Hijexx wrote:
] ] "Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we,"
] ] Bush said. "They never stop thinking about new ways to harm
] ] our country and our people, and neither do we."
] ]
] ] White House spokesman Scott McClellan said Bush's misstatement
] ] "just shows even the most straightforward and plain-spoken
] ] people misspeak."
]
] I disagree. When you size up the enemy, you try to understand
] how they would attack you. It is true that an enemy will
] always think of new ways to attack you. If you are not doing
] the same thing, constantly assessing your enemy's tactics and
] predicting what they could do, you are at a disadvantage.
]
] Bush could have stated this more eloquently, but I think
] that's the message he was trying to convey. Can't fault him
] for that really, but I'm sure people will.

One of the problem with MemeStreams is that its really good for medium sized memes, but it breaks down when confronted with really big memes because they come from so many directions at once. Lots of people memed this story, but no one memed the same source. I've considered playing with baysian filtering technology to sort articles that come for different sources but seem to cover the same topic, but there are so many simple problems to solve with the site.

In any event, I'm rememing Hijexx's version. I think he has got it right. I don't think Bush mis-spoke. I think this is exactly what he meant. Would you prefer that he said "They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and we never stop thinking about new ways to harm them?" Thats not a very defense oriented or peaceful perspective. How else would you define "what bush meant." He meant that we are thinking of all of these things too. We're red teaming. We're prepared.

RE: Bush misspeaks?

] We have found that by sending specially crafted packets
] to the client during the authentication process, an
] attacker is able to compromise and execute arbitrary code
] on the machine running PuTTY or PSCP.

CoreLabs: Vulnerability in PuTTY

Cara, 43, who works for the American Motorcycle Association, said he's been a lifelong prankster. This time, though, "the cleanup is going to be worse than the joke," he said.

OOPS!

Vanity License Plate Brings Tickets

From skullaria:

I love all the jibjab animations.

This one is too funny.

I've memed so much discussion about this but haven't memed the meme itself! - T

JIBJAB does 'This land is our land' Political Humor at its best

I was just the co-host of Binary Revolution Radio, a weekely hacking show done out of FL, hosted by StankDawg (www.binrev.com).

A cool show where we talked about lots of topics, including Stripe Snoop.

The show notes should be posted here (http://www.binrev.com/radio/archive.html) here soon.

Acidus on Binrev radio [MP3]

] A German startup company has developed a possible
] alternative to short-range communications technologies
] such as RFID, Bluetooth and Near Field Communications
] (NFC). In contrast to those processes, the company's
] Skinplex technology uses human skin as a transmission
] medium.

EE Times -Startup launches commercial Body-lan

] When Meng's dad, a radio frequency engineer, looked at
] the test-run data he said, "Oh my God. They might have a
] chance at this. They might actually have to go to Las
] Vegas."
]
] Not without Justin's father, however. Greg Rigling drove
] them across the country in a van, with the 10-foot
] satellite dish strapped to a trailer. Then he spent two
] days driving around Nevada's mountains helping them get a
] signal.

The wifi shootout concept is kind of silly. The guy who can buy the best antenna wins, and you've got a bunch of people running around with antennas that they constructed without reading anything about antennas. It ought to be obvious that parabolic dishes are the right answer.

However, the fact that these teenagers managed to get an unamplified consumer wireless card communicating across 55 miles of desert with old C-band dishes is cool in a DIY kind of way. It means that anyone with line of sight can build a long distance wireless backbone, and cheap.

Wired News: Wi-Fi Shootout in the Desert

I you would like to peruse Dan Gillmore's new book, its online in PDF form.

Dan Gillmore - We the Media

Willie: I warned ya! Didn't I warn ya?! That colored chalk was forged by Lucifer himself!

Lisa the Vegetarian

...locks you in deeper. Want to buy a different portable music player next time you buy one? I hope you don't mind throwing away 5 years of songs you bought on iTunes, because they aren't going to work with anything else.