LAND attack:
Sending TCP packet with SYN flag set, source and destination IP address and source and destination port as of destination machine, results in 15-30 seconds DoS condition.
Which is funny. The last time the LAND attack was seen was about 8 years ago. It’s a trivial remote DoS and you’d think that even basic QA would check for something like this.
Securityfocus has the Bugtraq posting:
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/392354/2005-03-02/2005-03-08/0
No patch out yet, joy!
Batteries we’d all like to have!
Well, we have the Darwin Awards, but this lesser known honour is bestowed on those who have carried out some seriously improbable research. Previous winners: The first case of homosexual necrophilia in the mallard Anas platyrhynchos. Well done, that man!
Interesting theoretical physics articles by Dr. Michio Kaku
From wormholes to time travel, it’s all here
Sony, Toshiba and IBM have been quietly developing a new vector-based processing architecture which promises to trash anything Intel and AMD have up their sleeves. This guy has read the patent applications and makes some predictions on what we’re going to be seeing in the PS3.
http://www.blachford.info/computer/Cells/Cell0.html
If this is too hard, then Penny Arcade might do a better job at explaining it for you.
An artist draws a face during various stages of an LSD trip.
http://www.cowboybooks.com.au/html/acidtrip1.html
.. but I’m guessing it is. I mean, it made me go wtf and I’m fairly cynical to start off with. Most of the stuff you see in media is fake. That definitely includes things like bikini models. There are zooms tabs on the left. Don’t skip those.
This is just beautiful. Check out Wolverine Yoghurt and Rabid Squirrel.
The whole index is http://www.creativeelectricstudios.com/default.asp?s=showShow&sid=13 .
