren't socialists.

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[Orion Blastar]

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