the moon is a harsh mistress

[Dave Aitel <dave () immunitysec com>]

I personally think Heinlein was saying that the quest for the moon - 
that thing inside you that makes you work 24 hours a day to someday get 
to a ball of rock a half light second from the surface of the planet - 
is a harsh mistress.

Walking next to the bay tonight reminded me that I don't want to go to 
the moon, but I do want to stop the fishing industry from destroying our 
oceans in time to save a few of the larger fish, which we're going to 
need around in a couple hundred years. I don't want us, as a species, to 
finish off in the oceans what we've done to all the large land animals 
(i.e. kill and eat them). My personal solution is to farm lobsters, so 
we don't rip them all off the reefs. Gotta start somewhere, and 
invertebrates are a good start.

There's some cool biology courses available, including this one:
http://www.calacademy.org/research/entomology/ant_course/
"Priority will be given to those biologists for whom the course will 
have a significant impact on their research." grrr. Academics are always 
cloister-like. What is research but the desire to step on the moon?

http://www.wormblog.com/2005/10/nematodes_benef.html <-- jose nazario's 
take on my talk ...he was actually there, too. . .
"Anyone who reads this site regularly knows that I am wholly opposed to 
the idea of actually using a "good worm" for a variety of reasons."

http://elegans.uky.edu/blog/ <--a funny biologist
"So much for ever being able to Google “nematode” again! Spoiler! Bastard!"

I quite like it when other security professionals are resistant to the 
idea of nematodes - it means they're not likely to be working on it 
themselves. And in this business, if you can't do the impossible, you 
can't succeed at all. Two years ago, you wouldn't have seen working 
POC's for complex bugs such as these within a few hours. It would have 
been as impossible as a 1 dollar lobster.

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-dave