Day August 11, 2008

Schwarzenegger sues controller to force pay cuts

Schwarzenegger directed that the pay of nearly 140,000 rank-and-file employees be cut to the federal minimum wage of $6.55 an hour. About 30,000 management employees would be paid $455 a week, and another 8,000 workers, mostly doctors and attorneys, would…

Windows Vista security ‘rendered useless’ by researchers

Two security researchers have developed a new technique that essentially bypasses all of the memory protection safeguards in the Windows Vista operating system. By taking advantage of the way that browsers, specifically Internet Explorer, handle active scripting and .NET objects,…

Strandbeests: Wind-powered artificial life

“The walls between art and engineering exist only in our minds.” say Strandbeest creator Theo Jansen. They move solely powered by wind. They even have “brains” capable of the most basic processes. For example, one Strandbeest sucks air through some…

BBC News fired on by Russian jet

BBC News was fired on while reporting from the front lines in Georgia. The image is from the same report. From DealBreaker, a serious, non-snarky (and for them, being non-snarky is quite unusual!) discussion of what’s happening in Georgia. Who…

Conspiracy rumor of the day

The big question is whether Saakashvili is another US proxy who over-estimated US support (q.v. Saddam Hussein), or whether the US put him up to the attack to distract the Russians prior to some sort of operation against Iran. Just…