this can't be good

He is missed.

I loved Carlin too I started listening to him in the 70s and he really resonated with me.

from the very beginning he was great

His early stuff was great. He started at a radio station in LA in the 60's and changed the way we view ourselves.

anyone else see this?

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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/30/world/middleeast/30worm.html?_r=1&no_interstitial


Quote:
Deep inside the computer worm that some specialists suspect is aimed at slowing Iran’s race for a nuclear weapon lies what could be a fleeting reference to the Book of Esther, the Old Testament tale in which the Jews pre-empt a Persian plot to destroy them.

That use of the word “Myrtus” — which can be read as an allusion to Esther — to name a file inside the code is one of several murky clues that have emerged as computer experts try to trace the origin and purpose of the rogue Stuxnet program, which seeks out a specific kind of command module for industrial equipment.

Not surprisingly, the Israelis are not saying whether Stuxnet has any connection to the secretive cyberwar unit it has built inside Israel’s intelligence service. Nor is the Obama administration, which while talking about cyberdefenses has also rapidly ramped up a broad covert program, inherited from the Bush administration, to undermine Iran's nuclear program. In interviews in several countries, experts in both cyberwar and nuclear enrichment technology say the Stuxnet mystery may never be solved.

interesting.

stal wrote:

anyone else see this?

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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/30/world/middleeast/30worm.html?_r=1&no_interstitial


Quote:
Deep inside the computer worm that some specialists suspect is aimed at slowing Iran’s race for a nuclear weapon lies what could be a fleeting reference to the Book of Esther, the Old Testament tale in which the Jews pre-empt a Persian plot to destroy them.

That use of the word “Myrtus” — which can be read as an allusion to Esther — to name a file inside the code is one of several murky clues that have emerged as computer experts try to trace the origin and purpose of the rogue Stuxnet program, which seeks out a specific kind of command module for industrial equipment.

Not surprisingly, the Israelis are not saying whether Stuxnet has any connection to the secretive cyberwar unit it has built inside Israel’s intelligence service. Nor is the Obama administration, which while talking about cyberdefenses has also rapidly ramped up a broad covert program, inherited from the Bush administration, to undermine Iran's nuclear program. In interviews in several countries, experts in both cyberwar and nuclear enrichment technology say the Stuxnet mystery may never be solved.

Sounds like a US government program or Israel. That is where most of this stuff comes from in my thoughts at least. Good report stal.

and it continues...similar to Stal's reference


Stuxnet Malware Mystery Deepens: Another Hint Of Israeli Origins
First Posted: 10- 1-10 01:04 PM | Updated: 10- 1-10 01:34 PM

It's like a 21st-century version of a John Le Carre novel, in which all the dashing spies have been replaced by computer geeks.

The mystery continues to deepen over the origin of one of the world's most damaging computer viruses -- Stuxnet -- which some experts believe is targeted at Iran's nuclear power plants, slowing that country's quest for a nuclear weapon.

On Tuesday, a German computer specialist offered a hint that Israel may be behind the sophisticated malware, by demonstrating that a file inside the code uses the word "Myrtus" -- which could be a reference to the Book of Esther, the Old Testament story about how the Jews prevented a nefarious plot by the Persians, according to the New York Times.

The next day, a trio of security researchers offered another clue at a conference in Vancouver, describing how Stuxnet includes references to the 1979 execution of the leader of Iran's Jewish community at the time. Specifically, the researchers from Symantec -- Nicolas Falliere, Liam O Murchu and Eric Chen -- showed that the code includes a marker with the numbers "19790509" which, if prompted, stops the code from infecting a targeted computer.

According to their report:

The value appears to be a date of May 9, 1979. While on May 9, 1979 a variety of historical events occured, according to Wikipedia "Habib Elghanian was executed by a firing squad in Tehran sending shock waves through the closely knit Iranian Jewish community. He was the first Jew and one of the first civilians to be executed by the new Islamic government. This prompted the mass exodus of the once 100,000 member strong Jewish community of Iran which continues to this day."
Elghanian, a prominent businessman, was the first Jew to be targeted in a purge after the country's Islamic revolution, reported Time magazine at the time. He was sentenced to death after being charged with "corruption", "contacts with Israel and Zionism", "friendship with the enemies of God", "warring with God and his emissaries", and "economic imperialism."

The researchers warned not to draw too many conclusions -- noting that "Attackers would have the natural desire to implicate another party."

the rest here

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/01/stuxnet-malware-mystery-d_n_747026.html

An insight into the virus and the reasons for the lies. Basically, its just another false flag operation in order to get monetary gain. Why else


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Adg4chwKkM