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Friday Squid Blogging: Preserving Giant Squid

2008-11-21 16:20:18 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...giant female squid -- the arresting, spineless star among the vibrant exhibition's animal specimens. Tentacles menacingly outstretched and seemingly frozen in time, the 24-foot squid embodies humans' fascination with the briny deep. But this squid also symbolizes something else: an ongoing experiment in the chemistry of preservation, without...
 
Tags: squid, smithsonian, giant female squid, smithsonian institution, vibrant exhibition, exhibition, national museum, natural history, briny deep
 
 
 
 
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Friday Squid Blogging: Giant Stuffed Squid

2007-12-21 16:19:26 by Editor in Schneier on Security
 
And I mean giant
 
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Friday Squid Blogging: Cocaine Smuggled in Giant Squid

2008-02-01 16:22:25 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
This link is from 2004, but still.... Peruvian police say they have seized nearly 1,540 pounds (700 kilograms) of cocaine hidden in frozen giant squid bound for Mexico and the United States
 
Tags: giant squid bound, cocaine, peruvian police, link, mexico, kilograms, pounds
 
 
 
 
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Friday Squid Blogging: Giant Squid in The Onion

2008-06-06 16:50:29 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
Giant Squid Thrown On Ice To Celebrate Red Wings Hat Trick
 
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Friday Squid Blogging: Dissecting a Giant Squid

2008-09-19 16:56:37 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...giant squid's anatomy features a mouth at the top of the head, which means the esophagus travels through the brain. "So you have to get very small chunks of food," said Hochberg, "or you'll blow your brains out." The sharp beaks, then, are used to chomp food into tiny pieces before sending it down the esophagus, through the brain, and into...
 
Tags: giant squid, esophagus travels, esophagus, chomp food, food, translucent brownish-yellow piece, sharp beaks, hochberg, santa barbara
 
 
 
 
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The Economics of Finding and Fixing Vulnerabilities in Distributed Systems

2008-11-18 22:47:55 by Gunnar Peterson in 1 Raindrop
 
...giant virtual space The security people huffed and puffed that it was dangerous but there was simply too much money to be made, so businesses went ahead. The security people would not go down without a fight and insisted on countermeasures. They got two - the network firewall and SSL. The firewall was used to separate the average Fortune...
 
Tags: information security, information, information security spends, safety information security, versus information security, information security budgets, information security budget, software security, software security space
 
 
 
 
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EBays PayPal uses e-mail authentication to combat fraud

2008-02-04 00:00:00 by Ellen Messmer in Network World on Security
 
E-commerce giant eBay and its Paypal subsidiary are the most-spoofed brands by fraudster today, according to research firm Gartner. Mike Vergara, senior director of accounts protection at PayPal, discusses what the e-commerce giant is doing to protect its customers, including the new e-mail signing and checking effort to make sure customers...
 
Tags: paypal, e-commerce giant ebay, e-commerce giant, research firm gartner, paypal subsidiary, mike vergara, senior director, e-mail, customers
 
 
 
 
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On Elephants and Analytics

2008-06-26 12:11:30 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog
 
...giant elephant metaphor that Opher likes to use as a basis for his comments in CEP counterpoint Whenfolks define the term complex event processing to match a technology marketing campaignthat is primarily driven by software running rules against time-series datastreaming in asliding-time windows, and then go on to take the same software...
 
Tags: call, call cep engines, cep, cep community, cep counterpoint, cep players, imply cep, cep rulescommunity, cep vendors
 
 
 
 
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On Elephants and Analytics

2008-06-26 12:11:30 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog
 
...giant elephant metaphor that Opher likes to use as a basis for his comments in CEP counterpoint Whenfolks define the term complex event processing to match a technology marketing campaignthat is primarily driven by software running rules against time-series datastreaming in asliding-time windows, and then go on to take the same software...
 
Tags: call, call cep engines, cep, cep community, cep counterpoint, cep players, imply cep, cep rulescommunity, cep vendors
 
 
 
 
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Where Computers and Biology Intersect What is Life?

2008-08-07 11:52:28 by Editor in IT Security - The IT Security Industry's Web Resource
 
...Giant Virus, known as mamavirus), and hijack its machinery for self-replication and theyre using this new discovery as evidence that a virus is alive The question whether biological viruses are forms of life has been debated, since they lack the respiratory and metabolic process of other accepted life forms. Naturally, different scientists...
 
Tags: giant virus, virus, biological virus, sputnik, sputnik produce fewer, computer virus, life, mamavirus, mamavirus particles