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  1. They will spend a LIFETIME on Persian on US Intelligence Agency to Compile Mountain of Metaphors · · Score: 1

    and never scratch the surface. The entire language and culture are suffused with a multi-dimensional, poetic tradition. Metaphor, contextual reference and connotation are in everything.

    And that's just what is implicit in the use of the language.

    I doubt an outsider can really isolate individual rhetorical elements of the Persian idiom and understand them atomically. This also requires having a broad familiarity of the literary tradition: Mathnawi of Maulana (Rumi), Diwan-e Hafez, Shahnameh of Ferdowsi and the Rubiyaat of Omar Khayyam - at the very least.

  2. YOU'RE SO VAIN on Google Founders' Jets Caught On WSJ's Radar · · Score: 1

    Then you flew your Lear jet up to Nova Scotia
    To see the total eclipse of the sun
    Well, you're where you should be all the time
    And when you're not, you're with
    Some underworld spy or the wife of a close friend
    Wife of a close friend, and...

  3. Re:Install a firewall on Ask Slashdot: Android Security Practices? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Agreed. When "signed apps" are little different than trojans to steal your PII and report on your activities, the definition of security moves away from one of "penetration and exploitation" towards "scope of trust and violation".

    As to the original article.posting, with its naive POV regarding security? What does your posture do for you, when exploitation and abuse are built into signed apps - or signed apps consume and interpret code from untrusted, arbitrary sources? Flash, Acrobat and any AJAX capable browser are all wide-open to abuse, on any given 0-day.

  4. DDOS box. on Ask Slashdot: DOSBox, or DOS Box? · · Score: 1

    Botnet Cloud-in-a-box.

    Bring your buzzwords to the BlackHat Briefings, with us.

  5. Re:Defense. on US Preserves Smallpox For Defense · · Score: 1

    Regarding occurrences prior to 1776, I think the distinction of an "us and them" per Colonials is a matter for some dispute...

    Amherst is little different than George Washington, in the details of his personal history during the French-Indian wars.

  6. Defense. on US Preserves Smallpox For Defense · · Score: 0

    He said, sneeringly.

    Last time this was used for "defense", I believe it was infused into blankets at the siege of Fort Pitt.

    250 years go by, but the leopard does not change his spots so readily...

  7. Re:Wrong place on An IP Address For Every Light Bulb · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Pervasive and ubiquitous surveillance, disguised as an assisting technology for energy efficiency.

    How many gift Trojan horses must we look in the mouth, on a daily basis?

  8. ANYBODY WHO KNOWS MICROSOFT on Microsoft To Support CentOS Linux In Hyper-V · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Understands this is not a concession or olive branch.

    It is a way to damage the RedHat business model. Trust me - Redmond will get to the point they offer Premiere support for CentOS on HyperV, starving RedHat of oxygen.

    Even if it made them no money at all, Redmond has people who'd love this outcome, and set MBOs for this.

  9. Re:This could hurt other industries on US Congress Tries To Cut Body Scanner Funding · · Score: 0

    He said war was too important to be left to the generals. When he said that, 50 years ago, he might have been right. But today, war is too important to be left to politicians. They have neither the time, the training, nor the inclination for strategic thought. I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.

  10. Re:heh. says it is much heavier on Ultramobile PC To Make a Comeback? · · Score: 1

    MS PUMPS MILLIONS into crap OEM efforts like this.

    It's like pouring gasoline onto a pile of wet, green leaves.

    There's always a LOT of smoke - and never any fire. Remember the Samsung and HP tablet computers?

  11. Dangerous? on BitCoin, the Most Dangerous Project Ever? · · Score: 1

    Only to your banking monopoly.

    Save a human life - kill a banker.

  12. Re:All this OBL bullshit on Bin Laden's Sneakernet Email System · · Score: 1

    ISI are stooges of the usual International "intelligence" networks. Calling Porter Goss!

  13. Re:All this OBL bullshit on Bin Laden's Sneakernet Email System · · Score: 1

    You're right! And let's continue to not draw attention by moving into a community that houses the training facility for Pakistan intelligence and has controlled movement on the streets.

  14. Re:What Would Officer Collins Do? on Small Devs Attacked Over In-App Purchase Button Patent · · Score: 1

    One button? First flush!

  15. Re:All this OBL bullshit on Bin Laden's Sneakernet Email System · · Score: 1, Interesting

    What is the purpose of the Satellite Dish?
    http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/pb-110502-osama-compound-5.photoblog900.jpg

    Yeah. No Internet. No Phone. No TV.

    No truth in the official story.

  16. Re:Clean, Safe, Too Cheap To Meter on Engineers Find Nuclear Meltdown At Fukushima Plant · · Score: 1

    Glow, baby, glow!

  17. Re:Troll on Newt Gingrich's Amazon Book Reviews · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Yes. I hope this tiny troll dies of a painful anal cyst.

  18. Re:Clean, Safe, Too Cheap To Meter on Engineers Find Nuclear Meltdown At Fukushima Plant · · Score: 1

    They go...

    to 11.

  19. Re:Clean, Safe, Too Cheap To Meter on Engineers Find Nuclear Meltdown At Fukushima Plant · · Score: 1

    Hey! H2O is a greenhouse gas!

  20. Clean, Safe, Too Cheap To Meter on Engineers Find Nuclear Meltdown At Fukushima Plant · · Score: 2
  21. Re:stupid on AP Files FOIA Request For Bin Laden Photos · · Score: 1

    The media reports from Fox News to NPR keep referencing these "Jihadi Websites".

    Where the hell are these? How come the media don't publish URLs?

    I am ALL OVER the 'nets - and these sites are just not present or credible. Most of the so-called "statements" released on video come from a couple of US Jewish kids: "converts" to "radical Islam" - whatever that means.

    There's a reason it is derided as Al CIAda.

  22. Re:stupid on AP Files FOIA Request For Bin Laden Photos · · Score: 1

    Try taking over an unlocked cockpit with a box-cutter. Let me know how that one works out for you.

    Children's fairy story, for the gullible.

  23. Re:stupid on AP Files FOIA Request For Bin Laden Photos · · Score: 1
    When Osama Bin Ladin Was Tim Osman

    9 November 2001. Thanks to J. Orlin Grabbe

    November 8, 2001 When Osama Bin Ladin Was Tim Osman

    By J. Orlin Grabbe

    The two men headed to the Hilton Hotel in Sherman Oaks, California in the late Spring of 1986 were on their way to meet representatives of the mujahadeen, the Afghan fighters resisting the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.

    One of the two, Ted Gunderson, had had a distinguished career in the FBI, serving as some sort of supervisor over Special Agents in the early 60s, as head of the Dallas field office from 1973-75, and as head of the Los Angeles field office from 1977-1979. He retired to become an investigator for, among others, well-known attorney F. Lee Bailey. And all along the way, Gunderson, whether or not actually a CIA contract agent, had been around to provide services to various CIA and National Security Council operations, as he was doing now.

    In more recent years Gunderson was to become controversial for his investigations into child prostitution rings, after he became convinced of the innocence of an Army medical doctor named Jeffrey McDonald, who had been convicted of the murder of his wife and three young children in the 1970s. This has led to various attempts by the patrons and operators of the child prostitution industry to smear Gunderson's reputation.

    Michael Riconosciuto was there to discuss assisting the mujahadeen with MANPADs--Man Portable Air Defense Systems. Stinger missiles were one possibility. If the U.S. would permit their export, Riconosciuto could modify the Stinger's electronics, so the guided missile would still be effective against Soviet aircraft, but would not be a threat to U.S. or NATO forces.

    But Riconosciuto had another idea. Through his connections with the Chinese industrial and military group Norinco, he could obtain the basic components for the unassembled Chinese 107 MM rocket system. These could be reconfigured into a man-portable, shoulder-fired, anti-aircraft guided missile sytem, and produced in Pakistan at a facility called the Pakistan Ordinance Works. The mujahadeen would then have a lethal weapon against Soviet helicopter, observation, and transport aircraft.

    Riconosciuto was more than just an expert on missile electronics; he was also an expert on electronic computers and associated subjects such as cryptology (see my "Michael Riconosciuto on Encryption").

    Riconosciuto was a prodigy who had grown up in the spook community. The Riconosciuto family had once run Hercules, California, as a company town. In the early days (1861) a company called California Powder Works had been established in Santa Cruz, CA. It later purchased land on San Pablo Bay, and in 1881 started producing dynamite, locating buildings in gullies and ravines for safety purposes. A particularly potent type of black powder was named "Hercules Powder", which gave the name to the town of Hercules, formally incorporated in 1900. In World War I, Hercules became the largest producer of TNT in the U.S. Hercules, however, had gotten out of the explosives business by 1940 when an anhydrous ammonia plant was constructed. In 1959 Hercules began a new manufacturing facility to produce methanol, formaldehyde, and urea formaldehyde. In 1966 the plant was sold to Valley Nitrogen Producers. Labor problems led to a plant closure in 1977. In 1979 the plant and site was purchased by a group of investors calling themselves Hercules Properties, Ltd.

    However, Michael and his father Marshall Riconosciuto, a friend of Richard Nixon, continued to run the Hercules Research Corporation. In the early 1980s Michael also served as the Director of Research for a joint venture between the Wackenhut Corporation of Coral Gables, Florida, and the Cabazon Band of Indians in Indio, Calif

  24. Check out that "Daily Caller" Link on AP Files FOIA Request For Bin Laden Photos · · Score: 2

    Whoah! SIXTEEN tracking cookies?

    I wouldn't ask that from a baker!

  25. Re:stupid on AP Files FOIA Request For Bin Laden Photos · · Score: -1, Troll

    I can see that the Defense Department's Astroturf trolls are out in force, on this one.

    Get this now:
    Moon Landing? REAL.
    Bin Laden Operation? HOAX.