Our landlord has installed combination locks on the restroom
doors, as a security measure. Um. You already have to
pass a security guard, or swipe a card, to get into the
building. And if they were going to use locks anyway,
wouldn't it be more secure to use those same cards instead
of distributing a combination by word of mouth? (Every
sys-admin known to man knows how well the shared password
works over time.) Eh, whatever -- my memory for short
sequences of otherwise-useless numbers is pretty good, so
it doesn't harm me personally. It just seems a little odd
to do it that way.
Was
the Nick Berg video a fabrication? (Link from ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=92.1)
metahacker.)
I can't tell if this is a case of conspiracy theories
gone wild or something real, and I'm not qualified to
evaluate things like Jordanian accents, but the point about
the blood could be telling. (I have only second-hand
information on the amount of blood, having neither the stomach
nor the inclination to watch the video.)
The
fine art of systems development (largish cartoon), courtesy of
ommkarja.
Fun
quotes from a chemistry class focusing on explosives, from
anisodragnfly. My favorite:
"This [fireball] should be four times bigger,
but you should be okay where you are."
Seen on CNN:
