I am a hacker and you are afraid and that makes you more dangerous than I ever could be.
Assumptions and ovens
Topic: Technology
2:05 pm EDT, Oct 8, 2007
When you give a chef a recipe, you have certain assumptions. Sure there might not be resources to fully bake the cake, but you assume that their oven and mixer are working.
How can you ever hope to cook a cake successfully when your oven isn't even working?
[sigh]...
If only I were talking about cake. At least with under-cooked cake you can eat the batter.
Meanwhile, the methodology the military is using to gauge violence in Baghdad has come under fire.
"By carefully manipulating the statistics, the Bush-Petraeus report will try to persuade us that violence in Iraq is decreasing and thus the surge is working," said the Senate's No. 2 Democrat, addressing a Washington think tank last week.
Durbin's criticism was echoed by David Walker, head of the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office, who also raised questions about how the statistics were compiled.
In testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Friday, Walker said he is not comfortable with the methodology used to track the death toll driven by sectarian violence.
For instance, he said, a body found with a gunshot to the front of the head is classified as an ordinary crime, while a body with a gunshot to the back of the head is attributed to sectarian violence.
Walker said he would expect such a methodology to reflect a reduction in sectarian violence.
One of these things is not like the other. One is a uniform women were required to wear by a company to be employed. The other is a college student who is a little trampy, as really we all are from time to time :-)
I really don't think Southwest has a well tanned and well toned leg to stand on here.
Whether long range weapon or suicide bomber Wicked mind is a weapon of mass destruction Whether you're Soaraway Sun or BBC 1 Misinformation is a weapon of mass destruct You coulda Caucasian or a poor Asian Racism is a weapon of mass destruction Whether inflation or globalization Fear is a weapon of mass destruction Whether Halliburton, Enron or anyone Greed is a weapon of mass destruction We need to find courage, overcome Inaction is a weapon of mass destruction
This song rocks. I love the rhyming, especially in the second verse.
And you ain't going to nirvana or far-vana, you're coming right back here to live out your karma. With even more drama than previously, seriously. Just how many centuries have we been waiting for someone else to make us free? And we refuse to see that people overseas suffer just like we: Bad leadership and ego's unfettered and free Who feed on the people they're supposed to lead
In case you missed the memo (or the stares in Junior high...)
Science is confirming what most women know: When given the choice for a mate, men go for good looks.
I like beautiful AND brainy!
The men also appeared to be much less choosy. Men tended to select nearly every woman above a certain minimum attractiveness threshold, Todd said.
Women's actual choices, like men's, did not reflect their stated preferences, but they made more discriminating choices, the researchers found.
The scientists said women were aware of the importance of their own attractiveness to men, and adjusted their expectations to select the more desirable guys.
"Women made offers to men who had overall qualities that were on a par with the women's self-rated attractiveness. They didn't greatly overshoot their attractiveness," Todd said, "because part of the goal for women is to choose men who would stay with them"
Now we get to AjaxWorld West 2007 and there are 5 presentations about security and all of them look great. Brian Chess from Fortify, Joe Stagner from Microsoft, Byran and I from SPI/HP, Danny Allen from Watchfire/IBM, and Pothiraj Selvaraj from CGE. I am absolutely floored by the turn out. And its not just more security speakers at Ajax conferences. There are other indications thats people are accepting Ajax Security. We are seeing a number of books on Ajax Security come out. Ajax frameworks are starting implement security features natively. In some cases framework developers are reaching out directly to the web security companies that seem to get it. For example SPI has been to Redmond multiple times this year working with the ASP.NET and Atlas teams. We see security vendors and consultants who were in denial about Ajax have toned down the rhetoric. Now vendors from the scanner and source code analysis spaces are joining SPI on stage this year on AjaxWorld. We've gone from a 20 something with long hair talking about Ajax security to CTOs and CEOs, and VPs spreading the message. And that is extremely satisfying.
I suppose if anything, AjaxWorld 2007 is a nice breath of fresh air. A cause SPI has been championing for nearly 2 years now is becoming more mainstream and finding acceptance in the Security and Development communities. I welcome my friendly competitors to the party, even if they were a little late and got lost along the way. :-) Because at the end of the day, more smart people working on tough problems helps everyone.
A new technique shows resizing of images while keeping the important features of the image undistorted, also allows you to protect or remove part of the image with anything removed being automagically and seamlessly filled in.
Tale of two cities: Biloxi and New Orleans - CNN.com
Topic: Current Events
6:11 pm EDT, Aug 29, 2007
"America really doesn't give a s*** about New Orleans. We forget. The bridge that collapsed [in Minnesota] -- it's gone, it's yesterday's news. The miners -- if they're not digging a sixth hole, we forget about them. We as a society, we really don't give a damn," Ventura said.
Even our assclown of a president has forgotten New Orleans.
I don't see him making any more bullshit speeches about promising to "rebuild our city" while standing in front of an American flag and broken homes and wearing a button-up shirt with no tie and rolled up sleeves, as if the cluster fuck that is his domestic policy is actually "working" on the problem.
Me: Did you hear about that Senator pleading guilty Bryan: You lose a little street cred when your a republican and you try to bang another guy in the mens room.
