Most People in the World Have No Idea How to Manage Their Money →
Thanks for the education, mom and dad.
It's Insanely Easy to Hack Hospital Equipment →
We tested every single device in our environment–various radiology stuff and MRIs, ultrasound and mammography systems, cardiology, oncology. We tested all of our lab systems, surgery robots, fetal monitoring, ventilators, anesthesia.
Basically all of them are broken.
The term "photocopying machine" is so ambiguous that you can't picture in your mind what a photocopying machine is in an office setting?
via The NYTimes
Hacks on Widely Used Traffic Control Gear Could Cause Gridlock and Chaos →
The proprietary radio protocol communicates with no encryption, making it possible for people to monitor or tamper with the signal contents, which are used to determine whether a traffic light should stay green or turn red, display a particular message, or alert authorities to a potential emergency.
Of course it's not encrypted. Why should we protect the reliability of traffic lights?
A few years ago we did a complete analysis of our entire network. Cyber engineers found out that the system is extremely safe and extremely secure in the way it's developed.
— ICBM forces commander Major General Jack Weinstein
This is at least in part due to the fact that 8" floppy disks are involved in launching a nuclear missile.
The story behind the XP wallpaper we'll never forget (by Microsoft)
Nobody Lives Here →
The nearly 5 million U.S. blocks with zero population per the U.S. Census Bureau:
L.P.D.: Libertarian Police Department →
"Home Depot™ Presents the Police!®" I said, flashing my badge and my gun and a small picture of Ron Paul. "Nobody move unless you want to!" They didn't.
The church's approach to an intelligent carpenter is usually confined to exhorting him to not be drunk and disorderly in his leisure hours and to come to church on Sundays. What the church should be telling him is this: that the very first demand that his religion makes upon him is that he should make good tables.
— Dorothy Sayers via Tim Keller's "Your Work Matters"