With the successful capture of the X-Prize by SpaceShipOne and the creation of the first spaceline, Virgin Galactic, we have truly entered the space age. Burt Rutan and Richard Branson have also started the first company dedicated to building private spacecraft for any company or spaceline to purchase.
I am so upset at the stupidity of the world right now. I don’t want to get in to a rant. How does a military network that is vital to operations get hacked by someone in Britain? I can only hope that the network is not connected to the Internet. That would be one of the grandest mistakes ever. And to top it all off, the hacker did it to say that we should not be in Iraq. He should probably ask the Iraqi people what they have to say about that. Now that they actually have a say.
ISS researcher quits job to detail Cisco flaws
‘IOS is the Windows XP of the Internet,’ says ISS research analyst Michael Lynn
News Story by Robert McMillan
JULY 27, 2005 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) – Internet Security Systems Inc. (ISS) research analyst Michael Lynn quit his job to provide information on a serious Cisco Systems Inc. router vulnerability at this week’s Black Hat USA conference, after his company decided not to give a presentation on the flaw
I Saw It All. Then I Saw Nothing.
BY DANIEL HENNINGER
Tuesday, April 9, 2002 12:01 a.m. EDT
(This article originally appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Sept. 12, 2001. It was among 10 articles that won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting.)
I saw the airliner at the instant it hit the north tower of the World Trade Center. A little later I saw the flames burst out of the south tower when the second airliner hit it. I saw people fall from the top of the World Trade Center. I saw the south tower fall down. A little later, I saw the north tower fall down. I have, in the past several hours, looked into lower Manhattan, and each time, where the World Trade Center stood, there is absolutely nothing.