Details, details, and more details on how well Windows firewalls perform their security tasks
Month: March 2007
How to win the sympathy verdict from a jury
During jury selection, perhaps it would be wise not to do this:
A lawyer who was stabbed by his client during jury selection in the man’s rape trial will be asked to step down from the case.
Superior Court Judge Charles Grabau said Wednesday he will ask attorney John Courtney to withdraw from the trial of Che Sosa, who allegedly stabbed Courtney with a sharp, makeshift weapon made out of Plexiglas Tuesday.
To me, the most surprising thing is that a lawyer would have to be asked to stop representing some scumbag that just stabbed him. But then, he is a lawyer. (via Fark)
[tags]Rapist stabs own lawyer during jury selection[/tags]
Leading governments are fueling terrorism
Slowly but surely, other countries’ governmental leaders are realizing that the secrecy and anti-Islamic behavior of many of the worlds leading governments are in part responsible for the growth of world-wide terrorism. From Canada’s Security Intelligence Service head:
Canada’s spy master, of all people, is warning that excessive government secrecy and draconian counterterrorism measures will only play into the hands of terrorists.
“The response to the terrorist threat, whether now or in the future, should follow the long-standing principle of ‘in all things moderation,’ ” Jim Judd, director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, said in a recent Toronto speech.
He admitted officials do not yet fully understand a crucial element in combating terrorism — the process of radicalization that can lead individuals, especially young Muslims raised in Canada and other democracies, to embrace terrorism.
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Phone number, geek style
I don’t know my color codes well enough to do this. But I have known geeks who are so focused on their current project that I could see one of them doing something like this.
[tags]Color code phone number, Geeks + resistors = phone numbers, Geek phone numbers FTW!!!1![/tags]
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What is that weapon #2
Whether or not you got the last one, how about trying to figure out what this weapon is from an Iraqi weapons cache
Anandtech forumites discuss freeware security products
I’ve been a reader of the Anandtech forums for far longer than is reasonable. I typically lose interest in such communities and move on to others way sooner than I have this forum. While browsing the forums last night, I ran across this thread on freeware security tools. Given that Anand’s site is so techie oriented, the forums are loaded with very knowledgeable techs. This thread shows that, and has a lot of great information on choosing and using anti-virus, firewall, anti-spyware, and other security tools. If you aren’t set up with malware protection on your system, consider choosing a recommended product from each category in this thread.
For even more security information and guidance from the Anandtech forums, look at this consolidated malware solution thread. It greatly expands on the information from the above-linked free security tools thread. In fact, this 2nd thread is the discussion responsible for the 1st thread. And these folks really know their stuff.
[tags]Anandtech forumites recommend freeware anti-malware[/tags]
Cory Doctorow’s “Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom” – free ebook via email
Several months back, I read the free version of Cory’s “Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom” and enjoyed it enough to buy the book. Since Cory is one of the strongest proponents of release-your-writings-for-free-and-people-will-buy-them publishing, I tend to support his crazy idea and buy his books after reading them. For those that are interested in this book and want to decide if try-and-buy works for you, a new method of reading the book, >serialized email distribution, is now available. Just click the word “Link” below.
The folks at DailyLit have just converted my novel Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom to an email-based serial. Sign up for the free service, specify how often you’d like a little chunk emailed to you, and then sit back and read by email, on your schedule. Link (Thanks, Albert!)
[tags]Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, Commercial book readable via serialized email, Another way to get Cory Doctorow’s writings for free (legally!)[/tags]