Polluting the botnets; Hawking and extropianism; fusion at Cadarache …

• 1 – Researchers Infiltrate and ‘Pollute’ Storm Botnet
  “The pollution attack, meanwhile, “overwrites” the P2P botnet’s key, an identifier that’s used to get command information to the bots. Storm generates keys to find other bots, the researchers noted.”
  (tags: networks subversion pollution hacking security computer botnets)
• 2 – 12 Places To Download Free Textures
  Does what it says on the tin.
  (tags: webdev textures stock resources images graphics design)
• 3 – Hawking and the Long Result
  “There were only five questions, but according to Kip Thorne … it took Hawking several days to program his answers. Thorne describes him as “about the most patient, stubborn man I know.””
  (tags: exploration space patience persistance stubbornness Hawking)
• 4 – Fusion 2.0
  “… it is at Cadarache that fusion power’s supporters will learn whether the idea is a pipe dream or a real contender for the future.”
  (tags: collaboration international science Cadarache physics energy power fusion)
• 5 – Stephen Hawking calls for Moon and Mars colonies
  “He argued that the world should devote about 10 times as much as NASA’s current budget – or 0.25% of the world’s financial resources – to space.” Rock on, Steve. \m|
  (tags: futurism threat existential colonization Moon Mars space Hawking)
• 6 – Album review: Dream Theater – Greatest Hit (and 21 Other Pretty Cool Songs)
  “Make no mistake, it’s utterly flamboyant and bombastic, and the subject matter of their songs wanders between pedestrian rock clichés and cod spiritualism … but good grief, they really know how to put a tune together.”
  (tags: paulgraven GreatestHit DreamTheatre review album music)
• 7 – Album review: U.S.S.A. – The Spoils
  “There’s a real post-apocalyptic tinge to The Spoils, with themes of catastrophic climate change and the destruction of the natural world (‘Summer Endless Summer’, ‘Blue Light’) dominating alongside tales of more personal destructions …”
  (tags: paulgraven Spoils The USSA review album music)