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With concern rising over attacks in cyberspace, the House passes a bill to invigorate research and development in computer security.
House Passes Cybersecurity Bill – The Caucus Blog – NYTimes.com
First car-sharing program in the state will offer Hoosiers convenient, cost-effective alternative to owning a car or bringing one to campus
If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.
– Albert Einstein
Hair illustration by David PenelaOur pal CoCo is in an interesting spot, isn’t he?
His show is through, and whatever he chooses to do next is going to have a massive amount of momentum behind it. His fans are rallied.
But his fans are also a bit of an enigma. For the most part, they’re between 20 and 40, and I’d venture to say post-big-media. The paradox is that Conan has a television show (well, used to), but I bet that Conan fans, for the most part, don’t watch television. (At least, not on television.)
Could Conan be the first major media figure to jump ship on television and embrace the internet as a distribution platform? Could Conan go indie?
Sure, this is incredibly unlikely. But, the guy’s got a large amount of capital through his payout, a desire to do things his way, and a captive audience willing to embrace a new way to connect with a comedian they admire. Who better to scorn big media than its latest victim?
Sure, it won’t happen. But, it seems like an important milestone to say that this is the first moment that something like this could happen.
I listened to a moderately interesting Security Now episode from a couple weeks ago. Â The topic was explaining security best practices to non-techno people. Â Specifically, can you tell if a URL is safe to click on. Â Turns out parsing URLs is a suprisingly hard problem that nerds completely take for granted.
Try explaining the following rules about clicking links to your grandma:
- www.paypal.com (that one is good)
- www.paypal.ru (bad, see the TLD is .ru and not .com?)
- www.paypal.co.uk (good, oh yeah, .co.uk is sometimes good)
- www.paypal.com.evil.com (see the evil.com is at the end? you need to read URLs from right to left)
- www.evil.com/paypal.com (well, except in this case)
- www.paypa1.com (bad, but very hard to see)
- <a href=”evil.com”>www.paypal.com</a> (bad, can’t you see the url in the chrome when you mouseover?)
It’s so intuitive for techies to see the good and bad URLs but there’s just no simple set of rules for explaining it.  I guess you could forward them the RFC…
Not exactly, Safari auto-complete, but it made me laugh.
Max Beatty 