According to Greek mythology, Hades, ruler of the Underworld, fell in love with the nymph Menthe. Persephone, Hades’s wife, became wildly jealous and began to trample Menthe. Hades rushed forward and transformed Menthe into a shrub to keep her near him always. Persephone was appeased, thinking that Menthe would be trampled for eternity beneath the feet of passersby, but Hades gave Menthe a wonderfully sweet fragrance he could cherish each time he passed by.
Him and everyone else. It seems Hades was satisfied even though others trampled on his love as he could still cherish her through smell.
It was twenty years ago today
Sgt. Morris taught the worms to play
They’ve been going in and out of style
But they’re guaranteed to last a while
So may I introduce to you…
the bug you’ve known for all these years
Sgt. Morris Lonely worm club band
Cute.
Danny McPherson takes a different approach to explain the changes in 20 years since the Morris Worm.
…new network applications being developed can’t work on new ports or employ new IP-based transport protocols, so they’ve got to piggyback on existing “open” ones (e.g., IPSEC v. TLS). The nearing exhaustion of IPv4 address space, and the adoption of IPv6, which is not bits-on-the-wire compatible, only exacerbates the transparency problem…
Try saying that three times fast. In other words, I think he means to say that the implicit trust is gone. The Internet touches more people today with many more complex relationships and so they need a more closed/protective mode to begin with.
The San Jose Mercury News suggests police are dealing with professional criminals in a jewelry heist:
Someone forced entry into an adjoining business that did not have an alarm and then broke into the jewelry store by smashing through a common wall, [Los Altos police Detective Sgt. John] Korges said.
He said that, due to the amount of labor the burglary required, it appears more than one person was involved.
Once in the jewelry store, the suspect or suspects used commercial-grade tools to penetrate the safe, taking between $350,000 and $400,000 of loose precious stones and jewelry left for service and repair.
It reads like there are no leads yet other than it was someone who knew what they were doing with the safe.
By most accounts, clean diesel is beginning to make its run into the automotive mainstream in the United States. So, we decided to take the 2009 Volkswagen Jetta TDI out for a test drive to judge for ourselves.
“If any car is going to wake America up to the diesel movement, it’s this one,” Ben Davis, road test producer for PBS’s MotorWeek, told Hybridcars.com. The Jetta TDI’s combined benefits—high performance, high fuel economy, and small carbon footprint—come at the right price: about $22,000.
Very cool.
We achieved 36.4 miles per gallon with the Jetta TDI in a 181-mile mixed driving loop in an around the Baltimore-Washington metropolitan area. The test was comprised of approximately 70 percent highway driving, and 30 percent city driving. The results put this compact diesel ahead of most subcompact cars, and on par with many hybrids currently on the market.
The Jetta TDI is powered by a 2.0-liter common rail turbocharged engine—producing 140 horsepower and an eye-opening 236 pound-feet of torque. The high torque output is characteristic of a diesel powertrain, resulting in very fast launches from zero, and effortless acceleration on the highway.
Couldn’t agree more. These new diesels are phenomenal. Old diesel is like driving a cart pulled by a horse. The new diesels are peppy and fun to drive; no comparison to any diesel made before 2004.
I posted a comment on the Hybrid Cars site too after I read some of the disinformation written by others.
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