Post 284 -- 2 Downers and 1 Upper to Start 2009

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2 Downers and 1 Upper to Start 2009
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Two stories in the New York Times point to a Slow turnaround in the US Economy.

Steel Industry problems follow
the Auto Industry debacle
like a Cold Hand in a Worn Glove.

The Times Paints a Credit Crunch Picture there too.

Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/02/business/02steel.html?_r=1&hp


But Did You Hear About This?

Economic woes affecting
Housing, Lending, Auto Industry,
Malls and MILk?

As Recession Deepens, So Does Milk Surplus

You can't Make a Cow
Stop Giving Milk,
like stopping an assembly line.

So the Extra gets turned into (get This)
Powdered Milk
And stored in HUGE warehouses that are
Already
filled to Capacity!

Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/02/business/02dairy.html?scp=1&sq=milk%20surplus&st=cse


Anything Out There that may Help
the Start of
A New Year?

How About
Batteries?

Or Rather, a Breakthrough
Technology that may Change
Everything!

A patent granted last month for something called an UltraCapacitors, which is a Storage Battery Replacement Technology that was orinigally created to power Uber Electric Cars (like the Tesla)

can also be used in Laptops!

Same Size and Weight as today's batteries but 3 times the Power and can be recharged in 5 Seconds to Full Capacity.

Mentioned in
Security Now!
With Steve Gibson (Spinrite Fame)

He also mentioned a Problem with SSL,
A Last-Chance-Kit to build a PDP-8 microcomputer in the
episode (Linked Here): http://www.grc.com/securitynow.htm

Whew, I need a Rest.
Wingman

(and No, I'm NOT pushing White Pagoda's
It's Just a Picture)

Okay, just one More:

NEPA goes global on Google
Pennsylvania on GoogleEarth
Streetview update.

From a Link in My Sidebar:
The Top 7 NEWS Roll
(under Google, one of the Seven)

Link: http://www.scrantontimes.com/articles/2009/01/04/news/sc_times_trib.20090103.a.pg1.tt03google_s1.2204940_top2.txt

Details of DNS Flaw Leaked

DNS HOLE

"Despite Dan Kaminsky's efforts to keep a lid on the details of the critical DNS vulnerability he found, someone at the security firm Matasano leaked the information on its blog yesterday..."

Wired story:
Link: http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/07/details-of-dns.html

This is Serious.

Even Steve Gibson on Security Now! will devote a couple of episodes of his podcast to discuss the details of the flaw AFTER Kaminsky presents it at Blackhat.


I heard about this lAST WEEK and new that ISP providers, Microsoft, Apple, Google and Yahoo were working behind the scenes to quickly PATCH the Hole.

More Info will be coming following Kamingsky's presentation at Black Hat this week.

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CAT 1 Dolly
heading toward Texas Coast....(landfall around 8:00)

Reuters has the Full Scoop:

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-dolly22-2008jul22,0,2504307.story?track=rss

Wingman out.

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