Ramblings & ephemera
From Noah Shachtman’s “Chameleon Weapons Defy Detection” (Defense Tech: 27 March 2006):
Last week I talked to Anthony Taylor, managing partner of an outfit which makes weapons which can be hidden in plain sight. You can be looking right at one without realizing what it is.
One type is the exact size and shape of a credit [...]
Posted on July 11th, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From “Fuzzy maths” (The Economist: 11 May 2006):
MATHEMATICALLY confident drivers stuck in the usual jam on highway 101 through Silicon Valley were recently able to pass time contemplating a billboard that read: “{first 10-digit prime found in consecutive digits of e}.com.†The number in question, 7427466391, is a sequence that starts at the 101st digit [...]
Posted on June 1st, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From Shelby Foote’s The Civil War: Fort Sumter to Perryville (384):
When [Pierre Gustave Toutant de Beauregard's men] stole out of the intrenchments [at Corinth] after nightfall, they left dummy guns in the embrasures and dummy cannoneers to serve them, fashioned by stuffing ragged uniforms with straw. A single band moved up and down the deserted [...]
Posted on April 23rd, 2006 by Scott Granneman
Filed under: Webster U: InfoSec Management, history, security | Comments Off
In 1698, Peter the Great worked as a common laborer while in England so that he could learn the art of shipbuilding.
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Posted on May 21st, 2005 by Scott Granneman
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