Some videos from the show I’ve dumped here.

Ah, brings back memories working on gigs like that.  Still amuses me being in an audience full of teen-age Americans singing their little hearts out to American Idiot and not quite getting that it’s a warning for which many of them are becoming:)

Nothing I’ve seen thus far so simply shows this phenomenon, and the clear contention between programmers of the solution, than this post from CodingHorror (one of my favorite programming-related blogs)

The problem of the unfinished game

In summary, you meet someone and they say that they have two children, and one of them is a girl.  What is the probability that the person has a boy and a girl?

900-odd comments later, and there’s some, agreement of what the answer is

Update: Here’s the solution, and even more contention

First off, there’s a cry for help…

some hacker has hacked my website. (displaying hacked by turkish hacker), now wht shld i do to retrieve my original website. so please guide me how to get rid of tht

Followed by lots of interesting (and funny) replies.  There’s the usual "remove machine from the network, find how they got in, patch, restore from backup", but that’s not what was making me chuckle.

My favorites are from Billy Hoffman…

Let me help you out with that:

1- SSH into the webserver.
2- sudo rm -rf /
3- type in the root password

I mean, I’m some random person on the Internet you have no way of knowing so obviously it must be good advice.

and from Dain White, which, amongst other recommendations, says to…

2) run around the office screaming and throwing stuff around.
5) scream at the next person that tells you the site is offline, and go get more coffee / tea
7) While that scan is running, now is a good time to update your resume, or review some of the recent applications you’ve received for the (soon to be open position of) system administrator, if you are not the system administrator.
9) if you are lucky enough to find who did it, scream their name at the sky for 10-15 seconds as long and drawn out as you can get, while imagining all sorts of nasty outcomes for their immediate future.
10) look through the server logs to try and nail down exactly which one of the many attempts were successful in getting control over your server. Note the application or service that was unsecured, and who was the brainiac that was to blame. If it was you, run around and scream some more while coming up with a new positioning statement for the top of your resume that starts with ‘While I was employed recently as a Server Administrator, I…’

Looks like a lot of screaming there from Dain

In any case, not two days later the same guys is back with another question

I wanna to learn in depth about application security frm scratch, can u help me by giving some good source where i will get a chance to learn about application security.

I guess he wants to know how they managed to get into his system and how to do it himself

http://www.acdcrocks.com/excel/

I could say all sorts of things here about security, software, how it works (the authors are nice enough not to protect the macros so by all means take a look), Easter eggs, etc, but I’m not going to – this is just worth enjoying as it is.

http://nvd.nist.gov/statistics.cfm?results=1

Proof that there’s now too many vulnerabilities   Just in case that it’s fixed sometime soon, here’s a screenshot

http://www.southparkstudios.com/episodes/166179/

What can I say other than genius!

Now, I’m not one to sign up to the conspiracy theories – the area that the cuts are in is a well known geologically active area and a busy shipping lane, but the WSJ (which I found via TechCruch), have another theory – sharks with laser beams on their heads.  Now that’s what I’m talking about!  Forget the CIA, USS Jimmy Carter (read the [as usual excellent] comments on Schneier for some great analysis on tapping undersea cables), or any other possible theories, I place Dr Evil firmly behind this one.