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CyberSecurity experts say they have identified the world's first known cyber super weapon designed specifically to destroy a real-world target – a factory, a refinery, or just maybe a nuclear power plant... The appearance of Stuxnet created a ripple of amazement among computer security experts. Too large, too encrypted, too complex to be immediately understood, it employed amazing new tricks, like taking control of a computer system without the user taking any action or clicking any button other than inserting an infected Memory Stick. Experts say it took a massive expenditure of time, money, and software engineering talent to identify and exploit such vulnerabilities in industrial control software systems... "StuxNet is a 100-percent-directed cyber attack aimed at destroying an industrial process in the physical world," says Langner, who last week became the first to publicly detail Stuxnet's destructive purpose and its authors' malicious intent. "This is not about espionage, as some have said. This is a 100 percent sabotage attack."... Langner zeroes in on Stuxnet's ability to "fingerprint" the computer system it infiltrates to determine whether it is the precise machine the attack-ware is looking to destroy. If not, it leaves the industrial computer alone... So far, Stuxnet has infected at least 45,000 industrial control systems around the world, without blowing them up – although some victims in North America have experienced some serious computer problems. (more)

David Sanger says StuxNet was created by us (and Israel). Having falsely accused Saddam Hussein of reconstituting his nuclear program in Iraq, George W Bush had little credibility in publicly discussing another nation’s nuclear ambitions... In the summer of 2010, shortly after a new variant of the worm had been sent into Natanz, it became clear that the worm, which was never supposed to leave the Natanz machines, had broken free, like a zoo animal that found the keys to the cage... It is unclear who introduced the programming error. (Lessons for BioWar. Can you say "BlowBack"?) (more)

Company created by EvHead. (more)

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Kevin Kelly blog/book of Cool Tool-s (more)

An oral history of the Whole Earth Catalog. (more)

Marshall David Brain (born May 17, 1961[1]) is an American author, public speaker, and entrepreneur. A college instructor and computer programmer, Brain is the founder of HowStuffWorks. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Brain (more)

*In statistics, meta-analysis comprises statistical methods for contrasting and combining results from different studies in the hope of identifying patterns among study results, sources of disagreement among those results, or other interesting relationships that may come to light in the context of multiple studies.[1] Meta-analysis can be thought of as "conducting research about previous research." In its simplest form, meta-analysis is done by identifying a common statistical measure that is shared between studies, such as effect size or p-value, and calculating a weighted average of that common measure. This weighting is usually related to the sample sizes of the individual studies, although it can also include other factors, such as study quality. (more)

Stephen Wolfram gave a SXSW talk on putting Computation Everywhere. But here’s the funny thing: once everything is made of computers, even though it’ll be really cool to find the fundamental theory of physics—and I still want to do it—it’s not going to matter so much. Because in effect that actually physics is just the machine code for the universe. But everything we deal with is on top of a layer that we can program however we want Well, OK, what does that mean for us humans? No doubt we’ll get to deploy in that sort of much-more-than-biology-programmable world. Where in effect you can just build any universe for yourself. I sort of imagine this moment where there’s a box of a trillion souls. Running in whatever pieces of the computational universe they want... Humans define the goals, then technology automatically tries to achieve them. And the more we can inject computation into everything, the more this becomes possible. And, you know, I happen to think that the injection of computation into everything will be a defining feature—perhaps the defining feature—of this time in history.

I just discovered that Number One Son is working with the MicroWorlds-Pro Logo at UNIS Middle School. Not wanting to pay for that to use at home, I have to get him to bring some "app" files home and see if they're compatible with any of the Open Source offerings. (more)

MicroWorlds is a program that uses the Logo programming language, a dialect of Lisp programming language. It uses a turtle object which can be moved around, given commands, and eventually make shapes or even an animation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MicroWorlds

The Wolfram Engine is the software system that powers Wolfram products and services, and implements the Wolfram Language (Mathematica) and its interfaces and connections, across an unprecedentedly broad range of computational environments. (more)

The Wolfram Programming Cloud is based on the Wolfram Language technology stack and features complex interactions in the cloud between the Wolfram Language kernel, the Wolfram Knowledgebase, the Wolfram Natural Language Understanding System, the Wolfram Cloud and various subsystems... With the Wolfram Programming Cloud, you can use Wolfram’s language to do computations, create interactive graphics, fill out forms, and other functions. Via its universal deployment system, anything you create can be quickly deployed through API, Web, mobile, embedded code and more. cf Stephen Wolfram

"Grammatron is grappling with the idea of spirituality in the electronic age." (The New York Times)... "The end of PostModernism and the beginning of Avant-Pop." (Die Zeit) (more)

Author of Ishmael series of novels; Beyond Civilization. (more)

Karma (Sanskrit: कर्म; IPA: [ˈkarmə] ( listen); Pali: kamma) means action, work or deed;[1] it also refers to the principle of causality where intent and actions of an individual influence the future of that individual.[2] Good intent and good deed contribute to good karma and future happiness, while bad intent and bad deed contribute to bad karma and future suffering.[3][4] Karma is closely associated with the idea of rebirth in some schools of Asian religions.[5] In these schools, karma in the present affects one's future in the current life, as well as the nature and quality of future lives - or, one's saṃsāra.[6] With origins in ancient India, it is a key concept in Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism,[7] Taoism,[8] Shintoism and others. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karma

*Kabbalah (Hebrew: קַבָּלָה‎, literally "receiving/tradition"[1] (also transliterated Cabala, Qabb ��lâ etc.; different transliterations now tend to denote alternative traditions[2])) is an esoteric method, discipline, and school of thought that originated in Judaism. A traditional Kabbalist in Judaism is called a Mekubal (Hebrew: מְקוּבָּל‎). (more)

Mid-length-post WebLog. Like a TumbleLog, but more focused on simple text, to encourage spontaneity. (more)

Comic: "FatAlbert", etc. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Cosby (more)