{"id":5834,"date":"2012-06-01T12:07:35","date_gmt":"2012-06-01T19:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=5834"},"modified":"2012-06-01T12:07:35","modified_gmt":"2012-06-01T19:07:35","slug":"clearin-o-the-links-napalm-girl-stuxnetflame-facebook-old-people-smell-and-car-talk-the-musical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=5834","title":{"rendered":"Clearin&#8217; O&#8217; The Links: Napalm Girl, Stuxnet\/Flame, Facebook, Old People Smell, and Car Talk-The Musical"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Friday. The end of a very busy week. So let&#8217;s use today&#8217;s lunchtime to clear out the links and get back to work:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Historical Photos Come Alive<\/strong>. Back when I was in high school, there was a very interesting article in Modern Photography titled, &#8220;Should This Photo Have Been Published&#8221;. It looked at the ethics of publishing certain pictures, and one of its examples was the famous Vietnam war photo of a 9 year old girl running naked down a road after having been napalmed. For many people, this photo was emblematic of the war and its impact on the innocent. Yesterday, looking at the SF Chronicle, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/n\/a\/2012\/05\/31\/international\/i132205D79.DTL\" target=\"_blank\">I discovered an article on the girl in the photo&#8211;how she survived, and what she is doing these days<\/a>.\u00a0 A very very interesting article.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Security in the News<\/strong>. This has been a week for computer security related articles. Topmost is an article in the NY Times that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/06\/01\/world\/middleeast\/obama-ordered-wave-of-cyberattacks-against-iran.html?_r=1&amp;pagewanted=all\" target=\"_blank\">claims that the United States was behind Stuxnet<\/a>. Whether or not the claim is validated, the article is an interesting read. But that&#8217;s not the only security in the news. There is also the report of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.securelist.com\/en\/blog\/208193522\/The_Flame_Questions_and_Answers\" target=\"_blank\">a similar attack called &#8220;Flame&#8221;<\/a>, which is also claimed to be <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/world_now\/2012\/05\/flame-malware-middle-east-computers-cyber-attack.html\" target=\"_blank\">a targeted attack<\/a>. Bruce Schneier also had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.schneier.com\/blog\/archives\/2012\/05\/backdoor_found.html\" target=\"_blank\">an interesting summary article<\/a> on the supposed backdoor that was discovered in foreign-manufactured chips used by the military.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Young and Old<\/strong>. A couple of articles related to young and old. First (and this was predictable): <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/la-fi-facebook-teens-20120531,0,5676320.story\" target=\"_blank\">as more and more parents have joined Facebook&#8230; more and more teens are choosing to use a different service<\/a>. Now, you might not care about this, but given Facebook&#8217;s IPO, this could have an impact on future earnings&#8230; and the future income to the state of California. Secondly, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/science\/la-sci-old-person-smell-20120531,0,1877576.story\" target=\"_blank\">studies have shown that old people really don&#8217;t smell that bad<\/a>. Actually, I think the study put it another way: old people don&#8217;t smell as bad as young people. How&#8217;s that for a &#8220;get off my lawn&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Coming Soon.<\/strong> I don&#8217;t make these things up, folks. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.playbill.com\/news\/article\/166437-NPR-Series-Ignites-Car-Talk-The-Musical-in-Cambridge-This-Summer\" target=\"_blank\">Car Talk&#8211;The Musical<\/a>. The plot: Our hero \u2013 the overweight, always-late invertebrate Rusty Fenders \u2013 has racked up as many miles as his &#8217;93 KIA. Attempting to salvage happiness from the junkyard of his life, he collides with his ruthless boss Beaulah Gasket, his unrequited office romance Sheila, and the red-hot fantasy car Miata C. LaChassis. Can the Wizard of Cahs put the brakes on Rusty&#8217;s musical wipe-out?<\/li>\n<li><strong>Walking the Walk<\/strong>. Lastly, a word about sidewalks. Cracked sidewalks, in particular. These cracks are often created by city-planted trees in the median (the strip between the sidewalk and the street)&#8211;trees that you cannot maintain, trim, or remove without city approval. Naturally, the city&#8211;which planted the trees and laid the sidewalks&#8211;is legally on the hook to fix the sidewalks. The problem: they don&#8217;t have any money to do so. City officials estimate that the cost of repairing more than 4,000 miles of sidewalks could cost as much as $2 billion.\u00a0 So what is their solution? Repeal the 1973 law that requires the city to pass to repair sidewalks. The state&#8217;s response: <a href=\"http:\/\/laist.com\/2012\/05\/30\/la_doesnt_want_to_pay_for_your_crac.php\" target=\"_blank\">Propose a bill that would prohibit L.A. from the law, thus requiring that the city continue to pay for the repairs from the general fund<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Music:<\/strong> <em>Africa<\/em> (Miriam Makeba): Kilimanjaro<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Friday. The end of a very busy week. So let&#8217;s use today&#8217;s lunchtime to clear out the links and get back to work: Historical Photos Come Alive. Back when I was in high school, there was a very interesting article in Modern Photography titled, &#8220;Should This Photo Have Been Published&#8221;. 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