How do they determine damage???

British programmer causes $700,000 damage to the Pentagon, Nasa, and the Johnson Space Center.

Where do they come up with those numbers? Honestly... Could they have stopped him if they had spent $700,000 more on network security? It's not like a DDoS'd them anyway... Is that the over priced number of the work it took to CORRECT the flaws in the first place? Is the cost the money it costs the organizations now to be proactive? Or is it what he says and its the U.S. making an example out of him...??? learned here about accommodation New York - globequarters.com

... And why is data like this on the Internet??? The government obviously has money so why don't they setup relay services or third party networks that are not on the largest public network in the world... The company I work for has many multinational and domestic corporate headquarters. Our internal servers don't use the internet to communicate to each other. I can understand how small corps don't have the money to do the above and resort to setting up VPN's over the Internet but why does the government use public networks for their data??????? Нужно купить стиральную машину в интернете?

Or is it just a question of him hacking the public web servers which have separate interfaces for their internal networks... Hmmm...

Browser Wars

The best video to sum it all up... PERIOD. =)

A simple email...

Sending one email to teammates and old friends... About $.02
A request to support a great cause... About 5 seconds.
Receiving a donation to the above cause that may save a life. $20.00
Saving the life of an affected two year old nephew... Millions.

Being told by someone you look up to that email should not be used for personal reasons... Priceless.

There are some things money can't buy. For everything else, there's corporate politics.

10 Months flew by...

Alex is really growing up fast. He's got Ma-Ma and Ba-Ba down. He can move himself around the house by crawling on all fours or by holding furniture and shuffling sideways. He's ten months old and is almost walking! He drinks out of sippy cups and almost nothing bothers him. I love being a Dad. =) Its the best thing I could ask for on a bd.

Two years later, degree vanishes...

Two years ago, Computer Engineering was at the top of the fields for lucrative degrees... Now it is not even on the list... Did the degree get lumped into Computer Science or did something else happen??? I think I'm doing OK for an entry level Computer Engineer but what does this say about the market? It'll be interesting to see what happens in the next decade and if CS degrees in general are a dying breed in the US because of all the outsourcing...

2004 Data - 2006 Data

For all the Computer Engineers out there...

...get a MBA. It'll help keep you from being outsourced. Read me.

This is definately the nail in the coffin that will make me finish my MBA... I was starting to doubt going back now that I have a new job but this article was exactly what I was toiling over.

Bad choice of name...

The video says it all... Here.

Riddle me this...

"There is also the paradox of the man who is own mother (my apologies to Heinlein.) "Jane" is left at an orphanage as a foundling. When "Jane" is a teenager, she falls in love with a drifter, who abandons her but leaves her pregnant. Then disaster strikes. She almost dies giving birth to a baby girl, who is then mysteriously kidnapped. The doctors find that Jane is bleeding badly, but, oddly enough, has both sex organs. So, to save her life, the doctors convert "Jane" to "Jim."

"Jim" subsequently becomes a roaring drunk, until he meets a friendly bartender (actually a time traveler in disguise) who wisks "Jim" back way into the past. "Jim" meets a beautiful teenage girl, accidentally gets her pregnant with a baby girl. Out of guilt, he kidnaps the baby girl and drops her off at the orphanage. Later, "Jim" joins the time travelers corps, leads a distinguished life, and has one last dream: to disguise himself as a bartender to meet a certain drunk named "Jim" in the past. Question: who is "Jane’s" mother, father, brother, sister, grand- father, grandmother, and grandchild?"

Puzzling... From this article on the physics of time travel...

Spam... Idiots?

"After you logged in, update and verify your information please.
If you choose to ignore our request, you leave us no choise but to temporaly suspend
your account."

I got the above in my email today... It wanted me to goto paypal DASH protection DOT com and login to update my information. Oh... Can't forget the please.

Are people really falling for this?!?!?! Not only is it as bad as people asking you to make checks out to the IRS, and then those creeps make a bogus business DBA like "Iveben Ripping Stupids" to cash them, but they can't even spell!!! You would think a multi-billion dollar company like Paypal has spell checkers...

Update your information, please, or you'll leave me no choise but to temporaly screw you. Choise. Temporaly. Do they have telepathic powers too??? =) Temporal screwing sounds kinky though...