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The malware may or may not have been released by the government; It's doubtful we'll ever know the truth...
Well, if the keylogger sends its log to a server somewhere, perhaps there may be some useful evidence as to the authors' identity. I'm willing to wager that Citizen Lab and others are working on it now...
Given the authoritarian control and censorship modern governments seem to be intent on imposing on the internet, this news should not surprise anyone.
What does surprise me, only slightly, is how obvious the execution of this trojan version. I'm not trying to diminish Morgan Marquis-Boire's contribution to the international community; we owe people like him our gratitude and admiration. I just would have expected slightly better kung fu from a government censor... maybe I'm giving them too much credit.
Kudos to the teams at Citizen Lab and Simurgh for reacting quickly, and hopefully minimizing the casualties caused by this trojan.
I often listen to white (or brown) noise on my headphones in the office.
Just as long as you avoid the brown note, you shouldn't suffer any ill effects.
You hear a lot of hyperbole lately from across the political spectrum bemoaning dire consequences from the use of UAVs. But having worked for a UAV manufacturer in the past, I know with certainty that they are preparing many flavors of unmanned systems for civil and commercial uses. Land management, asset management, traffic reporting, forestry, mining, oceanography, geology, communications, medevac, and cargo applications are just a few of the things that they could do... and will one day.
However, the only people now with enough money to purchase them are military customers. Thats why almost all of the UAVs out there are military ones.
if you are going to get a Macbook Pro, definitely don't buy one NOW. Apple is almost definitely going to release an update in a month, with rumors saying it will be 30% thinner, lighter, and probably with a "retina" (ie. stupid marketing speak for MUCH higher resolution) screen.
Rumors also have it that Apple will be eliminating the optical drive in favor of more battery, even in the 17" model, essentially forcing you to spend $3k on a souped-up netbook. I hope that that's either not true or that they'll offer a choice of battery or optical drive in that bay at no cost difference, because I'm planning on replacing my late 2006 MBP sometime in the next year.
get a mac
It sounds trite, but there is a kernel of wisdom there. Buy a Macbook Pro if you can afford it.
If you have the budget, you'll get what you pay for. It has the only extended warranty for any electronic gadget that Consumer Reports recommends. It will run any OS you like. It will last for 5 to 10 years depending on your needs (games vs web/email, respectively). You can spend a similar amount and get a comparable or slightly better hardware package from Dell/Alienware, but it won't come with the warranty, OS options, elegance or robustness that Macbook Pros are famous for.
This suggestion will start a flame war. You're going to hear from fanatics from both sides. However, I manage a mix of computers for both a small business and a household with several power users, and I have learned firsthand the strengths and weakness of both camps.
Windows' strengths are in gaming and technical/engineering applications. If you want access to the most games, or need to run CAD/FEA applications, then you should buy a Windows desktop machine. Not a laptop, but one that you can upgrade piecemeal as your needs evolve. Build your own, or arrange to have one built for you, and you can get a spectacular set of hardware specs for a very low price.
However, if you want a casual use or business laptop, then Apple's MBPs are the best available, even if you intend to run Windows exclusively. The extra money you spend will eventually pay off in 1) time saved in building it, and 2) the time saved in maintaining it. The 2.2 GHz 15-inch models offer the best price/performance ratio if your budget is constrained. Otherwise, I recommend buying the 17-inch 2.5GHz quad-core i7 - it will last the longest before you need to purchase a replacement.
You can drag and drop an image from your desktop onto the Google image search. I was amazed at how fast and accurate it is. It looks like it doesn't even need to be an exact match.
I searched for a photo of a piece of graffiti from a wall outside of San Francisco and Google found a few other people that had taken a photo of the same wall.
It doesn't even have to be particularly close. There's a picture of me riding my bike up a cliff, that has been on my webpage since like 1996. The other day, a friend at work uploaded an avatar image for our bike racing team that was my old picture, which I thought was amazing. I asked him how he'd found it and he had no idea it was me: he'd found it on some Cuban website of amazing bike pictures. It's cropped, resized, and left-to-right reversed, but Google Images recognizes them as the same picture. They're doing some pretty sophisticated image processing stuff. Some friends have been playing with this on G+, seeing how long porn pictures last before getting caught/filtered/blocked, and seeing how long it takes for processed pictures to get caught/blocked. It's sometimes possible to get a picture that's cropped back to just the face of the person blocked if it's a large part of the original picture.
described as intense, smoky, and a 'hot scary mess.'
That description also matches a girl from the Fine Arts department that I dated when I was in college.
Physically, she could be described as cuddly, but in practice, that was only true when she was passed out from self-inflicted pharmaceutical abuse.
To hell with ceiling cat.
Uncle Sam is watching YOU masturbate on the internet.
Fixxord.
We embed these in our Atom-driven products to run GUIs and they work like a champ.
Mimo 7" USB touchscreen = $180
Mimo 10" USB touchscreen = $260
We use NT embedded but these also have OSX drivers, and if you want to use these with Unix you're not alone.
... I don't like FRANK SINATRA or his CHILDREN.