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Tom's Hardware: Hardware News, Tests and Reviews. Cyber Clean Center / What is BOT? A Continuous Lean. - Part 2. Please pardon the interruption to your Japanese magazine reading as we pause for small note of housekeeping. We’ve been making some small changes around here in anticipation of some larger changes. First of all, we have updated the email newsletter functionality for the site and our new system is a huge improvement.
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Again, new ACL RSS newsletter signup is here. Finally, we might redesign the site this year. That’s it. *This is not true. All Black Ballistic Bags from Goruck. I’ve been know to own a bag or two. A guy needs to keep his gear properly stowed, especially living in New York City where you constantly need to tote your “tackle” around town. Enter Goruck, the new maker of bad ass black ballistic nylon bags that pack all the toughness (and quality) of mil-spec gear, but designed with civilians in mind. Jack Barley and Jason McCarthy (a fellow Ohioian — hat tip) founded Goruck to improve upon existing military issue packs. McCarthy in particular has first hand experience with such equipment through his service in the special forces. Every Goruck bag is Berry compliant (which means it is sourced and manufactured in the USA) and MOLLE (a military acronym for MOdular Lightweight Load-carrying Equipment) compatible.
Every pack is also equipped to hold a hydration bladder system, which would come in handy on a hike. Comments: 44. CBC.ca - Canadian News Sports Entertainment Kids Docs Radio TV. Hard Graft Shoulder MacBook Sleeve. Apple MacBook Air Notebooks. Apple today unveiled an all new MacBook Air, the first of a next generation of notebooks which will replace mechanical hard disks and optical drives with Internet services and solid state flash storage. Available in 11-inch and 13-inch models and weighing as little as 2.3 pounds, the new MacBook Air is Apple’s lightest and most portable notebook ever. MacBook Air uses the same solid state storage technology as the iPad to deliver instant-on responsiveness, up to seven hours of battery life and up to 30 days of standby time. Starting at $999, the affordable MacBook Air defines the next generation of MacBooks. Further information is offered below, with a closer look here.
With its precision aluminum unibody enclosure, the new MacBook Air measures an incredibly thin 0.11-inches at its thinnest point and 0.68-inches at its thickest, and weighs just 2.3 pounds for the 11-inch model and 2.9 pounds for the 13-inch. ACQUIRE - The Latest in Men's Lifestyle, Fashion, Technology, and Culture. Dior Chiffre Rouge Fabric Strap Editions. Barton Perreira Fall/Winter '10. Barton Perreira shows us again why they're one of our favorite sunglass brands on the market. For Fall they have updated the line with aviators in new shapes, future classics, and some new bolder acetate frame styles. Link. Uncrate | The Buyer's Guide For Men. Iida X-Ray Phone. Engadget. Slashdot - News for nerds, stuff that matters.
Ars Technica. Japan has national botnet warriors; why don't we? October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month here in the United States, which is a good thing, because we come down with more PC botnet infections than any other country in the world. Microsoft reports 2.2 million US PCs hijacked for cybercrime or distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks on websites in the first half of this year.
And in late September, police in the greater New York area busted over 60 members of a botnet ring whose plan was to deploy the Zeus Trojan to clean out banks. Botnets "are the launch pad for much of today's criminal activity on the Internet," Microsoft security expert Adrienne Hall warned last week. "In many ways, they are the perfect base of operations for computer criminals. " So what's the government doing about botnets? The Federal Communications Commission is running a proceeding to identify the five most critical cybersecurity threats to the communications infrastructure and come up with solutions. Rousing your attention 17 million bots. Wired News. How Allies Used Math Against German Tanks | Autopia. Update Oct. 26, 2010: this post, as published by Wired.com on Oct. 20, did not properly attribute material sourced from Wikipedia.
We have updated the post to include that attribution. During World War II, Allied forces readily admitted German tanks were superior to their own. The big question for Allied forces, then, was how many tanks Germany was producing. Knowing that would help them counter the threat. Here’s how they reverse-engineered serial numbers to find out. To solve the problem of determining production numbers, Allied forces initially tried conventional intelligence gathering: spying, intercepting and decoding transmissions and interrogating captured enemies.
Using these methods, the Allies deduced that the German military industrial complex churned out around 1,400 tanks each month from June 1940 through September 1942. An overturned German tank alongside a rebuilt bridge in Houffalizo, Belgium, circa June 1945. Turns out the serial-number methodology was spot on. See Also: The Gadgets That Helped Us Survive the Outback | Gadget Lab. Editor’s note: Wired.com contributor Jeremy Hart made a 60-day, 15,000-mile drive around the world with a few mates in a pair of Ford Fiestas. This is the last of his occasional reports from the road on the gadgets he drive-tested. Feng shui master Kenny Hoo recommended we leave his home town of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia at 8:28 a.m. Eight is a lucky number in Chinese culture. Why not 8:08 a.m.?
Maybe I should have, because no sooner had we crossed into Singapore for the last part of the Asian leg of the Fiesta World Tour that I realized we had left our Spot Tracker in Malaysia. As I write this, the smell of the Pacific Ocean fills the Australian air. Most Canadians live within a few hundred miles of the U.S. border. The Outback is not a place to go unprepared. I had to put away the Huawei E5 mobile Wi-Fi hotspot as, with virtually no mobile signal, it was as much use as a chocolate teapot. Remoteness brings other problems: Like the most basic human needs. The Fiesta sound system is good.