Confronting Income Inequality
PEOPLE often remember the past with exaggerated fondness. Sometimes, however, important aspects of life really were better in the old days.
via Economic View – Confronting Income Inequality – NYTimes.com.
Stuxnet World Tour 2010
So, I guess China’s bought a lot of their industrial infrastructure hardware from Siemens. I’ve worked on the computers that Siemens uses to operate their industrial equipment and I know first-hand that it has no business being connected to any kind of computer network. As of 2007 the Germany’s GE was still shipping computers using pre-SP1 copies of Windows XP Pro. And even if you wanted to you weren’t really supposed to patch them – or install any kind of anti-virus software on there.
A lot of news media will show close-ups of computer keyboards or a screen full of source code in an attempt to use a graphic to display visual imagery of computer malware. This is amusing.
In an attempt to be equally amusing I’m including this animated GIF of a quasi-famous prairie dog.
More on Physorg.
Check, Please
Wouldn’t it be nice if we got an invoice when we paid our federal taxes? Wouldn’t it be nice if someone actually thought of this sooner? This table is just that “for someone with the 2009 U.S. median income of $34,140, who paid $5,400 in federal assessments.”
QuantumTom 