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March 21, 2009
Conficker C is scary as hell. Conficker C represents a best-of-breed specimen of malware, with its
swiss-army-knife-from-hell approach to digging in, staying hidden, and making your life generally miserable. Telltale symptoms: you can't view such web sites as Microsoft.com, symantec.com, avast.com, or any other computer security-related sites the worm authors have thought to include in the blacklist; you can't run any of the superb
Sysinternals utilities, or many other utilities, because they get killed within a second of starting them up; your antiviral software is impotent. But none of that is the point of the worm.
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posted by e.e. coli at 9:14 PM PST - 233 comments
In 1919 while at Cornell University future children's author, essayist and
New Yorker magazine editor
Elwyn Brooks (E.B.) White took heed of the advice of his English professor,
William Strunk, Jr., to "
omit needless words" in his writing. Strunk advised such -- and more -- to his students in a self-published compositional guide known on campus as "the Little Book." In 1935 his pamphlet was revised and published under the title
The Elements and Practice of Composition. In 1957, 11 years after Strunk's death, White wrote a nostalgic article about his professor and his grammar and style guide for the
New Yorker. Persuaded two years later by Macmillan editor Jack Case to revise and expand Strunk's manual, White co-authored the book
The Elements of Style (New York Times review, June 9, 1959] often referred to as
Strunk and White. Since its publication the book has sold more than 10 million copies. The literary world is now celebrating the book's
golden anniversary.
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SmARThistory is an edited online art history resource to augment or replace traditional art history texts. For a given artwork, smARThistory brings together podcasts, video clips, images, links to other resources, and
commentary, providing a rich context for the work. Indexed by timeline, artistic style, artist and theme.
posted by netbros at 4:17 PM PST - 8 comments
