MC 2: MC2 Post 1530 A One-Room West Virginia Library Runs a $20,000 Cisco Router

Tuesday, February 26, 2013

MC2 Post 1530 A One-Room West Virginia Library Runs a $20,000 Cisco Router

WHY ???

Right Now, Bernanke is "explaining " to Congress why

the Economy is Doing-So-Badly.

And then --- This Story --- came up over the Technology Wires....

Cisco, West Virginia Wasted $5M

on Enterprise-Class Gear.

Again, the question: WHY ???

From: http://arstechnica.com

Link: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/02/why-a-one-room-west-virginia-library-runs-a-20000-cisco-router/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+arstechnica%2Findex+%28Ars+Technica+-+All+content%29

TinyURL: http://tinyurl.com/al8v3oq

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New Holes Discovered in Latest Java Versions

From: http://www.h-online.com/security/news/

Security Explorations has informed Oracle of two new vulnerabilities in Java, "issue 54" and "issue 55", which it says can be combined to completely bypass Java's sandbox security. Adam Gowdiak, researcher at

Security Explorations, told Softpedia that the problems are specific to Java 7 SE versions, and allow abuse of the Reflection API in Java, "in a particularly interesting way".

Link: http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/New-holes-discovered-in-latest-Java-versions-1810990.html

TinyURL: http://tinyurl.com/b6khqay

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Because of so many Russian cars have dashboard cams,
science teams using simple trigonometry were able to calculate the meteorite's trajectory.

Source of Russian Meteorite Found

Link: http://www.tgdaily.com/space-brief/69765-source-of-russian-meteorite-found

TinyURL: http://tinyurl.com/azhcdot

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Large Daytime Fireball Hits Russia

The AMS Link of this event.

Link: http://www.amsmeteors.org/2013/02/large-daytime-fireball-hits-russia/

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Dr. Who Will Be Back (or is it Forward) for Season 8.

The second half of season seven of Doctor Who will begin in April 2013, while filming of the 50th Anniversary special is slated to kick off in the spring so it can air after the end of the season.