The WASC Threat Classification is an effort to classify the weaknesses and attacks that can lead to the compromise of a website, its data and or its users. The primary goal is to offer a central guide for common attacks and weaknesses. You can find the document online at http://projects.webappsec.org/Threat-Classification
The freecycle community is a non-profit member driven community aimed at basically giving away your old stuff. Yeah that’s right and giving it away *for free*. The idea is to allow people give away vs throwing out their old things (the old one person’s trash is another person’s treasure). And by treasure…I mean *free* treasure, not pirate treasure. Although in theory someone could give away their pirate treasure…for free…
Anyways…when you start your spring cleaning this year…instead of throwing out those old odds and ends join your local freecycle group and create a few posts. I’m sure they’ll even come get it so technically it’s even easier than throwing it out…as you don’t have to remember to take it out on garbage day and then actually take it out on garbage day… ;)
To find a group near you check out the Freecycle group finder.
Well it looks like ma bell has reported that is traffic shaping P2P traffic during peak hours. This wouldn’t totally surprise me since it is…well Bell…and my own experience with them has been less then ‘awesome’…but what’s interesting is that they are also targeting ISPs who use Bell as their upstream provider. So if you were a disgruntled customer and switched to another provider for your DSL, well your up the creek =)
Michael Geist has a write up about the issue, along with CBC and dslreports. And it looks like users are reporting that not only is P2P traffic being throttled but other encrypted traffic and protocols (IMAP, SSH, RDP, VOIP,VPN connections etc…)
There is also a Google Map that is being used to chart locations of where they are experiencing an impact.
So Bell has a few options:
Dropbox is an app/webapp that allows you to share files across multiple desktops. The flash demo on the site uses a Windows desktop and a Mac Desktop for the demo (No mention of support for *nix boxes). From the demo it looks like you can ‘publish’ a directory and then have other systems you use subscribe to these published directories. You can also allow other users access to your published files. All of this seems to be controlled from a web interface on the site.
A couple of cool points that I liked were the ability to undelete files from the web interface and revert back to a previous version of a file and only sending the delta of the change between hosts (thus saving bandwidth)…
Anyways…worth a look if your like me and constantly send files here there and everywhere =)
After searching around for a bit for a ‘green’ web host, I decided to make a short list of what I found.
Well there you have it…solar, wind, offsets, trees….it looks like companies are starting to see the value in being ‘green’. Which one is best you ask…well it really depends on the services you need, but they are all making an effort to leave less of a foot print, so they are all good in my books.
What are Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs)
A ‘REC‘ or ‘Green Tag‘ is basically a certificate that the owner of can claim that they have purchased renewable energy. One REC represents 1 (MWh) of electricity produced by a green energy provider. These certificates can then be sold or traded on the open market and unlike carbon trading programs that increase the cost of emitting carbon, RECs act as an incentive & subsidy to produce more green energy.
For a list of Energy Certificate prodcuts available in the US please see: US Dept Of Energy
For a list of Green Power sources in Canada please see: pollutionprobe.org or davidsuzuki.org
Some of this information was referenced from the following websites:
I checked Google Finance today and after scrolling down to the days ‘top movers’ I saw the stock I should have invested in…. Tele Norte Celular Participacoes seemed to have jumped 1524804.25%….WOW….
Now this must be a bug….but I can imagine some of the people that had invested in them. Waking up this morning, drinking their coffee…checking the price…crapping their pants!!!
3D graphics are all the rage these days with games….so when someone makes Pac-Man a text based adventure called Pac-Txt you have to take notice… Now if they updated it so that other users could be the ghosts…we’d have a full scale Pac-MUD going on!
I can’t help but wonder what other arcade based games can be reworked into this some would say lost genre of text games.