Up to now, private-sector researchers have had scant success putting faces to the hacks. There have been faint clues left behind—aliases used in domain registrations, old online profiles, or posts on discussion boards that give the odd glimpse of hackers at work—but rarely an identity. Occasionally, though, hackers mess up. Recently, one hacker's mistakes led a reporter right to his door.
A great companion piece to the New York Times article published previously.
I'm a little late in sharing this, but it's the best exposition of the Mandiant report I've seen.
A star environment is based on trust, vision, and congruent behavior.
— David Heinemeier Hansson, B- Environment Merits B- Effort
By day they work as computer programmers and stock boys and academics. But at night they are known as urban explorers. The Brooklyn Bridge, London's Shard, Notre Dame—each structure is an expedition waiting to happen. Each sewer, each scaffold, each off-limits site is a puzzle to solve. No wonder the cops are after them. Matthew Power embeds with the space invaders and sees a world—above- and belowground—that the rest of us never knew existed.
For example, the authors found that Hello Kitty fans tended to score high on openness but lower on things like conscientiousness, agreeableness, and emotional stability. They also tended to be Democrats.
— On Facebook, Smart People Like The Colbert Report and Curly Fries
Everything that's worth selling.
Computers are used to share pictures, words, and movies (usually of cats) with other computers. The computers need to show the cats on boxes with tiny lights in them, but don't know how. People like me tell the computer many words so that it knows how to change the tiny lights to look like a cat. We try to make the lights change very fast so that you don't have to wait for your cats. Some days the lights are all wrong, and we have to tell the computer more words to make them look like cats again.
— Brandon Jones, Google Chrome GPU Team, 18 Complicated Scientific Ideas Explained Simply
Don't let the name fool you. Coca-Cola's Simply Orange juice is anything but pick, squeeze, and pour. That cold glass of 100 percent liquid sunshine on the breakfast table is the product of a sophisticated industrial juice complex. Satellite imagery, complicated data algorithms, even a juice pipeline are all part of the recipe.
"IN CASE OF FAILURE", "IN EVENT OF MOON DISASTER", and the "OTHER CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS SPEECH" speeches.
Hitler finds out Google Reader is shutting down