This too shall pass.
I guess that stock photography libraries just don’t have that many images of blind guys sitting at a computer with a cane. Why not just whip out Photoshop and add your own glasses and cane? I mean — it’s software for blind people, so no one will notice, right?
Freedom Scientific – JAWS for Windows Screen Reading Software.
The Ultimate Lock Picker Hacks Pentagon, Beats Corporate Security for Fun and Profit.
Being a former professional locksmith of 7 years, and an aficionado of the art of picking and bypassing locks, I found this article to hit pretty close to home. It is a fascinating look into the brain of a hacker — not the computer geek hacker, but a person who lives and breathes the true hacker ethic.
“I think that they say that Rush Limbaugh is the 800 lb. gorilla in the Republican Party, but I think that’s mean spirited to say that because I think he’s down to 650 lbs., so I think one should be fair to him about this whole thing.”
–Arnold Schwarzenegger
via Schwarzenegger Makes A Crack About Limbaugh’s Weight – The Atlantic Politics Channel.
Yes, the people who write quizzes for Facebook are imbeciles.
This is hilarious. What better way to deal with a bunch of racists jerkwads than to completely ridicule them and trivialize their hatred?
This sort of thing makes me love the Internet more.
“The Three Wolf Moon T-Shirt gave me a +10 resistance to energy attacks, +8 Strength… and I have successfully solved 7 crimes in my city”.
He said that Microsoft must be hoping that it gets Windows 7 right or it’s really in trouble.
The more I think about it, the more I realize that Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics really need to be adhered to.
If you live in the USA, did you know that your tax dollars are being used for some really good purposes?
You better believe it. For example, the NSA provides some great guides and tools for securing your operating system, whether your are on a Mac, or running Windows, Linux, or Solaris.
Some of the guides can get a little complex (especially the Linux and Solaris ones), but even if you do some of what they suggest, you are increasing the security of your OS and are likely to learn a few things at the same time.
There are more resources from other parts of the government as well. Continue reading “Practical Security: Resources from the US Government”