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Ashcroft's name substitutes for obscenity in movie |
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Topic: Miscellaneous |
11:41 pm EST, Mar 5, 2005 |
] You're an Ashcroft! No, you're the Ashcroft! ] ] Imagine hearing that exchange in a movie - you'd ] think that Hollywood had come up with a crazy new insult. ] Well, it turns out that some airline passengers watching ] the Oscar-nominated film "Sideways" on foreign flights ] are, in fact, hearing "Ashcroft" as a substitute for a ] certain seven-letter epithet commonly used to denote a ] human orifice. Ashcroft's name substitutes for obscenity in movie |
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Economist.com | Finding nukes |
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Topic: Military Technology |
11:11 pm EST, Mar 5, 2005 |
] The next step is to build a real detector and then, if ] that works, to convince the authorities to support ] widespread deployment. A system that scanned every lorry ] coming into the United States would, the researchers ] estimate, cost about $1 billion. That is a lot of money ] in most contexts, but not all that much in the context of ] nuclear defence. The existing missile-defence programme ] has already cost over $130 billion, and is scheduled to ] spend at least another $50 billion in the next five ] years. And unlike missile interceptors, which on February ] 13th spectacularly failed their second test in two ] months, detectors at America's borders should actually ] work. Madness, it seems, may give way to science. Economist.com | Finding nukes |
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TinyURL.com - where tiny is better! |
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Topic: Web Design |
9:57 pm EDT, Oct 17, 2004 |
] Making long URLs useable! More than 4.5 million of them. ] ] Welcome to TinyURL! ] ] Are you sick of posting URLs in emails only to have it ] break when sent causing the recipient to have to cut and ] paste it back together? Then you've come to the right ] place. ... we ] will create a tiny URL that will not break in email ] postings and never expires. TinyURL.com - where tiny is better! |
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Topic: Elections |
12:16 pm EDT, Sep 22, 2004 |
] He wanted to go to war and he did. He had not the mind to ] perceive the costs of war, or to listen to those who knew ] those costs. He did not understand that you do not go to ] war when it is one of the options but when it is the only ] option; you go not because you want to but because you ] have to. ] ] Yet this president knew it would be difficult for ] Americans not to cheer the overthrow of a foreign ] dictator. He knew that much. This president and his ] supporters would seem to have a mind for only one thing ] -- to take power, to remain in power, and to use that ] power for the sake of themselves and their friends. ] ] by E.L. Doctorow The Unfeeling President |
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A visual history of spam (and virus) email |
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Topic: Spam |
5:34 pm EDT, Sep 17, 2004 |
] A visual history of spam (and virus) email ] ] I have kept every single piece of spam and virus email ] since mid-1997. Occasionally ... I use it to ] build a chart of spam and virus email. ] ] The following chart plots every single piece of spam and ] virus email that arrived at my work email address since ] April 1997. Blue dots are spam and red dots are email ] viruses. The horizontal axis is time, and the vertical ] axis is size of mail (on a logarithmic scale). Darker ] dots represent more messages. A visual history of spam (and virus) email |
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Topic: Computer Security |
9:41 am EDT, Jul 4, 2004 |
] June 29, 2004 ] US-CERT: Beware of IE ] By Ryan Naraine ] ] The U.S. government's Computer Emergency Readiness Team ] (US-CERT) is warning Web surfers to stop using ] Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) browser. US-CERT: Beware of IE |
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Hungry Bot Behind Microsoft's New Search |
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Topic: Computers |
9:30 am EDT, Jul 4, 2004 |
] July 1, 2004 ] Hungry Bot Behind Microsoft's New Search ] ] Webmasters across the Internet have been tracking a surge ] in spider activity coming from Microsoft's MSNbot over ] the past few months and sleuthing over what kind of new ] search offerings the software giant is cooking up. ] ] MSNbot ... appears to be aggressively ] crawling the Web as part of the algorithmic search effort ] to be included at a future point in its newly revised MSN ] Search portal. ] ] In a sample of ... Website traffic logs ..., we saw a substantial ] increase in activity by its MSNbot crawler in May. In ] most cases, the number of visits more than doubled. The ] activity increased in June though by a smaller ] percentage. Hungry Bot Behind Microsoft's New Search |
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The Witty worm: A new chapter in malware - Computerworld |
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Topic: Computer Security |
1:25 pm EDT, Jun 9, 2004 |
] The Witty worm: A new chapter in malware ] ] Opinion by Bruce Schneier, Counterpane Internet Security ] Inc. ] ] JUNE 02, 2004 (COMPUTERWORLD) - If press coverage is any ] guide, then the Witty worm wasn't all that successful. ] ] But Witty was a big deal. It represented some ] scary malware firsts and is likely a harbinger of worms ] to come. IT professionals need to understand Witty and ] what it did. ] ] Witty was the first worm to target a particular set of ] security products -- in this case Internet Security ] System's BlackICE and RealSecure. It infected and ] destroyed only computers that had particular versions of ] this software running. ] ] Witty was wildly successful. Twelve thousand machines was ] the entire vulnerable and exposed population, and Witty ] infected them all -- worldwide -- in 45 minutes. The Witty worm: A new chapter in malware - Computerworld |
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Opera (web browser) gets US$12.75 million settlement from Microsoft |
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Topic: Computers |
1:19 pm EDT, Jun 1, 2004 |
] Opera gets US$12.75 million settlement from Microsoft ] ] Last week Opera Software (makers of the Opera browser for ] Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X) announced they had entered ] into a settlement with a large company, but did not name ] the company provide details on what the settlement ] covered. Now, sources are reporting that Microsoft is the ] party behind the payout. Opera had threatened Microsoft ] with a lawsuit over incompatibilities between Opera 7 and ] Microsoft's MSN. ] The incompatibilities were allegedly due to a ] browser-specific style-sheet sent to surfers browsing the ] MSN website with Opera, which then caused MSN to render ] improperly on Opera 7. If Opera identified as a ] Mozilla-based browser, the pages would render just fine. ] ] Microsoft in 2003 admitted that it had taken steps to ] detect different types of browsers accessing MSN and sent ] different Web page layouts to different products. But the ] company said its efforts were aimed at promoting ] standards compliance rather than at hurting products that ] compete with its dominant Internet Explorer browser. ] Microsoft said it has since stopped the practice. Opera (web browser) gets US$12.75 million settlement from Microsoft |
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Topic: Society |
8:37 pm EDT, May 24, 2004 |
] by Kurt Vonnegut ] ] Many years ago, I was so innocent I still considered it ] possible that we could become the humane and reasonable ] America so many members of my generation used to dream ] of. We dreamed of such an America during the Great ] Depression, when there were no jobs. And then we fought ] and often died for that dream during the Second World ] War, when there was no peace. ] ] But I know now that there is not a chance in hell of ] America%u2019s becoming humane and reasonable. Because ] power corrupts us, and absolute power corrupts ] absolutely. Human beings are chimpanzees who get crazy ] drunk on power. By saying that our leaders are ] power-drunk chimpanzees, am I in danger of wrecking the ] morale of our soldiers fighting and dying in the Middle ] East? Their morale, like so many bodies, is already shot ] to pieces. They are being treated, as I never was, like ] toys a rich kid got for Christmas. Cold Turkey |
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