If an attacker wants to learn the IP address of a hidden server on the Tor network, he'll suddenly request something difficult or intensive from that server. The added load will cause it to warm up.

Because temperature affects how fast most electronics operate, warming up the machine causes microscopic changes in clock skew over time. Now the attacker queries computers on the public internet that he suspects of being the Tor server, looking for the shift in skew over the course of hours.

Wow - hardware anomolies being used to track and trace fascinate me.

Wired News: Computer Warming a Privacy Risk

"WASHINGTON, Dec. 29 — The Justice Department is investigating whether the director of a multibillion-dollar oil-trading program at the Interior Department has been paid as a consultant for oil companies hoping for contracts.

Skip to next paragraph The director of the program and three subordinates, all based in Denver, have been transferred to different jobs and have been ordered to cease all contacts with the oil industry until the investigation is completed some time next spring, according to officials involved.

The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation had not been announced publicly, said investigators were worried that senior government officials had been steering huge oil-trading contracts to favored companies. "

Justice Dept Investigation of Interior Dept - Oil Scandal Brewing

School headmaster Chamnong Chupatpong and Mano Sonkaew were driving a pickup truck on their way to Ban Baedo school in Yala province when they were shot, dragged out of the vehicle and burned to death, according to a witness, Lt. Tatsapol Suwannabul said.

And here we're worried about textbook stickers.

Maybe this kinda crap is WHY we are worried about textbook stickers.

Muslim rebels in southern Thailand target school teachers

"BARNEVELD, Wis. — With an estimated 400,000 members nationwide, and a high-profile fight with the federal government over veterans' grave markers, Wiccans are moving into a more prominent place in the religious landscape.

Selena Fox is leading the way.

A Wiccan priestess and founder of Circle Sanctuary, a 200-acre nature center in the Wisconsin woods about 30 miles west of Madison, Fox battles for acceptance..."

Goal of Lawsuit for Wicca: Acceptance

"Federal child welfare authorities have fined Georgia $4.3 million for failing to adequately address a critical review of services to find homes for foster children and protect children from abuse.

The Administration for Children and Families, part of U.S. Health and Human Services Department, also said Georgia had not done enough to involve parents of children in the system and had not adequately provided for the children's physical and mental health."

They go on to blah blah say the system has improved since 2004. HA - what about the Jackson Bortz case or the 2 year old that died very recently under their 'protection?' What about the sky high number of abuse cases happening to Georgia children while IN foster custody?

FIRE Mary Dean Harvey and the agency might stand a chance. (That part is my opinion, but I stand by it. lol)

Georgia DFCS fined by federal oversight - failure to provide services

This is amazing - I think it is a must see.

It is VERY well done.

AMAZING CGI Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Renactment

This is disturbing.

"Scientology snuck into Clearwater, Florida in 1978 under the assumed name of United Churches. Since then they have come to dominate the ... all » small town.

I lived in Clearwater for two years, working with a group which was helping people defrauded and abused by Scientology. During this time, police officers started to accept off duty jobs from Scientology. I documented the police officer's bias during that time. The police department accepted $176,000 a year from Scientology and was called by some "Scientology's police force."

Scientology comes to Clearwater, FL - Disturbing Video

The 2006 Winter Solstice will be occurring at roughly the time I post this message, as we pass closest to the sun, let have the longest night of the year.

Happy Solstice!!!

Happy Winter Solstice Everyone!!!

This is a beautifully done video of the Winter Solstice Celebration at Stonehenge.

Beautiful Video of Winter Solstice at Stonehenge

Very impressive! Tell him congrats from North Ga!

GameSpy's Game of the Year 2006: Company of Heroes