'Dirty Girls'
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Um, hey. I'm going to the inauguration, but if someone could burn me a cd of the footage from whatever channel, I'd love to have it to give to my neighbor. I'm not so sure I'm technically adept enough to do it myself.
um, email me at my username.1 at gmail.
Whoo, it's new post time at Gothic Charm School! Of Goths and Religion.
Monster.com was hacked: [link]
As is the case with many companies that maintain large databases of information, Monster is the target of illegal attempts to access and extract information from its database. We recently learned our database was illegally accessed and certain contact and account data were taken, including Monster user IDs and passwords, email addresses, names, phone numbers, and some basic demographic data. The information accessed does not include resumes.
I will be in DC area for a wedding in February. I arrive early afternoon on 17 Feb, and depart late afternoon on 22 Feb. I have a list of museums I'll be hitting, and if luck holds out, a White House tour. But it seems the museums aren't open at night. So far, the night of the 19th and 21st are out (wedding stuff). 17th & 18th are wide open. And if you have days available, it's always fun to museum with others. If any DCistas want to get together, drop me a line.
At this time, I am not planning on a car. My hotel is off the red line up in Bethesda (where the wedding will be).
Last week Jilli helped me with some etiquette pointers for a cruddy little essay I wrote called Skeptic Etiquette, which just got picked up by the mighty Bad Astronomer!
I'm tickled when Phil Plait likes my writing. I'm even more tickled that the piece was Buffistarific.
Huge security flaw in Java: [link]
Recommendation seems to be disabling Java in every browser you use, cross-platform.
ETA: Only Java. JavaScript is basically unrelated to Java.
Recommendation seems to be disabling Java in every browser you use, cross-platform.
I'm not trying to natter; I'm somewhat computer-moronic and want to clarify Shrift's post -- ONLY Java, or also Javascript?
(Thank you in advance for not laughing at me for not knowing if the 2 are related.)
Checking the Java site now, it looks like they've released updated versions of their clients which fix the issue (though they recommend uninstalling the previous versions which have the security issue) which can be downloaded from here: [link] (Most Windows users are going to want the JRE 6 Update 12 32-bit version.)