Struggling to understand what the PCI Data Security Standard really means? Please take a few minutes to enjoy a  clever short video published by the PCI Security Standards Council. Bob Russo, General Manager of the Council, showed this video as part of his presentation at the Pittsburgh CSO Breakfast Club PCI Security Forum in which I participated last week.

The music might be a bit corny, but the message is right on – and a fun respite from the normal dryness of PCI DSS discussions.

Pretty cool to see what can be done with Legos if you put your mind to it!

We have built lots of neat stuff with Legos at our house, but nothing quite this complex.

Earlier this week, BBC News published a short article about the bi-annual “Top 500 supercomputer list.” An interactive “tree map” created using Prefuse Flare software, developed by the University of California Berkeley, allows a user to easily see different views of the list, according to attributes such as  speed, operating system, manufacturer and country (shown below).

The number one supercomputer:  Cray XT with a maximum speed of 1.759 peta FLOPS with a total of 224,162 cores (AMD processors running Linux).  Crazy!