] MP3 files are being created for our panels. Watch this
] website as new files are made available every Friday.
] Click on "L" to download a local copy to store on your
] machine, or click on "S" to stream the audio. Video
] copies of all panels will also be available from our
] online store.

They just added 25 new audio files of presentations. I recommend "hacker radio" by slipmode (with an appearance by yours truly). Also there was something called "when corporations attack" by some other people that are very familiar with memestream regulars. ;)

I already recommended this URL. Thank to Stank for the heads-up.

] NSA initiatives in enhancing software security cover both
] proprietary and open source software, and we have
] successfully used both proprietary and open source models
] in our research activities. NSA's work to enhance the
] security of software is motivated by one simple
] consideration: use our resources as efficiently as
] possible to give NSA's customers the best possible
] security options in the most widely employed products.
] The objective of the NSA research program is to develop
] technologic advances that can be shared with the software
] development community through a variety of transfer
] mechanisms. NSA does not favor or promote any specific
] software product or business model. Rather, NSA is
] promoting enhanced security.

NSA's guides to securing machines

NSA - Security Configuration Guides

County by county 3d breakdown with Y axis showing margins.

Does a good job showing how liberals tend to live in the cities

Best Election Data visualization yet

] A set of known problems reported in my original BUGTRAQ
] posting. Related Mozilla bugs:
] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=26
] 4944 MSIE bug found by ned of felinemenace.org using
] mangleme port:
] http://lists.netsys.com/pipermail/full-disclosure/2004-No
] vember/028286.html **** FUTILE WARNING FOR THOSE UNABLE
] TO COMPREHEND **** Opening them is NOT a way to test your
] browser for anything more than those documented,
] confirmed and BROWSER-SPECIFIC flaws. If you use Safari,
] Konqueror, or Uncle Betsy Own Web Browser, you need to
] download http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/soft/mangleme.tgz
] instead.

Pages thata will kill different browsers

] mangleme is an automated broken HTML generator and
] browser tester, originally used to find dozens of
] security and reliability problems in all major Web
] browsers (Mozilla / Firefox / Netscape, Konqueror /
] Safari, MSIE, lynx, [e]links, w3m, elvis, etc), as
] reported on BUGTRAQ.

Finding IE overflows has never been easier

mangleme: Heap/Bufferer Overflows for all!

] But when the heavy gun in the left wing of an Air
] National Guard F-16 fighter jet fired Wednesday night, it
] sent 25 rounds of 20mm ammunition smashing through the
] roof and zinging off the asphalt parking lot of the
] Little Egg Harbor Intermediate School 3 1/2 miles from
] the range.

I love my state, I really do.

I am Rattle's deadpan humor

CNN.com - Fighter jet strafes New Jersey school - Nov 5, 2004

] On the WOT:
]
] Iraq will slowly become an Islamic fundamentalist state. The
] U.S. will be largely out of there within a year and on to
] Pakistan. We'll get Bin Laden, but Islamic Fundamentalism will
] continue to fester and will rear it's head again in a decade
] or so. Bush will be seen as having won the WoT in the short
] term.

I disagree. Iraq will become a fundamentalist state, but it will remain in state of civil war for quite some time. You have 2 Islamic sects, the minority one repressed the majority one for decades. Sunni's don't want free or fair elections, because they will not have enough representitives to prevent rather nasty laws against them from being passed. I'm talking Jews in 1930's Germany style laws. The only hope for the Sunni's is to have the ratio of people in the gov't representing them be disproportional to their % of the population. But the Shiits are not going to let them having anything close to power again. Listen very closely: Popular elections, with the number of representatives for different ethic/religous group being proportional to actual populations of those groups will not happen. There is too much hostility between the groups, and we are stupid if we think 2 years has cured it.

None of this even mentions the Kurds, which have basically had their own country for the last decade or so, and aren't really liked by anyone. They sure as hell are not going to disarm and follow the laws being passed in Baghdad. They will resist, with lethal force.

Bush is kind of screwed on Iraq. The only way Iraq will be able to have any type of stable peace in the near term (next decade) is a) A new dictator, or extremely pro-Shiite anti-Sunni government. It will not be anything close to the "island of democrasy" Bush promised. b) A large, non-Iraqi military force staying there basically locking down the country, and enforcing the will of the government composed of equal Shiites and Sunnis (and maybe Kurds, but most likely not). It can't be an Iraqi force, because the Iraqi government would use to against the Sunnis and/or Kurds. The problem for Bush is, thanks to his extreme foreign policy, Non-Iraqi basically means US, unless Bush manages to get a multinational force from different Arab countries instead (he won't).

He pulls out, Iraq collapses, into something maybe slightly than Saddam's government, and Bush has to explain what our sons and daughters were dying for. He stays, and our troops will continue to be killed off one by one, because the people will not view the government as a legitiment representation of the people (because it isn't).

RE: Iraq Predictions

] BALLOT MEASURES / GEORGIA AMENDMENT 1 / EXIT POLL

I'm surprised by the way different age groups voted. The Religious attendance breakdown is amusing.

Breakdown of GA Gay Marriage Ban

] "We are taking a risk with the global climate," said Paal
] Prestrud, vice-chair of the Arctic Climate Impact
] Assessment (ACIA) report, which says emissions of gases
] from cars, factories and power plants are mostly to
] blame.
]
] The Arctic icecap has shrunk by 15-20 percent in the past
] 30 years and the contraction is likely to accelerate,
] Prestrud said. The Arctic Ocean could be almost ice-free
] in summer by the end of the century.

Arctic melt accelerates, governments split

] In their printing process, Epson uses two types of ink to
] produce circuit boards. The first is a conductive ink and
] the second is an insulator ink that is used to separate
] each layer from the next. This allows a printer to paint
] these inks in patterns on top of each other in an
] extraordinarily compact manner. In fact, the 20-layer
] board shown today looks only to be a a millimeter thick,
] if that.

I met a Brit at Foo camp who works for a Canon, researching this very thing. He discussed being able to "print" a fully working Cell phone that you buy online in the nezxt 15-20 years. Now, whether the end user will pay for basically a small factory when they are only "printing" the occasional purchase is up for debate, but its cool to see advances in this area.

Epson uses inkjet technology to print circuit boards