Your optomistic for someone goin to jail

Bernard Kerik is the former New York Police Commissioner that Dubya once wanted to make Homeland Security Chief before he appointed Skeletor. There he is in this picture with Dubya, who's pointing him out the prison he'll be spending some time in as he has just surrendered to authorities to answer to federal corruption charges.

I wonder if Dubya is telling him to keep his cot warm...that is if we had a Congress with huevos enough to investigate and charge Dubya with the various crimes he has committed since he became The Decider.

More on this story as it develops.

Hey Hackers, do this!

Since we enjoy helping people learn how to really screw us over, a new video created by the Idaho National Laboratory illustrates just how damaging an attack a hacker could do to the nation's infrastructure.

In this image from video released by the Department of Homeland Security, smoke pours from an expensive electrical turbine during a March 4, 2007, demonstration by the Idaho National Laboratory, which was simulating a hacker attack against the U.S. electrical grid. (AP Photo/Dept. of Homeland Security)

I had to include that bit of info I felt to really get an idea of what it is that is happening in this video.

Honestly, I was kind of surprised that these systems are so interdependent on networked communications. Being in IT myself, I guess I should know these things, but systems involving turbines and allowing said communication systems to send commands to these machines that would essentially tell them to tear themselves apart seems a bit surprising to me.

I guess old-school viruses kind of did the same thing though, convincing hardware to overheat while telling it to do too many things at once, burning out the phosphorous in the monitor, etc etc, so this shouldn't be too surprising... Still fascinating though.