Mr. Klein said last night, "I agree wholeheartedly with Jon Stewart's overall premise."

DAMN!

CNN Is All Tuckered Out

] Projects: Libsafe
]
] Protecting Critical Elements of Stacks
]
] The exploitation of buffer overflow and format string
] vulnerabilities in process stacks constitutes a
] significant portion of security attacks in recent years.
] We present a new method to detect and handle such
] attacks. In contrast to previous work, our method does
] not require any modification to the operating system and
] works with existing binary programs. Our method does not
] require access to the source code of defective programs,
] nor does it require recompilation or off-line processing
] of binaries. Furthermore, it can be implemented on a
] system-wide basis transparently. Our solution is based on
] a middleware software layer that intercepts all function
] calls made to library functions that are known to be
] vulnerable. A substitute version of the corresponding
] function implements the original functionality, but in a
] manner that ensures that any buffer overflows are
] contained within the current stack frame, thus,
] preventing attackers from 'smashing' (overwriting) the
] return address and hijacking the control flow of a
] running program. We have implemented our solution on
] Linux as a dynamically loadable library called libsafe.
] Libsafe has demonstrated its ability to detect and
] prevent several known attacks, but its real benefit, we
] believe, is its ability to prevent yet unknown attacks.
] Experiments indicate that the performance overhead of
] libsafe is negligible.

Avaya Labs Research - Projects: Libsafe

] There are only seven months left before the FCC takes
] away your right to watch digital television on a device
] that isn't Hollywood-approved. Under the new "Broadcast
] Flag" regime, the FCC will mandate that every digital
] television device include the kind of technology that we
] see in cable PVRs (that erase your stored episodes of
] "Six Feet Under" after two weeks so that you'll be forced
] to pay-per-view your end-of-season marathon) and media
] center PCs (that won't let you burn "The Sopranos" to DVD
] because HBO has set a no-record flag in their cablecasts
] to force you to buy the DVD boxed sets).

] The tiny silver lining here is that if you can get an
] open, freedom-loving digital television tuner between now
] and the summer, you'll be able to go on doing practically
] anything you like with the digital television you receive
] over the air and with your unencrypted cable signal. If
] you choose to do this by plugging a DTV tuner into your
] computer, you'll be able to archive your shows on your
] hard-drive, manipulate them with your favorite editing
] software, and email clips to your friends.

Thought some of you might be interested in this info. There's some specific info for mac users in the article.

'Broadcast Flag' regime

] ] Now, a year later, the "NOVA" team is back with "Welcome
] ] to Mars," featuring data collected by the robots as they
] ] searched for signs that the planet may once have harbored
] ] tiny forms of life. The program airs at 8 tonight on PBS.
]
] This was fun. Hope you can catch the rerun.

I saw this last night and was pretty impressed. A nice overview of what each rover found, what is means, and theories about Mars the findings support. Some cool facts:

-The rovers go to sleep every night. So the engineers pour over the data that was received, and form the next day's mission plan, uploading it at the start of the next day.

-Rovers were mostly batch driven: NASA would download extreme resolution pictures. They would then use a CAD representation of the surrounding landscape and create a series of commands to do the next days mission. A lot like LOGO graphics! The rovers didn't seem to be controlled in realtime.

-Mars' days are 24 hours 40 minutes. This forced the NASA members to keep getting up later and later, until they were going to work at 8pm at night!

RE: 'NOVA' welcomes viewers to Mars - 01/04/05

Nice collection of word lists for different languages (including different English varients Aussie, British, American), different topics and even whole dictionaries. Nice addition to John the Ripper when Brute forcing passwords, or as a cron job to enforce password security.

Multi-lanuage, multi-topic Wordlists

] No they don't. Gilmour is a boring guitarist perfect who like
] their music stodgy and stale. Nick Mason could fall asleep
] behind the drum kit and no one would notice much of a
] difference in his playing, and Roger Waters is tone deaf,
] monotonal, less talented as a vocalist than even someone as
] lame-brained as Ozzy Ozbourne, and his songwriting sucks.
] Only pretentious white-baseball cap wearing fratboy cunts like
] this shit, and boring assholes whose minds are like computers.
] These lyrics are pretentious, self-indulgent and the song
] itself is horrifyingly dull. When Syd was in the band, they
] could have energy, since then it's been bland and shitty music
] for rhythmless white people to fuck to, in their boring little
] white-person way.

Vile... wow. You are just so dreamy!

Star light, Star bright
I wish I may, I wish I might,
make this swee man Vile mine tonight!

Oh Vile, your constant cursing... its just so dangerous! So counter-culture! I'll fly to NJ right now and we can be together! I know the perfect first date: We can go to Hot Topic and tell everyone how punk we are! We can yell "pig" and "facsist" at the security guards! I just know you wouldn't let them beat your ass again, because you are so strong and tough with words! Then we can walk home (only fucking TOOLS and preppies drive fucking cars), smoke our unfiltered Clove cigs (fucking goths smoking our cigs!) and complain about how boring, self important, and full of shit our parents are! Don't worry, I'll still love you while you live in their garage! I understand its The Man who keeps you from having a good job, and who wants you to shower and stuff! Fucking capitalist pigs, don't they understand you are too important for that stuff! Working is for chumps. I'll do my best to give you an environment to nurture your deep and profound thoughts to contribute to Memestreams like "K is a bleeding dog," and that time you called skullka "a nasty, unintelligent hogbitch." Those losers just don't know how awesome you are! I mean, you have an audience of what, 5 whole people! Seems that only 5 people are worth a damn! They need more people who say "fuck" alot and make funny of everyone! Oh yeah, and too contribute more things like Porn queens and AIDs! I never tire of reading your rants! Maybe we can post about how everyone is too stupid to understand the Dead Kennedys like we do! I mean, we are so profound! Obviously everyone on Memestreams should respect you, I mean you must have a *HUGE* dick, because you are so aggressive! tough.

Oh Vile, I just can't Wait!!!!!!!!!!!!1111111111111111 LOL! ^_^
Metal 4-eva!

Wow.... you are so dreamy!

So I open my door to my enemies
And I ask could we wipe the slate clean
but they tell me to please go fuck myself
You know you just can't win

Pink Floyd rules.

] Opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko has won Ukraine's
] presidential election by more than two million votes,
] electoral officials have said after completing the count.

Yushchenko wins Ukraine's Election

Nice collection of Linux references: From setting up RAIDed file servers, to DNS, to Socket Programming

IBM Linux Tutorials

Reference for me: Some googling and I found the upcoming barcode standard the IATA will use for all ticketing and boarding passes. I have hit so many walls trying to find the magstripe info for IATA boarding passes, its good to have the new standard. The 2D barcode is described here

PDF417 - 2D Barcode Standard