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From the user guide of a Chinese-made USB drive enclosure:
Whopping the product properly
You must click the “safely remove hardware ” icon on the right of the taskbar, if you want to stop the product and then there a direction telling that the USB Mass storage device can now be safely removed.then you can whop the USB cable from the USB port and then there appeared a direction telling that the USB Mass storage device can now be safely removed.then you can whop the USB cable from the USB port
This is remarkable. Dissent is not usually tolerated in Egypt.
Thousands of anti-government protesters have broken a police cordon in the Egyptian capital and are crossing a major bridge over the Nile to join hundreds more demonstrators massed on the other side of the river.
The demonstration calling for an end to Hosni Mubarak’s government is the biggest Egypt has seen in years.
Police are showing unusual restraint in what appears to be a concerted effort by the government not to provoke a Tunisia-like mass revolt.
The demonstrators chanted, "Long Live a Free Tunisia" and "Down with Hosni Mubarak."
via Egyptian protesters march, denounce Mubarak :: WRAL.com.
Here’s a service that will send a Twitter tweet when the ISS is coming by. The Satellite Notifier Twitter Bot by Shingo will send you a tweet when the ISS is near you (you’ll have to follow the appropriate account). Pretty cool!
Fifty years ago today, almost to the minute, John F. Kennedy was wrapping up his famous inaugural speech. I listened to it again today and it still inspires.
U.S. President John F. Kennedy delivered his only inaugural address at 12:51 (ET) Friday, January 20, 1961, immediately after taking the presidential oath of office administered by Chief Justice Earl Warren.
Kennedy began his speech at 12:51 (ET) Friday, 20 January 1961, immediately after taking the presidential oath of office.
The address is 1364 words and took 13 minutes and 59 seconds to deliver, from the first word to the last word, not including applause at the end, making it the fourth-shortest inaugural address ever delivered. It is widely considered to be among the best presidential inauguration speeches in American history.
via Inaugural address of John F. Kennedy – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Happy to be doing my part!
When former state GOP chairman Tom Fetzer gave his farewell speech over the weekend, he did more than just talk about all the Republican victories last year.
“If I could give you one piece of advice, please ignore the idiot bloggers,” Fetzer said. “I don’t know those these people are and why they have time to do this stuff. But they need to get a life.”
via Fetzer on idiot bloggers and mean politics | newsobserver.com projects.
News comes today that the family of Delvonte Tisdale, the teen who stowed away in an airplane wheel well, has retained legal representation in an apparent effort to sue the airport.
As I said before, it’s tragic that Delvonte Tisdale died. However, this young man chose to climb an airport fence and then attempted to steal free travel to Massachusetts. I think it’s pretty clear who is at fault here.
These kinds of lawsuits drive me crazy.
Fascinating. This reminds me a of a hacker attack the CIA allegedly pulled on a Soviet gas pipeline way back in 1982.
Stuxnet is a computer worm targeted at industrial equipment that was first discovered in July 2010 by VirusBlokAda, a security firm based in Belarus. While it is not the first time that hackers have targeted industrial systems, it is the first discovered worm that spies on and reprograms industrial systems, and the first to include a programmable logic controller (PLC) rootkit.It was specifically written to attack Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems used to control and monitor industrial processes. Stuxnet includes the capability to reprogram the PLCs and hide its changes.
The worm’s probable target is said to have been high value infrastructures in Iran using Siemens control systems. According to news reports the infestation by this worm might have damaged Iran’s nuclear facilities in Natanz and eventually delayed the start up of Iran’s Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant. Although Siemens initially had stated that the worm had not caused any damage, on November 29, Iran confirmed that its nuclear program had indeed been damaged by Stuxnet.
I guess I’m fascinated with China, like it or not. I was reading this WaPo article about Chinese President Hu Jintao’s upcoming state visit to America when I noticed this interesting tidbit:
After U.S. officials, including Clinton and Jeffrey Bader, senior Asia director at the National Security Council, tussled with Chinese security guards at the Copenhagen Climate Conference at the end of 2009, and China reacted strongly to a U.S. decision to sell $6.4 billion of weapons to Taiwan, the Obama administration’s tone changed.
I was unaware that there has been a “tussle” with Chinese security guards at this conference. My Google-Fu fails me here, too, as I can’t seem to find any mention of a physical confrontation at the Climate Conference. Was this somehow hushed up? And if so, how could it have been hushed up at such a public conference?
Could this lack of search results on this event be somehow related to China’s alleged hacking attacks against Google?
via Hu Jintao arriving for state visit focused on economics, security, human rights.
One of the knocks I had against Facebook when I first started using it is that it’s a walled garden: it’s fun to play inside but there’s little sharing with the outside world. I didn’t want to invest all this time in Facebook without being able to take my work (or, um … should I say “play”) with me should I one day decide to part ways with Facebook.
It used to be that there was no good way to do this, but not any more! On a recent scan of my Facebook settings I discovered a feature I hadn’t seen before: a way to download Facebook information!
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As you may know, I’ve been streaming my monthly East CAC meetings through Livestream.Com. This is less than ideal because of all the advertisements that get tacked on to my videos. For a year now I’ve been looking for an open source solution to replace Livestream and I think I found it.
The solution is called Red5. It’s an open source implementation of a Adobe Flash server, written in Java. It’s capable of streaming Flash video out to clients from a Linux server and seems pretty battle-tested.
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