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Feb 23

Feb 22

Microsoft on the verge of finalizing Windows 8 beta 2 -

Seems like Microsoft is really stepping up their game.. from 5 yearly release to 1-2 years.. I hope they have some bits of innovation in there somewhere too.. and they don’t keep copying features from Mac..

“1. A developer may not injure Apple or, through inaction, allow Apple to come to harm.
2. A developer must obey any orders given to it by Apple, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3. A developer must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.” —

— I. Developer (isaiah’s weblog)

 

Jan 19

How Stuxnet Spreads The worm itself now appears to have included two major components. One was designed to send Iran’s nuclear centrifuges spinning wildly out of control. Another seems right out of the movies: The computer program also secretly recorded what normal operations at the nuclear plant looked like, then played those readings back to plant operators, like a pre-recorded security tape in a bank heist, so that it would appear that everything was operating normally while the centrifuges were actually tearing themselves apart.

How Stuxnet Spreads

The worm itself now appears to have included two major components. One was designed to send Iran’s nuclear centrifuges spinning wildly out of control. Another seems right out of the movies: The computer program also secretly recorded what normal operations at the nuclear plant looked like, then played those readings back to plant operators, like a pre-recorded security tape in a bank heist, so that it would appear that everything was operating normally while the centrifuges were actually tearing themselves apart.