Internet soft spots

Posted on 2014-10-31 by Charlie

Want to build a ginormous botnet without doing a lot of work? Compromise one of the Internet’s soft spots.

If you take over bOINGbOING.net, you can use the site to inject malware in 1.3 million visitors. Chump change! How about TheChive.com, or Kottke.org, or whatever? Face it, you’re not going to get more than 15 million suckers. It’s just too much effort for a lazy man; you’d still be doing a lot of hard work to recruit a paltry few million zombies.

So, you take over jquery.com, or typekit.com. Now you’re cooking with gas! It’s become common practice for websites to use remotely sourced scripts – so there are thousands of sites that will blindly push out whatever is in the file jquery.js at jquery.com, and all that site’s visitors will run it just as blindly. So if you take over a popular script or advertisement source, you can leverage that into billions of individual attacks, quite easily.

And that’s my Halloween horror story for this year.

Tell me I’m wrong

Posted on 2014-10-30 by Charlie

Ben Kingsley on the set of Prince of Persia

Sir Ben Kingsley, noted actor

Anton LaVey from the archives of the church of satan

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Emperor Ming from the Flash Gordon original series

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Posted on 2014-10-29 by Charlie

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Posted on 2014-10-28 by Charlie

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Busy weekend at ISS

Posted on 2014-10-27 by Charlie

Elon Musk’s Dragon spacecraft left the International Space Station Saturday after delivering 5000 lb of cargo, and in the wee hours of this morning a Russian Progress unmanned cargo lifter undocked with a full load of garbage, freeing up some parking spaces (video replay on NASA TV at noon today). The Progress will stay nearby for a while to assist with some engineering experiments, and is eventually destined to burn up on reentry on Oct 19th.

Around 2:00pm EDT there will be a course adjustment to dodge some incoming debris left over the 2003 launch of a Cosmos communications satellite.

An Orbital Sciences Cygnus, named in honor of Deke Slayton, is scheduled to launch on an Antares from Wallops tonight. This will be the first Antares launch to use a Castor 30XL upper stage; the payload will include the Planetary Resources Arkyd-3 test satellite and nearly 3 tons of supplies. Coverage starts at 4:00pm EDT on NASA TV, launch at 5:45.

No “right to water” in Detroit

Posted on 2014-10-24 by Charlie

U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Steven Rhodes on Monday refused to block the city from shutting off water to delinquent customers for six months, saying there is no right to free water and Detroit can’t afford to lose the revenue.

Ever since a bunch of well-meaning idiots who don’t understand basic math or science (otherwise known as the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights) declared that clean drinking water is a fundamental human right, activists have been trying to force people and organizations that provide access to safe drinking water to destroy themselves, apparently in the honest belief that inexhaustible supplies of safe water can be magically delivered to every single human being that might ever exist, free of cost, so it can’t matter if we wreck every existing system that actually provides water to people.

All these people have their hearts in the right place, I’m sure, but they have apparently misplaced their brains. The complex interweaving of ecosystems that makes up the terrestrial environment required to support the human race cannot sustain wholesale reallocation of water based on arbitrary human population densities; if a “right to water” actually existed, we’d eventually have to destroy huge swaths of riparian ecosystems in order to keep human desert-dwellers alive. Not to mention the collapse of every existing water allocation system – since they are all based on the idea that human beings will have to fight, work, or inherit wealth in order to obtain water.

The worst thing that could happen to these people (and everybody else) would be for them to succeed, condemning rich and poor alike to a global environmental catastrophe in the name of watering the poor.

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Posted on 2014-10-23 by Charlie

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Lilo & Stitch deleted scenes

Posted on 2014-10-22 by Charlie

“Tourists, prepare to die!“

Bed time story – a bit bland, by comparison.

Captain Gantu has anger management issues. But we knew that. Jumba, too.

I always wondered why Pudge the Fish didn’t show up later in the film. Pretty dark, I see why they cut it.

Apparently a jet had to be rewritten as a spaceship due to 9/11 hysteria.

Historical European Martial Arts Wiki

Posted on 2014-10-21 by Charlie

Wiktenauer is an ongoing collaboration among researchers and practitioners from across the Western martial arts community, seeking to collect all of the primary and secondary source literature that makes up the text of historical European martial arts research and to organize and present it in a scholarly but accessible format.

More from Antikythera

Posted on 2014-10-20 by Charlie

Looks like the Antikythera treasure ship is not yet exhausted?

The Daily Mail’s coverage is unexpectedly better than the BBC‘s, despite the usual Daily Fail sidebar of celebrity gossip.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqhuAnySPZ0

Duck and Cover

Posted on 2014-10-17 by Charlie

For some reason I always remember this as “Tommy the Turtle”. Good thing youtube has a copy to set me straight.

This is from 1951, but these kind of films were still being shown in the late 1960s and early 70s in Delaware elementary schools. In the first couple of grades, they had us crouch under the desks with our hands behind our heads for A-bomb drills, but later they started having us go into the hallways and huddle against the walls. Pretty much the same as California earthquake drills, only with deadly fallout expected afterwards.

Skunk works claims hot fusion breakthrough

Posted on 2014-10-16 by Charlie

Lockheed’s secret lab says they’ve solved the problem of hot fusion containment, and that they can build a 100 megawatt reactor small enough to fit on a truck in less than one year, with commercial prototypes in less than five years, and reactors available on the market in a decade.

Supposedly it took them only four years to work this out, which makes you think of Bussard’s talk to Google back in 2006, where he claimed that the only reason we didn’t have working fusion reactors was lack of will.

Hot fusion is a highly energetic, highly radioactive process but it does not generate extremely long-lived waste like conventional fission reactors do. A hot fusion reactor accident might do as much initial damage as a fission plant accident, but the long-term cleanup would be relatively simple; if we can’t have true cold fusion, hot fusion is still a big step up from coal or fission.

How to hurt yourself with EIGRP

Posted on 2014-10-15 by Charlie

As long as all your routing nodes are Cisco branded, EIGRP (Cisco’s proprietary routing protocol) is very easy to implement. You pretty much just turn it on and it works, like the old Appletalk/phonenet networks in the pre-OSX days.

But if you have a machine that’s all loaded up with static routes, and you accidentally redistribute them back to the machine the routes point to, the network gets pretty loopy. Little network geek joke there. where she stops nobody knows

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Posted on 2014-10-14 by Charlie

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Viking hoard in Scotland

Posted on 2014-10-13 by Charlie

More than a hundred items. The Beeb has pictures.

Fireworks from a drone

Posted on 2014-10-10 by Charlie

Thanks to Bhil for the link.

DIY Ground-based Ion Cannon

Posted on 2014-10-09 by Charlie

Hobbit’s netcat can be used to vomit forth network traffic as fast as your machine can generate it. We don’t need no steenkin’ LOIC!

Anyway, I needed to test a WAN pipe to see if Comcast was delivering the bandwidth we’re paying for – we’re supposed to have a 200 Mbps link to Boston.

[root@monster ~]# yes | nc -4 -u -v -v -n remotehost.boston.com 9

The yes command just screams “yes!” incessantly, like a teenage boy’s dream girlfriend. We pipe the output to netcat, and force it to use UDP and IPv4 to send all the yes traffic to a host in Boston. UDP port 9 is the “discard” service, of course, so the machine at the other end just throws the traffic away. We already constantly monitor all the routing nodes in the path so we can see and graph what happens to the packets in real time.

Turns out the host can generate 80Mbps, sustainable indefinitely. That goes into the 200Mbps Comcast pipe… and only 4Mbps comes out the other end! Thanks, netcat! Time to call Comcast!

Don’t do this if you aren’t ready to deal with the repercussions of completely smashing your network. Saturating interfaces, routers and pipes will severely impact normal business routines, and should be saved as a last resort.

Pleistocene Art in Indonesia!

Posted on 2014-10-08 by Charlie

A team of archeologists working in the Maros karst caves of Sulawesi, Indonesia have found paintings that appear to be at least 40,000 years old. These paintings strongly resemble well known European cave art of the same time period, showing that there were common art forms in use on opposite sides of the world forty thousand years ago, implying human art is much older.

Here, using uranium-series dating of coralloid speleothems directly associated with 12 human hand stencils and two figurative animal depictions from seven cave sites in the Maros karsts of Sulawesi, we show that rock art traditions on this Indonesian island are at least compatible in age with the oldest European art. The earliest dated image from Maros, with a minimum age of 39.9 thousand years, is now the oldest known hand stencil in the world. In addition, a painting of a babirusa (‘pig-deer’) made at least 35.4 thousand years ago is among the earliest dated figurative depictions worldwide, if not the earliest one. Among the implications, it can now be demonstrated that humans were producing rock art by aproximately 40 thousand years ago at opposite ends of the Pleistocene Eurasian world.

The paper is paywalled here, at Nature Magazine’s website. The précis is quoted above.

“Coralloid speleothems” are a particular type of stalactite, formed of layers of diatom colonies, detrital minerals and clay. Because the diatoms were water-dwelling living creatures, the Uranium series dating technique is applicable to the speleothems. By determining the age of diatom colonies that have formed on top of the paint, minimum age of the cave art can be approximated.

Brust’s Hawk is out

Posted on 2014-10-07 by Charlie

My in-laws gave me an Amazon gift card last month which I spent on Steven Brust’s latest installment in the Vlad Taltos swords’n’sorcery series.

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Posted on 2014-10-06 by Charlie

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More evidence for group selection

Posted on 2014-10-03 by Charlie

Kinship selection was always an inadequate explanation for animal behavior observed in the natural world. Relying solely on kin selection to explain the evolution of our consensus reality implicitly depends on making sweeping, ridiculous claims that a lot of really obvious phenomena (like fostering and adoption and homosexuality and cross-species altruism and so forth) are just aberrant behaviors, which do not really need to be accommodated or even comprehensively considered by evolutionary biologists.

The experimental colonies proved more successful if their docile-to-aggressive ratios matched that of the naturally occurring control colonies in the same areas, the researchers report online this week in Nature. The results provide an example of group selection, where individual traits evolve according to the needs of a group.

Paywalled article at Nature here, popular treatment at Science here.

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