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It’s time for my annual week of pirate chickens as I count down the days until this Friday’s Talk Like A Pirate Day! Yaaaaaaarrr.

Here be pirates of yore!

It’s pirate chickens all week until TLAPD! This one is dedicated to Amy, who is defending her PhD thesis today (but it isn’t about pirates and/or global warming). Good luck Amy!

It’s pirate chickens all week until TLAPD! This one is dedicated to Amy, who is defending her PhD thesis today (but it isn’t about pirates and/or global warming). Good luck Amy!

This I found in a Quora forum on prepaid meals in China:

We’ve actually experimented with prepaid vs postpaid meals in our restaurant. The verdict? Upfront payment increased table turnover by over 80%.

The difference is that customers who haven’t paid can justify their occupation of a table. They surf facebook. They chat away for hours on end. They get comfy. It matters not whether they intend to order more stuff, the mere possibility of them ordering more gives them the moral upper hand.

Customers who have paid up on the other hand, do not have moral justification. They could order more food, but diminishing marginal utility and inertia discourages that act. They get edgy. They feel guilty. They leave.

It all depends on the restaurant’s business model. If it’s a low-end restaurant, this tactic will serve it well. If it’s a high end restaurant, paying $150 for that bottle of wine buys you a little more time.

For the pointer I thank Eduardo Pegurier.

... unless you are using them.

The Pwn Plug Academic Edition is the Industry’s First Enterprise Penetration Testing Drop Box

• Wireless (802.11b/g/n) high gain Bluetooth & USB Ethernet adapters
• Fully-automated NAC/802.1x/Radius bypass
• One-click EvilAP, stealth mode & passive recon

The Pwn Plug Academic Edition acts as a penetration testing drop box that covers most of a full-scale pentesting engagement, from physical-layer to application layer. The Pwn Plug Academic Edition is controlled through a simple web-based administration and comes preloaded with an array of penetration testing tools and Wireless, Bluetooth, and USB Ethernet adapters.
 

• Onboard high-gain 802.11a/b/g/n wireless
• Onboard Bluetooth
• External 4G/GSM cellular
• Greatly improved performance and reliability

The Pwn Plug R3 is a next-generation penetration testing device in a portable, shippable, “Plug-and-Pwn” form factor. With onboard high-gain 802.11a/b/g/n wireless, onboard Bluetooth, external 4G/GSM cellular, ruggedized case design, and greatly improved performance and reliability, the Pwn Plug R3 is the enterprise penetration tester’s dream tool. 

The MiniPwner
The MiniPwner is described as a penetration testing “drop box”. You (or maybe a cleaner you’ve bribed) needs to plug it into an Ethernet plug in the target’s building, and then you can slurp all the data out of their network via a wifi link.

The penetration tester uses stealth or social engineering techniques to plug the MiniPwner into an available network port. (common locations include conference rooms, unoccupied workstations, the back of IP Telephones, etc.)
Once it is plugged in, the penetration tester can log into the MiniPwner and begin scanning and attacking the network. The MiniPwner can simultaneously establish SSH tunnels through the target network, and also allow the penetration tester to connect to the MiniPwner via Wifi. 


WiFi Pineapple Mark V
Slightly larger than a smartphone the WiFi Pine-apple Mark V is the “ultimate” cyber surveillance device. It uses an “intuitive” web interface to enable hackers to break into a corporate’s IT networks through its wifi connections. It costs $100. 

USB Switchblade
The goal of the USB Switchblade is to silently recover information from a target Windows 2000 or higher computer, including password hashes, LSA secrets, IP information, etc.

A gadget that looks like a USB stick has a program that swings into action when it’s inserted into the USB drive and can then begin its naughty work without the user knowing it by exploiting a flaw in USB autorun settings. How about dropping it in the car park of your target’s offices, seeing if someone will pick it up and plug it in to see what’s on it… 

USB 8GB Flash Drive Cufflinks

The thing about these is that the bad guy can carry a load of malware, ready for use at any time. These go for less than $50. Easy to smuggle in. 

The Rubber Ducky
The Rubber Ducky is becoming the “field-weapon of choice” for cyber spies. It’s the size of a normal USB stick but when you plug it in to a PC it pretends to be a keyboard and starts ‘typing’ away, possibly trying to break into systems or maybe stealing passwords.  If you get a few seconds alone with someone’s phone you can get an adapter to plug it in and maybe hack that too. (The last five items courtesy of Financial News.)

A Department of Justice proposal to amend Rule 41 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure would make it easier for domestic law enforcement to hack into computers of people attempting to protect their anonymity on the Internet. The DOJ has explicitly stated that the amendment is not meant to give courts the power to issue warrants that authorize searches in foreign countries—but the practical reality of the underlying technology means doing so is almost unavoidable...

As for extraterritorial hacking, the DOJ commentary explicitly states that the proposal does not seek power to extend search authority beyond the United States: 

• In light of the presumption against international extraterritorial application, and consistent with the existing language of Rule 41(b)(3), this amendment does not purport to authorize courts to issue warrants that authorize the search of electronic storage media located in a foreign country or countries. AUSA Mythili Raman, Letter to Committee.

Yet the commentary also articulates a standard of searches that “are within the United States or where the location of the electronic media is unknown....

The latter standard seems to be a significant loophole in the DOJ’s own formulation of the approach, particularly given the global nature of the Internet. For instance, over 85% of computers directly connecting to the Tor network are located outside the United States. (more)

1. Very unlikely markets in everything (not even sure I should believe it, though perhaps some of you have extreme faith in signaling and adverse selection models).

2. Clive Crook makes the best case for Scottish independence I have seen.

3. Attach your iPad directly to your face (department of why not?).

4. Chimpanzees and war.

5. Average is Over, child millionaire edition.

6. The FOMC word count.

7. Should we hope to die at age 75?

The Obama administration on Thursday announced measures to tackle the growing threat of antibiotic resistance, outlining a national strategy that includes incentives to spur the development of new drugs, tighter stewardship of existing ones and a national tracking system for antibiotic-resistant illness. The actions are part of the first major federal effort to confront a public health crisis that takes at least 23,000 lives a year.

The full story is here.

The Hill has more detail.  It is an executive order:

The president’s directive creates the Task Force for Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria, co-chaired by the secretaries of Defense, Agriculture and Health and Human Services.

The group is charged with implementing a plan to track and prevent the spread of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, promote better practices for the use of current drugs and push for a new generation of antibiotic medications.

To that end, the White House on Thursday announced a $20 million prize “to facilitate the development of rapid, point-of-care diagnostic tests for healthcare providers to identify highly resistant bacterial infections.”

The added incentive and the timeframe given to the task force indicate the urgency with which the administration is acting, said Dr. Eric Lander, who co-chairs the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.

“This is a pretty tight timeline to now come up with a national game plan,” Lander said.

There is also this:

In December, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) unveiled a plan to phase out the use of antimicrobials for the purpose of fattening chickens, pigs or other animals destined for human consumption. But the plan relies in part on voluntary industry cooperation, and advocates argue the government’s efforts are lagging behind even some industry players.

Here is the new full 78 pp. report to the President on antibiotic resistance (pdf).

This initiative — or its failure — is potentially a more important health issue than Obamacare, yet it will not receive 1/1000th of the attention.  Without reliable antibiotics, a lot of now-routine operations would become a kind of lottery.

Here are previous MR posts on antibiotic resistance.  I would note it is difficult to judge such a plan at the current level of detail.  It is better than nothing, but any initial plan is going to be not nearly enough, relative to an ideal.  By the way, Alex tells me there is also a British prize, discussed here.

The median household income in the city of New York is a few hundred dollars a year more than the median household income in the state of Texas, but in practical terms the average New York City household is much worse off.The most obvious issue is the cost of housing, which for New Yorkers is about four times what it is for Texans.

That is from Kevin Williamson, who stresses that New York City is actually a relatively poor place.

By the way, New York and DC have Ginis reflecting more inequality than what we find in Mexico or Nigeria.  Manhattan and Putnam County, Tennessee have Ginis almost as high as that of South Africa.

Have I mentioned that a Gini coefficient isn’t a very good measure of inequality for most purposes?  It does not command much loyalty from people who actually work in that area (generalized entropy measures are much more popular), yet it has become a staple of discussion in popular economics.

Here we see a giant monster destroying a train. There were no survivors. #9gag

That can’t be good for the umbrella. #9gag

O pastor Jeff Godwin, constante crítico do rock n’ roll, escreveu em 1985 o livro “Devil?s Desciples” no qual cita dez bandas que segundo ele, são as mais perigosas para os jovens ouvirem.

Segue a lista para sua avaliação:

AC/DC: “Essa banda causou mais danos que qualquer outra por aí”.

Rolling Stones: “Esses drogados hedonistas e miseráveis inventaram o Rock diabólico”.

Led Zeppelin: “Um grupo de caçadores de emoções ocultas, com um catálogo de negativismo, melancolia e óperas sexuais e sensacionalistas de Heavy Metal”.

Mötley Crüe: “Uma quadrilha de bocas sujas e fornicadores que espalham abertamente seu estilo de vida detestável”.

KISS: “Não contentes com os milhões de dólares já roubados de seus fãs, que são basicamente garotas de treze anos, o KISS parece longe de desaparecer na lata de lixo do Rock”.

Twisted Sister: “Atitude animalesca, machista, combinada com preferências sexuais estranhas e doentias. Uma das bandas mais prejudiciais da atualidade”.

Judas Priest: “Ocultismo, postura de motoqueiros nazistas, violência, violência e violência. O mundo fica ainda mais insano com esse nojento grupo de fascistas do Rock”.

Black Sabbath: “Um detestável grupo de necrófilos, adeptos da bruxaria”.

Ozzy Osbourne: “Repetidos e nojentos atos inconsequentes de depravação e vulgaridade”.

W.A.S.P.: “Uma junção dos mais perversos elementos do Rock atual. O nome da banda significa ?We Are Sexual Perverts? (Nós somos pervertidos sexuais). E a música que fazem prova isso”.

Fonte: http://www.vandohalen.com.br/

Deborah Rawson, 48 anos, garante que sofreu abuso e perseguição sexual de um fantasma, dentro de sua casa. Após tentativas falhas de exorcismo eladecidiu mudar de casa.

A vítima diz ter perguntado quem estava ali com ela. “Mark está te tocando, eu sou Claire”, disse uma voz feminina, segundo a britânica. O casal de fantasmas também teria feito sexo em diversos pontos da casa, diz Deborah, que ouvia gemido e barulhos suspeitos constantemente.

Ainda de acordo com Deborah, o fantasma chamado Mark a procurava durante o dia e durante a noite, mesmo quando seu marido estava em casa. Em um certo momento, o órgão sexual de Mark foi fotografado por Deborah.

Assustados, o casal chamou um exorcista, que tentou espantar os supostos visitantes, mas não teve sucesso. Há alguns meses, o casal comprou outra casa e se mudou. Desde então, Deborah garante que não teve mais contato físico ou visual com Mark. “Estou feliz de estar livre do meu fantasma viciado em sexo”, disse ela.

 

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