Silicon Asylum

I may update this with further thoughts later, but I wanted to get this up so people became aware of it.... Check it out, get a chance to have your thoughts heard: "When a domain name works with any character beyond the a-z alphabet, it's called an Internationalized Domain Name (IDN). CIRA is considering the implementation of French character IDNs so that .CA domain names can be written correctly in French. Find out more about IDNs and about our proposed launch policy." While I think this is an interesting idea I see lots of problems with implementing this change. Lots of software will have to be updated to accommodate the change (DNS server software, DNS client software, all kinds of security packages [AV, FWs, IDS, IPS, etc])... Adding other characters to DNS just BEGS FOR ABUSE. Think of the phishing possibilities using Domain Names with accented characters? The change requires user education that will NEVER happen. it's hard enough to get users to pay attention

Firefox 7 is out now. One of the "fixes" is that Firefox now follows Opera and Chrome is hidding the http:// protocol portion of URLs in the address bar. As a security professional I enjoy being able to easily see what protocol my browser is talking (http/https/ftp) in any given tab/window. You can restore the previous functionality by navigating to about:config and setting: browser.urlbar.trimURLs = false

As some of you may have heard TLS1.0 got some bad news/press recently. Various details: One , Two , and Three or check this Technical Paper (pdf) . So please go over here -> Firefox : Bug 480514 - Implement TLS 1.2 (RFC 5246) and VOTE! If you're really ambitious you could also go vote for TLS 1.1 implementation (for the sake of maximizing compatability with web servers): Firefox : Bug 565047 - Implement TLS 1.1 (RFC 4346)

No my TV addiction hasn't ended :( Here's the 201 fall installment. I'm not going to bother listing times this year. Really most days have multiple shows plus most people have time shifting on their Cable or Sat. service so here are the dates that I've been able to find so far. I'll tweak and update as I find new details... (* = new show; CTV Two was formerly A Channel) 11-09-01 : Added "Up All Night" Sept 14th premiere. Tuesday, September 13 - 90210 (CW, Global ) [Global seems to have Season 3 info but isn't yet showing a premiere date/time on their online schedule] - Ringer (CW, Global ) * Wednesday, September 14 - Survivor ( Global , CBS) - Up All Night ( CTV , NBC )* Thursday, September 15 - The Secret Circle (CW) * Monday, September 19 - Castle ( CTV , ABC) - NCIS ( Global , CBS) - Hawaii Five-O ( Global , CBS) Tuesday, September 20 - The Biggest Loser (CityTV, NBC) - NCIS: LA ( Global , CBS) Wednesday, September 21 - CSI ( CTV , CBS) -

So I saw this show recently on the Discovery channel in Canada ( Curiosity: Did God Create the Universe ). The show is hosted by Stephen Hawking, he's a pretty bright guy and the content of the show is very interesting. However, I'm EXTREMELY disappointed with the show and Stephen's conclusion. Their conclusion is that since time started with the Big Bang itself, there was no time prior to the Big Bang and therefore couldn't have been a being or entity to cause the Big Bang. The problem with this as I see it though is the fact that they assume a 3 or 4 (3 + time) dimensional existence. Yet numerous scientific theories suggest > 3 or 4 dimensions, in fact up to ten that I've read about * . So why can't the Big Bang have been created or started by a being or entity that lives outside of our 3 or 4 dimensions, something that lives or exists outside of our time dimension? * Imagining the Tenth Dimension ... Hmm I'm having problems with that one in

I just found this location a few weeks ago and have since been over twice and have another trip planned for later this week. Green Papaya (Thai Garden) "At the THAI GARDEN Restaurant, explore the Classic culinary traditions of Thailand, Buffet style for lunch and regular service for dinner." I've only been there for lunch and their buffet is great! Two soups, some salads, about 12 different mains (maybe even approaching 18) including: various curries, pad thai, spring rolls, two rices (to put your curries on) etc, and a few deserts. They make a red pork curry I really like, as well as a yellow chicken/potato curry that I've ordered from their non-buffet locations before and their soups are delicious. Price is decent ~$14 for lunch buffet (IIRC).

I got this forward this morning and have seen a number of blog posts about it: Example : "New gas protest circulating for April 15th, see following: What the heck, I’ll go do it! If running low, just get your gas the day before on April 14 or the day after on April 16. Every little bit helps In April 1997, there was a “gas out” conducted nationwide in protest of gas prices. Gasoline prices dropped 30 cents a gallon overnight. On April 15th 2011, all internet users are to not go to a gas station in protest of high gas prices. Gas is now over $1.20 a liter in most places. If all users did not go to the pump on the 15th, it would take $2,292,000,000.00 (that’s almost 3 BILLION) out of the oil companies pockets for just one day, so please do not go to the gas station on April 15th and let’s try to put a dent in the Middle Eastern oil industry for at least one day. If you agree (which I can’t see why you wouldn’t) resend this to all your contact list. With it saying, “Don’t pump g

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