I wish news reports and articles would stop calling Stuxnet the first known cyber weapon. I can understand why they don't count DDoS or website defacements, because those don't cause permanent or physical destruction. Yet, other worms have caused computers to become permanently inoperable, or required computers to be replaced, because their integrity could be no longer be trusted. I suppose those could be excluded, because they didn't cause a bang or create smoke. But, what about the Siberian pipeline explosion in 1982? That infection was not transmitted over the Internet, yet apparently neither was Stuxnet. There must be other examples as well.
In Australia stores accept chip, swipe, and wireless (you wave it over a pad, it doesn't even ask for a pin number). Unless you specifically mention the security level of each during a transaction, the majority of customers prefer the less secure methods - wireless PayPass and swipe. This is because those two are slightly faster, and they can put the card back in their wallet while it processes. They groan and make a fuss at stores where smart chips are set as the mandatory first attempt. Paying with cash is secure AND remains the fastest transaction, but people find carrying notes and coins to be inconvenient.
Every time I see the Secret Service working on these cases, I remember Albert Gonzalez from the major TJ Maxx credit card theft incident. He was on the secret service payroll at the time, in a Frank Abagnale type prison-work release.
Intriguing; I mentioned the Slashdot Subculture page in my front page Digg submission just 10 hours ago. Did you read that, or is it synchronicity?
I enjoyed reading 'Slashdot Subculture', and I thought it was well done. It was the only all in one source for that information. When I first joined Slashdot I could tell that I was missing the inside jokes. That article helped me understand what the hell people were talking about, and it showed me that the comments can be an intricate form of art. It improved my appreciation of this site.
Here are the the votes for deletion of the Slashdot subculture page found via the Digg comments.
I'll stick with my MOTU Warrior's Ring. It was an included accesory with Trap-Jaw in the 80's. Not only does it glow in the dark, it also has a little compartment inside where you can store tiny notes. Sure the compartment is not as large as the pocket on a pair KangaROOS, but there's enough room in there to store your locker combo, or a reminder to buy more Hubba Bubba.
Full length episodes of the above mentioned "Saved by the Bell: The College Years", "Firefly", and "Sports Night" were all on YouTube at one point. They have since been removed over copyright concerns. I think YouTube is missing out; there's a huge market for full length TV Shows, Cartoons, and Movies online. The image quality isn't great, but the convenience is. Here's an index of 500 full length cartoons on YouTube (all links are still active). From that page you can also find 3,800 other full length TV shows, movies, cartoons, music videos, and anime, although most have since been removed by YouTube. If only they could make it legal to provide them, imagine having on demand access to all of those shows - it would be like having a video jukebox.
I think they should throw in some commercials and talk to the studios about hosting copyrighted material - it would be a lot more exciting than watching the general population make asses of themselves.
Here is an excellent, and funny, side by side comparison. It's all on a single page with few ads, and it includes a working ROM at the bottom, so you can play Doki Doki Panic on your computer.
http://www.progressiveboink.com/archive/dokidokipa nic.html
Experts agree that Hostess Fruit Pies are essential to winning the War on Terrorism.
(Sorry for just throwing links at you, but it's Saturday morning, I'm drinking Southern Comfort, and I don't have much else to say. I figured if you are a fan of comics, you might find them interesting.)
Next will be the Blu-ray/HD-DVD releases. Then it will be the Star Wars 3D releases. I lucked out on episodes 4, 5, and 6 - I bought all three of them on DVD in China for $3.
This reminds me of Game Boy. As soon as I buy one, they come out with a new one, or make a slight improvement. Just bought a DS? Here comes the DS Lite on June 11th. I feel like a sucker, but I buy them anyway. Marketing schemes suck, but high quality entertainment makes it acceptable. Hopefully I'm in China in 2030 so I can get a deal on the Holographic Edition of Star Wars episodes 7, 8, and 9.
Tell him his sentence will be up as soon as he deletes the same number of spam he sent, and tell him (falsely) that the only way to get out sooner is to find a "get out of jail free" e-mail buried within the rest. Then stick him in a cell with a 56K modem and a connection that likes to randomly disconnect.
"You see there is only one constant, one universal, it is the only real truth - Causality, action/reaction, cause and effect. (Everything begins with choice.) No. Wrong. Choice is an illusion, created between those with power and those without.... We are completely out of control."
- Merovingian
"So my idea was to start a news website where you would give complete control to the community... People like the fact that it's a democratic approach to news," Rose said. "There's no handful of editors in a smoke-filled back room deciding which stories are important; the masses are deciding." (http://money.cnn.com/2006/03/24/magazines/busines s2/diggdemocratizes/index.htm)
As much as I like Digg I've wondered if a democratic approach is truly possible without putting at risk their aim of being a tech related news site. Imagine what the front page stories would be, if all MySpace users opened a Digg account. This seems like a microcosm of world politics - is their some good in having a ruling elite? I would say there is, as long as those in power have earned their position (i.e. they are educated, not just well connected).
Even if the majority of people were to accept global warming as a reality, they will continue to consume fossil fuels, rationalizing it as the governments fault for not supplying alternative fuel sources.
If we are going to use fear as way to curb consumption, we might be better off by showing how much we have become dependant on fossil fuels as a way of life (i.e. how screwed we will be if anything disrupts it) and by showing how much conflict this is creating between nations.
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I wish news reports and articles would stop calling Stuxnet the first known cyber weapon. I can understand why they don't count DDoS or website defacements, because those don't cause permanent or physical destruction. Yet, other worms have caused computers to become permanently inoperable, or required computers to be replaced, because their integrity could be no longer be trusted. I suppose those could be excluded, because they didn't cause a bang or create smoke. But, what about the Siberian pipeline explosion in 1982? That infection was not transmitted over the Internet, yet apparently neither was Stuxnet. There must be other examples as well.
In Australia stores accept chip, swipe, and wireless (you wave it over a pad, it doesn't even ask for a pin number). Unless you specifically mention the security level of each during a transaction, the majority of customers prefer the less secure methods - wireless PayPass and swipe. This is because those two are slightly faster, and they can put the card back in their wallet while it processes. They groan and make a fuss at stores where smart chips are set as the mandatory first attempt. Paying with cash is secure AND remains the fastest transaction, but people find carrying notes and coins to be inconvenient. Every time I see the Secret Service working on these cases, I remember Albert Gonzalez from the major TJ Maxx credit card theft incident. He was on the secret service payroll at the time, in a Frank Abagnale type prison-work release.
Intriguing; I mentioned the Slashdot Subculture page in my front page Digg submission just 10 hours ago. Did you read that, or is it synchronicity? I enjoyed reading 'Slashdot Subculture', and I thought it was well done. It was the only all in one source for that information. When I first joined Slashdot I could tell that I was missing the inside jokes. That article helped me understand what the hell people were talking about, and it showed me that the comments can be an intricate form of art. It improved my appreciation of this site. Here are the the votes for deletion of the Slashdot subculture page found via the Digg comments.
I'll stick with my MOTU Warrior's Ring. It was an included accesory with Trap-Jaw in the 80's. Not only does it glow in the dark, it also has a little compartment inside where you can store tiny notes. Sure the compartment is not as large as the pocket on a pair KangaROOS, but there's enough room in there to store your locker combo, or a reminder to buy more Hubba Bubba.
Full length episodes of the above mentioned "Saved by the Bell: The College Years", "Firefly", and "Sports Night" were all on YouTube at one point. They have since been removed over copyright concerns. I think YouTube is missing out; there's a huge market for full length TV Shows, Cartoons, and Movies online. The image quality isn't great, but the convenience is. Here's an index of 500 full length cartoons on YouTube (all links are still active). From that page you can also find 3,800 other full length TV shows, movies, cartoons, music videos, and anime, although most have since been removed by YouTube. If only they could make it legal to provide them, imagine having on demand access to all of those shows - it would be like having a video jukebox. I think they should throw in some commercials and talk to the studios about hosting copyrighted material - it would be a lot more exciting than watching the general population make asses of themselves.
Here is an excellent, and funny, side by side comparison. It's all on a single page with few ads, and it includes a working ROM at the bottom, so you can play Doki Doki Panic on your computer. http://www.progressiveboink.com/archive/dokidokipa nic.html
I'm still hoping for Sonic, Bonk, Pac-Man, MegaMan, and Q-Bert. After all, Mario Kart Arcade GP got Pac-Man.
I know some of you Pokemon loving noobs are saying, "Who the @!#?@! is Q-Bert"?
Experts agree that Hostess Fruit Pies are essential to winning the War on Terrorism.
(Sorry for just throwing links at you, but it's Saturday morning, I'm drinking Southern Comfort, and I don't have much else to say. I figured if you are a fan of comics, you might find them interesting.)
I recently found this free collection of comic book/cartoon theme music (MP3s).
Next will be the Blu-ray/HD-DVD releases. Then it will be the Star Wars 3D releases. I lucked out on episodes 4, 5, and 6 - I bought all three of them on DVD in China for $3.
This reminds me of Game Boy. As soon as I buy one, they come out with a new one, or make a slight improvement. Just bought a DS? Here comes the DS Lite on June 11th. I feel like a sucker, but I buy them anyway. Marketing schemes suck, but high quality entertainment makes it acceptable. Hopefully I'm in China in 2030 so I can get a deal on the Holographic Edition of Star Wars episodes 7, 8, and 9.
Tell him his sentence will be up as soon as he deletes the same number of spam he sent, and tell him (falsely) that the only way to get out sooner is to find a "get out of jail free" e-mail buried within the rest. Then stick him in a cell with a 56K modem and a connection that likes to randomly disconnect.
"You see there is only one constant, one universal, it is the only real truth - Causality, action/reaction, cause and effect. (Everything begins with choice.) No. Wrong. Choice is an illusion, created between those with power and those without. ... We are completely out of control."
- Merovingian
"So my idea was to start a news website where you would give complete control to the community ... People like the fact that it's a democratic approach to news," Rose said. "There's no handful of editors in a smoke-filled back room deciding which stories are important; the masses are deciding." (http://money.cnn.com/2006/03/24/magazines/busines s2/diggdemocratizes/index.htm)
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As much as I like Digg I've wondered if a democratic approach is truly possible without putting at risk their aim of being a tech related news site. Imagine what the front page stories would be, if all MySpace users opened a Digg account. This seems like a microcosm of world politics - is their some good in having a ruling elite? I would say there is, as long as those in power have earned their position (i.e. they are educated, not just well connected).
Here are the Digg submissions as I saw them unfold in the last few hours:
http://digg.com/links/Story_about_Digg_s_corrupti
http://digg.com/technology/Digg_Corrupted#c150544
http://digg.com/links/Slashdot_chimes_in_on_DIGG_
http://digg.com/technology/Growing_Censorship_Con
Cryptome CN publishes information, documents and opinions banned by the People's Republic of China. http://www.cryptome.cn/
I'm not sure I agree with you, but this article seems to support your argument:
http://www.defensetech.org/archives/002229.html
I'm not too worried about offshoring; I got a job working in a Faraday cage with Schrödinger's cat, breaking enigma code, and wearing a tin-foil hat.
I like the new design, but then again, I also thought it was funny to fill water balloons with urine.
If we are going to use fear as way to curb consumption, we might be better off by showing how much we have become dependant on fossil fuels as a way of life (i.e. how screwed we will be if anything disrupts it) and by showing how much conflict this is creating between nations.
You mean I no longer have to pause the game to smoke a cigarette? Bitchin!!!