If it were anyone other than Frank Miller, Hollywood would bounce him out of their ranks for daring to criticize Islam.  But this guy is Hollywood’s latest Golden Goose, so for now, his attitude, though politically incorrect (but accurate), will be tolerated.
 
In a recent interview with the LA Times, here:
MUCH has been made of Miller’s [...]

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The game of harvesting bank accounts and online identities continues to develop, and new methods are now appearing on the horizon.  Typically, phishers and malware distributors have relied heavily on spamming email lists with links to their phishing sites or websites that install malware via drive-by-download.  But there is a problem with this method-  First, [...]

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I have a slight problem with carpenter bees. Carpenter bees are the big bumbly bees that appear this time of year to hover menacingly around your garden. They don’t sting, and they also burrow into unpainted wood, and if this wood is on your house, it becomes quite a hassle to get rid [...]

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Few things are more fun in life that a free barbecue and free beer. On Saturday I was lucky enough to be invited by my father-in-law to join him at a neighbor’s house for a block party. So in addition to great pulled pork, awesome baked beans and excellent beer from an iced [...]

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Our nation and its people first touched the soil of North America on April 29th, 1607.  After sailing across the Atlantic Ocean in crowded, startlingly small ships, the first Americans came ashore in what is now Cape Henry in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
 
There they said a prayer of thanksgiving and formed the first governing body in [...]

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The world’s crappiest laptops, designed to punish the already poverty-stricken children of the world, will now rise past the $150 mark reported here, all the way up to $175.

And it seems that if the governments of these poor countries do not pony up over half a billion dollars to get the first 3 Million of [...]

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An idiot teenager tried to hack into AOL because the company suspended his account.  Mike Nieves foolishly tried to penetrate the security of AOL without realizing that the network is one of the best protected in the world.   And then he posted photographic evidence of his crimes on Flickr.  And as a former account holder, [...]

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Bruce Schneier is an egotistical proto-liberal propeller-head who had to sell his badly leveraged security company Counterpane to British Telecom because no American company wanted to buy it.
Now he stands up at a security conference in London and declares that the very existence of a security industry (like the ones who passed up buying Counterpane) [...]

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The Internet’s self-proclaimed “Youngest Blogger,” Seth Hicks, aged 8, complained on his blog at www.myspace.com/mommydontknow that he is very upset about having to be dragged into work with his mother for “Bring Your Child to Work Day.”

“Being forced to go to school every day is bad already. Now I have to go to Mommy’s [...]

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CentralOps.Net is a free utility website from Hexillion and is one of those all-in-one gadget sites that no infosec person should be without. From a single location, outside of your own network, you can perform a whois query, a DNS lookup, a traceroute, a light service scan, and even grab the plain text of [...]

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Military Weapons Developers have some pretty cool jobs.  Ionatron invented what it believes is to be a “lightning” raygun.  It apparantly works by using a charged particle laser to create a virtual channel through which a large electrical charge can travel.  Essentially, a directed energy weapon with lethal results.  Cool.
 
From the Reg here:
The US Navy [...]

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Another stupid animal hoarder managed to kill herself with the wild animals she was collecting.  Cathie Ake turned her expansive tract of land on the Florida Panhandle into a ridiculous assortment of pets and wild animals, some of which she carried with her on her job as a social worker.  She claimed that carrying a [...]

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And yeah, I think she should start wearing a spandex body suit.  Miss America 2007 Lauren Nelson’s national platform was internet safety for children.  And she is already doing quite a bit to make the world safer for kids.  She teamed up with John Walsh of America’s Most Wanted and the National Center for Missing and [...]

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Shocking news footage of a panda at the National Zoo in Washington DC, communicating through an interpreter, demanding an abortion.  It seems that she hates her own existence in the walled enclosure and resents that she has had a pregnancy forced upon her.  Click the image below to see this shocking news report.

Panda Demands Abortion

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A task force comprised of the Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission made recommendations to Congress yesterday to stiffen the penalties for ID thieves, spyware users and to stop using social security numbers when they aren’t necessary.
 
From Reuters here:
A task force created to curb identity theft urged federal agencies on Monday to help protect [...]

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That seems to be the case.  Search warrants issued in the case show that there were extensive communications directed toward Emily Hilscher, Cho’s first victim.
 
From Fox news here:
Search warrants show that police are trying to determine whether Cho had any relationship or communication with his first victim, Emily Jane Hilscher, a 19-year-old freshman from Woodville, [...]

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Melanie McGuire was found guilty for murdering her husband and stuffing his dismembered body in suitcases, which she threw into the Chesapeake Bay.  Instead of having the chance to run off with her boss to a happy life, she will run off to a prison to wear an orange jumpsuit.
 
From the AP here:
A jury convicted [...]

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I had written earlier that Seung Cho, the Hokie Killer was a pathetic loser that could not get a woman if he was the last man on campus.  It turns out he tried to hire what he thought was a prostitute in the last weeks before his psychotic rampage, but even failed to woo a [...]

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I previously wrote about Lorelei Corpuz here.  She is the 30-year-old woman who conned her way into a family by posing as a teenage boy just so she could molest an underage girl. 
 
She has had some charges dropped already at a plea hearing, where she pleaded not guilty to the remaining charge of  third degree child molestation.  [...]

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For a skinny chick with a huge skull, you would think that some pretty good ideas would rattle around that noggin.  Not so if you are Sheryl Crow.  She crossed the country in a bio-diesel bus thinking and thinking of a good idea to help save the world from “global warming.”  I guess she did [...]

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