Vår tystnad ger stöd åt ondskan

En person har skadats i en skottlossning i Enskede i södra Stockholm.

An anonymous reader writes with news of a study out of the University of Florida which found that alcohol is the biggest "gateway" drug, the use of which increases the likelihood of other drug use. Quoting: "In the sample of students, alcohol also represented the most commonly used substance, with 72.2 percent of students reporting alcohol consumption at some point in their lifetime. Comparatively, 45 percent of students reported using tobacco, and 43.3 percent cited marijuana use. In addition, the drug use documented found that substance use typically begins with the most socially acceptable drugs, such as alcohol and cigarettes, then proceeds to marijuana use and finally to other illegal, harder drugs. Moreover, the study showed that students who used alcohol exhibited a significantly greater likelihood — up to 16 times — of licit and illicit substance use."

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MojoKid writes "Apple is pitching Mac OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion) as the cat's meow, with over 200 new features 'that add up to an amazing Mac experience' — but that only applies if you're rocking a compatible system. Some older Mac models, including ones that are 64-bit capable, aren't invited to the Mountain Lion party, and it's likely because of the GPU. It's being reported (unofficially) that an updated graphics architecture intended to smooth out performance in OS X's graphics subsystem is the underlying issue. It's no coincidence, then, that the unsupported GPUs happen to be ones that were fairly common back before 64-bit support became mainstream."

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Nawaf al-Fares issues an exclusive statement to Al Jazeera confirming that he has defected and urges others to join.

Syriens två viktigaste kurdiska paraplyorganisationer sade i dag att de går ihop mot president Assad.

cylonlover writes "In the 1800s, when pneumatic tubes shot telegrams and small items all around buildings and sometimes small cities, the future of mass transit seemed clear: we'd be firing people around through these sealed tubes at high speeds. And it turns out we've got the technology to do that today – mag-lev rail lines remove all rolling friction from the energy equation for a train, and accelerating them through a vacuum tunnel can eliminate wind resistance to the point where it's theoretically possible to reach blistering speeds over 4,000 mph (6,437 km/h) using a fraction of the energy an airliner uses – and recapturing a lot of that energy upon deceleration. Ultra-fast, high efficiency ground transport is technologically within reach – so why isn't anybody building it? This article looks into some of the problems."

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This week is the annual SANSFire Conference in Washington DC. SANSFire is a SANS conference event like no other in that it is hosted and powered by the Internet Storm Center. All week the Internet Storm Center Handlers are providing insight and talks on all manner of security topics. If you, like me, were unable to attend in-person, most Handlers will be posting summaries of their presentations as diaries at the ISC.

I think this would also be a good time to point you to a number of other excellent security resources that are part of the SANSfamily.

Besides the Handler diaries hosted at the ISC, there are a number of other blogs hosted by SANS:

Digital Forensics Blog - http://computer-forensics.sans.org/blog
Penetration Testing and Ethical Hacking Blog - http://pen-testing.sans.org/blog
Software Security Blog - http://software-security.sans.org/blog
IT Audit Blog - http://it-audit.sans.org/blog
Cloud Security Blog - http://www.sans.org/cloud


Some other SANSrelated sites, although not blogs, also host some excellent free security resources:

The SANS/GIAC Reading Room - http://www.sans.org/reading_room/
Securing the Human - http://www.securingthehuman.org/
STI and Faculty Research - http://www.sans.edu/research/

Hopefully some of these can be of use to you in your continuing security education.

-- Rick Wanner - rwanner at isc dot sans dot org - http://namedeplume.blogspot.com/ - Twitter:namedeplume (Protected) (c) SANS Internet Storm Center. http://isc.sans.edu Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License.

Enligt FN:s sändebud Kofi Annan har den syriske presidenten Bashir al-Assad utsett en representant för samtal med oppositionen.

Silvio Berlusconi vill bli premiärminister igen och tänker kandidera i valet nästa vår, skriver den italienska dagstidningen Corriere della Sera.

Archive-Tar-Wrapper minus IPC::Run, IO::Pty

Archive-Tar-Wrapper minus IPC::Run, IO::Pty

Archive-Tar-Wrapper minus IPC::Run, IO::Pty

Oracle database driver for the DBI module

a simple way of doing messaging.