New School protest shuts down the villiage. Meh.
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Apr 10
Apr 09
» This could be interesting...
Possible attack on MPLS? As a security issue, it’s not particularly interesting (if you don’t secure your content in L2, then you’re SOL anyway), but interesting from a potential net-disruption POV.
Apr 04
Apr 01
Matt Y’s take on the Obama Auto Plan.
The first thing to say about this is that unlike a lot of other things that have raised the cry of “socialism!” this really sort of is socialism. You have the President of the United States firing the CEO of General Motors, and simultaneously ordering Chrysler to pursue a process of selling itself to Fiat. The administration is wisely trying to avoid an extended period of state-directed management of industrial firms producing consumer goods, but that’s certainly the situation they’re in at the moment and it’s something we ought to try to bring to an end as soon as possible.
Heh.
Interesting note about Chrysler:
My understanding of the Chrysler portion of the deal is basically that if Chrysler and Fiat can’t come to terms within 30 days, then Chrysler is going to enter into a Chapter 7 liquidation process at which point Fiat could buy whatever it wants. Consequently, Fiat is likely to be able to extract favorable terms on whatever deal they reach.
harsh.
“ There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.
Mar 31
» Project Sipster: Sipster Indeed
Top Gear America attempts to get 70MPG out of a used $7k car.
Ross Douthat looked at my boobs.
Well, not mine but:
(15:54:37) *redacted*: i saw ross douthat on the subway
(16:09:37) *redacted*: how funny is that
(16:09:44) *redacted*: he totally looked at my boobs too
(16:09:47) *redacted*: and i was like listen
(16:09:48) *redacted*: guy
(16:09:53) *redacted*: you are ross douthat
(16:09:57) *redacted*: and dont think i dont know that
Mar 30
» Look who's killing Obama's agenda now.
Jonathan Chait lays out a pretty compelling picture of how screwed up the senate (and democratic leadership of said body) is. No matter what, IMO, Reid has got to go. How someone so inefectual at communicating ever got so high up in the power structure is beyond me.
Mar 29
» If you were watching 60 minutes tonight...
you might have seen Leslie Stahl’s segment about the conficker virus. The link above is the ultimate tech rundown of what Conficker is and how it propagates. How it’s eventually going to be used is anyone’s guess. Money Shot:
The exploit employs a specially crafted remote procedure call (RPC) over port 445/TCP, which can cause Windows 2000, XP, 2003 servers, and Vista to execute an arbitrary code segment without authentication. The exploit can affect systems with firewalls enabled, but which operate with print and file sharing enabled. The patch for this exploit was released by Microsoft on October 23 2008 [3], and those Windows PCs that receive automated security updates have not been vulnerable to this exploit. Nevertheless, nearly a month later, in mid-November, Conficker would utilize this exploit to scan and infect millions of unpatched PCs worldwide.
Why Conficker has been able to proliferate so widely may be an interesting testament to the stubbornness of some PC users to avoid staying current with the latest Microsoft security patches [2]. Some reports, such as the case of the Conficker outbreak within Sheffield Hospital’s operating ward, suggest that even security-conscious environments may elect to forgo automated software patching, choosing to trade off vulnerability exposure for some perceived notion of platform stability [8]. On the other hand, the uneven concentration of where the vast bulk of Conficker infections have occurred suggest other reasons. For example, regions with dense Conficker populations also appear to correspond to areas where the use of unregistered (pirated) Windows releases are widespread, and the regular application of available security patches [9] are rare.
<sigh>
Mar 28
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