You Have Not Been Exposed to Joker Gas, The Lego Batman Movie Trailer Is Just That Funny
This movie may be too good to actually exist. Will Arnett’s gloriously self-absorbed Batman. Michael Cera is an amazing loony Boy Wonder. For the Penguin’s sake, Robin literally throws his tights in Batman’s face. Everything about this Lego Batman Movie trailer is, as they say, awesome.
Directed by Chris McKay, The Lego Batman Movie opens February 10. It features the voices of Arnett, Michael Cera, Zach Galifianakis, Rosario Dawsno, and Mariah Carey.
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You Have Not Been Exposed to Joker Gas, The Lego Batman Movie Trailer Is Just That Funny
5 Mind-Blowing Web Sites That Will Make You Go Wow
The sheer amazement of a magic trick that fools you or a seemingly futuristic technology is a feeling that stays with you forever. You can’t wait to show it to others, marvelling all over again. The internet is filled with people from all walks of life. Naturally, the artists, magicians, technologists, and scientists like to use this medium to make you go, “Wow, how’d they do that?” Here are a few of our favorites, both old and new… Cassius — The Missing (Web): Control the Couple in a Music Video Much like radio and television before it, musicians now rely…
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5 Mind-Blowing Web Sites That Will Make You Go Wow
Chris Cheng: Rifle 101
Top Shot Champion Chris Cheng explains for beginner shooters three of the most common types of rifle actions.
Firearm instructors and experienced shooters are encouraged to watch and share these tips with newcomers to the shooting sports.
Also, check out Chris’ new book, “Shoot to Win: Tips, Tactics and Techniques to Help You Shoot Like a Pro,” available [HERE]
Glock 19 courtesy of Salient Arms International.
Ammunition Provided by Winchester.
Filmed at the Richmond Rod & Gun Club in Richmond, CA. (NSSF Video)
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The Justice League Join Forces for Their First Team Photo and Movie Footage
DC’s cinematic heroes assembled for the first time at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con, with our first truly good look at the Flash, Aquaman, and Cyborg. They’re not bad at all! We also got to watch a very, very early teaser trailer for Justice League, and here’s what we saw:
It starts with a bearded Bruce Wayne in some kind of fishing village. He asks the town about the man who brings fish to the starving town. He’s told the man comes on the king tide, and he was there last night. At that moment, Aquaman turns around.
Next we’re in a forest, it looks ancient and someone is digging up a mother box. Bruce Wayne again: “I believe an enemy is coming, I’m looking for warriors.” And we see two huge waves crashing down on Aquaman.
“I’m building an alliance to defend us,” Wayne continues. Then we’re in the Batcave, where Wonder Woman is sitting at a terminal. “Will he fight with us?” she asks.
“More or less,” Wayne says.
“Well, more more or more less?”
“Probably more less.”
“He said no?”
“He said no.”
We then cut to the Flash sequence that we saw filmed on set, which you can read about in full here. However, now the effects were finished and when Flash goes to grab the Batarang, lightning flashes all around him.
Cut to: a cave. It’s the whole team minus Superman. Cyborg says to Batman, “I heard about you. I didn’t think you were real.”
Batman responds, “I’m real when it’s useful.” Then the title card.
In the last bit, Aquaman slams Bruce Wayne against a wall and Bruce says, “So I hear you can talk to fish.”
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The Justice League Join Forces for Their First Team Photo and Movie Footage
The First Wonder Woman Trailer Is Even Better Than We Could Have Imagined
She’s finally here. After years of false starts, a live-action Wonder Woman movie is coming next summer. Warner Bros. just revealed the first trailer at San Diego Comic-Con to the uproarious excitement of the Hall H crowd, and it. is. perfect.
Wonder Woman is directed by Patty Jenkins and stars Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, Connie Nielsen, and Robin Wright. It opens June 2, 2017.
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The First Wonder Woman Trailer Is Even Better Than We Could Have Imagined
Epic Gun Debate Between Steven Crowder and Christopher Titus
Conservative commentator Steven Crowder vs. comedian Christopher Titus re: gun control. Nick reckons no one wins this one. Dan says it’s MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction). I say it’s fun. What say you? Props to anyone who can make it all … Read More
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WikiLeaks Just Published Tons of Personal Data Like a Bunch of Dickheads
WikiLeaks firmly believes in radical transparency, the idea that the world would be better if there were no secrets. That level of transparency can be used for good, like the time the site published a video called “Collateral Murder” showing innocent journalists shot to oblivion by US troops in 2010. But not always.
The organization has also used that tradition of transparency for less just causes, like today when the site published 19,252 emails from top US Democratic National Committee members, many of which included personal information about innocent donors including credit card, social security numbers, and passport numbers.
If you visit the WikiLeaks DNC emails website, you can browse the emails using a simple boolean search. Typing a word like “contribution” will actually turn up hundreds of results. The emails include unencrypted, plain-text listings of donor emails addresses, home addresses, phone numbers, social security numbers, passport numbers, and credit card information. WikiLeaks proudly announced the data dump in a single tweet.
The new leak is part of the organizations ongoing Hillary Leaks series, which launched in March as a searchable archive of more than 30,000 emails and attachments sent to and from Clinton’s private email server, while she was Secretary of State. The original email dump included documents from June 2010 to August 2014. The new release includes emails from January 2015 to May 2016.
This isn’t the first time WikiLeaks has recklessly published personal information of innocent civilians, either. Human rights groups such as Amnesty International and Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission have previously requested that WikiLeaks remove names of Afghan civilians in 77,000 classified military documents published online. The civilians were (ironically) collateral damage in the same leak that spurred the “Collateral Murder” video obtained by Wikileaks.
Exactly why Wikileaks decided not to redact the private information of unsuspecting Americans remains unclear. We’ve reached out for comment and will update as soon as we hear back.
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WikiLeaks Just Published Tons of Personal Data Like a Bunch of Dickheads
My Opinion of Trump’s Convention Speech
Trump gave his nomination acceptance speech last night. I grade it an A-. It wasn’t a speech for the ages, but it was presidential enough. As convention speeches go, it was solid.
As I have already blogged, all Trump needs to do is NOT act like a crazy racist for the next few months and he will win bigly. This speech introduced no new outrages, and voters are starting to get used to the old ones. So on a strategic level, it was a strong performance. If Trump does more of this, and adds no new outrages, he’ll glide to a comfortable victory.
Persuasion-wise, Trump’s family was the big story of the convention. People seem to love them in the same way the public loved the Kennedys. And notice how Donald Jr. and Eric both have the speaking cadence of John and Jack Kennedy. Notice also how Melania reminds you of Jackie Kennedy – quiet, smart, and classy. These are coincidences, but your irrational brain doesn’t care. It sees a new batch of Kennedys and wants to see more of them. That’s powerful election magic for a nation that only pretends to care about policies.
A week ago you compared ugly Donald Trump with ugly Hillary Clinton and declared them a visual tie. That matters because our visual “brain” generally wins against whatever part of the brain is pretending to be logical that day. But once we got a look at the entire Trump family, acting as a group, our visual brains started seeing them as a package deal. And when you compare the entire Trump family’s visual appeal to the entire Clinton family’s visual imagery it’s a massacre.
Would you prefer seeing Bill and Hillary Clinton decompose in front of your eyes for eight years, or watch the Trump family develop their dynasty? Entertainment-wise, that’s no contest. And people usually vote for entertainment over policy. They just don’t realize it. That’s the biggest news from the convention, and you won’t see it in any headline.
I watched Trump’s entire 90-minute speech and don’t remember any of the boring policy statements. No one cares about that stuff. But on the persuasion dimension, I recall the following impressions.
1. Trump made a credible case that he is the better protector of the LGBTQ community because he takes a harder line against Muslim immigration. Even the fact-checkers will ignore that claim. It’s too true to check. And it makes whatever-the-hell Clinton says about protecting LGBTQ citizens look disingenuous.
2. Trump’s best unscripted moment came when he humbly acknowledged that he probably didn’t deserve the support of evangelicals. That was persuasion genius. Nothing will make religious people love you harder than admitting you are not worthy of their affection. Boom. That’s a ten-out-of-ten on the persuasion scale, and you probably thought it was just an unscripted aside. They’re locked in now.
3. Trump made multiple references to inclusiveness. But the best, in terms of persuasion, was his twist on Clinton’s “I’m with her” slogan. Trump says “I’m with you.” That’s good idea-judo. He acknowledges the truth of the other side’s slogan then makes it look ridiculous.
4. I expected more from Trump in terms of dispelling Clinton’s accusations of racism. Instead of producing some quotable speech moments on the topic he wove lots of visual evidence into the entire convention. For example…
My favorite moment of the convention was the other night when a prominent Muslim leader in a business suit gave the benediction. He asked the assembled Republicans to pray to God, and you could almost hear the crowd wondering if they would be praying to the right God in this situation. But they played along.
As things stand now, Trump is on a glide path to the presidency. Something new would have to happen to stop him.
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If you pray to the right God, you probably already know about my book.
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My Opinion of Trump’s Convention Speech
Comparison of database encryption methods (for data at rest)
I recently came across a project where we had to evaluate different techniques suited for encryption of PII data at rest. Database is MySQL community 5.6, Red Hat enterprise OS. We had to encrypt (mask) PII information of customers. As of now data is hosted in local cloud. But we may have future plans to move to a third party cloud like Amazon.
We are talking about two threats, internal and external. Internal – we have support team accessing the database the data for fixes and reporting (slave) Also DBA or Linux root user who have special privileges. So PII needs to be masked from them. External – Mainly hackers, Amazon cloud admins if we move to their cloud environment. Finally we decided to have application layer to do the encryption/decryption. Here are the major factors that lead to the decision
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Encryption Type
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#
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File system Encryption
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Database level (TDE)
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Application level
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Column level privilege(with views)
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1
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Who is responsible
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OS
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MySQL EE
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Application
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DBA
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2
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who can access data
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MySQL user(s)
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MySQL users
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application
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Application, root, DBA
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3
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protects data from
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stolen disk, hackers
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file system hackers
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everything
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non Admin MySQL users
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4
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does not protect from
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DBA, OPS
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DBA, root user, OPS
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DBA, root, access during changes
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5
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what can be encrypted
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all required file systems
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database file system
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required fields
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required fields
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6
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performance penalty
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high
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low
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very low
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nothing
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7
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protection strength
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weak
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strong
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very strong
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medium
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8
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application change required
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No
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No
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Yes
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No
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9
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Is backup encrypted
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depends on the method (e.g. sqldump is not)
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depends on the method
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yes
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No
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10
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protects from internal threat
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no
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no
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yes
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yes
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11
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protects from external threat
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yes
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yes
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yes
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depends
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12
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duration to encrypt existing data
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long time
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long time
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depends which all fields
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no time
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OPS : support + dev team having mysql connectivity to the database
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column level privilege – create views excluding PII data for support folks, this can be a different schema as well with only views present in there
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This may not be very explanatory so let me know if you have any questions, I’ll try my best to answer them..
Praji
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Comparison of database encryption methods (for data at rest)