YouTube - Firefox 3.5 Treats Videos Like Web Pages
Topic: Miscellaneous
10:11 pm EDT, Jun 9, 2009
Firefox 3.5 Treats Videos Like Web Pages
... ... WOW! I would expect something like this with Silverlight, but being able to do this all with just HTML and JavaScript is amazing! And this dawning generation of browsers isn't running your momma's JavaScript. Here a graph on SunSpider performance benchmarks which looks at benchmarks world JavaScript scenarios like walking a graph, crypto, string ops, etc.
Got their album off of Amazon MP3 a month or so ago but really haven't been listening til today. Nice and Mellow. This guy's voice reminds me of Bruce Springsteen.
This animated map provides a striking visual of employment trends over the last business cycle using net change in jobs from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics on a rolling 12-month basis.
Don't miss this short animation which provides a clear view of job growth and contraction across the USA in the past few years. You can mouse over the regions for job loss numbers. I don't know about Munich, but Atlanta has certainly been hit hard. The job losses here meet or exceed that of much larger cities. I didn't realize it was that bad here.
Company makes hosting software. Hosting software has 0day SQL Injection. Hackers exploit an entire hosting provider running the software and destroys 100,000 websites, 1/2 of which have no backups (shit!). Software CEO commits suicide.
Chris: [About an internal experimental web crawler] Not bad for 222 lines of ruby... just imagine if it were written in something faster, like... anything.
Is the Hacking Threat To National Security Overblown? | Threat Level | Wired.com
Topic: Miscellaneous
2:35 pm EDT, Jun 3, 2009
“Is hacking a national security threat?,” Yoran said. “The one word answer is yes.”
As proof, Yoran pointed to stories about the denial-of-service attacks in Estonia, attacks on government contractor Booz Allen Hamilton and the recently reported breach of a defense contractor that let hackers get at information on the Joint Strike Fighter.
“Cyber 9-11 has happened over the last ten years, but it’s happened slowly so we don’t see it,” Yoran said.
I'm going to beat the shit out of the next person who uses the phrase "Digital Pearl Harbor" or "Cyber 9-11" with a god damn PIPE.
