eEye Digital Security tomorrow will make its first foray into the Web vulnerability space -- with a new member of its Retina Security Scanner family that roots out Web application flaws. ... Retina Web Security Scanner officially ships tomorrow and list pricing begins at $6,995.
I’ve noticed that marketing departments of some information security companies like to throw around the limitations of Turing’s problem to sell their consulting services. I agree that a human brain must always be involved during security assessments (a fool with a tool is still a fool), so much so that I consider assessment tools to only be a first-pass sweep for vulnerabilities during any security assessment.
It is impossible to build a house using ONLY a hammer. But it sure helps to have one, along with all the other necessary tools.
On a day that Ferrari might prefer to forget, McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton opened his 2008 world championship challenge by grabbing pole position for the Australian Grand Prix from a super-impressive Robert Kubica in the BMW Sauber.
First F1 grand prix of 2008 tonight at mid-night! (EST)
MIT professor and Web star Walter Lewin swings from pendulums and faces down wrecking balls to show students the zany beauty of science.
Walter Lewin is not merely dangling at the bottom of a 15-foot pendulum. He is swinging high and wide, his rapt audience of 300 counting off each cycle. At 71, he's likely missed his window for a shot at Cirque du Soleil, but the Netherlands-born MIT physics professor seems happy with his own high wire act -- revealing to students, in the most unorthodox ways, the beauty of science.
MIT professor Walter Lewin's elaborate physics demonstrations are a hit in the classroom and online.His pendulum ride comes at the end of a lecture on Hooke's Law, in which he proves the pendulum's period, or time that it takes to complete one cycle, is not affected by the mass at the bottom -- in this case, his own body. He will also, on other occasions, suck helium and continue his lecture sounding like a Dutch Daffy Duck to highlight the differences in the speed of sound in certain gases. He'll shoot across the classroom stage astride a bicycle mounted with fire extinguishers to demonstrate a rocket's change in momentum. "It took me a decade to come to the realization," says Lewin at his MIT office, "that really what counts is not what you cover, but what counts
* Sometimes, people get drunk and drive, or get drunk and abuse others. Therefore, we should outlaw all alcohol (rather than just outlaw drunk driving and assault).
* Sometimes, the media libels people and destroys their reputations. Therefore, we should outlaw all freedom of the press (rather than just proscribe libel).
* Sometimes, children get a hold of cigarettes or pornography. Therefore, we should outlaw all smoking and pornography (rather than just outlaw the act of selling cigarettes or porn to minors).
* Sometimes, men rape women or molest minors. Therefore, we should outlaw all sex (rather than just outlaw rape and child molestation).
* Sometimes, people use drugs (prescription or recreational), get addicted and then steal or act violently. Therefore, we should outlaw all drugs (rather than just outlaw theft and violence).
* Sometimes, people force women against their will to work as prostitutes. Therefore, we should outlaw all prostitution (rather than just outlaw forced prostitution and human trafficking).
Hands on: Mozilla's new Prism brings web sites to the desktop
Topic: Miscellaneous
1:07 pm EDT, Mar 11, 2008
Prism makes it possible to launch web sites from the desktop and load them into a simple browser window without all of the extra features and functionality of a regular browser. This is advantageous for users because it allows them to run those sites in a separate process from their regular Firefox browser and interact with the content without any unnecessary distractions. Prism also allows web application content to be customized in some ways to make it more conducive to desktop use.
Good for helping to prevent your Gmail account from being CSRF'ed.
Irony is a new-generation .NET compiler construction kit. It utilizes the full potential of c# 2.0 and .NET Framework to implement a completely new and streamlined technology of compiler construction. Unlike most existing yacc/lex-style solutions Irony does not employ any scanner or parser code generation from grammar specifications written in proprietary meta-language. In Irony the target language grammar is coded directly in c# using operator overloading to express grammar constructs. Irony's scanner and parser modules use the grammar encoded as c# class to control the parsing process. See the expression grammar sample for an example of grammar definition in c# class, and using it in a working parser.
Doors @ 4pm Game 1 @ 5pm, Game 2 @ 7pm New Location - IN TOWN! Yaarab Shrine Center on Ponce de Leon!
March 8 Denim Demons vs. Toxic Shocks Apocalypstix vs. Blue Ridge Rollergirls April 12 Toxic Shocks vs. Sake Tuyas ARG All-Stars vs. Tampa Bay Derby Darlins May 10 Apocalypstix vs. Sake Tuyas Denim Demons vs. Inland Empire Derby Divas June 14 Sake Tuyas vs. Denim Demons Toxic Shocks vs. Visitor July 12 Denim Demons vs. Apocalypstix ARG All-Stars vs. Fort Wayne Derby Girls August 9 Toxic Shocks vs. Apocalypstix Sake Tuyas vs. Hard Knox RG (East TN) September 20 Grudge Match: Battle for 3rd & 4th Home Teams Championship
The Lenovo X300, The Macbook Air, and a Big Manila Envelope
Topic: Technology
10:17 am EST, Mar 2, 2008
Fits in a manila envelope like a hand in the OJ glove.
I would of bought an X300 last summer when I was shopping for a Thinkpad. I wanted a X-series but with higher screen resolution. Finally Lenovo offers what I wanted.
This Psychologist Might Outsmart the Math Brains Competing for the Netflix Prize
Topic: Technology
10:21 pm EST, Feb 28, 2008
At first, it seemed some geeked-out supercoder was going to make an easy million.
In October 2006, Netflix announced it would give a cool seven figures to whoever created a movie-recommending algorithm 10 percent better than its own. Within two weeks, the DVD rental company had received 169 submissions, including three that were slightly superior to Cinematch, Netflix's recommendation software. After a month, more than a thousand programs had been entered, and the top scorers were almost halfway to the goal.
But what started out looking simple suddenly got hard. The rate of improvement began to slow. The same three or four teams clogged the top of the leaderboard, inching forward decimal by agonizing decimal. There was BellKor, a research group from AT&T. There was Dinosaur Planet, a team of Princeton alums. And there were others from the usual math powerhouses — like the University of Toronto. After a year, AT&T's team was in first place, but its engine was only 8.43 percent better than Cinematch. Progress was almost imperceptible, and people began to say a 10 percent improvement might not be possible.
Then, in November 2007, a new entrant suddenly appeared in the top 10: a mystery competitor who went by the name "Just a guy in a garage." His first entry was 7.15 percent better than Cinematch; BellKor had taken seven months to achieve the same score. On December 20, he passed the team from the University of Toronto. On January 9, with a score 8.00 percent higher than Cinematch, he passed Dinosaur Planet.
I always thought the Netflix challenge would require less technology and more of that je ne sais quoi. This guy applies psychology to set theory with impressive results.
