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Common Writing Mistakes
This post about Grammar Nerds reminded me that I’ve long wanted to write about some common mistakes I see over and over on the Internet and in emails. The most common thing that I notice is …
Internet Security Tips
https://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1883072,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03129TX1K0000614
Md4 And Md5 Collision Generators
There are still not known attacks against encryption schemes that make use of these, but certainly anything relying on these hashes for integrity protection should switch to alternate mechanisms. …
Scientists Re Invent Nature
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Butterfly wings work like LEDs When scientists developed an efficient device for emitting light, they hadn’t realised butterflies have been using the same method for …
Oh The Irony
Wired News: Tainted Sony CDs Used Open Source In short: Sony’s ill-conceived, ill-executed, and ill-handled copy protected CDs that inserted a rootkit on your Windows computer that were designed …
Quot Deep Thoughts Quot On Topics Of The Day
Daily Kos: Cheers and Jeers: Rum and Coke FRIDAY! Last weekend we picked up three of Jack Handy’s Deep Thoughts books. While he avoids the political (after all, the thoughts are deep), we found …
More 'Christians' Persecuting Others Who Are Supposedly Persecuting Christians
Pandagon: ‘Tis the season to ‘persecute’ Christians A couple more years of this hysteria and the use of “Merry Christmas” as shorthand for, “I hate you and …
Alito Response To Vanguard Conflict Of Interest Shows True Character
Eschaton Alito: “he’s an I’m gonna do what I want and fuck you if you think otherwise kind of guy” Nice.
O'Reilly Unpacks Dead Horse From His Holiday Nick Nacks Begins 2005 Flogging
O’Reilly opens new front in “war” on Christmas … [Media Matters] O’Reilly is ridiculous and a hypocrite. He is trying to create a controversy where one does not exist …
Password Hash Dash
-dash Rainbow Crack is a time/memory tradeoff tool that can break passwords knowing just the password hash. So, those people who still think that disclosing password hashes is not a big deal… …