Taking a few days off re posting for some RnR. Will still be lobbing in comments. Here’s a montage from today’s trek to Great Falls up the river from the Imperial City.
Short Intermission
2008/08/10 By 2 Comments
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@DrLeoStrauss There's a 4G Lenovo at BB for 280 bucks. I could probably survive on that. But you know the temptation for speed/power etc - @DrLeoStrauss I want one laptop for next 3 years - Then I figure Cloud and mix of tab types w be dominant.
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Illegal FBI Domestic Surveillance With No Consequences, Move Along
The FBI improperly investigated some left-leaning U.S. advocacy groups after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, the Justice Department said Monday. DoJ cited cases in which agents surveilled and put activists on terrorist watch lists even though they were planning and conducted nonviolent civil disobedience. And what are the consequences? “After more than four years of [...]
The Tea Party’s Answer For Newt’s Suckage At Sci Fi: Dan Simmons’ “Flashback”
Dan Simmons latest, “Flashback”, reviewed in mid Summer by the WaPo was declared a Tea Party manifesto. The plot occurs in a fallen U.S. some 30 years in the future, with Mexico occupying the Southwest, Japan in Hawaii directly and ruling the West and Midwest indirectly via zaibatsu viceroys. Israel is nuked out existence, and [...]
SEC Scrambles For Relevance Via Goldman
Henry Blodget (yes, that Henry of the you’re-so-fired-for-a-tech-bubble-scam) is now a cited blogger on business matters. He speculates that the SEC surprise, unannounced suit against Goldman was timed and framed to obscure a scathing internal SEC review of its failure to act or investigate documented ponzi schemes going back to 1997. Speculative. But such craven, [...]
Floodgates
To be a fly on the wall of this Saturday’s G20 meeting in Washington, D.C. on the global economic crisis. Germany declares an official recession. And between Thursday and Saturday morning, Hank Paulson may unveil three or four new course reversals. WASHINGTON — The Treasury Department on Wednesday officially abandoned the original strategy behind its [...]
“I was very firm with Vladimir Putin [re Georgia] – Hopefully this will get resolved peacefully.”
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Aug 11, 2008 (CBS)
Warning from Jerry Pournelle:
The Future of Vista
“As I write this, there is a flurry of discussion on the Internet regarding the future of Vista. The headline is “Vista’s Security Rendered Completely Useless by Exploit.” http://www.neowin.net/news/main/08/08/08/vista39s-security-rendered-completely-useless-by-new-exploit (and see also http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid14_gci1324395,00.html ). Of course we have heard this sort of thing before; but this seems serious, and one school says there is no possible fix: the defect is built into the very nature and design of Vista’s memory management. Windows Server 2008 is also said to be vulnerable; it is not known whether the same technique can be used to render Windows XP and previous versions of Windows vulnerable.
The vulnerability, according to the paper presented at Black Hat, is total: an attacker can put any code he likes into any memory location he likes. This would allow commands to upload any and all data on or reachable by the machine, and of course allow adding the machine to an army of zombies . . .” He then adds that:
“Eric Pobirs has read the Black Hat paper and says:
A lot of the issues revolve around accommodating old badly written software. Much of the vulnerability can be eliminated with a few registry entries that breaks compatibility with a lot of that stuff, much as many items were already broken by the existing differences between what XP and Vista allowed to be done in the registry.
Reading the paper shows the problem is not nearly as great as has been reported. The authors’ own conclusions don’t jibe with the claims that this is *completely* (emphasis added) unfixable. Much of it can be addressed immediately by exercising some discretion. Much else is up to third parties to address.”
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FYI, if you are using MSFT Vista.