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SiteFilter thinks bl0gs are porn, chat
sites or worse and censors them

SiteFilter thinks bl0gs are porn, chat
sites or worse and censors them 07/22/2004 02:31 AM
A couple days after discovering that the SiteFilter censorware in use at his hotel was blockign MeFi, Metafilter Matt ruminates on the general suckitude that is censorware, especially in light of the fact that SiteFilter's crappy blacklist is mandatory in the libraries of the State of Georgia.

I tried all sorts of blogs, both new and old, political and tech, but the ones that were blocked were completely random. Like I said before, waxy.org is blocked (screenshot), but similar sites are not. Gawker is blocked (screenshot), but no other gawker media site is (wonkette and gizmodo are fine). Acts of Volition seemed strange to block (screenshot), since it's a pretty tightly focused tech/design blog. On the purely humorous side, Oliver Willis is considered not a "Chat" site like the rest of the blocked blogs, but a "Sex" site (screenshot). I bet the #joiito army is not going to be happy when they hear that Joi Ito's site is blocked (screenshot).

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Women perform worse than men on average
but even worse when playing against men

Women perform worse than men on average
but even worse when playing against men 04/24/2004 06:22 AM
Notes from the paper Performance in Competitive Environments- Gender Differences

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where skin porn and food porn collide

where skin porn and food porn collide 03/23/2005 10:09 AM

It's fun to use google and see what it returns when searching for 'sticky buns' as, well, the imagination is a poor substitute for reality. When food and skin porn collide it gets fairly ugly pretty quickly. Sticky buns are likely the source of inspiration for the Finnish bostonkakku which are served like a pie rather than the individual buns. One of the guys at work quipped that it is served this way because you can feed 20 instead of 8 people.

I figured that since I was making dallaspulla that I'd make the inspiration for texaspulla and bostonkakku so that my test subjects would know just what they had been missing all these years. :) The dough is a snap to make even without a mixer and is much easier to work with than the pulla dough. The only drawback is the time spent waiting for the dough to rise. With a four-day weekend approaching where absolutely nothing will be open and we'll likely have crappy weather given that it's a holiday, what could be better than making a pan of sticky buns and eating them instead of chocolate eggs? These are, by far, the best cinnamon rolls I've ever made and my test subjects consumed them in a shark chum feeding frenzy. Two guys even asked me for the recipe.

Sticky Buns, a.k.a. caramel rolls or cinnamon rolls

Makes: 12 sticky buns
Time: ~30 minutes prep, 3 hours for dough rising
Source: Cook's Illustrated

This recipe has four components: the dough that is shaped into buns, the filling that creates the swirl in the shaped buns, the caramel glaze that bakes in the bottom of the baking dish along with the buns, and the pecan topping that garnishes the buns once baked. Although the ingredient list may look long, note that many ingredients are repeated. Leftover sticky buns can be wrapped in foil or plastic wrap and refrigerated for up to 3 days, but they should be warmed through before serving. They reheat quickly in a microwave oven (for 2 buns, about 2 minutes at 50 percent power works well); they can also be put into a 325F/175C-degree oven for about 8 minutes.

Dough

• 3 large eggs at room temperature
• 3/4 cup buttermilk (2 dl piima) at room temperature
• 1/4 cup (.5 dl) granulated sugar 
• 1 1/4 teaspoons table salt 
• 2 1/4 teaspoons instant yeast  (1 packet sunnuntai dry yeast)
• 4 1/4 cups (10,5 dl) unbleached all-purpose flour, plus additional for dusting work surface
• 6 tablespoons (85g) unsalted butter, melted and cooled until warm

1. In bowl of standing mixer, whisk eggs; add buttermilk and whisk to combine.
2. Whisk in sugar, salt, and yeast.
3. Add about 2 cups (5 dl) flour and butter; stir with wooden spoon or rubber spatula until evenly moistened and combined.
4. Add all but about 1/4 cup (1/2 dl) remaining flour and knead with dough hook at low speed 5 minutes.
5. Check consistency of dough (dough should feel soft and moist but should not be wet and sticky; add more flour, if necessary); knead at low speed 5 minutes longer (dough should clear sides of bowl but stick to bottom).
6. Turn dough out onto lightly floured work surface; knead by hand about 1 minute to ensure that dough is uniform (dough should not stick to work surface during hand kneading; if it does stick, knead in additional flour 1 tablespoon at a time).
7. Lightly spray large bowl or plastic container with nonstick cooking spray. Transfer dough to bowl, spray dough lightly with cooking spray, then cover bowl tightly with plastic wrap.
8. Set in warm, draftfree spot until doubled in volume, 2 to 2 1/2 hours.

Caramel Glaze

• 6 tablespoons or 85g unsalted butter 
• 3/4 cup (1,75 dl) light brown sugar, packed
• 3 tablespoons corn syrup, light or dark
• 2 tablespoons heavy cream 
• 1 pinch table salt 

1. Meanwhile, combine all ingredients for glaze in small saucepan.
2. Cook over medium heat, whisking occasionally, until butter is melted and mixture is thoroughly combined.
3. Pour mixture into nonstick metal 13- by 9-inch (33cm x 23cm) baking dish.
4. Using rubber spatula, spread mixture to cover surface of baking dish.
5. Set baking dish aside.

Cinnamon-Sugar Filling

• 3/4 cup (1,75 dl) light brown sugar, packed
• 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon 
• 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves 
• 1 pinch table salt 
• 1 tablespoon or 15g unsalted butter, melted
• Raisins (optional)

1. Combine brown sugar, cinnamon, cloves, and salt in small bowl.
2. Mix with a fork until thoroughly combined, using fingers to break up sugar lumps.
3. Set aside.

To assemble and bake buns:

1. Turn dough out onto lightly floured work surface.
2. Gently shape dough into rough rectangle with long side nearest you.
3. Lightly flour dough and roll to 16-inch x 12-inch (40cm x 30cm) rectangle.
4. Brush dough with 1 tablespoon melted butter, leaving 1/2-inch border along top edge; with butter remaining on brush, brush sides of baking dish.
5. Sprinkle filling mixture over dough, leaving 3/4-inch border along top edge; smooth filling in even layer with your hand, then gently press mixture into dough to adhere. Add rasins if you desire.
6. Beginning with long edge nearest you, roll dough into taut cylinder.
7. Firmly pinch seam to seal and roll cylinder seam-side down.
8. Very gently stretch to cylinder of even diameter and 18-inch (45 cm) length; push ends in to create even thickness.
9. Using a serrated knife and gentle sawing motion, slice cylinder in half, then slice each half in half again to create evenly sized quarters.
10. Slice each quarter evenly into thirds, yielding 12 ~1.5 inch (3,75 cm) buns (end pieces may be slightly smaller).
11. Arrange buns cut-side down in prepared baking dish.
12. Cover tightly with plastic wrap and set in warm, draft-free spot until puffy and pressed against one another, about 1 hour.
13. Meanwhile, adjust oven rack to lowest position, place pizza stone (if using) on rack, and heat oven to 350F/175C degrees.
14. Place baking pan on pizza stone; bake until golden brown and center of dough registers about 180F/82C degrees on instant-read thermometer, 25 to 30 minutes.
15. Cool on wire rack 10 minutes; invert onto rimmed baking sheet, large rectangular platter, or cutting board.
16. With rubber spatula, scrape any glaze remaining in baking pan onto buns; let cool while making pecan topping.

Pecan Topping

• 3 tablespoons or 50g unsalted butter 
• 1/4 cup (.5 dl) light brown sugar, packed
• 3 tablespoons corn syrup, light or dark
• 1 pinch table salt 
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract  or vanilla sugar
• 3/4 cup (1,75 dl) pecans or walnuts, toasted in a skillet over medium heat until fragrant and browned, about 5 minutes, then cooled and coarsely chopped

1. Combine butter, brown sugar, corn syrup, and salt in small saucepan and bring to simmer over medium heat, whisking occasionally to thoroughly combine.
2. Off heat, stir in vanilla and pecans until pecans are evenly coated.
3. Using soup spoon, pour heaping tablespoon of nuts and topping over center of each sticky bun.
4. Continue to cool until sticky buns are warm, 15 to 20 minutes.
5. Pull apart or use knife to cut apart sticky buns; serve.

US rules all porn is child porn

US rules all porn is child porn 06/24/2005 04:04 PM
Prove otherwise

It's only going to get worse

It's only going to get worse 04/09/2004 04:08 PM

This analysis of the spread of the witty worm is fascinating for a whole bunch of different reasons.

Firstly, the analysis was made possible by USCD's Network Telescope, a network monitoring system on a massive scale which takes advantage of the fact that IP arranges were handed out like candy back when the 'net was in its infancy. USCD controls a huge chunk of all potential IPv4 addresses, and their network telescope tracks data sent to 1/256th of all IPv4 traffic. Since most worms target random IP addresses this makes the telescope a unique tool in analysing the spread of hostile code in the wild.

Next, Witty Worm was no ordinary worm. It targeted an exploit in ISS firewall products, which include the popular BlackICE product targeted at home users; this means the worm was actively attacking people who had made an effort to secure their machines! It also carried a destructive payload - a rarity for worms in the wild. Additionally, the exploit it used had only been publically announced the day before. It's possible the authors new of the vulnerability in advance, but it's far more likely they had already written the payload and were just waiting for a new vulnerability to use as the carrier.

From reading the report, it seems that the worm managed to infect virtually every one of its potential targets that were connected to the internet. This critical point is what makes the worm so interesting, because it destroys the idea that non-Windows users are made more secure by their relatively lesser numbers. If a worm came out with a similar methodology to Witty Worm but that targeted Linux, OS X or even something with a truly tiny statistical footprint like BeOS it could still achieve almost total infection of its chosen target audience.

The worm also appears to have used a number of techniques that had previously been hypothesized by the security communit, such as spreading from a number of pre-infected hosts.

If a worm can spread this fast, with this little notice, and infect almost all of the vulnerable population, we're in a pretty precarious state.

Related reading: The Peon's Guide to Secure System Development, Slashdot's thread on the Witty Worm analysis (some of the +5 comments are pretty good).

It was worse than you think. Also
better.

It was worse than you think. Also
better. 07/06/2004 06:43 AM
The cd of images from my running of the Marathon des Sables arrived this morning, just as the temperature here hit the low 90s. I'm starting to have flashbacks. I've been training for the my manhauling attempt on the North...

From Bad To Worse?

From Bad To Worse? 12/30/2003 01:22 AM

We've seen worse than Sasser - MS

We've seen worse than Sasser - MS 05/04/2004 03:06 PM
Clean up gets underway

It gets worse for the N-Gage

It gets worse for the N-Gage 11/11/2003 03:18 PM
We wouldn't keep kicking the N-Gage when it's down like this, but the bad news keeps on coming. The latest calamity: the encryption that prevents N-Gage games from being played on other cellphones has been cracked, so now there's no reason to buy Nokia's gamephone if you just want to play one of its games. Normally this wouldn't be such a big deal since Nokia would at least see some money from people buying the games, but copies of N-Gage games are already being swapped online. So Nokia is doubly screwed. Read [Thanks everyone who wrote in with this]...

Two businesses that can only get worse

Two businesses that can only get worse 06/15/2004 08:32 AM
1. Perhaps your newspaper's funny pages includes Whatzit, the syndicated daily puzzle that takes some everyday phrase and presents it as a clever arrangement of words. For example, "nv emerald" is "green with envy" and "TTT" is "big tease." Imagine it runs for the next 40 years. That's 14,600 common phrases from now. Whatzit will be down to obscure taglines from the 1950s and hepcat cliches that were last uttered in 1928. 2. When a store makes a commitment to everything costing a dollar, it is guaranteeing that it will lose value precisely at the rate of inflation....

it's even worse than we thought

it's even worse than we thought 09/15/2004 03:40 PM
Dan's Other Imploding Scoop, .. New York Post .. Eric Fettmann .. UH-OH:

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403(b)etter or Worse?

403(b)etter or Worse? 03/31/2005 05:35 PM
Teachers and others stand to gain and lose with new retirement plan rules.

Security: From bad to worse?

Security: From bad to worse? 01/05/2004 12:19 PM

New state, same as old but worse.

New state, same as old but worse. 12/02/2003 02:39 PM
The Miami Model... ["What is the Miami Model? It is several things: extremely violent police response to nonviolent demonstrators, embedded reporters behind police lines - and arresting and harassing "non-embedded" journalists...(and) mass arrests and an arsenal of "non-lethal" weapons.]...represents the next step in the criminalization and repression of dissent that is occurring in the United States right now." It is part of the newly emerging "Technologies of political control" (1.1m PDF) which are rapidly consuming American democracy from within. This is more than crowd control. This is the new Information Warfare. Oh - and thinking of protesting? - The FBI would like your name, please. (more inside)

The scene was a "massive police state," - John Sweeney, President of the United Steelworkers of America. At the Miami protest against provisions in the "Free Trade of the Americas Act", the massive police presence was paid for by $8.5 million from the 87 billion dollar "War on Terror" bill passed by Congress. 30 to 90 busloads of retirees were blocked from the protest by police, and Amnesty International has called for an investigation into allegations of widespread police brutality - over 100 protestors were injured. (some photos and some more, courtesy of Leif Utne) Bonus - Watch Miami police use a tazer on a peaceful protestor. (Quicktime/Video 14M)

Is spim worse than spam?

Is spim worse than spam? 04/09/2004 04:13 PM
No.. but shonky IM throws up new set of issues

New Forecast Says Inflation May Get
Worse (AP)

New Forecast Says Inflation May Get
Worse (AP) 05/24/2004 07:52 AM
AP - Fed by escalating energy prices and a rebounding economy, inflation will pick up more this year than previously thought, a group of economic forecasters says.

"Pupils 'do worse with computers'"

"Pupils 'do worse with computers'" 03/26/2005 05:07 AM

Spam epidemic gets worse

Spam epidemic gets worse 12/04/2003 04:53 AM
But you knew that already

MIT Presidency worse than feared

MIT Presidency worse than feared 08/27/2004 01:40 PM

Catching up on the mail I read through the latest Technology Review, MIT's alumni magazine.  Things are far worse than feared.  One letter calculates the cost of the $283 million new computer science building as $17 million in 1916 dollars.  The main buildings, which are enormous by comparison, were completed in 1916 at a cost of $7 million.

Much more depressing than the backwards slide of the American construction industry in terms of efficiency is an article about Chuck Vest's 14 years running MIT.  The article touches briefly on Vest's achievements in increasing research funds between 1990 and 2003, which sound very impressive due to the lack of inflation-adjustment (the actual increase in 2003 dollars was from $430 million to $472 million).  Nothing having to do with innovation in research or education is mentioned.  If the article is accurate, Vest's major focuses turned out to have been

1. fighting with the Federal Government over MIT's price-fixing arrangement with the Ivy League colleagues.  This agreement was predicted to be illegal by Stanford, which refused to join the cartel, and deemed illegal by a Federal District Court Judge but we ultimately beat the rap in the Court of Appeals (see my tuition-free MIT article for more)
2. studying the extent to which female faculty members had less lab space than male faculty members and whether this was due to discrimination
3. pursuing sex- and race-based discrimination in student admissions and faculty recruitment and promoting such discrimination nationwide in briefs to the U.S. Supreme Court in affirmative action cases

I guess Phil Sharp, the Nobel Prize-winning biologist who turned the job down is feeling pretty good about his decision to stay in the lab.

The only encouraging news in the magazine concerned Erika Ebbel, MIT Class of 2004 in Chemistry, who as Miss Massachusetts will compete in the Miss America pageant on September 18.

2004: How could it be worse than last
year?

2004: How could it be worse than last
year? 01/02/2004 09:30 AM
San Jose Mercury News Jan 2 2004 8:29AM ET

Can Janus' News Get Worse?

Can Janus' News Get Worse? 07/23/2004 02:34 PM
The company's latest report was unfavorable. Are more dreary days ahead, or is Janus readying for a revival?

Is it just me, or has Firefox gotten
worse with the last two releases (since
0.7)?

Is it just me, or has Firefox gotten
worse with the last two releases (since
0.7)? 06/11/2004 06:51 AM
I just finished reading Neil Turner's the review of the latest version of Firefox, and my first thought is, "I'm not installing that." Of course, I probably will end up doing so at some point, but it is so disappointing to see a project that started with such promise getting worse and worse with every release (although to be fair, it is also getting faster). Still, I'm still running Firebird .7 on one of my computers, and on the whole I prefer it to 0.8. If this review and the release notes are accurate, it looks like the situation just worsens with 0.9. The new download dialog foisted on users in 0.8 has been kept, the theme has been changed to one that looks quite ugly and is acknowledged as being worse than the current one, and the disregard for the most popular extensions and current users that was demonstrated when 0.8 was released is strikingly repeated. From the release notes, "when you run 0.9 for the first time all of your extensions will be automatically disabled." There were a lot of comments a year ago about all the problems with design by committee -- now we are starting to see some of the problems with design by dictatorship, and disregard of users. As someone said on the mozzilazine forum, "The capacity of this project to repeatedly shoot itself in the foot never ceases to amaze me." As an open source enthusiast, this is really disappointing. I hope that I am wrong, and that when the dust settles there is still a superior product to Internet Explorer in there somewhere, but the current direction isn't promising. At the moment I am considering returning to Mozilla as my default browser, or testing the Opera waters again....

Is it just me, or has Firefox gotten
worse with the last two releasese (since
0.7)?

Is it just me, or has Firefox gotten
worse with the last two releasese (since
0.7)? 06/11/2004 03:24 AM
I just finished reading Neil Turner's the review of the latest version of Firefox, and my first thought is, "I'm not installing that." Of course, I probably will end up doing so at some point, but it is so disappointing to see a project that started with such promise getting worse and worse with every release (although to be fair, it is also getting faster). Still, I'm still running Firebird .7 on one of my computers, and on the whole I prefer it to 0.8. If this review and the release notes are accurate, it looks like the situation just worsens with 0.9. The new download dialog foisted on users in 0.8 has been kept, the theme has been changed to one that looks quite ugly and is acknowledged as being worse than the current one, and the disregard for the most popular extensions and current users that was demonstrated when 0.8 was released is strikingly repeated. From the release notes, "when you run 0.9 for the first time all of your extensions will be automatically disabled." There were a lot of comments a year ago about all the problems with design by committee -- now we are starting to see some of the problems with design by dictatorship, and disregard of users. As someone said on the mozzilazine forum, "The capacity of this project to repeatedly shoot itself in the foot never ceases to amaze me." As a believer in open source, this is really disappointing. I hope that I am wrong, and that when the dust settles there is still a superior product to Internet Explorer in there somewhere, but the current direction isn't promising. At the moment I am considering returning to Mozilla as my default browser, or testing the Opera waters again....

YUKOS: From Dismal to Worse

YUKOS: From Dismal to Worse 07/28/2004 04:30 PM
The Russian government claims it doesn't want to take down YUKOS, but that's what it's doing.

Wildfire Forecast Goes From Bad to Worse
(AP)

Wildfire Forecast Goes From Bad to Worse
(AP) 05/23/2004 03:08 PM
AP - Months ago, national fire managers predicted the 2004 wildfire season would be a bad one in the West. Now, they're changing their forecast: It's going to be worse.

It's Not Rocket Science -- It's Worse

It's Not Rocket Science -- It's Worse 12/22/2004 01:13 AM

The iPod is brilliant. I don't understand why they're not more popular. By Deborah Ross, The Independent

BSA Wants To Make The DMCA Worse

BSA Wants To Make The DMCA Worse 01/06/2005 07:34 PM
While the BSA has mostly sat back and let the RIAA and MPAA take the brunt of the bad publicity for suing customers, you can be pretty sure that they're also freaking out over file sharing and avoiding any and all evidence about how it could help their member companies. Just as the RIAA lost yet another case saying they have to actually file lawsuits before sending subpoenas to ISPs for user info, the BSA is asking Congress to modify the DMCA to force ISPs to cooperate and give up user info without a lawsuit being filed. This is very problematic for plenty of reasons -- not the least of which is that it would turn ISPs into an enforcement arm that will be forced to monitor how people use their network. ISPs just provide the service. If companies have a problem with what an individual is doing, they should file a lawsuit and then request the info from the ISP. Without a lawsuit, it's all just a fishing expedition. At the same time, however, the BSA is at least interested in exploring some amount of patent reform -- including plans to make it easier to challenge granted patents. That might be a slight improvement -- but it could also lead to many frivolous challenges. It seems a much more reasonable idea is to open up the patent process so that people have an easy process to make prior art claims before a patent is granted.

"could the Boston Herald be any worse?"

"could the Boston Herald be any worse?" 08/22/2004 03:41 PM

LexisNexis Breach May Be Worse Than
Thought (AP)

LexisNexis Breach May Be Worse Than
Thought (AP) 04/12/2005 11:50 AM
AP - Up to 10 times as many people as originally thought may have had their profiles stolen from a LexisNexis database in the United States, publisher and data broker Reed Elsevier Group PLC said Tuesday.

LexisNexis Breach Worse Than Thought

LexisNexis Breach Worse Than Thought 04/12/2005 10:20 AM
LexisNexis said on Tuesday that a security breach which resulted in personal information of thousands its customers potentially being compromised could be ten times worse than originally thought. An investigation has discovered that 310,000 U.S. citizens may have had their addresses and Social Security numbers accessed.

Lottery Millionaire's Troubles Get Worse
(AP)

Lottery Millionaire's Troubles Get Worse
(AP) 02/18/2004 04:07 PM
AP - Michael Carroll picked up his $18 million lottery check wearing a court-issued electronic tracing tag.

Patching: The cure that's worse than the
disease?

Patching: The cure that's worse than the
disease? 03/08/2004 11:22 PM
I'll go along with the thought that most of today's nefarious hackers (and they have brought into ill repute what was once a term of respect) are lazy. But I think they're too lazy even to do a spot of reverse-engineering. All they need to do is to read the Microsoft Knowledgebase article detailing the extent and cause of the vulnerability to help them create an exploit by adapting someone else's real hacking work.

LexisNexis Breach Worse Than Believed

LexisNexis Breach Worse Than Believed 04/12/2005 01:30 PM

""Top 10" list of which celebrities look
better -- and worse -- in high-def"

""Top 10" list of which celebrities look
better -- and worse -- in high-def" 03/27/2005 10:28 AM

Beagle worm variant getting worse

Beagle worm variant getting worse 07/17/2004 01:39 AM
Sunday Times South Africa Jul 17 2004 5:16AM GMT

TCS: Tech Central Station - How Much
Worse Off Are We?

TCS: Tech Central Station - How Much
Worse Off Are We? 07/16/2004 03:17 AM

Kids' Obesity May Be Worse Than Thought
(AP)

Kids' Obesity May Be Worse Than Thought
(AP) 06/03/2004 03:43 PM
AP - Forty percent of public schoolchildren in Arkansas are overweight, and nearly one in four is obese, a sign that obesity among children nationwide is probably far worse than health officials had thought.

Data Breach Much Worse Than Feared

Data Breach Much Worse Than Feared 04/19/2005 09:25 AM
CBS News Apr 19 2005 2:10PM GMT

Intel's Numbers Worse Than Feared

Intel's Numbers Worse Than Feared 09/03/2004 12:10 PM
osOpinion Sep 3 2004 3:58PM GMT
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