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] Interz0ne 4 is now accepting Papers and Presentations for
] available presentation time slots during this year's
] convention.

Call for Papers out for IZ4. They seem to be considering starting an Interz0ne West, I assume with the help of the Hac Sec Clan.

interz0ne IV: CFP

I can't say I've ever seen a harddrive have THIS happen to it. How very ODD. The platters were wiped almost completely clean.

DAMN!

Ever seen a harddrive fail like THIS?

] The good news: International intelligence expert George
] Friedman's "America's Secret War," says the United States
] is winning the war against al-Qaida around the world.
]
] Then what's bad news, at least for the administration of
] President Bush?
]
] "The decision to invade Iraq was not a good one and very
] few in the administration thought it was. It was the best
] of a bad lot," Friedman writes.
]
] In short, Friedman contends, Bush didn't really go to war
] because he was worried about Iraqi weapons of mass
] destruction or links to terrorists. But those were
] concerns he could use to sell the war to the American
] people, and now he may pay the ultimate political price
] for that.
]
] Who is Friedman and why should we believe him? His
] company, Stratfor (short for Strategic Forecasting), a
] private worldwide intelligence company, has been given
] credit by Barron's magazine for being "miles ahead of CNN
] and all the other media" for its online reporting. The
] American Spectator has written that "Stratfor is changing
] the way we think about news," while the Wall Street
] Journal said the "predictions have made George Friedman a
] hot property these days."
. . .
] If you prefer books coming from a strong political bias (for or
] against the war, for or against Bush, etc.), "America's Secret
] War" is not for you. But if you wonder how and why things have
] gone the way they have since 9/11, this is a eye-opener.

[adds to book list]

Psst ... U.S. winning terror war (Review: 'America's Secret War')

] Doxygen is a documentation system for C , C, Java,
] Objective-C, IDL (Corba and Microsoft flavors) and to
] some extent PHP, C# and D.

Beautiful! Scratch one thing off my list

Doxygen - Documentation Generation made easy

] Violent crime in cities dropped 3.9 percent compared with
] 2002 and 3.7 percent in less metropolitan areas.

The funny part is this:

] Excluding traffic stops, law enforcement agencies made
] 13.6 million arrests in 2003, or about 4,695 arrests for
] every 100,000 Americans. In 2003, those agencies solved
] about 46 percent of violent crimes, including about 62
] percent of murders.

The funny thing is that they are arresting more people per 100,000 then there were crimes per 100,000. Given that criminals often commit more then one crime, the cops are busting way more people then there are criminals. And as they are only "solving" about half the cases.... you get the picture...

FBI says violent crime down 3% last year | ajc.com

] Just how do those little things work anyway?
] Radio Frequency Identification
]
] Many modern technologies give the impression they work by
] magic, particularly when they operate automatically and
] their mechanisms are invisible. A technology called RFID
] (radio frequency identification), which is relatively new
] to the mass market, has exactly this characteristic and
] for many people seems a lot like magic. RFID is an
] electronic tagging technology (see figure 1) that allows
] an object, place, or person to be automatically
] identified at a distance without a direct line-of-sight,
] using an electromagnetic challenge/response exchange.
] Typical applications include labeling products for rapid
] checkout at a point-of-sale terminal, inventory tracking,
] animal tagging, timing marathon runners, secure
] automobile keys, and access control for secure
] facilities.

ACM Queue - The Magic of RFID - Just how do those little things work anyway?

A great examination of chip architecture. ALU degisn, Branch prediction, FPU operations. Basic understanding of processor internals needed to really grasp it: (What a bubble in the pipeline is, ans why it is bad, What a PC is and why is is nasty to calc in x86, instruction re-ordering, etc)

An Architectural History of PowerPC

] While 77 percent of those surveyed said they thought
] their computers were well-protected, four out of five had
] spyware or adware programs running on their computer and
] nearly two-thirds said they had been infected by a virus.
]
] Though 85 percent had anti-virus software on their
] computers, most had not updated that software in the past
] week -- a necessary step to guard against viruses that
] can spread across the globe in a matter of days.
]
] Two-thirds didn't have a firewall to protect against
] hackers, and 38 percent of wireless network users did not
] encrypt their networks.

Computer users unaware of online risks