Pokemon or medication?
- Bibarel
- Inosea
- Altaria
- Dynepo
- Ramelteon
- Numel
- Triderm
- Geodon
- Sentret
- Kadian
- Phione
- Drapion
Pokemon: 1, 3, 6, 9, 11, 12
Medication: 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10
More news from the painfully stupid world of TAN: This August, a woman in Owasso, Oklahoma left her one-month-old son in a car for 45 minutes. It was fucking 104°F outside, and she rolled up the windows! Remarkably, the boy survived and made a full recovery. As of yesterday, Tulsa prosecutors have decided not to charge her, because it was "an accident" and she was "very remorseful". That's one hell of an accident! If you can't remember that a baby blasted its way out of your crotch four weeks ago, you're obviously not competent enough to care for it. This May, Haley Wesley of Angwin, California TANned her 10-month-old daughter for six hours after going to work, apparently not realizing she was still in the car. The windows were rolled up, and the girl died as a result. But Judge Stephen Kroyer declined to try her on charges of involuntary manslaughter, saying it was "a tragedy, not a crime". If your memory is so unreliable that it results in the death of innocent people, that's not a tragedy, that's a hazard. Forgetfulness shouldn't be treated as a free pass to fry children.
Luckily, some cases of thermo-automotive neglect do end in justice. Epifanio Lopez, who wrapped his daughter in winter clothes and blankets and left her in his car on a 90°F day, was arraigned on charges of wanton endangerment this week. He's currently out on bond, but could receive a maximum sentence of five years in prison. Penny and Daniel Smith of Leesburg, Florida left an 8-month-old under their care in a car while they ate lunch. The child, while distressed, survived, and the couple were arrested and charged. Sergeant Tom Lovejoy of Chandler, Arizona, who left his K-9 partner in his cruiser for 12 hours resulting in its death, will be tried for reckless animal abuse. I need to make a chart for this shit.
Storm is either shrinking or continuing to mutate, depending on who you believe. Brandon Enright wrote a program to traverse the Storm network, and estimates 160,000 systems are infected with only 20,000 being available at any given time. This is significantly less than other estimates of one to 50 million nodes, but recent evidence indicates that different encryption keys are now being used within Storm to partition it into separate networks, either for sale to criminal groups or simply to provide additional redundancy. It's continued to retaliate against anyone attempting to probe the network, and it's also begun to covertly block the scanning functions of users' antivirus programs, leaving the process running, but completely impotent. The user thinks their antivirus is still working, when it's not actually doing anything.
To clarify, when I said Storm could be considered a form of life, I meant that in the Star Trek sense: Life, but not as we know it. It's inaccurate to call it a worm, because it's much more than that. Actual worms like SQL Slammer, Blaster and Sasser exist solely to spread as rapidly as possible. All they do is copy themselves, like a real virus. But Storm utilizes worm behavior to facilitate the growth of the botnet, which acts as a complex "multicellular organism", with worm distribution as only one of its many functions. It has traits of a virus, cell, organ, parasite and cancer, but doesn't exactly fit any of them. One thing is clear: It replicates for a higher purpose. And if we don't figure out how to block or disable it, the security situation will further deteriorate as new viruses borrow its methods and improve on them.
Cyber-TA analysis of the Storm worm
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