Robert Lemos

A weird series of events yields Canada’s skill test — a four-part math problem to make lotteries and promotions legal. But don’t look for a real challenge.
Wired News

(And, no, the headline is not mine.)

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I normally don’t post the news briefs that I write for SecurityFocus, but this one is destined to be a classic.

A member of a Republican Congressman’s public relations staff attempted to hire two “hackers” to change a college grade, an act that resulted in his dismissal on Thursday.
SecurityFocus

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So, your company’s been hit with a denial-of-service (DoS) attack involving a straight-up packet flood. Or, perhaps you’ve been hit by a distributed DoS launched from 10,000 bots controlled by an angry spammer. Or, if you are really (un)lucky, perhaps you got hit with a distributed reflective DoS attack and now need the services of [...]

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As I was scanning for news today, I came across this. I think it answers the question of whether people learn from history.

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CreditBloggers had an informal test of haiku skill, so I put fingers to keys and came up with this:

Obtuse addendum
Hides change to default language
Rates soar, debt deepens

Turns out I won the contest.

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